Passionately Striving in “Why” Authors Gather

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today is a very special occasion.
There are several beautiful women from all over

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the world. Today we are featuring
a few of the twenty five women authors

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from who have contributed their story to
the anthology I've curated called Passionately Striving and

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Why, in anthology of women who
persevere minily to live their purpose. So

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a few of them have come on. They are of course from time zones

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all over the world, so there's
about eight of us total to be coming

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on tonight. And what we want
to do is introduce you to these authors,

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let them share a little b about
who they are today, a little

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bit about their story and why they
have been involved with us, and what

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they hope that your readers get out
of it. So, ladies, welcome

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to the show. Let's first start
with Julie Quinn, if you'll bring her

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out for us. Hello, Julie
Welcome to Working on Purpose, Hilse.

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I'm so happy to be here.
Thanks for having me. It's so great

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to have you. Well, So
for our listeners and viewers here, just

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introduce yourself, say a little bit
about what you're doing today in the world.

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Absolutely, I'm a leadership strategist,
consultant and coach. I am principle

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of Uncommon Consulting and founder of up
School, and I help people untangle the

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mess of work in life, align
their priorities, and go map a roadmap

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for their success. So I'm having
a wonderful time doing that and it's one

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of the reasons I love being here
with you. That is so so so

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great. Well, so you know
part of my my vision when this all

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happened here and let me share quickly
the story about how this whole anthology came

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to be for our listeners and viewers. And so in August of nineteen twenty

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nineteen, you know, I've spent
most of that year doing a lot of

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gatherings where I was bringing people together
to share stories of people, and I

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was just like, naturally, this
was an organic process. I'd be out

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speaking and somebody would say, oh
my gosh, I so got your message

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about meaning, passion, purpose,
and here's what's happened in my life.

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And I thought they're supposed to be
I'm supposed to do something with these stories.

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So I was hosting all these these
gatherings and such, and then I

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get a call from the publisher something
or other publishing soup, saying, hey,

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I want to put forth a series
of mythologies. I want one to

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be on women. I want you
to curate it. I don't care if

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it's about of course, it's on
purpose. So then I began systematically reaching

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across the globe trying to find women
who looked like they were working on purpose.

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And I found you. So why
did you say yes? Why did

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you say yes? I'll play Oh
gosh, Well, I mean, first

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of all, I've followed your work
for a long time. When we first

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met, completely by accident, you
know, we found we had a lot

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in common around purpose. My passion
is in meaningful work, motivation, management,

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best practices, meaningful work, how
to build it, how to create

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environments for it, how to help
people secure it. The reason I wanted

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to be part of this is I've
been in human resources roles at the executive

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level for twenty plus years, and
in all of those years, you know,

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more often than not, people are
suffering, you know, through their

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work lives, you know, wishing
for retirement. And and then there are

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some of those folks who you bump
into who are doing what they love and

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you know, really have or or
doing what the same people who are suffering

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are doing, but are finding some
purpose and meaning in it. Right.

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So there's a couple of ways to
go through life, and I really prefer

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the latter, and if we can
help it, if we can help more

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folks feel more like that more of
the time, I am in Okay,

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me too, glad you said,
yes, okay, Now just threef since

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we want to make sure an have
enough time for our little ladies to come

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on as well. Give us just
a high level order. What's your story

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about? What's the gist of your
story? Give us a little little taste.

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Yeah, it's about the gravitational pull
of life that tends to get in

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the way of that light, little
gentle at first voice that says you really

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ought to be doing something else.
You know, you really ought to be

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doing you know, more of this
or more of that, And it's quiet

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at first, and the gravitational pull
is really strong and at first and then

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over time that voice gets louder and
stronger and it has to break free from

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that gravitational pull. So that's kind
of what my story is about. Very

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succinct. I love it. Okay, Now, what do you hope readers

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get from this? You know,
I want to make sure well. I

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would love for our readers to know
that it can happen, that it takes

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longer than you think, that that
it's not going to happen the way you

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think, and you can't do it
alone, and there's going to be twenty

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five of us in that book right
by your side, helping you to do

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what your journey is supposed to be. That's what I hope they get out

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of that is that they've got twenty
five friends rooting them on. Oh,

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Julie, that's smashing. I'll take
that. That's fantastic. All right,

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Well, stick around for as long
as you care to. I know you

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popped in just to be able to
do you fit us in amongst everything else

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that you're doing. Really appreciate that
isn't that great? Literally juggling all kinds

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of balls. Thank you for joining
us, sharing, and best of all,

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thank you for being part of the
synthology that I'm extremely proud of.

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Oh, thanks so much, Elise. I'm very excited to see it come

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out. Me too. All right, hang for as long as you like.

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Let us bring up next donald Donna
Hamilton. Please. I think she's

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just on the screen as Donna.
I don't have a Donna Hamilton in a

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green room. Okay, maybe she
had to dash. All right, let's

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bring up Mavis Mavis Side. There
we go. Hello, doctor maybe Side.

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So good to have you on.
Thank you for joining us and for

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being part of our anthology. For
our listeners and viewers, will you introduce

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yourself and say a little bit about
the work you're doing today, the amazing

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work you're doing today. I'm really
happy to be here. A lease.

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So, my name is Mavisi.
I'm a psychologist, a research scientist at

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the University of Washington, and I
am the executive director and founder of Awareness,

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Courage and Love Global Project, which
brings those three qualities awareness, courage,

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and Love to everyone in the world
and trained chapter leaders all over the

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world and six continents to work with
people in their communities to live better lives.

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Brilliant, brilliant, so so important
and certainly working on purpose. So

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you were referred to us by one
of our other contributors. I think it

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was Shietleshaw. Thank you sidle again, Why did you say? And you

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have many things going on in your
crazy, busy world, why in the

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world did you say yes to this
project? It's really important to me at

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least to see and bring out the
best in people, and I wanted to

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support you in doing that. Just
seems like you're going to have this really

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large reach and I just want women
to know what they're capable of. And

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I wanted to be part of this
project to help inspire people. Well,

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that's exactly what I want to happen
as well, because my hope is that

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we are stories help people understand a
couple of things. One that purpose is

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availble to anyone anywhere in the world. There are no social economic factors,

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there are obstacles, there are no
cultural obstacles. It's available and works everywhere,

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and when we actually are obedient to
it and work and serve from it,

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we can really make a difference with
our one precious life. That's what

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I'm at to do. So thrilled
that you said yes, So thank you

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and a little bit about your where
your story is amazing, and again I

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wanted this to be global, and
so of course you are hearkening back to

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your heritage in your story, I
know, so give us a taste of

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your story. So the title of
my anthology is from Intergenerational Trauma to a

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Path of Purpose. And I wrote
a little bit about my parents trauma going

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through the Japanese War and then the
Communists takeover of China and just how I

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carry that in my cellular memory and
also growing up with my parents. I

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was lucky enough to be born in
Hong Kong after they escaped, but there's

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been so much intergenerational trauma, and
I wrote a little bit about that and

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how I was able to overcome that. Yeah, and so one of the

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things that I really enjoyed about being
serving as the curator and literally catching all

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of your stories is I also then
had the tremendous opportunity to then try and

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I did. I categorize them according
to our paths, right, So your

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pain is a way is a path
to purpose. And so I did that

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because I think it will help our
listeners or excusing our readers to be able

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to determine oh, I can recognize
that. Yeah, I've gone through something

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like that. Oh you mean that
could actually help illuminate my purpose. That's

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amazing, right, So, yeah, your story is very powerful, very

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powerful, and what go ahead?
Please? Maybe I was just saying,

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thank you, are you're welcome?
And then, so, what do you

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hope that our readers get from reading
this book? I would love to be

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able to serve our readers. Like
anybody who resonates with the idea of rising

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to live more true to yourselves and
connecting more deeply with not only yourself but

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with other people in your life,
I would just love to connect with you.

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And that's that's what I would hope. I appreciate that, doctor side,

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because I think that if you were
called as we're going through this process

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here, there's lots of steps along
the way. And I did ask all

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of you to include your biographies and
a way for people to find you.

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And that was exactly the reason I
did that, is because I wanted readers

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who said, oh, I can
so relate to her story. I want

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to know where about her. Yeah, she's saying what I have been saying.

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That's exactly why I wanted to do
that, and I do I actually

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envision that we're going to create our
own tribe doing this right, that there's

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going to be a group of people
that come along with this. It's already

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happening in other ways, but I
see this anthology as really opening the doors

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to creating a tribe that maybe didn't
exist before, or was looking for a

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place to coalesce and didn't quite know
how to do it. I love what

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a vision are you are at least
thank you for that. You know,

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I will tell you, And this
is something for all of our people listening

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and watching right now. It is
truly crazy, and I know you can

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speak to this. What happens to
us when we live and serve from purpose

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are the creativity, the energy,
the focus that is available to us when

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we're working from purpose is phenomenal.
I mean, I've done crazy things high

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on purpose, and I know you
have to. I love that term high

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on purpose, high on purpose.
That's where it's at, right, It's

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beautiful. I want to cut us
into a quick little break so that we

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can also segment you, the ladies. But before I do that, Doctor

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PSI, anything else you want to
share with our listeners and viewers about yourself,

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about why this purpose work and the
work you're doing is so important to

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you. I would love to share
about an app that my nonprofit creator called

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Living acl So it's available in the
app store and it will just bring lots

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of opportunities to people. And I
just love the idea of this global tribe

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and want to support that. That
is fantastic. Thank you, doctor PSI

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for that, for that offering.
That's beautiful. So let's do this.

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I'm going to ask for Tabitha Rose
to come up after the break, so

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if you would help me with that
on the back end force. But for

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now, I'll let us grap our
first break. Thank you, doctor Si

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for your share. I'm your host, doctor Elise Cortez. We've been on

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the air with a few of the
women from the anthology that I'm curating that's

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coming out next month, and we'll
be talking about why they're in this program

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and what they hope their stories will
do for the world. Stay with us,

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We'll be right back. Doctor Release
Cortez is a management consultant specializing in

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meaning and purpose and inspirational speaker and
author. She helps companies visioneer for greater

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purpose among stakeholders and develop purpose inspired
leadership and meaning infused cultures that elevate fulfillment,

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performance, and commitment within the workforce. To learn more or to invite

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a Lease to speak to your organization, please visit her at a lease Cortez

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dot com. Let's talk about how
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This is working on Purpose with doctor
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at Elise Cortez dot com. Now
back to working on purpose. Thanks for

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stating with us, and welcome back
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send an email to Elise at least
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it. If you're just joining the
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around the world who are contributing authors
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that I've curated this called Passionately Striving
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one of them. So I want
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if Tabatha Rose is still on with
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so great to have you and I
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is gorgeous. This is my bookstore. Well, tell us introduce yourself and

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tell us about this bookstory and what
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thank you, Tabathaus. I help
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and guide those stories to inspire hearts
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also the founder of the Life to
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writing into places like palative care wings
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people need healing most. And the
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what you see behind me, which
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Life to Legacy Foundation. Just a
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therapy A little bit along the way. Yeah, right, a big difference

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than my past from yeah, yes, which is exactly why I. As

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you might remember, when when you
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talk about your life before you've really
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and you do that magnificently in your
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so compelling, it's so rich and
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just intense and yeah, so share
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I decided to go into my past
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moments when purpose was really tapping me
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I went through and sort of the
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direction of purpose when I was getting
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ultimately what happened was, you know, the shoulder taps turned into slap,

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then slaps turned into a full knockdown, and then I was finally sitting on

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my behind saying okay, I'm listening
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to make a significant change in my
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of myself, and that was something
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to know. So I talk about
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quote that says, you can't connect
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connect them looking backward. So you
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connect in your future. You have
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destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down

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and it's made all the difference in
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to encourage people to do as well. You know, look back. I

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mean, the future can be very
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I'm like an expert at projecting panic
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look back, you'll, you know, and especially writing, it's so cathartic.

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more so, and I was able
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see that purpose was there all along, even if I fell into it not

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so gracefully. I'm truly grateful that
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you when you do stand in purpose, you can look back and you can

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you can throw it through your life. You can see all the threats.

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see that you can see that design. And I remember, distinctly, by

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the way, Miss Tabitha, when
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the whole entire day to editing the
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feedback to the authors. And your
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something about is it too? Can
I can I be in? And we

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were literally just at the edge of
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like I feel like I tell us. You said something like I feel like

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I'm supposed to be doing this or
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something about this. What was it
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in it that was calling you?
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purpose. And I believe, you
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day. I help people put other
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encouraged for a long time now to
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that, I just spoke to me. It was like, yes, it's

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now, And it was so incredibly
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I can't tell you I'm so happy
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I heard so often from the women
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of writing their story. I'm soul
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opportunity. I didn't I knew it
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right, So I'm very very happy
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do you hope readers will get from
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people, you know, I believe
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believe right now are in a time
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I hope they feel not alone when
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chose to be extremely open and vulnerable
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of my of my past. I
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and I hope that they're inspired to
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the process, like you said,
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I just felt like untangled in a
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to express the way of your all
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felt I was falling in love with
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by the way, this purpose stuff
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It's messy, and that's the whole
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and finding, you know, what
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who you are in the process and
how you can help serve the world.

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I do as a management consultant,
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happy you said yes. And I
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probably the whole show, but stay
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as you can. After we hear
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them share, but then afterwards I
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us. So if you can stay
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go, I understand, But thank
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to have you do and I'm thrilled
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us bring up next Crystal please hello
Oi, Crystal to doing well that Yeah,

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we're doing. And so Crystal is
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from Canada, but she splits her
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and of course maybe it's comes to
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the international piece of this. So
Crystal, so great to have you.

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Please introduce yourself and tell us what
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yeah, thank you very much for
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glad to be here. It's amazing
to hear the story of all these women

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and it's just a really tiny piece
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Right, So hi everyone, I'm
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working with people, discovering people and
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I do believe that great things can
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and tools for reaching everything that I
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working with Doctor Without Borders in human
resources and I support projects that in most

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in most vulnerable and needed areas in
Brazil and the possibly in all kinds of

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parts in the rule. So yeah, oh, it's so beautiful and I'm

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pretty sure I found you on LinkedIn. I reached out to you to invite

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you to be in this and yeah, I'm just interesting. At first you

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said I'm not sure if I'm working
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and and then you know, so
you gave it some of that and we

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kind of went wow. Yeah,
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I think you are the youngest contributor
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saying how weld you are? No, not at all. I'm thirty.

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I just just game thirty this listen, so you know, listeners and viewers.

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English. So it's it's always impressive
when somebody else can render such easy speech

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and the language crystals. So so
a little about your story. What's the

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taste of your story? Of course
I know what it is. Yeah,

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reached me, I was it was
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like if I was working with purpose. So I had this question for along

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with me from from twenty eight years
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understand a little bit that that what
what is work? With purpose and if

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I was working with purpose, So
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in this process of journey of changing
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life that I was working or I
was living. I didn't see myself and

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fitting in the in the in the
environment that I was before. And I

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was just doing this change to be
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of a life that I know what
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to pursue what I'm pursuing it.
So it was really fun because you reach

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it in the point you fished me
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this is this is one of my
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super lost and trying to understand what
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where I was wasn't good enough,
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keep doing it professionally and personally speaking, and trying to reach the next step

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that I was one to do.
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amazingly great. I'm in love what
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can be a sparring for someone that
can be related to not understand what it

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would be the next step. But
the thing is, just go for it.

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Listen to your heart, listen to
your guts and and and be yourself.

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Be true to yourself that somehow you're
going to find you in the most

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vulnerable way and the most truthful way
that it can be, which is for

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me is my purpose to be myself
in the fullest m And if you remember,

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one of the things that I asked
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be really real, to let us
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truth of what it was like to
as I call the wildlife scratching for meaning

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and purpose. It's it's it's hard
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your story is it is it shows
vulnerability. You let us into your

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life. And that's what I wanted
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our readers to be able to get
access to their own purpose. So beautiful

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rendering. And what do you hope
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hope that readers can can be pried
somehow and can't believe that it's possible to

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reach further and to be yourself in
a really meaningful way. So my story

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is just one of many women that
are amazing. So somehow we are here

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together with the same purpose, which
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more and more people. I think
it's not for any I think there is

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a purpose for being women talking about
purpose. So this also inspires me as

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a woman to talk to women,
and not just women but also with men

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and everyone. But being a woman
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and hope that any age we can
reach everyone. If you're you're younger in

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the your career or if you're already
with a more mature career, you can

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understand that you can be yourself and
pursue your happiness and whatever it is,

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if it's professionally, personally, or
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It's possible. Thank you, Christal
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what I would say to add and
extend what you just said is actually,

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the more you can really become and
allow your true person to emerge, which

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actually is ultimately at the bottom of
that, the core of that is your

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is your purpose, the more you
are going to be fulfilled in life and

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a bigger impact, the bigger place
of service that you can come from.

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And that's what we're all inviting the
readers to do, is right, is

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to come with us on this journey. It's all worth the efforts. So

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thank you, Christal, thank you
so much. Thank you standing with this

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for as long as you can.
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after we have. So if we
can get Donna or Renee to come back

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or to come into the room now
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I will, I'll bring us together
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good to see you. Look gorgeous, see you, Thank you. You're

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welcome. So introduce yourself. Tell
us who you are and want you're pouring

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yourself into these days. Okay,
yes, I am Donna Renee Hamilton.

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Forgive me for the confusion on the
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on the ipologist. That's okay,
okay, But just a little bit background.

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I am a personal development coach,
online personal development coach, and I'm

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also a published author as well as
my first heart, I'm a counselor and

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an educator. So what I'm working
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entry Coalition. I'm the chair of
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in Baton Ridge, Louisiana, and
this coalition is all about re entry and

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reducing recidivism. So we work a
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over the city and as well as
outside in other areas. But we work

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on bringing people successfully from being concerated
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to all the services that they need, whether if it's housing, employment,

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whatever. So I'm this person who's
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that we can have this thing work
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as they reenter back into society.
Yeah, and you know something about that,

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So tell us a little bit about
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know a little bit something about that. Fifteen nearly fifteen years ago, I

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found myself in a place that I
never thought I would ever be in a

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million years, because you know,
I've never been in any trouble or anything

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like that before. But I did
get caught up with an organization and agency

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that was working with substance abuse and
it was health care for it. I

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got it caught up into a health
care fraud situation there and basically what made

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it so difficult for me, and
that led me down to the road where

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I ended up being inconcerated as well, was because the person who was heading

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that was my children's father. So
because of that emotional bond attachment, I

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didn't want to go against him and
and you know, testify against him.

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So they got angry and they pulled
me into a two and it left.

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For five years, we fought through
the criminal justice system, and then it

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ended up with me being incocerated for
fourteen months, three states away from my

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home. I had two young children
to take care of, so it was

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very devastating experience. Yeah, and
one of the things I find really fascinating

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about your story is that what would
not actually seem obvious from the outset is

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that I was actually a place where
you could have enough quiet in your life

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to be able to hear the delicate
whisper of your whisper of your purpose trying

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to get your attention, which is
really kind of phenomenal when you think about

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it, that you actually, you
know, you went from prison to purpose,

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which I believe is the name of
your story. Yes, yeah,

427
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yes, yes exactly, that's the
name of my story, from story from

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prison to purpose. So, just
like you said, at least I mean,

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it would be the most unlikely place
that you think you would go into

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and find purpose, But it turned
out where that being happened. What I

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always say is when I share my
story, is the physical bars, the

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being behind. Being behind the physical
bars helped me to realize that I had

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already built a prison, a self
made prison around myself, around my mind

434
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and around my heart and just you
know, the limitations, you know that

435
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that that hold us back in life, and then the the emotional you know,

436
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the emotional things that we go through, the pain that we go through

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in life. I realized that I'd
already built like this prison around myself of

438
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fear, and so it took me
to to find myself in that predicament in

439
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order to set myself free from the
mental and the emotional prison are in conservation

440
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that we often find ourselves in in
life. So you know, I I

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came, you know, and I
always say, you know, Grace met

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me there. For sure, it's
a big story of grace. Grace met

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me there, and uh, you
know, I I that quiet time helped

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me to you know, really uh
come to understanding who I am and and

445
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and who God is in my life. So I don't know the rat race.

446
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Sometime gets so caught up in the
rat race in life that we don't

447
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have the time to really, really
really sit within ourselves and be in the

448
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present moment. Because I had a
problem also with being in the present.

449
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I was like that anxiety problem person
who's always you know, my mind is

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always in the future. But to
be in the present. It taught me

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how to be in the present moment
and I practice that every day in my

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life. Now, run is beautiful. And on that note, everybody's staying

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with us here, let's grab our
last break. I'm doctor Lease Cortez,

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your host. We've been in the
air with women from the anthology that we're

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all part of that I've curated called
Passionately Striving in Wine, which is coming

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out in early August this year.
And after the break, we're going to

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hear more about what their perspectives are
and just what we're doing. Stay with

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us, We'll be right back.
Doctor Release Cortez is a management consultant specializing

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in meaning and purpose and inspirational speaker
and author. She helps companies vision ear

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for greater purpose among stakeholders and develop
purpose inspired leadership and meaning infused cultures that

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elevate fulfillment, performance and commitment within
the workforce. To learn more or to

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invite a lease to speak to your
organization, please visit her at Elise Cortez

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dot com. Let's talk about how
to get your employees working on purpose.

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This is Working on Purpose with doctor
Elise Cortez. To reach our program today

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or open a conversation with Elise,
send an email to Elise ali Se at

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Elise Cortez dot com. Now back
to working on Purpose. Thanks for staying

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with us, and welcome back to
Working on Purpose. I mentioned after the

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first break about to Grab your gusta
wellbeing webcast learning series. The content of

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that program is adapted from part one
of my recently public book called Purpose Ignited,

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How Inspiring Leaders ignite passion and elevate
Cause. I wrote that book to

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awaken readers to their passion and purpose
and helped transform them into inspirational leaders to

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enliven the workplace and elevate the contribution
of business to all its stakeholders. If

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you're just joining me today, we
have a collection of women from around the

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world who have contributed their stories to
the anthology that I've curated called passionately striving

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and why So for this part of
the show, we're coming to the tail

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here, I just wanted to sort
of weigh in on a couple of things

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with all of us together. Before
we do that, I want to share

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with you that one of the reasons
that I'm so committed to this whole purpose

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work is that I think it was
in twenty eighteen I had Karen Hoyas on

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my radio show and she wrote a
book about purpose and she's a firecracker.

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She said in the book, we
talked about it on air. She said,

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right now, only one percent of
the global population is fully living their

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purpose. She said, when we
get to three percent, consciousness will be

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raised such that peace is actually possible. I thought that's worth getting up for.

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Right So, so much of what
I see us doing here is we

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are elevating consciousness. And so just
as we as we talk here a little

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bit about this, I want to
hear from from each of you and just

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some weigh in some of your perspectives
on the matter here. But first,

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just to open it, what do
you think the world would look like if

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more of us actually lived and worked
from their purpose? What would you say,

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doctor side you're on you by the
way, there we go. If

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more of us lived according to our
purpose, there would just be so much

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more connection and love and peace and
equity. There wouldn't be these really corrosive

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divides between people, and there wouldn't
be the rich and the poor. And

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I think there'll just be a lot
more in quality in connection. Agreed.

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And when we're here, we are
having a conversation talking about our path to

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purpose, and all of us have
had it's been a mess journey, and

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we haven't none of us have really
known where this thing was going to take

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us. What would you offer to
the listeners who are they're obviously tuning in

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because this topic is probably of interest
to them, But what would you offer

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00:38:10.800 --> 00:38:17.599
to them for their journey to help
them along? Who are you asking the

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least? You made us? Sorry? You still have to floor and you

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still have to mic. So I
have this idea that they're actually dreams that

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want to find people, as opposed
to focusing on yourself and trying to find

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a dream. It's like just being
open and listening to what's calling to you.

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00:38:44.760 --> 00:38:47.679
I just believe that we each have
and I would love to hear everyone

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else's ideas about this, that they're
actually callings that we need to tune into

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00:38:53.840 --> 00:38:59.599
as opposed to making it happen,
that we just need to be open to

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is trying to find us. I
love that. I want to try men,

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but let me let Donna or Crystal
speak up as well. Sure,

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I'll go next. The first question
I think you asked, what would the

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world be if everyone is everyone lives
in that purpose? And I mean,

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I think I definitely believe that we
will be able to solve all the problems

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that we have in the world today, whether it doesn't matter, whether if

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it's sickness, racism, whatever,
you know, classism, sexism, everything.

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I think if everyone relative in their
purpose, we would definitely have that

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that world where everyone everyone's needs will
be met. Hopefully, you know,

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we can kind of find a cure
for cancer, because I do believe that.

519
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A lot of times people, I
think that we have a lot of

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dreams in the graveyard. And that's
because sometimes, you know, we wrestle

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so much with this whole complexity of
purpose and try to you know, chase

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it and find it and make it
such a difficult thing. But it's not

523
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as difficult. It's really simple.
But it is difficult because life does get

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messy and sometimes we get off off
course, and you know, we get

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off the path. But I think
if we're all doing what we're supposed to

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do, then the puzzle will all
fall together. As far as our earth,

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you know, our climate, just
just every area facet of you know,

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how we live and what we live
in, we would be able to

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solve these problems. So that that's
my biggest uh take for that. And

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yeah, and to both of your
points, right, So one of the

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things I'm very clear about because of
the work that I do is that to

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your point, Donna, we all
we do desperately need to quiet ourselves and

533
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come into ourselves to hear that whisper
that's coming from with them. And to

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your point, doctor, sorry,
I do see it as kind of like

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a divining rod. And I feel
like this there's been a divining run that's

536
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been sort of leading me in my
life, and my opportunity was to listen

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to it right and and then and
be obedient to it. Frankly, and

538
00:41:07.599 --> 00:41:12.440
it wasn't always convenient to be obedient
to it. This is hard working from

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00:41:12.440 --> 00:41:15.239
purpose sometimes that's why we put in
the you know, persevering mightily piece in

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the title, right, And that's
also to the point that Julie's at the

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beginning of the show. You need
help, You need a community to help

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you. That's why this, this
is what we're doing here together is helping

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to create that. And then finally, I want to say that I really

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believe that when we really get true
to what our purposes and we serve from

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it, that contribution that we can
make is so much bigger than that we

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ever could imagine. And yes,
it's terrifying to imagine you can make that

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big of a difference, right,
And and that's the opportunity for all of

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00:41:44.760 --> 00:41:49.599
us to really stand in our brilliance
and our possibility and let that light shine

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because the world does need it.
So beautiful contribution, both of you,

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ladies, Crystal your perspective. That's
I couldn't agree more with the Booth contributions.

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I think when you live in a
purpose, you're you're not giving up

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easily of what you want to do
and what do you want to give the

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00:42:14.360 --> 00:42:20.440
legacy you want to live in the
world, you know, So it's once

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you once you know what you want, you're going to pursue this doesn't matter

555
00:42:22.960 --> 00:42:28.239
what, it doesn't matter any conditions
and et cetera. And it's not an

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00:42:28.360 --> 00:42:35.039
easy trail to go through, but
at least you know there is a there

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is a point to reach, or
if this point to reach, you can

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go further. And what you mentioned, Alice, sorry, it is that

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you can go beyond that your expectation. You can create much more than it

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00:42:52.480 --> 00:42:58.760
ever was imaginable by you or anyone
else. So it's it's also a path

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for not knowing everything that is going
to happen, but also it's a path

562
00:43:02.920 --> 00:43:07.920
of a lot of excitements, a
lot of challenge, a lot of perseverance,

563
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and and just to keep going and
make sure that things are on the

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right path. And the feeling that
you have inside internally it's not it's not

565
00:43:22.400 --> 00:43:28.039
you cannot buy, you cannot create
and anything. It's just your own.

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So this is at least the most
few that you can have to pursue thriving

567
00:43:34.440 --> 00:43:37.480
through life. Yeah, it's the
best feel I've ever found for sure.

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By the way, that just flashed
on the screen here was Miriam Zacarelli.

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She is one of our contributing authors
as well, also from Brazil. She's

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listening in Today and she shares a
bit about her story really what it was

571
00:43:51.800 --> 00:43:55.519
like to work in, you know, an all men's corporate space, and

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00:43:55.639 --> 00:43:59.079
what that did to her health and
how she came through that on the other

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side. So, Miriam, your
story is powerful, well resonate with a

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00:44:01.039 --> 00:44:05.119
lot of people. I'm so glad
that you. I caught your story too,

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and we're sharing it so we have
What's great about this anthology is it

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was intentional to literally reach across the
globe. So we have stories from Australia

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00:44:14.679 --> 00:44:17.480
to Zambia, and I just think
that is just phenomenal, right, And

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00:44:17.559 --> 00:44:22.800
so so many of these women wrote
these their stories and a language secondary to

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their native so that has been phenomenal
to be able to catch those stories.

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So I think there really is something
for everyone in this collection. I think

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that as you read these stories,
you're going to get to know these twenty

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five women. My stories in there
as well, And I want you to

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00:44:39.440 --> 00:44:42.119
reach out to us. I want
you to connect with us. So I

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00:44:42.159 --> 00:44:45.199
want you to let us know what
you learned and what moved you and what

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00:44:45.360 --> 00:44:49.480
helped you. Right. That's we're
part of your community now and we're literally

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00:44:49.599 --> 00:44:52.800
reaching through that book. A hand
up to you to come with us.

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00:44:52.440 --> 00:44:58.039
So it's a it's a real invitation. So we've got just a couple more

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minutes here, ladies, before we
have to close the show, and want

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to get each of you a chance
just to say, in maybe one minute

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00:45:01.639 --> 00:45:06.480
or so, how would you like
to leave the listeners and viewers with today?

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00:45:08.320 --> 00:45:10.280
Let's sorry, sorry you were like, who do I? Who is

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it? Go ahead? Donna,
thank you, I'll jump in. I

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just want to say to the readers, to the listeners. As farst purpose

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is concerned, it is a path
and sometimes you know, we we we

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00:45:23.400 --> 00:45:29.400
procrastinate, but it is a sacrifice
and you know there may be a lot

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00:45:29.480 --> 00:45:34.440
of things you may encounter, but
have courage, take courage and follow your

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00:45:34.480 --> 00:45:39.159
heart and follow what your dreams are. Thank you, Mistna, beautiful Crystal.

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That's so beautiful. I just want
a coup and pace. It's amazing,

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00:45:44.119 --> 00:45:46.480
Donna, thank you very much.
Yeah, that's it. Uh,

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what if I can just let something
like pursue for it? Don't don't give

601
00:45:52.880 --> 00:45:57.119
up. But it took me twenty
years, and I see, figuring out

602
00:45:57.320 --> 00:46:02.679
is a journey and for me,
the most exciting thing is to believe leaving

603
00:46:02.840 --> 00:46:08.039
the present the present in my journey
and knowing that the way I'm going,

604
00:46:08.599 --> 00:46:14.000
it's the way I want to go. I am the owner of my path.

605
00:46:14.639 --> 00:46:19.400
I make my choice, and what
I'm doing is what I believe it

606
00:46:19.480 --> 00:46:22.400
is the best thing that I can
do to to this world. So keep

607
00:46:22.519 --> 00:46:28.039
going and pursue that beautiful crystalline.
Let me add to what you're saying.

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You're so important, You're you're bringing
up a very important point, and that

609
00:46:30.079 --> 00:46:35.159
is that when we live and work
from our purpose, we are literally stretching

610
00:46:35.199 --> 00:46:39.920
ourselves and so we're constantly growing and
pulling ourselves forward. So your purpose expression

611
00:46:39.920 --> 00:46:45.159
will continue to evolve as you continue
to grow yourself. Right, So know

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that you literally are, as Gabriel
Kazan sat on my radio show sometime back,

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when we're really really serving a living
from my purpose, we're living at

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our edge. And that's amazing.
That's it's so enlivening, right. And

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because you're living at your edge,
you are stretching yourself, you are growing,

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So that means you're going to get
new insights all the time, new

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ways to be able to see who
you are and what you're doing in the

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world. And that just opens this
pigot more right. It opens the expression

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of your spigot and the expression of
your purpose. And so you are a

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perfect illustration of We're literally watching you
blossom in front of us, all of

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us. It's beautiful. Thank you, Thank kids here, doctor side.

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One of the things that we emphasize
today is how we can't do it alone.

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So that's what I want to say
to the readers and listeners to just

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come join our community and connect with
us and let's support one another. That's

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best. We can thank you,
doctor Si finish. But that's a great

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way to finish, right, because
really this is this is this is a

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space where you need help. You
do need, to Donna's point, you

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really need that silence. You need
to close out the chaos of the world

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to be able to hear this.
But then you also need to connect with

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a community that will support you.
So just to sort of say, a

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few of the women that who were
also incentiled you, of course, who

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couldn't be on the show because they
are in other parts of the world that

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are sleeping right now, thank you
very much. We've got for example,

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Punum Kastories from India. Her contribution
is called not wasting a thing. Certainly

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not not a life. She has
made come you know, waste compost,

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her business, her life in India. Can you imagine, it's amazing.

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So her story is very, very
inspiring. We have Scheetle Shaw. She's

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her story is called every Day Showing
up with an Open Heart. She's in

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Kenya, right, doctor say yep? Amazing. We have Ricky Kilgard from

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Sweden talking about turning pain into purpose. The way you get up when life

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knocks you down is the name of
her story. Phenomenal. So those are

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just a few of the of the
smatterings here. So thank you for joining

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us today, all of your ladies. It's so wonderful to see you again

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and have you together, right,
It's fantastic for all of us to be

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together. We need a reunion at
some point, so to make that out

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definitely right, So listeners, gewers, thank you for joining us today.

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Please support this journey. Pick up
a copy of the book. It'll be

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it'll be an Amazon later on somewhere
in August. So please, if this

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is at all telling for you or
calling for you, pick up a book

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makes a great graduation copy. We've
discovered that as a great gift. So

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thank you very much for your support. If you want to learn more about

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this and just start the connection process, start with me. Go to Alice

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Cortez dot com. I'll help you
connect with any of these ladies that you've

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heard about today as well if you
can't find them on your own. So

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I want to say thanks again to
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their work from people from across for
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the live show, you can always
catch your recorded podcast. We were on

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the air with Ken Banks, who
was head of Social Purpose at YODI and

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Cambridge. We talked about his early
care We are decades of what I call

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wild alife, scratching for meaning and
purpose, and the book he's just written

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called Pursuit a Purpose. The show
is for anyone who is starting to feel

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that itch for meaning that often presents
itself in their mid thirties to early forties.

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Take a listen and let us know
what you think and see if they're

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remember that works at least a third
of our life, so let's work on

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

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too. Working on Purpose featuring your
host, doctor Elise Cortez, each week

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on the Voice America Empowerment Channel.
Together, we'll create a world where business

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operates conscientiously, leadership inspires impassioned performance, and employees are fulfilled in work that

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provides the meaning and purpose they crave. See you there, Let's work on Purpose.