Passionately Striving in “Why” Authors Gather

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What's working on purpose anyway? Each
week we ponder the answer to this question.

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People ache for meaning and purpose at
work, to contribute their talents passionately

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and know their lives really matter.
They crave being part of an organization that

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inspires them and helps them grow into
realizing their highest potential. Business can be

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such a force for good in the
world, elevating humanity. In our program,

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we provide guidance and inspiration to help
usher in this world we all want

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working on purpose. Now. Here
is your host, doctor Elise Cortes.

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Welcome back to Working in a Purpose
program. Thanks for tuning again this week.

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I'm your host, doctor Elis Cortez. Join you lie from Dallas,

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which is home base for me.
If you don't know me yet, I'm

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a man of consultant specializing and meaning
and purpose, organizational lago therapists, inspirational

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speaker, social scientist, and author. You can learn more about me and

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how we can work together at a
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us today is a very special occasion. There are several beautiful women from all

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

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

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and Why, in anthology of women
who persevere mindly to live their purpose.

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

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

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

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authors, let them share a little
bit about who they are today, a

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

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

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

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

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Hi A Lise, I'm so happy
to be here. Thanks for having me.

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It's so great to have you.
Well, So for our listeners and

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viewers here, just introduce yourself,
say a little bit about what you're doing

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today in the world. Absolutely,
I'm a leadership strategist, consultant and coach.

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I am principle of Uncommon Consulting and
founder of upschool, and I help

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people untangle the mess of work in
life, align their priorities, and go

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map a roadmap for their success.
So I'm having a wonderful time doing that

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and it's one of the reasons I
love being here with you. That is

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so so so great. Well,
so you know part of my my vision

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when this all happened here and let
me share quickly the story about how this

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whole anthology came to be for listeners
and viewers. And so in augusteen,

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

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

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

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

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message about meaning, passion, purpose, and here's what has happened in my

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life. And I thought, there's
sup be I'm supposed to do something with

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these stories. So I was hosting
all these these gatherings and such, and

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

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hey, I want to put forth
a series of mythologies. I want

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

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care what it's about. Of course, it's on purpose. So then I

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began systematically reaching across the globe trying
to find women who look like they were

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working on purpose, and I found
you. So why did you say yes?

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Why did you say yes? I'll
play Oh gosh, Well, I

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

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When we first met, completely by
accident, you know, we found we

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had a lot in common around purpose. My passion is in meaningful work,

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motivation, management, best practices,
meaningful work, how to build it,

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how to create environments for it,
how to help people secure it. The

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reason I wanted to be part of
this is I've been in human resources roles

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at the executive level for twenty plus
years. And in all of those years,

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

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through their work lives, you know, wishing for retirement. And then

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

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

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suffering 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

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prefer the latter, and if we
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more 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 please,

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since we want to make sure we
have enough time for the other ladies

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to come on as well, give
us just a high level order. What's

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

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

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

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

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be doing you know, more of
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quiet at first, and the gravitational
pull is really strong and at first,

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

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

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Very succinct. I love it.
Okay, Now, what do you

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

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

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

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

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be twenty five of us in that
book right by your side, helping you

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

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get out of that is that they've
got twenty five friends rooting them on.

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

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right, Well, stick around for
as long as you care too. I

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

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

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

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

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Oh, thanks so much, a
Lise. I'm very excited to see

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it come out me too. All
right, Hank, for as long as

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you like. Let us bring up
next Donal Donna Hamilton Please. I think

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

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the green room. Okay, maybe
she had to dash. All right,

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let's bring up maybus Side. Here
we go. Hello, doctor mabus 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, Elise. So,

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my name is Mavis si. 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,

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courage, and Love to everyone in
the world. I trained chapter leaders all

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over the world and six continents to
work with people in their communities to live

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better lives. Brilliant, brilliant,
so so important and certainly working on Purpose.

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So you were referred to us by
one of our other contributors, okay

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with Shietel Shaw. Thank you Schietel
again, Why did you say yeah?

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And you have many things going on
in your crazy, busy world, Why

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in the world did you say yes
to this project? It's really important to

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

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

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this really large reach and I want
just want women to know what they're capable

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

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

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hope is that we our stories help
people understand a couple of things. One

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that purpose is available to anyone anywhere
in the world. There are no socio

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economic factors or obstacles, there are
no cultural obstacles. It's available and works

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

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

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what I'm out to do. So
thrill that you said yes, So thank

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you, And a little bit about
your story. Your story is amazing,

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and again I wanted this to be
global. And so of course you are

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hearkening back to your heritage in your
story, I know, so give us

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

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Trauma to a Path of Purpose.
And I wrote a little bit about my

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parents' trauma going through the Japanese War
and then the communist takeover of China and

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just how I carry that in my
cellular memory and also growing up with my

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parents. I was lucky enough to
be born in Hong Kong after they escaped,

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but there's been so much in a
generational trauma, and I wrote a

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little bit about that and how I
was able to overcome that. Yeah,

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and so one of the things that
I really enjoyed about being serving as the

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curator and literally catching all of your
stories is I also then had the tremendous

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opportunity to then try and I did. I categorize them according to our paths,

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right, So your pain is a
way is a path to purpose.

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And so I did that because I
think it will help our listeners or excuse

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our readers to be able to determine
oh I can recognize that, Yeah,

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I've gone through something like that.
Oh you mean that could actually help illuminate

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my purpose. That's amazing, right, So, yeah, your story is

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very powerful, very powerful, and
what go ahead? Please? Maybe I

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was just saying thank you, You're
welcome. And then, so, what

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do you hope that our readers get
from reading this book? I would love

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to be able to serve our readers. Anybody who resonates with the idea of

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

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

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

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because if you recalled, as we're
going through this process here, there's

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lots of steps along the way.
And I did ask all of you to

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include your biographies and a way for
people to find you. And that was

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exactly the reason I did that,
is because I wanted readers who said,

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oh, I can so relate to
her story. I want to know where

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about her. Yeah, she's saying
what I have been saying. That's exactly

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why I wanted to do that,
and I do I actually envision that we're

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going to create our own tribe doing
this right that there's going to be a

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group of people that come along with
this. It's already happening in other ways.

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But I see this anthology as really
opening the doors to creating a tribe

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that maybe didn't exist before, or
was looking for a place to coalesce and

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didn't quite know how to do it. I love what a visionary you are,

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Alice. Thank you for that.
You know I will tell you,

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and this is something for all of
our people listening and watching right now.

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It is truly crazy, and I
know you can speak to this. What

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happens to us when we live and
serve from purpose are the creativity, the

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energy, the focus that is available
to us when we're working from purpose is

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phenomenal. I mean, I've done
crazy things high on purpose, and I

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

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purpose. That's where it's at right, It's beautiful. I want to cut

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us into a quick little break so
that we can also segment. Get a

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ladies. But before I do that, Doctor Cid, anything else you want

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to share with our listeners and viewers
about yourself, about why this purpose work

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and the work you're doing is so
important to you. I would love to

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share about an app that my nonprofit
created called Living a cl So it's available

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in the app store and it will
just bring lots of opportunities to people.

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And I just love the idea of
this global tribe and want to support that.

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That is fantastic. Thank you,
doctor Sigh for that for that offering.

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That's beautiful. So let's do this. I'm going to ask for Tabitha

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Rose to come up after the break, so if you would help me with

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that on the back end force,
But for now, let us grab our

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first break. Thank you, doctor
Ci for your share. I'm your host,

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doctor Elise Cortez. We've been on
the air with a few of the

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women from the anthology that I'm curating
that's coming out next month, and we'll

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be talking about why they're in this
program and what they hope their stories will

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do for the world. Stay with
us, We'll be right back. Doctor

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Elise Cortes is a management consultant specializing
in meaning and purpose and inspirational speaker and

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author. She helps companies visioneer for
greater purpose among stakeholders and develop purpose inspired

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leadership and meaning infused cultures that elevate
fulfillment, performance and commitment within the workforce.

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To learn more or to invite Elise
to speak to your organization, please

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visit her at Elisecortes dot com.
Let's talk about how to get your employees

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working on purpose. This is working
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it if you're just starting the program. Here we have some guests from around

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the world who are contributing authors to
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then 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 along with
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that's so great to have you,
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This is gorgeous. Yeah, this
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tell us introduce yourself and tell us
about this bookstore and all the things

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that you're doing. Thank you,
Tabitha ros I help people put their life

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stories to paper and guide those stories
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world. I'm also the founder of
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takes life story writing into places like
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bridges and what people need healing most. And the Life to Legacy Foundation also

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is supported by what you see behind
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Miami, Florida. And so the
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support the Life to Legacy Foundation.
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life, isn't there a little bit
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A big difference than my past from
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why I. As you might remember, when when you came into this,

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I asked you to talk about your
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We could contrast and compare that,
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and intense. Right, it's just
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bit about your story. So I
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about, you know, the moments
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shoulder throughout my life and what I
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may made to go completely opposite direction
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from the universe. And then ultimately
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shoulder taps turned into slap, then
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then I was finally sitting on my
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and I knew it was time to
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that meant being the full expression of
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was terrified of being and getting to
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and I ultimately Steve Jobs has a
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the dots looking forward, you can
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have to trust that the docts will
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to trust in something, your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.

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in my life, and that's what
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well. You know, look back. I mean, the future can be

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very anxiety provoking. We think about
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projecting panic into the future. But
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and especially writing, it is so
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I was writing, things kind of
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able to make these you know,
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along, even if I fell into
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that I did. It is amazing
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purpose, you can look back and
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life. You can see all the
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when you get to that place of
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can see that to sign. And
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Miss Tabitha, when it was a
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day to editing the stories and reading
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authors. And your message, I
think came through LinkedIn or something about he

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said to me, can I can
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just at the edge of cutting off, and you said something like I

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feel like I tell us You said
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to be doing this or this is
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this. What was it about the
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that was calling you? It was
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I help put other people's stories to
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long time now to put my own. And when I saw that, I

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just spoke to me. It was
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it was so incredibly fulfilling to write
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you I'm so happy to hear that. You know what I heard so often

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from the women who contributed was how
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I'm so coul that I was able
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didn't. I knew it would be
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hope readers will get from it?
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you know, I believe stories can
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now we're in a time of loneliness. Many people are, and I hope

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they feel not alone when they read
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be extremely open and vulnerable about even
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of my past. I want people
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hope that they're inspired to even begin
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like you said, is so cathartic. It's so healing and I and

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I truly felt remember after pressing send, sending it over to you, I

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just felt like untangled in a good
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all that I felt. Really,
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my own story, and I think
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everyone should I have as well.
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is messy, but that's what life
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whole opportunity is is going through the
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what does this mean to you and
discovering really who you are in the process

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and how you can help observe the
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which is why, of course I
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working and meeting and purpose. So
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stay along for as long as you
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hear from a couple of the other
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Crystal coming on, so I'm going
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stay on, great, if you
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thank you so much, Tatatha.
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thrilled to cat true story. Thank
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please hello Oi, Crystal, to
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Yeah doing and so Crystal is from
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from Canada, but she splits her
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and of course maybe it 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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Jea, 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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book right, So hi everyone,
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about working with people, discovering people
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goals. I do believe that great
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opportunity and the tools for reaching everything
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working with Doctor Without Borders in human
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in most vulnerable and needed areas in
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of the role. So yeah,
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I found you on LinkedIn. It
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be in this and it was interesting. At first you said I'm not sure

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if I'm working on purpose, and
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know, so you gave it some
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youngest contributor to our anthology. Do
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listen, so you know, listeners
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is Portuguese and here she is joining
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impressive when somebody else can render such
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ban so a little about your story. What's the taste of your story?

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working with purpose. So I had
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eight years and took me twenty eight
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is work with purpose? And if
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you reached me. I was the
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a person that wasn't happy with the
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leaving. I didn't see myself and
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that I was before, and I
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a more life, into a more
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I want, I know and I
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this transition phase I was, and
this is this is what my stories about.

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This about a person who was super
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would be the next step, feeling
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wasn't something that I was. I
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personally speaking, and trying to reach
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do. And fortunately it's so far
it's been amazingly great. I mean love

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what I do now. I'm super
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tell in my story. I hope
it can be inspiring for someone that is

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can be related to not understanding what
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is, just go for it.
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guts, and and be yourself.
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find you in the most vulnerable way, in the most truthful way that it

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can be, which is for me, is my purpose to be myself in

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the fullest mm hmm. And if
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I asked of all of the authors
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us in on the you know,
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to as I call the wildlife,
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work. And so all of your
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shows vulnerability. You let us into
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to showcase because that's the access point
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access to their own purpose. So
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that the readers get from it?
I hope that readers can be inspired somehow

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and can believe that it's possible to
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really meaningful way. So my story
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amazing. So somehow we are here
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to share our stories and to reach
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not for any I think there is
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not just women but also with men
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this position, it means a lot
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everyone. If you're young in your
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mature career, you can understand that
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and whatever it is, if it's
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is actually, the more you can
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emerge, which actually is ultimately at
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that is you is your purpose,
the more you are going to be fulfilled

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in life and a bigger impact,
the bigger place of service that you can

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come from. And that's what we're
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right, is to come with us
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thank you, Christal, thank you
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for as long as you can,
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after we have. So if we
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to come into the room now and
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I will, I'll bring us together
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good to see you look gorgeous,
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So introduce yourself. Tell us who
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into these days. Okay, yes, I am Donna Renee Hamilton. Forgive

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the I apologize. That's okay,
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I am a personal development coach,
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also a published author as well as
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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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reducing recidivism. So we work a
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over the city and as well as
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on bringing people successfully from being incocrated
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to all the services that they need
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we can have this thing work out
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they re enter back into society.
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never been in any trouble or anything like

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

409
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working with substance abuse and it was
health care for it. I got it

410
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caught up into a health care fraud
situation there and basically what made it so

411
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difficult for me and that led me
down to the road where I ended up

412
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being incarcerated as well, was because
the person who was heading that was my

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children's father. So because of that
emotional bond attachment. I didn't want to

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go against him and you know,
testify against him, so they got angry

415
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and they pulled me into it too, and it left For five years,

416
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we fought through the criminal justice system, and then it ended up with me

417
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being incocerated for fourteen months, three
states away from my home. I had

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two young children to take care of, so it was very devastating experience.

419
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Yeah, And one of the things
I find really fascinating about your story is

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that what would not actually seem obvious
from the outset is that I was actually

421
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a place where you could have enough
quiet in your life to be able to

422
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hear the delicate whisker of your whisper
of your purpose trying to get your attention,

423
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which is really kind of phenomenal when
you think about it, that you

424
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actually, you know, you went
from prison to purpose, which I believe

425
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is the name of your story.
Yes, yeah, yes, yes,

426
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exactly, that's the name of my
story, from story from prison to purpose.

427
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So just like you said, Elise, I mean, it would be

428
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the most unlikely place that you think
you would go in and find purpose,

429
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but it turned out where that being
happened. What I always say is when

430
00:32:42.960 --> 00:32:51.319
I share my story is the physical
bars, the being behind being behind the

431
00:32:51.359 --> 00:32:57.200
physical bars helped me to realize that
I had already built a prison, a

432
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self made prison around myself, around
my mind and around my heart and just

433
00:33:02.000 --> 00:33:07.640
you know the limitations, you know
that that that hold us back in life,

434
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and then the the emotional you know, the emotional things that we go

435
00:33:10.680 --> 00:33:15.000
through, the pain that we go
through in life. I realized that I'd

436
00:33:15.000 --> 00:33:22.720
already built like by this prison around
myself of fear. And so it took

437
00:33:22.839 --> 00:33:29.440
me to to find myself in that
predicament in order to set myself free from

438
00:33:29.480 --> 00:33:36.079
the mental and the emotional prison or
in conserration that we often find ourselves in

439
00:33:36.079 --> 00:33:38.599
in life. So, you know, I I came, you know,

440
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and I always say, you know, Grace met me there. For sure,

441
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it's a big story of grace.
Grace met me there, and uh,

442
00:33:46.480 --> 00:33:51.799
you know, I I that quiet
time helped me to you know,

443
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really uh come to understanding who I
am and and and who God is in

444
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my life. So I don't know, the rat race sometime gets so caught

445
00:34:01.759 --> 00:34:07.440
up in the rat race in life
that we don't have the time to really

446
00:34:07.519 --> 00:34:12.679
really really sit within ourselves and be
in the present moment because I had a

447
00:34:12.679 --> 00:34:16.719
problem also with being in the present. I was like that anxiety problem person

448
00:34:17.159 --> 00:34:21.599
who was always you know, my
mind is always in the future, but

449
00:34:21.920 --> 00:34:24.880
to be in the present. It
taught me how to be in the present

450
00:34:25.000 --> 00:34:30.480
moment and I practice that every day
in my life. Now mine is beautiful

451
00:34:30.679 --> 00:34:34.119
and that note. Everybody's staying with
us here, let's grab our last break.

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I'm doctor Lee Cortez, your host. Weven are with women from the

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anthology that we're all part of that
I've curated called Passionately Striving in Wine,

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which is coming out in early August
this year, and after the break,

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we're going to hear more about what
their perspectives are and just what we're doing.

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Stay with us, We'll be right
back. Doctor Release Cortez is a

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management consultant specializing in meaning and purpose
and inspirational speaker and author. She helps

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companies visioneer for greater purpose among stakeholders
and develop purpose inspired leadership and meaning infused

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cultures that elevate fulfillment, performance,
and commitment within the workforce. To learn

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more or to invite Elise to speak
to your organization, please visit her at

461
00:35:15.440 --> 00:35:21.559
Eleasecortes 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 Cortes. To reach our program

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today or open a conversation with Alise, send an email to a lease Alise

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at Elisecortes 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 the Grab Your gusta
well being webcast learning series. The content

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of that programs adapted from part one
of my recently publicsh 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 help transform them into inspirational leaders who

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enliven the workplace and elevate the contribution
of business to all at 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 tale

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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
you do that, I want to share

476
00:36:31.280 --> 00:36:36.039
with you that one of the reasons
that I'm so committed to this whole purpose

477
00:36:36.079 --> 00:36:38.639
work is that I think it was
in twenty eighteen, I had Karen Hoyas

478
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on my radio show and she wrote
a book about purpose, and she's a

479
00:36:43.239 --> 00:36:45.119
firecracker, she said in the book. We talked about it on air.

480
00:36:45.199 --> 00:36:50.920
She said, right now, only
one percent of the global population is fully

481
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living their purpose. She said,
when we get to three percent, consciousness

482
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will be raised such that peace is
actually possible. I thought, that's what

483
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I've getten up for. So so
much of what I see us doing here

484
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is we are elevating consciousness. And
so just as we as we talk here

485
00:37:07.960 --> 00:37:09.599
a little bit about this, I
want to hear from from each of you

486
00:37:09.920 --> 00:37:14.599
just some way and some of your
perspectives on the matter here. But first

487
00:37:14.679 --> 00:37:17.800
it's to open it. What do
you think the war would look like if

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00:37:17.840 --> 00:37:22.239
more of us actually lived and worked
from their purpose? What would you say,

489
00:37:22.280 --> 00:37:25.639
doctor side, you're on mute,
by the way, there we go.

490
00:37:28.760 --> 00:37:32.800
If more of us lived according to
our purpose, there would just be

491
00:37:34.079 --> 00:37:40.280
so much more connection and love and
peace and equity. There wouldn't be these

492
00:37:42.159 --> 00:37:46.360
really corrosive divides between people, and
there wouldn't be the rich and the poor,

493
00:37:46.480 --> 00:37:51.239
And I think there'd just be a
lot more in quality in connection.

494
00:37:51.800 --> 00:37:57.079
MM agreed. And when we're here, we are having a conversation talking about

495
00:37:57.079 --> 00:38:00.599
our path to purpose and all of
us have had it's been a mess journey,

496
00:38:00.639 --> 00:38:02.760
and we haven't none of us have
really known where this thing was going

497
00:38:02.800 --> 00:38:07.280
to take us. What would you
offer to the listeners who are they're obviously

498
00:38:07.320 --> 00:38:10.360
tuning in because this topic is probably
of interest to them, But what would

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00:38:10.400 --> 00:38:17.159
you offer to them for their journey
to help them along? Who are you

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00:38:17.199 --> 00:38:21.800
asking? At least you maybis sorry
if you still hawed to floor, you

501
00:38:21.800 --> 00:38:30.440
still have to mic. So I
have this idea that they're actually dreams that

502
00:38:31.119 --> 00:38:37.880
want to find people, as opposed
to focusing on yourself and trying to find

503
00:38:37.960 --> 00:38:44.679
a dream. It's like just being
open and listening to what's calling to you.

504
00:38:44.760 --> 00:38:47.760
I just believe that we each have
and I would love to hear everyone

505
00:38:47.800 --> 00:38:53.199
else's ideas about this, that they're
actually callings that we need to tune into

506
00:38:53.880 --> 00:38:59.679
as opposed to making it happen,
That we just need to be open to

507
00:38:59.800 --> 00:39:04.559
what is trying to find us.
I love that. I want to chime

508
00:39:04.599 --> 00:39:08.880
in, but let me let Donna
or Crystal speak up as well. Sure,

509
00:39:08.960 --> 00:39:13.400
I'll go next. The first question
I think you asked, what would

510
00:39:13.440 --> 00:39:16.960
the world be if everyone is everyone
lives in that purpose? And I mean,

511
00:39:17.039 --> 00:39:22.119
I think I definitely believe that we
will be able to solve all the

512
00:39:22.159 --> 00:39:28.840
problems that we have in the world
today. It doesn't matter whether if it's

513
00:39:28.840 --> 00:39:35.239
sickness, racism, whatever, you
know, classism, sexism, everything.

514
00:39:35.559 --> 00:39:38.880
I think if everyone really live in
their purpose, we would definitely have that

515
00:39:39.880 --> 00:39:45.880
world where everyone everyone's needs will be
met. Hopefully, you know, we

516
00:39:45.880 --> 00:39:49.039
can kind of find a cure for
cancer, because I do believe that.

517
00:39:49.280 --> 00:39:52.280
A lot of times people I think
that we have a lot of dreams in

518
00:39:52.320 --> 00:39:59.119
the graveyard. And that's because sometimes, you know, we wrestle so much

519
00:39:59.239 --> 00:40:04.079
with this whole complexity of purpose and
trying to you know, chase it and

520
00:40:04.119 --> 00:40:08.599
find it and make it such a
difficult thing. But it's not as difficult.

521
00:40:08.960 --> 00:40:14.599
It's really simple. But it is
difficult because life does get messy and

522
00:40:14.679 --> 00:40:16.800
sometimes we get off of course,
and you know, we get off the

523
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path. But I think if we're
all doing what we're supposed to do,

524
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then the puzzle will all fall together. As far as our earth, you

525
00:40:27.000 --> 00:40:30.719
know, our climate, just just
every area facet of you know, how

526
00:40:30.719 --> 00:40:35.079
we live and what we live in, we would be able to solve these

527
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problems. So that that's my biggest
uh take for that mm hmm. And

528
00:40:39.840 --> 00:40:43.119
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 on it, we all
we do desperately need to quiet ourselves and

531
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come into ourselves to hear that whisper
that's coming from with them. And to

532
00:40:53.719 --> 00:40:57.119
your point, doctor say, I
do see it as kind of like a

533
00:40:57.159 --> 00:41:00.360
divining rod. And I feel like
this there's been a divining run that's been

534
00:41:00.400 --> 00:41:04.599
sort of leading me in my life, and my opportunity was to listen to

535
00:41:04.639 --> 00:41:07.639
it, right and and then and
be obedient to it, frankly, and

536
00:41:07.639 --> 00:41:12.280
it wasn't always convenient to be obedient
to it. This is hard work being

537
00:41:12.320 --> 00:41:15.840
from purpose sometimes. That's why we
put in the you know, persevering mightily

538
00:41:15.960 --> 00:41:20.079
piece in the title, right,
And that's also to the point that Julie

539
00:41:20.079 --> 00:41:21.920
said at the beginning of the show, you need help, you need a

540
00:41:21.920 --> 00:41:23.559
community to help you. That's why
this, this is what we're doing here

541
00:41:23.559 --> 00:41:27.360
together is helping to create that.
And then finally, I want to say

542
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that I really believe that when we
really get true to what our purpose is

543
00:41:31.280 --> 00:41:36.440
and we serve from it, that
contribution that we can make is so much

544
00:41:36.480 --> 00:41:39.119
bigger than than we ever could imagine. And yes, it's terrifying to imagine

545
00:41:39.159 --> 00:41:44.199
you can make that big of a
difference, right, And that's the opportunity

546
00:41:44.239 --> 00:41:47.880
for all of us to really stand
in our brilliance and our possibility and let

547
00:41:47.960 --> 00:41:52.519
that light shine because the world does
need it. So beautiful contribution, both

548
00:41:52.559 --> 00:41:59.239
of you, ladies, Christal your
perspective, that's I could I agree more

549
00:41:59.320 --> 00:42:05.679
with the book contributions. I think
when you live in a purpose, you're

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00:42:06.920 --> 00:42:12.760
you're not giving up easily of what
do you want to do and what do

551
00:42:12.800 --> 00:42:15.519
you want to give the legacy you
want to live in the world. You

552
00:42:15.559 --> 00:42:22.639
know, So it's once you once
you know what you want, you're going

553
00:42:22.719 --> 00:42:25.159
to precie. This doesn't matter,
what doesn't matter, any conditions and et

554
00:42:25.199 --> 00:42:32.480
cetera. And it's not an easy
trail to go through, but at least

555
00:42:32.760 --> 00:42:37.320
you know there is a there is
a point to reach or if this point

556
00:42:37.440 --> 00:42:42.800
reach, you can go further and
what you mentionally at least at least sorry,

557
00:42:43.519 --> 00:42:50.360
it is that you can go beyond
that your expectations. You can create

558
00:42:51.119 --> 00:42:58.000
much more than ever was imaginable by
you or anyone else. So it's it's

559
00:42:58.000 --> 00:43:02.119
also a path for not knowing everything
that is going to happen, but also

560
00:43:02.239 --> 00:43:07.440
it's a path of a lot of
excitement, a lot of challenge, a

561
00:43:07.480 --> 00:43:15.800
lot of perseverance and just to keep
going and make sure that things are on

562
00:43:15.960 --> 00:43:22.480
the right path. And the feeling
that you have inside internally it's not you

563
00:43:22.559 --> 00:43:28.480
cannot buy, you cannot create and
anything. It's just your own. So

564
00:43:28.679 --> 00:43:34.719
this is at least the most few
that you can help to pursue thriving through

565
00:43:34.760 --> 00:43:38.480
life. Yeah, it's the best
feel I've ever found for sure. By

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00:43:38.519 --> 00:43:43.840
the way, that just flashed on
the screen here was Miriam Zacharrelli. She

567
00:43:44.000 --> 00:43:46.880
is one of our contributing authors as
well, also from Brazil. She's listening

568
00:43:46.880 --> 00:43:51.840
in today and she shares a bit
about her story of really what it was

569
00:43:51.920 --> 00:43:57.000
like to work in you know,
an all men's corporate space and what that

570
00:43:57.039 --> 00:43:59.440
did to her health and how she
came through that on the other side.

571
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So Miriam, your story is powerful, will resonate with a lot of people.

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00:44:01.599 --> 00:44:05.960
I'm so glad that I caught your
story too, and we're sharing it

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00:44:06.000 --> 00:44:10.360
so we have What's great about this
anthology is it was intentional to literally reach

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00:44:10.400 --> 00:44:15.519
across the globe. So we have
stories from Australia to Zambia, and I

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00:44:15.599 --> 00:44:19.280
just think that is just phenomenal.
Right, and so so many of these

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00:44:19.320 --> 00:44:24.039
women wrote these their stories in a
language secondary to their native so that has

577
00:44:24.079 --> 00:44:29.079
been phenomenal to be able to catch
those stories. So I think there really

578
00:44:29.159 --> 00:44:32.599
is something for everyone in this collection. I think that as you read these

579
00:44:32.639 --> 00:44:37.400
stories, you're going to get to
know these twenty five women. My story

580
00:44:37.440 --> 00:44:40.039
is in there as well, and
I want you to reach out to us.

581
00:44:40.079 --> 00:44:43.239
I want you to connect with us. I want you to let us

582
00:44:43.280 --> 00:44:46.079
know what you learned and what moved
you and what helped you. Right.

583
00:44:46.119 --> 00:44:51.000
That's we're part of your community now
and we're literally reaching through that book a

584
00:44:51.079 --> 00:44:54.400
hand up to you to come with
us. So it's a real invitation.

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00:44:55.840 --> 00:44:59.239
So we've got just a couple more
minutes here, ladies, before we have

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00:44:59.280 --> 00:45:00.480
to close the show. Want to
get each of you a chance just to

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00:45:00.480 --> 00:45:05.519
say in maybe one minute or so, however you like to leave the listeners

588
00:45:05.599 --> 00:45:09.559
and viewers with today, Well that's
sorry. Sorry, you're like, who

589
00:45:09.559 --> 00:45:13.840
do I who is it? I'll
just go ahead, Donna, thank you.

590
00:45:14.400 --> 00:45:16.519
I'll jump in. I just want
to say to the readers, to

591
00:45:16.599 --> 00:45:22.039
the listeners, as far as purpose
is concerned, it is a path and

592
00:45:22.239 --> 00:45:28.599
sometimes you know, we procrastinate,
but it is a sacrifice, and you

593
00:45:28.639 --> 00:45:31.400
know there may be a lot of
things you may encounter, but have courage,

594
00:45:31.559 --> 00:45:36.960
take courage, and follow your heart
and follow what your dreams are.

595
00:45:37.159 --> 00:45:42.159
Thank you, miss done, beautiful
christal Ah, that's so beautiful. I

596
00:45:42.280 --> 00:45:44.960
just want to cup and paste.
It's amazing. Donna, thank you very

597
00:45:45.079 --> 00:45:50.719
much. Yeah, that's it.
What if I can just let something like

598
00:45:50.960 --> 00:45:53.960
pursue for it, don't don't give
up. But it took me twenty years,

599
00:45:54.000 --> 00:45:59.519
and I see, figuring out is
a journey, and for me,

600
00:46:00.239 --> 00:46:06.760
the most exciting thing is to leaving
the present, the present in my journey

601
00:46:07.079 --> 00:46:10.320
and knowing that the way I'm going, it's the way I want to go.

602
00:46:10.719 --> 00:46:15.559
I am the owner of my path. I make my choice, and

603
00:46:16.480 --> 00:46:20.920
what I'm doing is what I believe
is the best thing that I can do

604
00:46:21.039 --> 00:46:27.039
to this world. So keep going
and pursue that, beautiful Kristal, And

605
00:46:27.119 --> 00:46:29.880
let me add to what you're saying
is so important. You're bringing up a

606
00:46:29.960 --> 00:46:32.159
very important point, and that is
that when we live and work from our

607
00:46:32.159 --> 00:46:37.840
purpose, we are literally stretching ourselves
and so we're constantly growing and pulling ourselves

608
00:46:37.880 --> 00:46:43.320
forward. So your purpose expression will
continue to evolve as you continue to grow

609
00:46:43.360 --> 00:46:47.639
yourself. Right, So know that
you literally are, as Gabriel Kazan said

610
00:46:47.639 --> 00:46:52.800
on my radio show some time back, when we're really really serving and living

611
00:46:52.800 --> 00:46:57.000
from our purpose, we're living at
our edge. And that's amazing, it's

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so enlivening. Right. And because
you're living at your edge, you are

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stretching yourself, you are growing,
So that means you're going to get new

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insights all the time, new ways
to be able to see who you are

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and what you're doing in the world. And that just opens this bigot more

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right, It opens the expression of
the of your spigot and the expression of

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your purpose. And so you are
a perfect illustration of We're literally watching you

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blossom in front of us, all
of us. It's beautiful. Thank you,

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good sir, doctor Side. One
of the things that we emphasize today

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is how we can't do it alone. So that's what I want to say

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to the readers and listeners to just
come join join our community and connect with

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us, and let's support one another
as best we can. Thank you,

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doctor Side. Finish That's a great
way to finish, right, because really

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this is this is this is a
space where you need help. You do

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need to Donna's point, you really
need that silence. You need to close

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out the chaos of the world to
be able to hear this. But then

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you also need to connect with a
community that will support you. So just

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to sort of say, a few
of the women that who were also incenthl

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to you, of course, who
couldn't be on the show because they are

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in other parts of the world that
are sleeping right now, thank you very

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much. We've got for examples stories
from India. Her contribution is called not

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wasting a thing, certainly not not
a life. She has made come you

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know, waste compost her business,
her life in India. Can you imagine,

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It's amazing. So her story is
very very inspiring. We have Sheietel

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Shah. She's her story is called
every day showing up with an open heart.

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She's in Kenya, right, doctor
ci yep. Amazing. We have

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Ricky Kilgard from Sweden talking about turning
pain into purpose. The way you get

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up when life knocks you down is
the name of her story. Phenomenal.

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So those are just a few of
the of the smatterings here. So thank

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you for joining us today, all
of you ladies. It's so wonderful to

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see you again and have you together, right. It's fantastic for all of

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us to be together. We need
a reunion at some point, so have

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to make that absolutely right. So
listeners, viewers, thank you for joining

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us today. Please support this journey. Pick up a copy of the book.

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It'll be on It'll be on Amazon
later on somewhere in August, so

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please, if this is at all
telling for you or calling for you,

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pick up a book. Makes a
great graduation copy. We've discovered that as

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a great gift, So thank you
very much for your support. If you

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want to learn more about this and
just start the connection process, start with

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me, go to a leascore test
dot com. I'll help you connect with

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any of these ladies that you've heard
about today as well. If you can't

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find them on your own. So
I want to say thanks again to my

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Last week, I you missed the
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you recorded podcast. We were on
the air with Ken Banks, who is

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head of Social Purpose at YODI in
Cambridge. We talked about his early We

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are just decades of what I call
wildlife scratching for meaning and purpose and the

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book he's just written called Pursuit a
Purpose. The show is for anyone who

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is starting to feel that itch for
meaning that often presents itself in their mid

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thirties to early forties. Take a
listen and let us know what you think

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and see you there. Remember that
works at least or third of our life.

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So let's work on Purpose. We
hope you've enjoyed this week's program.

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Be sure to tune in to Working
on Purpose featuring your host, doctor Elise

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Cortes, each week on the Voice
America Empowerment Channel. Together, we'll create

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a world where business operates conscientiously.
Leadership inspires impassioned performance, and employees are

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fulfilled in work that provides the meaning
and purpose They crave see you there.

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Let's work on purpose.