Dec. 30, 2025

The Power of Teaching Through Story: Putting Fear, Change, and Diminishment on Trial

The Power of Teaching Through Story: Putting Fear, Change, and Diminishment on Trial
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Discover how learning to share unforgettable stories can turn you into a fearless, visionary leader. Emmy-winning reporter and broadcaster Monica Pierre takes the stage in a powerful theatrical performance, putting fear, change, and diminishment “on trial.” Learn how to confront what holds you back, embrace transformation, and avoid unknowingly shrinking those you lead. Join us to elevate your storytelling—and your impact—as a leader who inspires lasting change.

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in today's program, we have with us Monica Pierre, a

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keynote speaker three times Suncoast Emmy Award winning reporter and producer,

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communication expert and transformational storyteller who ignites audiences through the

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power of character driven monologues. She is Assistant Professor of

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Practice in the Mass Communication Department at Xavier University of

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Louisiana and New Orleans and founder of This Storymaker Academy.

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She hosts the Powerhouse Women Show and also specializes in

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helping leaders and entrepreneurs move beyond fear to embrace authentic transformation.

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I've got a special treat for you today, and that

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Monica will be showcasing her expert storytelling skills, so you

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two can learn as she shares, and then we engage

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over three monologues that showcase fear, then change, and then diminishment,

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all in a very completely fresh, different light. She joins

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today from New Orleans. Monica A hearty welcome to working

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on a purpose.

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Thank you so much. I'm so glad to be here

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and to be on the other side of the microphone.

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I understand.

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I really is a nice and pleasant surprise once in

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a while, isn't it?

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It is? It's wonderful, a great conversation.

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It is a listener's of viewers.

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I like to tell you where I find my guests,

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most all of them about ninety eight percent come to

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me through a public relations representative who usually has an

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author is that fits with what I'm trying to showcase

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In this case, I picked up.

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Monica on my own.

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She and I were speaking together at Thrive in twenty

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five eight women's conference in Chicago in June of twenty

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twenty five.

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I was the MC.

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She was a keynote speaker, and when I heard her speak,

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one I immediately had to get to know her and

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connect with her, and then two I had to bring

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her on to share her with you. So what I

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want you to focus on as we go through the

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show that through this particular episodes, I want you to

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think about the power of the importance of effective and

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powerful communication as a professional and as a leader. Everything

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that you're going to see her do, you can actually learn. Now,

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this is top notch skills that you're going to see

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and witness. If you could approximate even some of the

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skills she's about to show us. So what we're going

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to do in this episode is for each of the segments,

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she's going to be working on a singular topic. She's

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going to do her character based monologue, and then I'm

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going to engage her in conversation over that topic in

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the next episode or the next segment, will do the

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same in the next topic. So this first one, how

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would you like to queue it up? Monica, how would

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you like to start?

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Well, first of all, I like to start by saying,

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I met the most generous, amazing and talented person in Chicago,

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and I'm so honored to be here. But what really

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surprised me and doesn't always surprise me, is when I

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let people know that I'm going to do these characters

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or do these monologues, which ones really resonate And the

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one I did on Fear it never seems to fail.

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That that is the one that whether you're a leader,

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have an entrepreneur, or you're a career person, it's always

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kind of at the back of your mind, which fear

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me in your life? So you let me know when

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you'd like me to start. And then, but I wanted

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to be a really engaging conversation as well.

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I promise you I will engage you.

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So let me just give you as if I literally am,

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just like I did when we were in Chicago and

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I was your MC, I introduced you and then I

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got I gave you a hug. So this is a

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virtual hug. And then I got off the stage and

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you took it away. So here's your virtual hug, and

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here's the mic.

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It is the twenty third century and Fear has finally

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been captured and put on trial for crimes against humidity.

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For too long, Fear has stood in the way of

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unrealized dreams, accused of stealing the hopes and dreams of mankind.

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Be the Judges of the High Court will decide your fate.

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You have opted not to call a single witness, but

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it's now time for closing arguments. Present your closing argument,

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Judges of the High Court.

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It's been a horrible mistake.

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I am not guilty. During this long and difficult case,

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many horrible things have been said about me. I've been

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called vile names, thief, bully, manipulative, although I do prefer

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the word seductive. And yes, I have been called evil.

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I ask you, is this the face of evil? I've

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opted not to call a single witness because this is

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an open and shutcase. Humanity is to blame for all

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its missed opportunities. I'm a scapegoat. Think about it. I

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get blamed for everything Fear public speaking fear of being alone.

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You name it.

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The laundry list is very long. Those of you in

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the courtroom, surely you feel my pain. I'm so alone

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and despised and so misunderstood. The prosecution has curated witness

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after witness, each person lamenting about how I stood in

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the way of their dreams, how they slipped through their

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fingers like sand.

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And here's the truth.

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I have grown weary of the finger pointing and the

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attacks on my character. I am not guilty. You want

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to know the truth. You want to know what's really

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going on. Do you want to know all of my secrets? Well,

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I will tell you. I can't do anything without your permission.

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In fact, had you hung it there one more year,

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one more month, one more time, you would have realized

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your dreams.

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But you got scared and you blamed me for All

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I did was what spa, You'll never have enough money

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to buy the dream.

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House you really want. All I did was whisp. You're

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losing money by the second and you'll lose this business

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before it's all said and don All I did was whisper.

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You were born on the wrong side of the track,

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and I don't care how much you spend looking part.

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You feel like a fraud, don't you. Well everyone knows

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all I did was whisper. I whispered things about you

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to your mother and your father, and your sister, and

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your brother, and your coworker or even your business partner.

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And they were all too willing to repeat it. And

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you stopped working on your dreams. You stayed down, stayed depressed,

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and refuse to do for yourself that you what you

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could have and should have done for yourself. You want

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to know the secret, You want to know what keeps

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me alive century after century. Well it's you, humanity. I

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can't do anything without your permission. I exist because you

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allow me to. You want to put somebody on trial,

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You put yourselves on trial. Judges of the High Court,

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I arrest my case fear. We have made a decision.

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We find you guilty. You are hereby banish, take fear away.

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Oh fools, you'll never get rid of me.

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Never. And that's fear on trial.

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That is only the second time that I've heard that,

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And it is so powerful. Listeners and viewers. Imagine being

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in a hotel ballroom and Monica performs this performance.

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And it was we were all leaning forward.

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As I told her afterwards, she produced a collective goose

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bump in the crowd.

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And so let's not kind of peel this back and understand.

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A bit more about what you did there and why

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this is so provocative. Why is it that we can

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so fit with and relate and be captivated by your message?

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It is part it's certainly your performance, but it's also

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your mussage. So this the power of fear?

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What is it? What's its real power?

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It's real power is that we give it power, and

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it takes advantage of that because it's very easy. There's

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there's a loan fry list when you think about it,

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of all the things that we blame fear for. I

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mentioned public speaking. There's also starting a business. There's also

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falling in love. There's also leaving a romance that you

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think you should have forever, and the truth is it's

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no longer serving you, but you don't leave because you're fearful.

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And we've learned to scapegoat fear and not recognize that

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fear lives because we allow it to the type of

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fear that stands in the way of what we say

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we want. And I thought about fear before I actually

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put the script together and put the characters together. And

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I said, we often think about fear as this fire

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breathing dragon, huge presence, right, huge present. And I'm driving,

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I'm actually driving in New Orleans, acrossing one of our

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many many bridges, and I said, huh, fear is nothing

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but a whisper talking to us all the time. That

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whisper when you're about to make the pitch for your

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business to get the funding, that says you're not going

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to get it. You know you're a terrible speaker, Then

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no one's going to believe you, whatever the situation is.

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And I said, fear whispers, And because we listen to

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the whisper, then we create what we say we don't

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want in our lives. So what should we do instead

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when fear whispers to us? I think number one is

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to realize fear is always looking for an opportunity to whisper.

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And at the end, when fear says you'll never get

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rid of me, that's the truth. Think about the times

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at least when you stood there, or we stand there,

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we accomplish something, and then we get another opportunity. It's bigger,

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it's bolder, and then those same doubts start to creep

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in again, and fear finds that opening, and fear says,

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I don't know this time if you're don't make it

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or not, so always looking for an opportunity. And the

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truth is, and perhaps there's some information that we could use,

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but we have to assess whether or not what fear

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is saying is the truth. If fear is speaking in absolutes,

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you're terrible, You'll never make it. There's no way people

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are going to hire you. And is that the truth

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And the truth is probably not. But if there's a

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kernel of truth, we can't address it. We can say, well,

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but it's nothing I can't do, it's nothing I can't

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figure out. So again, recognize fear is looking for opportunities

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go back and remember the last time you were in

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happened happened Either you said fear You're right. We said

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make this happen anyway, and say I've done it before

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and I can do it again.

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and really casting the true character of fear here that

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really what's happening when fear whispers to us.

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is important to you. Pay attention to this.

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those opportunities and it only comes when the stakes are high.

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but what we really want, what we say we want,

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and how willing are we to absolutely do what we

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don't have our shoulders back as much as we should.

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completely relate to, and that's what happens when we experience

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fear in organizations. And you and I have both worked

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in organizations where it's so palpable and fear is present

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in most organizations, the question is to what he's in

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and address and handle fear in organizations. But it dampens innovation,

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support your colleagues. It's a terrible thing when it runs

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rampant in an organization. Just briefly, Monicaus, if you could

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downsizing it's not unusual. You do your shift, your worshipt,

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your show, and then they go we're going in a

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different direction and everybody's gone. So one of the things

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that I've had to work through myself is that there's

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the world, and organizations I don't always know the best

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people about it, but be very sensitive about what this

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heard about things that were going to happen, and then

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when it happened, some stayed, some left, and the food

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the shoe finally dropped and they destroyed everything they had.

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away in the trash can, all the things that they

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it's not just about you and how they're reacting to

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you and reacting to the news that it's going to

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take a moment to heal that this is very, very challenging,

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particularly when the employee or the team member wage their bet.

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work even harder that I this will pass me by.

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us by, and then suddenly you're out the door or

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you're doing some different work or you're not doing the

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kind of work that you really wanted to do. So

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I would just really know that it hurts, but you'll

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get through it. And leaders, you know, if people know

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that you have done everything you know how to do

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to be sensitive to what's happening, I think that's going

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to help. Maybe not today, maybe not the more mohen

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it happens, but I think they'll understand that this is

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something that happens.

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viewers just think about what you shared with fear, and

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Release Cortez. We've been on here with Monica Pierre, founder

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of Storymaker Academy, who also specializes in helping leaders and

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entrepreneurs move beyond their fear to embrace authentic transformation. We

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even showcasing fear and how she describes it through her

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character based monologues. After the break, we're going to talk

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about change in the same capacity.

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they want and need to give their best and stay

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and transformation storyteller who ignites audiences through the power of

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character driven monologues which you are now witnessing and experiencing today.

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So this next segment, here, Monica, let us talk about

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change meane just one of those other words, just like

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fear that gets a bad wrap. So let's let me

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give you the virtual hug, pass you the.

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Mic at it, and I'll step on stage right. Yeah,

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there we go. There was a knock at the door,

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and when the person on the inside answered, there was

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change just standing there. And the person on the inside

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became angry and yelled, go away, change you, go away,

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slammed the door bolted and locked, but he had kept

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change out. Oh but change me and change on my

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way on the inside. Anyway, the person that not again Change,

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What are you doing here? I'm just getting back on

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my feet after the last time you were here. Can't

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you just pass me by? Just this once? Just this once.

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Change had a seat and told the person that it

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was not leaving, and there was a lot of pleading

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and demanding and anger. The Change set right there and said,

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you know, you know, I come around. There's no way

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that in life you're going to escape me. But the

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answer and the truth is what are you going to

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do when I come to visit and come to be here?

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Because here's the truth, I'm really not here to harm you.

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I'm here because things happen out of your control. Seasons change,

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you are somehow exempt because you're a positive person or

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a good person. I am here because this is your

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opportunity to grow, to grow. I don't want to keep growing.

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I want to have stability and some saying this in

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my life, and Jane said, but that's not life. That's

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not the way it goes. And Change told the person

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something that it had not considered it before. Remember the

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last time I was here, you were kicking, you were screaming,

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you cursed me. But what happened on the other side

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of that. That's right, that's right. You came up with

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an amazing idea. You were able to take this moment

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of when you thought the world was coming to an

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end and you spit it on his head and you

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created something else. And you would have never never done

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it had I not knocked on your door. Keep this

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in mind. I don't take it personally, but I want

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you to know you have been through changing seasons before

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and you got through it. You learned things had to

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be a little different, but you've got through and you

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will get through this time.

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How many of us need to hear that monologue just

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a couple of times a day?

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So change is one of those kind of things.

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That's really interesting what I've come to think about change

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because I do work with my clients about change too.

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Of course, you know, a lot of things happens when

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when I'm brought into an organization and we're working on

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the culture, in part because maybe there's been you know,

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a major risk and a lot.

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Of people have left and such.

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These are changes that people didn't ask for, And so

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what I oftentimes situate with people is there's a couple

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of different ways of relating to change depending on how

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it does show up.

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For example, if I were to park in your driveway

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your favorite all time car that you never thought you

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were ever going to be able to to get, and

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your favorite color, you probably okay with that change? Probably, yes,

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absolute and everything else, right, you probably okay with that change.

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wanted that we seem to resist it the most. And yet,

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as you say, oftentimes there's a purpose in that change.

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Talk about that purpose.

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see it initially because we're so duk gone, broadsided by it,

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angry because of it. You know, we were experiencing the

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or observing the twentieth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina in New

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Orleans and the Gulf coast, you know, even quarts of Mississippi.

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was seismic. It was everything we knew. It wasn't just

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your work, it wasn't just your city, It just was

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your family. It was everything. And what are you going

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to do with that change? Or are you going to

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try to stay? Are you going to stay away or

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are you going to rebuild? And I remember after it

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hit and we realized that this was not going to

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be three days and it's over with. I was talking

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to a friend of a friend and I said wow,

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and she said, you know, this hurricane has come and

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my house is gone and my job is gone, and

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I could do something else. I could live anywhere. And

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I said, well, that's amazing, that's an amazing attitude to have.

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Where would you like to live? What would you like

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to do? And she said, well, in the storm took

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my house, it didn't take away my doubts, and so

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she didn't do anything because it was so overwhelming. And

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I started thinking, you know, the first thing is to

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recognize that there is a reaction and a purpose to

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the change, and you may not be able to see

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it right away, because again, when you're trying to rebuild

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your life from scratch, it's not what is my purpose?

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What is the purpose of change? And what am I

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going to learn from this? But there's always a reason,

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there's always something, and even if it was not broad

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upon us from our own doing like a hurricane, but

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our responsibility and the growth comes along with what are

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we going to do next. What are we going to

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do now? Is there something that we could do while

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we're rebuilding that we can tap into and bring to light.

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That's why so many people even got married. They had

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been in a relationship for the longest and at a

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lot of weddings as a result of that. Are they

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decided that, you know what, I am going to pivot.

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I'm going to do something different. I'm going to take

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on this different thing because this is something that I

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really wanted to do, so at least while again these

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things are just the human condition and the reaction changed,

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Let's have a purpose And maybe not directly because this happened,

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00:28:04.319 --> 00:28:07.000
but as a result of it, I also created things.

468
00:28:07.000 --> 00:28:09.799
I think we could we forget how powerful we are

469
00:28:09.839 --> 00:28:13.759
as creators, especially when change comes about.

470
00:28:15.400 --> 00:28:16.920
Yeah, so I wanted to talk about that.

471
00:28:17.759 --> 00:28:19.519
I do want to get into this notion of how

472
00:28:19.559 --> 00:28:21.920
we can move from victim to co creator, as you

473
00:28:22.039 --> 00:28:23.480
like to say. But before we do that really quick,

474
00:28:23.480 --> 00:28:26.440
I just want to situate in terms of change. I

475
00:28:26.480 --> 00:28:28.799
have a connection to Hurricane Katrina in two thousand and

476
00:28:28.839 --> 00:28:32.599
five because my then husband had gone to high school

477
00:28:33.359 --> 00:28:35.920
in New Orleans and gone to Jesuit and so when

478
00:28:35.960 --> 00:28:38.359
the hurricane hit. He called the local Dallas Jesuit school

479
00:28:38.359 --> 00:28:39.799
and said, hey, how can we help. I'm sure you're

480
00:28:39.799 --> 00:28:43.279
doing something and he said, you need diapers, cans of food,

481
00:28:43.480 --> 00:28:44.279
rooms in the house.

482
00:28:44.359 --> 00:28:45.759
What she said, how many rooms do you have? When

483
00:28:45.799 --> 00:28:47.599
we said four, and so.

484
00:28:47.519 --> 00:28:49.680
Within a matter of days we ended up bringing in

485
00:28:50.000 --> 00:28:53.119
We talked about the phone, three of the high school

486
00:28:53.160 --> 00:28:55.720
senior boys and one set of parents, and a couple

487
00:28:55.720 --> 00:28:58.000
of days later they walked through the door. My daughter

488
00:28:58.079 --> 00:28:59.799
was two and a half years old. She got the

489
00:29:00.039 --> 00:29:03.680
three big brothers overnight. I got three exceptional boys who

490
00:29:03.759 --> 00:29:06.559
I've been connected to ever since. We thought we were

491
00:29:06.599 --> 00:29:10.920
opening our home to help them. Turns out they helped

492
00:29:11.039 --> 00:29:14.400
us and changed our lives. That's the other side of change.

493
00:29:15.440 --> 00:29:18.000
Expect that to happen, and it did. Yeah, that is

494
00:29:18.079 --> 00:29:19.759
who much going on and that's who they are.

495
00:29:20.279 --> 00:29:23.559
Right and again, when we think about it, and I

496
00:29:23.599 --> 00:29:25.480
think one of the things that change was trying to

497
00:29:25.519 --> 00:29:28.440
tell them. When you look back over it, you see

498
00:29:28.480 --> 00:29:31.240
things that you may not have been willing to see

499
00:29:31.559 --> 00:29:34.200
or open to seeing in the beginning. But as you

500
00:29:34.319 --> 00:29:37.000
go through it, you see how you have grown, You

501
00:29:37.079 --> 00:29:40.400
see how you have This made some different decisions. There's

502
00:29:40.480 --> 00:29:44.119
another side of it, on the other side, as when

503
00:29:44.119 --> 00:29:47.000
we decide that we're not just going to swallow in

504
00:29:47.839 --> 00:29:50.759
how unfair it is, how not right now, I'm still

505
00:29:50.799 --> 00:29:53.200
trying to get my life together from the last visit

506
00:29:53.279 --> 00:29:55.960
you gave me change. I don't need this right now

507
00:29:56.519 --> 00:29:59.559
we can say, huh, I didn't really want it. I

508
00:29:59.559 --> 00:30:02.240
have a friend who who many of us, had a

509
00:30:02.359 --> 00:30:05.680
very serious illness and she just said, it's going I

510
00:30:05.759 --> 00:30:08.039
know in my heart this is going to be painful.

511
00:30:08.960 --> 00:30:10.559
But on the other side of it, I'm going to

512
00:30:10.599 --> 00:30:15.119
be a testimony for somebody. And she absolutely has been.

513
00:30:15.160 --> 00:30:19.000
She is cancer free. But she just knew it. She

514
00:30:19.160 --> 00:30:21.720
just knew it, and it was hard. It was very hard,

515
00:30:22.319 --> 00:30:26.039
very painful, very unfair, like the sweetest person in the world,

516
00:30:26.720 --> 00:30:29.599
but this is to happen too. But she knew and

517
00:30:29.640 --> 00:30:32.559
she continues to do well. And so she is just

518
00:30:32.759 --> 00:30:35.160
a living testament up on the other side of change

519
00:30:35.200 --> 00:30:36.000
and what it looks like.

520
00:30:37.039 --> 00:30:39.880
And there I would want to celebrate. A page from

521
00:30:39.960 --> 00:30:43.920
Logo Therapy. So logo listeners and viewers is Greek for meaning.

522
00:30:44.000 --> 00:30:45.960
So one of my degrees is in logo philosophy is

523
00:30:46.000 --> 00:30:48.680
part of what I practiced, and sad of organizations to

524
00:30:48.720 --> 00:30:49.839
elevate their vitality.

525
00:30:49.880 --> 00:30:52.640
But one of the things that we know in logo therapy.

526
00:30:52.960 --> 00:30:58.799
Is that the human spirit cannot be vanquished, and so

527
00:30:58.839 --> 00:31:01.599
we have the ability to tell into our own individual

528
00:31:01.680 --> 00:31:05.359
human spirit whenever change comes knocking, whenever anything happens that

529
00:31:05.400 --> 00:31:07.240
we don't expect or don't want.

530
00:31:07.160 --> 00:31:09.559
That capacity to do it, just what your friend did

531
00:31:09.759 --> 00:31:10.759
is available to us.

532
00:31:10.799 --> 00:31:14.920
All the opportunity is to connect with that and to

533
00:31:14.960 --> 00:31:16.640
be reminded of that.

534
00:31:16.720 --> 00:31:18.960
Internal power that we always have access to.

535
00:31:20.720 --> 00:31:24.400
That is amazing. And again if we can remember that,

536
00:31:25.160 --> 00:31:28.240
because again usually our first reaction is this is terrible,

537
00:31:28.319 --> 00:31:32.000
This is horrible, this is not right. How much pain

538
00:31:32.119 --> 00:31:35.680
can one person take? Why does the entire city underwater?

539
00:31:35.799 --> 00:31:38.880
For the most part, all of those initial reactions and

540
00:31:38.960 --> 00:31:43.359
questions come, but a lot of things happen as a result.

541
00:31:43.640 --> 00:31:46.000
One of the things that happened for those who decided

542
00:31:46.039 --> 00:31:49.400
to stay and rebuild in New Augiens there was such

543
00:31:49.599 --> 00:31:54.200
a connection and a resiliency and love of the city

544
00:31:54.440 --> 00:31:57.759
that people were willing to do whatever it took. And

545
00:31:57.839 --> 00:32:00.640
sometimes we kind of take advant for granted what we have,

546
00:32:01.079 --> 00:32:05.519
and so this city collectively decided that we love it.

547
00:32:05.880 --> 00:32:08.240
We're not going anywhere, and we're going to do what

548
00:32:08.279 --> 00:32:13.640
we need to do to rebuild individually and rebuild and

549
00:32:13.680 --> 00:32:15.200
reinvest collectively.

550
00:32:16.119 --> 00:32:18.799
And all of us are the beneficiaries for that, beyond

551
00:32:18.880 --> 00:32:22.119
those who live inside the city like you. All right,

552
00:32:22.200 --> 00:32:25.000
let's let our listeners and viewers reflect on change and

553
00:32:25.079 --> 00:32:27.000
how you can move from being a victim to a

554
00:32:27.039 --> 00:32:30.759
co creator, as Monica advocates, and we'll take our last break.

555
00:32:30.799 --> 00:32:32.920
I'm your host, Doctor Lei's court. Has we've gone on

556
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there with Monica Pierre. She's the founder of the story

557
00:32:35.240 --> 00:32:39.000
Maker Academy. She also specializes in helping leaders and entrepreneurs

558
00:32:39.079 --> 00:32:43.880
move beyond their fear to embrace authentic transformation. And this segment,

559
00:32:43.880 --> 00:32:46.720
we've been focused on change. In the last and final segment,

560
00:32:46.880 --> 00:32:50.519
we're going to focus on devaluing and diminishing and what

561
00:32:50.559 --> 00:32:52.279
that looks like and what we can do about that.

562
00:32:52.400 --> 00:32:53.160
We'll be right back.

563
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Doctor Elise Cortes is a management consultant specializing in meaning

564
00:33:12.079 --> 00:33:15.920
and purpose. An inspirational speaker and author, she helps companies

565
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visioneer for greater purpose among stakeholders and develop purpose inspired

566
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leadership and meaning infused cultures that elevate fulfillment, performance and

567
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commitment within the workforce. To learn more or to invite

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a lease to speak to your organization, please visit her

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at elisecortes dot com. Let's talk about how to get

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your employees working on purpose. This is Working on Purpose

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with doctor Elise Cortes.

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To reach our.

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Program today or to open a conversation with Elise, send

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an email to Elise alisee at elisecortes dot com. Now

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back to working on Purpose.

576
00:34:00.359 --> 00:34:02.079
Thanks for staying with us, and welcome back to Working

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on Purpose. I'm your host, doctor else Cortes. As you

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know by now, this program is dedicated to empowering and

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inspiring you along your journey to realize more of your potential.

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If you want to learn more about how we can

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work together and learn more about the Gusto Now Academy

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for leaders and individuals on various journeys alike, make your

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way to gustodashnow dot com and then go to the

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training tab. There you can access the academy and the offerings.

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Would love to have you join us if you are

586
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just now joining us today. My guest is Monica Pierre,

587
00:34:29.800 --> 00:34:34.440
a keynote speaker award winning reporter and and producer, communication expert,

588
00:34:34.480 --> 00:34:38.039
and transformational storyteller who ignites audiences through the power of

589
00:34:38.119 --> 00:34:41.800
character driven monologues, which we've been experiencing in this particular

590
00:34:41.840 --> 00:34:46.159
podcast for this last segment. This is so so important

591
00:34:46.159 --> 00:34:48.760
across all of life to how she's going to situate

592
00:34:48.760 --> 00:34:52.400
the idea of how we can either unintentionally or sometimes

593
00:34:52.440 --> 00:34:56.880
intentionally diminish or devalue people all around us when in

594
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fact they have something to share with us that could

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00:34:59.519 --> 00:35:02.920
really benefit for us. So, Monica, here it is. I

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00:35:02.920 --> 00:35:05.880
have now introduced to you and we're both on stage together.

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Here is your virtual hug, and I leave you with

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the mic.

599
00:35:10.880 --> 00:35:18.639
Thank you. Elise Man. Hello, how y'all do. My name

600
00:35:19.039 --> 00:35:24.039
is miss Tilly. I'm from the Lafayette, Louisiana area. I

601
00:35:24.079 --> 00:35:26.840
don't know if y'all know where that is, but you

602
00:35:26.920 --> 00:35:30.000
know you got New Orleans, you got like Shuepot, but

603
00:35:30.039 --> 00:35:32.599
you also got a little part that's really more cage

604
00:35:32.679 --> 00:35:36.719
in country. That's where I'm from. People telling me all

605
00:35:36.840 --> 00:35:40.079
the time that I have an accent. Man, it don't

606
00:35:40.119 --> 00:35:42.800
sound like no accent to me. It's just my voice.

607
00:35:43.559 --> 00:35:46.199
Thank y'all so much for letting me come and talk

608
00:35:46.800 --> 00:35:49.679
our work at the dormitory. I cleaned the dormitory and

609
00:35:49.719 --> 00:35:55.280
I've been doing it now for almost thirty years. Yeah

610
00:35:55.360 --> 00:35:59.119
it's a long time, right. I like it and everything,

611
00:35:59.159 --> 00:36:02.400
but it gets an al my knees and stuff hurt.

612
00:36:02.800 --> 00:36:04.880
But I like it. And you know what I like

613
00:36:04.960 --> 00:36:08.559
the most all all the girls who live in this

614
00:36:08.719 --> 00:36:13.559
here dormitory. They come from all over the world, and

615
00:36:13.599 --> 00:36:16.239
some of them are rich, and some of them are

616
00:36:16.400 --> 00:36:19.480
po po po po pole. They don't have two good

617
00:36:19.679 --> 00:36:23.599
pennies to rub together. But I treat them all the

618
00:36:23.679 --> 00:36:27.840
same because you know what, shirt, it don't take nothing

619
00:36:28.159 --> 00:36:33.000
to be nice to somebody. Anybody can do that. And

620
00:36:33.079 --> 00:36:35.960
these girls here, some of them have what y'all call

621
00:36:35.760 --> 00:36:41.719
all that high self esteem. They tank plenty plenty of themselves,

622
00:36:42.000 --> 00:36:44.440
and some of these others they don't have no steam

623
00:36:44.519 --> 00:36:47.920
at all. Who it's kind of sad to watch. And

624
00:36:47.960 --> 00:36:53.960
they're working on all sorts of degrees engineering and technology,

625
00:36:54.320 --> 00:36:58.880
and they're working on they this and they're dead. I'll

626
00:36:58.920 --> 00:37:01.760
tell you the truth. Sometimes when they tell me what

627
00:37:01.920 --> 00:37:04.800
their degree is in and what they're working on and

628
00:37:04.920 --> 00:37:08.480
stam and all that, I don't know what that is.

629
00:37:09.079 --> 00:37:14.199
But I listen and I smile, and I said, man,

630
00:37:14.239 --> 00:37:16.880
that's nice. I know you're gonna do a good job,

631
00:37:17.559 --> 00:37:21.880
because you know what, chack, it don't take nothing to

632
00:37:22.000 --> 00:37:26.599
listen to somebody talk about their dreams. Anybody can do that.

633
00:37:26.719 --> 00:37:32.000
I don't care who you are. I just love being here.

634
00:37:33.079 --> 00:37:36.920
But sometimes my children they tell me that I'm getting

635
00:37:36.960 --> 00:37:42.719
too old and that I need to quit. My oldest boy,

636
00:37:43.199 --> 00:37:46.960
he's the big time engineer. You know what he told me.

637
00:37:47.599 --> 00:37:51.599
He told me that he was gonna pay me to

638
00:37:51.760 --> 00:37:59.039
stay home and not work. I said, what, you shame

639
00:37:59.119 --> 00:38:02.280
of me? He said, Mam, it don't look good you

640
00:38:02.440 --> 00:38:05.960
working at the dormitory at your age. I said, you

641
00:38:06.000 --> 00:38:06.800
shame of me more?

642
00:38:07.880 --> 00:38:08.280
You know what?

643
00:38:09.039 --> 00:38:12.199
It was my working at the dormitory that put that

644
00:38:12.360 --> 00:38:17.880
boy all through college and graduate school. And his MBA

645
00:38:18.800 --> 00:38:23.360
he acts like he forgot that. I love being here,

646
00:38:24.000 --> 00:38:27.840
and I pay attention to the girls. Sometimes they don't

647
00:38:28.039 --> 00:38:32.880
speak to me, sometimes they don't even say hi. Sometimes

648
00:38:32.880 --> 00:38:37.880
they or even smile. But I pay attention. And sometimes

649
00:38:37.920 --> 00:38:40.599
I hear them they be crying or they look very

650
00:38:40.719 --> 00:38:45.000
very sad, and I say it was wrong, shah. Sometimes

651
00:38:45.000 --> 00:38:47.920
they got a bad grade or the professors say they

652
00:38:47.920 --> 00:38:51.599
should change their major. I said, let me tell you something.

653
00:38:51.639 --> 00:38:55.679
That professor, she might know her books, but she don't

654
00:38:55.719 --> 00:38:59.119
know you. She don't know what you're made of. You

655
00:38:59.159 --> 00:39:02.280
can do it, you can nake it. I know it's hard,

656
00:39:02.400 --> 00:39:05.639
and Miss Tilney don't know what how to help you,

657
00:39:06.360 --> 00:39:07.360
but I know you can do it.

658
00:39:07.440 --> 00:39:08.239
You hang in there.

659
00:39:09.199 --> 00:39:13.159
And they say thank you, Miss Tilly, thank you so much.

660
00:39:13.719 --> 00:39:18.360
And I say, Miss shaf it don't take nothing to

661
00:39:18.519 --> 00:39:24.679
encourage somebody. Anybody can do that. And anyway, I would

662
00:39:24.800 --> 00:39:29.159
miss working here at the dormitory. I'm always hearing back

663
00:39:29.159 --> 00:39:32.519
from some of the girls who took the time to

664
00:39:32.559 --> 00:39:35.719
talk to me and let me talk to them. In fact,

665
00:39:35.840 --> 00:39:39.280
I get letters all the time, that's right. I tell them,

666
00:39:39.280 --> 00:39:41.360
don't don't be sending me no emails. I don't know

667
00:39:41.360 --> 00:39:44.280
how to open that. Send me a letter. They send

668
00:39:44.360 --> 00:39:46.920
me a letter, and I just got on today, and

669
00:39:46.960 --> 00:39:52.000
if you don't mind, I'd like to read it to you,

670
00:39:52.079 --> 00:39:56.559
dear miss Tilly, just a quick a letter to let

671
00:39:56.599 --> 00:40:01.199
you know that everything is fine, doing really well on

672
00:40:01.239 --> 00:40:05.280
my new job. People like me so much, and there's

673
00:40:05.360 --> 00:40:09.400
even one lady here who reminds you of me. That

674
00:40:09.519 --> 00:40:12.760
reminds me of you. She's always saying that it doesn't

675
00:40:12.840 --> 00:40:16.719
take anything to encourage anyone. It doesn't take anything to

676
00:40:16.880 --> 00:40:20.199
listen to someone talk about their dreams or even their problems.

677
00:40:20.800 --> 00:40:26.719
Doesn't that sound familiar, Miss Tilly. I will always remember

678
00:40:27.199 --> 00:40:31.159
how special you were to me. Remember the time when

679
00:40:31.159 --> 00:40:34.760
I was feeling very sad and you saw me. You

680
00:40:34.920 --> 00:40:37.440
asked me what was wrong. I didn't want to tell

681
00:40:37.440 --> 00:40:40.199
you at first, but you just wouldn't stop. You kept

682
00:40:40.239 --> 00:40:44.159
at me until I told you I was about to

683
00:40:44.239 --> 00:40:48.239
quit school. My scholarship barely covered everything, and mommy and

684
00:40:48.280 --> 00:40:51.679
Daddy couldn't afford to send me anything. And I said,

685
00:40:51.719 --> 00:40:55.840
you know what, this dream, this dream is too big,

686
00:40:56.519 --> 00:41:00.000
and you said, you listen to me, little girl. You

687
00:41:00.079 --> 00:41:04.199
don't quit. You hang in there. You have faith, and

688
00:41:04.239 --> 00:41:08.400
you know if you keep believing what you need will happen,

689
00:41:08.880 --> 00:41:12.679
it will come. I don't know how it happened, but

690
00:41:13.360 --> 00:41:17.920
just two weeks later, the money I needed suddenly opined

691
00:41:18.480 --> 00:41:21.719
and I was able to stay. And I want to

692
00:41:21.760 --> 00:41:24.199
thank you. I want to thank you, Miss Tillie. I

693
00:41:24.239 --> 00:41:28.960
can't say it enough. You saw me, and I appreciate it. Well,

694
00:41:29.000 --> 00:41:31.000
I'm going to go now, but I just wanted to

695
00:41:31.000 --> 00:41:34.519
write to you. I know, I know, no emails, just

696
00:41:34.639 --> 00:41:40.280
regular mail until next time. Thank you so much, Molly Gail,

697
00:41:41.599 --> 00:41:49.159
your astronaut. That little girl was always talking about the

698
00:41:49.199 --> 00:41:53.599
moon and the stars and being an astronaut. I'm so

699
00:41:53.760 --> 00:41:57.719
glad she made it. I'm so glad she stuck with it.

700
00:41:59.000 --> 00:42:01.199
You know what, let me tell you what I know.

701
00:42:02.000 --> 00:42:02.840
I might be old.

702
00:42:03.599 --> 00:42:06.639
It don't matter what you do. You can have the

703
00:42:06.760 --> 00:42:09.639
keys to the kingdom, but you could have the keys

704
00:42:09.679 --> 00:42:14.760
to the janitor's classt won't matter. What matters is what

705
00:42:14.880 --> 00:42:18.760
you do to put good in the world and put

706
00:42:18.960 --> 00:42:24.239
good into somebody, So you be encouraged. Now I got

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to get back to my wook. Thank you so much.

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Oh you know, I can listen to this all day long. Okay,

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so so many things I want to say about that,

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and of course we've got it maybe five minutes left here,

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So a couple of things I want to say. One is,

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that is such a beautiful story. Miss Tilly knew her

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value even though her son didn't. And boy did she

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change lives and her role. And I like how you

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know in that endicular story, you know, it really does

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show how we can overlook the contributions of people based

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on their parents or their title, We can miss those

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beautiful gifts.

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If she hadn't stopped to engage.

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You and she said, well, she's just whatever, she's just

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the cleaner, she's just the whatever, the steward here, she

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00:43:14.360 --> 00:43:17.800
would have missed that beautiful encouragement and advice and maybe

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didn't become an astronaut, didn't pursue her dreams. So there's

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00:43:20.800 --> 00:43:24.079
so much in that story, Monica that is so beautiful.

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And you know, being able to stand on your own,

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your own place, even though there's a shadow right next

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to you that belongs to you, and you embrace all

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of that. To be able to do what you know

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needs to be done in the world is such a

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beautiful thing. It's so so important to be reminded of

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that and to encourage people to do more of that right.

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And working on purpose. What I love about Miss Tilley

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as well is that she knows her purpose and the

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job puts her in line and in connection with the

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people she can serve with her purpose. You know, it's

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it's amazing to me. And there are so many people

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in our organizations, our teams, we tend to say, well,

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if they're not the president or they're not the executive director, it's.

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All top down.

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We overlook the people who can just encourage us, and

741
00:44:16.679 --> 00:44:20.039
sometimes that's what we need to say. You know, it's hard,

742
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but you don't quit anything. You keep going. You figure

743
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it out. When I performed this, people often ask, did

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miss Tillie give her the money I'm going on? I

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don't know, didn't even.

746
00:44:32.599 --> 00:44:35.480
Think about that. That's so funny as a possibility. But

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you also are talking about the importance of really cultivating

748
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genuine relationships versus just trying to network for the sake

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of network, and also the vulnerability that comes with being real.

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What happens when we're just real with people. That's beautiful

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00:44:50.840 --> 00:44:54.960
in leadership, is beautiful in relationships, and.

752
00:44:54.800 --> 00:44:58.039
It's so important. And again, when we are living on

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purpose and working on purpose and working our purpose, we

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know that there will be people we touch that we

755
00:45:05.400 --> 00:45:08.719
may never hear from, we may never get a Molly

756
00:45:08.800 --> 00:45:12.199
Gale letter. We're living and doing what we need to

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00:45:12.239 --> 00:45:15.719
do those genuine connections, and believe it, it's not in

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00:45:15.840 --> 00:45:19.000
vain that made the difference. I'm sure you get a

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00:45:19.079 --> 00:45:21.719
lease all the time people saying what you said at

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the conference or what you wrote in the book really

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00:45:24.719 --> 00:45:28.119
impacted me. And sometimes you just have to know that

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it's happening. And we do it for goodness sake, because

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that's our role to serve and to find our ways

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ways to live our purpose.

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You know, it's funny you say that, I really appreciate

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when I do hear that, But there are many, many,

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00:45:41.000 --> 00:45:43.400
many times that I don't hear that, and I just

768
00:45:43.719 --> 00:45:46.400
somebody else said, will say I heard about you, or

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00:45:46.440 --> 00:45:48.119
do you know what someone so did because they heard

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00:45:48.280 --> 00:45:49.119
heard you in your conference.

771
00:45:49.159 --> 00:45:51.239
I'm like, no, they didn't say anything to me. So

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I hear a third.

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00:45:52.119 --> 00:45:56.320
Party sometimes, which is really really interesting. But I'm definitely

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a big, big believer in let's put goodness in the

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00:45:59.480 --> 00:46:02.800
world kind people. In fact, you know, we are also

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talking in the show about mattering, the importance of mattering

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and knowing, and so mattering is knowing that you are

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valued and knowing that you add value. So Miss Tilly

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00:46:12.440 --> 00:46:15.440
knows that she's valued, and she knows she's adding value,

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00:46:15.480 --> 00:46:18.320
she knows she matters. And most every human being on

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00:46:18.360 --> 00:46:21.440
the planet craves knowing they matter. We can do so

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00:46:21.559 --> 00:46:24.360
much to help them ensure that they get something that

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00:46:24.480 --> 00:46:28.800
shows that they are mattering, just as Miss Tilly is doing. Yes,

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00:46:29.519 --> 00:46:33.760
well said, well said, it's so beautiful. Your work is

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00:46:33.840 --> 00:46:37.480
so so powerful, and so we just have really just

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a couple of minutes here left with you have like

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about a minute and a half. I want to give

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you a chance to close the show, Monica, and how

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it is that you support leaders and the work that

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00:46:48.440 --> 00:46:50.960
you do you're helping to develop them as stronger, more

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00:46:51.000 --> 00:46:54.199
effective communicators. If you want to close the show with

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00:46:54.280 --> 00:46:55.920
that and whatever else you would like to leave, the

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00:46:56.000 --> 00:46:59.719
listeners would say in about a minute, well, thank you first.

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00:46:59.519 --> 00:47:05.000
Of all for being an amazing, purpose driven, purpose led

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00:47:05.039 --> 00:47:07.639
person and again you were just amazing. No one can

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take their eyes off of you in Chicago, and to

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00:47:09.920 --> 00:47:14.880
continue the connection really speaks to me. What I want

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to do and help people is to really understand the

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power of their own story. Their own story it needs

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00:47:24.320 --> 00:47:26.960
what they're doing in the world, and then to find it.

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00:47:27.000 --> 00:47:30.599
That's what people are going to connect with them. Yes,

802
00:47:30.760 --> 00:47:35.039
the stats, yes, you know, your revenue, all of that's important,

803
00:47:35.360 --> 00:47:38.480
but it's you and to find ways to help you

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00:47:39.039 --> 00:47:43.519
feel more comfortable, more confident sharing the story and that

805
00:47:43.639 --> 00:47:46.679
it looks different ways. And when I do the Storymaker Academy,

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I want people, my students to feel that how they are,

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00:47:51.480 --> 00:47:54.840
their authentic way, is their way, It's the right way.

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00:47:55.559 --> 00:47:59.480
And I also would love to end with this right now,

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I think there's somebody who's very close to giving up,

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00:48:04.280 --> 00:48:08.920
very close to throwing in the towel, very close to

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hearing the whispers of fear, so shaken by the knock

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on the door because change is there, and just craving

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00:48:20.159 --> 00:48:23.000
if they could just get a word of encouragement. I

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want you to know, don't give up. You're very close,

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00:48:28.039 --> 00:48:31.360
very very close, and the world's going to miss out

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00:48:31.800 --> 00:48:33.960
if you just surrender and don't do it.

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Monica Pierre, you are a gift to the world and

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you at the moment I met you, I'm so grateful

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to know you.

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Thank you for coming on and.

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Sharing your beautiful heart, your beautiful soul and working on

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00:48:46.280 --> 00:48:48.039
purpose listeners and viewers across the globe.

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It is wonderful to have you one.

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Thank you so much, Thank you so much, and you know,

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if you want me too, I could just say, Monica

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Pierre presents dot com is how to stay in touch

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00:48:57.960 --> 00:49:01.039
with me. But I just feel this shift.

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I love it.

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I love it. Thank you for doing something different on

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00:49:03.880 --> 00:49:05.840
your show. It's amazing, it.

831
00:49:05.639 --> 00:49:07.559
Is amazing, and absolutely I want to call out a

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00:49:07.599 --> 00:49:10.679
couple of ways to get in touch with Monica. So

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listeners and viewers, you are going to want to learn

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00:49:12.639 --> 00:49:15.239
more about Monica Pierre, the work that she does helping

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leaders and entrepreneurs embrace authentic transformation, So you can visit her.

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As she said, one website is Monica Pierre Presents. Let

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00:49:23.400 --> 00:49:26.679
me spell that for you. So Monica m O N

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I C A. Pierre is p I E R R E.

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So Monica pierrepresents dot com. You can find her on

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00:49:34.559 --> 00:49:37.599
LinkedIn as well. There that's another way to find her.

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00:49:37.639 --> 00:49:40.199
But definitely check her out and connect with her. She's amazing.

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If you missed last week's show, you can always catch

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00:49:43.519 --> 00:49:45.880
it recorded podcasts. We will see you next week for

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yet another nourishing, inspiring conversation. And remember, work is one

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of the best adventures and means of realizing her potential

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00:49:51.880 --> 00:49:54.280
and making the impact we create and can give us

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00:49:54.280 --> 00:49:56.320
the opportunity to do business in a way that betters

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the world.

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So let's work on purpose.

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We hope you've enjoyed this week's program, be sure to

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tune into Working on Purpose featuring your host, doctor Elise Cortes,

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00:50:08.159 --> 00:50:11.480
each week on W four CY. Together, we'll create a

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world where business operates conscientiously. Leadership inspires and passion performance,

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and employees are fulfilled in work that provides the meaning

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and purpose they crave. See you there, Let's Work on Purpose.