Whats Your Next? And How Will You Make It Happen?

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

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

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Welcome to Working on Purpose with your
host Elise Cortes. In our program,

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

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

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on Purpose. Now Here is your
host, Elise Cortes. I'm your host,

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Elise Cortes, joining you live from
Dallas, Texas home base for me.

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You've been tuning in for a while. You know this program is all

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about how people create more meaningful and
productive personal and work lives and equipping leaders,

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insight organizations to cultivate meaning and purpose
to elicit passion, inspired contribution,

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

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

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In these weekly comes. It is
my intention that you derive value you

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can immediately apply to your personal and
work lives. So I invite you to

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listen in from that vantage point,
and it is my fervent hope that you

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come alive with the possibility of living
with passion, working on a purpose and

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seeing just how big and fulfilling your
life and work can be. And if

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you do catch fires, I like
to say, and you know I want

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to leave you without a support line. Your call to action you should write

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this down now is to email me
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We'll get you taken care of.
Back to the program with us this

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week for a special New Year's Day
send off is Sean Anderson. Let me

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say a little bit about him,
because you got to get this for what

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we're talking about today. He is
a number one ranked motivational author, unlimited

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

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time author. In fact, he's
also the creator of Extra mile day a

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day, recognizing the power we each
have to create positive change when we go

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the extra mile. Sean walks his
talk. Besides having inspired tens of thousands

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through his speaking and writing, including
an inspirational speaking tour in the Philippines attended

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by twenty thousand attendees, Shawn's built
a million dollar company, pedled a bike

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solo across the United States twice,
and created adventures in more than forty five

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countries, including having walked border to
border across six of them. We'll be

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talking today about the importance and glee
of pursuing your next that next thing in

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life that you that you get you
bolting out of bed in the morning,

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running strong after your dream, and
what you can do to make sure that

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next actually come to fruition. He
joined today from Marina del Rey, California.

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Sean, welcome back again to Working
on Purpose. That's my privilege to

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talk to my favorite podcast radio host
in the entire world, Elise Cortes.

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Oh wow, you know you got
to expand your circle a little bit,

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Sean, No, man, I
just you know, I just flocked with

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the ego And who's better than a
Lae Cortez? Right, Well, we've

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been on a few times now.
I think this might be number four,

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right, think, but it's just
so much fun. We've got to keep

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going back. Okay, lucky me, right, Yeah, So let's kick

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it off. Let's talk about this
amazing thing called life. So as far

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as I know, and maybe you
know differently, but we only get one

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shot at this thing, and so
today we're talking about what we do with

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that one precious life that's full of
nexts, how we're going to make it

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happen. So by next, of
course, when I think about next,

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I mean the next adventure, the
next move, relationship, great idea,

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exercise, goal, job level in
your career, whatever it is, Right,

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that's the next. What do you
think? So good? Yeah,

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I'm absolutely with you. Let's go
Okay, well, I want to start

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this conversation really presencing some of your
next because I think it's great to open

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the minds of possibility for our listeners, because next might be hard to think

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about it if you're just sort of
stuck where you're at right now. So

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you are a man of many of
those next and so let's just start seven

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motivational books. The Extra Mile Day, Extra Mile America. I remember as

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well, and these forty five international
adventures. So the first thing I got

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to get and I know a little
something about your background from our conversations,

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but where did all the ideas come
from for these nexts? You know?

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I think it starts with just asking
yourself one question, what do I want

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to do with my life? You
know, because if you can answer that

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question really honestly and truthfully, from
there, you have a starting point of

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being able to really live that life. And you know you said it,

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we get one life. Life is
short. So this mysterious, amazing adventure,

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I don't want to leave it not
having not having really experienced it,

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not having really lived it, not
having really achieved those those goals, those

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whispers in my heart, those things
that I want to create. So that's

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what always prompts my next is,
Sean, what do you want to do?

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What do you want to do now? What do you want to do

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next? So that's amazing. That's
a lot of energy. I've always known

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you to have a lot of energy, and I got to share that.

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For me, Why do I believe
in next? There's a couple of reasons.

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One, it just feels great to
be up to something. It helps

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me feel alive that I'm actually I'm
doing something like that. But two,

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from the vantage point of scholarship and
just research, what we know by looking

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at the well being studies is that
achievement is one of those really important things

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that goes into making us feel great
about ourselves and our lives. And so

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I've looked a lot at the literature
around well being, leadership, inspiration,

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passion, purpose, and Martin Seligman, among others, talk about the importance

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of achievements. So that next thing
isn't It isn't something that we made up.

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It's well known, and there's a
lot of not just the people that

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are crazy like you and I,
Sean, but everybody needs some kind of

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achievement in their lives well. And
I think when you start to remove the

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what's next for you your life,
life starts to suffer in a lot of

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ways. I mean, it's documented
that Olympic Olympians once the Olympics is over,

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they're not quite sure what to do
next. They go into a state

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of depression because their purpose has been
taken away. You take people who have

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who have been healthy and gone to
work and then all of a sudden they

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retire and they don't have a what's
next, and all of a sudden,

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their health starts to fall falter,
their attitude starts to falter. It's because

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I believe at our core that we
are driven by purpose. I believe that

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when we have purpose, we have
the chance to live passion. And when

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those two things come together, passionate
purpose, passionate purpose, man, that's

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when the whole world opens up to
us. I completely agree, as you

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know you and I can finish these
other sentences these days in that way.

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But I want to talk to a
certain number of people out there, and

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I want to make sure we all
know when we say this that I've been

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in this number of people. So
in my work, Sean, when I'm

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out and about talking to people,
or are doing programs inside organizations, or

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just talking to people in the grocery
store, I see people all the time

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who when I ask them, how
are you, they'll say, is it

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Friday yet? And so they've come
to really get in on the idea that

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they're just kind of secling through their
lives. They're waiting for the weekend to

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beginning whenever it is. They're not
actually working, and I understand there's nobody

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home behind those eyes, there's the
lights around, that nobody's home kind of

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thing. And I've been one of
those people, Sean. I mean,

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I know what it feels like not
to go for your dreams and instead live

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a quiet life of desperation and frankly
be depressed by living in that state by

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not going for what I wanted.
So I know what this feels like.

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And a big reason I'm doing the
work that I'm doing is to be able

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to help people find that passionate purpose
again because it makes such a huge difference

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in our lives. Well, that's
right, and it goes back to that

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thing that you said at the very
beginning. To the best of our knowledge,

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we get this one life. And
when we really understand that, we

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really under when we really understand the
shortness of life, a limited number of

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years, months, days, breaths
that we have. Man, we should

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be inspired by our day. We
shouldn't be waiting for a Friday. But

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I got to tell you, there's
some great adventures to be had on a

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Monday. There's some really cool people
to meet on a Tuesday. Wow,

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the ideas that you can create on
a Wednesday and Thursday, every single day

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is unique and special. If you
choose it to be. Of course,

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you can wait till Friday. You
can live one day a week, and

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I'll tell you what, at the
end of your life, I got to

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believe that you're going to be wishing
that you had to live those other six

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as well. Completely agree. In
fact, a couple of months ago,

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I think it was well, it
was just before Thanksgiving, Sean, I

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had on a very interesting guest in
my radio show, and when she reached

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out to me to ask could you
be on? At first I turned her

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down because she's an undertaker. She
is the owner and operator of a place

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called Cornerstone Funeral Services in Oregon.
And the more I thought about it,

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Sean, the more I realized,
Wow, who's got a better vantage point

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on this thing of life then somebody
who handles death all the time, somebody

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who understands that life comes to profound
ending whether or not we plan it or

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not. And we had the most
amazing conversation about just that. She was

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the most zesty undertaker I could possibly
imagine meeting. Wow, that's really cool.

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Can I ask what one thing you
took most from that conversation with her?

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Gosh, there were several several several. A couple of things would be

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that I did ask her about,
you know, can you give us an

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example of someone that you've met who's
really really lived a good life, lived

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life well. And she talked about
a man who had lost six people and

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just a span of a few years, and that yet he still was able

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to live with such gratitude and such
such effervescence and passion and just enjoy all

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of this encounters. So that's one
she also talked about, She's what she's

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doing for a living is her calling. She said that she lost her mom

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when I think she said she was
in her early teens, maybe eleven or

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twelve something like that, and went
on a quest was a funeral crasher and

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went around looking at all the sorer
of funerals to see how they were done,

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and was just obsessed with how people
handle death and finally realized this was

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her path. And so, you
know, it was kind of amazing to

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imagine that this was her calling and
that's how she sees it. Wow.

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Well, you know, I'm really
grateful that there are so many different people

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in the world that are so different
from me, that are so different from

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you, because that's what really makes
the world super cool in my opinion.

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That's that's why I travel to all
these countries, because I get a chance

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to see so many people who are
so different, doing so many different things.

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And from all those people, we
have a chance to really learn and

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to evolve and to transform and to
become our best person. And oftentimes it's

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when we really reach out and extend
ourselves to other people and learn from new

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people that we we will discover at
a deeper level what our next might be.

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I think when it's the books that
we read and the people that I

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meet that I've changed my life,
that have helped open the door to,

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you know, the possibility of what
my next might be. To that end,

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I would really love it, Sean, if you could share with our

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listeners the way that you do your
walks when you go, like, I

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know, you just finished your walk
from in Italy this summer, and you

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have a very particular approach to that
whole process that would probably make a lot

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of people really uncomfortable, and it's
on purpose. Will you tell us,

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well, I have walked across six
countries in the last four years, Spain,

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Portugal, Italy, seven hundred and
fifty miles around Shakoku, Japan,

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England and Ireland. And you know, when I set out on a day,

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when I start first off, first
off, once I arrive in the

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country, when I get to my
starting point, I do not take other

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transportation. It's just not possible.
You've got two feet, You've got the

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backpack on your back, and that's
what you're going with. You know where

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your end date is and you know
when you got to get their bias.

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So you try to get as many
miles in as you can. Although each

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day I have no clue how many
miles I can really go. I have

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a rough idea of where I want
to make it, and I pray to

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Goodness that I can find a bed
to sleep. But man, that's what

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I do. I set out.
I walk as fast and as hard as

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I can during the day. When
I get to a town, when it's

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around four o'clock, I start looking
for a place to sleep. That's how

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it goes. I don't know where
I'm going to sleep. I don't know

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where I'm gonna eat. All I
know is that I'm walking, and I'm

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walking as well and as fast as
I can go. I think that is

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phenomenal. And there's a rationale behind
that tell us the rationale, Well,

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I just think that honestly, the
more I'm just open, I'm just open

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to the spontaneity of where I can
go. If I just keep applying this

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unlimited type, this unlimited hype purpose
within myself. If I just keep walking

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and going, I just think new
things open up. I love having goals

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in life, and that's why I
have the destination of where I'm going to

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be. But you know what,
I'm open to the flexibility of having to

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get to that goal. I don't
want to live so rigidly in life that

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I know where my next is going
to be. But man, I'm so

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open to just letting my best self
come out every single day and trying to

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get there on these walks, you
know, I put myself on the edge

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a lot. You know, when
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and you don't know where you're going
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a vegetarian and I and in some
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vegetarian to find food. But man, you just go. You trust yourself,

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you believe in yourself, and the
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to do, and that gives you
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that I say, in my heart, I believe I can do that,

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you know what, I sincerely believe
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that I've now had. I love
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completely agree. And it's that thing
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what you think maybe you can do
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out that I think is just so
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days we'd love to do something like
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your approach for people that really need
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really scary for them, and I
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a part of what you just discussed. You know. It's so interesting,

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though, is as we go through
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living the life we planned at HG
eighteen. Because the structure that we try

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to apply to life life has such
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that's going to blow our structure up
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So it's it's it's it's it's good
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and the vitality and the energy and
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so much that we forget what a
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You know what I'm going to do
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my next is going to take my
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breathe the air and just just be
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and and and the more that we
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will we will gain for life.
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for life, the more that we
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the more we don't want to waste
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to create. Are what's my next? I completely agree with that, And

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as you know, I mean,
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my talks and my programs is this
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what you said, go out on
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Go looking for them. They're out
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and to experience them. But they're
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is a great example of the simplicity
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in a way that build your passion, fuels your passion, and gives you

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something to be inspired about. I
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this word called fascination. I think
the more that you become fascinated by conversation,

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the more that you become fascinated by
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fascinated by nature, I think,
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the possibility that is really truly open
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become, if you really want to
think and explore, what's your next I

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challenge people to go out at night
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at the stars and just realize,
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is so infinite. It's just infinite, And why do we choose to think

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so small when we belong to something
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I say, just go take a
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the country, but why not just
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we see the possibility of nature,
we see the possibility within ourselves. Agreed

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and a great point to take us
on our first break, Sean. I'm

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Alis Cortez your host. Run there
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motivational author, unlimited thinker, and
lifetime entrepreneur with the history of inspiring others.

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A seven time author with the latest
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He's also the creator of Extra Mile
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we each have to create positive change
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My guest is Sean Anderson. He's
a number one rank motivational author,

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unlimited thinker, and lifetime entrepreneur with
the history of inspiring others. Seven time

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author. He's also the creator of
the Extra Mile day a day, recognizing

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

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and he walks his talk. Besides
having inspired tens of thousands through his speaking

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and writing, including an inspirational speaking
tour in the Philippines attended by twenty thousand

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attendees, Shawn's built a million dollar
company, pedaled a bike solo across the

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United States twice, and created adventures
in more than forty five countries, including

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having walked border to border across six
of them. I'm Elise Cortes, your

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host. Wow, I feel I
feel both tired and also energized by having

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said all that about you. Love
that Sean. Thank you. Lise.

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Yes, I love how you walk
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like I try to do as well. Cool. Yeah, So you know

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what's great about having you in my
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us are of the belief that life
is best when we're connected to people we

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care about and we're going for something
meaningful and worthwhile. So what I want

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to talk about next is why don't
we go after the lives that we want

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and run hard after our dreams.
What's missing for people that we don't do

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that. It's that semi truck that
hits us called life. It's living.

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It's the responsibilities that we live with
every day that wear on us every day.

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It's the It's the having to go
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wake up in the morning and take
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and go compete in the traffic and
get into work and realize you forgot to

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do this report and having the boss
say things to you, and then having

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to drive home in the traffic and
realize that you forgot to buy milk and

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eggs and you have to go to
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Life can be exhausting and and and
eventually life takes its toll. It's

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like the Grand Canyon, you know, the Grand Canyon looks like it looks

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because over time it it just took
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awareness that life can beat us down
to our knees, we never have the

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chance to pop up and really live
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know What's I completely agree with that, of course, and I think we

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forget about the possibility of our of
our lives. And just this morning,

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I was reading one of the one
of the feeds that I get about just

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the World News, et cetera,
and they were the author was talking about

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whatever you might believe about Elon Musk. This guy is up to big things

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in life. I mean, this
guy is not one of those people going,

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you know, should I pack my
lunch today or should I maybe go

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out and catch Chinese? He's you
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I mean, it's just it's amazing
what this man is up to.

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And but you know, in between
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as you say, this thing called
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do what I do, and I
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is. I think people need a
constant reminder of how amazing their lives and

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work can be. And I know, especially for me, the work realm

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is really important because we spend at
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so that if that's if our lives
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to be meaningful to us, you
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with just really finding this joy in
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appreciation, this gratitude for just having
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I mean, if we can't feel
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I don't think that we could ever
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that deeper purpose to do something really
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in the morning and if joy or
gratitude or hope or anything positive isn't running

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through our veins, man, I
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is not going to be all that
positive either. It's living life to the

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best is first off, realizing that
we have the power and the choice to

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live life to our best and if
we don't really acknowledge that and do things

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towards that goal every single day,
you know, we're never going to find

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our deepest joy, We're never going
to experience our deepest gratitude, We're never

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truly going to even understand what this
word purpose means. Yes, absolutely,

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absolutely, and yet still you are
someone. You are the human spark plug.

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I think we talked about one time. I think it's in your bio

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someplace. I love that. That's
a perfect descriptor for you. The energy

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that emanates from you, Sean is
seems to me like unquenchable. So I

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know a lot about what you just
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you are so tire in the work
that you do, and I know that

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for you, you will not rest
until you have helped people across the globe

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live their best life as many as
you possibly can. Where does that energy

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come from? For you? You
know? Because I know what it is

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when people don't clap for you.
I know what it is when people don't

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cheer you on, and when people
say you know a leash, you can't

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do it. At least you're not
good enough. At least I'm so sorry.

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But you don't have enough talent to
do that. I know what that

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feels like, and I know that
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a five million, ten million,
one hundred million voices just like that.

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But I also know that all that
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one voice of somebody else that says, Elise Cortes, you are so amazing,

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you are so powerful, you are
so dynamic, You've got so much

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talent. Man, the world should
be juiced because by your words, I

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mean so, I just want to
be that guy. I want to be

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that guy that gives people just a
little bit of hope, because when we

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feel a little extra hope, I
feel then that we've got a chance to

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really believe in our own potential.
Because if we don't ever, if we

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can't ever believe in our own potential, how in the world is anybody else

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ever going to believe in our potential. So I just want to be that

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guy that says, you know what, you are good enough? Not only

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are you good enough, but you're
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and I have talked about this before, but I might as well go ahead

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and repeat this story now because it's
a perfect example of what you've just talked

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about. There's the notion of people
being able to see us for a person

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bigger than we see ourselves to be. That is so incredibly important and useful

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in life. And you know where
that started for me was when I was

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nineteen and I got fired by my
boss. Remember that story, Roland?

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Do you remember that? John?
Oh? Yeah, I do very well.

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I was nineteen years old, love
working for this guy. I was just

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admin assist commercial real estate development?
Was this business? Eighteen months in I

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I just was having a ball.
He's bigger than life, great to work

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for. I was making eight hundred
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four. It was all the money
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on the way out the way up
to lunch, he literally swings the door

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open wide and over his shoulder.
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you got to get out of here, go see the world, get an

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education, but before you go,
hire your replacement. And you know that

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was amazing for me because I sat
there paralyzed the whole time he was gone,

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wondering did he just fire me?
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just merrily, like as if we
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I stopped him as he was bolting
back to his office and I said,

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hold on just a second, did
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said, absolutely, be a crime
to keep you here. So before that

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interaction, Sean, it did not
occur to me that I could go to

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college. I just didn't wasn't on
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was a possiblity for myself. And
you know, I've got a bacher's,

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two masters, and a PhD.
So I think I did the education thing,

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the travel thing. I've lived in
Spain, in Brazil, and I've

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presented in most of the Continent's still
much more I want to do, and

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of course that doing something with my
life that's a forever ongoing thing. But

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what a gift he gave me by
seeing me as somebody I could be versus

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who I thought I was. Then
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brilliant story. And I know that
you're really close to finishing your first book,

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and if you don't have someone to
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might be hinting at him, right, Yep, that's already in there.

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was on my show back in late
July. So here he is now,

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fast forward, eighty two years old
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chairs called the Interlude and he did
that because he wanted to keep traveling right

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and he needed it to stop and
rest, and he couldn't find anything on

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the market that really worked for him. So he was like, well,

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I'm a civil engineer, I can
figure this out. And he made his

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own and I'm so proud of him. I could bust Sean and he is

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so now I'm cheering him on.
It's such a great thing. Well,

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our passion and purpose only grows old
when we let it grow old, right,

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That's exactly right. So I actually
had him on the show back then

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we were talking about it, and
he's now launched it and his name is

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Roland Hartle. It's called the Interlude
Chair. For those of you who are

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here to check it out anyway,
It's just it's splendid. So that whole

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thing of I love that you want
to be that one person who says,

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yeah, go for it. What
a great way to walk through life.

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You know, I just think that
we're all here to do something amazing and

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brilliant. I believe that. And
it's not doing something and brilliant and amazing

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for ourself, but really it's really
doing it's making the world better and reaching

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out and doing something amazing brilliant for
someone else. You know. I'm big

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on I'm big on doing my best
to try to create miracles for other people.

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And we all have that power to
create miracles for other people. Sometimes

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it's just what we might say to
somebody who needs it at that right moment.

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It's sometimes what our effort given to
somebody might mean at that right moment.

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It might be what we give to
an organization that's so desperately faltering and

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needing just a little bit of extra
money to get it through the month,

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you know. And I think it's
a powerful goal for all of us to

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just think about, how can I
be a miracle for someone else. We

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spend so much of our time selfishly
looking for miracles to make our life better,

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But the real secret to making your
life better is to go be a

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miracle for someone else. Oh my
gosh, speaking of that, Oh my

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gosh. Okay, so one of
the things that I have come into understanding,

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Sean, is when I'm sure you
have had this exact same experience many

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times over, but this has been
happening to me more and more recently as

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I'm out speaking and I'm talking about
what will you do with your one precious

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life? How do you create them
that's going to be nourishing for you?

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How will you cultivate passion and inspiration, live and work from purpose and lead

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from purpose? How will you do
all that? What happens is hopefully sometimes

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people get really turned on by that, And I've seen this happen again and

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people are like, I'm so inspired. This is what I see a possibility

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for myself. So what I got
really present to lately, Sean, is

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that I started thinking about this as
they were sharing their reactions and what they

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got from the conversation, and I
was so worried that when they left that

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room that they would walk back into
the life that you talked to us about

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before, all the traffic and the
laundry and the food and the job and

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everything else, and that beautiful spark
that had gotten ignited would get snuffed out.

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And so that's the reason that I
started these online communities to help people

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catalyze their passions into reality. That's
exactly why I did that. I had

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this amazing example of somebody Sean,
I mean, I hope, I know,

448
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I ever forget this talk about getting
to be part of somebody's world.

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This woman reached out to me after
I spoke last and I think it was

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November, and she sent me this
amazing email and she talked about how she

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had, up until that point,
thought her life was pretty good. You

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know, she had she had a
family, she had a decent job,

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she'd been promoted several times. But
she realized that she wasn't really living as

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much and fully as she could,
and she wasn't fulfilled. And the reason

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that she wasn't fulfilled is she knew
she could do more with her life,

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but she wasn't doing it. And
her particular experience was she endured some like

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eighteen years ago, this horrifying,
traumatic, life changing experience, and she

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spent the last several years really coping
with that, healing from that, and

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now has gotten to a place where, you know what, it's enough healing,

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It's enough being embarrassed by that.
I want to go talk about my

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experience to help other people heal and
empower them to go after what they want.

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And that was so cool, Sean, it was so cool. You

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know, we've talked a lot about
this subject What's My Next, and I

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was thinking about it because you just
brought this this thing up to Oftentimes,

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if life does knock us off the
track of what we want to do,

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of where we want to go,
if where we want to live, of

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00:31:15.960 --> 00:31:19.279
what we want to experience, we
need those little reminders to keep us on

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track. And that's why, you
know, I hope people really take note

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00:31:22.839 --> 00:31:27.400
who are listening to the show that
you know, I know a lease really

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well, and I think if somebody
truly wanted a great accountability coach, a

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great mentor advisor or counselor to help
keep them on their track to achieve their

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what's my next? Man, I
just encourage you so much to connect and

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with the Lease and people who've got
that kind of passion, because because it's

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it's it's it's when you fill your
day with with that, you keep growing,

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you keep moving forward. And so
I know a least have special programs,

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and I really hope that people hook
up with your programs. At least

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I if people want to make a
difference in their lives. It's just not

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something that we can talk about.
It's something we have to take action towards

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every single day. And you definitely
help people do that well, thank you

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00:32:15.200 --> 00:32:17.519
and likewise, and I absolutely agree
with that. And I know for me

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too, right, I always have
to be working with people, yourself included,

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to keep me accountable to what I'm
up to. And you've helped me,

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Oh my gosh, head neck,
shoulders, move earths basically the last

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year and a half that I've known
you. And I tell all you just

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all the time. You know,
everybody needs a coach or some something to

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keep them on track toward what they're
up to. Because back to what you

487
00:32:40.680 --> 00:32:45.000
said about that, just the sheer
momentum of life will pull on you.

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You've got to find some way to
fortify yourself. And so you know what

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I did was I created these various
online communities and they're from five dollars a

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month to fifty dollars a month depending
on what you're up to, and it's

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easy. They're on Facebook. But
that's how I created them, was to

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be able to give people access to
a community into a set of tools ongoing

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to be able to help them tap
into another community, to keep them on

494
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track, keep them inspired, keep
them nourished, and in some cases accountable

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for what they say they really want
to do. You know, I really

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applaud that. You know, if
we all look back at how we grew

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and how we learned when we were
younger, it's because we had, you

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know, an accountability system in place. We had a mother, a father,

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a teacher or whatever. We had
someone that encouraged us to get up

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in the morning and go to school, and to do our lessons and to

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00:33:30.119 --> 00:33:34.000
do our homework and to keep moving
forward. And as we get older,

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though, you know that that accountability
starts to become more and more upon ourselves

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00:33:37.200 --> 00:33:42.240
and then we interestingly enough, we
start to become less and less happy because

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00:33:42.279 --> 00:33:45.640
we're doing less and less of what
we want to do. But if we

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00:33:45.759 --> 00:33:49.480
just remember the lessons of what we
learned as a young person that if we

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want to succeed, you know,
it's really good to have someone in our

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00:33:52.920 --> 00:33:55.880
corner. It's really good to have
that accountability coach. And I think if

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someone out there has a huge goal, man, please do not make an

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00:34:00.279 --> 00:34:05.799
attempt to go after it on your
own, because because failure after failure after

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failure starts to get to you.
I mean, I get that. I'm

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a guy that had eighty three rejection
letters from my first publisher. I get

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that. I know what it is. And unless you have this, this

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super human strength to believe in yourself, man, you need somebody to encourage

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you to cross the finish line.
You know. If your goal is to

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00:34:24.280 --> 00:34:29.239
run a marathon, you need to
find a running partner to help you do

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it. If your goal is to
write a book, you need to find

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someone that says, you know,
how's it going, where are you in

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00:34:36.440 --> 00:34:38.320
the process? You know, what
are you going to complete next week?

519
00:34:38.599 --> 00:34:44.239
That's how That's how we achieve our
biggest, most amazing goals is when we've

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got that person in a corner that
constantly reminds us of what we want to

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do. Absolutely completely agree. Big
things do not happen all by yourselves,

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at least the village that we've heard
about at least, if not one or

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two other people along the way.
So agree with that, Elise the village.

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00:35:04.440 --> 00:35:07.320
I can create a village for us, the village. Yes, yea,

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00:35:07.559 --> 00:35:08.960
let's do that. I like that. Make it, make it a

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00:35:08.960 --> 00:35:13.000
big party, and on that note. What a perfect way to go to

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00:35:13.039 --> 00:35:15.000
our last break. Elise Cortez your
host. Here, We've are on the

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air with Sean Anderson, a number
one ranked motivational author, unlimited thinker,

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00:35:19.760 --> 00:35:23.000
and lifetime entrepreneur with a history of
inspiring others. He's a seven time author

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00:35:23.039 --> 00:35:27.559
with the latest book out called The
for FIBs. He's also the creator of

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extra Mile Day a day, recognizing
the power we each have to create positive

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00:35:30.440 --> 00:35:34.800
change when we go the extra mile. Joined us today from Marina del Rey,

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00:35:34.880 --> 00:35:50.159
California. We'll keep our conversation going
after the break. Alis Cortez is

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a speaker and engagement and development catalyst. She designs and delivers professional development,

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00:35:54.639 --> 00:36:00.719
leadership and engagement workshops and can bring
her expertise to your organization. She will

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00:36:00.760 --> 00:36:06.320
help ignite meaningful development within your workforce
that will increase employee engagement, performance and

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00:36:06.440 --> 00:36:09.400
retention. To learn more or to
invite Elise to speak to your organization,

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00:36:09.559 --> 00:36:15.480
please visit her at www dot Elisecortes
dot com. She would welcome the opportunity

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to help get your employees working on
purpose. This is working on purpose with

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Elease Cortes. To reach our program
today, send an email to a lease

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00:36:31.519 --> 00:36:39.480
Alise at a Leasecortes dot com.
Now back to working on purpose and if

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00:36:39.480 --> 00:36:43.079
you're just tuning in, my guest
is Sean Anderson. He's the number one

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00:36:43.119 --> 00:36:46.599
ranked motivational author, unlimited thinker,
and lifetime entrepreneur with the history of inspiring

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00:36:46.639 --> 00:36:52.000
others. He's a seven time author
and is also created the Extra Mile day

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00:36:52.199 --> 00:36:54.559
a day recognizing the power we each
have to create positive change when we go

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00:36:54.679 --> 00:36:59.719
the extra mile. And this man
walks his talk. Besides having inspired tens

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00:36:59.719 --> 00:37:04.440
of thousands through speaking and writing,
including an inspirational speaking tour in the Philippines

548
00:37:04.639 --> 00:37:08.360
attended by twenty thousand attendees, He's
also built a million dollar company, pedaled

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00:37:08.360 --> 00:37:13.320
a bike solo across the United States
twice, and created adventures in more than

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forty five countries, including having walked
border to border across six of them.

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And yet, remarkably, he believes
his greatest adventures and success are waiting to

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be lived. I'm Alice Cortez,
your host. Let's continue this fabulous conversation.

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So Sean, the next thing I
want to talk about here because I

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think it fits. It's part of
this whole notion of what's our next and

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that is adversity. I had a
wonderful guest on my show several months ago.

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His name is Steve Gavatorta, and
he he has this whole mantra of

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is it to embrace our adversity because
it helps us become the person where meant

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to become. I look at your
eighty three book rejections, and I can't

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help but think that you wouldn't be
who you are if you hadn't been rejected

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those eighty three times. Well,
I you know, I think that's I

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think that's true. I think that
when you become so married to something that

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you truly want, that the only
one that's really going to stop you is

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yourself. And I know that we've
each heard that before, but it's true.

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At a point after number ten,
you've got a choice of back in

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those days, mailing out your eleventh, you know proposal, your twelfth proposal,

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your twentieth proposal, or quitting.
And you know, Manny, any

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goal that's so big, I guarantee
you that you're going to fail initially,

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but just believe that you can do
it, and don't stop trying the word

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one of the most powerful words I've
ever believed in is this word called fortitude.

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Man, I'm just not going to
be I'm not going to be stopped

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by that wall. Okay, the
walls in front of me. So what

572
00:38:51.599 --> 00:38:53.000
do I do? Is there a
way that I can climb over that wall?

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Can I go around that wall?
Can I go under that wall?

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How can I get past that wall? And and you know, I got

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to tell you, sure it wasn't
so cool. When you are on number

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fifty and fifty five and sixty of
a rejection, you're going, wow,

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00:39:06.519 --> 00:39:09.360
man, maybe my book really does
you know, maybe it's not so good

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00:39:09.480 --> 00:39:13.760
or whatever, but you've just got
to keep believing this is the path you

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want to walk, that this is
this is what you want to do with

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your life. If a thousand people
say no to you, they can't stop

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you. The only one that can
say no to you is the guy that

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and the woman that you look at
in the mirror. That's the person who

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can stop you. Completely agree with
that, and it's I think it goes

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back to you know what, I
can't think it was. Edison is credited

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for this that he took him at
one thousand approaches to creating a light bulb,

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and he doesn't see that as phillary
heesa as I found nine or ninety

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nine that didn't work, And I
think there's something too. It's all about

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the mindset, right, You and
I know how important our mindset is and

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00:39:47.760 --> 00:39:53.280
how we approach problems the world opportunity
and see our place within the world.

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00:39:54.079 --> 00:39:59.199
Yeah, yeah, I agree,
and you know I want to The second

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sub point of that story of eighty
three rejections was my initial book wasn't even

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the book that I truly wanted to
write. My first book that I really

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had in my soul was this book
called Sore to the Top, which was

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taking people through this four part accountability
system. But I knew that there was

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no way I was going to get
that book published yet, because who was

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00:40:20.320 --> 00:40:23.079
really going to listen to this twenty
seven year old kid about how to achieve

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success. So the first book that
I had these eighty three rejections for was

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a book that I knew I had
to write in order to then get publishers

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to take my second book. So
my first book was a book called count

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Down to College, Preparing your student
for Success in the collegiate Universe. And

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I knew that I knew that I
had experience, I knew that I had

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the credits to write that book,
and I knew that if that book succeeded,

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I could really write the second book, which is the one that I

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wanted, was The Sword of the
Top. And after I had that first

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book published, I think we sold
somewhere between five and ten thousand copies.

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I then had something to take to
a publisher and I said, look,

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00:41:05.960 --> 00:41:08.239
look, man, I've written this
book. We sold copies. I helped

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00:41:08.239 --> 00:41:13.079
push copies, I helped do this. I got rejection from sort of the

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top by the first publisher, but
the second and third said, you know,

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we both want that book, and
I had the chance to negotiate from

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that point on who would take it. Seems so strategic to me, and

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I love that the word fortitude,
as you said before, there's so much

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behind that, and so for our
listener's sake, because I know the answer

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to this question, how are you
helping people achieve their next sean? What

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are you doing to help them?
I got to tell you, I do

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my best every single day just to
pour my passion into the world. I

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think that if I can, just
if I can just put a poor an

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ounce of my passion into somebody I
meet and help their passion maybe become a

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little bit richer, more full.
They've got a chance to do their thing.

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And so every single day, I
think one of my most general goals

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is just keep pouring my passion out
there. Passion is what when we have

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passion for something, it's the chance
to light other people's passion. And so

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we keep walking out there as if
we're a lit match trying to light other

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people. I think that's the greatest
good that we could ever pass forward.

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Yes, And I know for me, as you know, the world of

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work is just so important for me. I was so lucky that I was

627
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raised by entrepreneurial parents who really gave
me the perspective that work is a noble

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part of life. It's important.
It's not something that you slog through or

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get through in order to live.
And I appreciate that, and so so

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much of my focus is to be
able to help awaken those eighty five percent

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of the people across the planet who
are not enthused about going to work,

632
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according to Gallup, and I tend
to see them as well. So,

633
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you know, the work that I
do with the radio show and my programs

634
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is really all built around that.
And the latest thing that I did.

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And I think we've talked about this
a little bit. I don't know if

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you know and how far I've gone
with it, But I released and I've

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been enrolling this new program that I
created shown this is my content. This

638
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is based on my research from my
meeting and work research and my identity research,

639
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my years of working on purpose on
the radio show, and then taking

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a big broad swath of a literature
of the best and what's an inspiration,

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passion, leadership, well being,
an engagement. And I created this program

642
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called Vitally Inspired Living and Leading from
Purpose. And so I'm doing that program

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now insight organizations and also for public
offerings. And I tell you what,

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back to your point before, it
is the coolest thing. It's the best

645
00:43:39.039 --> 00:43:43.000
feeling to know that you get to
do work, this is my purpose why

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I'm here on the planet, and
that in so doing I get to make

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it differskin other people's lives. I
don't know how it gets any better than

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that. Now. It took a
lot to put to stand that up,

649
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of course, right, but wow, I mean this is how I get

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to live my life. Yeah,
that's really cool. And you know that's

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a good question for people that are
listening to possibly ask themselves right now,

652
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is you know, how could my
life be different if I was inspired every

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day? How would my life be
different? And it goes back to these

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classes, these courses, the coaching, the speaking that you do. Is

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when people hook up with you,
when they they have a chance to really

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know what it is to be inspired
every day. And you know, if

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people walked into the relationships with being
more inspired, how would that change the

658
00:44:35.119 --> 00:44:42.639
relationships? If people were more inspired
to walk in a healthy way, how

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would that change their life? If
people were more inspired to go to their

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job every single day and try to
make a difference and create change, how

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would that change their life? I
mean, if you're not out there feeling

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inspired, I think that's one of
the biggest questions you could ask yourself,

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is what and I do to get
more inspiration in my life? You know,

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I talk about this in almost everything
that I do, my speeches,

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my programs. But this notion that
when people work from their purpose, they're

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completely irresistible. And when you look
at the companies that are purpose led out

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00:45:16.400 --> 00:45:21.239
there, they outperform their peers by
a factor of six to one. And

668
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a few months ago I had a
really interesting guest in my show's name is

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Hugh Well. She is the general
counsel and president of a company called DSM

670
00:45:30.400 --> 00:45:34.320
and they are a purpose led,
performance driven company. And they talk about

671
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how not only is this just good
for the soul, but he's got solid

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results in terms of the highest engagement
in the industry, highest shareholder price,

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revenues, impact across the globe.
It's just it's really hard to make a

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case against purpose. Aimen to that. You know, I believe that we

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should all have a life purpose.
I you know, my purpose is to

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empower or one million people to lead
a more positive, passion and purposeful existence.

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Because when purpose is at our core, when we know who we are,

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what we stand for, what we
want to do, everything about our

679
00:46:09.320 --> 00:46:15.599
life changes and big decisions and little
decisions that we have, it they become

680
00:46:15.679 --> 00:46:19.719
easier to make when we melt them
all back into our purpose. How does

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00:46:19.760 --> 00:46:25.039
this fit my purpose? Companies have
purposes? Why can't individuals? Yeah?

682
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And that's a great thing about doing
the work that I do is getting to

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be able to blend those together,
to thread those together, to help people

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inside organizations be able to identify their
own purpose and then see how does that

685
00:46:36.880 --> 00:46:39.960
string through and thread into the overall
organization purpose when that happens, Sean,

686
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Wow, it's really unstoppable. Well
amen for the work that you do.

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00:46:46.119 --> 00:46:49.519
Well, thank you. So we're
here, we are almost at a time,

688
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and we've been talking in the show
about going for our next and making

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sure that that happens. So hang
on, listeners, let's ask him what's

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your next, Sean? You mean
besides the walking my chihuahuas in twelve minutes

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00:47:01.679 --> 00:47:06.679
to me? Yeah? And that
right, you know, because because sometimes

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sometimes we need to have a little
next, and we need to appreciate our

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00:47:10.599 --> 00:47:15.440
little next just as much as we
need to appreciate our big next. And

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and you know, it goes back
to asking myself a very simple question every

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00:47:19.840 --> 00:47:22.159
single morning when I wake up,
What am I excited about today? So

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00:47:22.239 --> 00:47:27.239
that's a little next. What what
little next am I excited about? But

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00:47:27.480 --> 00:47:30.000
as far as my big next,
you know, there's three things that I'll

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00:47:30.039 --> 00:47:35.719
do in twenty nineteen in the specific
jet I haven't I haven't. I haven't

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00:47:35.719 --> 00:47:40.920
given myself permission yet to really know
exactly what they are. It's because once

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once I tell myself, yes,
that's what I want, that's when I

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00:47:45.320 --> 00:47:49.679
make that real public announcement, and
I use the public announcement as my accountability

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00:47:49.679 --> 00:47:52.960
to do it. But I can
assure you there will be three What's my

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00:47:52.119 --> 00:47:58.079
next in twenty nineteen. Number one, I will walk across another country.

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Number two, What's my next?
I will write another book. What's my

705
00:48:02.519 --> 00:48:08.039
next? I will go speak on
an extra Mile world speaking tour in another

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00:48:08.039 --> 00:48:14.079
country. Again. So the specifics
I haven't yet convinced myself of what they

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00:48:14.119 --> 00:48:17.480
are, but there will be three
of them. That is so inspiring and

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00:48:17.519 --> 00:48:21.480
for me just I'm just going to
say one, and that is I will

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00:48:21.920 --> 00:48:24.400
publish my first book next year.
And I've been talking about that for a

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00:48:24.440 --> 00:48:29.679
while and that's what's on the docket. We're doing it so awesome. Here

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00:48:29.719 --> 00:48:31.880
we are out of time already.
Sean Anderson, thank you so much for

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00:48:31.920 --> 00:48:36.679
coming back to working on purpose.
It's amazing to have you back. It's

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00:48:36.719 --> 00:48:37.920
my privilege to be here. Thank
you so much for being my friend.

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Absolutely Likewise, listener, if you
want to learn more about Sean Anderson and

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00:48:43.360 --> 00:48:45.480
any of his seven books, his
extra Mile Day, his speaking or the

716
00:48:45.559 --> 00:48:50.880
myriad of other adventucies up to visit
him at Sean Anderson dot com. That's

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00:48:51.119 --> 00:48:55.320
Shawn Anderson dot com. Next week, we'll be on the air talking with

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one of those women I told you
about from my audience. Literally caught her

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passion in her purpose and she considers
she's off working on fulfilling her adventure in

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her life and she is going to
go talk about her adventures of going through

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that traumatic experience and help other people. I cannot wait to share her with

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you. She's truly working on purpose. See you there, and remember that

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work is at least once they're alive. So let's work on purpose. We

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

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Purpose featuring your host Alis Cortes,
each week on the Voice America Empowerment Channel.

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This week, find your life's purpose
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