Would You Like to Live Your Best Life?

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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. Welcome back to

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Working on Purpose. Thanks for tuning
in again this week. I'm your host,

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Elise Cortes, joining it from Dallas, Texas, which is home base

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for me. This program is all
about helping people more meaningfully and productively connect

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with their work and equipping organizations to
do the same for their employees. It

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was originally inspired by the meeting work
research I've been doing over the last fifteen

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years and now compliments the work that
I do as a speaker, management consultant

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and coach. I'll get to the
program in just a second, but let

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to nurture what they call their tribe
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so drives customer satisfaction and bottom line
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name and email address. So now
drum roll please with us. This week

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is Sean Anderson, who is a
motivational author, unlimited thinker, and lifetime

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entrepreneur with a history of inspiring others, he says, sick time author with

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the latest book called Amicus one oh
one, a story about the pursuit of

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

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Extra Mile day a day, recognizing
the power we have to create positive change.

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When we go with the Extra Mile, we'll be talking about something really

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fun for us. This day.
We're going to have a conversation that's all

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about how do we live a great
life? Sean, welcome to working on

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Purpose Alase. It is my privilege
to be back here a second time.

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And before we get going, I
just want to share that one of my

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team members, Belinda, says that
her all time favorite interview is the one

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that was done with Alice Cortes,
only because you have such great passion and

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energy, and so it's my privilege
to be on your show again today.

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Wow, Sean and Belinda, if
you're listening, thank you for that high

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praise. That's wonderful. It was
a great conversation. It was back in

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March, and I have had listeners
reach out and say, oh my gosh,

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that was great. Got something out
of that. And when I do

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retweet that show, by the way, Sean, people are just it just

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gets so much energy around it.
Keep retweeting it. So there's clearly something

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too that the power of inspiring and
living the kind of life that we that

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we want. So I'm so glad
to have you back and that we stay

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in touch, that we're connected.
And this conversation is really all about I

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want to I want to have us
both way in on how do you live

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a great life? So will you
please start? What's your thought about that?

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Sean? How do we go about
this? Well? Gosh, before

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we start, I'd like to give
just one small shout out to job Inc.

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Because it's companies like job Inc That
are sponsoring this show today that not

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only you know, really help all
the listeners be able to have this amazing

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at last Cortes show, but you
know it gives us the vehicle to keep

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on inspiring and motivating and living the
best version of ourselves. So way to

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go, job Inc. So awesome. Yes, thank you, I totally

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agree. Thank you. You know, how do we live? How do

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we live our best life? Well, let me begin by saying, what

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does your best life look like?
If you were to close your eyes and

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you are to think, wow,
what does my best life really look like?

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What does your best relationship look like? What does your best job look

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like? You know, what your
what does your health look like? See?

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Because we can never live the best
version of our life unless we know

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what that looks like, right,
Absolutely, the vision got to be able

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to see it. What does the
best version of your life look like?

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Alice Cortez, Well, you know
I have actually created the vision of that,

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and it is absolutely you know,
it's the whole notion of living a

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life based around how how do I
actually want to roll through it? And

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that means what kinds of things do
I want to be doing? Who do

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I want to be connected to?
And so for me, right, so

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much of how I situate myself,
Sean, is I think, yes,

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I'm happy to be an American.
I'm proud to be an American, and

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I consider myself a citizen of the
planet, and that means for me that

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I want to be connected to citizens
across the planet. So travel is huge

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for me. I know it is
for you too. Going and experiencing different

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cultures and working with them is just
fundamental for me. So that's huge.

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Having a lifestyle and work that lets
me travel a globe is huge. I

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think we've talked about the fact that
I love languages, Sean, so I

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speak Portuguese and Spanish pretty comfortably.
I used to live in Spain, in

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Brazil. That's part of the reason
for that. And then I can I

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have some utility in French and Italian
and will absolutely activate it when I get

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more chances to go there. So
working in those languages is really important.

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The other piece for me is I
got it. My whole thing, Sean,

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is what I'm about is uplifting humanity
and that I do that through provoking

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insight and empowering growth. And so
for me, as long as I get

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a chance to talk to people about
the stuff that is going to ignite them

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and uplift them, I'm happy.
Whether that is co, whether that's speaking,

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whether that's organizational development, whatever it
is, it's all got to roll

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together. That's what it is for
me. What about you, well,

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I the vision for my life is
I want to be able to run a

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marathon at age seventy number one.
So everything centers around health, because if

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I don't have excellent health in my
life, everything else suffers just a little

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bit. If I don't have excellent
health, my work suffers, my vision

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suffers, my purpose suffers. Health
is the health is like the root of

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everything great that will happen. As
far as being able to walk the vision

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of my life. So every day, you know, it's something that I

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really work towards, eating right,
exercising multiple times a day. Health number

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two, Man, I want to
walk across ten countries. I literally want

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to walk in my tennies across or
around ten different countries, because, like

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you, I have such a passion
for travel, and when I combine it

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with the simplicity of carrying nothing but
a backpack and just walking and meeting people

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and experiencing adventures, I think that
is the ultimate way that refreshes and revitalizes

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my own heart, in my own
purpose. What else do I see from

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my life? I really do want
to get one million books of mine out

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into the public. It has nothing
to do with making money. It has

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everything to do with sharing a message
that I think that can wake up people

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and help them live their best life. So there's three of three for you

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right there. Okay, I gotta
probe on a couple of things. First,

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you and I share, of course, the whole health foundation. You

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know, you and I both I
think exercise at least and well I know

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I actualized about an hour and a
half every day, so that is huge

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for me too. And I'll say
a little something maybe later on if it

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comes up, about the half marathon
that I did this weekend. It was

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so fun and awesome. I felt
great about it. But the other thing

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that I want to call out for
our listeners that I really appreciate about you

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is that you really, literally do
go the extra mile in your whole life.

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And that's one of the reasons I
wanted to talk with you about how

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to have a great life, because
I think, and you know, you're

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you're walking the talk. So you've
already walked across what three countries? Sean

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five five five? Who's counting?
What are they? I've walked across the

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country of England. I've walked across
the country of Ireland. I've walked five

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hundred and fifty miles from France to
Spain to the Ocean. I've walked up

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the entire coast of Portugal to Spain. And I've walked seven hundred and fifty

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miles around Hikoku, Japan. That's
amazing. Do you know that when you

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said Ireland, you said Ireland and
of like that, Yes you did,

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you said it just like that.
Sorry you are going to say, and

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Elise, although I haven't walked across
the United States. I have pedaled the

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bike coast to coast solo twice.
And I the reason that I want to

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call that out, Sean, I
know that you're very humble about all that

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stuff, but I want to call
it up because I want our listeners to

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get that, you know, we
when we talk about this notion of having

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a great life, that we're not
just not just speaking conceptually about this.

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I mean both of us are engaged
in making this happen. You're you know,

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you have been doing this for a
lot longer than I have in terms

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of going after purpose in your life, and your books actually show that.

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But I just think it's so important
for our listeners to get because people are

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stuck, Sean. I mean there, I talk to people all the time

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who tell me, you know,
I don't know how to make my dreams

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come true because I'm just putting one
foot after the other and just getting through

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the life that I that I have
now, I don't know how to get

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past that. So what do you
say to people who who tell you that.

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I'm sure you hear that too.
Well, let's just stop start with

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two questions. First off, what
do you love about your life? Right?

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Now is there things that you want
to continue? Number two, we

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ask, well, what is it
that you really dislike about your life?

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Because we've got to we've got to
really clarify what we like and what we

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don't like, because we want more
of the first and we want less of

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the second, and we can't.
We again, we can't create a life

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that we love. We never can
unless we really are so connected with ourselves

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that we know what we dig,
that we know what we like, that

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we know that we love. You
know, if you go to a restaurant

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and you go, oh my gosh, I've got to order this because it's

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so amazing, that's because you love
it. You've thought about it, you

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know that you want it. Well, what about the rest of your life?

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What do you love? What do
you really want? Again? It

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starts with what you think. It
starts with that self awareness and saying what

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do I love about life? Do
I love connecting with people? Do I

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love conversations? You know your very
best friend that you talk too often,

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Well, you talk to her because
you love to talk to him or her.

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You love that, so you keep
doing more of it. That's the

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whole thing. Let's find out what
we like and keep doing more of it.

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For a person who travels, it
says, I love travel. Well,

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then where are you going in twenty
eighteen? What month are you headed

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in? What city? You know? Have you got to let's plan that,

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see, because once we know what
we want, what we like,

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what we love, we have to
take the steps to actually plan and do

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that. It's one thing to have
a vision for your world, but vision

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without action turns into mediocrity. It's
the action of the vision that really helps

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us live the life that we love. So let's figure out what you like,

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do more of it, Let's figure
out what you dislike, do the

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opposite of it, and let's plan
to do more and less of each.

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You know what she just reminded me
of Sean when you were talking about that.

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Oh my gosh. Right, going
back to people just kind of walking

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through life without passion and just feeling
numb. I'm coaching a very, very

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impressive executive woman right now, and
one of the reasons she wants to work

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together is she said, at least
I just I want to discover my passion

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again. I want to know what
it is that that gets me gets me

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going in the morning. And so
part of what we're doing together, Sean

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is she's kind of she's kind of
like on a mission to the moment that

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she feels any thing that feels like
excitement or joy, that she has to

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stop for that moment and either record
it into her phone or write it down

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and we talk about it. So
the idea is just that to try to

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discover what are these patterns, what
are those things that happen for you or

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that you're doing that gets you into
that place where you feel joy and passion

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back where you want to be again. And so she's that's her this week's

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assignment, and I can't wait to
reconnect with her to hear what's happening for

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her. Where is it? What
did you find out? Because you know,

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here's a woman who has so much
talent, Sean, I mean,

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it's it's incredible, and she's so
viable to her company, and yet and

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they don't they don't even know just
you know, how much that she's hurting

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and missing out, et cetera.
And so I think you're so right trying

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to figure out what are those things
that just activate us, that bring us

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into our best place and getting really
clear about what those things are. I

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think a lot of us don't really
know that. Well. I think that

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you created a really excellent assignment for
your client, because what you've done is

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you've created awareness. You've reminded her
that when you do have these thoughts,

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let's write them down, which makes
us think about it, so we become

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aware that. Ooh ooh, I
like that. So what you've done is

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you've connected her to her whispers.
I love that you've connected her to the

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whispers in all of us that remind
us what it is that we love most

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about life, what it is that
creates our perfect happiness, our perfect harmony,

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our perfect motivation, our perfect inspiration. And by having her write them

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down or record them into our phone
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just going, oh my god,
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the more yes is we create,
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them. You know that's exactly right, and that is exactly right. So

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then you get really in tune and
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this is such a fun conversation.
I knew it would be. I'm reminded

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now I was doing a strengths leadership
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were talking about you know what lights
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and then this woman raises her hand
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that if I think about my day, there's so much of what I do

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in my day that doesn't light me
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what are you doing it for?
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is all about spreadsheets, doing financial
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strengths are just now, but they
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relationship and connection and all that communication
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was so awesome is she really got
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was doing every day drug her down
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she became aware of that, which
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a plan for change. And you
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company that sponsored that workshop to bring
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and said, look, I just
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in the wrong place. I want
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an insurance company. I want to
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now. But it was that whole
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something about it. Well, you
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still doing it? And you know, that's a great question for every person

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out there, for you, for
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think about. You know, if
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right, why are you still attaching
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doing it? Why are you still
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lives than ourselves. Right, I
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yes, right, right? Right? So then if there's something going on,

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if you hate the job that's your
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doing it? If you are unhappy
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mirror, well, why aren't you
exercise them? Or why do you still

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keep on doing what you're doing?
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doing what makes us unhappy? Why
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our confidence, our self esteem,
our joy, our harmony, our happiness,

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our thrill, our adventure. Why
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Man, there's so many things that
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go do more of those things.
I completely agree and a great way to

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take us into our first break.
Sean. I'm Malice Cortez, your host.

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We've been on the air with Sean
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clug, behind the Extra Mile Day
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a story about the pursuit of purpose
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Thanks for staying with us, and
welcome back to working on purpose if

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you're just joining us. My guest
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lifetime entrepreneur Sean Anderson. He is
a six time author with the latest book

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called Amicus one oh one, a
story about the pursuit of purpose and overcoming

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life's chaos. He is also the
human spark plug behind extra Mile Day a

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

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extra mile. I'm your host,
Elise Cortes, So Sean, really quick,

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while I was just saying that about
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say something. I am so enthralled
with what you're doing with Really, it's

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a movement, this movement that you've
got about going the extra mile? Would

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you please say something to our listeners
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doing and where you want to take
that movement. It started in two thousand

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and nine, and at that time
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There was so much uncertainty, so
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Businesses were closing, banks were closing, people were losing their homes, and

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I felt so many people were looking
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wanted for their individual lives. I
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and saying, Hey, what kind
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help me? To save me?
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saying, gosh, at least,
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sure I keep my job and even
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even so far as people started looking
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what are you going to do to
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They forgot the general premise, the
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that if you really want to create
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government and the businesses and the other
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look at that man or that woman
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starts and everything changes. So I
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doing what you're doing that creates change. But it's going the extra mile.

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It's doing more, it's being more, it's giving more, it's a living

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more. And I decided to use
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of a I guess a forest gum
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from one ocean to the other,
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in twenty one cities where in pre
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who had done something amazing as far
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volunteerism and service or in overcoming some
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place. And along with that Extra
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I created this simple day called extra
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mayors on board with recognizing the superheroes, the super volunteers, the individuals and

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the organizations who are doing what who
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service to make the world a better
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on November one, I was so
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talked twenty three of crazy mayors into
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going, Oh my god, this
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to grow and now we are planning
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twenty seventeen, and we're trying to
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year we had five hundred and sixty
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the superstar volunteer heroes in their city. And you know this isn't if I

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remember this correctly, Sean, and
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You're not just going to You're not
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States. You're taking this international too. Correct We've done our best to start

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to start to start leaving little footprints
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as much as we can we can. It started in twenty fifteen on my

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first Extra Mile America World speaking to
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stayed there for a month speaking to
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spoke to what was estimated to twenty
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had one mayor in Bocolo, Philippines
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Mile World city. We're going to
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it's just it's we're all citizens of
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if we live in Marina Del Rey, or Dallas, Texas, or Seattle,

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Washington or in Bocolo, Philippines.
We all have these lives that we

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share this desire to make sure our
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So it doesn't matter if I'm sharing
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extra Mile message and somewhere in Africa. Man, we just all want to

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keep living the best we can and
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Mile message to heart and really live
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you asked me before, you know
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and I will tell you that at
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some kind of a movement that I
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difference and matter to humanity and uplift
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think that when you when you think
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that just turns us on like that
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into it, and it's in pursuit
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the vision is on helping someone else. There is something about that that just

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pulls you right that when you think
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be pulled by something rather than having
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I applaud what you're what you've done, Sean, what you continue to do.

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number you're going after, but it's
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I don't have any more breaths than
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there's there's two reasons that I do
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I I just I just know no
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I want for myself or for other
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nothing else has ever worked for me. I can't sit there and keep wishing

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upon a star that doesn't work,
you know, I can't. I can't

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try once and and and fail and
say, well, that was meant to

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be that I'm not supposed to have
that that that doesn't satisfy me. So

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the only way that I truly know
to create what I want is to is

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to not give up. And that's
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You just keep walking this extra mile, you keep trying, you keep

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queaking your plan, you keep tweaking
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up that mountain. You know,
I have no idea what it is to

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climb Everest, and it's not one
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life. But I've got to believe
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up that mountain. They're saying,
I'm so tired, I don't know if

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I can keep going. I don't
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you just did. There were probably
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training for your very first half marathon, that you're going, oh my god,

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I can I don't know if I
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know if I can do eight miles. I don't know if I can do

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twelve miles. But yet there's something
that keeps those legs moving and that's what

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going the extra mile is, and
so that's that's the first thing, that's

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all I know to do. The
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going to be here on this earth, I have felt no greater joy,

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no greater happiness than to stand on
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as she runs by the five mile
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ten mom mark. And there is
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And every time that I clap for
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me and it makes me go the
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So those two things, clapping for
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man, that's what feeds me more
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there that we've talked about over time
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quick as well. And going back
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race that I did this weekend of
was it actually got me to a place

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of breakthrough, which is what's great
about that, Sean. Which is what

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I love to do with other people
as well when I'm coaching that we're working

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with organizations, is you can leverage
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Well, what happened for me this
weekend was I ran the toured Floor half

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marathon here in Dallas. And I've
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three half marathons a year to keep
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I do that, so right,
I don't do full marathons anymore, per

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se, because I just want to
be able to have other time for other

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things. But I intended, let
me just run, let me just get

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a two hour on this deal.
I knew I could do that pretty handily.

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So went out and I came out
Sean starting the day feeling like I'm

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a little tired. My allergies to
bother me. Let's just see how we

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do. You know, maybe I
won't even be able to finish, and

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that's okay, And started the list
of excuses of you know, letting myself

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off the hook, right, So
start to run the first two miles,

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feel okay, and then of course
here's the great thing, right, So

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you talked about knowing what lights you
up. I love connecting with people.

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So I ended up passing by this
gentleman and we start. I say hello

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Tim as I pass him by,
and I hear his accent and he I

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say, where are you from?
He said Brazil. I said, oh,

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follow porth the gaze, and I
started speaking in Portuguese with him,

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and I said, oh, you
can give me a you know, Portuguese

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lesson while we're running. So we're
talking back and forth and Portuguese and I'm

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just now I'm on a whole new
level, Sean. I mean, I

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have been activated in right. So
he with just that little simple connection something

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that matters to me, back to
that whole being connected to the world thing.

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I was already into a new state. Well then I went into the

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usual place like where I like to
live, which is what you said before,

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is I like to look for people. When I'm in a race like

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that and I'm running. What I'm
looking for, Sean, is I'm looking

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for people that I can I can
touch and inspire and uplift. So I'm

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looking for somebody to know it's got
a great gate to great stride, or

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they just look strong, or I
love their shorts or whatever it is.

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And as I pass them, I
tell them that. And the reason I

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do that, Sean, is because
I want them. I want to give

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them something and I don't do it
for me, but I do get something

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from that that activates me. And
it was fascinating because I was running with

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my my Brazilian friend. His named
Berto, Alberto was his name. Anyway,

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at mile eight, I don't know, something happened to me, Sean,

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I don't know what it was.
I stopped at the water station.

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Well, I didn't stop. I
grabbed some water and I drank it and

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I put that cup down and I
was like, dang it, let's finish

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this thing. Let's bring this thing
home. And it was like something happened

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where the spark plug went off,
you and your spark plug. I guess,

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I don't know. Anyway, I
literally started my kick at mile eight

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to finish five months, and I
don't know where it came from, but

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something just happened in me. And
I looked ahead of the people running ahead

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of me, and I said to
myself, bring me home, pull me

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in. So my focus was all
about just runing. And I mean,

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I mean it was a good pace. I mean it felt so strong and

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I knew I was going fast,
and a couple of times I thought to

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myself, oh, man, Quartez, you're going to poop out. You're

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going to run out of gas here, You're not going to be able to

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carry this for the next five miles. But to your point, I just

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kept going and I had it wasn't
quite a pr was. I did it

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in one hour and fifty four minutes
and eight seconds. I've done one fifty

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three before, but that was fifteen
years ago. Anyway. The point being

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is something happened that triggered in my
mind that I could do it, and

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that I didn't let myself off the
hook. And what's great about that and

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when I work with people about their
whole notion of how do they achieve something

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breakthrough in their own lives? For
me, that just opened up so many

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other possibilities as to how I then
saw my ability to do other things,

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how to work with people, how
to find other audiences that I think would

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be really interesting to speak with.
So that whole notion of going the extra

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mile shan it works. You're right, it works well. Something really interesting.

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I think if we go back to
the half marathon and you kicking those

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last five miles, see, I
believe that you created that. You created

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that because you created the mindset to
get there the first the first eight miles

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of that race. You were encouraging
and you were inspiring, and you were

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being physical and exercising and moving your
body. All the very best was coming

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out of the last quartets. I
mean a great physical effort, great encouraging

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effort. So man, you were
feeding your brain and you were starting to

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feel good, and so that that
at eight miles, all of a sudden

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you said, let's let's let's take
this baby home. Let's finish this one.

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Man. That's the whistler. It's
it's like saying, at least you've

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done all the prep. Now we're
ready to go. You've sparked our engine

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upstairs. We're ready to go.
You've got this now because you created that.

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You created the conversations with all those
people. You created that. I

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00:31:25.839 --> 00:31:30.519
know recently too, that you just
got a speaking gig to speak to some

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high school students. And I know
from having talked to you that you created

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that by reaching out and contacting people, the contacting the organizer. This whole

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show is about how to live the
best version of ourselves, delight in life.

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This is how you do it.
We become creators. We create conversations,

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00:31:51.920 --> 00:31:57.960
we create opportunities, we create possibilities. We have that power and every

467
00:31:59.039 --> 00:32:04.759
time that we do something positive,
positive builds, positive mojo builds. And

468
00:32:04.839 --> 00:32:09.279
your example right now on this half
marathon and taking yourself to the finish line,

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that's because you created that. Thank
you, Sean. I do I

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accept that. I absolutely agree with
that, and you're right. I Mean,

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one of the things that I find
so amazing is, yeah, I

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think that there is this idea that
if you're you just show up, you

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know that things will go well for
you. The universe will will reward you.

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And I think there is some truth
to that, and I think we

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really have to ask for what we
want. We have to formulate what is

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it that we want, and then
we have to go after We have to

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00:32:38.440 --> 00:32:40.119
have a plan, we have to
go after it, and we have to

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00:32:40.160 --> 00:32:44.599
ask for it. And you know, I will say, you're right.

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00:32:44.640 --> 00:32:49.759
I mean, I had some tremendous
advice from this really terrific success coach that

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00:32:49.799 --> 00:32:52.079
I work with, and let me
just say that it's you, because there's

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00:32:52.119 --> 00:32:54.039
no reason not to say so.
But working with you, Sean, and

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just help having having you be that
voice with me that helps me formulate where

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00:33:00.960 --> 00:33:04.400
am I going, what am I
doing? You know? And I want

484
00:33:04.440 --> 00:33:07.960
to credit you because really, in
our conversations, when we were chatting about

485
00:33:07.079 --> 00:33:09.279
possibilities, where did I want to
speak, what did I want to do

486
00:33:09.359 --> 00:33:12.200
next? Who do I want to
be in front of? Who do I

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00:33:12.240 --> 00:33:15.960
want to matter to? Right?
That was the conversation. And when you

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said, well, why don't you
speak at this all girls conference? And

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you know, for the moment,
for whatever reason, it hadn't occurred to

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me. I don't know why.
It just ran over the top of my

491
00:33:24.960 --> 00:33:29.680
head, but you caught it.
And had you not caught it, Sean,

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I would have missed that opportunity.
So I do want to thank you

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for that, because I'm so stoked
to go and speak with this group of

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00:33:36.160 --> 00:33:39.000
girls down in Austin in early November, and it's you know, it's because

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of you. Thank you well,
I thank you, Thank you so much,

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Elise. I believe that if we
open our eyes to what truly exists

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as far as possibility, all of
us. There is so much opportunity all

498
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around us, and all it takes
is for us to be able to see

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the opportunity, cast a vision for
it, and then follow through with I

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think the greatest secret to success ever
is action. Taking action, possibility leads

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00:34:07.400 --> 00:34:12.000
the vision, take action, live
the best life you can, no question,

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00:34:12.239 --> 00:34:15.159
and again perfect segue into our next
break. I'm Elise Cortez, your

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host. We've been on the air
with Sean Anderson, who is a human

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

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00:34:22.440 --> 00:34:27.360
a story about the pursuit of purpose
and overcoming life's chaos. He joins us

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to day from Rina del Rey in
California. Stay with us, It's your

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00:34:45.639 --> 00:34:55.000
world, Motivate, change, succeed, Voice America Empowerment dot com. Alice

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Cortez is a speaker and engagement and
development catalyst. She designed bis and delivers

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

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She will help ignite meaningful development within
your workforce that will increase employee engagement,

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performance and retention. To learn more
or to invite Elise to speak to

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your organization, please visit her at
www dot Elisecortes dot com. She would

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00:35:21.880 --> 00:35:27.639
welcome the opportunity to help get your
employees working on purpose. Follow us on

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to Eleise Alisee at Elisecortes dot com. Wow, back to Working on Purpose.

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Thanks for staying with us, and
welcome back to working on Purpose.

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If you're just tuning in. My
guest is motivational author, unlimited thinker,

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and lifetime entrepreneur Sean Anderson. He's
a six time author with the latest book

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00:36:14.679 --> 00:36:17.760
called Amicus one oh one, a
story about the pursuit of purpose and overcoming

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00:36:17.760 --> 00:36:22.280
life's chaos. He is also the
human sparkplug behind extra Mile Day a Day,

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00:36:22.320 --> 00:36:25.840
recognizing the power we have to create
positive change when we go the extra

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mile. I'm your host, Alice
Cortes. So, Sean, one of

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the things that I that I thought
would be kind of fun since I don't

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know that you've ever heard me tell
the story to you, but I want

528
00:36:37.239 --> 00:36:39.559
to actually let you want a little
bit of a secret as to how it

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is I got into the work that
I'm doing and why I do it.

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And it starts with a fun story
of getting fired a long time ago,

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and so here's here's how it went
down. I grew up in a small

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town in Oregon, and I my
parents were fantastic entrepreneurs. College was not

533
00:36:58.480 --> 00:37:01.559
on their on their on their wavelength, wasn't on mine either, So I

534
00:37:01.599 --> 00:37:06.960
took at the first job that I
got in the really exotic city of Portland,

535
00:37:07.000 --> 00:37:08.320
Oregon. Oh my gosh, I
hit the jackpot. I was this

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00:37:08.400 --> 00:37:15.199
admin assist to this bigger than life
real estate commercial developer, Sean Roland Hardle

537
00:37:15.280 --> 00:37:20.639
is his name, if he's listening, He's my hero. Anyway, I've

538
00:37:20.639 --> 00:37:22.079
worked for him for a year and
a half Sean, and I loved working

539
00:37:22.119 --> 00:37:27.079
for him. He was just dynamic
and fun and I just really enjoyed learning

540
00:37:27.079 --> 00:37:30.159
his business, etc. And I
was nineteen years old and making it eight

541
00:37:30.239 --> 00:37:34.280
hundred bucks a month and thought that
was all the money in the world,

542
00:37:34.360 --> 00:37:37.559
etc. Just crazy. Anyway,
one day, this man walks out to

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00:37:37.639 --> 00:37:40.519
go to lunch and he says,
you have to get out of here.

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You have to go see the world, get an education, do something with

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00:37:44.440 --> 00:37:49.039
your life. But before you go, hire your replacement. And the door

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shut. And I sat there Sean, going, Wow, what the heck

547
00:37:52.840 --> 00:37:57.760
just happened. I literally sat there, seated like that the whole time he

548
00:37:57.800 --> 00:37:59.960
was gone for lunch. When he
came back, cheerily said, hey,

549
00:38:00.079 --> 00:38:01.719
how's it going? At least like
nothing had ever happened. I said,

550
00:38:02.239 --> 00:38:06.360
just before you go back to your
office, I just have one question.

551
00:38:06.760 --> 00:38:10.639
Did you just fire me? And
he said, yes, absolutely I did.

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You can't stay here. It would
be a crime for me to keep

553
00:38:14.639 --> 00:38:17.599
you here. So before I tell
you what I got out of that,

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I just want to get your reaction. What do you think about that in

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terms of a life event. I
think Roland's an awesome guy. Man.

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You know, Roland was not a
selfish person. He was so self less

557
00:38:31.760 --> 00:38:37.599
and letting this amazing admin assistant at
least Cortes go live her dreams. And

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00:38:37.639 --> 00:38:42.760
he's recognized, He recognized something special
in you, a fire in you,

559
00:38:42.880 --> 00:38:45.639
and he just he just needed an
edge you to go live this life,

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this better version of you, because
he didn't think you were doing it.

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So I say, man, Roland, if we could all be Rolands,

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that would be pretty great. Well, and I completely agree, And you

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got out of it exactly what I
was hoping that you heard out of it.

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So what I wanted to say about, you know what, what's this

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man's role in my life? Other
than saving my life. I have,

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by the way, kept in touch
with him over all of these years.

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In fact, last year, he
and I planned his his eightieth birthday party

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together, which he called a living
wake. He wanted people to come together

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and celebrate and say what they thought
about him without him being dead. I

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00:39:19.400 --> 00:39:22.000
thought that was a brilliant idea.
Yeah, so we planned that and did

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00:39:22.000 --> 00:39:24.440
that. It was so fun.
But anyway, so what I want to

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say about that is, you know, before I met that man, Sean,

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I didn't It didn't occur to me
that I could go to college.

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So I mean, I think I
did the college thing. I have a

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bachelor's degree, to masters and a
PhD. So I think I did the

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education thing. I think you did. It didn't occur to me that I

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could live or I could go to
you know, visit other countries. Certainly

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not no other languages, et cetera. So I did live in Spain and

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Brazil, and I learned Spanish and
Portuguese and the French and the Italian.

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And I love knowing and getting to
travel throughout the world. Today, I

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think I've delivered content on all all
of the continents. I think. Anyway,

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now, this bit about doing something
with my life, I'm still doing

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that, and that's an ongoing creation
for me. But when I think about

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why do I do what I do? If he hadn't given me that spark,

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Sean, if he hadn't opened my
eyes to the possibility that there's so

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much in this huge, fast life
for me that I wasn't even letting myself

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see that, I wouldn't have ever
gotten the hunger to help to do that

588
00:40:24.199 --> 00:40:29.119
for myself. So I'm all about
this notion of ongoing self realization. What

589
00:40:29.159 --> 00:40:31.760
can we do? There's no end. And the reason that I work in

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00:40:31.760 --> 00:40:37.960
the field of really learning, development, transformation, that whole notion of human

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growth is because I need that for
myself and I got that bug from Roland.

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And so the work that I get
to do by developing and working with

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others is kind of like we've been
saying about that whole thing of touching and

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uplifting others. By doing it with
and for others, I get it for

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00:40:54.239 --> 00:41:00.480
myself, and so it's kind of
a reinforcing selfish reason to be in the

596
00:41:00.519 --> 00:41:02.559
business. But that's why I do
what I do. Well, that's a

597
00:41:02.599 --> 00:41:07.519
really great story. You know,
people like Roland inspire me. I mean,

598
00:41:08.679 --> 00:41:14.960
you know, just to just to
give up so much to help someone

599
00:41:14.960 --> 00:41:21.039
else get so much, I mean
that that kind of sets the bar for

600
00:41:21.079 --> 00:41:23.920
me. I applaud Roland completely.
I'm so blessed. You're so blessed to

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have met someone like that, because
it sounds as if that was a real

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00:41:27.480 --> 00:41:30.000
trigger moment in your life. I
mean, all of a sudden you became

603
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exposed to thinking more, of being
more because someone thought that you were more.

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And you know, isn't that the
way it is? Sometimes we if

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00:41:40.960 --> 00:41:45.880
we if we can bring out the
best in others by helping them think more

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00:41:46.000 --> 00:41:51.000
or see who they truly are,
I believe that we can help others live

607
00:41:51.079 --> 00:41:54.639
the best part of their life too. And and I think that it's a

608
00:41:54.679 --> 00:42:00.400
selfish it's a selfish question. It's
a selfish goal for me just to want

609
00:42:00.440 --> 00:42:06.079
to go live my very best life
without helping other people live their very best

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life. And I think I live
my better life when I help others live

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00:42:09.840 --> 00:42:14.679
their better life. And all of
us have that opportunity. All of us

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00:42:14.719 --> 00:42:19.199
are surrounded either by young people or
people at coworkers or whatever. And there's

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something pretty awesome about each of those
people that surround us. So why not

614
00:42:22.360 --> 00:42:27.519
let them know. Why not all
be rollins for a day and just say,

615
00:42:27.559 --> 00:42:30.039
Wow, you know that you've got
some talent there, girl, you

616
00:42:30.679 --> 00:42:34.800
go go do that. Or you
know you've got the greatest, most infectious

617
00:42:34.960 --> 00:42:38.320
laugh and smile. You were meant
to do customer service work. You were

618
00:42:38.480 --> 00:42:43.199
meant to help light up people's day. Thank you so much for that.

619
00:42:43.559 --> 00:42:49.079
I think the more the more that
we help others see the best of their

620
00:42:49.119 --> 00:42:53.079
life, the best parts of them, I think, then we really start

621
00:42:53.239 --> 00:43:01.000
to see and feel and believe the
very best about ourselves. Oh, I

622
00:43:01.039 --> 00:43:04.480
completely agree. And I got to
say two things to that, Sean.

623
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So the first thing I'll say is
one of the reasons I love working with

624
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leaders to develop them is because they
can have such an impact like Roland had

625
00:43:12.320 --> 00:43:15.679
on me. And I remind them
of that. I tell them, Look,

626
00:43:15.719 --> 00:43:19.719
you have no idea sometimes the effect, the power, the impact that

627
00:43:19.760 --> 00:43:22.400
you can have positively or negatively on
people. So let's, you know,

628
00:43:22.440 --> 00:43:24.800
focus on the positive stuff. And
that's one of the reasons I love so

629
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much of developing and working with people
in that capacity. It's it's just it's

630
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huge. And then the second thing
I was going to say is that another

631
00:43:32.400 --> 00:43:37.960
thing that I absolutely love doing is
I really love getting to speak to groups

632
00:43:38.000 --> 00:43:44.519
of women, especially women's leadership groups, because there's something about going into a

633
00:43:44.639 --> 00:43:49.519
room of women and just and sitting
with them and being with them and seeing

634
00:43:49.679 --> 00:43:53.599
them for who they are and who
they can be and helping it connect,

635
00:43:53.679 --> 00:43:58.480
helping them connect with what they what
they actually could be, and helping them

636
00:43:58.519 --> 00:44:01.159
see that put that together and for
each other in the process of seeing that

637
00:44:01.239 --> 00:44:05.719
through. There is something so magical
about that, Sean. And yes,

638
00:44:05.760 --> 00:44:07.079
I love doing it with men and
women, but there's something when I'm in

639
00:44:07.119 --> 00:44:13.519
a group with just women that just
brings me alive and brings group alive too,

640
00:44:13.639 --> 00:44:17.679
that it's all about possibility. It's
all about seeing something and somebody that

641
00:44:17.719 --> 00:44:22.199
they maybe can't see for themselves or
won't see for themselves. Well, I

642
00:44:22.199 --> 00:44:25.639
think that you started feeding your whispers
so much that they've turned into shouts,

643
00:44:25.639 --> 00:44:30.800
which is really awesome because when I
was when our whispers turn into shouts,

644
00:44:30.800 --> 00:44:35.760
man, that's where our real passions
starts to flow. And that's that when

645
00:44:35.800 --> 00:44:39.639
our passions flowing That's what helps us
get through our failures and our defeats and

646
00:44:39.719 --> 00:44:45.760
our tragedies. It's it's life becomes
tougher when we're not feeling passionate about it.

647
00:44:45.800 --> 00:44:51.719
So amen for you starting to hear
shouts not just whispers. I like

648
00:44:51.760 --> 00:44:52.960
the way you said that. I
hadn't considered that, but you know what,

649
00:44:52.960 --> 00:44:57.199
what you're what I hear when you
say that, Sean, is what

650
00:44:57.280 --> 00:45:00.880
I oftentimes try to work with people
when I'm coaching them, is helping them

651
00:45:00.880 --> 00:45:04.679
find their voice? Right? Where
is that voice? Where? How do

652
00:45:04.760 --> 00:45:07.800
we take that whisper that you're hearing? It's starting to nudge you and turn

653
00:45:07.840 --> 00:45:10.360
it into first a voice and then
a shout. And isn't that the magic

654
00:45:10.400 --> 00:45:15.840
of getting to work with people,
of helping them find that, unveil that

655
00:45:15.920 --> 00:45:19.079
for themselves, and then when it
shows up in the world, how amazing

656
00:45:19.079 --> 00:45:22.400
that is? It's just wow.
I mean, you wonder if people say,

657
00:45:22.599 --> 00:45:23.559
you know, what do you get
out of your work besides a paycheck?

658
00:45:23.639 --> 00:45:28.760
Well, forget the paycheck, right, this stuff right here is the

659
00:45:28.800 --> 00:45:31.079
goal. When somebody comes alive in
front of you, Oh my gosh,

660
00:45:31.079 --> 00:45:34.599
Shawn, And I know you've seen
that a million times in the work that

661
00:45:34.639 --> 00:45:37.280
you've done. Hey, let me
ask you a question. Okay, So

662
00:45:37.280 --> 00:45:40.679
we're talking today about how to live
the best life, and we've been talking

663
00:45:40.719 --> 00:45:45.639
about this whispers that the whispers lead
to. You know, what our truest

664
00:45:45.639 --> 00:45:49.159
passions are, what our purpose could
be? Let me ask you, lease,

665
00:45:49.400 --> 00:45:57.519
how do people hear their whispers?
Hmm? Well, I think first

666
00:45:57.559 --> 00:46:00.800
they need to be they need to
be present and willing, you know,

667
00:46:00.880 --> 00:46:04.719
to listen to that day. In
other words, they've they've got they've got

668
00:46:04.760 --> 00:46:07.920
to have there's got to be an
opening somehow and that and that that might

669
00:46:07.960 --> 00:46:09.400
be if you think about it actually
just physically. You know, you can

670
00:46:09.440 --> 00:46:13.039
think of the opening in your ear
right, but you've got to have some

671
00:46:13.119 --> 00:46:15.440
kind of an opening that gives you
a space to be able to hear that

672
00:46:15.880 --> 00:46:19.639
first and foremost, because it's there, whispers already there. It's a matter

673
00:46:19.679 --> 00:46:22.400
of how do we hear it right? And I think that part of it

674
00:46:22.440 --> 00:46:25.559
is sometimes we need help from the
outside, which is why we work with

675
00:46:25.599 --> 00:46:30.280
a coach, and they help us
presence that whisper in a way that we

676
00:46:30.320 --> 00:46:35.320
can actually hear it. I think
that another way to do that is from

677
00:46:35.360 --> 00:46:39.719
the internal place of just really paying
attention to what are those things that really

678
00:46:39.800 --> 00:46:44.119
light us up, like the work
that I'm doing with this this this executive

679
00:46:44.119 --> 00:46:47.039
woman. What is it that that
she if she just pays attention, if

680
00:46:47.079 --> 00:46:52.079
she just gives her her mind over
to what is it? Where is that

681
00:46:52.119 --> 00:46:53.159
whisper? Where does it come from? What does it sound like? What

682
00:46:53.239 --> 00:46:57.960
is it saying? I think I
think it can come from within and from

683
00:46:58.000 --> 00:47:00.679
without, and sometimes we need both. What do you think? Well,

684
00:47:00.719 --> 00:47:07.760
how do you advocate people being able
to create environments inside and out to find

685
00:47:07.760 --> 00:47:12.199
it? Do you Is it something
that we need to actively schedule in our

686
00:47:12.280 --> 00:47:15.679
day to do? I mean how
because people go, yes, I need

687
00:47:15.719 --> 00:47:17.159
to listen to my whisper, Yes
I need to connect with people on the

688
00:47:17.159 --> 00:47:22.880
outside or inside. But then all
of a sudden, after this moment's gone,

689
00:47:22.039 --> 00:47:24.760
we forget life hits us, and
then all of a sudden it's over.

690
00:47:24.840 --> 00:47:32.679
So how do you suggest that we
get connected with this inside and outside?

691
00:47:32.719 --> 00:47:37.679
Do we schedule it? How does
it work? Well? A couple

692
00:47:37.679 --> 00:47:39.400
of things that I've done with people
over the years, and frankly for myself

693
00:47:39.440 --> 00:47:43.599
too, Sean, I'm I am
a bit I'm a big advocate of discipline

694
00:47:43.639 --> 00:47:46.480
and schedule. I think that if
we really want the lives that we really

695
00:47:46.519 --> 00:47:50.880
really say that we want, well
we have to actually counter that. It

696
00:47:50.920 --> 00:47:53.800
actually has to show up as a
date with ourselves. It's something that we

697
00:47:53.960 --> 00:48:00.159
honor for ourselves and through ourselves,
and that happens usually by scheduling some thing

698
00:48:00.199 --> 00:48:02.599
on our calendar that says this time
is for me. So I am a

699
00:48:02.760 --> 00:48:07.559
huge fan of yes, something daily
and usually at the same time, whether

700
00:48:07.599 --> 00:48:10.280
you're a morning person like me I
love the mornings, or whether you're a

701
00:48:10.360 --> 00:48:14.400
night owl and you want to do
it then, but having something in your

702
00:48:14.480 --> 00:48:17.039
calendar where you even if it's just
ten minutes or five minutes, and you

703
00:48:17.079 --> 00:48:21.679
take that time and this is where
you capture what is it that let you

704
00:48:21.760 --> 00:48:23.840
infect. I've got an another person
I'm coaching with right now. Part of

705
00:48:23.840 --> 00:48:28.880
her her job is to take is
to is to be able to calendar and

706
00:48:28.960 --> 00:48:34.360
capture something every day at six pm
that just lights her up, that actually

707
00:48:34.480 --> 00:48:37.320
was great about her day or what
she did. So, yes, there's

708
00:48:37.320 --> 00:48:42.360
something about that whole thing of ongoing
discipline and then scheduling it. The other

709
00:48:42.440 --> 00:48:45.079
thing, though, is that I
think you know, in terms of really

710
00:48:46.239 --> 00:48:51.000
you know, getting clear about this. Sometimes it really helps to be able

711
00:48:51.000 --> 00:48:53.519
to kind of hold the mirror up
to our to ourselves. And what I

712
00:48:53.559 --> 00:48:57.079
mean by that, Sean is and
I've done it for myself too. It's

713
00:48:57.119 --> 00:49:02.880
incredibly invaluable going out in interview people
who who who we interact with and hearing

714
00:49:04.159 --> 00:49:06.800
you know, what, what do
they what? How how do we show

715
00:49:06.880 --> 00:49:08.800
up for them? What do they
get from us? And there's a lot

716
00:49:08.800 --> 00:49:12.639
of questions you can ask around that, but I think there's something about that

717
00:49:12.679 --> 00:49:17.400
because I think we walk through life
so blind sometimes that we just it's there,

718
00:49:17.920 --> 00:49:20.960
we just can't see it, we
can't hear it. So again that's

719
00:49:20.960 --> 00:49:23.119
still the inside and outside kind of
thing, but that's what I like to

720
00:49:23.159 --> 00:49:29.400
advocate for. I think that's a
beautiful answer, uh, you know,

721
00:49:29.480 --> 00:49:32.519
scheduling those moments in our in our
world where we know we have to be

722
00:49:32.599 --> 00:49:38.159
present, where where we know we
have to really set that time aside to

723
00:49:38.280 --> 00:49:44.440
think, to feel, to be
aware. I personally call mine my morning

724
00:49:44.480 --> 00:49:47.119
meetings, and so the first thing
before I talk to anybody every morning is

725
00:49:47.159 --> 00:49:57.440
I have this really disciplined meeting with
these these individual activities that help create my

726
00:49:57.679 --> 00:50:01.119
positive momentum. For the day that
help create my positive mindset. It's almost

727
00:50:01.159 --> 00:50:07.880
like going back to your half marathon. My morning meeting symbolizes my first eight

728
00:50:07.039 --> 00:50:14.239
miles of your race, where you're
building you in order to go sprint those

729
00:50:14.320 --> 00:50:21.679
last five miles. So my morning
meeting sparks me to live pretty awesome for

730
00:50:21.719 --> 00:50:27.159
the rest of my day. And
I think the more that people really take

731
00:50:27.239 --> 00:50:31.880
the time to read positive stuff,
to listen to positive stuff, to work

732
00:50:31.920 --> 00:50:37.639
with positive people like you, to
surround themselves with positive influences, the more

733
00:50:37.679 --> 00:50:45.920
that they're going to start feeding the
very best of themselves. I completely concur

734
00:50:45.079 --> 00:50:51.039
that we must continue to feed ourselves
with positive inspiration because you know, life

735
00:50:51.039 --> 00:50:55.239
can be hard, and I think
an ongoing diet is essential. Yes,

736
00:50:55.880 --> 00:51:00.639
here we are Sean almost just a
couple minutes before we have to the show.

737
00:51:00.199 --> 00:51:02.360
I want to just give you a
chance to say, is there anything

738
00:51:02.400 --> 00:51:07.840
that you want to make sure that
you leave our listeners with today. You

739
00:51:07.880 --> 00:51:10.039
know, this is a long time
ago I had heard in a speech that

740
00:51:10.079 --> 00:51:15.920
there were two dates that were left
with the date that we were born and

741
00:51:15.960 --> 00:51:19.480
the date that we die. Those
are the two dates on many people's tombstones

742
00:51:19.519 --> 00:51:22.760
that they're remembered by. But each
of us had very little to do with

743
00:51:22.840 --> 00:51:25.199
the date that we are born.
We have very little to do with the

744
00:51:25.280 --> 00:51:28.599
date that we die. In fact, we have for the most part,

745
00:51:28.639 --> 00:51:31.599
we had nothing. But that's not
where life is. Life is all the

746
00:51:31.679 --> 00:51:37.880
dates in between. It's before the
November twenty ninth, nineteen sixty two,

747
00:51:37.000 --> 00:51:39.440
and it's all the way to the
end whenever. That is for me.

748
00:51:39.960 --> 00:51:44.920
But I have everything to do with
all those dates in the middle. You,

749
00:51:44.960 --> 00:51:47.119
as a listener, you have everything
to do with the dates that you're

750
00:51:47.159 --> 00:51:52.280
living right now. There will come
a time. There will come a time

751
00:51:52.400 --> 00:51:55.039
when you don't have control over those
dates anymore. And so we need to

752
00:51:55.079 --> 00:52:00.360
be aware of the fact that this
is our time. Now is our time.

753
00:52:00.800 --> 00:52:06.480
It's our time to travel the world. It's our time to dance the

754
00:52:06.840 --> 00:52:09.800
dances. It's our time to sing
the karaoke bars. It's our time to

755
00:52:09.840 --> 00:52:15.239
take the risks. It's our time
to make great friends. It's our time

756
00:52:15.400 --> 00:52:22.079
to write amazing things. It's our
time to listen to the birds. It's

757
00:52:22.199 --> 00:52:27.119
our time to walk on the beach. It's our time to live. Now

758
00:52:27.360 --> 00:52:30.360
is our time. And going back
to the very beginning of topic, how

759
00:52:30.400 --> 00:52:37.159
do you live your best life?
It's realizing that now is your time to

760
00:52:37.280 --> 00:52:42.480
do so, take advantage of your
time. Wow. I can't say it

761
00:52:42.480 --> 00:52:44.840
any better than that, Sean,
and rut of time anyway, So I

762
00:52:44.880 --> 00:52:46.639
want to thank you so much for
joining me. I have so enjoyed this

763
00:52:46.679 --> 00:52:52.039
conversation. You have a great heart, you have great intention, and I

764
00:52:52.119 --> 00:52:55.800
know that great things are in store
for you. Thank you, Sean and

765
00:52:55.880 --> 00:52:59.719
for listeners, if you want to
find more about this great man who've been

766
00:52:59.760 --> 00:53:02.480
chat with, please visit his website. It's Sean Anderson dot com. Catch

767
00:53:02.519 --> 00:53:13.320
you next week. We hope you've
enjoyed this week's program. Be sure to

768
00:53:13.320 --> 00:53:17.239
tune into Working on Purpose, featuring
your host Elise Cortes, every Wednesday at

769
00:53:17.280 --> 00:53:22.039
six pm Eastern Time three pm Pacific
Time on the Voice America Empowerment Channel.

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