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hey there everybody and welcome to
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Fearless thinking a podcast designed to
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help you navigate authentic leadership
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and the entrepreneurial Journey I'm your
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host Michael duu and these are my
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thoughts lessons and insights from my
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entrepreneurial journey into coaching
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workshops motivational speaking and of
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course what I picked up from interviews
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with inspiring leaders and entrepreneurs
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along the way my mission is to help
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people unlock their untapped potential
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by using fear as a catalyst for powerful
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change and growth so they can step into
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the greatest version of their most
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authentic selves all right let's get
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into some Fearless thinking
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hey everybody welcome back to Fearless
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thinking I'm your host Michael duu this
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is episode 35 uh the end of a week end
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of week seven um we are sharing the
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insights and ideas about the Ascend Hub
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as well as discussing launch strategies
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for aspiring aspiring entrepreneurs I'm
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not sure why I'm I'm lisping aspiring
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entrepreneurs um today's episode on
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Friday as we go into the weekend is
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talking about um lifelong
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curiosity you know the Ascend Hub is
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going to be a learning engine it's
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really
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interesting because I just I did not do
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very well in school high school I did
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really well in college but I didn't do
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really well in high school I struggled
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with that learning environment and I
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think one of the things I like about the
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Ascend tuub is that it's going to be a
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new learning environment that that
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brings together
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a number of different ways to learn both
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your courseworks cohorts workshops
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online on demand video content live
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coaching sessions there are so many ways
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that we will be bringing the experience
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of learning together and growing
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together that you it's going to be
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really hard for anyone to fail it's
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going to be really hard for anybody not
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to succeed when all of us together are
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creating an environment where we me to
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the power of we we will be providing you
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with all of the incredible resources you
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need to learn the best way that you can
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and if that's a combination of things if
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that's a combination of a workshop and a
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workbook and a journal and a a live
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coaching session and a mentor what
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whatever it is that you need it's going
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to be in there
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Ragu I I love the name Ascend Hub but
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sometimes I wonder if I should have just
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called it Ragu ah that name was already
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taken and it's for spaghetti so that's
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all right um I digress back to we were
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talking about let me look at my notes
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Here the uh continuous learning um new
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technologies are always emerging um in
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our landscape and of course the
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entrepreneurship journey in the business
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world is a constant fast bace roller
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coaster we always have to shift our
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understanding for our customers
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Technologies the competitive landscape
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that's always moving on us right but you
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know what would be the secret weapon for
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successful entrepreneurs in in a
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constantly shifting and and moving
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landscape with regards to Tech with
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regards to Industry with regards to
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customers you name it and that's a
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lifelong learning mind set right being
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flexible prepared to learn and change um
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from frustration to Fascination if you
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were clinging to outdated software
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struggling to complete a simple task
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um what happens when you neglect
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continuous learning you get stuck right
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you can't move forward there is no
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progress and you lose you might get by
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for a little while but really eventually
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you're going to get left behind and the
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the if you picture the opposite of that
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experience which is you know the thrill
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of learning a new platform which I do
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every single week with new
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software this is one of those things I
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really wanted to help other
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entrepreneurs with and where they are at
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which is this over information overload
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and Tech overload there's so much out
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there to learn there's so many new
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things coming along that are supposed to
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tell you that this is going to change
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the game this is going to help you get a
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thousand clients this is going to help
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you be more efficient in process and da
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d d da and while I think a lot of them
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can do
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that I think it's tough to sort of
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disseminate and filter through to get to
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the things that really mean well for you
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and where you're at and that's one of
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the goals for the Ascend Hub and our
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leaders in there is to really help you
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sort of nail that down sort of like
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filter out the the noise and get down to
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just the bear these things I need these
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specific things to help me succeed right
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now we're on at right and that'll help
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you gain a little bit of better focus
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um unlocking a world of knowledge
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through continuous learning and a
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passion for Learning and in a platform
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in community that helps you do it that
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is powerful lifelong
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curiosity um and embrace Bing The
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Continuous learning concept and growth
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mindset it's not just about keeping up
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really it's about staying ahead of not
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just the curve but your curve um if
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you're ambitious like me you're
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constantly wanting to grow and to learn
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and that means that bar that threshold
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for for joy that threshold for gratitude
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that threshold for for for interest or
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whatever it keeps moving further and
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further away because you keep finding
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new ways to challenge yourself to
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continue growing and it allows you to
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adapt adapt adopt and to change and to
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cultivate an Innovative uh mindset to
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fuel our journey um the the illiterate
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of the 21st century will not this is a
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great quote the illiterate of the 21st
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century will not be those who cannot
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read or write but it will be those who
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cannot learn unlearn and relearn that's
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Alvin tofler by the way um it isn't
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about reading and writing it's it's
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about learning and unlearning and
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relearning it's really about that
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flexibility to reimagine and reinvent
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and shift your perspective to unlearn
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what you've learned in order to learn to
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do something better if you can do that
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if you can admit you've got to you're
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way ahead of a lot of people that's a
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massive success right there and the the
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the the fear of appearing
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unknowledgeable or overwhelmed by the
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information that that's coming to us or
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that we just don't have all the answers
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you know can hold us back that's a
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legitimate fear that some of us might
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have especially when we're going out
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into the world and we think others might
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judge us because we don't know
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everything or what we know isn't enough
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and the ascent Hub will be that that
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that place and that space to empower you
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to overcome these ideas about yourself
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and those fears and be and embrace the
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lifelong learning mentality through
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curated learning resources as we've said
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a treasure Trove of Library resources
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and content um that are vetted by our
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experts and our people inside as well as
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by you giving us feedback on what you
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need with expert we webinars live
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coaching sessions online courses
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downloadable guides all of those things
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a community knowledge exchange those are
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the exchange threads we'd love talking
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about those masimo his favorite thing um
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we know the The Exchange threads you
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just tap into Collective wisdom that's
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what that is you know everybody that's
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in there that's talking about the ideas
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or the thoughts or the challenges that
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you're that you're talking about is is
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in there you get to engage in these
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discussions with fellow founding members
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and founding leaders share sharing the
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learning discoveries along the way as
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well as looking at things in new ways
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that you might absorb the information
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better you might unlearn what you've
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learned quicker because you now have a
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new piece of information you didn't have
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before that makes it easier for you to
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adapt adopt and shift um mentorship and
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coaching
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circles connecting with experienced
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mentors and
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coaches is one of the big next steps for
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entrepreneurs Beyond just our
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collaborative Collective Journey with
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each other and all the other founding
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members in the group and and sharing
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those experiences but really bringing on
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a one-on-one really bringing on a coach
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or a mentor to really help you start
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digging deeper into your own personal
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and professional growth experiences so
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that you can step into the greatest
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version of your most authentic self and
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really succeed um they will help provide
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us with the personal advice professional
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advice relevant resources that they can
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suggest we need to read help us navigate
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the ever expanding knowledge
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landscape um this this process of
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curiosity and
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collaborative community and Mentor
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coaching helps us to dispel any fear of
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learning that we need that we have right
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that it's no longer a chore and a
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challenge it is now an adventure and
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it's fun for us and it's a shared
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experience right so we can identify our
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knowledge gaps that we have and fill
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those knowledge gaps with an honest
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assessment of our current skill sets and
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where we are so that we can build and
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get better and strengthen and achieve
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more of our goals explore our diverse
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learning styles everybody's got a
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different one whether that's audible
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audible learning style visual learning
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style writing it down Audible and visual
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learning it as well as writing it down
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podcast um conferences audio books
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digital books workshops digital
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checklists accountability Partners you
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name it pro practice makes
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progress right if practice makes perfect
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practice makes progress and Perfection
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is not something that we ever really to
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change it's is never really something
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we obtain thank you oh that word that
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took me a moment sorry about that uh but
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practice makes progress right we don't
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just consume the knowledge we actively
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apply it to our lives our business
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businesses our experiences and our
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spaces in our world and if we look for
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those opportunities where we can
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experiment and implement the things that
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we've learned we get to play in that
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sandbox right that's the Ascend Hub the
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sandbox of learning where we provide a
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supportive valuable space to test out
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these ideas and receive really
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incredible feedback I mean come on you
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know there you know when you you're
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going to launch a a product and you need
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to get a focus group you need to test it
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on a particular area of people a
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demographic if you will that's in the
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asend hub guys and you don't have to go
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pay for that you don't have to go out
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there and Market that to other people
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you just come in here and you just share
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that idea with the rest of us you put it
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up and Pitch it and then you get that
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instant feedback from all of us to help
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you have a better launch and have a
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better have a better product idea um I
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think that's just powerfully incredibly
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cool so the
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benefits of continuous learning enhanced
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skill sets and expertise right we always
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have to learn more and build our toolbox
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up right we always have to have a better
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finer refined tool and mindset for
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growth and I think that that continuous
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curiosity and learning it's constantly
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staying involved and in in in in in
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inside and into the learning process
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right it keeps you flexible and excited
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and and and and thinking right
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developing being developing not only
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Cutting Edge skill sets but you position
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yourself for better success in the long
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run out as a result through also
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Innovation and problem solving
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techniques U everything you learn in
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there becomes a new skill everything you
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learn in there becomes a new technique
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everything you learn in there can be
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applied to your business model to your
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team to help them with their challenges
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to approach those challenges with new
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Innovative perspectives fresh ideas
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right to come up with new Solutions and
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unlock all of the potential
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possibilities for your business to
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succeed As you move forward so
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continuous learning goes Way Beyond um
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individual Entre rurs because as a group
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the ascent Hub as a community we Empower
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one another to cultivate a thriving
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learning culture that is our team our
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team is the ascent Hub and our fellow
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members right we value diverse uh
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knowledge sources we we value learning
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opportunities for all and that is what
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we do that is our membership Community
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to one another we value diverse
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knowledge sources and learning
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opportunities for all so remember
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lifelong
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curiosity is a fuel source for
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transformative entrepreneurship
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experiences and the asent Hub will be
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the engine an engine if you will
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providing all of these types of
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resources community and support to help
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you learn and adapt and thrive in an
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Ever evolving landscape um I'm excited
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to be a part of it I think it's going to
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be amazing the the discounts are huge
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right now we're doing a big 75% off uh
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annual and monthly promotion which ends
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very quickly there's only a few seats of
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those available too so make sure you
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grab yours today and the launch is
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August 19th right so you know this is a
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transformative journey and we're going
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to do it together in the ascent Hub
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Fearless thinking Fearless Road all that
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making fear your friend we're going to
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do it we're going to have fun and we're
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going to be incredible together it's me
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to the power of we hashtag that make
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sure you put those hashtags in the
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comment section hash curiosity to
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leadership I mean curiosity to launch #
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curiosity to launch and # mean to the
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power we or #the Ascend Hub and let me
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know where you are on your journey let
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me know what you need how curious are
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you and can you build curiosity what
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kind of things do you need to help you
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stay Innovative and stay on your Cutting
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Edge can we help you get there so thanks
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for listening to The Fearless Road
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podcast I'm your host once again Michael
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duu very excited about this summer and
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what's coming for the future for all of
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us so yeah give me some of your love
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likes subscribes reviews click all those
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whatever wherever they are you know do
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them do those
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things and go have an incredible weekend
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it's Friday wo I love it I'm making
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spaghetti homemade spaghetti my family
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loves my spaghetti cuz I I spend three
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hours making
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it all right love to everybody out there
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go be incredible be amazing think
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fearlessly and have an incredible
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weekend all right bye
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