🎙️41. Fearless Thinking Podcast - Resilience in the Face of Fire

In this raw and personal episode, host Michael Devous shares his recent experience with wildfires that forced his family's evacuation and threatened his home and studio. He opens up about the emotional and psychological toll of facing potential loss, the challenges of maintaining resilience during a crisis, and the unexpected ways in which his passion and purpose shifted. Michael reflects on the importance of community, the power of vulnerability, and the opportunity to rebuild stronger than before. He also discusses the upcoming Ascend Hub, a platform designed to foster resilience and support for entrepreneurs facing challenges.

Key Highlights:

• Personal Story of Crisis: Michael shares his experience with wildfires and the emotional impact it had on him and his family.
• The Challenges of Resilience: He discusses the struggles of maintaining resilience during a crisis, even with years of personal development and preparation.
• The Importance of Community: Michael emphasizes the value of community support and connection in times of adversity.
• The Ascend Hub: He introduces the Ascend Hub as a resource for entrepreneurs to build resilience and find support during difficult times.
• Lessons Learned: Michael reflects on the lessons he learned from the experience, including the importance of vulnerability, passion, and purpose.

Impactful Quotes:

• "Resilience isn't about being perfect and never faltering, it's about having the courage and acknowledging that you have struggles, but then seeking the strength and support you need and the determination to arise from the ashes stronger than before."
• "Nothing builds resilience like you've gone through it yourself."
• "We can talk about business getting hit with business problems... but if someone out there gets hit by a fire... we should be there for them."
• "Embrace your own vulnerability and let our passion guide us and move us forward."

Key Takeaways:

• Resilience is not about being perfect, but about learning from challenges and bouncing back stronger.
• Community support is essential in navigating difficult times.
• Vulnerability can be a source of strength and connection.
• Passion and purpose can help us find meaning and perseverance during a crisis.
• The Ascend Hub is a valuable resource for building resilience and community among entrepreneurs.

https://theascendhub.com/
Current Promotion: https://r1.theascendhub.com/

Transcript

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Hey there everybody.

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And welcome to Fearless Thinking, a 
 podcast designed to help you navigate

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authentic leadership and the 
 entrepreneurial journey.

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I'm your host, Michael Devous

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And these are my thoughts, lessons and 
 insights from my entrepreneurial

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journey into coaching workshops, 
 motivational speaking.

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And of course, what I picked up from 
 interviews with inspiring leaders and

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entrepreneurs along the way.

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My mission is to help people unlock 
 their untapped potential by using fear

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as a catalyst for powerful change

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and growth,

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so they can step into the greatest 
 version of their most authentic selves.

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All right, let's get into some  Fearless Thinking

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Thank you.

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Hey fearless thinkers,

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I'm back.

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Is it the Fearless Thinking podcast?

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I'm your host, Michael Devous

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Wooh, what a few

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weeks

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I have had.

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You might have seen a couple of posts, 
 and then I failed to post some more.

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And I've got, I do have

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some

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recordings that

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I need to put up and I need to post.

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So let me

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let me get into this.

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Obviously, you know that I speak about.

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Fearless Thinking is about how to 
 utilize our understanding of our fears,

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as well as thinking fearlessly

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throughout our entrepreneurial journey,

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whether you're an aspiring entrepreneur 
 mentor or leader, or there's someone

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with some experience, but you're facing 
 some obstacles

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currently with regards to a new 
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promotion, whatever,

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and

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fear how it plays a role in building 
 us, how it plays a role in shaping us.

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I, I love talking about it.

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I love exploring it.

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And boy, howdee, have I had a new

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opportunity to explore fear

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from a very different

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perspective.

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So if you're not familiar, my family, 
 well, welcome back to grilly spot

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podcast.

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This week we are exploring fear from a 
 different perspective.

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This week I'm going to spin.

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I'm try, I just try one week to spend 
 one week

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going over

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catastrophe,

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disaster

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real life

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incidences

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where you could be faced with these 
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launch your business,

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cause that's what's happening to me.

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this, yes, this is personal, I 
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guys, because, gosh, I was torn in so 
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One was that I felt horribly bad about 
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my

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recordings in my episodes during this 
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with.

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And then it occurred to me that my own 
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training, that I fell

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to my weaknesses and not my strengths.

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And my weaknesses were that I wasn't 
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The other side of it is integrity.

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Because I should be consistent, I 
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be completing these things,

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I should be delivering them for you, 
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So I failed where that was concerned.

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The other is

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that I didn't want to exploit

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experience.

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I didn't want to use it to

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promote.

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And what's weird about that is like, 
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This is what we talk about.

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We talk about these fears.

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We have to share these things.

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I felt very torn about

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sharing it at all,

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as I needed to share it, wanting and 
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some extra attention.

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I don't know. Set something on fire, see what 
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And I really was torn.

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I felt a lot of different things

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about it.

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So my family and I were evacuated

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from our home.

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If you're not familiar.

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My dad has a Ranch in New Mexico, and 
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I live with them I've been helping them 
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which I've actually come to enjoy.

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with the internet, it's remarkable that 
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internet and be able to do this

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and do my business.

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just so what happens,

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fires, forest fires, like real.

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that we saw the fire start.

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With all the smoke we saw, we could 
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way.

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We were right in the line of fire.

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As they say,

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no, I guess I can't understand that.

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And the winds were blowing in our 
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Arline got evacuated.

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This happened within three days

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from, like, oh, lightning has struck

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there's

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ten acres on fire, to

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it's time to pack,

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you know, start all the sprinkler 
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Whatever we can do, we've got to go.

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It's now at 6000

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acres

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our direction.

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this was, it was a very anxiety

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inducing experience,

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and a test of my own resilience.

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in fact, I went to go see a doctor, my 
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on board.

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I had a nervous breakdown in the midst 
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buried a very dear friend of mine, and did  
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He was like a brother to my family.

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We've known him for him for over thirty 
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that coupled with this being displaced

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from my family and

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from our home,

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and I had, I just, you know, I broke

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you know,

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psychologically,

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had a bit of a breakdown, and it was

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tough.

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I thought, you know, it's weird about 
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I thought that my work is something I 
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moving through.

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And what have you?

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So, interesting, how that did not 
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Gosh, you know, I'm passionate about 
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me

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for a loop.

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And, you know, I've always preached 
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say preach. I speak about, and I try to 
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but facing the potential loss of 
 everything that I own, you know,

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this studio that I have built, all the 
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all of that

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created a challenge for me that I 
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I felt that I should.

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And this is what my sisters says "don't should 
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should have been handling it better.

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After all, I have spent many years

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building what I think are strong habits 
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And but the reality, you know, is that 
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done, getting back on track through 
 this crisis was really tough, has been

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really tough.

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It's interesting, because in my 50s, 
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if I get hit with a bad sickness, if I 
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friend, it was something or other.

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I used to bounce back in three to five 
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No ash.

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I had a rule.

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I gave myself three days.

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I always gave myself three days.

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You have three days to boohoo, cry your 
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whatever you need to do, you got three 
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Lock it down, go do that, come back 
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And I think for the most part, that's 
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I think I have friends who would argue 
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who tell me, I don't

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allow myself the time

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to to deal with things.

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I dont know...

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And I'm sleep deprived.

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Apologize, um.

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I.

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would imagine

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I don't know, what do you think?

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Let me know. Three days is not enough 
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Now, what I'm discovering

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is that, physically

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when I come back from one of these 
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four weeks

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to get back up to speed.

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It's like, my engine is big and old, 
 you know, like Thomas the Train. Like

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mine one of them big ol engines trying 
 to get up that hill.

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And I got to get back up to speed.

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And I just it's so hard, the struggle's 
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I even I've hesitated to share these 
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I'll do it here, which I don't mind.

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This part, our dialogue and our 
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I feel ok about social media creeps me 
 out in a bit of way, simply because I

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just don't want to be exploited, 
 exploitative with the experience.

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And I'm not, you know, because there's 
 one thing to share with people that I

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know, it's one thing to share it with

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my listeners, but to be putting it out 
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schmaltzy

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but

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I realize that our struggles, my 
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ones, can be

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a teaching lesson

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for all of us.

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So I'm sharing with you right now, what 
 I'm going through I want to share with

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you what I'm feeling when I'm thinking, 
 what I'm trying to do to get through

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this, and where I'm going to be going 
 with this, as I move forward

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to explore this a little bit further.

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Now, the fire

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has caused me to pause and reflect and 
 have some new perspectives

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that I want to explore, highlighting 
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need for purpose

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and the power of

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passion

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that just keeps us going in a world 
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and that's important.

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Because, you know, the thing that 
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when it was my family that was 
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you know, and my business.

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I mean, yeah, I believe in this, and I 
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this.

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I am launching the Ascend Hub that's 
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it

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really sort of like, you know, when you 
 have your fire bag, your escape bag, or

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whatever, you know, the essentials.

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Ihad to go look around, and

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be like, what's

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the, like, what's the minimum I need to 
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you know,

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and part of me going, well, fuck it all, 
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I mean, so it's such a weird in the 
 middle of trying to get my family

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situated, trying to run fire hoses and 
 water hoses out everywhere, trying to like,

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ah, it was

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literally behind this mountain and

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whatever.

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You can't see it, but, you know, you 
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and,

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you know, this puts the idea of 
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I'm, I consider myself to be a very 
 resilient individual.

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I've bounced back from so many 
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and i'll bounce back from this.

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I will learn, and actually I'm going to 
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I'm all take this.

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I'm going to

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use this

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to teach myself, as well as share with 
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my

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perspectives on this, and what I think 
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And maybe I can be stronger and better, 
 and that can help other people as well.

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And please share with me in your 
 experiences, if

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you have them,

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a resiliency, which isn't necessarily 
 about being perfect and never faltering,

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because resiliency is built into the 
 word, is about having the courage and the

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acknowledging that you have struggles, 
 but then seeking the strength and

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support you need

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and

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look and the determination

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to rise

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from the ashes.

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There's a fire thing

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Stronger than before.

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Resilience is about layers of 
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you know, layers and layers and layers 
 of experiences that begin to give you

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multiple tools, multiple perspectives, 
 multiple observations, multiple

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levels of

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understanding yourself from an 
 emotional and psychographic, psychological

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standpoint, so that you can make 
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when getting

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hit with life, things that happen.

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that actually was one of the reasons I 
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provide a place of building resiliency,

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a community of support

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for individuals that are on their 
 journey and on their entrepreneurial road,

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they're fearless road, trying to 
 navigate it and getting hit with all

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kinds of things.

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And this is one of those, like, you 
 know, we can talk about business,

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getting hit with business problems, 
 tech problems,

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solution, what do you name it?

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But if someone out there gets

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hit by a fire, one of our members

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gets hit by a fire, an earthquake,

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hurricane, a tornado, one of those, 
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that's not covered by insurance.

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We should be there for them.

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We should be there for each other.

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I want to be able to be there for you,

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to make sure that there's some place, 
 some communities of resources, people

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that you can turn to, in the midst of 
 this to help you bounce back and be

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more resilient

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quickly.

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And a community of entrepreneurs, like 
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inspiring entrepreneurs, leaders and 
 mentors, who can help bring that

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support, those resources and 
 inspiration to navigate these

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challenges as they come up, turning

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adversity

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into a fuel for our growth.

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Well, that's a place where I think we 
 can all learn to connect,

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grow and ascend together.

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Pardon

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my puns, I know, I'm tired.

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So whether you're facing your own 
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or a business setback, simply feeling 
 overwhelmed, even

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by life's demands that's every day, for 
 us

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that's, all the time, we are always up 
 to here, like, just right above the

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flotation line.

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Don't fill, to don't fill above the 
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Is what I think of, I should have a 
 little t shirt that says, I keep

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talking about, "I Digress"

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I need a t shirt that says,

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"Do Not Overfill"

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And just this has a line across there 
 that says: :Don't Overfill"

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Because, you know, we can get isolated 
 on our own thoughts and feel very

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compartmentalized

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and feel very overwhelmed by all those 
 things we've tackled and that we're

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putting on ourselves, we're putting 
 ourselves on that road of those

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challenges as entrepreneurs.

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And this is just what we do.

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We actually crave this.

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So it's on us, but we don't have to do 
 it, on reaching out to a community to Embrace

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our own vulnerability and let our 
 passion guide us and move us forward.

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As well as communicate with others and 
 share these experiences,

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whether it's a fire taking

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your home, or whether it's a fire 
 taking your job, or whether it's

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not a literal fire.

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But ah,

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I can't even think of the word, fake 
 fire?

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saying, I'm so sorry.

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Virtual

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fire affecting our business decisions 
 on our entrepreneurial journey.

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Now

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there are ways for us

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to share our experiences

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and help each other build resiliency.

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You know, nothing builds resiliency 
 like you've gone through it yourself,

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you know?

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And I'm saying, you can always say, 
 "it's really, really hot, don'tput your hand

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on there", and I'm going to put my hand 
 on it.

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When I was a kid, you could tell me all 
 you want. You could get blue in the

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face.

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My mom would always say, " I could tell 
 you till I'm blue in the face and

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you're still going to do it."

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And I'm like yep,

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I'm still going to do it, because 
 that's me.

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I have to walk through the fire.

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I have to know I completed the task, 
 that I did it.

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Now, as I've gotten older, I will say 
 today, I can learn from other people.

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I can

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take on their experiential knowledge

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without having to do

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all of the things,

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some of the things I still feel like I 
 got to, you know, some of it.

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I still feel like

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I have to have my hands on it.

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And I'm sure that's a type of character 
 trait

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that is just very specific to certain 
 types of people.

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So,

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you know,

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thank you for listening.

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Thank you for your patients.

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For those of you who reached out during 
 this time.

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I really, really appreciate you

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sharing your Loving thoughts and your 
 words, and your kind prayers and all

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that stuff.

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For me and my family, we are back.

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I'm in the studio,

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trying to get things under

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backup and running.

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Lots of dust and smoke

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powder, dust,

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ash

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stuff is still in here, and I've got to 
 clean this out.

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However, this week we will be exploring

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personal integrity.

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We will be exploring

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to integrity and trust

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personal reflective reflections on

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the promise is made.

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That we make to ourselves

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Doing hard things.

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like we can do hard things, and then, 
 of course, mastering our inner fire,

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the emotional resilience from the face, 
 in the face of a crisis.

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We're going to look at a couple of 
 these things during this week, and I

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want to explore them.

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Hopefully you won't get tired of 
 listening to me talk about

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it.

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It's only going to be one week.

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There will be additional video footage 
 and things like that from my post,

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a little,

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you know,

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weak, I don't know, not weak, I don't 
 want to judge myself,

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it's just not normally me.

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But you're going to see it.

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I'm gonna share it. That's what I've got to 
 do.

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So, have a fantastic day.

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Thank you so much for your

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Time and patience, this is coming out.

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It's going to be late

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because it's already Monday,

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apologize, but I will get this out.

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And, yeah, i'll be sharing this with 
 you guys.

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Ok, so, thank you so much.

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Fearless Thinking podcast, have an 
 incredible day.

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Incredible week.

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Love on your loved ones, love your 
 homes.

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Get that insurance,

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if you can,

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get everything covered,

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keep your head down and keep your chin

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up.

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And yeah, do some fearless thinking.

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And I will talk to you guys

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tomorrow.

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Ok.

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Bye

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Thank you.