On Finding and Living from Purpose

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Elise Cortes, joining you now.
Live from Dallas, Texas, which

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is home base for me. This
program is all about helping people more meaningfully

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and productively connect with their work and
equipping leaders to cultivate meaning and purpose in

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the workplace to elicit passion inspired contribution, innovation, and persevering performance. So

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I seek out and bring on guests
of a particular perspective, experience, or

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expertise that I think contributes to or
expands this conversation. And as a management

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consultant and social scientist, I draw
on the meeting and work and identity research

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I've been doing over the last fifteen
years, as well as from my own

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experience consulting, speaking and developing workforces
across the Globe. I hope you caught

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the show with us. Last week
we were on the air with Rebecca Bales.

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She is a global partner with Lumina
Learning, a talent development organization with

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leading ed solutions and people development through
personal, leadership, organizational and sales assessments

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and programs. As I am a
certified Lumina practitioner, and I use these

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assessments myself and my leadership development and
coaching work. Rebecca and I shared several

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examples of how we each use the
assessments in our work to bring together and

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catalyze team performance. I appreciate diversity
and strength and communication and relationships as well

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as developing leaders' careers. Fun just
talking with another colleague about the work that

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we get to do together. With
us this week is Sean Anderson, who

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is a motivational author, unlimited thinker, and lifetime entrepreneur with the history of

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inspiring others. He's a six time
author with the latest book. That's not

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the latest book, This is one
coming out as well, but one of

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his latest books is called Amicus one
oh one, a story about the pursuit

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of purpose and overcoming life's chaos.
Is also the Human Spark plug behind the

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extra mile day, the day recognizing
the power we have to create positive change

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when we go the extra mile.
We'll be talking today about how we each

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came upon our own purpose in life
and work. You joined us today from

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Marina del Rey, California, Sean, Welcome back to working on purpose.

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Perfect to be here at least today. How are you? I'm great,

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I'm with you. How bad could
it be? Excellent? You know,

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I have to first tell our listeners
a little submitted about how we met.

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So some time ago, maybe I
think about a year and a half ago

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now is when we actually cross paths
when I first had you on the show,

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and I absolutely fell in love with
your message and your energy and your

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vision and your franklier just willingness to
always want to lift other people up.

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Not willingness. I think it's that's
your purpose and I just have never been

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able to let that go. And
so I reached out to you a few

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months after that first show and I
said, you know, I think you

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can help me get further along in
my life if you would maybe consider being

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my coach. Do you remember that
I do? And that has been now

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almost a year ago, and you've
been with me on my journey and it

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has been even more splendid and divine
because of it. So let's start with

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a big, fat thank you.
Well, how was life going for you

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these days? It's fantastic And I
want to talk a little bit more about

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that, about the whole purpose here, journey, the journey purpose itself.

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But before we get into that,
if we can, I want to share

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something splendid about you with our listeners
that will kind of help give us a

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context about why purpose can be such
a great way to go about living a

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life and working. And that is
you just came back from walking through Italy

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north to south. Yeah, right, or maybe south to north. People

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asked me, was it was it
east to west or was it north to

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south? Which way was it?
But would you share a little bit about

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why you do that? And I
know you've done this five or six times

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now. Yes, Actually this is
the I had walked from Milan to Rome

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north to south, and this is
actually the sixth country I've now walked across

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in the last four years. And
the reason that I do it at least

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one, I have a tremendous passion
for international travel. Two, I love

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the day to day spontaneity of just
meeting and seeing things that are so unpredictable.

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And three, I do it as
major league acts sharpening tools for myself.

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You know, we go through life
and life starts to wear us down.

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We start to lose our sharpness,
We lose our sharpness and passion,

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We lose our sharpness in purpose.
So when you go walk carrying a twenty

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five plus pound backpack on your back
every day, not knowing how far you

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can go or where you're going to
end up, you regain your passion for

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life and your purpose for living it
at your highest levels. I am so

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glad we started with that. Wow
okay so, and I also know that

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every time you do that, Sean, you get to a new level for

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yourself. Yes, or at least
I get myself back to my best level.

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You know. I we live either
our best version of ourself or our

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second best version, and God help
us all if we ever fall down to

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our third best version of ourself.
But you know, it's just doing the

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right things that get us back to
being our best, being, our best

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in purpose and passion and health and
life and relationships and dreams and goals and

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careers, all of that and so
you know that's what I go do.

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I just I just I just go
and re light myself on fire about why

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I'm here, how lucky I'm be
here, and what do I want to

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do next. So the reason I
wanted to have you back on the show

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again to talk about this, Sean, is that I meet all the time,

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and I know you do too.
Unfortunately, people who literally are wandering

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like a zombie Monday through Friday,
waiting for the weekend to begin so they

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can actually live, and they're squandering
their precious lives. And so of course

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a big reason that I do the
work that I do is because I want

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to wake up those souls to the
beauty of their own lives and certainly the

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venture that the work can actually be
for them. And I was fortunate because

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I had parents who were entrepreneurs.
There are first farmers, and there were

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restaurant tours, and they taught me
a really strong work ethic that became really

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just a way of living. It's
not something I have to do, that

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was the start of it, right, It's something I get to do.

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And I think that when we can
awaken people to how amazing and beautiful their

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overall lives can be and get them
into their purpose. Everybody wins, right,

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They win because they're much much more
fulfilled. They bring that home to

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their families, so their families win
and they're empowered. Their communities win because

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they cascade and want to do something
back. Their organization certainly win, and

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I think you can make an argument
for the cascading out into the communities into

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their state across the nation. Everybody
wins when we're working from purpose and really

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living our best lives. Absolutely.
You know, when we walk into the

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world and we're happy, it's hard
not to share happy everywhere we go.

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When we walk into the world with
purpose, it's hard not to share purpose

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with everywhere we go. When we
walk into the world with passion, it's

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hard not for people to catch it
and say, I just want a little

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bit more of what she's got.
And you know, it's up to us.

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It's up to us to really create
that in ourselves. And when we

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start to let ourselves get too dull, when we work in jobs that we

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don't like, when we are in
relationships that are unedifying, when we're not

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as healthy as we could be and
we're carrying that extra weight that we don't

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want to carry all of that is
taking us away from being our best self.

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And every time that we take an
inch away from being our best self,

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we take an inch away from sharing
our best self with the world.

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I couldn't agree more absolutely, we
were totally in lockstep on that. And

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another reason again that I wanted to
have you on the show is people ask

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me all the time, and now
I've been incorporating into my own leadership programs

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about how can they find and discover
their own purpose, And so that'd be

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kind of fun for us to share
a bit about how we got to our

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own and say a little bit about
what that takes along the way. And

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the first thing that I want to
say about that is that for me and

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I do I think the experience is
different for a lot of different people.

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There's different ways to get into to
find your purpose, to discover it.

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But those whispers from the universe that
you keep ignoring, I think for me,

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those were some of the things that
I finally kept paying attention to and

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kept steering the divining rod in the
right direction. And I do consider it

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for me, Sean, it's been
like an unfolding, and it unfolds more

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and more, and I get bigger
and stronger as I continue into my path

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of purpose. But it's kind of
been like I feel like pulling the layers

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away of protection from that purpose that
maybe was there for the longest time,

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but I kind of stuffed it down
or didn't recognize it that's what it was,

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and didn't treat it with respect that
it deserved. What about you?

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What was what was some of your
path? You know, I've I've been

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really blessed to be living my purpose
for a while and I just really identified

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what it was that turned me on
what my juice in life was. And

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my purpose is even in a statement, to empower one million people, power

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one million people to lead a more
passionate, positive, and purposeful existence.

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So everything that I do, all
my big decisions are made looking back at

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that purpose. All my little decisions
are made at looking at my purpose.

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If I choose whether or not to
move forward with the project or not,

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I just simply I just simply weigh
it against my purpose. How does this

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meet that purpose to empower one million
people to lead a more passionate, positive

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and purposeful existence. And how long
has that been with you? On that

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understanding that that was your purpose?
When did that happen for you? It

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actually became a written purpose. It's
been a written purpose now for over twenty

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years. And you know the words
might have been tweaked here or there,

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but you know, I think to
lead a powerful life, you have to

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know what a powerful life is for
you. To lead a passionate life,

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you have to know what a passionate
life means to you. To lead a

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purposeful life, you have to know
what those mean. You know, if

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you go in and you speak to
one hundred people in a room and you

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say how many of you want to
be happy in life? Almost one hundred

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of them are going to raise their
hand. But then we ask what it

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is that makes you happy and being
able to define that specifically what makes you

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happy? That's the big question.
And so when you find what makes you

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happy, it's also going to be
tied somewhat to what your purpose is as

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well. Mm hmmm mmmmm yeah.
And when I look at that space,

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I go into the meaning and fulfillment
space. And that's really kind of if

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I look back on my journey,
so much of it was into the inquiry

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of meaning and then absolutely identity too. For me, that's that's been a

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lifelong fascination. And so some of
the research that I've done around this to

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make sure that I'm as as on
top of this game as I can be

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is looking at some of those things
that delighted us when we were young.

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So you had that, it sounds
like, and those things that give us

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a mini year fascination and meaning and
purpose and identity. Was that for me,

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and I not let it go,
and I don't imagine I'm going to

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let it go. It's just going
to be something I continue to be in

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inquiry in, you know. For
me, I think it was really coming

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to the realization that life is really
hard, and life really can punch you

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in the gut, and there are
a thousand voices around you that keep telling

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you that you can't do it,
that you're you're not good enough, you're

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not fast enough, you're not attractive
enough, you don't have enough money,

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that you're not good enough for that
job, you're not going to get into

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that school. There's just so many
reasons for us not to pursue what it

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is that we want in life.
And I just chose at a young age,

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after realizing that all these voices are
coming at me. I chose to

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be the opposite voice for other people. I chose to be the one that

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said, you know what, if
that's what you want, let's build a

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plan and help you get there,
because you can do it. I always

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chose the one to believe in people, and so my purpose came just really

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started to be melted around the idea
of being the cheerleader, being the clapper,

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being the one that says, you
go a lease, you do it.

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Man. You know what's so funny
about that, John, is I've

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gone through my own exercises to really
start to trace where this began. And

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I too, have always been a
cheerleader. And here's what's really fascinating about

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that. I can tell you unequivocally
that when I was in high school,

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and no offense to the people out
there in the crowd who have been cheerleaders,

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but that was the last thing I
wanted to do was be the person

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with pom poms going go Team Go. I just didn't that old images didn't

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work for me. But if I
look at my life, Sean, that's

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exactly what I've been doing my whole
entire life was telling people, oh,

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you can do this, even when
I'm doing a race. We've talked about

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this, and I passed somebody in
a race, I give them encouragement because

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I don't want them to feel bad
because they got passed, right, I

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want them to feel great about what
they're doing in their effort. And so

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we have that in common. Yeah, you know, it's so many times

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that we walk through the day and
just life can get hard, and we

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can get discouraged, and we can
get frustrated, and we can start to

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lose faith in ourselves and on our
dreams and our goal And I just wish

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that everybody had one big item on
their goal list every day, and that's

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to encourage one other person, because
I think if everybody just encouraged one other

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person every day, I believe that
so many more people would truly find they're

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happy. I completely believe that,
and I try to walk that talk,

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and in many ways I can't help
but walk that talk because it just kind

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of governs me. But really quick, I'll share with you that back in

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two thousand and two, when I
first moved to Dallas with my then husband,

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he was doing his first half iron
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father, who's a doctor, to
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whole tiering committee and such. And
we meete him swear that he couldn't ask

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his son, you know, are
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the race in the car and we
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every few miles so I could jump
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yell out the window over his shoulder
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I am so glad. I am
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see you are. You know.
But he even just use those words,

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I'm not called to do that,
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really interesting because I feel that I
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really help other people be their best
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start to live the message outwardly,
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so for people who feel like they
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be able to share that kind of
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say, just push yourself just a
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little bit and say say, you
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I mean, maybe you don't have
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you can do it with an email. You can do it with the text

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message. You can do it with
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wow. I'm just proud of you, because when you start to push yourself

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a little to be an courager,
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more encouraged for your own events,
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Mm hmm. I read somewhere and
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lines that where where do we where
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when we're working with someone or interacting
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that when there may be vulnerable and
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Or is it when you know we're
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really saw that the power of being
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your hand and reach over and pull
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meaningful, at least for me.
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that. It's about the pulling up, It's about the realizing of potential,

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It's about the becoming your best that
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believe that, you know, I
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is going to become a difference making
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dollars in the bank, but by
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people's lives. You know, that's
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That's what's going to make a difference. That's what's going to make a

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human being better, a family better, an organization better, a community better,

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the world better. It's just me
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that they haven't heard. Maybe it
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ago. So it's me watering that
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resonate and say, oh, yeah, I remember that. Yes I want

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to do that. But it's becoming
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water that is going to at the
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way way bigger than trying to see
how many things you can get in life.

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Just see what kind of cars you
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and how much money you have.
Those are all empty. When you

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have a chance to really change the
world I completely concur and what a beautiful

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way to take us into our first
break Sean host Elise Cortes. We're on

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the air with Sean Anderson, who
is a human spark plug behind the Extra

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Mile Day and the author of Amicus
one oh one, a story about the

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pursuit of purpose and overcoming life's chaos. He joined today from Rina del Rey,

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California. We've been talking a bit
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our own purpose. After the break, greenishire each a little bit about really

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the journey of our purpose and the
specific elements that got us to where we

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are today. Stay with us,
We'll be right back. Alis Cortes is

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

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leadership and engagement workshops and can bring
her expertise to your organization. She will

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

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retention. To learn more or to
invite Elise to speak to your organization,

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please visit her at www dot Elisecortes
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to help get your employees working on
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Elise Cortes. To reach our program
today, send an email to a lease

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Alise at Aliscortes dot com. Now
back to working on purpose if you're just

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joining us. My guest is motivational
author, unlimited thinker, and lifetime entrepreneur

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Sean Anderson. He's a six time
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his books called Amicus one oh one, a story about the pursuit of purpose

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and overcoming life's chaos. He is
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Day, a day of recognizing the
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we go the extra mile. I'm
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the Breakshan, we were talking a
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that go into or have gone into
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living it and working it. And
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share a little bit with our listeners
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that you know the trucks along the
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gain sure, let's go, Okay, So I'm going to sketch here.

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I did a little bit. I've
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myself and I do I do have
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workshops. I want to sketch a
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for people to start from the present
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you go back to when you were
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five, that seems overwhelmed, overwhelming
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with what is it that I love? And I do happen to know my

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purpose And I'm so grateful that I
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of time and effort working at it. And I'll peel that back for us.

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and of course that cascades in the
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lives, as I said before,
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to activate and catalyze people across the
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potential, realize meaning and their own
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and bring their best along the way. And so that really happens as a

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management consultant in my leadership programs and
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do. And so that's present day. So if I peel that back,

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Sean and I start to look at
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It's amazing how you can kind of
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perfect sense. And listeners, I
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exercise for yourself because I think it
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to hear about what you come up
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I peel that back a little bit
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a year ago when you and I
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work at a firm, another management
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but it didn't allow me to really
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purpose and passion. And that's when
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and you really helped me. Thank
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turn my lens and go, well, hold on, Cortes. You know,

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aren't you looking to create an overall
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this work. Aren't you looking to
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life that you love? You remember
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so that was a big catalyst for
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want to really recognize the power of
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has been all the difference for me. So that really got me thinking about,

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well we hold on here? Am
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after and really really putting and working
to develop my message? I mean I

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was looking at franchise opportunity Sean,
remember, and all kinds of things like

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why would I spend money on somebody
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own concept and I would just to
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led me down to the path,
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separate from this and let's just start
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had been on my own for twelve
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really started to develop that whole where
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and identity and purpose. And so
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I guess eight months now, developing
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for organizations and also a twelve month
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came about. I would have never
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in my purpose Sean, right,
that would have never happened. I would

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not have had the space to do
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if I go back from that,
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doing leadership development work for the previous
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really important to be able to see
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personal space and watch them grow before
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biggest, greatest privilege that anybody could
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from there, I mean I then
I did my PhD. I got in

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my PhD program in like nineteen ninety
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know what that was. It was
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was my midlife crisis. By the
way, get a new car, didn't

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buy a new house. I didn't
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PhD, and it was a crisis
of meaning. I wanted so much more

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in my life. And so what
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PhD in human development, so that's
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actually began my research around modes of
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people were connecting with their work.
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back. I actually fell into the
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and I'm like, oh my gosh, so again all the little pieces are

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finding into place, and I'm just
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to see where that win in the
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John, when I lived in Brazil
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my masters, I came across Field
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got my PhD. And I said, someday I'm going to go there.

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peel that back even further, I
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that I got to do when I
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just blew my mind wide open and
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growth and energy and effort and coming
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and French and Italian and living in
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that whole thing about human growth.
What can humans actually do when they lean

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into this and take a chance and
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then finally I'll say, you know, then I go back to high school.

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that I was going to study psychology, and I didn't do it. Took

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me a little while to do it. I took me actually getting to Portland

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and taking a job as an admitsisative
assistant, and eighteen months in getting fired

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by that man. Remember that.
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and he didn't say you got to
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with yourself, see the world and
get an education, that would that's,

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you know, the ongoing spark if
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if I put that all together,
it makes the most sense. But I

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can say, and you know this, Sean, I have never been more

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convicted in my whole entire life of
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important. And it does make me
feel vulnerable, of course, right I

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put myself out there, But I
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life of what I'm doing and why
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every day to get to do this
work. Well, you're really you're really

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lucky to to not only be able
to trace your journey and to be aware

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of all the transitions that you've gone
through to get you where you are.

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But it's it's it's amazing that you're
happy with where you are, that all

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of the decisions that have been made
have brought you to this place now,

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this place now where you feel as
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most powerful at least Cortes, that
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will tell you what's fascinating about the
whole journey is it shows up in an

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impact. Right. You talked about
making a difference in a million lives,

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and I can tell you that when
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speak, how people receive me is
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year before, the year before that. There's just so much more connection and

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they're going into action because of what
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I am standing in a stronger place
of purpose and what I talk about,

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right, because you've received yourself in
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we don't believe who we are what
we are, how can we ever project

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to someone else who we are and
what we are? Yeah, the authenticity

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that comes from living in your purpose. People talk a lot about authentic leadership,

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about living in the space, and
this is what I work on for the

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programs that I've developed, is really
letting getting people to a place where they

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discover their own purpose as we have, so that they can really live in

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that authentic space. Because when they
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think what happens is we become that
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about people opting into that. I
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it happen with other people as well. When they're really standing in their purpose,

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they're really inspiring, and that is
it's an incredibly effective way to lead

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in to live. There's a story
of an English pastor and he would have

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his sermons every Sunday outside and the
people every week kept on coming and coming

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and coming, and it was an
overpacked courtyard where he would speak. And

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someone asked him, pastor, why
is it that the crowd keeps getting bigger

412
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and bigger? And he said,
because when you set yourself on fire,

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the people will always come and watch. And I believe that when we live

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our lives with fire another word for
passion when we live our lives like that,

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people are going to be drawn.
Businesses are going to be drawn to

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wanting us to work with them.
People are going to be drawn to wanting

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to have a relationship with us.
And and and that's where it all begins,

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being able to set yourself on fire. And you know, and one

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thing I didn't really say enough and
what I just narrated for my own story,

420
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there's two other really important elements here
that I have to really surface for

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our listeners. And one is,
you know, I struggled with this.

422
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I mean, I had this inkling
that I was on the right path,

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but I didn't I didn't recognize it
as the right path at the time.

424
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I was just on it and it
was, you know, it was taking

425
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me. I just didn't understand that. And I struggled, Sean, with

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that. I wrestled with that.
I kept saying, I should know what

427
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I want to be, I should
know what I want to be, and

428
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I don't. And I just was
so you know, overtaken by that.

429
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And I met many people that tell
me the same thing, Sean. They're

430
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just so perplexed and upset and frustrated
that they don't know what their purpose is,

431
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and it's understandable. I felt that
before, and I know when I

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had Zach mccurio on the show,
he said that's how he got into the

433
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same space if working with purpose too, because he had been lost and wanted

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to find himself and that was mine
too, and then the other piece of

435
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it. And I just yesterday spoke
to a gentleman named Phil Sodok who's going

436
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to be in my show in a
couple of weeks, and I asked him

437
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about how it was that he really
found his purpose and he said, you

438
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know, at least for me,
it was that I had had various jobs

439
00:29:21.759 --> 00:29:23.759
and I just a lot of them
were just really pretty crappy, thank you

440
00:29:23.839 --> 00:29:27.200
very much, and I wasn't feeling
good about the world of work or myself.

441
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And I really just said, well, I can't find what I'm looking

442
00:29:30.599 --> 00:29:34.119
for out there working for someone else, so I'm going to just go out

443
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and create it for myself. And
he said, you know, I didn't

444
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even have a product, I didn't
even have an offering. But it was

445
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a matter of creating the life that
I wanted to live and that the person

446
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that I could be proud of.
And that's also been part of my journey

447
00:29:48.640 --> 00:29:55.200
too well, and a challenge,
I challenge everyone to think on a little

448
00:29:55.200 --> 00:30:00.920
bigger picture. Are we ever on
the wrong path? Because everything that we've

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gone through, every path that we've
stumbled across, has brought us to this

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point. And if you're satisfied in
your life at all, then all the

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little excursions that you went on that
didn't feel great, they were the right

452
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path for you to be on at
that moment. And for everybody right now

453
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who's maybe not as happy with her
life, it's because, man, you're

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still on the path you're supposed to
be on, because you're trying to find

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what it is that you really love
in life. We're all on this,

456
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we all have these journeys, and
I just I've always believed that that it's

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always just been my path. It's
just my path, and there might be

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parts of my path that I don't
like, parts of my path I do

459
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like, But all of the parts
of my path make me and have made

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me who I am, and I'm
grateful for all the parts. I completely

461
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concur with that. In fact,
a couple of pieces in there that you

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surface that I do want to address
for our listeners, especially when you talked

463
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about maybe, you know, is
it maybe could you be on the right

464
00:31:00.279 --> 00:31:03.359
path the whole time? I can
look at it back on you and the

465
00:31:03.640 --> 00:31:06.920
work that I've done in various parts
of my career that you know, we're

466
00:31:06.960 --> 00:31:10.359
not very meaningful. I didn't like
them, but they were still I think,

467
00:31:10.400 --> 00:31:12.240
part of my right path because they
really helped me clarify what it was

468
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I didn't want. Absolutely, I
call that the anti role model, right,

469
00:31:18.319 --> 00:31:22.279
So thank you for showing me what
I don't want. And absolutely,

470
00:31:22.319 --> 00:31:26.599
and frankly you know for me now
that I get to create my own life

471
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where i'm you know, I'm a
single person and I get to do and

472
00:31:30.960 --> 00:31:33.240
be anything that I want to be, I'm so grateful for that. And

473
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does that mean I that my years
of being married were not on my path?

474
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Absolutely not. But they allowed me
to develop the person that I became,

475
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and then when I left that part
of my life to come into a

476
00:31:47.359 --> 00:31:52.400
whole new space where I could create
something totally new and fresh that I couldn't

477
00:31:52.440 --> 00:31:56.759
probably have done when I was in
when I was married. You know,

478
00:31:56.839 --> 00:32:00.240
that's right. Being on the right
path doesn't mean we're always to experience victory,

479
00:32:00.920 --> 00:32:07.240
because that's just not life. Life
is life is winning, Life is

480
00:32:07.279 --> 00:32:10.039
losing, life is falling down,
life is getting up, Life is experiencing,

481
00:32:10.200 --> 00:32:15.119
experiencing tragedy, life is experiencing celebration, and and and every one,

482
00:32:15.279 --> 00:32:19.680
and just because we feel great about
our life right now, at this moment,

483
00:32:19.720 --> 00:32:22.880
at this hour, at this on
this day, it doesn't mean that

484
00:32:22.880 --> 00:32:27.160
that that everything is going to be
great because we're on this right path now.

485
00:32:27.480 --> 00:32:31.640
Again, I I just argue that
that our whole life is this path

486
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that we walk, and everything that
we've experienced makes this wiser, sharper,

487
00:32:37.480 --> 00:32:42.440
better able to handle whatever's gonna come
next. Because I can assure you that

488
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over the next three years, you're
going to experience some amazing victories. At

489
00:32:45.480 --> 00:32:49.880
least, you're gonna have some celebrations
and some crazy moments that are gonna go,

490
00:32:49.880 --> 00:32:52.039
oh my god, this is the
most amazing day of my life.

491
00:32:52.039 --> 00:32:55.839
This is my most amazing success.
On the other hand, there's gonna be

492
00:32:55.839 --> 00:32:59.920
some days that life is gonna punch
you in the stomach. You're gonna gough

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because that's just life, man,
that's life. And I think the more

494
00:33:05.039 --> 00:33:08.720
that we're aware, that we develop
an awareness that that that we have the

495
00:33:08.759 --> 00:33:15.200
ability to to think and process,
to and to feel, to understand,

496
00:33:15.319 --> 00:33:17.559
and to cause cause and effect on
our path as we walk through. That's

497
00:33:17.599 --> 00:33:22.039
when we can make our longer day, our better days longer, and our

498
00:33:23.160 --> 00:33:29.240
our less happy days shorter. Well. And the other thing that I'm very,

499
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very very convinced of, and you've
alluded to it as well, Sean,

500
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and that is the importance of navigating
and embracing adversity. In fact,

501
00:33:36.680 --> 00:33:38.599
I had somebody on my show a
few weeks ago, Steve Gapatorta, talking

502
00:33:38.599 --> 00:33:43.680
about this that you know, when
we embrace adversity, it helps us become

503
00:33:43.720 --> 00:33:47.000
the people we are meant to become, and frankly, probably can't become absent

504
00:33:47.079 --> 00:33:52.000
that adversity. And so to your
point, I don't think and we I

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00:33:52.000 --> 00:33:53.880
don't think it's it would be healthy
to always look to be happy. In

506
00:33:53.880 --> 00:33:59.480
fact, I think it's better to
look to always find meaning and fulfillment than

507
00:33:59.519 --> 00:34:02.880
it is to be happy. But
happiness is a nice side product that comes

508
00:34:02.960 --> 00:34:07.319
along the way when you're when you're
when you're living well. And I think

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00:34:07.359 --> 00:34:10.119
too, I really want to make
sure that our listeners here that you know

510
00:34:12.079 --> 00:34:16.679
it. Going after a life of
purpose and working with purpose is is is

511
00:34:17.119 --> 00:34:22.400
a is a hard journey. It's
well worth every single piece of effort.

512
00:34:22.920 --> 00:34:25.360
However, it is hard, and
you know the result the reward for that

513
00:34:25.519 --> 00:34:30.400
is the beautiful fruit that you get
for that hard work. But you know

514
00:34:30.519 --> 00:34:34.679
it's it does require you to step
into unknown territory a lot of times,

515
00:34:34.679 --> 00:34:37.440
and that's scary for a lot of
people. It has been for me.

516
00:34:37.519 --> 00:34:38.280
And now I've been doing more and
more of it, and you know,

517
00:34:38.360 --> 00:34:42.760
it gets easier every time you do
it. That's really important to say,

518
00:34:42.840 --> 00:34:45.320
and that there's something about it,
and I love the way you do these

519
00:34:45.639 --> 00:34:50.079
you know, when you walk across
the country, the fact that you live

520
00:34:50.199 --> 00:34:52.880
in such a spontaneous place shot,
I think that is so magical. I

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00:34:52.920 --> 00:34:57.639
actually didn't really understand that about how
you were doing those things before. I

522
00:34:57.639 --> 00:35:00.159
got it sort of from the background, but I didn't understand that was part

523
00:35:00.199 --> 00:35:04.000
of the key ingredient and the intentionality
piece of it. But something about you

524
00:35:04.000 --> 00:35:07.920
know, when we go out looking
for our purpose, we are stepping into

525
00:35:07.920 --> 00:35:09.960
the unknown A lot of the times. We don't know what's around the corner

526
00:35:09.960 --> 00:35:13.920
at how long we can walk that
day. And I think that was,

527
00:35:14.000 --> 00:35:16.159
boy, what a great way to
start the show talking about looking for and

528
00:35:16.199 --> 00:35:21.880
discovering our purpose. Well, really, every single day when we wake up,

529
00:35:21.920 --> 00:35:23.480
who really knows what's going to happen
every day. I mean, sure,

530
00:35:23.599 --> 00:35:28.000
you might have the same process as
getting you know, you get up,

531
00:35:28.079 --> 00:35:30.320
you go get your coffee, you
go brush your teeth, you get

532
00:35:30.360 --> 00:35:32.920
the kids off, you take the
dogs out. I mean the little steps

533
00:35:32.960 --> 00:35:37.519
that every single day begins. But
then all of a sudden things just happen

534
00:35:37.559 --> 00:35:40.119
as we go. And I think
when we embrace the spontaneity of life,

535
00:35:40.159 --> 00:35:43.880
when we go, wow, that
was an amazing day. Look at all

536
00:35:43.920 --> 00:35:46.480
the things that happened. That was
so cool. Because you can't be afraid

537
00:35:46.519 --> 00:35:51.320
of spontanady and you can't be afraid
of what's next, because if you're afraid

538
00:35:51.360 --> 00:35:53.159
of both of them, then your
life's going to be absolutely miserable because every

539
00:35:53.199 --> 00:35:58.159
single day, both of them are
going to come at you like a locomotive.

540
00:36:00.159 --> 00:36:02.679
Better just to jump on the train, right, Sean, Well,

541
00:36:02.880 --> 00:36:06.920
yeah, I mean really, there's
just things that happen. Man. You

542
00:36:06.960 --> 00:36:12.480
know what, I honestly will say
to myself as I wake up in the

543
00:36:12.519 --> 00:36:15.679
morning, Man, I wonder what's
gonna happen today? And I don't say

544
00:36:15.679 --> 00:36:19.960
it like, oh my god,
I wonder what's gonna happen today. I

545
00:36:19.960 --> 00:36:22.119
don't know. It's not like that
because if I if I go out looking

546
00:36:22.199 --> 00:36:24.920
for the grouse, so I'm gonna
find the gruesome, if I look for

547
00:36:24.920 --> 00:36:27.599
the bad, if I look for
the ugly, if I look for the

548
00:36:27.679 --> 00:36:30.280
dark, I guarantee you find fine. Fine. But if I go,

549
00:36:30.440 --> 00:36:35.519
man, what adventure's gonna happen today? What cool thing's gonna happen today?

550
00:36:36.199 --> 00:36:39.280
What miracle is gonna happen today?
I swear that every night I go to

551
00:36:39.320 --> 00:36:42.400
bed, I go, well,
that was a great adventure. WHOA,

552
00:36:42.800 --> 00:36:46.039
that was a cool miracle? Wow? Because we will find what we look

553
00:36:46.079 --> 00:36:52.519
for. So embrace the spontaneity,
embrace those spontaneous moments and realize that their

554
00:36:52.480 --> 00:36:57.440
chances are they gonna be good if
you look for them. M that's the

555
00:36:57.519 --> 00:37:00.119
framing and that I love to talk
about. Took hold that thought, Shawn,

556
00:37:00.199 --> 00:37:04.000
our last break. I'm your host, Elise Cortes. We on the

557
00:37:04.079 --> 00:37:07.599
YIR with Sean Anderson, who is
the human spark plug behind the Extra Mile

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00:37:07.679 --> 00:37:09.960
Day and the author of Amicus one
oh one, a story about the pursuit

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00:37:09.960 --> 00:37:14.679
of purpose and overcoming life's chaos.
He joined you today from Marina del Rey,

560
00:37:14.800 --> 00:37:27.760
California. Stay with us, We'll
be right back. Alis Cortes is

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

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00:37:32.239 --> 00:37:37.320
leadership and engagement workshops and can bring
her expertise to your organization. She will

563
00:37:37.320 --> 00:37:43.880
help ignite meaningful development within your workforce
that will increase employee engagement, performance and

564
00:37:44.039 --> 00:37:47.000
retention. To learn more or to
invite Elise to speak to your organization,

565
00:37:47.159 --> 00:37:53.039
please visit her at www dot Elisecortes
dot com. She would welcome the opportunity

566
00:37:53.079 --> 00:38:05.039
to help get your employees working on
purpose. This is working on Purpose with

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00:38:05.119 --> 00:38:08.719
Elise Cortes. To reach our program
today, send an email to a lease

568
00:38:09.079 --> 00:38:17.519
Alise at aliscortes dot com. Now
back to working on purpose. If you're

569
00:38:17.559 --> 00:38:22.119
just tuning in, my guest is
motivational author, unlimited thinker, and lifetime

570
00:38:22.199 --> 00:38:25.440
entrepreneur Sean Anderson. He's a six
time author, including the book called Amicus

571
00:38:25.480 --> 00:38:30.239
one oh one, a story about
the pursuit of purpose and overcoming life's chaos.

572
00:38:30.559 --> 00:38:34.079
He's also the human spark plug behind
the Extra Mile day a day,

573
00:38:34.159 --> 00:38:37.840
recognizing the power we have to create
positive change when we go the extra mile.

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00:38:37.199 --> 00:38:42.239
I'm your host, Alise Cortes,
so Sean in our last little bit

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00:38:42.239 --> 00:38:45.519
of time together here, it's amazing
how fast time evaporates when we talk about

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00:38:45.559 --> 00:38:50.039
passion and purpose. But I shared
in the last segment a little bit about

577
00:38:50.079 --> 00:38:55.159
some of the stops along the way
that piece together my path to purpose.

578
00:38:55.639 --> 00:39:00.719
I know yours is you found it. It was maybe it in a different

579
00:39:00.760 --> 00:39:02.519
way for you. Will you sketch
a little bit about how you came upon

580
00:39:02.559 --> 00:39:07.440
your purpose? You know, instead
of instead of talking about the stops,

581
00:39:07.639 --> 00:39:12.559
let me just go and talk about
one start. You want to know.

582
00:39:12.400 --> 00:39:15.599
You want to know the most profound, profound lesson and thought that ever changed

583
00:39:15.639 --> 00:39:25.519
my life. I do pink bubble
gum. Okay, do tell well,

584
00:39:25.960 --> 00:39:30.079
back in the olden days I had
when I was a little boy, I

585
00:39:30.119 --> 00:39:32.679
loved baseball cards. And inside you'd
open up these packs of baseball cards and

586
00:39:32.719 --> 00:39:37.880
there'd be these hard, pink sticks
of bubble gum. And so I want

587
00:39:37.920 --> 00:39:42.400
to I wanted these baseball cards so
badly, and I realized back then that

588
00:39:42.519 --> 00:39:45.800
you know, you just can't walk
into Uncle Happy's toy shop and grab as

589
00:39:45.840 --> 00:39:47.719
many baseball packs as you want,
but there was a process that you had

590
00:39:47.760 --> 00:39:51.320
to You had to pick them out, you had to walk to the cashier,

591
00:39:51.360 --> 00:39:53.280
you had to take something called money
out of your pocket and pay for

592
00:39:53.320 --> 00:39:57.480
the cards, and you could walk
out with however many packs you bought these

593
00:39:57.519 --> 00:40:00.679
packs with pink bubble gum. So
I said, well, you know what,

594
00:40:00.719 --> 00:40:02.039
if I love baseball cards, I've
got to find a way to be

595
00:40:02.119 --> 00:40:07.320
able to get those baseball cards.
And so that at that point I became

596
00:40:07.360 --> 00:40:10.320
an entrepreneur. And when one becomes
an entrepreneur, they really learned the basics

597
00:40:10.320 --> 00:40:15.840
that you've got the power to create
the results, to create the life that

598
00:40:15.920 --> 00:40:19.239
you want. So I started my
first business, and I was no more

599
00:40:19.280 --> 00:40:23.920
than maybe a ten year old boy
who again loved pink bubblegum, who decided

600
00:40:23.920 --> 00:40:29.760
that the way he could make money
was to drown his parents' backyard flood it

601
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in water. Because when the backyard
was flooded, the giant nightcrawler worms came

602
00:40:36.039 --> 00:40:38.840
to the top. And when I
picked up all those giant nightcrawler worms and

603
00:40:38.880 --> 00:40:43.280
I put him in big peat barrels. I then figured out that if I

604
00:40:43.360 --> 00:40:47.599
advertised in the Reno Evening Gazette,
newspaper on Saturdays and Sundays and sat in

605
00:40:47.679 --> 00:40:52.159
my front yard with my big peat
barrels with worms that the fishermen would come

606
00:40:52.719 --> 00:40:58.760
and they would get. They would
buy my worms by the dozens every Saturday

607
00:40:58.760 --> 00:41:02.599
and Sunday. Now I then got
money. I then took my money and

608
00:41:02.639 --> 00:41:08.039
I went and bought pink bubble Gum. That's how it started, because I

609
00:41:08.159 --> 00:41:14.039
just realized that life is cause and
effect. Now as I became older and

610
00:41:14.320 --> 00:41:17.719
the whole concept evolved more that life
has cause and effect in relationships, life

611
00:41:17.760 --> 00:41:22.920
has cause and effect in dreams and
goals and in health. I just understood

612
00:41:22.960 --> 00:41:28.639
that what I do is what I
will get. And so you know,

613
00:41:29.119 --> 00:41:34.400
everything else always came. It came
from pink bubble Gum. I love that

614
00:41:34.480 --> 00:41:37.800
story. I've never heard that before. I think that's just shall we say

615
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yummy. I just love it and
it reminds me. And this is something

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else I hope that our listeners are
getting from this exchanges. You know,

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what are they getting for themselves in
this conversation? So I can tell you

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that you now have sparked for me. I remember, and this goes to

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really my approach to leadership, and
it's been with me since and it's part

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of since I was young, and
it's part of you know, my purpose

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journey as well, and that is
that when I was about that age,

622
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we lived in this cul de sac
in a place called Hermiston, Oregon.

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That's where I grew up, small
northeastern town, and I had this thing

624
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where I've always had this thing about
gathering people together, bringing us together,

625
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and uniting us into some common cause
and scrapping it through kind of thing or

626
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just pulling it off, and you
know, casting a vision. So on

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either after school days or the weekends, I'd get this idea that I'd like,

628
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you wanted money for something, and
so I think, well, today's

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a gooday to wash cars or to
rick leaves. And so I'd go and

630
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knock on the doors and grab my
neighbors that other kids out of their their

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slumber or TV time, and say, come on, let's go. Don't

632
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you want to make some money so
you can buy whatever it is They loved,

633
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right, the baseball cards, et
cetera. And they would like okay.

634
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So a lot of times here we
are got to imagine the crowd,

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you know, the the gaggle of
kids. Most of us don't have shoes

636
00:42:58.320 --> 00:43:00.719
on, and I go knock on
the door and say, hey, you

637
00:43:00.719 --> 00:43:04.800
know, we'd like to wash your
car for whatever X amount of dollars.

638
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And almost every time they said yes, so we would we would wash the

639
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cars, or we would break the
leaves, and then I would pay the

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pay the help, and then they'd
send them, send them back on their

641
00:43:14.559 --> 00:43:17.519
way. But it's something very similar, Sean. But that whole thing for

642
00:43:17.599 --> 00:43:22.840
me, it's about bringing disparate groups
of people together, seeing how they can

643
00:43:22.880 --> 00:43:27.360
play in that space together, where
are they strong, where can they contribute,

644
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and doing something together that we could
never do individually. I love that.

645
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Yeah, that's that's absolutely right.
You know, we talk a lot

646
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and it almost becomes cliche when we
talk about creating one's own life, but

647
00:43:43.039 --> 00:43:46.360
that it is so real. Okay, it's it's it's it's it's so much

648
00:43:46.400 --> 00:43:52.599
more of a cliche to me and
to you when we understand that, you

649
00:43:52.679 --> 00:43:58.119
know, everything that we do is
going to have an effect. If if

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we go out for the next six
weeks, five days a week and we

651
00:44:01.199 --> 00:44:06.199
exercise, the chances are well,
the effect is that we're going to we're

652
00:44:06.239 --> 00:44:07.800
going to be more fit, we're
going to be more healthy, and we

653
00:44:07.960 --> 00:44:14.840
created that. If we go home
to our relationship tonight with no other reason

654
00:44:14.960 --> 00:44:16.400
but just to say, man,
thank you, you are so amazing,

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and we bring home some flowers,
the effect of that is probably going to

656
00:44:21.920 --> 00:44:24.519
be a big giant smile and a
thank you so much and you're pretty awesome.

657
00:44:25.039 --> 00:44:30.119
We created that. When we go
to our boss and we say,

658
00:44:30.159 --> 00:44:34.719
you know what, I'm grateful for
being here and I want to know what

659
00:44:34.880 --> 00:44:39.599
more can I do to add to
our mission? What you've done is you've

660
00:44:39.679 --> 00:44:45.960
created a stronger bond with your boss
and you've helped make that company stronger again.

661
00:44:46.039 --> 00:44:52.079
We always will. We have this
power to create what we want.

662
00:44:52.400 --> 00:44:55.920
Dreams are not They're not things that
are supposed to just be Oh, I

663
00:44:57.119 --> 00:45:02.400
wish this could happen. Dreams are
dreams. To me, are ideas and

664
00:45:02.519 --> 00:45:07.920
thoughts that I say that's what I
want, and then we figure out a

665
00:45:07.960 --> 00:45:12.440
plan to give them wings and legs
and we make the dreams become real.

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00:45:13.119 --> 00:45:17.039
It might have been baseball cards,
it might have been organizing people in our

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00:45:17.079 --> 00:45:22.239
neighborhood, but we all have that
power. Every single human being out there

668
00:45:22.679 --> 00:45:28.800
has that power. The question is
are you going to choose to use your

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power or are you going to choose
to lose your power? And when you

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00:45:34.400 --> 00:45:37.840
consider, and this is where I
really stand from my place of purposes,

671
00:45:37.880 --> 00:45:39.519
when you consider, as far as
we know, we only get one shot

672
00:45:39.559 --> 00:45:44.800
at this thing called life, and
we don't know when is our last day.

673
00:45:44.840 --> 00:45:45.880
In fact, in the near future, Sean, I'm going to have

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00:45:45.880 --> 00:45:50.400
a funeral director on the show and
we're going to talk about what do we

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00:45:50.440 --> 00:45:54.800
do between now and our undetermined expiration
date to really live our best life.

676
00:45:55.239 --> 00:45:59.960
She is uniquely qualified to answer that
question give us a perspective on it,

677
00:46:00.719 --> 00:46:02.320
right. And So that's a big
reason why I'm doing the work that I'm

678
00:46:02.360 --> 00:46:06.880
doing, is because I want to
awaken those people who are walking through life

679
00:46:06.960 --> 00:46:09.519
dead to the magic and possibility of
what their life and their work can be

680
00:46:09.599 --> 00:46:15.559
for them. Well, I you
know, maybe I've shared this with you

681
00:46:15.679 --> 00:46:17.960
before, maybe I haven't, But
every single time I go on one of

682
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these great adventures across the country,
or anytime I travel to another country,

683
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or even the very first time that
I peddle the bike across the United States,

684
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one of the things that I always
do is I seek out the small

685
00:46:30.239 --> 00:46:34.119
cemetery. So, for example,
I'm walking across Italy and as you're coming

686
00:46:34.159 --> 00:46:37.480
through a small town, I see
the small cemetery and maybe maybe it's been

687
00:46:37.559 --> 00:46:43.039
unkept, maybe there's weeds growing out
of the rocks that surround the fence,

688
00:46:43.119 --> 00:46:47.199
whatever. But I put my backpack
down and I solemnly walk into it and

689
00:46:47.239 --> 00:46:52.960
I read the headstones. And when
I was in Italy, I was blessed

690
00:46:52.960 --> 00:46:55.000
because in Italy, when they in
the cemeteries, not only are there the

691
00:46:55.119 --> 00:46:58.760
names of the people and when they
live, but there's also a picture of

692
00:46:58.800 --> 00:47:01.400
what that person look like. And
as I'm looking, and I'm going,

693
00:47:01.400 --> 00:47:06.840
man, that was a real person. She was really here. Look at

694
00:47:06.880 --> 00:47:08.760
her smile. God, I wonder
what she was celebrating on that day.

695
00:47:09.320 --> 00:47:15.320
She looks really happy there. She's
not here anymore. Wow. To me,

696
00:47:15.480 --> 00:47:21.119
what it brings back is the fact
that all of us are on an

697
00:47:21.199 --> 00:47:24.599
egg timer and the sand is running
through. That's just life. None of

698
00:47:24.719 --> 00:47:28.679
us have the ability to stop that
egg timer, none of us have the

699
00:47:28.679 --> 00:47:31.480
ability to ever stop where the stand
from eventually running out. And I think

700
00:47:31.480 --> 00:47:36.079
that it's a powerful thought, and
for me, it's a life changing thought

701
00:47:36.079 --> 00:47:39.519
to know that, And that's why
I keep repeating this to remember that my

702
00:47:39.679 --> 00:47:44.920
time is now, My time is
now to dream, my time is now

703
00:47:45.000 --> 00:47:47.840
to do great things. My time
is now because someday it's not going to

704
00:47:47.840 --> 00:47:53.199
be my time again. And that's
the urgency that I want to be able

705
00:47:53.239 --> 00:47:57.639
to get in, to get across
for myself and for my listeners, because

706
00:47:57.639 --> 00:48:00.079
you're right, we don't have forever, and every single day and moment is

707
00:48:00.159 --> 00:48:07.039
precious to run after our purpose.
Yeah, it's uh, And it's amazing

708
00:48:07.079 --> 00:48:12.000
how fast time, how life goes, you know, all of us,

709
00:48:12.039 --> 00:48:16.519
everybody here, you, me,
the listeners. We can think back on

710
00:48:16.639 --> 00:48:21.840
just moments in the past, they
just they don't seem like they were that

711
00:48:21.920 --> 00:48:24.559
long ago. But yet five years
past, ten years past, twenty years

712
00:48:24.559 --> 00:48:29.719
past, thirty years past. And
sometimes we might even look in the mirror,

713
00:48:29.760 --> 00:48:30.159
for many of us and we go, oh my god, what's my

714
00:48:30.199 --> 00:48:35.199
parent doing staring back at me?
Or what's whatever? Because life just goes

715
00:48:35.239 --> 00:48:37.159
so fast, and it seems like
the older you get, the faster it

716
00:48:37.280 --> 00:48:42.039
goes. And so it's with that
sort of intention all the time that we

717
00:48:42.119 --> 00:48:46.800
can't leave dreams and conversations on the
table. We can't say I'm going to

718
00:48:46.880 --> 00:48:50.280
do this tomorrow I'm gonna do this
next year. I'm going to plan this

719
00:48:50.360 --> 00:48:53.760
later because now is your time,
man, this is your time. And

720
00:48:53.800 --> 00:48:57.920
when you realize that it's your time, that should take all the fear out

721
00:48:57.960 --> 00:49:00.880
of doing everything, because sometimes some
days it's not going to even matter.

722
00:49:00.199 --> 00:49:04.119
So go do it now. Quit
being afraid, Get on the ship,

723
00:49:04.440 --> 00:49:07.360
take the cruise, make the phone
call of the relationship that you've wanted to

724
00:49:07.360 --> 00:49:14.519
talk to in twenty years that you
haven't. Just live now while you still

725
00:49:14.719 --> 00:49:20.760
have this beautiful, amazing opportunity to
live m HM. And that is the

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00:49:20.800 --> 00:49:23.480
way we will finish the show.
Sean Anderson, Holy goodness, gracious,

727
00:49:23.480 --> 00:49:28.079
thank you so very much for coming
back and sharing your beautiful soul with us

728
00:49:28.119 --> 00:49:30.960
and your purpose with us. It's
been an honor and a privilege. Thank

729
00:49:30.000 --> 00:49:34.039
you. It's always my blessing to
be with you at least. Thank you

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00:49:34.079 --> 00:49:37.760
so much. If you want to
learn more about Sean Anderson, any of

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00:49:37.840 --> 00:49:39.719
his books is Extra Mile Work,
or have him come speak to you and

732
00:49:39.760 --> 00:49:45.519
your audience, visit his website.
It's Sean Anderson dot com, that's shaw

733
00:49:45.760 --> 00:49:51.800
N Anderson dot com. Join us
next week when we talk with doctor Lance

734
00:49:51.880 --> 00:49:54.840
Sacraton of the Segraton Center, and
he is the author of the Bellweather Effect.

735
00:49:55.119 --> 00:49:58.840
We'll be talking about a few of
the eight points he writes about in

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00:49:58.880 --> 00:50:02.280
his book that companies that are stations
are firmly entrenched in practice but are completely

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00:50:02.320 --> 00:50:07.559
delivering the opposite of the promised value
result that they want. See you there,

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00:50:07.599 --> 00:50:09.199
and remember that work is at least
one thirt our lives. So let's

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work on purpose. Well, we
hope you've enjoyed this week's program. Be

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00:50:15.360 --> 00:50:20.440
sure to tune in to Working on
Purpose featuring your host Alis Cortes, each

741
00:50:20.480 --> 00:50:24.719
week on the Voice America Empowerment Channel. This week, find your life's purpose

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00:50:25.239 --> 00:50:25.800
at work.