WEBVTT 1 00:00:03.399 --> 00:00:08.160 Deborah, with her thirty years of being an entrepreneur and creating over seven companies, 2 00:00:08.359 --> 00:00:12.119 knows exactly what it means to accept the mission. When you make that 3 00:00:12.199 --> 00:00:16.320 decision, when you accept the mission to become a solopreneur, to take yourself 4 00:00:16.359 --> 00:00:20.239 and your talents to market, then you embrace a life of not only unlimited 5 00:00:20.280 --> 00:00:25.280 possibilities, but also the unknown. It's an elixir of fear and bravery that 6 00:00:25.359 --> 00:00:30.440 only someone who's taken the leap really understands. On our show, deb digs 7 00:00:30.519 --> 00:00:34.399 deep with her guests to highlight what you the listener wants to know, the 8 00:00:34.520 --> 00:00:39.359 stories, the wise and the hows to navigate the journey to success. Get 9 00:00:39.359 --> 00:00:43.640 ready to hear from some of the most incredible mission takers from Generation Z to 10 00:00:43.799 --> 00:00:47.479 boomers. So sit up, perk up, and get ready to be blown 11 00:00:47.479 --> 00:00:51.560 away. Now Here is your host, Deborah Drummond. All Right, you 12 00:00:51.600 --> 00:00:58.000 guys, you know it's coming welcome here today. And if you're like, 13 00:00:58.119 --> 00:01:03.240 hey, you Fubby, knowing my guest and Blair, maybe you're gonna cry 14 00:01:03.240 --> 00:01:06.719 a little bit, but you're going to definitely be inspired. And excuse my 15 00:01:06.799 --> 00:01:11.959 voice. We've been doing these incredible, incredible, incredible Summits, and I've 16 00:01:11.959 --> 00:01:15.519 been talking to a lot of cool, funky, resilient women. And you 17 00:01:15.560 --> 00:01:19.840 know what, you guys know that you're the best podcasts guests and hosts and 18 00:01:19.959 --> 00:01:26.200 listeners ever. I know that because you tell me. You call me and 19 00:01:26.239 --> 00:01:29.000 tell me I loved it. It was Sue. Sue called me a couple 20 00:01:29.000 --> 00:01:30.120 of weeks. She goes, I just want to tell you you have the 21 00:01:30.159 --> 00:01:34.000 best podcast. I'm like, thank you, she goes, I listened to 22 00:01:34.120 --> 00:01:37.319 every day while I'm doing my yoga, and I'm like, good to know, 23 00:01:37.719 --> 00:01:40.760 good to know. But anyways, I love it. But you know 24 00:01:40.799 --> 00:01:47.599 what, you guys also are you are the most resilient podcast guests and hosts 25 00:01:47.719 --> 00:01:51.560 and listeners. And that is absolutely the word that I'm going to use to 26 00:01:51.599 --> 00:01:56.200 describe Blair today. Look at you don't take on the mission and stay on 27 00:01:56.239 --> 00:01:59.719 the mission with a little something, like a little something, you know, 28 00:01:59.799 --> 00:02:01.079 like guitar hits the road at some point, then you're like, oh my 29 00:02:01.120 --> 00:02:05.120 gosh, I gotta go listen to that podcast because there's a bunch of crazies 30 00:02:05.159 --> 00:02:08.360 just like me that we're talking about the story. So look at Blair is 31 00:02:08.400 --> 00:02:12.759 so cool. We're so happy to have her time today. I mean she's 32 00:02:12.800 --> 00:02:16.319 got TV stuff going on. She's been like New York Times Square, her 33 00:02:16.360 --> 00:02:21.319 book's been up on the screen. I mean she's doing She's going to be 34 00:02:21.360 --> 00:02:25.039 speaking at the show up Stand Up and Speak Up Summit and she and if 35 00:02:25.080 --> 00:02:30.080 I remember correctly, her title is going to be something like stop playing the 36 00:02:30.120 --> 00:02:34.599 slot machine, you know slot, stop playing the social media slot machine. 37 00:02:34.800 --> 00:02:38.800 So that's gonna be fun. You haven't, you know, thought about it 38 00:02:38.800 --> 00:02:42.360 by now. Blair's pretty adventurous. So Darling, thank you so much for 39 00:02:42.439 --> 00:02:46.000 coming on to the show. Ian Do share do do do? Share your 40 00:02:46.039 --> 00:02:49.879 story a little bit with us, because resilience is the name of your game. 41 00:02:50.319 --> 00:02:52.680 Yeah, thank you so much for having me. This is so fun, 42 00:02:52.800 --> 00:02:55.639 especially because you and I go way back to where it all started. 43 00:02:55.800 --> 00:03:00.240 Actually, it isn't that funny. I mean, you guys, just so 44 00:03:00.360 --> 00:03:04.919 you knew you may i'd ever hear me talk about my a Roma therapy company. 45 00:03:04.960 --> 00:03:08.639 I owned two home party companies for seventeen years and started the first a 46 00:03:08.719 --> 00:03:13.199 Roman Therapy home party company thirty years ago. When people were like a Roma, 47 00:03:13.240 --> 00:03:16.039 what what did it smell like? And when me and Blair got introduced, 48 00:03:16.479 --> 00:03:19.639 someone introduced me to her. She's like, you should talk to Blair 49 00:03:19.680 --> 00:03:22.120 but being in the book, and I'm like, I know her, but 50 00:03:22.599 --> 00:03:24.360 I know. I was like, I know her from my recent experiences. 51 00:03:24.360 --> 00:03:28.639 Then she reminded me, how many years ago did you come to my house? 52 00:03:29.199 --> 00:03:32.560 Yeah, so I'll slide it into the story, deb Yeah. Yeah, 53 00:03:32.639 --> 00:03:36.439 so there's like two parts. Well, there's many parts. There's thirty 54 00:03:36.479 --> 00:03:39.080 eight years worth of story here. A bit of a trigger, sorry, 55 00:03:39.080 --> 00:03:43.759 a content warning. I talk about some heavy stuff, addiction, death, 56 00:03:44.879 --> 00:03:47.319 everything in between. If you feel like it's hard, pause this, walk 57 00:03:47.360 --> 00:03:50.840 away, do what you need to do. If you need support, reach 58 00:03:50.879 --> 00:03:53.800 out to me and I'll help you find the support you need in the area 59 00:03:53.879 --> 00:03:57.159 you live. So I just want to put that out there. I'm not 60 00:03:57.199 --> 00:04:01.680 a professional therapist. I'm a professional human who's gone through hard stuff. I'm 61 00:04:01.680 --> 00:04:04.159 going to give you the high level because we don't have endless hours. But 62 00:04:04.479 --> 00:04:09.280 I'm the daughter of a man who lived with addiction and a child of divorce. 63 00:04:10.599 --> 00:04:13.879 My father was in and out of my life, broke my heart. 64 00:04:14.240 --> 00:04:17.279 I didn't understand. I thought he stopped loving me. This is like the 65 00:04:17.360 --> 00:04:21.600 really high Cole's Notes version, literally high, no pun intended. There and 66 00:04:21.639 --> 00:04:26.600 then in my twenties, like so, I had a lot of anger and 67 00:04:26.759 --> 00:04:30.720 rage and you know, depression, anxiety, didn't respect myself, low self 68 00:04:30.839 --> 00:04:35.360 esteem. In my twenties, I was given the tools from Landmark Forum to 69 00:04:36.120 --> 00:04:40.680 forgive my dad. I didn't know I was going to do that. Something 70 00:04:40.720 --> 00:04:44.920 just clicked and I decided to accept my dad for who he was and we 71 00:04:45.319 --> 00:04:49.160 had a beautiful conversation and our new relationship started. And that was in my 72 00:04:49.199 --> 00:04:54.639 early twenties, and so we got to know each other. He came to 73 00:04:54.720 --> 00:04:58.120 visit me in BC, all the way from Winnipeg, multiple times, he 74 00:04:58.199 --> 00:05:00.399 got to walk me down the aisle. But at the end of two and 75 00:05:00.600 --> 00:05:08.240 eighteen, we learned he was terminally ill. He had COPD and lung cancer, 76 00:05:08.519 --> 00:05:11.560 and I felt like my world was just completely rocked. I started sharing 77 00:05:11.560 --> 00:05:15.000 our story of his addiction, my forgiveness, our resilience, and it was 78 00:05:15.040 --> 00:05:19.360 helping people. It was inspiring people to fix relationships, get therapy, seek 79 00:05:19.480 --> 00:05:25.800 sobriety or harm reduction. And so we decided that it would be great to 80 00:05:26.319 --> 00:05:30.079 gather stories of resilience from around the world and put them in a book and 81 00:05:30.160 --> 00:05:32.519 book end it with my dad's story. And my story so that when he's 82 00:05:32.560 --> 00:05:36.800 no longer here, we have a piece that's a legacy piece to help people 83 00:05:38.319 --> 00:05:43.199 still like you know, for eternity, and that four years ago started a 84 00:05:43.319 --> 00:05:47.600 March twenty nineteen. Unfortunately, from starting that project until now, my life 85 00:05:47.600 --> 00:05:51.600 got really hard. I had to learn how to flex my resilience muscle. 86 00:05:51.680 --> 00:05:56.959 We all have one. And like my grandfather, who was like my father, 87 00:05:57.040 --> 00:06:00.600 passed away. On the way home from his funeral, my husband and 88 00:06:00.639 --> 00:06:03.480 I got in a car accident and I got a concussion. A few months 89 00:06:03.519 --> 00:06:08.120 later, my husband almost died. He had a heart attack and quadruple bypass 90 00:06:08.160 --> 00:06:14.399 surgery a few months later was COVID. We struggled this whole time with fertility 91 00:06:14.399 --> 00:06:18.120 and was told I probably couldn't get pregnant naturally. Unfortunately, well, fortunately 92 00:06:18.160 --> 00:06:21.720 I got pregnant naturally about a year after the heart attack. Unfortunately, we 93 00:06:21.839 --> 00:06:27.800 miscarried. Was very devastating. Three weeks after the miscarriage, my father in 94 00:06:27.879 --> 00:06:31.279 law suddenly died after a three week battle with cancer. Three months later, 95 00:06:31.360 --> 00:06:35.000 my mother suddenly died after a three month a three week battle with cancer. 96 00:06:35.600 --> 00:06:39.040 And then not even a year later, in the same year as my mom 97 00:06:39.079 --> 00:06:44.600 passing my dad passed, I had a choice. I could give up or 98 00:06:44.639 --> 00:06:48.240 I couldn't push through and bounce forward and keep going. And that's what I've 99 00:06:48.279 --> 00:06:51.560 done. And over the four years, while navigating all of this and running 100 00:06:51.600 --> 00:06:55.959 my business, which is how I'm at Devin, I'll talk about that in 101 00:06:55.959 --> 00:07:00.360 a second, I built a community called the Global Resilience Project, and it's 102 00:07:00.360 --> 00:07:03.199 a safe space for people to share stories of resilience. And we do it 103 00:07:03.199 --> 00:07:08.279 through a podcast called Radical Resilience and our books, the Global Resilience Projects, 104 00:07:08.319 --> 00:07:14.079 social media online, and I'm an international motivational speaker, and I've decided that 105 00:07:14.160 --> 00:07:17.000 my life's work is to turn my pain into purpose. We don't have children, 106 00:07:17.079 --> 00:07:20.399 and I went through all of this for you know, not for a 107 00:07:20.439 --> 00:07:24.480 reason. These are just the cards I'm dealt. But I'm taking what I've 108 00:07:24.560 --> 00:07:29.759 learned to help empower people to share their stories. So that's the Global Resilience 109 00:07:29.759 --> 00:07:31.160 Project, and I think I was able to grow it the way I have 110 00:07:31.399 --> 00:07:36.600 is because my backgrounds in public relations and social media and how I met deb 111 00:07:36.720 --> 00:07:41.839 which is like the parallel is. At twenty three, I left my job 112 00:07:41.879 --> 00:07:46.680 at Lululemon Athletica and started a PR company and simultaneously accidentally started a coup on 113 00:07:46.720 --> 00:07:50.600 company because I wanted free yoga and I couldn't figure it out, and so 114 00:07:50.639 --> 00:07:54.800 I started a coup on book and it was called Living Free Vancouver, and 115 00:07:54.839 --> 00:07:58.000 then it evolved to be online, and then it was across Canada, and 116 00:07:58.000 --> 00:08:00.879 like, don't start a coupon company, just pay for yoga. That's the 117 00:08:00.959 --> 00:08:03.839 lesson there. But I was somehow connected. I think I met you at 118 00:08:03.839 --> 00:08:07.120 a b and I or I met you at an event, or someone introduced 119 00:08:07.160 --> 00:08:11.120 me and I showed up to your house on the bus to talk to you 120 00:08:11.120 --> 00:08:13.879 about having coupons in my book, and maybe you did. I don't even 121 00:08:13.920 --> 00:08:16.839 know, because there's it's been a lifetime. That was about fifteen years ago. 122 00:08:16.959 --> 00:08:22.600 So I'm also the CEO and president of Blair Kaplan Communications. I specialize 123 00:08:22.639 --> 00:08:28.680 in social media strategization, strategy implementation, social media education, and helping you 124 00:08:28.720 --> 00:08:33.320 become a thought leader. So that's a high level of who I am. 125 00:08:33.799 --> 00:08:37.919 That is the high level. But I mean, there's so much to unpack 126 00:08:37.960 --> 00:08:41.320 there, but not because you're so good at communication that you can follow that 127 00:08:41.399 --> 00:08:48.679 story and I absolutely see where you are today, right And so okay, 128 00:08:48.039 --> 00:08:54.639 So clearly it's not about are you resilient. You are resilient, and who 129 00:08:54.639 --> 00:08:58.960 would have known? Who would have known? So you like when you say 130 00:08:58.960 --> 00:09:05.399 you talk about your app your pain turned into purpose. So before the book, 131 00:09:05.480 --> 00:09:07.919 before you know, before all these things that came into play, Um, 132 00:09:09.080 --> 00:09:11.919 what was your like did you did you take care of yourself well? 133 00:09:11.960 --> 00:09:15.879 Were you a self care person? Were you always a self care person? 134 00:09:15.879 --> 00:09:18.320 I mean what I hear through there is you've created this incredible self care community 135 00:09:18.399 --> 00:09:24.799 for people since you've had to become resilient. But before that, that was 136 00:09:24.799 --> 00:09:28.399 that on your radar. Yeah. I've always been someone who like balanced a 137 00:09:28.440 --> 00:09:33.360 fine line of like loving to party but also going to yoga, you know, 138 00:09:33.480 --> 00:09:37.720 like hiking and being in nature. So I've always been physically active in 139 00:09:37.759 --> 00:09:43.279 some capacity. But when I learned my father, who lived with addiction, 140 00:09:43.440 --> 00:09:46.639 was going to die, I understand I just decided that I couldn't navigate his 141 00:09:46.759 --> 00:09:52.360 end of life with anything that was going to like increase my anxiety or depression, 142 00:09:52.399 --> 00:09:56.080 and alcohol was that and alcohol was also a bridge to bad decisions. 143 00:09:56.600 --> 00:10:00.759 So I decided, Okay, January first, I'll be so I didn't know 144 00:10:00.840 --> 00:10:03.159 for how long. I just that was the decision. And I woke up 145 00:10:03.200 --> 00:10:07.559 actually that day to an apology letter from my dad for being an addict and 146 00:10:07.639 --> 00:10:11.159 like screwing me up, like abandoning me. And it was a really beautiful 147 00:10:11.240 --> 00:10:15.960 letter. And I haven't had a drink since. So that was a proactive 148 00:10:16.000 --> 00:10:20.000 approach. But also a couple of things. One, I define resilience as 149 00:10:20.000 --> 00:10:24.639 the ability to bounce forward. And two I realized we all have a resilience 150 00:10:24.720 --> 00:10:28.679 muscle. It's like this invisible muscle that runs like head to toe, and 151 00:10:28.799 --> 00:10:31.879 so we are all resilient, and there's things you can do to make it 152 00:10:31.960 --> 00:10:37.039 stronger when especially when you're not in a challenge, so that when you're in 153 00:10:37.080 --> 00:10:39.120 a challenge, you can move through your challenge a bit faster or a bit 154 00:10:39.159 --> 00:10:46.799 easier. And so just doing things like there's things I was doing proactively that 155 00:10:46.919 --> 00:10:50.360 I didn't realize was preparing me for this dark night of the soul. Yeah. 156 00:10:50.679 --> 00:10:54.720 Yeah, it's a mix. So what do you suggest? I mean? 157 00:10:54.720 --> 00:10:58.039 There's I mean, we have people that listen to the show because they 158 00:10:58.080 --> 00:11:01.679 want to be entrepreneurs, they want to understand that looks like how you navigate. 159 00:11:01.039 --> 00:11:05.159 There's people that just come and get inspired because you know, honestly, 160 00:11:05.279 --> 00:11:07.320 is there a better show on inspiration and motivation? Like you can listen to 161 00:11:07.399 --> 00:11:11.799 a no offense Oprah Love you like love them all? You know, I 162 00:11:11.799 --> 00:11:16.399 listened to him in the morning. Thanks Bernie, Thanks that and they talk 163 00:11:16.440 --> 00:11:20.159 about it because they've had it. But I mean, the one thing that 164 00:11:20.240 --> 00:11:22.320 I love about entrepreneurs, entrepreneurs, whatever you are, you know, an 165 00:11:22.399 --> 00:11:26.000 entrepreneur, they can't say now, whatever you are is there there seems to 166 00:11:26.039 --> 00:11:31.240 be a bucket of resilience and then somehow they find another one and somehow, 167 00:11:31.559 --> 00:11:37.440 like you can push an entrepreneur pretty because they're so locked into their dream. 168 00:11:37.440 --> 00:11:41.120 How do you navigate that? Now? I mean, you've had a lot 169 00:11:41.159 --> 00:11:43.279 of and you've had to be resilient, but look at what you just described 170 00:11:43.440 --> 00:11:48.600 was beyond resilience. Yeah, So what do you do for your personhood and 171 00:11:48.639 --> 00:11:50.840 what do you do for then? What do you do for your company? 172 00:11:50.840 --> 00:11:54.159 And what do you do for you? Well? I had to learn to 173 00:11:54.879 --> 00:12:01.399 set boundaries when my mom passed away. I let a lot of things drop 174 00:12:01.440 --> 00:12:05.519 off and I was in survival mode. I did what I needed to do, 175 00:12:05.759 --> 00:12:09.399 and I was lucky because I had a bit of financial support through my 176 00:12:09.440 --> 00:12:13.039 mom passing that allowed me to I couldn't fully go on bereavement. I had 177 00:12:13.080 --> 00:12:18.039 to work, and the clients I kept on understood my deliverables took a bit 178 00:12:18.080 --> 00:12:22.960 longer, and I was very open. I don't hide my feelings. I'm 179 00:12:22.080 --> 00:12:24.840 very honest, and if someone wants to come into my world and there's something 180 00:12:24.879 --> 00:12:26.879 going on, I'll say, like, I'm going to do a great job, 181 00:12:26.919 --> 00:12:31.799 but it might take me this length of time. And I can only 182 00:12:31.799 --> 00:12:33.559 work with people who understand that, and I only want to work with people 183 00:12:33.559 --> 00:12:39.080 who understand that. But yeah, like being an entrepreneur, you don't get 184 00:12:39.080 --> 00:12:41.240 bereavement. And what I really learned was that I didn't really set up systems 185 00:12:41.240 --> 00:12:46.399 and processes that allowed me to pass things off, especially because people hire me 186 00:12:46.440 --> 00:12:50.600 for my ideas and that's not something I can farm out. But I can 187 00:12:50.639 --> 00:12:52.440 farm out the execute. I'm not farmed out, that's a bad term, 188 00:12:52.480 --> 00:12:58.120 but I can hire to execute the vision. And so what that really taught 189 00:12:58.120 --> 00:13:01.240 me was I don't need to do it all alone. And I've started bringing 190 00:13:01.279 --> 00:13:05.679 on more, you know, team members like an OBM, an online business 191 00:13:05.720 --> 00:13:09.519 manager, and a VA and I have a graphic designer. I'm leaning on 192 00:13:09.559 --> 00:13:13.519 a lot more. For I think like I can make website updates or I 193 00:13:13.519 --> 00:13:18.559 can delegate that, and so I'm really like loosening the reins. But also 194 00:13:18.720 --> 00:13:24.919 I've been doing social media and PR for fifteen years. I'm thinking about maybe 195 00:13:24.919 --> 00:13:30.960 I should retire and be a full time motivational speaker. And so I'm thirty 196 00:13:30.960 --> 00:13:35.120 eight, and so I'm I'm I'm not retiring anytime soon. Don't worry clients 197 00:13:35.120 --> 00:13:37.440 out there, and if you want to work with me, I have capacity 198 00:13:37.840 --> 00:13:41.279 to IMpower. But you know, I saw a whole lifetime ahead of me. 199 00:13:41.559 --> 00:13:46.879 So maybe in the next decade or like within the next decade, there's 200 00:13:46.879 --> 00:13:50.720 a big transition happening because I see myself standing on stages around the world, 201 00:13:50.840 --> 00:13:56.799 being flown around the world to empower people to strengthen their resilience muscle well, 202 00:13:56.799 --> 00:13:58.720 and I think that's the that's the beauty and the opportunity, and that's the 203 00:14:00.240 --> 00:14:01.519 and this. So I was just talking to I had this conversation with this 204 00:14:01.559 --> 00:14:05.600 really cool chick, you'll meet her. She's speaking and she's like, I'm 205 00:14:05.600 --> 00:14:07.879 a financial therapist. And I'm like, oh, that's a really interesting way 206 00:14:07.879 --> 00:14:09.759 to put it. And I go, tell me what you do, because 207 00:14:09.799 --> 00:14:13.440 you know, I'm vetting all these incredibles. The Incredibles was called the Incredibles 208 00:14:13.559 --> 00:14:16.519 for the Summits. And she's like, and so she's starting to talk, 209 00:14:16.519 --> 00:14:20.279 and she goes, you know, what I really do is I'm that person 210 00:14:20.279 --> 00:14:22.879 that people lean on when they have their tower moment. And she's continuing to 211 00:14:22.879 --> 00:14:24.879 talk and da da dad, and I'm like, oh, that's interesting. 212 00:14:26.200 --> 00:14:30.080 So she finishes talking and I go, you do tarot. She goes, 213 00:14:30.600 --> 00:14:33.200 I'm like, you said tower moment, and if you know anything about the 214 00:14:33.200 --> 00:14:37.679 tower or the tarot, it's when everything comes crushing out right. And so 215 00:14:37.720 --> 00:14:39.360 we just had that conversation and she's like, well, yeah, really, 216 00:14:39.399 --> 00:14:43.759 what I work with people is when they have that financial experience, like you 217 00:14:43.840 --> 00:14:48.360 had a different experience, right, it wasn't financial crash, but she you 218 00:14:48.360 --> 00:14:50.960 know, she says, when I work with people like that, I you 219 00:14:52.000 --> 00:14:54.639 know, we dig through that spiritual awakening together. And I was like, 220 00:14:54.720 --> 00:14:58.919 what an interesting perspective. It was just a really nice way to take off 221 00:14:58.919 --> 00:15:01.320 these glasses and put on different glasses to go and what is it? Because 222 00:15:01.320 --> 00:15:07.120 what you learned from your experience was your where some of the holes were or 223 00:15:07.159 --> 00:15:11.519 what you needed to patch or what you know, what letting go is. 224 00:15:11.559 --> 00:15:16.000 And I think there's a big one for entrepreneurs, particularly solopreneurs. Right when 225 00:15:16.000 --> 00:15:20.559 you're used to wearing so many hats, you don't necessarily see when you're in 226 00:15:20.639 --> 00:15:24.759 it, what could be going here, what could be going there? Because 227 00:15:24.759 --> 00:15:30.279 I think we're really locked into we got this, I got this, Like 228 00:15:30.480 --> 00:15:33.200 especially when you're in survival mode, which a lot of people are in their 229 00:15:33.240 --> 00:15:39.080 world of entrepreneurship because it's other financial survival. They don't see the duplication process 230 00:15:39.480 --> 00:15:43.279 and what you just finished talking about, how when you get to the other 231 00:15:43.320 --> 00:15:48.000 side, like where you are, that you can actually start to make plans 232 00:15:48.240 --> 00:15:52.639 three years, five years, five years and take those inches forward and right. 233 00:15:52.679 --> 00:15:58.840 Yeah, And I think also what really like social media is my expertise. 234 00:16:00.039 --> 00:16:02.639 Like I'm known as a pioneer in it. People call me all sorts 235 00:16:02.639 --> 00:16:04.360 of things like maybe and guru and I whatever. You can call me whatever 236 00:16:04.399 --> 00:16:07.639 you want, just don't call me after nine pm because I'm in bed. 237 00:16:08.080 --> 00:16:15.480 And what I really learned is because I always show up, especially Instagram, 238 00:16:15.519 --> 00:16:17.720 Like I show up and I let people in, Like I'm not posting a 239 00:16:17.759 --> 00:16:19.720 million times a day, but you know, I let people into what's going 240 00:16:19.720 --> 00:16:23.919 on the good and the bad, and you know what, that actually helped 241 00:16:23.919 --> 00:16:27.279 my business grow because people saw that I'm a real human then what goes on 242 00:16:27.320 --> 00:16:33.240 behind the scenes, and people were then welcomed into my world and it allowed 243 00:16:33.240 --> 00:16:37.399 that human to human connection because the problem with social media is entrepreneurs and businesses 244 00:16:37.440 --> 00:16:41.799 just show this polished image, but we want to know what's going on behind 245 00:16:41.840 --> 00:16:42.960 the scenes. Like let me into your life. I want to see all 246 00:16:42.960 --> 00:16:47.799 the hard work you're putting in to that polished image. And when you do 247 00:16:47.879 --> 00:16:52.039 that, people respect you more and you build that like known trust. And 248 00:16:52.320 --> 00:16:56.320 that was something that really like really switched for me because I was doing it 249 00:16:56.399 --> 00:17:00.279 anyways, but I was really able to like look at how my business was 250 00:17:00.320 --> 00:17:03.400 growing, and when my mum died, I had the most financially successful year 251 00:17:03.440 --> 00:17:07.319 in my business to date. And I was like, well, there's a 252 00:17:07.359 --> 00:17:15.039 correlation, like because I was doing less work charging my rates, but showing 253 00:17:15.119 --> 00:17:18.960 up, showing up fully And that's the thing is like people, and if 254 00:17:19.000 --> 00:17:22.480 you don't show up, you don't show up. But showing up is half 255 00:17:22.519 --> 00:17:26.319 the battle in anything you do, going to yoga, showing up and getting 256 00:17:26.359 --> 00:17:30.279 on your mat is half the work, right, Doing the yoga is the 257 00:17:30.319 --> 00:17:33.799 other half. So where are you showing up for yourself? Where are you 258 00:17:33.839 --> 00:17:36.680 showing up for your clients? And social media is a place to show up. 259 00:17:37.039 --> 00:17:40.440 And every time you show up, you're planting a seed, whether you 260 00:17:40.480 --> 00:17:42.880 tell a story, you like something, you engage, you follow. Do 261 00:17:42.960 --> 00:17:48.920 you want a flower pot or do you want a field? Right? Very 262 00:17:49.039 --> 00:17:52.720 good point. And I think that we're seeing a lot more people becoming transparent. 263 00:17:52.759 --> 00:17:56.759 We're seeing a lot of people becoming more authentic. It's interesting. It's 264 00:17:56.759 --> 00:18:02.359 that having to do it all to having to let people in. And that 265 00:18:02.480 --> 00:18:04.960 was clearly one of the things that you learned. So when you talk about 266 00:18:04.960 --> 00:18:11.799 doing motivational speaking, right, so cool, that is so cool. I 267 00:18:11.839 --> 00:18:14.400 mean it's just such an extension. And I think that's what happens. I 268 00:18:14.440 --> 00:18:18.480 mean, I'm listening listening to you talk, and that's what happened after you 269 00:18:18.559 --> 00:18:22.599 do what you do, like all of a sudden doors open that you didn't 270 00:18:22.599 --> 00:18:25.759 know. It's funny, like you can't forecast some of the stuff, right, 271 00:18:25.799 --> 00:18:29.119 You can't forecast. You start a social media company, you get into 272 00:18:29.160 --> 00:18:32.440 branding, you get into doing a book. Next thing. You know, 273 00:18:32.519 --> 00:18:36.279 people want to hear what you have to say, and sometimes you get these 274 00:18:36.400 --> 00:18:44.799 ideas or other other things step into your world. Right, So what is 275 00:18:44.839 --> 00:18:48.000 that like for you? Because you know there's there's there's two thoughts to it. 276 00:18:48.079 --> 00:18:49.519 Some people are like, you know, just stay on your path, 277 00:18:49.720 --> 00:18:52.759 do one thing, and or if you go over here, this is going 278 00:18:52.839 --> 00:18:56.720 to suffer. Like what do you think? I don't know. I mean, 279 00:18:56.799 --> 00:19:00.319 like I'm kind of a risk taker, you know, I learned that 280 00:19:00.359 --> 00:19:04.119 life is short. Three parents died in their sixties. I've always just done 281 00:19:04.160 --> 00:19:07.559 what I wanted and figured out how to make it happen, whether that means 282 00:19:07.599 --> 00:19:12.240 making five dollars stretch two weeks or like taking on too much work. Like 283 00:19:12.279 --> 00:19:19.240 I've always just followed my intuition and my gut and it's led me down some 284 00:19:19.319 --> 00:19:25.839 really interesting paths that we're not linear. But yeah, I don't know, 285 00:19:26.000 --> 00:19:33.240 I mean, can you reframe reframe the question? Yeah? Sure, It's 286 00:19:33.279 --> 00:19:37.920 like yeah, no, no, no, Because there's when you've built something 287 00:19:37.720 --> 00:19:42.200 and it's working and you're grooving yep, and at one point this is what 288 00:19:42.319 --> 00:19:47.559 you wanted and you're in it, and you're getting phone calls and you're on 289 00:19:47.720 --> 00:19:51.519 stages. Yeah, and you're on TV and your books there all of a 290 00:19:51.559 --> 00:19:56.559 sudden, oh maybe so maybe I'm gonna go off in this direction. Maybe 291 00:19:56.599 --> 00:19:59.880 I'm going to add this new division. Maybe I'm going to open up a 292 00:20:00.200 --> 00:20:03.240 country. And you're like, yeah, yeah, So I think like having 293 00:20:03.279 --> 00:20:07.440 a plan and a dream and everything is great, but you also have to 294 00:20:07.480 --> 00:20:10.160 be okay with like the plan to change. Like I did not think I 295 00:20:10.200 --> 00:20:15.079 was going to be a thirty seven year old, sober, childless, parentless 296 00:20:15.200 --> 00:20:19.720 birdwatcher living in Kamloops, But here I am, and so like also like 297 00:20:19.799 --> 00:20:23.400 growing up, I loved when I got chosen to speak at assemblies at school. 298 00:20:23.440 --> 00:20:26.839 I loved writing, and when I was picked to be published in the 299 00:20:26.920 --> 00:20:30.559 yearbook. In my diaries, I would write, well, I would be 300 00:20:30.599 --> 00:20:33.839 published one day, who knows. But I forgot about all those dreams. 301 00:20:33.559 --> 00:20:36.640 I just you know, life happened. And then I was like, I'm 302 00:20:36.640 --> 00:20:38.319 going to be a psychologist, and I was like started that path and I 303 00:20:38.359 --> 00:20:41.000 was like, I'm too messed up for that. Then I went into PR. 304 00:20:41.039 --> 00:20:45.920 I'm like this is perfect. And then you know, now I'm a 305 00:20:45.920 --> 00:20:51.720 public speaker and I do PR and I've written books and I think, like, 306 00:20:51.799 --> 00:20:55.160 if you have a plan, you can follow it. But how many 307 00:20:55.160 --> 00:20:59.200 people do you know that spent tons of money, like hundreds of thousands of 308 00:20:59.240 --> 00:21:02.200 dollars on universe see because their mom told them to go to school to be 309 00:21:02.240 --> 00:21:04.240 a lawyer, and they spent X amount of years going to be a lawyer, 310 00:21:04.240 --> 00:21:07.880 and then they go and then now they're working eighty hours a week, 311 00:21:07.920 --> 00:21:11.119 they're miserable, they're in so much debt, and they quit and become a 312 00:21:11.200 --> 00:21:18.240 dogwalker. Like plans can change. And you know, when I was young, 313 00:21:18.319 --> 00:21:22.880 my stamina was a lot different. So I can't do it all. 314 00:21:22.920 --> 00:21:25.200 I know that. And I like free time, like I like reading, 315 00:21:25.200 --> 00:21:27.400 I like lying in the grass and looking at the clouds. I like traveling. 316 00:21:27.440 --> 00:21:30.160 I like my friends and family. I don't want to work all the 317 00:21:30.200 --> 00:21:33.400 time. But when I was in my twenties, I did. I worked. 318 00:21:33.440 --> 00:21:36.039 I hustled and look where I got me. And like that's fine, 319 00:21:36.119 --> 00:21:40.359 that's great. I love where I am. But I think, you know, 320 00:21:40.440 --> 00:21:41.799 depending, I don't know how the nature of social media is going to 321 00:21:41.839 --> 00:21:45.720 be when it's time to retire. Maybe it's I stay on and I bring 322 00:21:45.720 --> 00:21:51.119 on a team. I don't know, maybe all of a sudden like Oprah 323 00:21:51.279 --> 00:21:53.519 Drew Barrymore hear of me and pick me up, and my speaking career, 324 00:21:55.039 --> 00:21:59.519 you know, goes to the moon tomorrow. I just need to be prepared 325 00:22:00.119 --> 00:22:02.960 to be up like I'm unprepared. I'm prepared to be unprepared, like I 326 00:22:03.000 --> 00:22:06.319 don't know what's going to happen. I have a business manager who's helping book 327 00:22:06.400 --> 00:22:08.519 me. I hustle, and you know, where do I want to speak? 328 00:22:08.519 --> 00:22:12.079 Who do I need to speak to? You know, some opportunities are 329 00:22:12.079 --> 00:22:15.200 great. I just had a meeting today and it's going to put me in 330 00:22:15.200 --> 00:22:18.519 front of one hundred and fifty people. I just, you know, recorded 331 00:22:18.559 --> 00:22:22.799 a segment on an Amazon Prime TV show. I just spoke in Winnipeg in 332 00:22:22.839 --> 00:22:26.319 front of fifteen hundred kids, and eighty thousand are going to watch the stream 333 00:22:26.359 --> 00:22:30.039 the recording. I want to help people, so I'm going to say yes 334 00:22:30.599 --> 00:22:34.640 two opportunities that get me in front of people that are going to help me 335 00:22:34.759 --> 00:22:41.200 empower eighty eight million people plus and more. So. No, I mean 336 00:22:41.240 --> 00:22:45.440 it's very you know, it's very Branson right. When someone asks you to 337 00:22:45.519 --> 00:22:48.599 do something, just say yes and figure it out. Like that's my whole 338 00:22:48.599 --> 00:22:52.920 life. That's like literally my whole life, and that is the life of 339 00:22:52.960 --> 00:22:55.759 an entrepreneur. That is the life of someone who takes on the mission. 340 00:22:55.759 --> 00:22:59.720 I always talk about how the mission changes, it changes form, and that 341 00:23:00.039 --> 00:23:02.400 can be scary. Like, you know, as an entrepreneur, I've been 342 00:23:02.440 --> 00:23:04.759 one for a while. We've obviously been doing this. We've been We've done 343 00:23:04.759 --> 00:23:07.119 a couple of rounds. You know, we've done a couple of rounds, 344 00:23:08.480 --> 00:23:14.960 and it does change, and it's interesting where it can go. I was 345 00:23:15.000 --> 00:23:18.799 talking to a woman the other day. She's like, there's that side that 346 00:23:18.039 --> 00:23:22.160 you know, go for it. Branson figured it out later what have you? 347 00:23:22.200 --> 00:23:25.400 And she goes, it's really interesting, she goes for me. I'm 348 00:23:25.440 --> 00:23:27.880 at a place in my world where she goes. Every time a door opens, 349 00:23:29.519 --> 00:23:33.319 I ask myself, Now, there's many doors, do I walk through 350 00:23:33.359 --> 00:23:37.079 this one? And I was like, oh, that's good, girl, 351 00:23:37.119 --> 00:23:41.400 that's good because people like yourself, people like myself, people have been around 352 00:23:41.400 --> 00:23:42.400 for a while. There's many doors at them. And she's like, yeah, 353 00:23:42.440 --> 00:23:48.160 I just go, m do I walk through this one? And when 354 00:23:48.160 --> 00:23:51.359 I said to her, as I said, the cool thing about walking through 355 00:23:51.480 --> 00:23:53.359 that one, this one, all of them, is you find out really 356 00:23:53.440 --> 00:23:57.039 quickly once you're seasoned. Whether it was a good door to walk through, 357 00:23:57.640 --> 00:24:00.480 yeah, or if it was like instead of a front door, it's about 358 00:24:00.480 --> 00:24:03.680 it's like it has about the basement door or a backdoord. No, And 359 00:24:03.799 --> 00:24:06.880 like you have to learn a lot of stuff the hard way. Like I 360 00:24:07.000 --> 00:24:07.920 learn a lot of shit the hard way, so you don't have to, 361 00:24:08.160 --> 00:24:15.000 and like that's how you kind of learn sometimes by going through those not so 362 00:24:15.079 --> 00:24:19.799 awesome doors. There is no roadmap, there is no blueprint. And if 363 00:24:19.799 --> 00:24:23.279 you want to be an innovative entrepreneur and a thought leader, you need to 364 00:24:23.319 --> 00:24:26.519 do things differently. Thought leaders do things differently. So do you want to 365 00:24:26.519 --> 00:24:30.440 just make money and get by or do you want to be seen as an 366 00:24:30.480 --> 00:24:33.880 industry expert or a thought leader? Then if that's the case, you got 367 00:24:33.880 --> 00:24:37.400 to do things a lot differently. Yeah, absolutely, So Look, that's 368 00:24:37.480 --> 00:24:41.279 that's that's kind of answer a couple of questions from the crowd that's not here, 369 00:24:41.359 --> 00:24:45.640 shall we? Okay? I always I hear them. I hear them 370 00:24:45.680 --> 00:24:48.480 on my head. You do a podcast, you know the deal? Okay? 371 00:24:48.519 --> 00:24:52.440 So people Look, there's also when people say social media, it always 372 00:24:52.480 --> 00:24:55.480 depends where people are at and they're starting to pick their platforms, which is 373 00:24:55.519 --> 00:24:57.799 great because everyone thought they had to be on fifteen right and be really good 374 00:24:57.799 --> 00:25:02.200 at fifteen and people are too. As you say, ask the people to 375 00:25:02.240 --> 00:25:06.160 support them in their business so they have exposure. So if someone's in that 376 00:25:06.279 --> 00:25:08.640 social media world and they're not quite getting to where they want to go with 377 00:25:08.680 --> 00:25:14.200 it yet, or they have expectations like I've been on you know, Facebook 378 00:25:14.279 --> 00:25:17.319 or having on Instagram for three months or six months, like, what's some 379 00:25:17.440 --> 00:25:22.400 of your indestry industry brilliance that you can share with people to actually help build 380 00:25:22.559 --> 00:25:27.920 themselves as a thought leader on social media. Yeah, a couple just pointers. 381 00:25:29.000 --> 00:25:33.160 One tell don't sell super simple. People don't want to be sold to. 382 00:25:33.880 --> 00:25:37.839 Tell stories. How did you get to where you're going? What did 383 00:25:37.839 --> 00:25:40.400 you want to be when you're younger? How are you solving problems? How 384 00:25:40.440 --> 00:25:44.960 are you helping people? Stories of your customers, stories of your colleagues, 385 00:25:45.000 --> 00:25:48.160 stories of your family, stories of when you scraped your knee when you're eight. 386 00:25:48.759 --> 00:25:52.559 Tell stories that will build relationships. Yes, you can sell here and 387 00:25:52.599 --> 00:25:56.880 there, but people don't want to be sold to on social media, Okay, 388 00:25:56.279 --> 00:26:00.880 And then also come up with a plan that's easy for you to follow. 389 00:26:00.599 --> 00:26:03.960 If you know that you three days a week, is easy for you 390 00:26:03.000 --> 00:26:07.200 to post and post three days a week, and maybe you come up with 391 00:26:07.240 --> 00:26:11.440 themes. Maybe it's Monday, Wednesday, Friday, motivation, Monday, moody 392 00:26:11.519 --> 00:26:15.839 Monday, like mummy Monday, depending on your industry, like what your whistle 393 00:26:15.920 --> 00:26:21.519 Wednesday, like wine Wednesdays, I'm sober, so like I don't know, 394 00:26:21.559 --> 00:26:25.359 win Wednesdays, like a win you know, Friday, Back Friday, behind 395 00:26:25.359 --> 00:26:27.400 the scene, flashback Friday. Doesn't have to be looking alliteration or anything, 396 00:26:27.440 --> 00:26:33.000 but come up with a theme, and then it makes it easier for you 397 00:26:33.079 --> 00:26:36.880 to do that. And if you can batch your content. Yesterday I spend 398 00:26:36.880 --> 00:26:41.640 an hour batching all my content for the Global Resilience Project, and I have 399 00:26:41.680 --> 00:26:45.839 a whole months of worth of content all scheduled. I'm scheduled until May first, 400 00:26:45.799 --> 00:26:48.599 right right, right right. And if you don't know what she means 401 00:26:48.640 --> 00:26:51.640 by that, you're just gonna have to call her and ask what. Yeah, 402 00:26:51.640 --> 00:26:53.599 you don't have to have a discovery call with me. Yeah, I 403 00:26:53.599 --> 00:26:56.640 think that that's important. I think that we forget about stories. And even 404 00:26:56.680 --> 00:26:59.480 every time I hear it, even when you just said it, I was 405 00:26:59.480 --> 00:27:00.200 like, oh, yeah, that's right, that's right. You know, 406 00:27:00.279 --> 00:27:03.000 like I've been talking thinking about this summit, and I'm like, okay, 407 00:27:03.000 --> 00:27:07.000 I'm gonna go. I'm having an issue with Facebook now I can't see to 408 00:27:07.039 --> 00:27:08.680 get my lives to go. But anyways, that's a different problem. It 409 00:27:08.720 --> 00:27:12.240 was just today I had issues too. It's fixed now, always it okay, 410 00:27:12.279 --> 00:27:15.400 because it was like the other day I was trying to go live and 411 00:27:15.640 --> 00:27:18.240 they must have been doing an update. So at one o'clock I did it 412 00:27:18.279 --> 00:27:21.720 and it worked. Okay, well, let's hope that it works. But 413 00:27:21.880 --> 00:27:25.279 I was taking that too, like you know, saying who's on, Say 414 00:27:25.319 --> 00:27:27.599 who's coming on as a speaker. But I think a nice little story. 415 00:27:29.039 --> 00:27:30.799 It is true. I you hear it all the time. I do it, 416 00:27:30.839 --> 00:27:34.079 and then I think sometimes we fall out of that, we fall out 417 00:27:34.119 --> 00:27:40.720 of telling stories. But so good, yeah, so good. So you 418 00:27:40.799 --> 00:27:45.000 have a resilience project. So people like, so what does what does that 419 00:27:45.079 --> 00:27:48.240 look like? There's a book, there's a podcast. So this is the 420 00:27:48.279 --> 00:27:52.200 first book for those of you who can see can people see me? They 421 00:27:52.200 --> 00:27:56.119 can see you? And there's some that are listening, some that are viewing. 422 00:27:56.240 --> 00:28:00.279 Okay, so this is the first book. It's a beautiful car fee 423 00:28:00.279 --> 00:28:03.039 table style book. And for those of you just listening, go to the 424 00:28:03.119 --> 00:28:07.319 Global Resilience Project dot com. It started off as a book, but since 425 00:28:07.359 --> 00:28:12.200 starting that, we also launched a podcast called Radical Resilience. You know, 426 00:28:12.480 --> 00:28:17.279 like I said, I've been speaking around the world about resilience in different capacities. 427 00:28:18.480 --> 00:28:23.599 You know, business life was strengthening your resilience muscle. And we share 428 00:28:23.640 --> 00:28:30.000 stories on our website and social media, and we've just opened up and decided 429 00:28:30.039 --> 00:28:33.039 to do a second book. So we're our goals to have one hundred and 430 00:28:33.039 --> 00:28:36.839 twenty five people one hundred and twenty five stories of resilience in book number two. 431 00:28:37.480 --> 00:28:40.160 And you know, we also actually launched a merch line. And the 432 00:28:40.160 --> 00:28:42.599 merch line's funny, like it's cheeky and it's kind of has dark humor. 433 00:28:44.279 --> 00:28:48.880 I saw it, I was like, whoa, Yeah. So my sister 434 00:28:48.000 --> 00:28:51.839 is a therapist, Alanna, and she's part of the project with me. 435 00:28:52.079 --> 00:28:56.799 She is our mental health director, and so the merch line is hers like 436 00:28:56.880 --> 00:29:00.319 she grew up loving graphic tas And we need to fund the project. You 437 00:29:00.359 --> 00:29:03.240 know, it's funded right now for my business and out of pocket, but 438 00:29:03.279 --> 00:29:06.240 we need to turn it into a business to make money, and so the 439 00:29:06.319 --> 00:29:08.440 merch line helps us. And so we have a shirt that says good Grief, 440 00:29:08.759 --> 00:29:12.160 and a portion of that shirt gets donated to Camp Aaron, which is 441 00:29:12.200 --> 00:29:18.960 a camp for supporting kids who've lost loved ones. We have shirts that say 442 00:29:18.000 --> 00:29:22.480 Resilient af which I should be wearing one right now, but it's not behind 443 00:29:22.519 --> 00:29:26.200 me for them in a romper, and you know, anyone could wear that 444 00:29:26.240 --> 00:29:30.880 because we're all resilient. We have mugs with our logo. We have, 445 00:29:32.079 --> 00:29:34.519 you know, mugs that say good mornings spelt mourning, and then we have 446 00:29:34.559 --> 00:29:41.119 a very cheeky line and it's the Dead Parents Society and it's a nice embroider 447 00:29:41.279 --> 00:29:44.240 like emblem and it's the club that no one wants to join. And if 448 00:29:44.240 --> 00:29:47.559 you've never lost your parents, you probably think it's a little tacky, but 449 00:29:47.640 --> 00:29:51.359 guess what, people who've lost their parents get it. And I hope you 450 00:29:51.440 --> 00:29:52.799 never have to get it, but you will one day. Unfortunately, we're 451 00:29:52.799 --> 00:29:56.680 all going to lose our parents and it sucks. I just lost mine, 452 00:29:56.720 --> 00:29:59.519 all very close together, and so I'm part of the club that no one 453 00:29:59.559 --> 00:30:03.440 wants to join. And we made shirts no no, no, I saw 454 00:30:03.480 --> 00:30:04.640 that I looked at it. I don't know you sent me something and I 455 00:30:04.640 --> 00:30:07.640 was looking. I was like, oh, there's merchant. I was like, 456 00:30:07.079 --> 00:30:11.559 oh wow, very cool, Like morning is m O you are? 457 00:30:11.519 --> 00:30:15.119 And morning wow? Yeah, good morning. Right, Um, there's a 458 00:30:15.119 --> 00:30:18.000 gentleman I need to hook you up with. His name is Tony Lynch and 459 00:30:18.160 --> 00:30:22.920 he actually has a grief conference. You guys would be such a great brid 460 00:30:22.000 --> 00:30:26.519 o. I would love to meet him, Like I my sister told me, 461 00:30:26.960 --> 00:30:29.559 like, I never win things. I want something in grade five because 462 00:30:29.559 --> 00:30:32.680 I'm nice. I want the menshe ward like you know. But yeah, 463 00:30:32.880 --> 00:30:34.799 but I don't win. I'm always a bridesmaid, never a bride. I'm 464 00:30:34.799 --> 00:30:37.599 always the runner up. But my sister told me, you win the grief 465 00:30:37.599 --> 00:30:42.000 Olympics, So oh fantastic. Well, I'll hook you up. I'm gonna 466 00:30:42.000 --> 00:30:45.319 be speaking at his summit. I'm gonna be talking about what it's like to 467 00:30:45.400 --> 00:30:49.279 be an entrepreneur and you have to work through, like have to get up 468 00:30:49.279 --> 00:30:53.839 and do your work as you're grieving, as you're hurting as because we know, 469 00:30:53.960 --> 00:30:57.680 grief isn't a thirty sixteen ninety day right, And no, I would 470 00:30:57.680 --> 00:31:02.720 love to meet him. I like, grief is literally that's been my life 471 00:31:02.759 --> 00:31:06.519 for four years, and not just grieving people who've passed, but grieving the 472 00:31:06.559 --> 00:31:10.119 idea of being a mom, grieving the life that I no longer have, 473 00:31:10.799 --> 00:31:15.000 you know, just like there's other parts of grief that come along with losing 474 00:31:15.039 --> 00:31:18.480 someone, you know, grieving parts of myself that don't exist anymore, and 475 00:31:18.559 --> 00:31:22.160 grieving who I thought I was going to be. And I don't know, 476 00:31:22.200 --> 00:31:26.039 it's it's interesting. It is interesting life. Life is interesting. So look, 477 00:31:26.599 --> 00:31:30.039 I know we're getting to wrap up time. We've talked about a lot 478 00:31:30.079 --> 00:31:33.799 of really cool stuff. Blair. Thank you for being transparent. If you 479 00:31:33.799 --> 00:31:37.200 had to give some advice out there about wanting to run a business, because 480 00:31:37.240 --> 00:31:40.799 I'm sure after people listen to us half the time they're like, no, 481 00:31:41.000 --> 00:31:45.359 thanks, that's crazy. I'm crazy, right because you're like myself. Like 482 00:31:45.400 --> 00:31:48.359 I said, we're entrepreneurs, which is an entrepreneur that can't say no or 483 00:31:48.400 --> 00:31:52.880 doesn't want to say no, doesn't want to get to not say no. 484 00:31:52.119 --> 00:31:56.759 How about that we get to choose to say yes. You choose to say 485 00:31:56.839 --> 00:32:00.720 yes. But you know, what would you say would you say to someone 486 00:32:00.720 --> 00:32:05.480 that's just kind of looking to embark in this in this interesting decision in the 487 00:32:05.519 --> 00:32:09.240 interesting decision world. Yeah, get a mentor, find a mentor. You'll 488 00:32:09.240 --> 00:32:13.119 save yourself a lot of time, a lot of money, a lot of 489 00:32:13.160 --> 00:32:15.920 headache, a lot of stress, a lot of tears. Find a coach, 490 00:32:15.119 --> 00:32:19.920 find a mentor, don't do it alone. Yeah, straight up, 491 00:32:20.000 --> 00:32:22.920 that's really good. Okay, we are going to switch a little bit. 492 00:32:23.000 --> 00:32:30.000 You've shared a lot of things about you. Is there something cute, something 493 00:32:30.039 --> 00:32:34.440 we don't know about you? Something off the cuff. I mean, you're 494 00:32:34.440 --> 00:32:38.000 an off the cuff girl. I speak Hebrew, all right, right? 495 00:32:38.720 --> 00:32:44.000 Oh, not only do I speak Hebrew, but I'm gonna tell you I 496 00:32:44.039 --> 00:32:45.640 fun fact. I used to have a little I used to love roller skating. 497 00:32:46.559 --> 00:32:53.119 Oh okay, but until I broke my arm, I haven't been roller 498 00:32:53.200 --> 00:32:59.039 skating since when I was eight or nine. You know what there used to 499 00:32:59.079 --> 00:33:02.359 be I love ruller skating and I and we're a little bit different in age, 500 00:33:02.480 --> 00:33:07.279 right, we're a little different in age. But they used to have 501 00:33:07.400 --> 00:33:10.039 roller skanning rights. Yep, that's where my moneys were. Okay, So 502 00:33:10.119 --> 00:33:14.759 we used to roller skate and try to roll or skate backwards. To Linda 503 00:33:14.839 --> 00:33:19.799 Rothstad, I loved, I loved like my birthday parties were always at Saints 504 00:33:19.880 --> 00:33:22.880 Roller Rink in Winnipeg, and yeah, I loved it. And I'll never 505 00:33:22.880 --> 00:33:27.759 forget when my parents divorced, Like my dad should have never like, like 506 00:33:27.799 --> 00:33:30.200 my mom was a saint for letting me stay at my dad's. All I 507 00:33:30.200 --> 00:33:31.759 ever wanted was to sleep at my dad's house. But like now I know 508 00:33:32.119 --> 00:33:36.519 why she shouldn't have let me. But so my dad, my first sleepover, 509 00:33:36.680 --> 00:33:38.160 my only sleepover, Dad's like, what do you want to do? 510 00:33:38.160 --> 00:33:40.000 I'm like, I want to roller skate? So me, him and his 511 00:33:40.079 --> 00:33:45.119 like then girlfriend, we all went to this like midnight skate and like the 512 00:33:45.160 --> 00:33:49.079 first lap around, I broke my arm and like I remember lying on the 513 00:33:49.119 --> 00:33:52.000 couch with my arm in a cast, looking at the ceiling thinging like this 514 00:33:52.039 --> 00:33:54.119 is the best day ever I got to be with my dad And my mom 515 00:33:54.160 --> 00:33:57.279 said that was Like I was, like, I think that was the last 516 00:33:57.279 --> 00:34:00.960 time I ever went roller skating and the last I've ever slept at my nas. 517 00:34:00.480 --> 00:34:05.599 Yeah. The pleasure, the pleasure trauma stories. Okay, look I 518 00:34:05.640 --> 00:34:08.920 have one last question for you, but before we do, we've talked about 519 00:34:08.920 --> 00:34:12.599 a lot of different things that you do and you share and you have gifts 520 00:34:12.639 --> 00:34:15.719 and talents, and so where can people I mean, it's all in the 521 00:34:15.760 --> 00:34:19.760 show notes. This is going to be the most like amazing show notes, 522 00:34:20.880 --> 00:34:25.480 fun show notes, hashtag everything show notes. But if someone's interested in learning 523 00:34:25.480 --> 00:34:29.400 more about your resilience project, if someone's going to be an author in your 524 00:34:29.400 --> 00:34:30.960 book, and I'm super grateful to say that I'm going to be in your 525 00:34:30.960 --> 00:34:37.519 book, and I'm very and I am actually talking about something in Blair's book. 526 00:34:37.760 --> 00:34:42.800 I have never publicly announced, never publicly announced, right, So that's 527 00:34:43.119 --> 00:34:47.599 that this will be this will be a breakthrough book moment for me. Very 528 00:34:47.639 --> 00:34:52.320 interesting. So, so you have a book, you have this merchandise that 529 00:34:52.400 --> 00:34:57.920 people can purchase and support, you have services. Where can they find you? 530 00:34:58.039 --> 00:35:04.840 Girl? Okay? Well, the Global Resilience Project dot com or blair 531 00:35:04.960 --> 00:35:09.079 Kaplan dot ca. Those are the two main websites. Ye you know, 532 00:35:09.119 --> 00:35:14.239 we're always growing and evolving the community. So if you're on social, we're 533 00:35:14.320 --> 00:35:21.119 Global Resilience Community on Facebook and Instagram and Blair from Blair Land on Instagram and 534 00:35:21.239 --> 00:35:23.840 you'll find me everywhere. I'm easy to find. I'm the only Blair Kaplin 535 00:35:23.920 --> 00:35:28.400 venables. So nice, nice, okay, And it's in the show notes 536 00:35:28.440 --> 00:35:30.880 as well. You guys, so you know what to do. Look before 537 00:35:30.920 --> 00:35:36.039 we before we ask this last question, if you want to sit where Blair 538 00:35:36.079 --> 00:35:37.480 is sitting and you want to have a conversation, you want to share your 539 00:35:37.480 --> 00:35:40.360 story. You want to share about your business, how you got into it, 540 00:35:40.440 --> 00:35:44.519 why you stay in it, or how it leaped you into the next 541 00:35:44.639 --> 00:35:46.159 you know, into your next place of fame. I just say, a 542 00:35:46.199 --> 00:35:50.679 next place of fame. Whether whether you become famous or not, it's your 543 00:35:50.760 --> 00:35:53.280 next place of fame. Right one rolls into the other. You know how 544 00:35:53.320 --> 00:35:57.599 to reach me. It's deva devdaman dot com. You guys know, for 545 00:35:57.679 --> 00:36:00.480 those of you that love and Adora and follow us, you know the question 546 00:36:00.519 --> 00:36:02.679 that I'm going to ask. What we're gonna like, maybe throw a little 547 00:36:02.679 --> 00:36:07.239 bit. It's not to do Blair with this incredible project that myself and Korean 548 00:36:07.280 --> 00:36:10.719 are going to be doing. We're walking across Ireland. We're doing eight marathons 549 00:36:10.719 --> 00:36:15.000 in eight days. We didn't sit down at the boardroom and figure that one 550 00:36:15.000 --> 00:36:17.920 out. That one came very divinely and it's to help raise money for the 551 00:36:19.000 --> 00:36:23.400 music community, because music, we believe is such a powerful healer and it's 552 00:36:23.440 --> 00:36:28.039 given so freely by artists, and you know what, ninety percent of artists 553 00:36:28.079 --> 00:36:30.039 cannot pay their rent. And there's just something not cool about that, that 554 00:36:30.159 --> 00:36:35.639 equation. So we're going to help and change that. So I need to 555 00:36:35.679 --> 00:36:38.280 ask you, if you're on your way to a disk island and it's you 556 00:36:38.320 --> 00:36:43.239 and you, and you're one little suitcase and you've got enough room to slide 557 00:36:43.280 --> 00:36:45.880 in an album, what is the album you're going to pack and take with 558 00:36:45.920 --> 00:36:50.280 you that you could not imagine not listening to for the rest of your days. 559 00:36:52.000 --> 00:36:54.880 For sure, Red Aunt Chili Pepper's album and maybe one of their best 560 00:36:54.880 --> 00:36:59.599 ofs, But does that even kind of do a best of? You can 561 00:36:59.639 --> 00:37:01.440 do it best you can do. I'm gonna do the best of like they're 562 00:37:01.440 --> 00:37:06.280 my favorite band. I'm going to see them on Wednesday. So again, 563 00:37:06.320 --> 00:37:07.920 oh wow, very cool? Is gonna say? I think they're touring right 564 00:37:07.920 --> 00:37:12.079 now. Yeah, I'll be in Vancouver. Okay, that's right, I 565 00:37:12.119 --> 00:37:15.280 saw Okay, well what you're gonna be Yeah, okay, okay, you 566 00:37:15.360 --> 00:37:19.519 need to do a little text. Maybe I'll go down and see Wednesday night. 567 00:37:19.760 --> 00:37:22.679 Wednesday, I got floor seats. I just saw them in Seattle, 568 00:37:22.800 --> 00:37:25.920 like they're my favorite. So yes, Red Hot Chili Pepper's best of If 569 00:37:25.960 --> 00:37:30.239 not, it's a tie between Blood Sugar, Sex Magic and Californication. Okay, 570 00:37:30.400 --> 00:37:34.880 okay, well you know what, I am literally a fifteen minute walk 571 00:37:34.960 --> 00:37:36.960 from where you're going to be seeing them. I matchine you're gonna be going 572 00:37:36.960 --> 00:37:40.000 to Rogers Arena, and maybe I'll check out and see if there's any tickets 573 00:37:40.039 --> 00:37:44.840 my scalpers. Oh yeah, it's actually at the stadium, app the football 574 00:37:44.880 --> 00:37:47.960 stadium, so I don't even think it's sold out. Yeah, it's there's 575 00:37:49.000 --> 00:37:51.840 a BC place, Oh BC place, Okay, yeah, BC place, 576 00:37:51.880 --> 00:37:53.719 gonna say Rogers or VC place. Well, that's interesting, that's interesting, 577 00:37:53.800 --> 00:37:58.119 that's cool. Good, it's got a good acoustics in there. Okay, 578 00:37:58.239 --> 00:38:01.519 So Red Hot Chili Pepper as it is. So you guys look reach out 579 00:38:01.559 --> 00:38:06.239 to Blair. If anything that she said has grabbed your soul, you guys 580 00:38:06.239 --> 00:38:09.199 know what to do. We want you to send out this podcast to as 581 00:38:09.199 --> 00:38:13.079 many people as you think needs to hear what was said here today. Blair. 582 00:38:13.400 --> 00:38:15.519 We cannot wait to have you on stage. You are going to be 583 00:38:15.599 --> 00:38:21.079 on stage very soon. So if you guys look at just pm me DMME 584 00:38:21.679 --> 00:38:24.280 devadev drummond dot com. Go there, look up the bands, look up 585 00:38:24.360 --> 00:38:27.599 the stand up, speak up and show up. You're going to be seeing 586 00:38:27.599 --> 00:38:31.880 Blair is going to be speaking. You're speaking August eighth. You're speaking August 587 00:38:31.960 --> 00:38:35.480 eighth, right, April eighth, but also August eight, because yeah, 588 00:38:35.480 --> 00:38:38.000 it's gonna say you're coming up this month in April, um, but you're 589 00:38:38.039 --> 00:38:43.840 also coming up on August eighth. But this this may not be seen by 590 00:38:43.960 --> 00:38:45.880 April, but this one is definitely going to be seen by because I know 591 00:38:45.920 --> 00:38:52.960 because she wanted oh eight, like oh right, yeah right, So you're 592 00:38:52.000 --> 00:38:55.719 gonna be seeing her all over the place. Anyways, it was such a 593 00:38:55.719 --> 00:38:59.679 pleasure to have you hang on for a few minutes. We're going to see 594 00:38:59.679 --> 00:39:04.239 good bye to our lovely guests. Are our lovely listeners today? Why can't 595 00:39:04.239 --> 00:39:07.840 I talk lovely listeners? And we've got an extra special question for you, 596 00:39:07.880 --> 00:39:08.840 So you guys, you know what, thank you so much for what you 597 00:39:08.920 --> 00:39:14.880 do, really really honestly appreciate you. Appreciate the subscribe and until we talk 598 00:39:14.880 --> 00:39:16.559 in a few days, you'd be well and stay great. So buy for down