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Deborah, with her thirty years of
being an ltrepreneur and creating over seven companies,

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knows exactly what it means to accept
the mission. When you make that

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decision, when you accept the mission
to become a solopreneur, to take yourself

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and your talents to market, then
you embrace a life of not only unlimited

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possibilities, but also the unknown.
It's an elixir of fear and bravery that

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only someone who's taken the leap really
understands. On our show, deb digs

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deep with her guests to highlight what
you the listener wants to know, the

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stories, the whys, and the
hows to navigate the journey to success.

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Get ready to hear from some of
the most incredible mission takers from Generation Z

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to boomers. So sit up,
perk up, and get ready to be

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blown away. Now here is your
host, Deborah Drummond. Hello, Hello,

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Hello, welcome that mission accept it. You've not been with us before?

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I am really what does that mean? Oh? This is gonna be

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good. I bet you. If
you decided to watch the Mission Accepted podcast,

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you've got our mission inside you that's
probably brimming to happen, either personally

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or professionally, I have to say, and you know, I'm gonna kind

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of keep it low a little bit
because I've got some incredible people that do

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podcasts and have their own podcasts.
But you guys know that I think you

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are the best audience because you engage
and you tell me your stories and you

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share what our speakers are sharing,
and you're just you're in like it's like

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you've taken the mission with me,
which is why I love showing up here

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every week. So not only are
you guys the best audience today, but

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you are the most resilient. You
have overcome things, you have jumped through

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hoops, you have you know,
taken that ball and thrown it in for

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a touchdown on many occasions. But
you know what, sometimes resilience can get

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tough. Sometimes resilience can get like, I don't know if I got it.

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You know, I don't know if
I got it. Because I have

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a show about missions and people that
take mission, and we talk a lot

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about why we stay on that mission, and sometimes it's all about courage,

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bravery, like pulling it in.
But wouldn't it be nice if you had

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someone that was doing the marathon with
you, like you guys know, I'm

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a huge advocate about having coach,
trainers, experts, you know, spiritual

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people in your life, personal development
people in your life, whoever it is.

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But I love having someone run with
me. Right, you guys know

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this run I'm doing, or let's
us say walk I am doing across Ireland

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and you know what, I suckered
someone into do it with me because it's

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so much more fun And when you
feel like slowing down, they keep you

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to pace. Right. Resilience is
tech at times at different times in your

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life. So guess what. Guess
what, you guys are going to get

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even more resilient. You're going to
learn things about resilience because lucky me,

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I found someone to do some running
with and I got to listen and talk

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with Saskia and I love her life, Saskia Christian, and she is going

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to talk about being resilience. Isn't
that kind of like? Is that kind

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of like? Does that kind of
work? Doesn't that kind of work?

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So I'm going to stop introducing and
stop leading in I think I let the

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cat out of the bag about what
people are going to learn about today.

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So Saskia, welcome to the Mission
Accepted show. Thank you so much,

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Debra. It's such a pleasure being
here. Thank you for having me on

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this amazing platform. Absolutely, miss
Yes, Ok, well we're all soul

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for Nerds, sister headed up here
because we both believe in resilience and you

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know, being courageous and bravery and
talk performance and that kind of thing and

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doing it together. So, look, you are an incredible you know,

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you're known as a resilience master.
You are a very powerful life transformation coach.

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You have vast experience from different arenas
on different platforms, authoring and et

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cetera. But what what's your story? You know you're gonna help us with

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our stories. So what's your story? Did you just wake up one day

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and go, oh, resilience coach? I don't think so. What brought

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you to us? That's a great
question. So that's a powerful why I

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do have it resonated on in my
personal journey as well as my professional journey.

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Pretty powerful, And it would go
as far as back in high school

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where I did not pass like a
major exam. Everybody who is just really

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looking for teenagers to excel in this
exam because it really determined the trajectory right

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in their life and so I did
not pass my subjects, and so I

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actually had an amazing opportunity for a
comeback with a wonderful mother, wonderful home

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environment, and I got a whole
new school environment to help me those strategies,

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those test making strategies, so I
can excel. And that's when I

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I realize the importance of cultivating resilience
in one's journey. And my book on

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Purpose, the book Chatter that I
wrote in On Purpose Strategies for Living and

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Leading, I did reference that example, but there were so many more.

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I actually had the opportunity to live
in four different countries, including the United

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States, and I can't tell you
what a powerful example of resilience that was.

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Not only did I cultivate resilience to
do exceptional things, gain scholarships,

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just meet and connect with amazing people, and develop myself in such a phenomenal

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way, but I also gained cultural
competency out of it, because relatability,

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empathy, and resilience will take you
places. So I'm the resilience strategist.

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Also, even my corporate career of
close to twenty twenty years, I served

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there as a resilience ambassador for the
company and I said, okay, when

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I need to be able to have
a greater outreach so I can improve the

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lives of so many, give them
the tools that they need to overcome those

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set packs, work through those difficult
navigate through those difficult challenges, and have

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long lasting striving and empowerment the greatest
gift. So that's when I started Boost

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True. Boost True allowed me the
birth of a boost True allowed me to

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be able to do that. Resiliency
is a gift. Need to know what

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resiliences, How grace and resilience were
beautifully together, and that's the IPI created

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a design with professionals in mind.
Whether you're a corporate executive, business professional

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leader. Everybody wants to know how
they can deliver a great comeback in their

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life, how they can inspire orders
because everybody experiences set back and challenges.

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But the thing is the differentiator is
how do you overcome that, How do

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you stand out? How do you
make an impact? How do you inspire

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others? And that's what I'm here
to do because that's the power that I

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have. That's my superpower, that's
your superpower, and we talk about that,

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you know, recognizing your why,
recognizing your superpower doubling down or reminds

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me of when my daughter when she
was young, she was in grade three

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and she was having some challenges right
she was showing up with some learning differences

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and assimilating information differently. And I
went to a colleague of mine and he

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gave me the best advice that carried
me through both children, and he was

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like, everyone right now is going
to be focusing on the problem. Teachers

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are going to be focusing on the
problem. Tutors are going to be focusing

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on the problem. Find her gift
and double down. And it has been

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a powerful strategy enough that my son
nineteen now is launching his own company.

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But as people listen to you speak, you talked about supporting corporate and then

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you have now branched out and you're
supporting many even for someone like yourself who

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studies resilience. So obviously for you, you've got some things down pat But

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for those listeners out there, because
we have lots of them that are either

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entrepreneurs and they're kind of like they're
at the end of the like they're like,

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is it going to happen? Is
it going to this? Or people

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that have are considering venturing into entrepreneurship, or even the other way around entrepreneurship

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back back into something stable. What
is just some of the ideas. If

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someone is at a place where they're
really they are being as resilient as they

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can, what would you say to
them. That's a very very very good

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question that you raised. I would
say, first of all, to dial

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in on resilience in particularly in those
moments of transition in our lives and we

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all go through that, we have
to give each other first of all,

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grace, right, but understanding and
giving grace that there needs to be a

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self awareness that needs to be cultivated, right, So we need to of

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course heal, right, in order
to really grow in that self awareness and

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build that self confidence and leverage or
support system, right, because that's a

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social resilience is a very important component
in building over all resilience. So you

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leverage all those positive factors, but
most importantly improving yourself giving yourself greace to

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just adapt to the change, because
that's what it's about. It's not a

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it's not the old normal. It's
a new normal that you have to drive

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in and that requires grace. And
that's exactly what my you know, package

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or my portfolios are really about just
helping, you know, leverage grace and

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resilience so that people can at any
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I talk about the seasons as in
winter, summer, spring, right,

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whether you're in transition or not,
we all go through those seasons of life.

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But applying those grace and resilient principles
to those seasons so that people can

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move from succumbing to striving, but
not only try long lasting, hopeful,

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striving investoration again in their journey.
So what I'm hearing is one of the

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answers would be grace, having grace
with yourself, understanding that you're going through

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transformation, supporting yourself in community,
is that what you're sharing. Supporting yourself

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in community, and of course with
resiliency requires an action planner. You have

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to be strategic so know you're you
know objectives, really be clear on that,

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and just as you execute or exercise
grace, be intentional in terms of

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achieving those objectives because at the end
of it, at the end of it

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all, at the end of the
journey, you want to be able to

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achieve purpose, right, and the
purpose needs to be impactful and not just

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about yourself of course, yes,
you need to be nurtured and become the

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best self for everyone around you,
But it's also about how you should ask

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yourself, how can I empower?
How I can improve the experience of others?

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How do I show up after going
through such setbacks and challenges? Am

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I really a better person every day? And all those things that I'm telling,

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all those parts of the process is
really what I do offer professionals,

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whether they're in corporate or entrepreneurs or
even in the spiritual base as well.

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That's what I teach them to,
those nuggets and those solutions so that they

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can enjoy this but have it love
lasting effect. Right. I know that

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we talked lots, and I know
that a word, a key word for

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you is empowering. That you love
to empower. When we talk, you

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share with me how much you love
to empower in your words and in your

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writings and whatever is about empowering And
where do you think that comes in for

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somebody? Like at what point does
you just finished talking about? Kind of

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like a little bit at the endgame, make sure what you're doing is impactful.

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But as someone who is a life
transformation coach, you must see people

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through different stages, some of them
not so groovy. You know, the

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people's stuff comes up as we know
what it's your philosophy around empowering, how

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do people tap into that? What
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particularly if they're in that from a
life transformation piece. Absolutely, and empowerment

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is a key. It's a key. I will just say it probably strategy,

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but it's very important to me.
And it's important that we deal with

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that or we address that from a
mindset level. And that's exactly what I

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did in the on Purpose Strategies for
Living and Leading book where I talk about

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turning the tables from victim to under
cover of victor. And that means that

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we as professionals regards to whichever hemisphere
in we do have unique talent set that

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we can offer the kim that unique
potency that no one else has, and

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we just need to have that right
mindset. And I did propose a formula

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for actually making that mindset transition through
resilience to confidence and to strategy and moving

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to victor and being able to go
to that full transformation so that you can

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have excellence success that you've been dreaming
of and walk in passion and purpose fulfilled

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their thing. And I do have
to say empowerment for me, one of

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the main motivation factors for me actually
going into boost true is really how I

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can empower executives and specifically female executive
leaders who may be struggling with their influential

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power walking in authenticity, like having
that servant and authentic leadership. And of

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course please understand their men or their
who are all sold male leaders who are

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also needing that type of guidance and
growth, and so I provide that solution

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kit to help them to elevate so
that they can maximize and really fulfill their

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maximum potential and have the best experience, have excellence in their professional journey,

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and not only that, inspire all
those around them so that they can also

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be exceptional and then you'll have that
wonderful environment of creativity, innovation and productivity.

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And that's what everybody is looking to
have. So empowerment is a very

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very important knob in one's journey.
But of course it goes hand in hand

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because you have to heal and that's
where my trauma informed coaching comes into as

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well. Almost everybody suffer from some
type of type of trauma. I have

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suffered in the past, and I
do create that tailored experience, that tailored

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plan I have for any particular leader, so they can they can have that

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self leadership, that personal development,
have that healing and then walk in striving

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and you know, and live in
powered lives. You bring up a good

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when you're when you're talking about I
could almost visualize, you know, when

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you're talking about working with women in
corporate that are in leadership roles that are

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within confines that may not be theirs, and how do they feel empowered and

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how do they step into authenticity when
maybe some of the structure is not necessarily

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a structure that they would you know, formulate, but they've got to work

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with that. I would imagine that's
a little tough. Yes, it is.

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It is very child and I've seen
in my seventeen plus year in high

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tech sector, right, I've had
the opportunity to cross paths with many,

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many leaders of different you know levels
or career ladders of you know, success.

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And what I've seen work beautifully is
when when you get the best results,

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when a leader shows up with transparency, being authentic and really fostering that

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empathetic, supportive culture around them and
that makes it so much easier for them

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to win, get commitment from their
team members, and get easy buying because

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there's the trust factor, and there's
the competency factor, and again the servant

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leadership. I've created ten seas for
mastering servant leadership with particularly female executives in

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mind, and that addresses the whole
knob of contract. That's one of the

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seas. It helps people to value
perspectives not only you know, be confident

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in the perspective that you show up
with, but also vile the perspectives around

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you. And I can tell you
how powerful that is in terms of turning

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the knob in your favor for influential
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of servant leadership. Absolutely absolutely.
Is there an experience that you've had yourself

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that you can share, whether it's
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a on a grand scheme, but
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oh, yeah, yeah, you
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in baseball, or I didn't quite
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make the grade, or I didn't
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someone else got picked over me in
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pull upon your own resilience, whether
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like the littlest thing can trigger something
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really stressful time in your business or
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one little thing. So from an
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is there something you can share that
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yes, yes, And I could
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my own health journey as well,
I've had to overcome challenges and I was

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able to from those challenges have a
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that emerge, it's just it's just
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lost like close to forty pounds coming
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illness and you know having surgeries and
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it is possible, because I've seen
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how I show up, it's really
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and the success because I've seen it
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I've seen it work powerfully in the
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being a leader in corporate Americas that
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technical team to manufacturing quality X lens
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the feedback, because feedback is important, right, that's really what tells you

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what you're doing, what you're how
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listen to others, and the feedback
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different about you. It's like you're
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that, you get us to do
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I'm working for I'm delivering these results
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no, no, no, no, you do not work for me,

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right, So, but you understand
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show up like here with kere empathy
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a global, you know, leadership
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so the test was really when I
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you have remarkable and unique leadership skills. And I said, wow, it

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must be. It must be resilience
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know, and of course that helps
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who you want because you've you've been
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tell you so many financial aspects of
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to start the program or even finish
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I have a positive outlook and that
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was very engaging, and you know, of course, show up, work

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hard and everything, but have respect
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you don't know somebody's story and I
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listen to me, and they said, oh, there's where you can get

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funding. There is where you can
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to start a whole wonderful career in
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love these setbacks because I emerged so
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you talk about, you know,
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of the time that we're going to
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you talk about that leadership, you
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what have you, there's like this
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leader, and the polarity of that. So some of the feedback it's difficult

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not to be an authentic leader in
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leader honestly on the inside. It's
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lot of them lately, So I'm
so glad that you're here. But when

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you talk to people that have to
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organizations or what have you, where
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because they're like, hey, you
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resilient leader and they were so in
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connection. What do you say to
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think it's there is a there's still
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as a as an authentic leader and
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and the people that you serve in
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have to divulge, you know,
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divulge personal details or anything that about
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your life. But you have to
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human component and connect with it's humans
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authentically with all and when they can
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a heart posture of some form.
I'm not saying sympathy, that's a different

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story. Right when you have a
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matter whatever is going through at their
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may ask an extension on deadline for
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you know. So you come up
and they were like, okay, whatever,

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and it's okay, Well, what's
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I'll make sure it gets done by
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understanding, right, understanding it's a
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remarkable you know, cooperation from them, and the results are just beautiful.

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confident in the person who sits before
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culture and environments have prepared me well
to show up with understanding and have that

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active listening so that I can get
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to compromise and meet them half away. I don't need to divulge all my

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personal business and details to do that. Yeah, it's interesting, right,

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It's been a big conversation. It's
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Because there's been a lot of people
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there's been this relief. But where
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line? So it's been interesting.
So I know that we just have a

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lot that's just a lot big part
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you something completely different. I mean, there's no question that you have this,

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and I know that you've got some
beautiful offers on your website. I'm

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going to ask you to just bring
those up and talk about them in a

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minute. But I loved when you
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Like when I think about resilience or
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like from a core level, it's
like, what gives you that deep

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conviction? Right, there's like I
think there's faith and deep conviction, and

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I think they have a relationship,
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And I loved that you said that. So here's something that I don't

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know if you believe this or not, but I'm going to go with it,

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and I'm going to ask you a
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about mindset and there's this great story
Jack Canfield and I don't know if you

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know Jack Canfield, but he was
responsible for a lot of the books Chicken

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Soup for the Everything under the Sun, right, Chicken Soup for the Soul.

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ago, and he told me of
this story of how he really believed putting

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all his dreams and aspirations on a
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treasure man or in a book,
or whatever it is. And so he

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said, I really I put it
there. And the story was that he

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wanted to fly. He wanted to
learn how to fly this very special jet,

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and there was only two of them
in the world. It was a

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fighter jet, and so the chances
of him being able to fly that jet

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was pretty slim. But one day
this gentleman walked into his office to have

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a meeting with him for nothing to
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see his list, and on his
list was this jet to be able to

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learn how to fly this jet,
and this person was one of two people

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only in the world that knew how
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if you want to fly that jet, I'll take you. So my question

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to you, my dear friend who
goes and helps and motivates people and helps

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him inspire, and you are pouring
out to people, not necessarily on your

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business list, but on your I
would love to list. Let's put something

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out there in the world for you. Let's give back to you. So

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if you could say to the world, I would love do you have something

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that we can share today that you
would just love to see happen or you'd

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love for yourself, or so I
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to actually show up as a global
resilient strategist, all right, or just

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individuals out there, okay, because
it's the individual experience, right that really

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matters more, and then you influence
the community, all right. I want

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to be able to be that person, that agent that gives the individual that

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passion driven come back experience that they've
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their dream lives. That's my mission
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me and I was like, okay, today, it's today, it's for

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Saska. So here's my last question
that has nothing to do with anything of

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what we just shared about. So
you're on your way to a desert island

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and you have a suitcase, and
in that suitcase you have room for one

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album. What album could you not
imagine not listening to for the rest of

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your days. It can't be a
it can't be your playlist. So what

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band, what song? What album
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island? Oh? Wow, that's
in good question there, so question,

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it's a it's a big question.
Oh wow. Okay. So I do

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love Yolanda Adams and Fate and her
music is just really does move me,

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you know hard. Yeah, but
it's really a question with a steel because

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I'm also from a culture of steel
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a wonderful spirit. Right, I
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put you land at Adams. Yes,

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yes, very inspiring and deep because
on our show we just you know,

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we just believe that music is a
powerful vibration and it helps inspire and

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motivates and gets people through anything.
And if you're going to take on a

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mission, you're going to need some
music. You're going to take on a

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mission, you're going to need some
music, yes, and strengthening, strengthening

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and empowerment and knowing that you can
do, you can get through. That's

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why I choose Landa Adams because a
lot of our music is geared towards that.

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Yes, whatever you're doing is temporary
right now that you're going through you

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know, set back, but just
look at the beautiful life that you have

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ahead of you and you're you know, is designed for greatness purpose and that's

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what I'm about. I'm a very
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of purpose right now, wonderful suson
perfect. Well, look, please share.

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We're going to have it in the
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so please share with us where people
can go find more. I know

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you have classes and now you have
books. I know you have programs they

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run continuum, so please tell people
where to go and find that information.

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We will definitely have it in the
show notes as well. Yes, yes,

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yes, thank you for that opportunity. So the Resilience Booth, my

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website first of all is boost true
dot com, b O s T t

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hru dot com and there you'll see
the resources in the Summit workshop. The

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workshop offering that you have a two
hour workshop around the resilience. Wonderful subject

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and it's really meant to just help
somebody really understand what resiliency is, how

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they can incorporate elements of Greece and
the resilience in different seasonal you know,

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phases of their journey, and really
how they can have that purpose driven come

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back and be rewarded for their competencies
and for their hard work become most importantly

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the best version of themselves. So
we have all that practical strategies to help

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you. You know that you can
develop and you can sustain. And of

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course there are other my book that
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Living and Leading that's also available there
on the website. My chapter is chapter

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three Reclaiming Power. And then of
course the I do have seasonal Striving Navigation

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e course that's being launched here in
Gajabi as well as the Resilience Resilience five

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step plan on how to overcome and
become unstoppable. Well, let's leave it

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with that powerful world people, so
unstoppable. You came to the not only

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the most resilient audience today, but
you are unstoppable. Let's leave this podcast

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feeling unstoppable. I want to thank
you so much for being our guest today.

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Such a pleasure. You're such a
beautiful soul. I'm so excited on

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our journey in terms of, you
know, unfolding this beautiful friendship. And

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I was called it bisship and friendship
because we're doing both together. And look,

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people, if you would like to
be sitting in that exact same seat,

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sharing your passion and your purpose and
your message, please reach out.

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This is not difficult. It's Depth
Drummond dot com. You can just go

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on to the website. You can
fill up the contact and we'll be in

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touch or debit Deep Drummond dot com. And you cannot absolutely forget about what

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we've got going on. If you
want to talk about all of the things

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that we heard today about stepping out, then you have to come to the

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step up. Oh yeah, did
step up yesterday in the meeting, But

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show up, speak up, and
stand up. Yes you incredible twenty two

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summits for women and those that support
women, and also the incredible book two

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hundred and sixty two women compiled in
a book that is launching International Women's Day

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twenty twenty four. I don't normally
give dates, but if you're listening to

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this after that, you know,
just go to the website and get that

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book. And there's two unred sixty
two women of gumption, sharing all,

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giving all, telling all. And
I'm sure you know of the movement that's

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happening. And we're probably doing a
live book signing in a town or a

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country close to you, So thank
you for that. And if you want

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to just come fill up, just
come fill up on the eighth day of

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every single month. We so appreciate
you. Thank you for being our guest

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today, and we so appreciate you. You're the most amazing listeners. Thank

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you for staying with us, Thank
you for sharing to all the people that

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listen to all over the world.
We're so appreciative of you. Until we

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meet again, you guys know what
to do. You need to be well

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and you need to stay groovy.
So I'll see it again next week.

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Bye for now, Bye bye,