Season 3 - How To Create Impact From Your Passion | LAYC59

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Welcome to the Lift As You Climb podcast.

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If you're joining me again, this is our new season...

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Season Number Three.

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Not only do we have a new year, but we have a new format, that

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I'm excited to share with you.

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If this is the first time that you are joining us on this

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podcast, I wanna explain what it means, and what our purpose is...

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It's very well expressed, I think, in a quote by Robert Ingersol who

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said, "We rise by lifting others."

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When I embraced that idea, it just excited me so much that I always have the

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possibility, the opportunity, in fact, even I believe the responsibility...

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To continue to evolve myself, and to expand my capabilities

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and expand my horizons.

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Because as I grow and become the best version of me.

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I have more to give back.

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I have the ability to reach back, and give a hand up, to someone else who's climbing

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up on the success ladder of their life.

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That's the intent and the purpose behind the movement that I'm trying to build

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called Lift As You Climb, and the message that we wanna convey that I hope inspires

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you to do more lifting and climbing.

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So without further ado, I should very much like to share.

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what our new format is and what inspired this refinement of the

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podcast, other than, you know, that I am continually driven to figure

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out how to do something better.

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In conversation with my peers, with clients and friends, and

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also just observing, paying attention to the conversations

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going on around me in the world.

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I'm hearing an increasing sense of people saying, is this all there is to my life?

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Do I matter?

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Am I relevant?

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What will people remember about me?

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How they feel about me, when I'm gone?

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if you're like me in this stage of figuring out Who I Am Now, and I

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Who Am I Now?

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I am constantly looking in the mirror to see really, you know, what is my

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purpose and what am I doing here?

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And the questions continue to flow about...

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Well, "What's it all about Alfie?"

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The song was made famous by Dionne Warwick, and it was also the theme

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song of the movie of the same name.

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There's a particular line in the song that brings it back to me.

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"Is it just for the moment that we live?"

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I don't think so.

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I think that we have the opportunity to live here now and influence,

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create the legacy that we leave.

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I love the fact that I can purposefully be present, think about what I desire,

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what I'm capable of, and how I can learn to create that legacy while I'm present,

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to experience it and enjoy it, rather than waiting for possibly someone to read my

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eulogy after I'm gone, perhaps or not, capture what I intended to do as the best

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person I could be here on this planet.

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Lift As You Climb began for me as a young teen, as a single mom, I was so

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fortunate to have good people around me who gave me a hand up, not a hand out.

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Which then led me to my current life, where...

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It's my joy, my cheerleading raison d'etre...

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To share what I've learned with others and lift them up...

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Help them build their own success ladders.

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Empowerment, Collaboration, Celebration...

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Those are my motivations.

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It is my passion to create the Lift As You Climb Foundation one day.

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So that I can help more young people step up those rungs on their own

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ladders and get up to a place where they are then also lifting others.

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That's been the purpose, the motivation behind this podcast is sharing my

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journey and sharing the journey of others as inspiration to you.

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In season 3, we're really going to focus on what is your passion and how

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does that translate to your purpose so that you too can make a difference and

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that you can continue to feel like you are growing, but also that your own

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growth is having an impact on others.

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I wanna talk about how we figure out the messages that we've been receiving

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from ourselves, perhaps sometimes not listening to that inner voice

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or perhaps suppressing it or saying, "Who am I to be able to do that?"

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"I don't have the resources."

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"I don't know where to begin."

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I want to share real examples of individuals who have been in your

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shoes, who had those doubts, who lacked the confidence in the beginning, but

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started climbing and started moving forward and created their legacies.

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If you've been looking at your life, looking in the mirror lately.

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You may be saying...

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If this is the next 30 years of my life...

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Is this enough?

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One of my guests asked herself that question, and from

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that moment of awareness...

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That AHA!

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Even as successful as she was by all the metrics...

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on what a successful life looked like...

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It wasn't enough for her.

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That there was a bigger reason for her existence, and her experience.

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I will share with you how she began, from just one individual decision,

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one connection with a little girl.

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She created a national organization, and Oprah had her on her

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program and interviewed her and created a groundswell effect.

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Now, you know that if Oprah pays attention, it's something significant.

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But when you hear how this concept began...

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This now accredited foundation, and the impact they've had on over

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seven and a half million children...

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You may, I hope, be inspired to see how it's the small idea, the

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spark of passion if acted on, of passion if acted on can grow.

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And I hope you are inspired to do that!

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I also know that there's a lot of questions.

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In fact, I've been wanting to create the Lift As You Climb Foundation and

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fulfill the vision that I have for that.

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But, I didn't know how to get started.

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That's what I hope to share with you by interviewing

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people who've already done it.

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To share with you the five steps for you to do so too.

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We're going to talk with our guests about their WHY...

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What was the motivation?

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What was the spark that got them started?

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The WHY is the motivation that kept them going with their vision.

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We will talk with them about WHO they needed to surround themselves with...

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To keep them motivated and to keep them moving forward...

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And how they gathered those people around them.

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I'm gonna ask them the questions about the WHERE that this began

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and where it's gotten to and where they found the resources and the

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connections to continue to build.

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We're gonna ask them very candid questions about WHEN is it the right time to start?

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When is it the right time to scale, and when is time to hand the reins

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over to someone else and step away from that passion project

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and perhaps start the next one.

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You're gonna find that a very, very fascinating interview with one of

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my guests, who for 20 years built a phenomenal charity and then reached a

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point where she felt she was called to go on and do something entirely different.

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And then the most important thing, of course, is always, HOW did they do it?

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Because it can look daunting, it can look overwhelming, it can look like,

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oh yes, well, they had the ability and the resources to do it, but I don't.

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So I wanna share with you by interviewing them, asking them the

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questions on how that they did it so that you too can create that plan,

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create your Visual Encore Plan.

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So if you're thinking, or you've allowed yourself occasionally to daydream about

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how to start a movement, like I did, how you can perhaps get started by supporting

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a charity or perhaps you wanna create your own, how you can elevate a cause,

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spread awareness, spread the message, increase participation in a cause that

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exists, how to establish a foundation, how to perhaps create a scholarship or

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there are many, many ways that we can live and leave our legacy.

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By interviewing varied guests of different ages and different experiences...

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I hope to share with you the spark, the information to get started with yours.

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So please stay tuned.

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Subscribe to this podcast so that you don't miss any of the episodes.

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Starting next week, I'm going to interview everyday people that shop

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at the grocery store, that work in the office building next to yours, that

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volunteer at a charity or fundraise...

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That play with their grandchildren, that walk their dogs.

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They're just like me and you, but they made a decision to get started.

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They got started.

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They listened to their heart and they took stock of their life experience,

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their strengths, their talents, their resources, and they really took that

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passion they had in themselves and found a way to create a purpose with

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it, and that's what I hope that you will glean from these conversations.

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I guarantee you, because I've already had multiple interviews,

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they are fun, they are candid.

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They're going to surprise you.

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They're going to enlighten you.

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They're going to inspire you.

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You're going to know that even YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE and YOU CAN

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GET STARTED in small incremental steps, and take that spark you have,

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and fan it into a full on blaze!

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I'm going to ask for your help to make this podcast as valuable as possible.

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I would like for you to email me at Hello@TheEncoreCatalyst.com

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2 things I'm going to ask your help with...

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Recommend...

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Refer people that you know that are already doing what I've said....

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Have they started a charity?

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Are they building a foundation?

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Are they leading, directing, managing, a foundation?

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A charity, an organization, that has far-reaching impact?

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I wanna know about the people out there that have figured out how to turn their

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lifetime of tacit knowledge and passion into lifting and climbing.

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Send me recommendations of people that I can follow, learn about, and invite

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to be a guest on a future episode.

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I would love to hear your ideas about how you might do exactly

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what my guests are doing and or perhaps you've already started and

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you're on your beginning journey and you're struggling a bit with...

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Okay...

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What's next?

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Like I said, those five areas, the why, the who, the where, the when,

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and the how of making it a reality.

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If you have any doubt about your WHY, then I'm gonna suggest that one way you

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might get started is by using one of my exercises called Write your Eulogy.

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I know it sounds a little ominous.

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Eulogy is something that's read when you're dead by someone who hopefully knows

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some good things about you and wants to share some of the positive things that

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you did while you were on this planet.

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I'm suggesting that we should write our own eulogy.

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Write it based on who we want to become, and...

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What is the impact that we wanna have?

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And...

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How do we want to be remembered.

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This is a really great exercise.

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I promise you...

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It's very uplifting and I think it can help inspire you to

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get started on your journey.

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I'm a pretty cool person, and I have a lot to offer in the world...

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And I'm gonna get busy doing it!

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So for now, thank you so much for listening in and being part of

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this community and this movement, this groundswell that I hope we are

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creating, knowing that by doing the best that we can to rise and to lift

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ourselves up, we are able to do more and help more people up as well.

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I'll see you next week here.