Episode 12

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Published on:

4th Oct 2022

Dallas Burnett | Leadership Gaps - Sharing an exciting announcement and discussing excerpts from the book MOVE!

We cover some HUGE announcements on today's show that showcase what is coming in 2023. Dallas shares a personal story that shaped his perspective on leading and coaching people. He talks about identifying gaps in our leadership and our lives. The discussion is around content that is found in the book MOVE!, which can be purchased below:

https://www.amazon.com/MOVE-Where-You-Are-Want-ebook/dp/B07K67GR69



Transcript
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Hey everybody.

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We have a really special episode today.

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We're gonna be going through some of the highlights of the episode So far, we

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have a huge announcement to make on the last 10% concerning Think, move, Thrive,

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and I'm gonna be sharing a personal story that I haven't shared in public.

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Told some friends, but never in public, definitely not on the air.

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You don't want to miss this episode.

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Welcome, welcome, welcome.

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This is Dallas Burnett.

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I am in Thrive Studio, sitting in my 1905 Cook Brothers Barber chair.

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And more importantly, I'm introducing a special guest today myself.

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Yes, it is a special episode.

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That I wanted to just share with all the listeners of the last 10%.

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I've been waiting to do this for a while.

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Haven't carried an episode by myself.

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We've always had guests on and I just wanted to take a minute to talk

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through some things because I know it's important to our listeners.

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And I just wanted to take some time and unpack some of really important

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messages that I've been wanting to share the entire time we've been on the air.

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And I said, Hey, there's no better time to do this.

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This doesn't mean we're changing our format.

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We've had some incredible guests the whole time we've been doing

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this and we've already got some really cool guests lined up.

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I'm so excited to be producing these podcasts because it is, we've got

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some really amazing stories coming.

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But I wanted to take this episode just to talk through some stuff.

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Number one, why did we create the last 10%?

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Why are we doing this and how do we use it?

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How as I think, move thrive.

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How do we hope that you would use the last 10%?

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Number one, we want the last 10% to be Really accessible and relevant content.

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So there's a lot of people that listen to the last 10%.

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A lot of different industries, we want it to be relevant as it relates

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to coaching, as it relates to leadership, as it relates to develop.

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And we really want to put out interesting stories because everyone loves a

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good story and we relate to people in some of the stories that we hear.

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And I think we've done a really good job of that.

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I think back just on the last few episodes, and I'm thinking in the

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Tyran story in the the Caribbean where he's, had the tragic accident and his

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quote on, resiliency and it's not putting back together what you had,

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but it's reshaping what's left me That is just a gut wrenching story.

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When we talk about Dallas Glass and he's climbing Mount Everest and he's

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guiding, and the night ice waterfalls and all the stuff that he has to figure

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out his way, through, there's just incredible stories, but we're pulling

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out nuggets on each of those stories of things and mindsets and techniques

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and things that we can use hopefully in our own daily walk, in our own daily.

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and that's the last point.

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We want usable content, so it's just not accessible content and relevant.

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We want to have produced content with the last 10% that you can use.

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Now, how do you use podcast content?

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Great question.

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So glad you asked.

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I was just talking to a banker the other day who is a listener of the last 10%.

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He shared with me, hadn't seen him in a long time, and he stopped me and said,

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Hey, look, I just wanna tell you this.

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I was listening to an episode the other day and it was actually Dr.

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Mo.

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And Dr.

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Mo was talking about self-talk and he said, I have an employee that.

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Struggles with this and we've had conversations about this and I,

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when I heard the episode, I was like, Man, this is my team member.

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She could really use this.

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There's some great content in this.

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So he shared that episode with her and that is a great example of how we would

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hope as a leader, if you're a leader listening to the last 10% that you would.

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This podcast, obviously, we want you to take it in and we want you to

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digest and marinate in the wonderful goodness of all the stories and all

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the great content that we produce.

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But at the same time, we want you to feel the desire to share

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this with your team members.

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And if you hear something that just resonates with you, then

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don't be afraid to push it out there and say, Hey, check this out.

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That's the kind of content we want to produce.

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We wanna produce content that's got great storylines and also

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is usable that you can share.

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So if you're coaching a team, If you're leading a team member or if you have a

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boss that you feel like could benefit from the content or a manager that you

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could benefit from the content, share it.

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Because we want to generate that for everybody so that we can help

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move the needle in your team's performance, in your personal

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performance mindsets and those sorts of.

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So then that's how we used the last 10 cent and why we created it.

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So we really want it to be an actionable podcast.

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So you'll hear me as we go through these episodes.

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I'm trying to pull out some of the action items cuz we don't want to

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get those, we don't wanna lose those pieces in the stories that we tell.

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When I'm thinking back on the episode, some of my, favorite

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quotes, quotable quotes, we had, Chili was the ultra-marathon

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runner and he made a comment that emotions make terrible leaders.

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I thought that was fantastic insight.

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I love Dr.

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Mo and the sports psychologist that was the golf coach.

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And he talked a lot about self-talk, but one of the things that he said also beyond

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self-talk was, If you're doing something, you've got a job, you've probably got

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three things that you know that really to be successful at whatever job you're

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doing, you've gotta do with excellence.

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World class, if you wanna be successful at just three things.

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And I thought that was so true.

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And so if you're going through a situation, you're leading a team, what

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are the things that you need to be doing with excellence to lead that team?

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Dallas's glass.

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Ooh.

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Leading through your team.

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Speaking of teams, I thought the comment of him leaving base camp

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and spending about 15 minutes to 20 minutes with each team member as they

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climbed in the next base camp was gold.

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That was just the best word picture of how he described leading through your team.

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And so those are some things that just stood out with me along with

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lots of other stories that we've had.

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We've had some great guests on.

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We want to also talk about a big announcement and I don't know, I

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wanna present this well, I wanted to take some things that I've learned

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and we have learned to think, move, thrive as we've been creating content

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over the last year or three years.

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And as we've been creating.

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Leadership, experiential leadership retreats, or summits or boot camps,

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. I've been able to interact with a lot of different people in these environments

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and see how they digest content.

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One of the things that.

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I did in 2018 was came out with the book Move and if you love

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leadership books, and if you're like me, I love reading hardbacks.

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I'm old school.

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I don't do the Kindle, so don't be hating on me if you like Kindle.

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I'm not hating on Kendall.

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It's just me personally.

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I like a good hardback book.

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I wrote Move for.

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Leaders and coaches and individuals, mainly that was were either going through

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some type of transition or coaching teams or people going through some type

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of transition and needed some language that they could wrap around that.

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So it's definitely a leadership and coaching book, but it

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is more for people who love leadership and coaching books and.

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If that is something that lights your fire, then you should get it and we'll

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put it in the show notes in case you didn't know that we had a book out.

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But after that, and we've talked and I've, we've put together all kinds of retreats.

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What I realized was at a lot of these retreats there's some

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people that like reading leadership books and other people that don't.

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They may be more, fictional readers and, or they may not read, They may

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listen to audio books or podcasts.

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They just, there's a lot of different ways that people are digesting content now.

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And another thing that I've learned is that some of the books That were , on

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my bookshelf that I had bought long ago that I have a lot of respect for.

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They're so long or.

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There's so much good information in those books that people would not finish

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them or would feel intimidated by them.

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And so what we have done and what we are doing is we are creating,

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and we'll be publishing a new book.

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At the end of this year, or the first of 2023.

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So we haven't set the release date yet.

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I've not put it out anywhere on any social media.

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I've not put it out on the website or anything.

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You've heard it here first.

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But we do have a book that is set to be released at the end of this year.

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I'm not even gonna share the name of it yet.

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But we'll be sharing more information in the coming weeks

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and we're really excited about it.

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It's a great story, but it's all about how you create culture and lead teams

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and people, I am super pumped about it.

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Spent a lot of effort and time on it and and still going through all the

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process and getting all the details, finalized for the release, but we're

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so excited about that, so stay tuned because we'll be coming out with that.

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Secondly, another announcement that's just as big , is that

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we have just come out with.

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We are calling a self-awareness guided journal.

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Now, we haven't put it on the website yet, we just got the first shipment in.

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It's a limited supply right now.

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And so we're gonna be putting some up on the website for sales soon and

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or Amazon, we may put some on Amazon.

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We don't know yet, we're going to make that decision in the next few weeks.

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And so you should in the next couple weeks see those come out.

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So I wanna talk.

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The listeners of the last 10% and just share some of my stories and

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periodically I want to share some stories.

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Relate to leadership, relate to growth mindset coaching, and just pull back

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to curtain a little bit and share some personal stories that I've experienced

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and lessons that I've learned as well, because I wanna bring in all kind of

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guests that we get just this, diverse experience and diverse perspectives and

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mindsets, but also want to share some from my side and perspective as well.

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When I was in college, I worked at a retreat center on the East coast and

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the retreat center had youth, groups that would come in all summer long.

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And this retreat center was started for underprivileged kids.

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They had, orphanages and children's homes that would come down and these kids would

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be able to come to the ocean and they've never seen the ocean for the first time.

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And it.

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A magical experience to be able to see a kid's excitement that they

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may be a teenager and they've never seen the ocean for the first time.

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And to be able to experience that with them and have fun with them and just

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just show them that you care and you're so excited that you could be in that

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moment, Just a really special opportunity.

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Now I lived in an apartment on this retreat center with 12 other college

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dudes, so it wasn't the best smelling apartment, and it wasn't the cleanest

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place, but it was one row off the beach.

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And so you cannot beat that for a summer job.

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It was spectacular.

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We got paid peanuts, but we got a lot of free spaghetti

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and hot dogs from the group.

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So by the time the summer was over, I was so sick and tired of

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eating spaghetti and hot dogs.

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It was a really good experience.

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Now, one day while I was off, I decided I was gonna go out and do what I did in

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most days that I was off, which was go and either sit and read on the beach or go

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and get in the water and ride the waves.

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And so I'd walked out to the beach and one of the groups were out at the beach.

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In fact, they were just getting out.

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They had some teenagers and young kids in the water with the chaperones.

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And they were all coming outta the.

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And as they were coming out, they were drying off and they had this

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other game set up on the sand and they knew me because I was, working with

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them that week and was on the staff.

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And so they came and some of the leaders said, Hey would you do us a favor?

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Are you going out to the ocean?

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I said, Sure.

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They said, There's just.

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One young lady, she's 10 or 11 years old, she just didn't

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come in with everybody else.

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Can you just go out there?

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Can you go tell her to come in cuz we're about to play this game.

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We don't want her hanging out in the ocean and miss this fun, this new game.

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I said, Sure, absolutely.

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I'll go tell her.

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And.

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I started walking out into the ocean and immediately when I hit the ocean

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and when you spend a lot of time on the ocean, you just kinda get to know the

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currents and what it feels like and when I hit the ocean, I could automatically

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feel like this is a tremendous.

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Under to wasn't a rip tide, but it was definitely a very strong current in

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the ocean, very atypical for the day.

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And it was very choppy water.

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It was a little breezy, which made it hard to hear cuz there all the winds blowing

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and there's, the water's real choppy.

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And so I start making it out.

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And about the time I got not quite waste deep in the water, I realized this

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young lady was not, Doing very well.

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She was actually not trying to stay out in the water.

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She was trying to get out of the water and was having a hard time.

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And I could tell she was struggling to, to swim.

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She would, was trying, she was, she started saying help, but she was not loud

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enough to overcome all the ocean sounds.

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And it was, the tide was, further out.

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So the group, the youth group was up at the beach and so I just.

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Sped up my approach quite dramatically when I noticed this.

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Can you go into life lifeguard mode?

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I was not a lifeguard at the beach.

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There was actually no lifeguards on this particular beach in that year.

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I was a lifeguard at the pool.

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And so I was like, It's time to go.

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And I took off.

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I had.

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Life raft or anything like that.

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It's just, you know me going to get this young lady.

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And so I swim out and I get to her and she's just flailing at this time.

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It's like, on tv.

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She's not doing what she's sucking in water.

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And so the first thing I do is try to calm her down and I just said, Lean on me.

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And I put my arm under her arms and started to swim back.

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What.

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Failed to realize was how strong the current was and how much

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it was pushing out, and that we were really behind the breakers.

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So there was no forward push for us.

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And so I was, had one hand because she was not listening.

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She's panicking.

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She's still panicking.

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She's flailing.

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Even though I've got her, she feels like she's got to keep

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kicking and trying to, help out.

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And I was just like, Hey look, just give it a break cuz it's harder for

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me to, hold you while you're kicking and screwing and get you back than

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it is if you just, remain calm.

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And so we kept struggling against the water and really against each other.

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And finally she calmed down.

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But I was getting more and more tired every just every few seconds

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cuz I'm pushing with everything I've got and I'm not making any progress.

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Now we're out at this time, we've actually moved backwards.

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We're out in water that I can't touch the ground.

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It's over my head and we're just swimming now.

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I had been trained, as a lifeguard.

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At the retreat center and at the beach, you know about rip, rip currents and

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the biggest thing with rip current is you just let it take you out.

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It pushes you down the beach and then as it, lightens up, you just come on a shore.

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Now I knew that this wasn't a rip.

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Tied or rip current, but it was really close and it was choppy enough and windy

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enough where we were not going to, I was not definitely with a young lady on

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under one of my arms that was kicking and flailing, going to pull her in against

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this current, but, Despite the training and the knowledge that I had on how to

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better handle the situation, it'd been better just to, , lay on our backs and

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just take it easy and just float down the beach a little bit and come in.

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I was 19 and she was in trouble and the shore was just so close.

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It was just so close, like I could see it.

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It was right there.

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And I'll never forget it because everybody was engrossed in the game

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on the beach and I could see 'em.

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The wind was going, the waves were crashing.

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They could not hear me.

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I couldn't even hardly get a breath to yell.

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They couldn't hear her.

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And I'm like, This is it.

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We're gonna drown cuz I'm not gonna let go of her.

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We're gonna drown right in front of all these people.

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They're not even gonna.

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And so it was a really sober thought that washed over me as a 19 year

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old, and I remember just feeling completely exhausted and I was I was.

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You're just going through like, All right, what's my options here?

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And about that time, There was these three massive waves that came and they broke way

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behind where the waves had been breaking and they want, The first one caught me

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really bad off garden, so we both just ate the water and I was like, Oh my gosh, what

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in the world it, can it get any worse?

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But what I realized was it moved us just a few feet forward.

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And so then I was like, I saw another one kind of out in my, peripheral comment.

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I was like, Okay, look, this is our chance.

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So I started just, swimming as hard as I could.

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One last push to try to get it, and it moved us a little bit more.

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And then the last of the three I just dropped down and I went underwater and

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just tried to just throw her forward to try to see if she could catch the wave.

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And so I went underwater and just threw her with the wave and it worked

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and she made it just a few more feet and I was able to come back up.

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Now that I didn't have her on my back, she's still sputtering and swimming, but

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she's still at least a little bit closer.

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When I got to swim towards her, I could get my footing again and.

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And then we were able to make our way into the shore.

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Still took us a while to get in and, we hit the beach and here

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she goes and runs up to the, the group of her friends and counselors

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like,

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nothing's happened.

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And I'm like, on my knees in the surf.

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Just, I was just done, I was so shaken up, I was exhausted and I just felt so.

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Inadequate in that moment.

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I had felt, I just, there was, but I was so thankful and grateful that we were

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alive, that we didn't drown right there.

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And that, I could just see it now, 19 year old lifeguard, drown, saving

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young woman on the East coast.

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It's are you kidding me?

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But it was a really, an interesting experience and for me, it showed me,

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the value of coaching and the value of mentorship and the value of growth and

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development because it was very clear that there was a gap that needed to be

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traversed for me and that young lady, and there was only so much that I could.

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I needed some help.

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Now, in that moment, I felt it was a, the hand of providence that really

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boosted me up on that one because I had no inner, I had no ability

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to overcome the, the environment that I was in on my own strength.

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And so I needed some help and the girl needed some help.

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She couldn't have, she couldn't have made it with those three waves.

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She was already sputtering before I got out there.

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And so what I did for her was I went, And found her where she was and took

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it upon myself to be responsible to close that, help her close that gap.

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She had to do some work, she had taken on some water, but we were gonna go and

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we were gonna, we were gonna close that gap together and I think move thrive.

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That is exactly what we see and what we would say a coach is.

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And we like defining coaches more broadly.

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Like we say, leader, coach If you are leading people, it doesn't matter

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if you're leading people on a team.

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It doesn't matter if you're a business owner leading an organization, if you

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are a mom or dad leading your kids, you are closing gaps constantly,

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which makes you not only a leader, but it also makes you a coach.

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Coaches close gaps, and they help others close gap.

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And when we talk about gaps let's talk about that because gaps for me

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when I'm in, out in the water and I'm looking across this ocean this, all the

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white foam and all the waves breaking.

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I'm just seeing.

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It's just a lot of tension cuz I, I, it's not right.

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I should, we shouldn't be here right now.

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We're in this awkward space.

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I feel very uncomfortable.

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I've got this girl, she's going beco trying to paddle and she's

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not doing too good of a job.

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And so this is just, this tension and a gap is also the, just the distance between

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where you are and where you want to be, where you are to where you wanna be.

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And so I knew the right thing to.

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I knew the right thing was to not work so hard, not have to struggle

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and let the tide just take us down a little bit more, and then we could

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get closer to shore and come out.

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But knowing wasn't doing, knowing wasn't doing.

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So my gap was, the knowing doing gap.

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Her gap was a physical gap.

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She just couldn't, she wasn't a very good swimmer.

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She got in a bad spot and she was off the shore too far.

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So her gap was that, my gap was I was a good swimmer.

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I could have easily swim out there and swim back, but not with her on my back.

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And so it was a knowing, doing gap.

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I knew what to do and I wasn't doing.

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Now there's four gaps that we talk about in the book move.

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There's a gap in awareness, There's a gap in knowledge, a gap in

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capability, and a gap in courage.

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Now, there's lots of other gaps, and a gap is just the space between

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where you are and where you wanna be.

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These are just four big ones that we pulled out to go through in move

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to talk about what gaps are and how they manifest themselves in life.

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Gap in awareness.

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For me, a gap in awareness in leadership is it's really

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hard to traverse as a leader.

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Increasing your self awareness is a difficult task.

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It's very difficult because you're having to get outside of yourself

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and then look at yourself and say, Hey, what do I not know?

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By definition, you, if you lack that awareness, You can't see it

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cuz it's yourself and you are.

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It's just, it's a loop.

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So you need some help on that.

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Number one, that's where an executive coach can help you a lot.

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We think that at think, move, thrive.

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We think that self awareness honestly is a cornerstone of leadership.

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If you are a leader, you should be doing things that would help increase

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your self awareness cuz that will absolutely make you a better leader.

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Take an assessment.

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That's a huge thing.

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We love the Enneagram, but there's lots of Great assessment Disc and

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Myers Briggs and standout and strengths finder and all these great assessments.

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Find one or two or five or 10.

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I've taken 'em, almost goodness gracious, I don't even know how

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many I've taken, but it's great because they each have their own.

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Their own kind of frame, their own perspective of how they look at you and

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as you go through that, and as you take those, it'll give you some great insights.

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So please take an assessment or two or 10 and also, Take some time to reflect.

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If you're leadership, you've got a gap in awareness.

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One of the things that you need to be doing is reflecting, just

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spend just a few minutes reflecting on some valuable questions.

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We have the one on one app, and part of that app is helping people that

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are getting coached to have just 10 minutes to answer some really.

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Really insightful questions and if they can spend that 10 minutes, we've had

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some crazy stories about what's happened when people take just a few minutes to

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reflect on some really great questions.

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Also if you.

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Are not being coached and you don't have the app or not going through the coaching

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system and you haven't taken it, or maybe you've already taken some assessments.

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That's another reason we did the guided journal, The self-awareness guided journal

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specifically was just to help people.

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If you have some time in the morning and you have some

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moments before you go to work.

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A quiet time.

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Quiet space.

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It's a.

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It's a great opportunity for you to get out that self-awareness guide journal.

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Ask a few great questions, think through 'em, reflect on 'em,

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write down and journal some about it and increase your awareness.

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Gap in knowledge, gap in capability.

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These are pretty self-explanatory.

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We can overcome those by going and getting more information or delegating

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to someone who has more information.

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But those are pretty, pretty straight.

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I think that a gap encourag to when you're in a leadership position.

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There's been so many times I've come into an organization and the right decision.

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Is so obvious.

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It is so obvious.

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I was actually talking to a turnaround expert, a CEO in Atlanta years ago,

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and I was interviewing him from nba and I was like, Hey, tell me your biggest

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thing that you like when you go into these massive companies and you're

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tournament around, what do you do first?

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Cuz this is like this a hundred million dollar.

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Company that's just gone bankrupt.

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And they have they're outta money.

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What do you do?

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Cuz you're the guy they hire to bring in and turn around.

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What do you do?

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And he looked at me and he said there's one thing I do always

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before I do anything else.

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I was like, What is that?

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He said I go into these companies and I find the pet project.

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I said, what does that even mean?

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What are you talking about?

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He said the CEO that left was fired usually.

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When the company is just completely bankrupt in that situation, you have

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a CEO that comes in and he has a pet project and he started something and

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is just bleeding out in the company.

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It's just costing tons of money as generating nothing.

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But he can't, or she can't let it go.

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They can't get past it.

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, because if they do, it might look bad on them.

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They might be seen as a failure in that they, and or they just love

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it, they love that, whatever it is.

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And he goes, So the first thing I do is I go in, find the pet project

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and I kill it, and I get it out and it's, and I said how do you know?

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How to find that?

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He goes, Oh, it's obvious.

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I'm like, It's obvious to you.

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And you walk in and it's not obvious to him.

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He goes, No, they don't want to get rid of it.

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And so there's a piece to that.

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There's a gap and courage.

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It might be it might be stepping out and having a critical conversation

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with one of your team members.

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It might be having to have a crucial conversation that you gotta let

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somebody go that just doesn't fit the culture, especially if you've coached

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'em and they're just not responding.

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And.

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As a leader, you've got to have the courage to do that.

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And some of the things that we've done and been a part over the years has just been

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helping empower leaders to take courage, to do great things, whether that's start

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a new innovative line and launch a new product, or whether that's to go into a

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team and say, Look, this person is toxic.

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They've been toxic.

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Everybody knows they're toxic.

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They haven't changed.

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You've given 'em multiple opportunities.

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It's time to have courage to let them.

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And close that gap.

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Encourage.

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So that's just four things I wanted to lay out as it relates

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to gaps that are in the book move.

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So if you, if those are, if that's some topics you like, we'll be covering

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some more information outta move.

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But I want to periodically have a coach's corner and talk through that.

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And just wanted to take some time today to share.

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What's going on this past summer when we've gone through all

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the episodes that we've done.

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We just started in March and it has been incredible the listenership

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of Think, Move, Thrive, and the last 10% I mean, I am blown away.

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It was like in July and we had.

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Ton of people all over the world start listening to the podcast.

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I was not expecting that, and it came fairly quickly.

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And so we continue to gain new listeners every single episode.

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Every single episode.

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And so we're excited about this fall.

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We've got some cool episodes planned.

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We've got some cool guests coming, and we're just pumped.

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So we'd love for you guys to continue if.

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Listen to the last 10%.

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Please like us, please subscribe and please help us get the word out.

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Thank you for comments and thank you for the feedback that we've been getting.

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It's just been awesome.

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I love sharing this content.

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I love interviewing all these great people and also, If, and I haven't done this

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before, if you listen to an episode or two, the last 10%, we always end the show.

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Asking the guest who they would like to hear on the last 10% and we're

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