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You're listening to That Gratitude Guy podcast with David George Brooke
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That Gratitude Guy. Learn about how gratitude turns what you have into enough through stories of motivation and inspiration
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Wherever you are in your life and whatever you're going through, that gratitude guy is here to help you achieve great things and live a happier, healthier life
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Change the way you live today right here with David George Brooke
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That Gratitude Guy starting now. Well, hi, everyone. It is David George Brook
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That Gratitude Guy with the Gratitude Guy podcast. I am your host
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And as I tell people every week, actually I'm back from a month off in May
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And I'm starting now for every single Friday. And actually, it's going to be posted on Tuesday
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I should say, every Tuesday at 5 a.m. I'm now doing my weekly podcast
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as opposed to twice a month. But my mission here is to have guests that relate
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and recall moments of their life. that were propelled and energized by utilizing the power of a gratitude mindset
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And what you can expect if you're a first time listener is a deeper dive into gratitude's
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immense power, a gratitude tip of the show or a gratitude nugget, how you can become a
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gratitude believer, and maybe one to three takeaways from today's show and more
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As I mentioned, the podcast is downloaded every Tuesday at 5 a.m. out on the Transformation
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Talk Radio Network. and you can get it wherever you get podcasts, you can sign up Spotify, Apple, Google, and so on and so
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forth. Also, I might mention I do gratitude keynote speaking and gratitude coaching. You can reach me
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at That Gratitudeguide.com and by email at David at That Gratitudeguide.com as well
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And all those links and social media links and so forth are in the show notes. So let me get to
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move right on and introduce my guest, Scott Burns, is a very good friend of mine, very talented
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young man. I took a couple of notes from some Facebook and LinkedIn things where he says he's a
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prolific sound and visual storyteller, producer of over 20,000 radio and internet commercials
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in the career span of a lot of years, the proud creator and voice actor, a voice actor and
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on camera demo needs and re reels, I should say. He's done several fantastic video reels for me
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provided the first English speaking voice for Bowser and Super Mario games
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And as they people have noted many times, a very persuasive personality for commercials, narration, and tutoring
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So with that, let me just welcome. Mr. Scott Burns, welcome to the podcast. Thank you
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Who wrote that? That's a combination of several people on that too
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So what I always like to do, Scott, I always like to start out kind of with the context
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So people know that are listening and the gratitude believers and so forth is how you and I met
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I always like to let people know because it's so fascinating how our lives paths or life paths
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or rather cross and crisscross in life and so forth. So tell the listeners how you and I met
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Well, it was very fortuitous. You know, I think we met speaking of paths
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I was at a crossroads of my career. I had been working for a radio station and found myself unemployed at that radio station
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and had been seeking, what else can I do? What else is there
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And somebody had suggested, well, you should maybe try public speaking. And I thought, well, that would be kind of a, that would be a fun method thing to do
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So I had become an associate member of the National Speakers Association Northwest Bureau
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Okay. So that's, and I didn't, I wasn't, I had no speech in me
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I didn't know what to do, but I wanted to learn more about it. And to, you know, to take care of my dues
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They allowed me to do a little bartership, if that's a word
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to run their audio equipment for whenever they had speakers come in at the
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whatever hotel it was in Bellevue. And I ran the audio gear
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I would set up the microphones and things like that. And I got to see all these great speakers come through and kind of pick up some tidbits
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that way while getting a little bit. It was an exchange. And then all of it, one day, one of these events, here's, I think we were
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everybody was offered the chance that it was like an open mic night or something, open mic afternoon, where people got to get up and do their thing
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And here's this guy who I thought was a complete ringer. I thought this man has been speaking forever
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He's eloquent. He was talking about the Dragon Speech application thing. And I'm just saying, is he a salesman for that
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I thought, who is this man? The man's name was David Brooke, if I remember right
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And anyway, so somewhere along the way we met at a table or something where I introduced myself to you or you to me
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and it was just like, boom, I like this human being. And then it's just you and I commenced to let's have coffee
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And then we started an accountability group, just the two of us
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It was the largest accountability group I'd ever had before. And it's just been, how many years has that been
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Yeah, gosh, that is, that has been a number of years. And as I said in just the context, I just am fascinated by people that just, oh, by the way
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I need to introduce you to my friend. And I tell people that it's just, you never know who you're going to meet tomorrow
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tomorrow. And excuse me. And one of the things on this RV trip I took with Connor, I recently
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took, excuse me, is that I noticed that we had planned this 15 years ago when he was 12. Now he's
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27. We finally did it. And one of the big messages I took, I just recently took this RV trip from
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Orlando to Boston in an RV with my younger son is this concept about don't put things off
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Do it now and plan on it. And so you never know what each new day is going to bring. And one of the
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most important things and gratitude pays it plays a big part of this because I talk about how
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writing in your gratitude journal every day is so powerful. I don't miss a day writing in the mind
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but it makes you really present. That's one of the things that a gratitude journal does. It's one of
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the things that meditation does. But also you never know who you're going to meet that day
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And when your head hits the pillow at night, you think, wow, on that day, I met this guy
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Scott Burns. He's a cool guy. I wonder how this happened the way our pals crossed and why you
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connect with some people and not with others and things too. So back from that point, what did you
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you mentioned kind of the career change. What did you kind of pivot to around the time you and I met
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What did you pivot to kind of as the new direction for Scott? Well, my first love has always been, the term is production, radio production, audio sound design
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That's what got me interested in radio in the first place was being able to produce
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funny little bits and commercials and silly things like that and do funny character voices
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which propelled me to want to be a radio host, a morning show guy
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And so whenever, and it's always stayed with me in doing voices and things like that
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So whenever I've lost the radio jobs or, you know, that's a transient industry anyway
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I've always fallen back on, you know, doing production. The problem was I'd reached an age of my life and a career point where those radio jobs were kind of waning
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They weren't there anymore. And it was kind of this, it's like, what am I going to do that's different now
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I didn't want to go back and do the same thing I'd been, you know, spending all my time working on
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And so I was at a, I don't know what to do kind of thing
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Fortunately for me, things tend to find me. And I don know if that just leaving yourself open to the universe or whatever but I not very good of being proactive on things but I do leave the door open for things to find me And and I did a search I searched around
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the country for other radio jobs, just thinking, well, I've got to do something to put food
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on the table. And in the meantime, did, you know, just basic things like I helped a friend with
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his landscaping business. I, I applied to be a shuttle express driver, which was horrible, all
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humbling jobs, you know, blue-collar jobs that I wasn't really accustomed to having done
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but I needed money. So I'm trying to get back to where, what your question was of, well
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what was my outlook? Along the way, I had done some pickup work for a local advertising agency
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They had an in-house production and video department and had just done some, you know
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gone in after hours to help the guy organize commercials. Never thought I'd want to do that job
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because it was just, it was basically a cookie cutter put things together, kind of things. But then after going through all these other soul searching jobs, what do I want to do
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I get this call and saying that that guy had left the building and are you interested? And so I just
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happened to be, you know, here it is. It was like four miles from my home and started working there
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But now I was able to take on all the bigger, more fun, hot, sexy jobs that the guy was doing that
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he didn't want to do. And that lasted for 13 and a half years. You know, so it was the long
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longest job I'd had ever, you know, and, and, and it fulfilled my production, you know
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creative needs and enabled me to meet a lot of new people and just do what I love doing
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which was production. So that's, again, I've just, by leaving the door open, things kind of
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I just allow it. Well, and it's interesting, Scott, you said things seem to find me. And I think
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I've never been a real proponent of the word luck, but I do believe there's a definition that says luck is
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preparation meeting opportunity. And so if the opportunity was there, things seemed to find me
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You obviously were prepared to accept that luck or that opportunity, whatever it might be
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And I think that's really important because having that door open or looking at different things
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or you said something else, it's very important to me, especially when I think about being grateful about things, is the humbling experiences. I know as I went through developing that
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gratitude guy, I drove Uber for a while. I delivered postmates, food and different things
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I worked in a little retail shop after I'd been the store manager of a giant Nordstrom and a giant
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lows and type of thing. So I think that humbling thing is extremely important for keeping us kind of our mindset in check
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Would you agree? I totally agree. It grounds you. And for me, it literally grounded me because I was crawling under rhododendron bushes of a very
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rich person's home up in the hills or wherever, you know, it was the woman who started
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hotmail as a matter of fact. Oh, wow. this beautiful estate with these Tudor
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I mean, it was like I, you would never, I could never get past the gates to go into this place
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But since I was part of the landscaping crew, I got to go in it
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But even that, though, and it was like, this is kind of, it was kind of nice for a while to work in my hands
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I grew up on a farm, so I wasn't, you know, unaccustomed to get in hands dirty
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But this, it was humbling in that it's like, wow, how far do I have to go
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I'm crawling on the ground, scooping rhododendron, uh, debunking. from under a bush
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I'm doing everything you ask God. So when does it open up for me? And it was
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but you know, and that was cash under the table. So, but it was, it was groceries on the table
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So, but it, again, I'm the last year, my train of thought here
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basically how humble do you have to get? But yeah, it does kind of
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it makes you appreciate what you do have and really kind of helps you focus
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more on what it is what is it I really want to do what is what is and I think and I think it's important too
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because you and I know each other well enough to look at the experiences we had the ones we just
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mentioned as well as others where you really get humbled and I think oftentimes when you peel back
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the onion on a lot of these celebrities and these famous people a lot of them have really had that
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same experience well I used to work at 7-11 or I was doing hot dogs at the hot dog stand at the local
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stadium or whatever it might be and I really think it's important because to me the
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antithesis of that is always the child stars that never know any humbling things at all
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And so they're a famous star from five years old or six. And it turns out half the time, maybe higher, their lives are a mess because they never went through
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any of those experiences or being a kid or being humbled or gosh, to me, it's like that even during
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the Uber son, can you get my bag? You don't understand. I'm a very famous speaker
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I'm actually a person. Yeah, let me get that bag for you. Let me open that door
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It's just, I laugh at it because I think it's so good for you. Well, it is. And it helps put things in perspective right away when I was driving for, well, I actually drove one day for the shuttle express, a flying company
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But I learned a lot about how, what does it like to receive a tip from? Oh, yeah
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And even in that case, since I was a trainee, I couldn't keep the tip. I have to give it to the trainer. But the fact of that I got out of the van, went to the back of the van, got their bags and then was handed a $2 tip
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And I'm just going, wow. And my instructor was saying, now, don't spend those tips all at once
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A lot of fellows just blow it on lunches. But I like to save my tips for when I go to a movie
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You know, or it's like, okay. And I think it's experience like that, don't spend it all in one place
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I love that. How is it kind of, you look at the iterations of Scott Burns
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How has your gratitude piece, my favorite word, gratitude turns what you have into enough
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And gratitude helps you to focus on what you have versus what you don't have. how has your view of your appreciation or thankfulness or gratitude, if you will, kind of changed as you've gotten older over the years
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It's helped me, boy, that's a lot to unpack there because I'm thinking of at the time when I was, when I had a really nice career going, you know, from high school
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And I always, I always look at this five years of my life from high school to Seattle
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worked, I started in the humble beginnings of Moscow, Idaho, my hometown, went to Great Falls
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Spokane, to Boston, and then to Seattle in five years. That's a big, that's a lot for anything
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And at the time, I took it for granted because, and I, and even then I was kind of like, oh, I, I'm not
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I'm not a big thing. Don't think of, you know, this is what I do. I don't have a big head. I was
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trying to, maybe it was the, the, the upbringing on the farm, but I tried to keep things in perspective
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And I'm glad I didn't. I'm grateful I didn't let it go to my head. But at the time, it was just like, this is just, this is what I do
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This is where my life is right now. In retrospect, I look back on that and go, wow, that was really something
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And I do appreciate that. And I'm grateful for that. And it's helped me understand that through life, there are chapters
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I'm in one right now. And you can't take it for granted at the time because, and to, you know, to look around and go
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wow, this is a great special moment when you have kids. kids. You take grand when they're little, they're toddlers and they're growing up and you're
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going through to the school and you know all the expenses of that But then all of a sudden that that just dissipated and they grown adults now And it like wow exactly that just seems like a couple of months ago i we were going on field trips and things like that with the school so i appreciate that so i i think it helped me to to understand where i at now uh this this recent uh transition i in right now as a matter of fact uh which happened just a couple of weeks ago where the the full time position uh ended
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I was, it's one of those cases where, be careful what you wish for, because I've been wanting to
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be on my own again and, and, and, uh, work remotely. And well, look, and now I'm working remotely
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And, and, but it's, it's great. I've got all these other opportunities and things are
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again, like I say, I'm leaving the door opening and, and things are going to happen and not
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and not get wigged out worrying about what's, oh, what do we do this? Because when you focus on the worry
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that's, that becomes your thing. And, and, you know, that's, it's hard to break through of that. So I'm trying to, you know, keep
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keep looking towards the positive. Well, and even with that new chapter, because you would
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left me a voicemail or a text or something to mention the change. And, and you
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you and I talk about that might happen at some point, whether it's your decision or their decision
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But, but here's one of the things that I extract from it from such a positive standpoint
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And again, being grateful is look at, as you just said, the opportunities, there's a lot of
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things you're going to be looking at it and kind of now forced your hand. It's going to make, it's going to make you look at these other things. But also with the kids being grown, think how differently you
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would have reacted if this was 20 or 30 years ago versus now. And I would imagine you're a lot more
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grateful something like that happened now than back then. Yes. Yeah. And we did. And I credit my wife for
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keeping things normal and no one would ever know that we'd been, you know, if we were in between
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successes, you know, in between jobs for keeping everything just as status quo and, you know, not
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you know, blowing, oh, what are we going to do kind of stuff? But yeah, when you do have that family
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the immediate dependence, depending on you, it's like, I've got to do something and that can
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kind of wear you down too. It's been kind of nice too when in terms of, I'm in searching for
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work or whatever, I don't have that. I need this. I've got to get this. And just kind of like
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well, here, you're more or less offering yourself as a service to people. And if they need that service
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then so be it. That'll come. But, you know, if not, then let's, let's move on and
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Well, and I have a, I have a feeling, again, with the gratitude overview or overarching
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aspect of what I talk about on the podcast, that there's got to be a number of things that
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since that happened. You were thinking, great, now I can do ABC that got put on the shelf
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because there was never enough time. Yes. And that, that brings to mind of, oh, I need to prioritize
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things. Or, you know, because before I always had the full-time thing
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that, not as an excuse, but it was occupying my days. Right
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And I wished that I'd had time for myself to do these X, Y, and Z
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And now that I don't have that, it's like, oh, now I, I don't have an excuse
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So I need to, I need to tend to these things here. But it's, it's still nice not to have that underlying, that feeling that I've got to, I've got to produce
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I've got to be on site so they can see me that I'm, you know, not, not that
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it's a fake, but it's like I'm putting in false calorie hours
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And it's interesting to me as well because I, and I think back on this
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this podcast, gratitude nuggets and maybe thought of the day or a tidbit or something to take away
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One of the things when it comes to prioritizing and being an entrepreneur as I am and as you
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are, have been, and now even more full time, I mentioned somebody the other day
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I think this was just such a great nugget is that a couple times a day I'll ask myself
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Is this the most important thing you should be working on? And if you ever want to get into where you prioritize things, ask yourself that question a few times a day
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And that'll help you because sometimes I'm off in the weeds doing something that's just not very important
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Or people will say, well, is this going to create money or revenue or build your business or pay the bills or whatever it might be
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But that whole prioritizing thing is really important. Make a list. And now I have a series of lists and scraps of paper here
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I'll go back through and go, well, I didn't get to that one. that well, I guess I could cross this off
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It's amazing how, how like filling out your gratitude journal, you can just keep going and going and going
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But the more you do that, you know, put these little bullet points down
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It's like, oh, there's a lot to do. And that can kind of be overwhelming a little bit
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But boy, the gratitude I get from when you can cross one of those items off the list
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is just a mind lifter. Yeah, exactly. Like, wow, I, that's, you know, I get these things that have been
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I need to do this. I need to do that. And then finally when I do it, it's like
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whew, this is, you know, I'm on top of the world. Oh, it's a great feeling. And that's what we're looking for too
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is sometimes is the gratitude nuggets or the gratitude feelings of, I've got a great sense of self-satisfaction or accomplishment or whatever
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And essentially, you said, make a list. And I'm a big list person. I'm also a big note taker
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And one of the things I always have my, my yellow pad that
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you can't see it on there. But, and I make notes. And then I digest them later
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I take them. And so I'll be talking to somebody on Zoom or, on the phone or something where I can see them, I guess, on FaceTime or wherever it might be
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And I'll be writing all this stuff down there saying. And I want to make notes of this
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I'm going to create that a list later. And I look at him, I go, don't you need to take notes
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I mean, are you just like remembering everything? I mean, like, man, I wish I had your memory because I'll go back and here's the
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things seem to find me, as we said, in preparation opportunity, the chapters of your
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life has just changed, make a list, most important things and so forth. So, but when you do the list, you have like multiple lists, or is it
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like one big master list or how do you handle that? It's a big doodle page. It's mostly just dots, dots, dots with, you know, circles
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And then just I draw circles on top of circles and squares on top of squares
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It's, it's my doodle page. But I can look back at a goal
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Yeah, I know what I was talking about when I was drawing that little square. I want to credit you too because you're, you mentally take notes so well
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When we first met, I was astounded that you remembered names of my family and names
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of people that we talked about before. I mean, it was just like not scary, but it was impressive
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Oh, thank you. And made me want to become, I need to be a better listener
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Well, and it's amazing too. I've got some upcoming talks and workshops I'm going to be doing
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And one of the modules, even though it's about gratitude and how to become more grateful
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and a gratitude journal and, you know, folks in the things you have versus which you don't
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have, those are all the gratitude pieces I've done. but I add things and I add different modules
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And one of them that's one of the most popular is how to be a good listener. And everybody's like somebody once said it was so funny
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They said everybody thinks they're a better driver and a better listener than they really are
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Yeah, that was kind of funny because it's true. It's like everybody thinks that
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But then I want to sometimes kind of be a knucklehead about it. And I go, well, if you're such a great listener, hold on, so let me ask you something
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Where did I go with Connor for how far was a trip? What kind of vehicle did we have? What cities we
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I mean, you know, and people, because they're so busy trying to get ready to to make their next comment
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In fact, again, a gratitude nugget. It was Stephen Covey and the Seven Habits, I believe, that said
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listen to understand, don't listen to respond. And it so true And just really let it sink in And as fast as I talk I understand I always talked fast and so forth I try to really stop sometimes and just really absorb and hear what the person says and then formulate your next question rather than that thing you see all the time when you talking
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Uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh. Okay, what I wanted to tell you is, you go, you didn't hear a word I said
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So it pays off. And what's interesting, too, is that because it's more rare than we would like, people comment, you're such a good listener
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You're really, because it's not the most common thing. People love to hear about themselves
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Yeah. Have it originated back. And, you know, it's been dawning on me here, too, how listening, studying improv or taking
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an improv class. If anybody can get a chance to do that. I know it's, oh, yeah
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Guts, it takes time. It takes whatever. And it's kind of hard now with COVID to do improv via Zoom, even though there are people
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doing it. But I was fortunate enough years and years and years ago to start working with Gary
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Austin who's passed away now but he was the founder of the groundlings in Los Angeles which
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has become the Saturday Night Live, you know, farming farming communities. But for years, he would come
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up and it would just be games and it's just fascinating to how through play we can create
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you know, create content. But one of the, it took me a long time and he was always accusing me
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He goes, you're trying to be funny. You're stop doing that. radio thing. Oh
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you know, and it was because, yeah, I was trying to think ahead of what, you know
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I thought I've got to say something fine. I've got to be brilliant here. And I wasn't listening to what was happening until finally up until the very end
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when I realized, you know what, I'm just going to go and react. Because improv every day when you're at the store, when you're meeting just anybody
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you're not trying to think. Well, some people might think ahead of what they're trying to say
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But when I quit trying to think ahead and just. react to what was happening to me
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Things just opened up. Wow. You would get laughs and I don't know why
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Why what I did was created that reaction in that person, but they laughed
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Okay. And it became so liberating and fun and it was just like, okay, all I have to do is listen
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Yeah. And just react. That's what it was. So that's a, you know, you don't even need to take an improv class, I think, to do that
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You just have to just listen. No, that's, that's so true. and it's just amazing what you can understand or find out
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Larry King, I think before he retired, said one of his biggest comments was you can't learn anything when
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you're talking. And it's really two. And another, again, I'm just such a big fan of tidbits and nuggets and little reminders
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and things to remember. I tell those people all the time, the two most important three word phrases you can use
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when you're listening to somebody are tell me more is number one
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And then number two is, and then what? and if you let somebody talk
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and then they said, well, April and I went here and we did this, we did that and we traveled here
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Well, tell me more. Well, then we took a shuttle bus and we went to the mountain and went to see the sight scene
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Well, tell me more. Well, then we went surfing. When you're done, you'll think I'm the greatest friend you've ever had
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Because most people, I've taken a shuttle bus before. We went on an RV trip before. We were over there and I go, wait a minute
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we're not talking about you. You asked about me. So it's amazing how many more friends
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if you want to Dale Carnegie, win friends, influence people, just learn to listen to
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So let me go. we're going to wrap up and I was just thinking about some of the things you said
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I always like to come up with a few takeaways from any podcast. I like that
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Things seem to find me kind of the luck preparation opportunity. If things find you, you got to be ready when they do find you
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So that's the preparation piece when the opportunity comes along. You got a new chapter your life going on, which is going to be great to see how you
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apply gratefulness and gratitude to the new chapter post destination or whatever it might be and so
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forth. Make a list. I think that's fantastic. I mentioned the thing about is this the most important
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thing I should be working on? And the last thing, I just want to ask you to make one more comment on this
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Take an improv class. What's the biggest benefit? You might have answered it, but just for the listeners
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what's the biggest benefit of that improv class? Wow. And that's a tough question to answer because
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I don't know. I mean, for for a voiceover, everybody says, we'll take an acting class, but I always say
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suggest take an improv class because it helps you be in the moment, helps you think on your feet
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and, you know, you can be spontaneous because a lot of times if you're in a booth
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and they're taking direction from somebody and they say, hey, how about doing that as Superman
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Right. You're just like, okay, I don't know what Superman sounds like. It doesn't matter
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Just go for it. But it just, it helps keeps you grounded in a sense of awareness
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And it's a lot of fun. If you get a chance, you meet new people. Everybody's in this
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of course you're going to think, well, everybody here is better than I am. They're thinking the exact same thing. Exactly
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It's it's a communal experience and it's it's just it's games. You're playing games
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but games with that create structure. It's like, you know, and it's it's, I guess, yeah
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it brings us back to being when we were kids again, you know, and didn't have to deal with all kinds of stuff
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We just got to play. Well, it's interesting. You said, I don't know how to answer a lot of things
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and then you answered it. And I put down here, taking an improv class, being in the moment, think on your feet
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being spontaneous, being grounded, and a sense of awareness. So those are four or five aspects that are really good
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So your fear is jumping out of an airplane. Yeah, exactly. Very, very similar
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If you can do that, then I can, that wasn't. There's a lot of things you can do
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That's right. Exactly. So, well, that's it for this episode, everybody. And as a reminder, my podcast is downloaded, as I mentioned earlier, every Tuesday morning
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