How can engaging in self-care help combat burnout?

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All right. Wow. Talk about technical difficulties.

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And I only have one thing to blame. It's me.

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Because somehow, I don't know. So Chrissy, hi.

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Welcome, Chrissy. Hello, everyone. Now, OK, so

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full disclosure, I have met Chrissy. I was on

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her podcast. She's absolutely lovely. Welcome,

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Knowledge. So. Chrissy's got to introduce herself

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because I got nothing and no prep needed. I don't

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have a paper in front of me. Chrissy, hi, tell

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us about yourself. Thank you. So good to be here.

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I love your energy. I love spending time with

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you. I've been looking forward to this ever since

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we booked it. My name is Chrissy Cording -Lee.

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I live in Winnipeg, Canada, which is known for

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winter, more than anything else. And I did have

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a lovely snowy hike this morning, which was lovely

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in the snow and in the and in the sunshine. It

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was beautiful. And I am the managing director

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of a company called Ignite Purpose Canada, which

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is a subsidiary of a global company called Ignite

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Purpose. We do human centered performance coaching

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and consulting. And then I also have a podcast,

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which you mentioned, which is called the flare

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up show. And I started it a few years ago because

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I have an autoimmune disease. And I found that

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by sharing my story and hearing other people's

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stories about it, it just made me feel less alone

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and less. It gave me some hope just to be around

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other people. that could sort of relate to what

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I was going through, because it was very isolating

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at the time. And that has sort of just grown

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into its own thing. Now it's not just about overcoming

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flares. It's actually about people that have

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come to me, which is great stories, great experience,

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just sharing cool things about how they've overcome

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in life and all the ways that they've leveled

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up in different ways. So it's been really exciting.

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So thank you. Thank you for participating in

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it. I'm gonna say this, I don't feel like it's

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misery loves company, but I know when I'm dealing

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with my kidneys, I like reading about other people

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in pain. So I'll go onto the Facebook and I'm

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like, oh, they're dealing with this too. And

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no matter how painful I am, I'm almost addicted

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to like other people's stories help me. So I'm

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not so unusual. Yeah, it's like normalization,

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right? And sometimes when we have those really

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strange aches and pains or we forget how painful

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it is, cause we go out of a flare and then we

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get into a flare, we're like, oh does this is

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something really wrong this time and then we

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read these stories and like oh no this is all

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normal again I remember this now I just sort

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of forgotten the pain this is normal I'm okay

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relax which we know stress is not good for autoimmune

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either so yeah I think that it's really important

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what you're doing because it it lends it an arm

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and a leg and an ear and all of that to those

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of us that are dealing with the same thing and

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and you know may have to get up and go to work

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no matter what the pain is because they don't

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have an employer that understands or maybe they

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leave their job to work for themselves uh but

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don't realize they have clients right that still

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have you have to work for it so yeah it's really

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interesting so this night so so is this a i don't

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want to use the word like a franchise but this

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is it kind of like a franchise yeah Yeah, you

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know, it's a really interesting story and it's

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a very unique company and the situation that

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I'm in with them is pretty unique too. It's just

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one of those stories. So it actually stems from

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my podcast. So in 2022, I was still working in

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the corporate world and I had been working in

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executive leadership and I had taken on a new

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role with a new company and sort of gone really

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south quickly and I never really experienced

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that. I've been successful. pretty much ever

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have been. I'm pretty easy to get along with.

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And I do good work. I know I do. So it was it

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was a really unusual company. And I decided to

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say, you know, I'm too old for this stuff. Like,

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I'm going to go find something else. I took a

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chance and quit without a backup plan. And I'm

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a single mom. And at that time, I was really

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just sort of in my spare time looking for work.

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I was amping up my podcast and I met the CEO

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of Ignite Purpose in Australia, Christina Foxwell,

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because she talks about love in the workplace

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and what compassion actually looks like in leadership.

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And I'm like, it's amazing. Come chat. So we

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chatted. We had a great time. We really connected.

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And then what happened was, so now I'm out of

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a job. I'm a single mom and we do get employment

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insurance here. So I had a little bit of cushion,

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but then shortly after I met her and it's not

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her fault because it was online she didn't pass

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COVID to me but I got very sick with COVID and

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because of my autoimmune I ended up with a brain

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injury so and then I was incapacitated for at

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least a month I couldn't walk properly I couldn't

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talk everything was like slurred I look like

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I had late stage Parkinson's. I was in this sort

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of state of seizure. It's called serotonin syndrome.

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So my brain wasn't able to regulate the chemicals

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in my body. So it was spiking and then crashing.

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And it's fatal if left untreated. But it was

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because of the spikes in the serotonin and the

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melatonin and that it led to really crippling

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anxiety and other mental issues as well. So back

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to my purpose, sorry it's a long story, but Christina

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had kept in touch with me after that podcast

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and so she was kind of there to see me go through

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that and then get back on my feet and still figure

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out how to make sure my family wasn't homeless

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during you know these times and the different

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ways that I legally and morally made money in

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the state that I was and we became good friends

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and I just really appreciate her support. And

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she's like, no, I've been thinking about expanding.

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Maybe we can start with Canada. How would you

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like to join? And so that's where it started.

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And I was really keen on it because the reason

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we connected was her philosophy on leadership

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and how you treat people. And I'm like, yeah,

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that's a cause I can get behind. And it just

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came at a time when I was really looking for

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something. So it just fit right in. So that's

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where we're at. Well, I love the story because

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you really are highlighting the relationship

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factor. And so wait, let me make sure I understand

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this correctly. So you had her on your podcast?

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Yes. That's how you develop the relationship.

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See, everyone, you should have a podcast. Talk

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to Seth Green from Market Domination. He'll do

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a great podcast for you. Because at the end of

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the day, that's really the reality. And then,

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well, I mean, it helped that she was caring and

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compassionate and understanding and saw through

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everything that you're going through that this,

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that you would be able to be amazing. So I, wow,

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all the stars lined up beautifully. Yeah, it's

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been, it's been fortunate. And I mean, there's

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still healing and growth and all those wonderful

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things, but it's, it's just, it's unbelievable.

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I actually, just the other day dug up an old

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thing that I had written 10 years ago about what

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my ladder of success looked like. What would

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it mean to me if I was successful? What are the

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things that I would need to climb in order to

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be, you know, a whole successful person? And

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it was really interesting because I hadn't seen

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it in a decade. I was doing some cleaning and

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I pulled it out and I'm like, oh my God, I'm

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successful. Like I had done all the things. Like

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I went right from just being healthy in body

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and mind, which I am now. to having goals, which

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I do to get creative and curious. So I'm doing

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podcasting and hanging out with cool people like

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you. Next one was communicating and peer growth.

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I'm expanding my community to amazing people

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like you. And then the top one was being influential.

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So sharing my message and I'm like, oh my goodness,

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like I was in tears because it's been such a

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ride and there's been so much heartache and hard

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and challenges and obstacles that I'm like, It

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didn't matter like and whatever comes my way

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again. There's just another ladder to climb.

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That's all and I can do it. I Love that. Of course.

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I have to ask that question. What's next? Yeah.

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Well, actually it's funny I've been sitting here

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looking at my ladder of success and my goals

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are a little bit different especially as I you

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know approach 50 and I Just really oh, thank

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you. Hey, that's cuz I've been mature. That's

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funny. My my spouse is came to Canada as a refugee

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from the Middle East many years ago, and he always

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says, you know, even though he's eight years

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younger than me, he's like, I'm 41, and my brain

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is 100. You're 49. And I'm like, and I'm six,

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six on the inside. He's like, yes, yes, you're

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a child. I'm like, I know, it's the best I've

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ever been able to hold. We're on the playground

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together, you and I. I love it. So my ladder

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of success now is changing a bit because it's

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sort of like enjoying, like there's a little

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bit. So I'm thinking about things I want to enjoy.

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I want to be in nature. So that's one thing that

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I've been doing every day. Like I said, cold

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ice snow doesn't matter. I'm getting outside

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and I'm finding a tree to go hug. So there's

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also going to be, I've also put down being very

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careful about whose advice I allow to affect

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my emotions. So that's been a. big growth because

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as you get more exposed in your success and you're

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more out there you're also prone to catching

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more opinion and even maybe criticism right so

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really learning not to take that to heart because

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i'm very sensitive as well so so those are sort

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of the next and i i do i am putting out a uh

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an individual coaching practice in my spare time

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because i have tons of that uh but that will

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be focused around wholeness so it'll be for people

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like me, especially when I was going through

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those deep dark times, like what's wrong with

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me? What am I missing? You're not missing anything.

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But let's figure out what you need to focus on

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to just get one step closer to being whole. So

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yeah, excited. There's lots of cool things going

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on. Okay, so thank you for the sound bite. I

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really appreciate that. You made my life easier

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because what you said was so amazing. So I'm

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like, oh, okay, that's gonna go. That's gonna

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be your own little post. Chrissy got me out of

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my own little post. Thank you, Chrissy. No, really,

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and this is amazing. All right, I know that you

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have to run. Quick question though. For Ignite,

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is it a membership base? No, we actually work

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with corporate clients. So it's... The people

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that come to us are usually they have companies

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between 50 and 250 employees. They have executive

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teams that are maybe trying to figure out how

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to upscale, keep still that professional but

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personal touch, those relationships. We take

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people through a transformational package where

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we teach leaders how to grow themselves first.

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Even if they don't think they need it, they do.

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We all need to work on ourselves. Then we get

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to now that you're evolved, how do you teach

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your people to evolve to where they want to be?

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And then third, how do we bring you all together

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so that you can work like a cohesive team and

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honor each other's individuality and diversity?

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So it's really cool. But yeah, so it's not a

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membership thing. You can follow us. We do lots

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of cool webinars and things for free that anybody

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can engage in. And I'm always happy to talk.

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But generally, clients hire us and we work traditionally

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that way. with coaching and consulting and facilitating

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and, yeah. What's your cutoff? Do you have to

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go now? No, I've got about 10, 15 minutes, so

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we're good. So I'm curious, who's your target

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market? Are they HR, vice presidents of companies?

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What does that look like? Our main program is

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executives, so it's executive teams, and that's

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because... And I've experienced this myself and

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probably you've experienced this yourself. You

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sort of like all your career, you're like, I

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can't wait to get to that top boardroom and to

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get to those meetings. And then you get there

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and you're like, this is the most dysfunctional

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meeting I've ever been in. These people are all

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trying to talk over each other. They all dislike

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each other. They don't know how to interact.

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Whatever got them here is not what they're doing

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now, right? Like they may be good at leading

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their own teams, but they're having a real hard

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time being a team. And when there's that fog

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at the top, it does miss down to everybody else

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in the organization. So that's generally who

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we work with is those. So we look for people

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that are like, my boardroom is a war room. Okay,

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we can help you. We can help you bring that back

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into like, doesn't mean you have to agree or

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love each other to death, but let's show you

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how to function. right, and communicate so you

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can still be cohesive and get a message to your

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people. And, and then we have another layer that

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we do work with other managers or HR. We tend

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to partner when we work with HR, we work we look

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for people that are looking to partner. So I

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always tell HR people, you know, God, yes, you're

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amazing, you can do it all, but you don't have

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to do it all. You can be resourceful. You don't

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have to do all the coaching yourself. You don't

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have to do all that yourself. You can bring in

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outside people to help you with that, because

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that's a lot. That's a lot, right, when you start

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getting into some of those stories. Yep. Chrissy,

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OK, I'm sure I'm going to really get everyone

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mad at me when I say this, but I find that this

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was my reality, serving on a variety of boards.

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Nobody if you want to get mad at me, just send

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me your hate mail DM me and give me your phone

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number Okay, so so here's I'm gonna say Men talk

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a lot They share way more in a boardroom than

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their counterparts They will start with stories

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and then bang bang the gavel hits the meeting

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has started They will then when they got the

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floor or the table. They can't stop talking.

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They don't know how to make a point. Hey, Chrissy,

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here's what I believe. This is what we should

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do. What do you all think? It's like 20 minutes

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of the same thing being repeated 100 times. Now

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I love audio rooms. I hear it the same thing

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in audio rooms. They tend to talk over each other.

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So they don't allow someone to speak. A lot of

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egos can tend to be at the table, which really

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makes it hard. And then you've got someone like

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me and everyone thinks, oh, she's such a, she's,

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you know, so outgoing and blah, blah, blah extrovert.

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No, no. When I go in the boardroom, I need rules.

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So because when, so when I do the boardroom and

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I've been chair many times, I make sure everyone

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understands Robert rules of order. I like order.

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I don't like popcorn style. I don't do well with

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that. So, and I know that there's people like

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me, so I make sure I ask everyone, hey, Joe,

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do you have any thoughts? Hey, Chrissy, do you

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have any thoughts? I make sure I touch everyone

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because you're always gonna be someone who's

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not comfortable speaking up. So I think that

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what you're doing is so important because everyone

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comes together and, you know, it's for a good

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cause. But when I get to the point, when I feel

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like, ugh, gotta go to another board meeting,

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ugh, it's a lot of fighting. Now I've lost, so

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like, why do I want to do it? Like, it's always

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been like something of, yeah. So what do you

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do? I'm like, this is common, right? Yeah, it's

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super common. And it's funny, because I was in

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a meeting not too long ago where actually there

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was an executive and a chairman like literally

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shouting at each other. And we're like, OK, I

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think we need time out. Like, recess, let's go.

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I think what we try to teach people is not just

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in the moment but teach them those skills and

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to practice those skills everywhere not just

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in the boardroom because it doesn't make sense

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so enter the boardroom and now forget all the

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rules of decorum and conversation and human dignity

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like that still applies in that room. We talk

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about getting getting really curious about if

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you find yourself talking a lot and talking over

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and not allowing space for silence, then you're

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not allowing time for thinking. Why are you uncomfortable

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with there being silence, right? That's the thing.

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That's what I look for. If someone's comfortable

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with silence, then I know that they're in thought,

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right? And they're being thoughtful and they're

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probably going to respond, not react, because

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they're allowing that pause. We need breaths.

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we breathe for a reason. The other thing I like

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to teach executives too because sometimes they're

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like oh this is like we're just going to sing

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kumbaya and all this girly fluffy stuff. Sometimes

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we get accused of being a female company and

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we're not. We do have men on our team as well.

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But the science, so I'm part of a network called

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the neuroplasticians network. It's a global network

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for people that like to work with neurodiversity

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and working with the science behind how the brain

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works and why we actually communicate the way

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we do with each other. So I like to explain to

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them that there's actually a formula if you want

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performance. There's a formula that you follow

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in your conversations. Number one is dopamine.

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People want to feel good. That's when you see

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them. So when you see someone and you're like,

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hey, good morning, or like you walk into the

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board and you're like, good morning, everybody.

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It's great to see you. Thank you. Just like you

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and I, right? We feel good. We're smiling. We're

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excited. And that's dopamine. That's a chemical

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reaction in the brain. So when you recognize

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someone and you make them feel good, give them

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a compliment that's genuine. That creates a dopamine,

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which means, hey, I feel kind of good right now.

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The next step is oxytocin, which is the security

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feeling. And we can only develop the feeling

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of trust and security and that safety in order

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to think clearly and have creativity if we feel

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trust. And the way we feel trust and we get oxytocin

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is when we're allowed to speak and be heard.

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So. Being seen is dopamine. Being heard is oxytocin.

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And then the last one is where you do get to

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talk and that's epinephrine and that's that little

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jolt of motivation. So now when they're happy

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and they're feeling secure, you now have earned

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the right to give them a guidance or a suggestion

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which gets them moving towards performance. And

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that's science. Like this isn't like girls or

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boys. Everybody's brain works this way. So you're

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doing a retreat. So I picture how important this

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is and how needed it is. I also know where it's

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really important. I love lifetimes. I just want

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to say that I love drama. It's fun for me to

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watch a little drama. But if I want to watch

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the school board and the drama, it's crazy. At

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one time, in Kissimmee, right next to Disney

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World, the school board was, they were crazy.

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So at one point I called the chair and I said,

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I said, listen, I'm here in Celebration, Florida,

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and how's your daughter, April? And she goes,

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what do you mean? I go, should I know your daughter's

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name? Should you be actually in a bored mood

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picking up the phone and talking to your daughter,

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telling that you're going to meet her outside

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and then naming the school? I'm like, does that

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make sense? And then by the way, the other guy

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who got up, took his coat off, barged out of

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there. And so because I don't have that much

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knowledge, I said to her, you should just you

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should put a sticky note on everyone's area when

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they're live and say we are live and then give

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them some like little tips like don't answer

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the phone. Watch what you say. Yes, it's like

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what we learned in kindergarten, but unfortunately

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we do have to teach, but I love that you're doing

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this and I do want to say a lot of these meetings

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that are being held online and people are watching.

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We're watching you and a lot of people you're

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making. You're embarrassing yourself. You have

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to stop. And so you have to call Chrissy and

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get some really good advice. I really need this

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because I love the drama, but like, I'm not thinking

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to myself, wow, I really want to like, you know,

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do business with you or work with you. It's just,

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it's not right. And remember, no matter where

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you are, give everyone a chance to speak. Understand

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that not everyone is comfortable. Chrissy, you

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gave such great information today. I can't wait

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to do, you know what's weird? I can't wait to

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actually do the show notes because there's so

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many people. I was speaking for a friend yesterday.

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I was teaching a short class on burnout and preventing

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burnout and what are the signs of burnout. And

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when we got on, I'm like, ah, because she's funny.

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She's very planned and organized. And I tend

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to be a little more, like you said, present.

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I have this like, it'll be OK to be present and

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just say what comes up. Right. Like that takes

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practice. But I feel secure, especially with

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you, in order to do that, because you give me

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dopamine and oxytocin. And I said to her when

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we came on, I made her laugh though, because

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she was very like planned. And I said, I can't

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wait to hear what I have to say today. Like.

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I love that. Run and enjoy each other. Like life

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is short. There's something likeable in everybody.

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You just got to really. I love that. If you're

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a positive person, other people, if you're not

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positive, you're not going to actually say that.

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But one more thing, one more thing. All right,

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burnout. What's the opposite of burnout? Like,

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I'm going on a little cruise, so Monday I will

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be in the Bahamas somewhere. I'm concerned that

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I actually miss what I do. I love what I do so

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much that I'm thinking, what is it called when

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it's not burnout, but like, burn up? Like, I

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can't wait. And I already know that. That's not

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burnout, because burnout is when you actually

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stop enjoying the things that you love doing.

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That's not burn out. What's the added passion?

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You're you're passionate. You're enthusiastic,

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right? Like you're you you what I said yesterday

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was Often when people are at burnout, they ask

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themselves like what am I missing? Why am I not

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getting in there? Why am I not enjoying this

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anymore? Like what is wrong with me and what's

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actually missing is you if You are not taking

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yourself into the equation You will burn out

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because you're going to be doing a lot of things

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that actually aren't for you for whatever other

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reason, whether it's expectations, whether it's

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survival, whether it's like pressure from family

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or societal expectations, right? So really bring

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yourself. So if you're going on vacation because

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you're excited and also because that gets you

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excited to come back to work, that's not burnout.

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That's that's engagement. That is you, Adrian,

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are living yourself. your best life first, which

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is what is the best. Thank you. Yeah, I love

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it. I love you. I can talk to you for there.

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You're really good. Where are you in Canada?

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Where are you in Canada? Are you by Niagara Falls?

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I'm in the central so people sometimes in the

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states ask if I'm from North Dakota, but I'm

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not. I'm just above North Dakota, so. OK, I won't

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be visiting for a while. OK, up to Daytona Beach.

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Where are you? Daytona Beach, Florida. Oh, I

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wish. Yes. I'll come next January when I'm just

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out. I'll be like, I'm going to visit Adrian.

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Yeah. Yeah. We're going to go visit and we're

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going to do board talks around. We're going to

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go around because it really is important. And

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if you're doing a SWAT, you need to ask, add

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Christy to your SWAT retreat. Yeah. It starts

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with a board, very, it starts with a chair and

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you know what I like? You know what, you know

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what all I need to really enjoy a chair is a

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nice smile. Yeah, when they smile and they look

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like they're enjoying themselves and they're

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happy they're comfortable You know, I love that

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that's that that I'm in all day long. Don't be

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robics. I'm happy too All right. Yeah, I want

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you to go Thank you, bye bye everyone thanks

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for joining us talk about brilliant bald and

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beautiful. That's Chrissy, bold enough to go

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live without worrying that there's no edits at

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all. Any time. I'm at burp, it's all good. All

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right, have a great day.