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Rise Successful Women.
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Did you know women represent just three percent of Fortune
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five hundred CEOs and less than fifteen percent of corporate
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executives at top companies worldwide? Have you wondered what the
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secrets are to getting into the top ranks, whether in
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the private or public sector. Do you want to figure
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out how to stop being held back in your career?
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Are pasted over for promotion? Then you're in the right place. Hi.
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I'm doctor Mattlanann lewis, President and CEO of the Executive
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Women's Success Institute. I have decades of experience in the military,
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the federal government, and corporate America, and my mission is
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to help women succeed and tap into their full potential.
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I want to reach a million plus women around the
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world to become the leaders they are meant to be.
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So if you want to move into a management or
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executive level position, or maybe you are a female veteran
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transitioning out of the military into business entrepreneurship, and then
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reach out to the Executive Women's Success Institute at three
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zero one six nine three three two eight four let
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us get you on the fast track to success. Well,
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Hello and happy New Year to all of you who
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are viewing us today. This is the Success for Women's Show,
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where you can view us on Top four TV and
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listen to us on the Women for Women Network. I
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am doctor Madeleine and Lewis your host, and my mission
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is to help women accelerate the path to success. Well,
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today's topic is success Starts Within and my guest is
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Chaz Scott. Now, let me give you just a little
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bit of background about chess. Chas Scott is the founder
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of Supramenttum LLC. He is an author and keynote speaker
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who helps high achieving professionals escape burnout and build success
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that feels as good as it looks. His work focuses
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on clarity, resistance, resilience, I should say, and sustainable performance
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for those who are outwardly successful and want to sustain
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their ambition without burning out. Chaz challenges hustle culture and
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redefines what it means to lead and succeed sustainably. He
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is the author of Success Starts Within, and he has
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worked with organizations such as the University of Illinois Hospital,
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the Maryland Association of Election Officials, and the US Black
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Chamber of Commerce. So I would like to bring as
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our guest today, mister Chas Scott.
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Oh, thank you so much for that warm introduction. I
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appreciate being invited and I'm excited for today's discussion. Thank you, doctor.
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Well, you know what, thank you for being here. And
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I normally start off by reading everybody's standard bio, but
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then I like to ask one question, and that is
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I just want you to tell us what you want
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us to know about Chas Scott.
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That's a great place to start. Well, you said my
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bio a little bit there, But you know, I went
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to Hampton University and I studied computer science cybersecurity for
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my masters and it was right right around that time
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where I had just graduated, sort of trying to find
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my way and find my first job and climb the
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ranks within the organization as well as build a nonprofit
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at the same time. And there was a moment where
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I started to basically burn out and there was a
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process of self discovery that I really had to go
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on to really understand what this term success was, what
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this term happiness was, what this term fulfillment was. And
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it really sent me on a journey to read every
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book I could on personal development, psychology, neuroscience, spirituality, anything
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that can enhance the quality of your life. I went
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on a journey to read it because interesting enough, when
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I graduated, I had the job I wanted, I had
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the condo I wanted looking over the Potomac, I had
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the BMW that I wanted, nice red leather interior. But
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I was waking up with anxiety. I was waking up
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depress and I was waking up stressed before the day
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even started. And it caused me to reflect on what
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it really means to live a happy and healthy life
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and what I determined over these many many years. This
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was back in twenty seventeen, and mind you, I had
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an hour and a half long commute, falling, falling asleep
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at the wheel, and I just felt like the job
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wasn't fulfilling, it was just paying the bills. And what
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I determined throughout this journey was success is not something
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that you chase. It ensues as a byproduct of well being. Now,
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what do I mean by that hustle culture. Our society
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has taught us that we're supposed to hustle and race
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and achieve. And you know this in our society, especially
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here in America, we're consistently seeing higher rates of burnout,
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particularly within the communities of people of color, first generational professionals.
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Anybody who's ever been taught that you have to work
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ten times harder than everybody else in the room's burning out.
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And this process of discovery, I realized that there are
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simple practices that you need to do daily to fill
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up your cup, to fill up your well being so
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that you can have the focus that you want, so
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you can have the patients that you employees, so that
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you can show up as your authentic self and have
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well being.
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Wow, you know, it's interesting you say that because when
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I was working before I retired, well, when I did retire,
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I believe it or not. I because I was always
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at my desk six am every morning, six o'clock. You
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could set your watch by it. So when I retired,
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but I slept all just about maybe I would get
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up like two o'clock in a day because and like
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you say, and I think it was because I was
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so burnt out. And finally I did that probably for
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a whole month. And then for me, I just thought
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to myself, Okay, you got to get a grip now,
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and you can't just keep doing this. So I just
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snapped out of that. But I realized that I needed
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that rest because I was just you know, everything was
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just I just didn't want to think about anything. And
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I had that opportunity for that length of time just
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to do that, just to not focus, not think about anything.
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I didn't really want to talk to anybody. I didn't
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want to associate with anybody. I just you know, But
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that I think, and that's what I think. It came
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from being burnt out from all every day, you know,
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the having to be there and do what I needed
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to do, and like you say, the perform the high
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achieving stuff. And I know we're going to get into that,
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but when you have to do that for every day
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for so many years. It actually, I really believes it
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takes a toll. Look, it really does.
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Yeah, and I'm glad that you bring that up, because
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oftentimes we don't even realize that we're burnt out. You know,
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it's kind of like this this this you can you
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could either feel it psychologically a lack of fulfillment or
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just a lack of energy. And many times we're just
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caught in the rat race and the hustle culture and
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we're not even realizing feeling the best, and we get
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stuck and and and oftentimes that becomes our life until
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something changes. And that's what happened to me.
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Absolutely. I mean that is so so true, and it's
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just unfortunate to think about. There's still a lot of
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people out there that's still going through that cycle. They
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just haven't you know, readjusted yet. They haven't realized, Okay,
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why am I getting up every morning? Like you say,
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you know, with the anxiety and the depression. They don't
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realize probably what is what's even causing it, what it is,
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because think about everything that you just you mentioned that
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you had you know, every you know, person looking at
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you would say, well, he has no reason to be depressed,
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he shouldn't have anxiety. He's got you know, you know
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what they say, he's got it all pretty much. But
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you know, for you, yes, the material things, but it's more.
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It's it's always more than that. And that's why I
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always say when you talk about success, success truly means
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different things to different people. It really does. It's all
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in how you define it and what it means to you.
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So yeah, one hundred percent spot on. And I think
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you mentioned it in my bio, which is, you know,
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I'm on a mission to help people build a life
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that feels as good as it looks, not just looks good,
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but feels good. You should feel excited waking up going
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into work. You should be You should feel like you
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have the resources to overcome adversities in your life. And
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even though you know you may be stressed, you should
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feel like you have tools to fall back on so
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that you can maintain your equilibrium and make good decisions.
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And you know, this stuff is not taught. You have
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to either go seek it or you go burn out
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and then go find it.
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Find it absolutely, so tell me this. I know in
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your book you emphasize in your book that's entire titled
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Success Starts Within, you emphasize internal alignment over external validation.
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So what are some subtle ways that high achieving individuals
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maybe you think outsourcing their worth without even realizing it.
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That's a good question, and I can sort of follow
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up with my own journey. You know, it's very interesting
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and it very It happens very subtly here in our society,
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but when when, especially with social media, we're constantly comparing
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ourselves to people. But it's interesting we always think that
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an external material thing is going to make us feel good. Okay, Now,
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I don't think there's anything wrong with saying I want
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that certain house, I want that certain car, I want
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that certain job. There's certainly something to be said about
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setting a goal and going after and achieving it. But
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what's really important is making sure that you're filling up
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your cup continuously. I talked about a little bit, what's
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the point of working so hard climbing up this mountain,
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trying to achieve something. You get to the peak of
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the mountain, not only have you been climbing the wrong mountain,
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which you haven't been enjoying the journey. And I think
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for many of us in our careers, whether you're a
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business owner or you're a professional, we're constantly climbing mountains
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and in our alignment is really important. What is your purpose,
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what is your why? I'm sure many of the listeners
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are really you know, high achievers. There's been many times
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where you've probably achieved a goal and then after you
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achieve the goal, you're like, that's it, and you're like, man,
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I guess what else is next? So that's the purpose
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of having sort of a north star or why. So
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you know, after you publish a book, after you get
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that promotion, after you do a ted X talk, what's
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going to happen after that? Like what is your overall
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mission and goal? And for me is to help high
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achievers reclaim their energy purpose alignment to rise out of burnout. Now,
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there are tools associated to allowing me to do that,
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but those tools are not the end goal. The end
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goal is a higher purpose, a higher why. So inter
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alignment of why you're here on this earth is really
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important and sitting down and really discovering yourself. And then
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on top of that, I touched about a little bit
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on my story, is that time in twenty seventeen when
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I was waking up with anxiety and feeling stressed before
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the day started, I realized that is the worst way
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to start your day because it carries you throughout the
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latter day. So I had to stop and sit with
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myself and say, yes, if you're not enjoying your life,
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you don't feel like you have the energy of the fulfillment.
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Something needs to change. And when I was reading all
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of these books and trying to find all these practices
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to enhance my quality of life, I realized there was
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a single thread through all these successful entrepreneurs, these athletes,
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which was some type of morning routine. And when I
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talk about inter alignment as opposed to external validation, no
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matter what happened yesterday, no matter what I'm fearing in
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the future, if I have something that grounds me daily,
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it begins to sort of foster inter alignment and grounding
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for yourself because our minds are constantly worrying about the future,
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regretting the past. If you don't have something that sort
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of grounds you daily, in my case, it's a twenty
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minute meditation. I don't leave the house until I do
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a twenty minute meditation in the morning, or something to
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move your body to decrease the quarters all that stress hormone,
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or maybe do it listening to a podcast that sort
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of gives you sort of the energy or the motivation
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that you need heading to your day. These are simple
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practices to create inner alignment so you can feel good
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but also look good.
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Absolutely absolutely, I know that's right, and that pretty much
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I do the same thing. It's one of those things
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where I get up in the morning I have now