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hello everyone Karen Glasser here and
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welcome to the show do you know how to
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have Unstoppable grip let me say that
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again because that was a tongue twister
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do you know how to have Unstoppable grit
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do you even know what that means can you
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even say that 10 times fast I don't know
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but today we are talking about that and
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more with transformational speaker and
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career consultant Danielle Kobo welcome
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to the show boy that's a tongue twister
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it is a tongue twister I finally got it
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out welcome Daniel thank you for joining
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us today how are you I am doing
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fantastic how are you doing today I am
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doing great I'm really excited that
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you're here because we're talking about
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your new book that just launched and
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some great news we'll talk about that in
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a second but first let's talk about your
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journey how did you get here you're a
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former Fortune 500 senior sales manager
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um you are an acclaimed speaker
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best-selling author and podcast host
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what don't you do tell us how you got to
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where you are today well I started my
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career in medical sales so I spent 15
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years in medical uh device sales and
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Capital Equipment Sales before leaving
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the corporate world and then becoming a
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speaker and an author and a whole lot of
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hats that I wear that I did not
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anticipate I would be wearing one day if
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you would have asked me three years ago
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would I be here today I would have said
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absolutely not how fun is that though
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because literally whatever you put your
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money into you're doing and that is a
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great example for all of us so we're
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going to jump into the book because I'm
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really excited this book is called
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Unstoppable Unstoppable what is wrong
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with me grit what does that mean
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Unstoppable grit is so Angela Duckworth
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does a definition of grit which is
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passion and perseverance towards
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long-term goals and I believe that grit
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is when passion and perseverance to
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long-term goal and when setbacks occur
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it's the action to take a step forward
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and continuing to move forward so it's
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but in order to have grit I believe it's
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important that we have Clarity on what
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our passions are without Clarity it's
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really hard to have grit now you say in
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the book that there are seven roadblocks
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that are standing between you and
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achieving your goals tell us one what
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would be one roadblock one of the
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roadblocks is the H the apprehension of
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others opinions so so often we are so
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there's maybe a risk that we want to
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take in life maybe it start stting a
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business maybe it's going for a
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promotion maybe it's uh whatever
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personal goal that we might have but we
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start to hesitate because we start to
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worry about what other people's opinions
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are versus really looking in and what's
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going to be fulfilling to us and so
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apprehension of others opinions is one
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of the
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roadblocks so what do you suggest to
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people because if we all have that um is
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there a tip that you can give us that
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will at least alleviate a little bit of
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that what I've what I I've learned in
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life is there's always going to be other
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people's opinions but if you live your
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life based off of other people's
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opinions you're never going to live live
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the life that you truly desire and truly
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want and you know there's going to be
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people that are going to judge you and a
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lot of times that judgment comes from
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their own insecurities inside so don't
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let other people's insecurities hold you
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back from pursuing the goals that you
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want in your life so how would you
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define the word goals because I I know
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that a lot of us say well I don't have
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goals because I don't ever achiev them
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you know the beginning of the year I
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have my goals and then 3 days later I
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forgot what they are how would you
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define a goal and how how do people
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actually stand on track for those things
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yeah it's interesting so one of the
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reasons why I had the book launch now
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specifically this week is because by the
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second research shows by the second week
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of February 87% of the people give up on
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their New Year's resolutions and it's
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because people set out and they have
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these goals but then they give up on
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them so how do we break free from that
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right yeah so um in so one of the ways
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that I look at what are my goals every
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single year I create a vision board and
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it's an exercise that I have done for 20
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plus years my kids are six years old
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they are now starting to do it as well
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and I believe that when you are
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intentional about writing down your
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goals
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and actually putting in and writing down
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what steps you're going to take to
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achieve your goals that is going to help
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you achieve your goals but doc there's a
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researcher um a psychologist Dr Frank
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Niles and he says that it's not a matter
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of just manifesting your goals by having
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a vision board when you have something
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that is in front of you A visual
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representation it creates top of- mind
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awareness that is going to remind you
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every single day of what you're working
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towards so those moments when you're
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feeling deflated and overwhelmed or
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you're feeling like I don't know if I
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can do this having that visual
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representation of not only what your
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goal is But A visual representation of
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also what are you going to reward
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yourself when you achieve that goal is
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gonna help create top mind awareness so
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my vision board sits above my desk I can
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look at it right now it sits above my
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desk every day well you know what
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Danielle my vision board actually lives
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on my desktop
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computer I actually uploaded so I look
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at mine every single day as well and I
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call my goals intentions I guess I don't
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want to like get too too I'm going to a
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goal it's an intention and I do the same
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thing as you do I have those steps that
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get us to the intention if you are
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tuning in right now we are talking to
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Danielle Kobo we're talking about her
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new book Unstoppable grit I said it
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right break through the seven roadblock
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standing between you and achieving your
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goals if you have a question or a
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comment and you want to chat with Daniel
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make sure you put it in the comments and
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we will put it up on the screen now you
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say that it's not just about reaching
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your goals it's about who you become in
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that process so can you elaborate on
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that yeah so I went through a series of
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Life altering events in 2020 so in 2019
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my husband had served a year deployment
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in Iraq at the time my kids were between
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the ages of one and a half and two and a
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half years old so January 26th he comes
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back from
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deployment and it was a lot harder than
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what we had anticipated he was a
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different person coming back from War I
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was a different person was used to
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making the sole decisions of all the
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parenting and now I've got to have
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discussions on our parenting Styles and
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he you know when he left they were
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drinking out of bottles they were
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learning to walk they were saying their
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first words he comes back and they're
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formulating complete sentences they're
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talking back and throwing temper
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tantrums so it was a big shift for us
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and right when we started to find our
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Rhythm March 8th I lost my mom my mom
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had actually passed and she passed away
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from suicide
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so
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she yeah I I was absolutely devastated
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when I found out the news and and and
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mainly because I couldn't believe that
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she was in so much pain that she felt
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that the only decision to relieve that
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pain was to take her life and it's a
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permanent solution to a temporary
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problem and so and I say her life was
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taken from her because I do believe it's
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related to mental health it is not uh
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she didn't commit suicide she was taken
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by Suicide and so right after that March
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13th Global pandemic shuts the world
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down the uncertainty of what is life
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going to look like how long is this
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going to last what is this virus and
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then the company that I was with was
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acquired by another organization and I
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found myself in a very toxic work
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environment um and so these series of
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life-altering events within a six-month
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period completely shifted the way that I
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looked at my life and how I wanted to
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show up in life and also who I wanted to
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be I had tied my identity to my paycheck
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to my job title to my sales Awards but I
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wasn't necessarily happy and it wasn't
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until I was writing my mom's obituary
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when I started to think about what would
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it be like if somebody was writing my
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obituary what do I want to be known for
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and so one of the exercises I typically
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will take people through when they're
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trying to get clarity on what they want
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their life to look like is I call the
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Legacy exercise where you write your own
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obituary from the perspective of a
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colleague and from the perspective of a
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family member and you write down what do
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you want people to say about you when
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you when it's time for you to pass well
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Daniel you already know I was going to
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ask you this question and that was how
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do you want to be remembered I had no
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idea that you were going to say what you
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said so I just want I'm going to jump
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ahead to that for a minute and we'll go
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backwards so I'm sure you did the
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exercise yourself how how do you want to
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be
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remembered I want to be remembered for
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making a positive impact in the world so
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one of my greatest uh what is the most
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fulfilling to me is when I am with
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somebody and I start to hear them talk
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about themselves it's like the limiting
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beliefs that they've had and being able
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to provide them with the tools to break
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through those limiting beliefs and see
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them pursue goals that may they may not
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have thought about or they've been too
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scared to or they've been apprehended of
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of pursuing and to see them do it an
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accomplishment that to me is is very
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fulfilling so I would just want to make
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a positive impact in this world and feel
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like I'm making a transformation in
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people's lives and I'm sure that's
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exactly why you do this you want to
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break through those roadblocks and and
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you want to make sure that they can
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achieve their goals at least put them on
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the road to achieving their goals let me
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put up um some very impressive stats uh
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the book is live right they can go over
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to Amazon I will in a second put up that
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QR code but it's a bestseller in women
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in business it's a bestseller in job
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hunting it's in the new release number
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four in women in business number three
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in job hunting number 44 in motivational
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self-help first of all let's just
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applaud yay you that is so awesome how
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does it feel to be a best-selling
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author I it's still sinking in it is
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still sinking in um I had it's it's so
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rewarding to see that a putting a year
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and a half into writing this book but
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what's the most rewarding I mean it's
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nice to see best bestseller what is the
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most rewarding is when I'm receiving the
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text messages and the word that I
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consistently hear from people that are
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that have had the opportunity to read
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the book already is this book is
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transformative wow so that so that was
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your purpose and it has been received
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very very cool so we're talking about
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your book right now and um I want to let
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people know that they can pick it up
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right now there's a QR code if you've
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never done this before and you're
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looking at a desktop or a laptop get
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your phone out turn the camera on and
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scam this it will take you right there
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if you are not on your desktop but you
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are on just your phone don't worry about
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it just when you get off the show you
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can screenshot it and you'll be able to
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go right over to Amazon because that's
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where it lives it's on Amazon it's
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Barnes and it's everywhere right it's
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it's everywhere so I'm going to give
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everyone to call to action right now
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because we would love for you to go
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check out the book pick up a copy of it
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and don't forget to leave Danielle a
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review on Amazon it helps get her to the
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number one bestseller that we know that
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we know that she
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is okay so where have you been or where
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do you want to go that inspires you or
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motivates you at this time in your
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life I believe I I said when I was
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writing the book that I would never
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write another book but because it was
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such a long process I mean I would wake
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up before my kids would get up in the
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morning it'd be dark outside there was
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times where there was a category 4
12:12
hurricane headed towards us and I had my
12:13
computer hooked up to a generator and I
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was writing this book and I told myself
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I would never write another book and
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sure enough I have carved out time to
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write another book so I excited for the
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next congrats on that no you said that
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you pivoted um you went from being in
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corporate world you know doing all the
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things that you do and then life changed
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for you and it no longer was satisfying
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what was that pivot like I mean I can
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only imagine going from
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corporate wearing the the the nice
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clothes right doing everything that
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you're supposed to do and then moving
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into what I would cons you're you're an
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entrepreneur you're a small business
12:52
owner you're solopreneur what was that
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like the pivot work going for working
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for somebody else to working for
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yourself
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terrifying and still is and still is you
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know I would been I was thinking about
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this the other day I had been in my
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career for 15 years I had been a manager
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for seven years so I had reached a point
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in my career where it was kind of
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starting to feel like second nature I
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knew what to expect I you know
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challenges that were coming my way I had
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dealt with them before I knew how to
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respond to it but as an entrepreneur
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it's almost like you're starting all
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over again you're taking all the
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knowledge from your years of working
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corporate and my experience of helping
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other businesses grow their businesses
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and be successful but doing it for
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yourself is very different I went from
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let's really paint the picture of what
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corporate life was like I had a company
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car I had stock options I had a
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six-figure salary I had commission I had
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health benefits and now all of a sudden
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I'm starting from me I am responsible
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for generating everything for me myself
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my family right and it's ter terrifying
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it absolutely is and every time I think
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back to oh it would be so nice to go
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back to corporate and kind of have that
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security and that cushion and I always
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ask myself but would I be fulfilled in
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the same way that I am today and I just
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don't know it this point because my job
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is so fulfilling at this point you know
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if you're if you're tuning in right now
14:20
we're talking about facing the fear and
14:23
doing it anyways leaving and in your
14:25
case Daniel left corporate life and
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became an entrepreneur if you're an
14:29
entrepreneur a solopreneur you work for
14:31
yourself let us know how you're doing
14:34
this is this fearful for you have you
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ever been in corporate life before and
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now you're um by on purpose or maybe not
14:42
on purpose now an entrepreneur I used to
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laugh that entrepreneurs um are not
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always entrepreneurs on purpose no they
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sort of landed there right and and um
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and it's it's hard so if you're if it's
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hard for you let us know what you're
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doing um what would you tell somebody
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right now who's watching this show
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whether it's Replay live whenever you're
15:05
watching this what would you tell them
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right now to get off the
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dime and and start following their
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dream when you believe in yourself other
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people will believe in you too and I
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believe that in those situations where
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you're wondering whether or not to
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pursue that business pursue that
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promotion pursue whatever goal that
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you're trying to achieve you never want
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to look back and wonder what if you
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never want to do that so at least try
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before you even give up on
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yourself good good good answer um I'm
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sure our our viewers are wondering how
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do they follow you so we're going to
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give them some information you can watch
15:46
us again and again and again you don't
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have to write it down but if you want to
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you can go visit Danielle at her website
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at Daniel Cobo kobo.com you can visit
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Danielle on LinkedIn at T Daniel Cobo
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you can go to her YouTube channel to the
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Unstoppable grit podcast and I want to
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talk about the podcast before we get off
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um you can also uh visit you on
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Instagram and Facebook at the Daniel
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Cobo and also on Tik Tok and Twitter
16:14
without the the Danielle coobo as I like
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to say you are everywhere now we didn't
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talk about your podcast but let's talk a
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little bit about the podcast is the
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podcast uh an extension of the book did
16:27
the did the podcast come first and then
16:30
the book or did the book come first and
16:31
then the podcast podcast came first so
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it started off as dream job with
16:35
Danielle Cobo podcast and then when I
16:37
released the book I rebranded the
16:39
podcast to Unstoppable grit podcast
16:42
because it's all about how could you
16:44
thrive in all areas of your life how
16:46
could you build a career in life that
16:48
you love and that's where that
16:49
Unstoppable grit comes from and so the
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podcast has 158 episodes it's rated the
16:55
top 5%
16:57
globally and um I and I've I've had
17:00
amazing guests on the podcast and so I
17:02
had that before writing the book but the
17:04
podcast inspired the book okay so they
17:06
can find that everywhere that podcast
17:08
can be listened to Spotify Apple you
17:10
name it just go put that into the search
17:12
Unstoppable grit podcast it will show up
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any last minute thoughts for our
17:19
audience that you would like to
17:21
share I would say if you're thinking
17:24
about it do it don't let anything stop
17:27
you believe in yourself
17:29
try it you never want to live your life
17:30
regretting and wondering what if because
17:33
as long if you pursue your goal and
17:35
maybe it doesn't work out at least
17:37
you'll know that you tried before you
17:38
even gave up on yourself so do it just
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do it as Nike says yes not to steal it
17:44
or anything but just do it Daniel thank
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you for taking time out of your very
17:49
busy week because you're launching this
17:50
week and I know it's very very exciting
17:52
I want to thank you and I want to thank
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our viewers you have a choice as to
17:55
where you spend your time you chose it
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with to spend it with Dan and I today
17:59
and we are thankful for that go out give
18:02
somebody an awesome day and we'll see
18:03
you next time on Karen Glasser live
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goodbye
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everyone
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