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Mark Wilkinson talks with us about his new book "Life Remixed" and how to lead a happy life. Pick up a copy of his book here: https://amzn.to/30Qu1s5 As an International house music DJ and record producer, Mark Wilkinson was living a dream life, traveling the world sharing his passion for music and enjoying success with a Top 10 hit until one day he physically collapsed. Life Remixed is his story from the highs of a hedonistic DJ lifestyle, to the lows of an incurable disease, bankruptcy, depression and suicidal thoughts, then sharing strategies of how he remixed his life to create health, wealth and happiness… and how anyone else can do it too!”
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hello everyone karen glasser here and
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welcome to karen glasser live i welcome
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guests from all across the globe
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who entertain us wow us and excite us
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today's show is sponsored by hasmark
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publishing
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international thank you has mark whether
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you are here live
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or on replay make sure to say hi in the
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comments and tell us where you
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are watching from today we are welcoming
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a very special guest mark wilkinson who
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was the author of the new book
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life remix to the author's spotlight a
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little bit about mark
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as an international house music dj and
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record producer
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mark wilkinson was living a dream life
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he was traveling the world
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sharing his passion of music and
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enjoying success with a top 10 hit
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until one day at the age of 33 he
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collapsed in pain and was unable to walk
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for 18 months i can't even
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even imagine that diagnosed with an
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incurable disease the challenges he
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experienced
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eventually led to depression loneliness
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bankruptcy and
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suicidal thoughts at rock bottom mark
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made a decision to remix his life and he
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now owns multiple businesses as well as
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working as a wealth business and life
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coach
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author and speaker so without further
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ado
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we're going to welcome mark to the show
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hey mark how you doing
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hey karen i'm great thank you thank you
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having me on i'm so excited that you're
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on and first of all let's just say
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congratulations
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on the release of your book life remix
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how does it feel to be
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this published author that you are now
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it's amazing it's absolutely amazing
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something that i've dreamed of for
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probably 10 years or more uh about you
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know book two probably needs to be a bit
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quicker but this one
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has been a long dream and uh i've really
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enjoyed the process and i've tried a few
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times to write it and it hasn't quite
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panned out and then this time
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i just got it right and it just flowed
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it was amazing so
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you know tell us a little bit about why
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you decided to write this book i know
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this is actually your story
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um why was it so important for you to
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tell this story uh
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i want to help other people not go
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through the crisis that i've been
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through i mean
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an incurable disease when the doctor
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tells you that and then bankrupt uh you
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know from the back of that as well
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comes really you know those were
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horrible challenging moments at the time
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uh you know i look back at it now and i
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actually think to myself well they were
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actually blessings because they allowed
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me to change to grow
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to learn to try a different way to do
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different things
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uh and so it was just it was just
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uh an opportunity i think to help other
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people that's the real basic behind it i
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love people you know i'm a huge people
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person i'm a massive socializer i'm a dx
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dj you know still do a bit of dj
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so um you know i love bringing joy to
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people and and i want people to
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learn you know and learn the basic
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strategies that i learned that i put in
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life remix to recover from a crisis
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so as i said this is your story you
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literally took everything that happened
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to you and you
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you became a success story so to speak
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of your own
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making um so you had some
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amazing you have some amazing mentors
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and i know that you were inspired uh by
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the film the secret
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which is a wonderful wonderful movie um
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what it particularly inspired you about
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the movie that
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that you actually go out of your way to
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say i'm inspired by this movie and this
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got me going tell me a little bit about
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that
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i think the secret uh was you know
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there's a great there's a great phrase
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that says uh when the student is ready
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the teacher will come
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and i wasn't uh i hadn't been listening
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to my body for many years i'd had
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stomach cramps and problems and
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basically early inflammation
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sign i hadn't actually dealt with them
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and i just continued doing what i was
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doing and the
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addictions and everything else that are
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all documented in the book were all in
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there
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uh and um i really uh
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i went up for a detox in scotland
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because i was trying to like work out my
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stomach problems and trying to sort out
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what was happening
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and an early mentor of mine brian he's
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kind of like yoda to my
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luke skywalker if that if you will uh
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and he basically said um
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he said he gave me a dvd as it was at
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the time of the secret he said here
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watch this i said okay i watched it once
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took it back downstairs and said here
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you go no no go and watch it again and i
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was like
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twice in one day you off your head okay
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so i went and did it and then i tried to
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give it back to him again and he said no
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no
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you need to watch that 100 times mark
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and i was a bit like
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really but something happened the more i
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watched it
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i i recognized this earlier but then the
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more i watched it i was repetition as
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masters i've since
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learned the more i watched it and the
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more i watched it i became very aware of
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bob proctor
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and marty scharmoff who by the way have
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both endorsed life remix which is
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amazing
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yeah um but bob proctor said a dis-ease
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is two separate words and you must put a
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hyphen in there
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but a doctor just ate well six months
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before that or maybe less even
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had said to me bad luck you've got an
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incurable disease it's in your genes
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you're always going to get it take these
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drugs and you should be okay
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but bob was saying it's a disease and if
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you've got a disease hyphenated then you
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cannot have an
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i'm sorry you cannot have a disease in
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your body if your mind and your
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and your feelings and everything are at
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ease so interesting
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yeah that was that was kind of i was
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like whoa whoa mind-blown
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mind-blown most of why i've never heard
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this before and second of all
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what tell me more
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so i mean you're mentioning you're name
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dropping right now right your name
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brought me you said
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bob proctor marcie marcy's time off and
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you've got
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other people that have uh not just
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spoken highly about you but put you put
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their name on your book talk
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talk to it that's pretty impressive yeah
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i mean i was talking to hashmark just
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the other day to judy and she said that
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this never happened before
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uh yeah bob's endorsed the book marcy's
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endorsed the book uh
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judy and peggy mccoll have both endorsed
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the book
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and the list goes on and on i've got
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ex-professional footballers on there
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i've got
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harry singer i've got kevin green who's
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a multi-millionaire in the uk that i do
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some work with and and
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really enjoy coaching with uh i've got
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uh
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numerous people all old dj friends of
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mine even my mum and my brother
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oh well they're they're that's the most
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and that's the most important but what
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do you
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think is the reason that so many great
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thinkers
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and are saying i want to make sure that
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people because that's what they're doing
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by putting their their name on it they
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want people to read your book
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what do you think is their their their
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reason for that i mean it's
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obviously it's a great book but what is
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it that struck a chord with them that
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they all came out of the woodwork to say
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read this book well what's interesting
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is well i've got to mention danny
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ramplin who's one of the pioneers of
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house music in the uk who's put
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he's written a part one of the forward
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lewis senior an executive coach with
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equilibria who coached chevron
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across all of the states in the world uh
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you know these guys have written parts
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of the forward to the book as is kevin
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i think they've all responded to my
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energy over the years
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you know danny's known me the longest
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then lewis has known me
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uh ten years and kevin's known me three
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or four years and those guys have
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written
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forwards to the book all these other
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people you know i've i've
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i've been through some tough times you
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know and there's times i've written in
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the book and there's people that
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one of my old dj friends said i was
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there for all the fun rocky
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i was there for all the fun and then i
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never knew how bad it got for mark and
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it's an inspirational read because
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i didn't realize do you think yeah do
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you think it's because you made yourself
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vulnerable i mean you literally put
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yourself out there in this book you you
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just
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this is my story and learn from it
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i mean the first two or three chapters
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are are literally you know
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um but then everything else is
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strategies
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how i recovered from the the disaster
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from the collapse and
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and the financial collapse and the
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physical collapse and everything uh and
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all of these strategies that are in
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there
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i'm not it's not i'm not some genius
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who's just come up with them i've been
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taught them
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and then i've just channeled them out
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and gone well here's my take on it
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this is what i think that you can do and
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and it's very timely because at the end
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of the day the world's
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going to be responding and coming out
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yeah exactly and you know you said that
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you watched the secret over and over and
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over again not by your choice
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because they said you know yuki have to
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keep watching same thing and
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and you might had several conversations
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about this in the past about think and
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grow rich that's another one that
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you cannot read it too many times would
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you agree
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i mean i literally open the book every
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year at the beginning of the year
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and i just i read it just because i'd
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say
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repetition is mastery i've got bob's
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book here i've got louise hayes book
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here i've got happy for no reason by
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marcy i mean i've got books i'm
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surrounded by
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incredibly talented authors because
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although the message
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can be very very similar for all of them
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they've all got a slight different way
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of taking it
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and slightly different stories and
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that's what i've done i've said look
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you know i'm a dj right i'm a man who
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made records you know people used to say
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to me what's your
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purpose i'll be like well i'll be like
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oh i'll play i'll play a few records
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and then he dropped the books there i
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said uh you know i play a few records
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and people dance
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i haven't got a purpose that's all i do
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and then before i started to think about
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it that's when i started to
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create a life purpose so okay so the
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book
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clearly shares how you overcome
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challenges and
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make positive changes can you give us an
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example of one of those
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positive changes uh yeah absolutely i
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mean there's a couple of phrases that
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just jump out into my mind
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uh one of them is if you knew the power
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of a negative thought you'd never have
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another one
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uh which i think is a very it's just
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something i came up with because the
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the negative patterns are the ones that
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they're the ones that took me down into
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this pain and all pain has a message and
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one of the other ones i would say is
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calm down
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and speed up and what i've found is is
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the karma i've become over the last
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10 to 15 years uh you know i cut out all
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the toxins out of my body and so i don't
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drink alcohol anymore and i cleared up
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cleaned myself up completely
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uh and uh and what i found is that life
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is going
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quicker and quicker and quicker in a
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beautiful way because it's
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the pace of life is just it's just
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freaking because i can do more i have
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more energy
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but i'm so much calmer and that's a good
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piece of advice
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very good piece of advice and guys you
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heard it here first
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um you know so let's get back into the
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process of writing a book i'm sure that
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people that are watching this maybe
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themselves have a book inside of them
10:05
let's talk about how you write a book
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how many
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how many hours a day do you write well
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um the absolute truth is this book i i
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kind of
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tongue in cheek i say this book's been
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50 years in the makings that's how old i
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am
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it's been it's been 10 years of an idea
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uh it's been a year to write and six
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months to
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promote and now it's come now it's come
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out so um you know probably book two
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needs to be a bit quicker like i said
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but i i make sure that because i'm
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running multiple businesses and doing
10:32
multiple things all the time i just make
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sure that i've definitely got
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hours put aside so a couple of hours
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during the week and three hours maybe on
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a saturday morning
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and i just i did that when i was in the
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corporate world recovering from the
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bankruptcy and that's how i've got
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masters now in
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uh management and leadership and i'm
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gonna do a phd next to something that i
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wanted it's the journey from dj to
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dr right to doctor you know it's
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it's all part of it but you put the time
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aside and you get organized
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uh then things can start to flow a lot
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easier
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so it's structure so you literally put a
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structure in place
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to write so i have to say i have to i
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have to pay homage here as well to my
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wife because i'm not the most structured
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bloke right
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uh i'm kind of energy and you know
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people and buzz and all that kind of
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stuff
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and uh i when i left my last corporate
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job almost three years ago
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uh i got home and my wife had put a big
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poster up saying congratulations you
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know
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like you know she said to me what about
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what you're going to do about this book
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because i tried it a few times and it
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hadn't really worked
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and she said right sit down and she said
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write me out like you know timeline of
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everything
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and then give me you know break down
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everything and then just and somehow i
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look at it now
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i'm kind of reading it now going oh this
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is this is actually good you know and
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it's like it's 14 chapters
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it almost feels like i didn't write it
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it almost feels like a separate well you
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know
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maybe can you like loan your wife out
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because clearly
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she did a good job with you that that's
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that's actually so
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when you're writing does it energize you
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or are you exhausted
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at when you finish writing oh no i love
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it i love it i i'm uplifted by writing
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i'm uploaded
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i i decided what my purpose was going
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back slightly to the purpose thing
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bob proctor martie shine off all these
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people in the secret all the great
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teachers everyone
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always like what's your purpose what's
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your purpose i was like i don't know
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and so i kind of put two and two
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together one day i had a bit of a light
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bulb moment because i was in
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manchester talking to some students and
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about 10 of them stayed behind to thank
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me for sharing my story
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my mid-thirties and i got the same
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feeling the same uplifting kind of like
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feeling of like
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those lovely ten students saying thank
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you to me
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as i did when i had a thousand people on
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the dance floor like celebrating
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it's exactly the same feeling and i just
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went oh
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right i love to bring joy to other
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people
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so if i love to bring joy to other
12:45
people then i started to develop my
12:47
purpose into joy and knowledge inspire
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create and that's where everything came
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from you know
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so do you have a tip that you would
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share one tip if if you met somebody
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you know in a coffee shop or during the
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show somebody
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writes you a message and say what is one
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tip you can give and it's
13:04
an inspiring uh writer to get started
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and i'm going to put you on solo for
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that i would say
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uh it's very important as i said about
13:13
the structure it's very important to
13:14
then break it down into bite-sized
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chunks
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and it doesn't have to be perfect you
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know you've just got to get it out onto
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paper nowadays with word with microsoft
13:23
word even on my mac
13:24
you can hit the double hit the fn button
13:26
and you can just speak it
13:28
into word it won't punctuate it for you
13:30
but you'll get your ideas out onto paper
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you know
13:32
later down the track an editor can get
13:34
involved other people can get involved
13:36
but you've if you've got a concept an
13:38
idea a gift you've got something you
13:40
want to share
13:40
something that you think will help other
13:42
people and the biggest thing of all
13:44
is add value you know find those pain
13:47
points in people's lives and then add
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value to other people's lives and things
13:52
will be good for you
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i i like to say see the need fill the
13:56
need right
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see the need and fill the need if you're
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just tuning in we are
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talking with mark wilkinson about his
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new book life remixed i
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am thrilled for you um if you want to go
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pick up a copy of the book
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which you should you're going to notice
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that right in the comments right now
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there is a
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link for you to go click and we'll take
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you right over to the bookstore to pick
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up mark's book again congratulations on
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that it is quite the
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accomplishment so do you have an
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interesting quirk when you write
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i've been told that all authors have
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something that they do that's different
14:34
from everybody else well i would say
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that we're all unique
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i mean we're all utterly unique you know
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i think i think many people be really
14:41
down on themselves i know before we
14:43
spoke about people talking about
14:44
writer's block and stuff like that i
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mean i've never i've never
14:47
suffered with i've already done one book
14:48
though by mind you i mean you know peggy
14:50
mccoll's done 19 so i've got a bit of
14:52
work to do to catch up with her
14:55
you know i think you are unique you have
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a story to share
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uh whatever's happened to you hasn't
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happened to other people or if it has
15:02
happened in different ways so
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get out there and actually decide what
15:05
your purpose is hold your vision
15:07
and get your goals moving towards your
15:09
you know take your steps towards
15:11
uh towards the achievement that you
15:12
would love to achieve
15:15
and don't worry you know it's just have
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faith you know
15:18
and have fun and have fun while you're
15:20
doing it too if it's not then i say why
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bother right
15:23
um have you read a lot during this last
15:25
year with quarantine or you've been just
15:27
busy doing
15:28
what you do so well and that's coaching
15:30
and you wrote your own book have you
15:31
read any books
15:32
do you have a favor that you read in
15:34
quarantine i i read a lot of books
15:36
over and over and over again and i
15:38
actually use a lot of books in my
15:39
coaching so
15:40
i've got james allen as a man thinking
15:42
that i've been reading the serenity
15:44
chapter at the end to a couple of
15:45
clients recently about
15:46
the more serene you are the more calm
15:48
down speed up right the more calm you
15:50
are
15:50
more people will be drawn to you and the
15:52
more successful you will all be together
15:54
so
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i'm reading that marcie shiremoff he's
15:57
coming onto my show in a couple of weeks
15:58
so i'm rereading happy for no reason so
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that's exciting
16:01
um and so and bob proctor is not about
16:03
the money because
16:05
i've been listening to the audiobook
16:06
this afternoon uh while i've been out
16:09
it's it's literally you know you can't
16:11
get enough of this stuff
16:12
you know you cannot get enough of you've
16:14
got to get that information
16:15
through past your conscious thoughts and
16:17
into your subconscious mind
16:19
so you just operate from automatically
16:21
almost on a habit
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because there's so many belief systems
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that can stop you
16:26
and and you've got to get through those
16:28
to be able to be creative you know
16:29
stop getting in your own way right not
16:32
getting in your own way you mentioned
16:33
that you have a show
16:34
um and so um what's the show called and
16:38
once this once we send this out to
16:40
everyone through a blog post we'll make
16:41
put a link in it to the show but what is
16:44
your show about
16:45
so i go live quite a lot throughout the
16:46
week uh i've got a show called straight
16:48
talking on a wednesday evening 7 30 p.m
16:51
gmt here in london
16:52
and um i i invite interesting people on
16:55
there karen you must come on there at
16:57
some point but
17:00
i invite interesting people to come onto
17:01
the show and talk about
17:03
various things the last few have been
17:04
some of my old friends from the record
17:06
shop days and the dj days
17:08
some remedy but then also some
17:10
discussions about how to remix your life
17:12
and how to get through challenges
17:13
because
17:14
you know every i think every dj when we
17:16
were young we didn't care we didn't
17:17
think
17:18
about anything long term we were just
17:19
like a party and then
17:21
all of a sudden the reality kicks in for
17:23
many of us
17:24
i mean mine was mine was uh you know
17:26
disease and bankruptcy and nature's
17:27
handbrake made me stop
17:29
but actually everyone's got a story so
17:32
um i love bringing out the story out of
17:34
other people you know and i'm getting a
17:35
huge response from it and uh
17:37
i know people are really really enjoying
17:38
it so that makes me feel good because
17:39
it's part of my purpose to bring joy
17:41
right
17:41
so right absolutely all of our friends
17:44
that you're watching here whether you're
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live or
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on replay um you can follow mark on
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facebook at mark wilkinson
17:51
life remix you can also follow him on
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follow mark
17:58
on twitter at dj mark wilkinson
18:02
and of course you must go check out
18:04
mark's site his website at mark
18:06
wilkinson
18:08
official dot com as i like to say when i
18:10
see so many of these
18:12
call to actions and places to go you're
18:14
everywhere
18:15
and don't forget to go pick up a copy of
18:19
mark's book because you know you need it
18:21
and you know that
18:22
your story is so inspirational and it
18:25
really helps people get
18:26
off the dime and and do something and
18:29
change their life because you know you
18:31
said something at least i think
18:32
is very important what you think is what
18:35
will actually show up so if you think
18:38
positive thoughts and you think
18:39
positive in terms of forward moving i
18:42
agree with you 100
18:43
you're gonna you're gonna get that
18:45
support you need if all you have coming
18:46
out of your head is negativity
18:49
that's what you're gonna attract right
18:51
you can't have a positive happy healthy
18:53
life
18:53
if you've got loads of negative thoughts
18:55
and beliefs and emotions it just doesn't
18:57
exactly it won't work exactly
19:00
you know we're really excited here at
19:02
karen glasser live
19:03
because we are now on the roku channel
19:07
uh go ahead and click on the link in the
19:09
comments when you see it
19:10
and go check it out put it on your tv
19:12
you know you want to have karen glasser
19:14
live on your tv
19:15
i know i do i certainly want to have it
19:17
on the tv and it's very exciting
19:19
you heard it here first next week we
19:20
have we are going to be also on amazon
19:22
fire so we're very very
19:24
excited about where the show is going
19:26
mark i want to thank you from the bottom
19:28
of my heart i know we had some
19:29
challenges with this so welcome back to
19:31
the show
19:32
uh but thank you for being on the show
19:34
and sharing
19:35
your book i know that i'm going to be
19:37
following you like a
19:38
fiend i want to know where and what
19:40
happens with you with this book again
19:42
congratulations and to all of our
19:44
viewers we know that you have a choice
19:46
as to how you spend your time you chose
19:47
to spend it with us and we are
19:49
thrilled that you do that so go out and
19:51
give somebody an awesome day and we'll
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see you next time
19:54
on the next karen glasser live goodbye
19:57
everyone
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