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Moving Today's Leaders from What IS to What CAN BE
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Mar 29, 2023
We dive deep with international keynote speaker and behavioral expert Heather Hansen O’Neill. We talk about her new co-authored best seller Where’s the Office? and her desire to open leaders’ minds and hearts to the possibility within them. Join us for this live event and learn some tips on how to collaborate effectively, lead change, and achieve massive results. #FromFeartoFire #TEDx #FindYourFire #collaboration Follow us on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/carenglasser Follow us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/carenglasserlive Follow us on Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/carenglasser
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here and welcome to the author Spotlight
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make sure you say hi in the comments and
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tell us where you are watching from
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today I am talking with the amazing
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Heather Hansen O'Neal she is an
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international keynote speaker behavioral
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expert author of find your fire teams on
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fire and the co-author of the new Amazon
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bestseller where's the office I love
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that name Heather is also a two-time
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tedx speaker and the host of the very
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popular podcast from Fear to Fire and
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she is here with us today welcome to the
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show thank you Karen it is always a
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pleasure to have some time talking with
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you
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I've already been chit chatting even
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before we before we got on the show here
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today I am as excited as you are to have
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you on this is a return visit for you so
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cool we're just gonna like Jump Right In
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and talk about your journey and actually
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a little bit of our journey we met over
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10 years ago when things were totally
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different right
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a lot of things have changed in these
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past years and one of the big ones is
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that you wrote your first book right in
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2013 yeah called teams on fire and then
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your second in 2020 find your fire at
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40.
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um yeah find your fire at 40 was
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actually first the other way around
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there you go yeah I'm sorry oh well
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there you go okay well so for those of
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you who are I just got schooled uh-oh oh
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no I don't mean
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um so that means what if I made you if
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we made it you know in 2020 that was
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fine you fired 40 that would make you a
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whole lot younger than you are right
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yeah exactly I wrote the book before I
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even knew what 41. there you go
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um and you and you also have your
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podcast which is very very popular the
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fear to Fire and you're a two-time tedx
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speaker the first thing that I want to
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say is how do you do it all I mean
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um one thing at a time no so so I I
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happen to have a little bit of energy so
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which you know Karen and some people may
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find out about me
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um but I love what I do and so
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everything that I do that I choose to do
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energizes me and so it makes it very
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easy to produce a lot and in particular
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I've I've learned through the years as
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well how to laser prioritize my time so
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I get into flow a lot so that I'm still
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able to have some fun and do the the
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lifestyle things that I want along with
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accomplishing all the things that I that
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I'm looking to do so you're a calendar
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girl you schedule your time you time
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book you do all of that stuff well
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that's right that's why you get that
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stuff done because you do that so we're
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going to jump into the the newest of the
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books which were not the other two and
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the wrong dates and all that stuff
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you're the co-author of a book called
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where's the office moving today's
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leaders from what is
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to what can be so
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okay so this is exciting for so many
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different reasons first of all it's very
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different from what you know I'm the
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fire girl right find your prior teams on
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fire from Fear to fire it's all about
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the fire and then I have a book called
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where's the office right so what what is
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that about well that came about
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um in particular because of a friendship
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that I bill over 10 years with an
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amazing man named Will Lewis he came to
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see me speak a while ago and then we
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became friends and he took did some
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coaching and we did some non-profit
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stuff together the interesting thing
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about this is that I didn't meet him
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until he was 83. and he's a he was he's
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constantly looking to stimulate his mind
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to do things to contribute and in our
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friendship I learned about some of the
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different things that he had created
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many years ago and it started to
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resonate with me as the pandemic came
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about how one of the models in
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particular that he had created
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was called Mind space and it moves
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people from physical space to mind space
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for it's a tool and it was so
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appropriate for this this time what
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we're all experiencing that it started
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the conversation hey maybe we should
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write a book and then we went more in
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depth with a lot of the other tools but
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it's really
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um based on the relationship and how the
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information was so incredibly relevant
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for what people are facing right now
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and so I am sure that that people want
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to know right now how this is going to
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happen help them out there and the
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question that I had that I asked you
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even before the show was since you have
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written other books now you're
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co-authoring this book was that process
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different for you unbelievably different
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so okay so I'll answer that one first
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and then I'll go with with how it might
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be able to help people so the the
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process when you're writing your own
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book you have to Mo you have to get
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motivated you have to put your own
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deadlines unless a publisher is doing
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that for you which the first time did
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for me
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um but you can pretty much you can write
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what you want to write right and you've
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got your goals and and then when you
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have a co-author there's this element of
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collaboration that
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can at times be like
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okay well I maybe can't do everything
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that I want but it ends up being
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exponentially better because you know
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you you feed off of each other one idea
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grows and it oh it reminds me of this
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and it reminds me of this and so our
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brainstorming sessions were so Dynamic
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we got so much great content but we were
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also really aligned when it came to the
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editing process too wonderful wonderful
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I just love that and I I know I love in
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a bit in a perfect world to work with
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other people rather than doing stuff all
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by myself or I mean I sit in my office
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all day long so I can totally get into
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that how is this book gonna help people
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so what we've come to realize and what
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we share in the book is that when you
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understand that the that the office
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resides within you meaning the leader
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resides within you you can carry it with
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you wherever you go so whether you are
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leading a team that is virtual or in
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person or some hybrid option if you come
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from a place of truly understanding
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yourself leadership how to communicate
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effectively you can do it from any
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environment and you can do it well with
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the tools that we've provided in the
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book and this was very important as
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people were starting to figure out what
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do I want to do how can I get the most
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from my people how can I support them
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best during this environment so it
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enhances their well-being and the
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overall effectiveness of the
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organization
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if you're just tuning in we're talking
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to Heather Hanson O'Neill and we're
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talking about her newest book where's
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the office you know you want to do it
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get your camera out scan that little QR
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code and go check it out and let us know
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what you think if you are here right now
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live we'd love to hear from you if you
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have a question for Heather put it in
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the comments and we'll make sure that
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she answers the questions for you so you
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wrote This Book
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um
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was it harder to write this book though
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you know did you get writer's block or
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did because you had a partner you guys
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were just like all over the place and it
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was so exciting it was exciting but then
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you know we had the ideas but then we
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had to go back and validate them because
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I mentioned that some of of the concepts
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were from years ago so we did focus
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groups we took it to organizations
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um we had them try it and they you know
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talk about it and get the insights of
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other experts and other business owners
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and it it made the book so much more
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enjoyable to write but also so much more
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worthwhile because it's not just one
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point of view it's been validated it's
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you know you see what works what doesn't
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work and how it would fit in different
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scenarios
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interesting now I know I know um your
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mission because you told me it is your
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mission is to open leaders minds and
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hearts to the possibility within them
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um so I I have this um this skill
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so so I I say it like I I see people I
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am able to one of the things that I love
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to do and I happen to be fairly good at
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is to to what I what I call holding up a
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mirror so I am able to hold up a mirror
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so people see their gifts the things
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that that may be blocking them uh the
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things that make them really special the
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things that they were passionate about
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maybe years ago and have forgotten their
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their flame had dulled and so when um
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when we coach in that scenario it brings
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out the best in them and it reignites
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what they're excited about and it also
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helps to focus the next right steps
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right so we talk about in the book
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Moving from what is to what can be it
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means you have to accept the reality of
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what is which may be outside of your
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control right like can own the the
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changes that you do control own how you
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respond to the changes and it enables
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you to take responsibility for
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everything in your life and it makes
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it's more freeing it's more powerful and
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you're able to to get to where you want
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to go with your vision and your goals it
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sounds like the light bulb then goes up
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right when you shine that that Spotlight
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they like what goes on
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so you obviously are passionate Heather
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about what you do um there is debt with
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no pun intended there is a fire that's
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been lit under you
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um why do you do this I mean you could
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do almost anything you could write books
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all day all day long if you wanted why
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do you work with people why is this so
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important to you
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well all right so I just said this and I
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didn't realize that it would be repeated
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right now but I just said this to
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someone yesterday and it has to do with
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um
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you know when I was dancing I started
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dancing very early when I was 13 I
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started dancing professionally and and
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when I did the thing that I loved best
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about it was making someone feel
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something right like moving someone to
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tears helping them feel something
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powerful within them and that's the same
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that's the same uncle call it high or
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fire that I get and helping someone feel
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something
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realize a block that they may have had
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for for so many years that's keeping
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them from where they want to go or you
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know turning on that light bulb or
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whatever it might be when I see the
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response when I when I help someone feel
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something and when they accomplish
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something that they've always wanted to
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accomplish it makes them jump out of bed
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in the morning Karen how can I hear you
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it's so much better wanting to jump out
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of bed to help people than the stuff
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that keeps us up at night no right yeah
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uh Ed farmer is here and he says this is
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great for leaders and working with both
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themselves and their staff how will this
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work for the worker be in their
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day-to-day great question oh my gosh
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that's a wonderful question Ed thank you
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for for asking it so um
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the realization that the leader resides
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within everyone it's not just leaders so
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so perhaps you know people may get it
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who's a who are they recognize the
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leader within themselves right then a
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lot of the companies that get it they
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get it and they end up buying um a bunch
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and doing like book clubs for other
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people within the organization because
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they realize that when people can start
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to take ownership of how they're
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communicating how they're showing up
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energetically the actions that they're
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taking that that transforms an
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organization and so every person within
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the company or if you're starting a
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company or if we're working alone you
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still interact with other people in your
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family and your communities
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exactly you have the power to make a
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difference in the world when you start
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to use those same leadership strategies
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for yourself I mean that just makes so
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much sense if you're just tuning in I
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see we have people that are coming in we
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are talking to Heather Hanson O'Neill if
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you have a question for her make sure
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you put it in the comments and we will
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throw them up on the screen so what is
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the humanity project
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okay so uh this is another passion point
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for me so
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um it actually started how things often
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do uh in in a time of Darkness
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um when I was experiencing
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um the pain of watching my mom suffer
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and
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um and then losing her and I had this
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um
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this desire to find meaning in it
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because it had hit me so so hard and so
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my in the way that I process things is
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I'm like well I need to go seek
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something right so I made a conscious
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choice to seek Humanity because I was
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looking for meaning and so every day I
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would get up I would walk on the beach
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and I would see Humanity like show me an
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example of someone doing something good
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or can you please again give me some
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Faith again yes and when I did I saw
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over and over and over again the
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examples of people from the kindness of
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their own heart not wanting any
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recognition whatsoever just doing good
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things and it it gave me hope it renewed
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my faith and then what I started to see
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is that people were responding to it so
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I would write about it you know what
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that's me I'm I'm an author too right so
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I'll write about the experiences or
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something that I saw or something that
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somebody did and people really
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responding to it saying that during the
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time of isolation during covid that it
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gave them hope and then I started to
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think I wonder if there's a deeper
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correlation here so I went back to my
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behavioral research roots and I started
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to do some research is there
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is there a correlation in businesses if
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they come from a place of humanity and
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community and doing good for their
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people for their communities for the
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world how does it translate and we found
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out that there's a direct correlation to
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profitability when companies are doing
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good for the sake of doing good and so
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there's a lot of research about it and I
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just have loved it
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you know the first thing that obviously
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comes to mind and we're not going to get
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political we're not going to go in that
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direction at all but it does it does go
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to that point of if we could figure out
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a way to have more Humanity in
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everything that we do in the places that
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we are and the groups that we things
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would be better right I mean remember
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that we are all human and so this is a
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Facebook group that I put up here the
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humanity project what are they going to
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find in there when they go check it out
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well right at this moment we're building
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the community
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um it I have another like the humanity
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of sales keynote and all those different
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things but this project is really people
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community focused so we share things
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that we're doing out in the world we
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share moments that we found of humanity
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and then from that we're breaking off
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into smaller groups to take action on
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some of these things I love that if you
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are tuning in and you're hearing about
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this and you go check this out on
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Facebook let Heather know in the group
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that you heard about it here on the show
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wow definitely I'd love to know that
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that
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people are hearing hearing us talk you
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know of course yeah what is your
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ultimate goal with the humanity project
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I believe that everyone can make a
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difference
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and I found that you know through my
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through my years I've always wanted to
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okay what can I do to make a difference
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and I've come to realize that my power
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isn't in me my power is in helping other
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people realize their power and so um my
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goal is to help people understand what
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they are capable of and that could go
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forth and do it and to take action to
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make a real difference because as
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opposed to me do it what could I do
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versus helping so many other people do
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what they are capable of I'm with you
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Heather I am totally with you on that um
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you but this is not your only passion
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project you also were involved with
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something
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with something yes well what is that L
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Focus stands for leadership for our
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children's ultimate success and every
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keynote that I do a portion of it goes
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back to helping underserved teens learn
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the leadership skills that they need to
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be able to go into business to be able
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to make their own difference things that
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they may not have been had access to and
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um I us I when I work with an
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organization they get the opportunity to
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choose who they want to serve if they
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have a favorite charity or a favorite
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group or a local thing that they are
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interested in then focus it there so
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it's all about how can we make sure that
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we're doing good while we're serving our
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companies oh
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that that's just wonderful now how do
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people find out about this they they can
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find out on my website
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um heatherhanson o'neill.com or you know
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reach out I I do everybody knows that
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when they when they uh work with me that
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we're going to have a conversation like
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this
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exactly like that
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I love that you know so we're talking
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about your your book so I'm going to
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throw up the book for a second again and
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that is where's the office and guys
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while you're there and you're checking
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out these books as we already mentioned
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there are two other books uh that you
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have penned and I'm sure there's other
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books in you that are going to be coming
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out so you want to learn this out for
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sure
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um I wanna also we already said that
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Heather's website is here and you get
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all sorts of interesting information
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over there as well as what we were just
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talking about Heather you have a YouTube
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channel you're everywhere actually we're
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about to show everybody everywhere that
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you are you can go on YouTube and what
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what do they see on YouTube do you do
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videos over there about particularly I
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have a ton of videos but I will tell you
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Karen I you're so much better at this
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than I am you are a whiz at this stuff
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you know you know all this I have not
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given my YouTube channel the love that
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it requires meaning I put a lot of
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content there but then I don't let
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people know about it enough so when I
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will talk afterwards thank you thank you
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you know and really why I'm saying that
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is is that for all of us and all of you
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out there that create a ton of content
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and then don't do anything with it
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that's that just makes me so sad we're
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going to talk about it afterwards
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you can also you can also see Heather on
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her Instagram heather.hanson O'Neill dot
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O'Neill and as I said she's everywhere
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also on LinkedIn I know you're there a
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lot over on that one that is I think
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your your platform of choice and it's
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Heather Hansen O'Neill what a
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coincidence and we were talking about
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the humanity project on Facebook a lot
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of different things I think
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so we got another thank you those are
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terrific suggestions and ideas thank you
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Buck thank you for joining in we
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appreciate it thanks Beth
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Heather
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the thing that you want we're we're
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almost done here and like we just like
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boom boom boom boom boom
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I'm exhausted
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um but is there anything that you want
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to make sure that we bring out right now
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before we say goodbye to everyone I
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don't want to make I want to make sure
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that we don't miss anything
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I just want to call out to everyone
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um that you have everything
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inside of you already that you need
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right because I think I work a lot with
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people who have these these blocks maybe
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beliefs or fears or things that have
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been passed down from generation to
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generation or that they've learned along
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the way or maybe they made a mistake or
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that you know and they they got this
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lesson that they weren't good enough and
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I beg to differ that everyone everyone
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that I've ever worked with that had ever
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come in contact with has an Incredible
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Gift and I just encourage you to to
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breathe that in to be okay with it and
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then to share it share it out with the
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world
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you heard it here you heard it here
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first do it and check Heather out I mean
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if you are looking for somebody as a to
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motivate you to light that fire under
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your tush he's the one and you know what
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I we didn't give enough conversation
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about your podcast because it is really
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really popular where can they go see you
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listen to your podcast oh you know I'm
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glad that you that you brought that up
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because I have uh the 200th episode
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coming up next week congrats it's been a
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big celebration something new every day
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it's called from Fear to fire you can
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find it on iTunes listen notes
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um you know all the traditional
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questions yeah yeah everywhere that you
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would normally find a podcast and
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um I have the most amazing gifts well
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Karen you were on the show and you had
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an incredible episode so we need to get
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that out there to people absolutely
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talk about this right after right after
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the show
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Heather I want to thank you I know that
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you have an incredibly busy life we all
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do but you are really really busy and I
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want to thank you for taking the time to
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join us today and to share your
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Brilliance with our audience and I want
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to thank our audience for taking their
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time to spend it with us because they
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have a choice right they have a choice
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as to where they spent their time and
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they chose to spend it with us and
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oh thank you Ed thank you very much we
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appreciate it we appreciate it
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yeah we want you to go out give somebody
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an awesome day and we'll see you next
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time on the author Spotlight goodbye
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everyone
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