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five Styles show I welcome guests from
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all across the globe who share how they
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are maneuvering through a world that
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worships youth and shames the beautiful
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process of Aging and today is no
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today's guest is entrepreneur Julie
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Goodkin if you're here live replay it's
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all good make sure you let us know that
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you're here say hi Karen love to see you
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and I will make sure to respond and of
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course share share share we love when
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you share it out to your network okay so
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I would love to introduce our guest this
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woman is fascinating to me she's
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actually a trailblazer that's how I
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referred to her she's a she was an
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entrepreneur from the age of 8 Joey's
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first business was renting comic books
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to her friends very industrious Joey
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Joey career and civic contributions have
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been honored with at least 50 awards for
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community service and business
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accomplishments she also did a stint
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fighting crime with Crimestoppers a
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national organization that she helped to
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bring to South Florida her new book you
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can do it features timeless wisdom from
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this trailblazing businesswoman she
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calls some Joey isms and that's the
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topic of today's show
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so welcome Joey welcome to the show
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hi Karen welcome I welcome myself to
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your show and thank you so much for
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having me I am so excited to have you on
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the show when we first met I knew that
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we we were probably sisters from another
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mother you are so at such an amazing
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woman all the things that you have done
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and I am so excited to share you with
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all of our friends out here so the first
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thing I like to do is I like to define
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super boomer because after all that's
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the name of the show so the way I define
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super boomer is that we are fearless
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that we show up with a just watch me
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attitude nothing gets in our way
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so Joey how do you define super boomer
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well the first thing that comes to mind
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is that a super boomer no matter what
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the person's age is is very confident in
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their own skin they're comfortable with
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themselves they like themselves and I
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Abel's them to be a super boomer great
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definition great definition if you're
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just tuning in we've got Joey Goodkin
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she's an entrepreneur extraordinaire
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she's on the show today and we're
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talking about her book we're talking
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about her life I'm gonna put a comment
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up here we've got Debbie Corley who says
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so happy to be listening Debbie I'm so
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glad you're here and Stephen Healy says
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hello Karen hello back we're glad that
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you're here so let's just jump right in
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you've been an entrepreneur forever I
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mean forever where do you think that
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comes from well the first business of
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renting comic books to my friends really
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came from filling a need or a need that
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I saw because my friend's father was a
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cartoonist he would bring the comics
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home and we would devour them on a
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Thursday and then they would first show
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up where we could buy them new the
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following Monday so it seemed to me once
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you read it you don't really need to
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keep it or own it unless you become a
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collector so I thought why don't we just
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rent it to our friends so we can have
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one comic book read four or five times
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charge them four cents five cents I
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don't remember but that's how it started
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and we wound up with library cards and
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that was my first my first business so
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you didn't just rent that me you had
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library cards you you did the whole
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business around it I didn't realize that
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that's what I was doing but I did
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because we had to keep track of who had
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the comic book and who was next in line
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and who paid and who didn't I mean it
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was just practical needs being met and
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the basic thing I think that makes any
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entrepreneur successful it's very key
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that you can fill a need absolutely I
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mean we we're all taught of the coaches
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teach that you first have to figure out
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what the need is you know and then fill
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it not not decide you're gonna do
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something and then go figure out if
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somebody actually needs it do it in that
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order correct and that's exactly what
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you did now you actually created a
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magazine in Florida as well yes tell us
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a little bit about that that was truly a
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wild story because I was someone who
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was very busy selling advertising which
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started when I sold the ads for my high
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school yearbook I mean it was just a
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natural for me I like selling not
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everybody does but I loved it so I moved
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to Florida from New York and you had to
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wait a year to get your real estate
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license well I had to do something
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because I had been selling real estate
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New York right well I got a job selling
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advertising and I just maxed out this
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little newspaper I pushed their
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circulation as far as I could and then I
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thought you know there's this fancy
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magazine in town I'd love to work for
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them and I already have a hundred and
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twelve accounts so it I go over to see
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them and I interview for a job and I've
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never been turned down for a sales job
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in my entire life but this guy he really
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was very different than anyone I'd ever
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known and it turned out I realized later
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he was just kind of snobby and wah and
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he what he said was we don't want those
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people was I wanted to expand his
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circulation at the time to the west part
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of Broward County Florida which is the
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Greater Fort Lauderdale area and they
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were very much on the beach and very
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much society like years later I would
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tease them they could run the same
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pictures and just change the heads
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because everybody was in a tuxedo which
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was not my thing huh it did not hire me
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and I left there building dumbstruck
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that they wouldn't hire me to sell
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advertising I said you don't even have
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to pay me I'll work on Commission I have
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a hundred and twelve accounts and the
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guy said no we don't want those people
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there loves their loss so I go out and
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if I was in a movie Karen I would raise
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my hands over my head and say if that's
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the competition I'm gonna do my own
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magazine and that's exactly what
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happened and I had a friend who loaned
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me what turns out to be a nominal amount
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of money but I didn't realize that
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selling and we we started a magazine
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great people helped me and it ultimately
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outgrew them in the whole county and
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they they saved a letter I wrote them
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saying are you sure you don't want to
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hire me but actually know what happened
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and I know this is the longest story
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I'll tell you but it has a wonderful
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ending in that they actually bought my
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magazine from the people I sold it to so
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they really they finally absorbed it and
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included it in theirs
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I love that that's a great story and my
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property was sitting in that guy's
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office and it was this past year that
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they finally sold that magazine that
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that's a great story I've got another
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Joey on that's actually watching live
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and Joey says you are a born salesperson
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super boomer cool isn't that funny Joey
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and Joey Joey me Joey yes I want to talk
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about your book I want to talk about
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your book first I'm gonna put it up into
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the screen and it's called you can do it
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which is why we called the show you can
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do it because that's basically that's
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basically who and what you're all about
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you just you can do it you did it and so
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can everybody else I love the idea
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that's timeless wisdom but I especially
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like the fact that you call them Joey
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isms so how did you start coming up with
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this timeless wisdom and then we're
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going to talk about what some of those
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Joey isms are they were just things that
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I just always said or just always did or
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just always felt there's just completely
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natural I never planned to do anything I
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just did it and I really think that one
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of my Joey isms was don't overthink
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everything because you'll freeze
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yourself with too many options and too
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much thinking I think very key though to
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success is that you believe you have the
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ability there's a Henry Ford quote that
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starts my book if you think you can or
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you think you can't you're right one of
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my favorite quotes one and realistically
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for the best coach anybody could ever
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imagine or get advice from whoever you
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admire but if you don't believe you can
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do what they're telling you or you don't
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have that belief in yourself it's not
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going to happen you need that inner
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confidence you need that inner knowing
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but here's the secret there are ways to
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get that confidence ways to develop
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yourself so you feel like you can do it
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and you believe it and then it will
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happen and that's what the book is all
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it's motivational it's it's very
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uplifting and if you don't think you can
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do it you really can do it and I
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encourage you to go pick up this book so
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let's talk about Joey ISM so you call
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them Joey isms give us some let's let's
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talk about some of your favorites well
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Joey isms are just the timeless wisdom
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I'm gonna open the book book and just
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pick some at random because they're
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really all good now some of them really
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relate to business one of those would be
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like create a sense of urgency know
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someone oh I can hold this for you till
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next Wednesday or only have three left
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or I need to know now because don't act
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without some kind of deadline Belgium
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you know wait forever and some of them
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abra are about life that could be
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business or could be anything so let me
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see if I can find that here's one assume
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nothing nothing we know what it Maps
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before you move forward love it
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I traps a lot of people yes and here's
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another one this is a business 1 to 2 if
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you are pitching a person about your
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product or your service you have to be
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sure even if it's online that this is
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the person who has the authority to buy
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your greatest presentation to someone
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who loves it and they don't have any
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authority to buy they have to go tell
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what you said to them to somebody else
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and I guess it's lost in the translation
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I mean maybe you'll be lucky but more
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time more times than not it's really key
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that you pitch a purse
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who can buy wait hold on a second
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another comment debbie Corley says I
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started a business invented a product
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received my first patent at 60 never
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give up I love your enthusiasm Thank You
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Debbie for sparing that I that that's
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awesome what's happen ISM um here's
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enthusiasm sells selling is nothing more
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than overcoming objections and a great
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tool for accomplishing this is
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enthusiasm it was always my secret
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weapon people love being around positive
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energy which helps to break down
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resistance it's it's really true if you
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go in and another one that I have is
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using your own strengths I mean if I was
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a six foot four football player and I
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crashed into your office and said to you
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you have to buy this magazine or
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something they'd be intimidated I'm just
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taking up too much room there right I'm
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a short little woman with red hair I
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could just oh you have to do this you
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have to do this I need you blah blah
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blah and you could get away with more
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not so much get away with but use your
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own personality skills if you were
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genuinely a shy person walk in someone's
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office look around maybe comment on
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something on the wall or admire
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something they're wearing it has to be
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true though we're not looking to pick up
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stuff right but have to be yourself yes
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and most of your own qualities to
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accomplish what you want you don't have
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to be me I don't have to woo we all have
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great strengths and we're all born with
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everything already inside us that we'll
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ever need I love this guy's you can see
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why I like this woman she you're you're
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just up I was gonna say it's bigoted you
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just you just have so much to share with
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everyone what's your why why are you
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doing this I know that you said that
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you've learned that through your life
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experiences that joy isms are really
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meaningful and helpful to others why did
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you decide to write this book why did
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you decide to put this all out there you
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not really sure that I know the right
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answer to that because I had wanted to
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write a book initially to tell my
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granddaughter all kinds of stuff and I
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did a separate notebook for her because
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she was more interested in family
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stories but I found myself telling her
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stories of where I was really persistent
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that turned out to be really funny that
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I did stuff that people would say you
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did not do that what I did that it
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started out like it was just something
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and then I just kept writing and the
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business stories kept coming up uh-huh
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my approach is my timeless wisdom I had
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to give them a name because otherwise
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they're just a collection of ideas and
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thoughts was Joey isms so the reality is
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the book kind of happened just like
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everything else that's ever been in my
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it's if you think of something and you
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want to do it I don't spend a whole lot
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of time trying to figure out nine ways
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to do it I just start somewhere this is
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another Joey ISM start somewhere like
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you're a little kitten with a ball of
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when that cat pushes that yarn does it
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know where it's gonna go has no idea it
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just knows it will eventually unravel
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and it can play with it and that's a
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similar attitude to what I had because
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if you go in a direction and you start
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something when you get to that point
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then you could figure out what you need
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and if you need to shift your direction
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but start someplace right just start and
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and I think a lot of us have a what is
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it analysis paralysis right where we
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start to analyze everything and we
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thought think about this and we think
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about that and we just don't get off the
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dime because we're so busy thinking
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about it I always just say just do it
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and figure it out later we had that in
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my printing car I published a magazine
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but I also had a printing and graphic
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design business and that wound up
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running you know from nothing to I
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wanted to print my husband's research
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reports because I thought he was paying
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too much money to a quick printer so we
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oppress and blah blah blah the rest is
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history I wound up with 30 employees and
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two shifts and and one of the things
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that we did was we would think outside
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the nine dots that's very key just
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because it's always been done this way
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doesn't mean there isn't another way you
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don't have to think so much as to just
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do a little bit and see where it goes
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that seems to be a theme for what I'm
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saying on this show very much so and you
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also talked a lot about intuition so
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let's talk about intuition and a tip for
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our viewers intuition is something
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everyone is born with but not everyone
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has taken the time or is aware forget
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about taking the time they're just
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completely unaware that they have this
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wonderful inner knowing so I would ask
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you to think of intuition as sometimes
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when you meet someone and you just
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immediately want to move toward them you
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like them or another time when somebody
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says something to you and you find
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yourself sort of backing away from them
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that's your intuition giving you
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direction and you may not notice it we
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all have that it just comes with our
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with our whole system of being yeah more
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you can tune in to your intuition the
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better it will serve you and I'm
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actually at a point where I will ask is
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this good for me should I take this
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supplement or not and if I think about
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it I find up I find myself looking
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online and reading something that gives
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me the answer or I was sort of have an
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inner knowingness because if you sit
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quietly though as I got older I found
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myself doing things more like meditation
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and said that to me when I was younger I
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would have laughed at you I mean it was
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fine for that but if you make time even
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5 minutes 10 minutes a day to meditate
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it slows your mind enough that other
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thoughts that you want an answer to have
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a chance to get in there and talk to you
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true I start my day every day meditating
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but I used to say oh there's no way I'm
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too I'm too busy you know there's so
17:58
much going on I can't sit still and it
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started with five minutes and then ten
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I know I know meditate for about 45
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minutes every morning and it's just it's
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I think it's what keeps me sane because
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it really keeps me focused on where I'm
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going so I this next question is kind of
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it's a silly one but it really isn't I
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like to ask all my guests what is your
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superpower if somebody were to say what
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what room what is the thing that defines
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you I'm my superpower is that I'm I'm
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fearless I can jump buildings with you
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know I that's me I will do anything
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what's your superpower the first thing
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that comes to mind for me was that I was
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always underestimated
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so nobody expected me to do very much
18:42
something it was more like I wasn't
18:45
stopped because I was already there I
18:47
was already doing it they tended to
18:50
underestimate short little women but not
18:54
was when we were starting out in
18:56
business another quality I think that
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really matters in my life and in
19:00
anyone's life when you really care about
19:02
something is persistence not give up I
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think no is just a word on the path -
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no if you if you haven't had any knows
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there's no way you're gonna get - yes
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you have to have nose nose Andrea Waltz
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wrote the book go for know and that's
19:21
the whole concept before behind that if
19:23
the more nose you get the more yeses
19:25
you're going to get and I so really you
19:27
really have to show somebody why they
19:29
need your service or your product right
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it's just the overcoming objections and
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I tell a story in my book of a guy it's
19:37
crazy I won't take the time to tell it
19:39
here but I called on him and he finally
19:41
threw me out of his office said I
19:43
wouldn't wrap a fish in that newspaper
19:44
you're selling don't bother coming back
19:47
I didn't go back but I went much longer
19:51
than he wanted me to and ultimately he
19:53
wound up calling me like I kind of miss
19:55
you I you were here every Monday at 2
19:57
o'clock whenever you
20:01
ever know the effect you're really
20:02
having the required habit you're in
20:05
acquired right I wish I could stick to
20:08
routines and I would call on people at
20:11
pretty much the same time that were
20:13
prospects and this guy was you know like
20:16
get out of here you know and finally it
20:18
was like oh something's missing from my
20:20
Monday that is actually a great story
20:24
that's a great story you know we're
20:27
almost out of time believe it or not and
20:28
I know that those of you who are live
20:31
and watching you're probably wondering
20:32
how do I get to know Joey better well
20:34
we're going to give you some ways you
20:35
can go over to her website at Joey
20:38
Goodkin dot-com you can also follow her
20:41
on Instagram and you can find her there
20:43
at Joey Goodkin and finally on Facebook
20:47
if you just simply type in Joey Goodkin
20:49
you will find her on Facebook and again
20:52
you can pick up the show of the book
20:55
this wonderful book you can do it I put
20:57
the the link to the book in the comments
20:59
already go check it out because I know
21:03
that this is going to make a difference
21:05
in your life it's I think this is
21:06
actually in many respects you kind of go
21:09
oh yeah right uh-huh
21:10
it's like those aha moments that's what
21:13
I kind of think about your book it's
21:15
like an aha moment that just but like
21:17
lots of moments so I really appreciate
21:20
you any last thoughts that you like to
21:22
share with our audience before we say
21:23
goodbye to them I want you to realize
21:26
that whatever you're struggling with
21:29
because these are unusually peculiar
21:32
strange difficult times is that just
21:36
know that if you trust your own in inner
21:40
knowingness and you build up your own
21:43
confidence don't be overwhelmed by
21:45
external things go inward and seek out
21:49
your own answers within yourself read
21:53
something new watch something new and
21:56
also very important spend some time in
21:59
nature you will be amazed at the joy you
22:03
can feel just from admiring a tree or
22:06
the just being in nature is like you
22:11
know the universe's way of saying take a
22:14
I love that Joey I want to thank you for
22:16
being with us we I appreciate you so
22:19
much I appreciate who you are and what
22:22
you've done I aspire to be you I just
22:24
think that you are an amazing woman
22:26
thank you for sharing your brilliance
22:28
with us I'm gonna drop you into the
22:30
green room while I do my super boomer
22:32
moment and don't go away I'll be with
22:34
you right after the show Thank You
22:36
Cameron for this she's awesome
22:39
oh my gosh oh my gosh she has done so
22:41
much and and not just little things she
22:45
has basically just followed her her
22:48
dreams and she's done it and the super
22:50
boomer moment today is is the whole idea
22:53
of the intuition and inner knowing I
22:55
love the way Joey described that the
22:57
inner knowing I call it my gut it's my
23:00
gut instinct if it feels weird in my
23:02
stomach I have to think about it but it
23:04
is it's that inner knowing I want to
23:06
thank you for giving me that phrase
23:08
because I think that's probably a lot
23:09
nicer than saying my gut that that is a
23:12
great way to say this almost the same
23:14
thing so so thank you for that I'm going
23:16
to take that and ponder on it when I
23:18
meditate tomorrow morning we want to
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thank you guys you know you have a
23:22
choice as to where you spend your time
23:24
you decided to spend it with Joey and I
23:26
today and I am grateful for that I know
23:28
that Joey is grateful for that go out
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and pick up her book go click on that
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link and most of all go out and give
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somebody an awesome day and we'll see
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you next time on the next episode of the
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super boomer lifestyle show goodbye