Peak Performance with Anthony Trucks: Redefining Success, Overcoming Challenges, and Enriching Life

Introduction and Guest Welcome

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welcome ladies and gentlemen to the

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podcast I have none other than the man

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himself Anthony truck welcome Hey man

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thank you for having me appreciate you

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so much and the work that you do I'm

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gonna I've got a bunch of questions

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we'll see how much we get through so

Getting to Know Anthony Trucks

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we'll start with right off the top for

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those that don't know you please share

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who you are and what you do oh man who I

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am and what I do I'm a man I'm a man of

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faith I'm a man of God I'm a husband I'm

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a father I'm a coach speaker I'm an

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author I teach people how to do the dark

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work so it can optimize their identity

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for people performance and show up to

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defining moments in her life with a dark

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work mentality of I have done too much

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work in the dark to lose the light so I

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I deliver that message of the world

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through coaching speaking Consulting

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it's pretty awesome

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amazing the the next question I have is

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what do you love most about the work

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that you do ah to be honest I'm genuine

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people talk about all the time but I

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genuinely love having the feeling of

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going something I did that I experienced

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that sucked like it was bad in life

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right taught me a lesson I could pass on

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that somebody could have great success

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with and avoid the headache that I went

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through or climb out of the hole they in

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and that's the unique thing man to have

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some of value the world I think we all

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desire to be desired and so to have

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something that's desirable is probably a

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pretty good feeling and so and I can

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deliver that to somebody and they have

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some great result with it I love seeing

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it to be honest and that's what

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transitions and translates to income and

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impact in a world so I'm not going to

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lie and say I don't love that I can

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actually make a career out of doing it

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so it's a duality but genuinely like

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it's something where I love the fact

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that I get to do something in life that

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helps people's lives

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fantastic and I know you've got a I'm

Overcoming Challenges and Embracing Discomfort

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familiar with parts of your story but

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what do you attribute to something maybe

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you learned early in your career that

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has made the biggest difference you're

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not GNA die obviously you can die and

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put it that way the meaning like when I

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approach certain situations and I'm

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deadly afraid of it but you're probably

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not going to die doing this you're not

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going to die making that phone call to

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somebody filming that video getting that

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workout in saying that thing making the

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ass it's going to it's going to feel

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painful but you're not going to die

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doing that that and so that allows me to

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go all right it can't be all too bad and

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then what you do is you lean into

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something I think life taught me that

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pretty early on where there's things

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that we're Desiring in life we want in

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life but then the path to get in there

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becomes just murky or gray or

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uncomfortable and most people will give

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up on the dream because of is Comfort it

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takes to get it and so as a young kid

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thankfully like in my teens I was able

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to figure out that's just the path to

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all success and so I've been able to

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reapply that understanding to many ples

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of my life in different stages to get

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success that most people will never get

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or it takes forever to get because I

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just do it faster so I got no problem

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falling on my face love that great

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advice for everyone and the road to

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success is often paved with all of these

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things that people don't see so it's the

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work that you do that you're that people

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don't see that's yeah exactly mentors

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yeah I get a lot of them how important

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have mentors been in your career H it's

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Paramount there's no way that I would

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have the information I have without

The Importance of Mentors

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people giving me like the information of

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what direction to go to learn it through

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experience or to Garner it from people

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who've gone through the experience and

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can help me shortcut the path or we'll

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call Bypass the dumb tax which is like

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you do it on your own and you make the

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mistake that somebody could have told

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you to avoid so for me I I just look at

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all the levels of my life from football

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to business to speaking this whole

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industry here I've always had people I

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can ask questions of and interestingly

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like most people they they won't do this

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because I think one is an ego thing I

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don't want to I'm self-made I don't want

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someone to tell right which is like dumb

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that's a dumb thing to me CU like oh I

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was the highest level in the world in my

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sport I saw a coach right it's not a bad

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thing if you need to have that but then

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two I think the mentorship allows me to

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see things I didn't see that I I should

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have moved towards or that can move you

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because a lot of the things that we

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don't know we don't know sit in that

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bubble for a long time so you don't

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drive towards you don't work towards you

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don't even know what's there so mentors

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they open your eyes to things you didn't

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quite see and you go oh it's possible

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and it reframes what you can do it

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shapes your mind different it gives you

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better hope hope and then from there you

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can actually move in a direction of

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where they're at without having to do

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the same dumb things they did so you get

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to do it faster and a lot here the thing

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a lot of people realize this exists they

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know you can get a mentor and a coach

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but they're they go oh it's going to

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cost money it's said yeah it's going to

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cost you probably some money to pay for

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what somebody had to pay for with more

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than money and I'm willing to do that so

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for me like I do invest in coaching I do

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invest in mentors personally because at

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the end of the day like I I know that

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there's going to be some investment to

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get my success I much rather it not be

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time and if I can avoid time that's the

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one thing that you can't put a price on

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but I can put a price on the information

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so I'm going to pay for the information

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to be able to save me time I love that

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mentors really are the accelerant to

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getting to where you want to go what are

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you most excited about right now I'm

The Excitement of Family Life

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excited about family man and we got

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somebody doing some stuff on our house

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we're getting the house fixed I was like

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it's not fixed but upgraded so we can

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like be here for a long time if that

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makes sense yeah but man I'm excited

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about watching my kids grow and do their

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things I know work's fun and I I have a

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blast in work I do and a lot of people

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answer that question I'm sure with I'm

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excited about this thing I'm launching

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we got some great things launching I got

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a a whole new company I'm building into

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it's in a launch in March but for me

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it's like I all those things are just I

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guess they're vehicles to allow me to

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have time with my family with my wife

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with my kids to go watch them play

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sports and do what they do all that

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stuff is for me the blast so I'm excited

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about living my life really it just

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living my life great answer what

Motivation and Living Life to the Fullest

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motivates you getting to the end of my

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days and and making sure I've done what

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I was supposed to do while I was here

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and I don't know what that is I don't

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know if I'll ever know what it is until

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you actually leave the planet and you're

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off in the next stage but for me what

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motivates me is one making sure that I

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don't waste the gifts given but two I

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find like they're like I look at us

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metaphorically like teacups there's the

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potential to have a full cup of tea but

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a lot of us live life with drips and

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drops in the bottom of the of the cup

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and I don't think it's a way to live

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life I think that the potential is there

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to have a full cup fill the cup up man

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go do things go see things go try stuff

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expand out see what's possible I don't

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think enough people do that I think for

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me what what I look like is life is I

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want to make sure that I'm building into

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something that gives me this complete

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sense of fulfillment as I build into it

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fill your cup great advice do a bunch of

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crazy things see what's out there live

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life excellent advice what's your

The Role of Leadership and Congruence

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biggest challenge as a leader biggest

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challenge man you know what it is to be

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honest it's living what you preach it's

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always a hard thing I'm not saying that

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it's I don't do and it's hard to do I do

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but that's the battle is those moments

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in your mind where like you've told

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people go do this and then you're

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confronted with a moment where you have

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to do it and your brain starts going hey

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no one's going to know if you don't do

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it it'll just be you and me and I go

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I'll know and so it's whether it's

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missing a workout or the food stuff or

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not doing the the congruence thing you

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said make sure you go and create this

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watch this do this right and then you

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don't do it because once you have a

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certain level of success if you don't

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desire something something more you can

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get you can get lulled to sleep at the

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level you're at and just do it no

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problem right just becomes but for me if

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I go I want to have people understand

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that I I can guide them on the journey

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to being better I've got to be working

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on being better myself so that's usually

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the for me the the biggest battle

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personally internally but it's a mini

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battle every day it's the do I get up

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when the alarm goes off it's do I eat

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that do I go there do I say that you

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these little things they come into play

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and it's the individual mini battles

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throughout the day I have to fight

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that's so true those small winds right

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stack up yeah yeah and then when you go

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when you overcome them you feel super

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congruent it's I think it's in my

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business what I do it's actually easier

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to sell it's easier to speak easier to

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talk it's easier to do the things

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because I know I'm congruent like I can

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talk to you at the top of my lungs have

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no you're not going to come in the room

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and go you said this but look I saw you

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did this that won't happen for me so I

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can be out there broad sharing my

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message I think some people have that

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impostor syndrome feeling I don't know

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if can you just didn't do enough dark

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work you didn't do enough things in a

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background that nobody saw you do so you

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know that you have an issue you know

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you're in congruent but you don't tell

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anybody but you just the way you tell us

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is by not pushing at a broad huge push

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perfect how do you prioritize what's

Prioritizing What's Important

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most important man it goes in my

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calendar I'm literally looking at right

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here it's all color coded on the side

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it's always in my peripheral you will

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literally schedule what's important

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that's just the truth of it go they go

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oh family is important show me show me

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your calendar where it's there because I

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bet you got your meeting at 5:00 there

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and then one at 2 o'clock they're all

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there but there's not the date day with

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your wife there's not time with your

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kids there's no when you're doing

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certain things for me I think it's for

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most people who are structured they do a

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good job with their calendar it's the

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one thing that I find is like gives me

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peace because also it'll just say done

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for the day and then I just know I'm not

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going to work I'm going to life so it's

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pick my kids up and take them here and

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do this and Coach their teams but it's

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in my calendar like it's there and so

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when I look at people and I see them go

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oh what's important like that's how I do

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it I put it in my calendar and I make

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sure it's there so if you were to come

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and go who's Anthony as a person you

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could see who I am I love that the

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calendar one look is I know everything I

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need to know about how you

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prioritize yeah for sure 100% can I

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paper and digital you'll understand man

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I am basic with in that calendar I

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imagine it's full of different colors

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and I got a crazy calendar too bu

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different colors yeah green blue yeah

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it's all there yeah I love talking about

The Power of Books and Learning

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books what are something your favorites

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oh man I got a lot of like to read

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simple ones are usually the ones I like

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the most I love the the book outwitting

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The Devil it was by it's well is by

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Napoleon Hill it's a great conversation

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very interesting how with the times it

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is man seur for meaning Victor Frankle

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Steven C said it's The Alchemist is good

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by Paul quo outlier is a good book Power

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of Habit by Charles doig Michael Singer

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the untethered Soul it's a whole bunch

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like it's just but the thing is cool is

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I like to read books that make me me

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frame everything

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differently life and I believe of life

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is you see life you experience based on

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what right and if I look at this

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situation and go I'm poor but I have a

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framing of but I have health and I can

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walk my framing goes oh beautiful life

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right but if I go on poor I have this

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then you can have a horrible way it's

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just a different framing so I love when

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books can take me into a space to make

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me reframe things different so I get to

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operate in a vastly more appreciative

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and more grateful life so I show up to

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life with a different frame and I'm

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happy and so even when things go

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sideways that would be somebody else's

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view I go oh but I can still walk and I

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still got breath in my lungs like it's a

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good day I think that the Mantra of I am

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grateful I ran on the beach yesterday

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for about two miles and I was just

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clapping I am grateful in like a musical

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way and just probably repeated it as

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long as the walk was yeah gratitude just

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so important age day my son I every

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single day do a whole grateful L like

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gratitude practice every morning

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beautiful I got one more for you if you

Advice for Younger Self and Entrepreneurs

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could give advice to your 20-year-old

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self what would you say oh man so I'm

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going to go back to my 20-year-old self

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and so you guys understand it so at 20

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years old I was a shoot sophomore in

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college I had a son I was a newborn son

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I just met my biological father like on

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the phone had I don't think I met him in

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person just yet and so it was a lot all

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at the same time and for me it was just

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like juggling all of it to try to be the

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best at everything athletically

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academically as a father as a fiance to

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my wife or my fiance at the time and so

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I would probably tell that guy Embrace

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these moments CU they they pass like my

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father has since passed away my son is

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off at College living his life which is

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awesome we're in constant contact but

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he's still he's not in my home the

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football days are gone can't play those

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anymore my wife and I were married we're

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just older now doing our thing and and

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so you look back at those moments and

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when you're in them you're like just got

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to stay alive but you don't breathe them

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in you don't fully like savor it it's

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like this amazing soup you just just

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slurp up and get spoon by spoon but if

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you just stopped and let the taste like

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just coach your tongue and just just

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this is a beautiful pocket of life I

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think that's what I would tell myself

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back then of like hey this is going to

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be gone before in 20 years be

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reminiscing about it before you so enjoy

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this so true I saw recently that the

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Sony CD Walkman was enrolled in the

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historical what do they call it like a a

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museum kind of thing huh yeah like a

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museum and it's oh my God right one of

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those yeah I I was day the disman the

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disc man yeah yeah yeah wow the CD

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player that's crazy skipping shock an a

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shock bro I used to listen to that on

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game days like to for high school

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football and then they had the Sony mini

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dis player remember that yes theplayer

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was one where you had to load music to a

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little disc from this app on your phone

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and then yeah it's been it's crazy we've

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gone through all of it now it's just hit

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a button and download the entire album

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in 30 seconds before the plane takes off

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amazing okay one more bonus question

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let's do it for any entrepreneurs

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listening what's the best bit of advice

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you were given about business and make

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your business boring make your business

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boring but here's the thing it's not

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that it's boring when you do what you do

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I love speaking coaching teaching I love

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this stuff right this is what I love to

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do but there is a boring Rhythm to my

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business meaning the way that I Prospect

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the way that we we generate leads we

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have

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conversations uh the way I study and and

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practice my craft when and where I'm

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doing it like there should be a rhythm

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to it where it's not that it's unhappy

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but it's just it doesn't it's not like

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it's brand new and exciting every single

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moment because those are the things that

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build you into having moments where I

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can get in a stage and talk to 30,000

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people in a stadium at some point or I

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could talk to clients in a podcast or I

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can have clients and do webinar those

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little things that are the fun exciting

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moments they because of the boring stuff

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you've done most people are looking for

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every day to get up and go to the coffee

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shop and have this Bing and zig zag it's

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not what entrepreneurship is the to be

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honest a lot of it's dark work it's

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things that nobody sees it's the did you

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get up every single day into your

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routine are you in a good head space are

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you writing that thing filming that

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thing talking to the clients prospecting

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having sales conversations doing Sal

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delivering your service and your product

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are you doing these things that really

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create the outcome of the guy with the

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helicopter and Louis Vuitton shoes and

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the Ferrari that stuff's all because of

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things they did that nobody saw and they

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did them for years and it wasn't sexy it

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was boring but it built up to the

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exciting things later maybe at one point

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there's a book called boring working it

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for you yeah it could be it make your

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business boring I could do something

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like that that's a good book there you

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go you spitting out ideas right now

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aren't you yeah I love it have you read

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the practice of practice I haven't yet

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no I'll send you a copy it's by Jonathan

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Haram and it's all about how musicians

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get better at music but it applies to

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anything and some really fantastic ideas

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and there's a quote in it that I loved

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it's called Talent is practice and

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disguise

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yeah that's good yeah that's 100% what

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it is man yeah there's no overnight

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success yeah I like that it's pretty

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cool this has been so much fun thank you

Conclusion and Farewell

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for joining me on the brand new grateful

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podcast at grateful podcast.com and I

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just really appreciate your time and

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it's always special we get when we get a

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chance to have a conversation so really

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appreciate it D Man welcome thank you

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for having me appreciate it seriously

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thanks so much it's been great all right

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all right that's that was great man

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you're a rockstar thank you how do you

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like my new my new setup here I see that

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is it a picture or is you actually your

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house no so this is you might be able to

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tell it's a green screen so if I I'm

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actually yeah I'm in Puerto Barta in

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Mexico oh actually uh I'm staying in

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Sayulita which is about an hour and a

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half kind of like a little Beach town

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there yeah and I'm just up in the

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there's a Selena co-work they're all

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over and I'm in a hallway I just set

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this thing up and they rocking and

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rolling hey knock it out man I like it

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you got to be resourceful it's beautiful

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I I can appre respect that it's that

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dark work for sure man I can have my EA

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reach out to you just give me some

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address information and I'll send you a

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copy of the the book because I think

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you'd really enjoy that it sounds like I

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would I think it's right in my alley of

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things pra practice of practice I like

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that idea for sure and that boring work

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idea I think you got a book in there

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right it might be actually generally

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entrepreneurship by entrepreneurship by

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none other than an Anthony trucks yeah

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yeah the business boring building a

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boring business something like that

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there may be something out there I'm

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going to take a look at making that this

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is the thing that people do they give me

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ideas and I run with them so I I think

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it would be really cool I I think you're

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doing awesome stuff and keep up the

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great work it means a lot to myself my

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team and everyone that you touch with

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your messages so thank you very welcome

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and thank you as well