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Welcome back to the Dr.
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Dez show.
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I am your host, Dr.
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Des.
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I am a multi-six figure public health entrepreneur.
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I help people advance in their career, pivot into tech, biopharma, all the things, and I help public health professionals start and build businesses.
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So if you are interested in that, please make sure that you join the public health club.
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You check out subcontract and six figures and you apply to be a part of the CEO circle.
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If you are already building a business and you need help and strategy and all the business things to get you to the next level, apply to be a part of CEO circle.
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So without further ado, we are talking today about why ambition is not enough.
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When you are in public health, you are trying to advance in your career, you are trying to build a business, grow and scale that business, get it to multi-six figures, seven figures, wherever you're trying to get it to.
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Ambition is not enough.
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You need a little bit more.
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So before we really truly get into it, make sure y'all like, subscribe to this podcast, share with a friend, and comment on it, y'all.
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Comment on it.
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Like, please, please, please, please, please do all the things, rate it five stars, let me know, especially my people who be listening all the time.
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Okay.
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So ambition will get you very, very far.
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Okay.
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I know so many people who are ambitious.
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A lot of us are ambitious.
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If you went to school, you said, I'm getting a master's degree, I'm getting a doctorate degree, whatever.
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Like you have ambition, right?
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But I see so many ambitious people just that are not successful.
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And successful sometimes can be like a subjective word, right?
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What do you consider as successful, Dr.
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Dais?
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It's up to you of what you consider successful.
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So I want you to think about first, do you consider yourself successful, right?
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I consider myself successful.
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And I'm not where I want to be yet, right?
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But I am actively moving towards that goal.
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So this is for my people who, if you feel like, I feel like I'm stagnant a little bit, I feel like I might be stalling a little bit in where I am.
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I feel like I'm ambitious, like I want to climb the corporate ladder, I want to make, you know,$200,000 this year for my business.
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Like I wanna do it, but I don't know.
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I don't know what to do.
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Like I'm just, ah, I don't know.
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Right?
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This is for you.
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Okay.
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So now, number one reason why I feel like ambition isn't enough is because, like I said in the beginning, we're all ambitious.
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Majority of us who are listening to this, if you're listening to this especially, you are ambitious, right?
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You want to grow, you want to get to that next level, but it takes more than that, okay?
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And I say that because look at all your friends around you, look at where they are, and then tell me like, did ambition get them to that next level where they want to be?
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What got me to the next level and what's continuously getting me to the next level is number one, investing in myself, investing in my growth, getting into rooms, you know, business coaching programs, all the different things, right?
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Getting into rooms with other entrepreneurs.
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But then not only that, but also feeding my knowledge, feeding my intellect, right?
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The the way to do that, those programs, CEO circle for public health entrepreneurs, the public health club, you getting into communities like that.
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But then also, you don't just get into communities, but you take advantage of it.
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I see so many people who get into spaces and they don't take advantage of the spaces that they're in.
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Like they don't show up, they don't engage, and then they say it didn't work for them.
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And I mean, hey, it didn't work for you, but did you actually do what you were supposed to do in the program?
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That's that's my thing.
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Like a lot of people, you don't do what you're supposed to do.
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If you show up to school and you don't do your work, you don't show up to class, you think you're gonna pass the class.
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But also when we think about ambition and what it takes to get us to that next level, a lot of us are not consistent.
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A lot of us are inconsistent with how we show up and how we show up in our business, how we show up in our career.
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So let's focus on my career people for a second.
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When I worked at the Florida Department of Health, I was able to be the youngest program administrator, so like supervisor in the whole department.
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How did that happen, Dr.
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Des?
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Number one, yes, I was ambitious, but number two, I got into the room with the people who made the decisions.
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I showed up, I always had something to say.
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I showed up with excellence, and yes, your girl took her work home with her.
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I think a lot of people now always hear people saying, uh, Dr.
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Des, I'm not taking my work home with me.
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They get me from nine to five, and after that, I'm often on my own time.
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That's great.
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But honestly, if you want to move up, you got to go above and beyond.
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Like if you want to stay where you are, great.
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That's cool.
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Do that.
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But for my people who really want to move up, you're saying, all right, I need to make more money.
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I want a I want a higher title.
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I want to be able to do this.
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It's gonna take you taking work home.
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Like I just had a flashback in my head when I was doing grant writing for the department.
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We were applying for a contract, and we're applying for a contract with CDC.
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My supervisor was out for weeks because she was sick.
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So, guess who had to take on the leadership of the grant writing team?
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Dr.
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Dez.
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And I think that was before I got my doctorate.
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So I was just Dez, right?
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Dez with the masters.
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Um, so I say that to say like I took that on.
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So yes, I was up at my apartment late at night with my work computer, chugging away on the grants, making sure all the pieces were in place, making sure, and that way I ended up securing us multi-million dollars in contracts, right?
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In federal contracts.
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So it paid off.
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I got recognized, and I was promoted.
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I got more money.
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Now, was I the lowest paid supervisor on the team?
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Yeah.
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That's another story for another day.
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But I say that to say, right?
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And I say that to say.
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It took ambition to get there, but then also for my people who are thinking about advancing in their career, and you're like, there's no promotions that you can get there.
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It's just like you get a new position.
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Yeah, like it wasn't a promotion that I got.
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I had to apply for this new position.
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I applied and I had to interview.
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When I came to that interview, I came prepared.
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When I tell you I had branded slide decks, I had all these things, I had strategies, I had insider strategies.
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Why?
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Because I had worked with the person who was previously over that role who left, and I knew.
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I knew.
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And I will tell you that when I got the role, the team wasn't pleased.
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Some people on the team weren't pleased.
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They felt like they had more experience than me.
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But at the end of the day, I did the things that I needed to do to get that role.
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I got in the rooms, I did the work, and I approved myself to get the role, right?
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I was not only ambitious, but I took action behind that ambition.
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Same thing with building my business.
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If I want to get a contract, if I keep getting rejected for contracts, you know what I'm about to do?
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I'm not about to just keep doing the same thing that I always did.
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I'm about to get help.
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I'm about to reach out to somebody who I know is a pro at com proposal writing, right?
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And I'm gonna get help.
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So that's what I did.
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For me, I was kind of that person like that knew a lot about it, but I reached out to other people who I knew could strengthen my application.
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And I said, all right, I don't have just enough skills by myself, but this person here with me, they can get me to that next level, right?
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I was able to get in the rooms with the people who could fund me and start talking and having conversations with them.
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I was not only ambitious, I took action behind that ambition.
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Too many of us are ambitious and we don't take action.
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So why are you not taking action?
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If you say you want these things, why are you not taking action, getting into the room and doing all the things that you can do to get to that next level?
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Tell me, why are you not doing that?
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I see so many people who are like, I want to build this particular type of business and I'm gonna leverage social media, I'm gonna leverage Instagram, but I don't see you posting every day.
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Why are you ain't posting like two weeks?
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What's going on?
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You still got your business?
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Like, yeah, you're ambitious, but where's the action behind it, right?
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So that's the things I want you to think about.
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When I get into a room, especially if I'm in a room where I pay money for, like if you're in the CEO circle, if you're a subcontract in the six figures, and if you're in public health club and you don't show up, then of course you're not gonna give value because you're not showing up.
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Yeah, you're ambitious, but why aren't you showing up?
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If I knew, okay, I got a business or I'm wanting to start a business, maybe I landed one contract and I want to land multiple contracts.
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I know Dr.
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Dez can help me get there, but I joined her CEO circle and I don't come to not one business strategy session to talk to her about it and ask her questions.
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Do you really want to get there?
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I question your choices, friend.
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If I want a new job and I join the public health club and I don't show up to not one mentorship session that's in the club, I don't take the resume workshop to get a new resume.
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I don't come and show up, I don't ask the community anything because there's over a thousand members in that community, and there are people who hire people within that community.
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There have been people who have hired people within the community, right?
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But I don't show up, I'm not talking to nobody, I'm just sitting in the corner in the back.
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Yeah, you're ambitious, but you're not taking action.
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So that's not leading to results.
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Ambition plus action equals results.
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Okay?
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All right, friends.
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This was a short episode today, but I just wanted to give you that because too many times I see so many of us amazing professionals with all the degrees, all the accolades, all the things, but we're not actually capitalizing on them to get to where we want to be in our careers, in our business, in all the things.
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Yes, you're ambitious, but are you taking action?
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Let that be your motivation for this week.
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I want you to take action.
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If you're in the club, I want you to RSVP to some workshops and actually show up to those workshops and actually ask all the questions, okay?
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Come prepare with your questions.
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That's the thing.
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Like when I go to my business coaching sessions, I try to be prepared with my questions, okay?
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Sometimes I may hang out in the back because your girl had a rough week and I ain't got nothing for you.
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I just, I'm just showing up and just being in the room.
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And sometimes that's all we got to give, is just to be in the room, right?
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We barely made that happen.
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And that's great.
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But don't just always be the one who I just barely showed up and I just got in the room.
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Make it a priority for your growth, for everything that you're trying to do.
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Because I want you to take advantage of everything that life has to offer, and I want you to get there.
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Next year, my business will be a seven figure a year business.
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And number one, I'm ambitious, but number two, I'm also taking action.
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Ambition plus action equals results.
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It's all right, y'all.
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Hope y'all have a great rest of your day, and I'll talk to y'all later.
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Bye.
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Welcome back to the Dr.
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Dez show.
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I am your host, Dr.
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Des.
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I am a multi-six figure public health entrepreneur.
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I help people advance in their career, pivot into tech, biopharma, all the things, and I help public health professionals start and build businesses.
00:00:14.880 --> 00:00:18.239
So if you are interested in that, please make sure that you join the public health club.
00:00:18.320 --> 00:00:22.879
You check out subcontract and six figures and you apply to be a part of the CEO circle.
00:00:22.960 --> 00:00:31.440
If you are already building a business and you need help and strategy and all the business things to get you to the next level, apply to be a part of CEO circle.
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So without further ado, we are talking today about why ambition is not enough.
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When you are in public health, you are trying to advance in your career, you are trying to build a business, grow and scale that business, get it to multi-six figures, seven figures, wherever you're trying to get it to.
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Ambition is not enough.
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You need a little bit more.
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So before we really truly get into it, make sure y'all like, subscribe to this podcast, share with a friend, and comment on it, y'all.
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Comment on it.
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That is how people find it.
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If you are an Apple, make sure that you leave us a review.
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Like, please, please, please, please, please do all the things, rate it five stars, let me know, especially my people who be listening all the time.
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Okay.
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So ambition will get you very, very far.
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Okay.
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I know so many people who are ambitious.
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A lot of us are ambitious.
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If you went to school, you said, I'm getting a master's degree, I'm getting a doctorate degree, whatever.
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Like you have ambition, right?
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But I see so many ambitious people just that are not successful.
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And successful sometimes can be like a subjective word, right?
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What do you consider as successful, Dr.
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Dais?
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It's up to you of what you consider successful.
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So I want you to think about first, do you consider yourself successful, right?
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I consider myself successful.
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And I'm not where I want to be yet, right?
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But I am actively moving towards that goal.
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So this is for my people who, if you feel like, I feel like I'm stagnant a little bit, I feel like I might be stalling a little bit in where I am.
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I feel like I'm ambitious, like I want to climb the corporate ladder, I want to make, you know,$200,000 this year for my business.
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Like I wanna do it, but I don't know.
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I don't know what to do.
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Like I'm just, ah, I don't know.
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Right?
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This is for you.
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Okay.
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So now, number one reason why I feel like ambition isn't enough is because, like I said in the beginning, we're all ambitious.
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Majority of us who are listening to this, if you're listening to this especially, you are ambitious, right?
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You want to grow, you want to get to that next level, but it takes more than that, okay?
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And I say that because look at all your friends around you, look at where they are, and then tell me like, did ambition get them to that next level where they want to be?
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What got me to the next level and what's continuously getting me to the next level is number one, investing in myself, investing in my growth, getting into rooms, you know, business coaching programs, all the different things, right?
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Getting into rooms with other entrepreneurs.
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But then not only that, but also feeding my knowledge, feeding my intellect, right?
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The the way to do that, those programs, CEO circle for public health entrepreneurs, the public health club, you getting into communities like that.
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But then also, you don't just get into communities, but you take advantage of it.
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I see so many people who get into spaces and they don't take advantage of the spaces that they're in.
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Like they don't show up, they don't engage, and then they say it didn't work for them.
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And I mean, hey, it didn't work for you, but did you actually do what you were supposed to do in the program?
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That's that's my thing.
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Like a lot of people, you don't do what you're supposed to do.
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If you show up to school and you don't do your work, you don't show up to class, you think you're gonna pass the class.
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But also when we think about ambition and what it takes to get us to that next level, a lot of us are not consistent.
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A lot of us are inconsistent with how we show up and how we show up in our business, how we show up in our career.
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So let's focus on my career people for a second.
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When I worked at the Florida Department of Health, I was able to be the youngest program administrator, so like supervisor in the whole department.
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How did that happen, Dr.
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Des?
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Number one, yes, I was ambitious, but number two, I got into the room with the people who made the decisions.
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I showed up, I always had something to say.
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I showed up with excellence, and yes, your girl took her work home with her.
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I think a lot of people now always hear people saying, uh, Dr.
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Des, I'm not taking my work home with me.
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They get me from nine to five, and after that, I'm often on my own time.
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That's great.
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But honestly, if you want to move up, you got to go above and beyond.
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Like if you want to stay where you are, great.
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That's cool.
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Do that.
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But for my people who really want to move up, you're saying, all right, I need to make more money.
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I want a I want a higher title.
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I want to be able to do this.
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It's gonna take you taking work home.
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Like I just had a flashback in my head when I was doing grant writing for the department.
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We were applying for a contract, and we're applying for a contract with CDC.
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My supervisor was out for weeks because she was sick.
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So, guess who had to take on the leadership of the grant writing team?
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Dr.
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Dez.
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And I think that was before I got my doctorate.
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So I was just Dez, right?
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Dez with the masters.
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Um, so I say that to say like I took that on.
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So yes, I was up at my apartment late at night with my work computer, chugging away on the grants, making sure all the pieces were in place, making sure, and that way I ended up securing us multi-million dollars in contracts, right?
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In federal contracts.
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So it paid off.
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I got recognized, and I was promoted.
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I got more money.
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Now, was I the lowest paid supervisor on the team?
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Yeah.
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That's another story for another day.
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But I say that to say, right?
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And I say that to say.
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It took ambition to get there, but then also for my people who are thinking about advancing in their career, and you're like, there's no promotions that you can get there.
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It's just like you get a new position.
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Yeah, like it wasn't a promotion that I got.
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I had to apply for this new position.
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I applied and I had to interview.
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When I came to that interview, I came prepared.
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When I tell you I had branded slide decks, I had all these things, I had strategies, I had insider strategies.
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Why?
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Because I had worked with the person who was previously over that role who left, and I knew.
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I knew.
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And I will tell you that when I got the role, the team wasn't pleased.
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Some people on the team weren't pleased.
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They felt like they had more experience than me.
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But at the end of the day, I did the things that I needed to do to get that role.
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I got in the rooms, I did the work, and I approved myself to get the role, right?
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I was not only ambitious, but I took action behind that ambition.
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Same thing with building my business.
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If I want to get a contract, if I keep getting rejected for contracts, you know what I'm about to do?
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I'm not about to just keep doing the same thing that I always did.
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I'm about to get help.
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I'm about to reach out to somebody who I know is a pro at com proposal writing, right?
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And I'm gonna get help.
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So that's what I did.
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For me, I was kind of that person like that knew a lot about it, but I reached out to other people who I knew could strengthen my application.
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And I said, all right, I don't have just enough skills by myself, but this person here with me, they can get me to that next level, right?
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I was able to get in the rooms with the people who could fund me and start talking and having conversations with them.
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I was not only ambitious, I took action behind that ambition.
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Too many of us are ambitious and we don't take action.
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So why are you not taking action?
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If you say you want these things, why are you not taking action, getting into the room and doing all the things that you can do to get to that next level?
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Tell me, why are you not doing that?
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I see so many people who are like, I want to build this particular type of business and I'm gonna leverage social media, I'm gonna leverage Instagram, but I don't see you posting every day.
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Why are you ain't posting like two weeks?
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What's going on?
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You still got your business?
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Like, yeah, you're ambitious, but where's the action behind it, right?
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So that's the things I want you to think about.
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When I get into a room, especially if I'm in a room where I pay money for, like if you're in the CEO circle, if you're a subcontract in the six figures, and if you're in public health club and you don't show up, then of course you're not gonna give value because you're not showing up.
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Yeah, you're ambitious, but why aren't you showing up?
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If I knew, okay, I got a business or I'm wanting to start a business, maybe I landed one contract and I want to land multiple contracts.
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I know Dr.
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Dez can help me get there, but I joined her CEO circle and I don't come to not one business strategy session to talk to her about it and ask her questions.
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Do you really want to get there?
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I question your choices, friend.
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If I want a new job and I join the public health club and I don't show up to not one mentorship session that's in the club, I don't take the resume workshop to get a new resume.
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I don't come and show up, I don't ask the community anything because there's over a thousand members in that community, and there are people who hire people within that community.
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There have been people who have hired people within the community, right?
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But I don't show up, I'm not talking to nobody, I'm just sitting in the corner in the back.
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Yeah, you're ambitious, but you're not taking action.
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So that's not leading to results.
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Ambition plus action equals results.
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Okay?
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All right, friends.
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This was a short episode today, but I just wanted to give you that because too many times I see so many of us amazing professionals with all the degrees, all the accolades, all the things, but we're not actually capitalizing on them to get to where we want to be in our careers, in our business, in all the things.
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Yes, you're ambitious, but are you taking action?
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Let that be your motivation for this week.
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I want you to take action.
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If you're in the club, I want you to RSVP to some workshops and actually show up to those workshops and actually ask all the questions, okay?
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Come prepare with your questions.
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That's the thing.
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Like when I go to my business coaching sessions, I try to be prepared with my questions, okay?
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Sometimes I may hang out in the back because your girl had a rough week and I ain't got nothing for you.
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I just, I'm just showing up and just being in the room.
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And sometimes that's all we got to give, is just to be in the room, right?
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We barely made that happen.
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And that's great.
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But don't just always be the one who I just barely showed up and I just got in the room.
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Make it a priority for your growth, for everything that you're trying to do.
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Because I want you to take advantage of everything that life has to offer, and I want you to get there.
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Next year, my business will be a seven figure a year business.
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And number one, I'm ambitious, but number two, I'm also taking action.
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Ambition plus action equals results.
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It's all right, y'all.
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Hope y'all have a great rest of your day, and I'll talk to y'all later.
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Bye.
