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You're watching the CEO podcast
with Doctor Julie Ducharme,
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talking with female CEOs
from all over the globe.
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Hi, I'm Doctor Julie.
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I'm back for another episode of she CEO.
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This is where I get to interview
women around the world.
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In every industry, you can imagine
who are killing it as a CEO.
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Today, I'm so excited to have Laura here
with us and preshow.
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We were just talking about
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all the amazing things she has going on,
and nothing like gets me more
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excited than hanging out with women
who are just amazing and doing this stuff.
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And Laura and I met each other.
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I think about a year, year and a half ago
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at the Castle event,
and then we saw each other at New York.
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And of course, we're connected through
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Karen Weaver,
which we love, our Karen Weaver.
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She's amazing.
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And, you know,
you have such a unique story.
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Laura,
I have not run into anyone who has a story
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like yours,
which I love, and I love your book out.
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I actually bought it and read it.
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A funny thing
that happened on my way to life.
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And so what I love to do is let our
I know you, but our listeners don't know
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you really well yet.
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And so I love to have you talk
about your story and everything you do.
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But before we even get too far into that,
you know, Laura here, like,
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just so you don't know, she's
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a bestselling author of Forbes Business
Council member and international keynote
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speaker, which I've got to see twice
as CFO of a multi-million dollar business.
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She's creator of the Queen Code Mastery,
which we'll talk about a framework that
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blends decades of boardroom leadership
and deep inner sovereignty work.
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She has survived a house fire, won
the lottery, discovered her biological
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father wasn't who she thought, and turned
every plot twist into a principle.
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Her work
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teaches women that peace isn't something
you find, it's a policy you write.
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Okay, I see like four movies in that bio
right there that we could write.
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I mean, when I'm reading this, I'm like,
what?
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What?
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So why don't we start
with where it started
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and how you ended up in this
space with this amazing bio.
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Well, thank you for having.
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Me, Julie.
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It's so great to reconnect
with you and your audience.
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And just when you were talking, I'm
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thinking like,
could we just do a Netflix series?
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Maybe like a short series, something good.
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So I am not sure how
I got where I am now.
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It was just, you know, living life and
and moving through it.
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I started out in the Midwest growing up
and moved to California when I was 18
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with my best friends, family
and everything just kept going from there.
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So I don't know.
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This is why.
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This is why my book is called If
Anything Happened on the Way to My Life.
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Because here you are
thinking that your life's going to go
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a certain way and it doesn't.
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Things happen,
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and sometimes they're awesome
and sometimes they're more challenging.
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But what I found through all of it is that
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that gratitude can be found
in every situation.
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I've had multiple I'm
a serial entrepreneur.
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I've had multiple businesses.
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I've had a bread store, I've had a horse
stable, I've had a pottery and art studio.
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So I don't know. This is just who I am.
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I don't know why.
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I think sometimes my friends
who've known me for a long time
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probably look at me and go, couldn't
you just have a hobby?
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Does it everything have to be a business?
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But somehow it does.
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And then, you know,
I've throughout all of it,
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I have these stories,
and I just had it in my heart
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for a long time to want to write a book.
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And so that's where I currently am,
you know, with the,
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with the book journeys
and just even amazed, I
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nobody's more surprised than me
at the success of both of my books.
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I just yesterday
there was a more awards announced
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and actually all three of my books
won awards.
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And with that, with that group
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and I'm I'm humbled and honored and again,
grateful.
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So but also, having said all that,
you know, my day
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job is CFO
and owner of our family business.
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So that keeps you going.
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That's the common thread through. It all.
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I feel so much synergy with us
because I'm a serial entrepreneur as well,
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and I really resonate with your story
because, like you, it was kind of
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like I grew up in
like a very simple kind of farm life.
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And I just wanted to play sports.
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And, you know, if you would have asked me
when I was in my 20s, well,
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that I would be doing this in my late 40s,
I would be like, you're crazy.
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I wouldn't do that. And like you,
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when you said, like, everyone's like,
can you just have a hobby?
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I was just laughing because I'm like,
yeah, everything I get, I'm like, oh,
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I think we could make money out of that.
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We could totally turn that
into a business.
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And I just love that synergy
because, you know,
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a big part of our economy is actually
women businesses that are growing.
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And I think very often that women dream,
but they don't implement.
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I hear women dream all the time
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about all these amazing things
they want to do, but they don't implement.
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And I feel like there's a shift right now
and it's people like yourself, I believe,
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that are really empowering women
to go after those dreams and build that,
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because your stories are
what are giving other women strength
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to go, wait, wait, oh, she did that
and she made it through this
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and this and this.
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And I think that's so powerful.
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I was looking at your website
and something that caught me is
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it says on here you're teaching women
to lead from sovereignty, not fear.
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And I actually looked up sovereignty
because it's been a minute
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since I was like, wait, wait,
I know sovereignty.
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But like, what's the definition of that?
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And it said it means a supreme power
or a city.
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And I was like, oh, I really like that.
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So talk to me about how you help
women lead from sovereignty,
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not fear,
because I don't feel like sovereignty
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is a natural thing
that women always grasp on to.
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I agree with you.
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Just so what I discovered
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a few years ago is that it actually,
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it actually came through a conversation
with one of my mentors.
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Businesses have policies, right?
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Like businesses have.
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These are our ours.
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These are
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you know, if you're
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if you own a retail store,
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you have a policy about what
the returns are, what the exchanges are.
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There's lots of policies.
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And I realize that we should have
policies.
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People, women, and we do.
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We a lot of people call them boundaries.
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I call them personal policies.
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And from that grew Queen Code
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Mastery, my Queen code signature program.
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And it actually
through archetypes of the Queendom,
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it shows us it highlights
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what stories we might be telling ourselves
and leads us through those
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to reframe them and and give ourselves
more power to rule our queendom.
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That's the whole idea of it is that,
and the beauty of it is that our
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our personal policies are changeable
there.
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They evolve with us.
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You could have a certain policy last year
that you don't have any more now
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because it doesn't suit you.
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But we can tell any story we want
and we will believe it.
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You can tell a victim story.
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You can tell a poor me story.
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You can tell, you know, a story of I'm
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always working and nobody ever helps me.
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But a lot of times they're just not true.
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But we believe them.
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And so that's what the Queen Code
Mastery does.
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And that's actually in a different way.
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What my Queen code the book is about.
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Well, is just looking at
how we can empower ourselves,
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how we can lead ourselves to be
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the rulers of our lives,
the queens of our lives.
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Yeah, I love that.
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You know, someone said to me one time
long ago, no one's coming to save you.
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So sometimes you have to save yourself.
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And I and one person said, oh,
that's so negative.
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And I'm like, no,
but I get that because you're right.
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Like, if we're carrying a victim story,
no one's going to get us out of that story
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but ourselves.
And so there's so much power in that.
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And I love the word sovereignty so much,
because after I looked it up, I was like,
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we don't use that word anymore.
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And that's a powerful word.
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And most women, at least in my opinion,
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after traveling the world and I know
you've traveled the world a lot, is that
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culturally, women
are not taught to step into sovereignty.
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They're not they're taught
to step into such smaller roles.
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So you know what your book is doing.
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What the Queen code is doing
is really like
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shifting cultural paradigm
of how women should step into it.
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Because I know for a long time
as a sports player, I was trained to step
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into a room as a very powerful person
because we wanted to intimidate the team.
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I was very much like,
I would get my bosses would be like,
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you're, you're too intimidating.
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You need to be nicer. And I'd be like,
I'm not even doing anything.
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I'm just walking into a room. Right?
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But we were we were trained.
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Hey, when you walk into that gem,
you better look strong and powerful.
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That was a really negative thing for me.
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Like with my work when I was working
corporate is
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I was like penalized for that.
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And so I very much like,
like pulled myself back to a much
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more like my demeanor was much littler
because of that.
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And I think that's such an important point
that, you know, culture oftentimes
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penalizes women
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for coming in to the power,
the sovereignty that you're talking about.
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And I love that.
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And I think this is
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why we've got to keep encouraging women
to do this right, to step into your power.
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In my book,
I talk about owning your power.
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And a lot of women like, what does that
mean? Like, what does it mean?
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And like,
you have a power that you can own,
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but very often
you don't because you're fearful,
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which is the other thing you talk about
is, is to not have fear.
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And I'll tell
you, fear is a powerful thing, isn't it?
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I mean,
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I think about the things
that I was afraid of,
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and I'm sure you can think of some things
you were afraid of that stopped you.
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Right?
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And, you know, it's funny,
I remember someone telling me that
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I used to teach speech
and they came out to me.
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I was a professor,
and they said, you know what?
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I would rather die
than speak in front of someone.
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And they were like, I would rather get
an F and flunk this class.
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And I was like, it's just ten minutes.
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But it was
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it was interesting to me that they were
willing to flunk the whole class
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because they were so fearful of speaking,
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and I don't know
if you can speak to any fears that kind of
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stopped you, that you overcame
when you were going through this.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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And you're taking me back to high school
in speech class when absolutely didn't
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want to do the speech like you don't
you don't want to.
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And that's
what 20 people that you already know.
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Yeah.
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But yeah, I it was funny
if a few years ago, after our fire,
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a friend of a
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friend were at lunch and said, you know,
what are you afraid of?
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I'm afraid of,
you know, my my family has a history
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of diabetes, and I'm
so afraid that I'm going to get diabetes.
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And first of all, like,
mindset wise, like, no, like
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that's not a good place to be.
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Like constantly fearing whatever.
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The thing is, if you keep naming
the thing that you're afraid of,
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you're going to bring more of it in.
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But my response to her was,
my house burned down.
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I'm not I'm not really afraid
of much anymore, but I was business.
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I mean, there's so much, you know,
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to be afraid to be afraid of in life
if you want to.
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I, I moved from my,
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like I said before, from my home
in the Midwest to California.
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Luckily,
I had my best friends family to live with.
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I can I couldn't imagine doing that
on my own, just picking up and going, and
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I was able to lean on them for a while
and live with them, and they supported me.
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and I've written about this
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I argued with myself, this is what it is.
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I, you know,
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I was arguing with myself about the
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do I do this next thing you know,
what if what if this one fails?
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What if I'm not successful?
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Well, would you rather live your life and
look back and say, well, I'll never know?
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well, I did it, and maybe it didn't
work out, but I did it.
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this person you're talking about,
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I'd rather die.
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I would rather experience it and, and say
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that I tried and
and actually I lived through it somehow.
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And here we still are. Yeah, I love that.
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we put so much negativity on failure.
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And failure, in my opinion,
is just part and parcel of life, you know?
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I wouldn't have moved on
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to certain successes that I had,
but I had to fail at it first.
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especially for our youth,
to just really say, like,
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listen, failure is just part of it.
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Just get through it, get it done,
fail and move to the next thing where
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growing up, failure in my generation
was very much like, oh, oh, you failed.
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Well, you should just,
you know, close it up or shut it down.
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I've had those moments of like,
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something's completely flopped and like,
okay, that flopped big time, right?
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well, let's just keep going.
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I was interviewing Holly McPeak.
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She's the best
defensive player in the world
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and for volleyball, and three times
she was supposed to go to the Olympics
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and something happened.
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She tore a muscle,
her teammate got injured.
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that were outside of her control.
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so what made you, like, keep going?
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And she's like,
I just got up the next morning and did it.
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but what did you do?
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the best defensive play in the world?
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Because she was just like,
fine, next thing, let's go.
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that she didn't have some deep
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analytical meaning. She was just like,
I'm just going to do it.
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and all that stuff.
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But, you know, Olympics only happen
every so many years.
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when she was one of the top players.
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So I love that now,
you and I both had a chance to be
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in the heroes series with Doctor Karen,
which we love so much.
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She always says
there's a book and everyone, which I love.
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in a couple of those.
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How many series
have you been in for the Harris rower?
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I'm in. All of them.
You're in all of them.
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Oh my gosh.
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So how many books is that?
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I eight okay.
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That's the funny thing
about another funny thing
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I was going to be in Siberian Tiger
one and done.
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That was it.
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that's
when I really enjoyed working with Karen
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and reached out to her and said,
I have a book I'd like to write.
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Do you work with solo authors as well?
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And that's when a funny Thing happened
on The Way to My Life came out.
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another argument that I had with myself
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for years and years. I had
I wanted to write that book.
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And then of course,
Queen Code Book came out.
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But at some point along the way,
Karen said, hey, you know,
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put it, give me a, give me a chapter
for every one of the books.
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So yeah, it was crazy.
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that's also part of the journey.
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And I want to go back to
what you're saying about fear is that and
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failure is that I believe that any failure
is an opportunity to learn and grow.
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And so even,
you know, in the times when I've not done,
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you know, had had a, I guess,
what somebody would consider a failure.
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there's something to learn from it and
there's some gratitude to be had in it.
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So but yeah, the series is amazing.
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And the.
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And now we can get I know pretty much
we can get all those on Amazon.
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Right.
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And we can get all your books on Amazon.
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I say this in every podcast
that I am doing with
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someone has a book, is I tell them all
the time, go buy your books.
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Because when I remember
when my first book came out, I thought,
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oh, all my family and friends
are going to go buy it.
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They all asked me to give them a free copy
and I love them dearly.
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But I was like, no,
I want people to buy my book.
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It's like eight bucks, go buy it, right?
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people just don't think about it.
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But those of us who are not some like,
you know, brand name giant
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celebrity out there who's getting paid,
you know, a ton of money to write a book.
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It makes a difference
if people purchase our books.
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And so I always tell all of our listeners,
go out there, get on Amazon.
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If you can't find it, you message me
on Instagram or whatever, and I'll get it.
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So I want to really encourage everyone
because, you know, and every books
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that I see put out from Karen
are phenomenal books, and I love that.
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Now you also have a new anthology
coming out and that's
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is that that's available for pre-sale.
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Let's talk about that.
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It's not it's not out yet for presale yet.
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We are we are still
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getting the authors.
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It's still available.
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If somebody wants an opportunity
to contribute a chapter.
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But yes, it's called Undeniable Presence
and it's very much
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what we about what we're talking about is
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we want stories of women
who are standing in their presence
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and have potentially been
through challenges.
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We're all still here, we're still here,
and we have a story,
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and we have a message that is potentially
inspiring for someone else.
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And so that's what it is.
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We need to get that out to all the
she talks.
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Yeah, we got lots of women
who are staying in their presence.
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So we'll definitely connect on that.
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listening, we always follow up
with our people in our podcast.
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Laura, we will put that out
to all of our channels
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to make sure that everyone gets that.
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I want to also touch on mom's rising.
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I got to be in New York when we watched it
and my gosh,
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there was not a dry eye in the room
because it was so powerful.
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And I just want you to tell our audience
a bit about Mom's Rising
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and why were you on it
and what that is about.
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Moms rising is about the spirit
of motherhood.
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And I like to say,
because we've talked about this a lot
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within within some of the cast members
that were in this,
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it's not just about you and your mom
or you and your children.
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There are other people
in your life who potentially
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helped you
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experience the spirit of motherhood.
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Might have been an aunt, might have been
a grandma, might have been a good friend.
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women who are able to forgive, to support
others, to.
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I mean, each story in that
movie is different and each one is full.
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I have seen it a couple of times,
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you get there's something different
that you get out of it, and right now
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it's available
to watch for free at Moms Rice
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Moms Rising film, so that
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we would love for anybody who,
you know, take a minute.
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Give yourself the luxury
of watching this movie and being inspired
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by these women from people who ran
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marathons and climbed mountains, to women
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who forgave the horrible things
that happened in their lives.
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It's
an amazing
people, women who in our business, women
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and and took what they learned
from motherhood into the business world.
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So so much there.
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I love that.
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Karen and I were talking to the day
that it's to me, it was so powerful
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because, you know, the world
needs the love of a mother right now.
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it could be anyone, you know,
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a friend and and,
you know, a grandmother.
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But there's so much power in that
and so much story and so many stories
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I share about people
who are doing amazing things.
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It goes back to the inspiration
from their mother.
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And, you know,
I was talking about Amelia Earhart
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and one of my talks,
and it was very specific in her story
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that her mother encouraged her
to go and do these things,
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which she may not have done
if her mother hadn't encouraged her.
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And very often, there's
so many stories like this that you know
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that we talk about that
and it's so powerful.
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And I think it's such a great way,
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because there aren't a lot of movies
out there that focus on this motherhood.
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There isn't.
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And yeah,
you can see the movie. It's so powerful.
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I hope there's like a second to it.
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I don't I don't know what it would be,
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but there should be like a second on to it
or something on that, and I love that.
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So make sure that you all check that out.
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We'll post those links as well.
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And we're coming
to the end of the podcast.
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So I love to ask this question
of if you could go back
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to your younger self and give your younger
self advice, what would it be?
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I think it would be.
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That you'll be surprised.
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You'll be you're going to be surprised,
but it's all going to work out.
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It's all going to be good.
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So, you know, just just keep going
and enjoy enjoy everything.
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That's always my thought
too is
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I would go back to my younger self
and say it's going to be fine.
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Just keep going. Right?
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Because, you know,
we were talking about when you're so young
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and you know, at 18
it's like, okay, you need to go to college
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and pick what you're going to do
for the rest of your life.
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And really, I think that's probably
the worst thing that we could do.
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We really should just say, listen,
go do your best and just follow the path.
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And because I remember, you know, at 18,
I was like, oh,
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I got to pick my profession and this is
what I'm supposed to work for 30 years.
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Okay. This is a lot of pressure,
you know?
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And then by the time I was 25, I had
a totally different perspective on life.
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And then when I was 30,
it was even more different, you know?
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And so I love that
because I think it is true.
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And I try really hard with our youth today
to tell them, hey, you know what?
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It's all going to be fine.
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It may seem like a big deal right now,
but in the end it's going to be fine.
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And so I love that.
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Are there any last tips, ideas, thoughts
or things that you want
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our listeners to know check out
or anything that we can leave them with?
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Just I suppose
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that this idea of personal policies,
that's really important.
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And notice what story you're telling
yourself and know that you can change it.
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And.
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We all a lot of people bristle at the idea
of boundaries and personal policies.
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But if you really look at things,
you already have some, but
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they can get better,
you can improve them and weight them.
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It'll improve your whole life experience.
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I actually believe that.
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I love that well, and we'll lead with it.
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Leave with this too,
is that think about that word sovereignty
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that Laura is encouraging women
to lead with sovereignty, not fear.
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And definitely looking at her book,
the Queen code.
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Thank you so much for being on the show
today.
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It's been awesome.
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And for those of you listening, we'll have
all those links in the post for you.
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And as I always say, live, love,
laugh and always be your authentic self.
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