Episode 145
Episode #140 - Manifesting & Challenging Your Energy In A Scientific Way: An Interview With Kathy Baldwin
Recently, our show has featured a number of different coaches on the show that each have their unique value proposition (and niche!) that allows them to showcase what they have overcome in their journeys to seek out their willingness to help others. Today's guest, owner of RiseUp! Coaching, Kathy Baldwin, has a completely different story to tell as it comes to what she has learned in her over 40+ years of experience helping others to overcome life's "crap" that has been thrown. Priding herself in her ability to harvest the energy levels of individuals with the science and biology behind her methods of helping others, her unique story will leave you with wanting to hear more about how she overcame various trials in her life to become the best version of herself, while also challenging herself consistently to do the same with every client she interacts with. Becoming better is a never-ending process, and no matter who you work with, it's important to not only have a good fit, but to ensure that you create opportunities that will allow you to excel in any occasion that is presented for the rest of your life.
Guest Bio
Kathy’s journey to becoming an expert in the field of coaching has been both deeply personal and universally resonant. It began with her own quest for healing and understanding. Confronted with life’s adversities, she sought not just to cope, but to thrive. Through this pursuit, she uncovered the profound impact of Universal Laws on our everyday lives. She has studied energy healing, psychology, and the timeless wisdom of these laws, applying them first to her own life. The transformation was undeniable; stress became a catalyst for growth, and challenges turned into stepping stones towards success. This personal evolution sparked a passion to guide others on their paths. Kathy realized that her calling was to empower others to navigate their complexities and harness their innate potential, and facilitates transformative journeys, helping individuals and couples not only to resolve their issues but to emerge stronger, more aligned, and with a clearer vision of their desired future.
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Intro/Outro By: Michael Dugan, Podcast Host: Voice4Chefs
Transcript
Welcome to the podcast where relationships, confidence, and
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:determination all converge into
an amazing, heartfelt experience.
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:This is Speaking From The Heart.
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:Joshua: Welcome back to episode
number 140 of Speaking From The Heart.
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:Today, we have Kathy Baldwin, and Kathy's
journey to become an expert in the
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:field of coaching have been both deeply
personal, and universally resonant.
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:It began with her own quest
for healing and understanding.
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:Confronted with life's adversities, she
sought not just to cope, but to thrive.
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:Through this pursuit, she uncovered
the profound impact of universal
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:laws on our everyday lives.
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:She studied energy healing, psychology,
and the timeless wisdom of these laws,
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:applying them first to her own life.
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:The transformation was undeniable.
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:Stress became a catalyst for
growth, and challenges turned into
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:stepping stones towards success.
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:This personal evolution sparked a
passion to guide others on their paths.
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:Kathy realized that her calling was
to empower others to navigate their
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:complexities and harness their innate
potential and facilitates transformative
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:journeys, helping individuals and couples
not only to resolve their issues but to
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:emerge stronger, more aligned, and with
a clearer vision of their desired future.
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:Now, you might have been noticing
a pattern if you've been following
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:me all along on these episodes that
we've had recently, that we've had a
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:variety of different types of coaches,
but I find that today's episode's a
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:little bit different with this kind
of coach, because Kathy's harnessing
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:a lot of the different energies,
passions, and excitements that we have
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:had in other guests separately, but
nothing quite like our interview today.
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:I think that the question of, "Do you
know who you are?", is really what we try
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:to answer in today's episode, while also
understanding that following the rules,
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:maybe even taking things into your own
hands, might be the two different types
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:of things that you have to ask yourself
if you really want to stay complacent, or
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:you want to manifest a change that will
allow you to move forward, but the fact
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:that we talk about in this episode about
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:systems and ways in which we can get
to the root cause using those systems
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:of the reasons why we are held back
into pursuing what we should be
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:doing, really makes this special.
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:I love that Kathy shares something
about herself and so many other things
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:in this episode that I think might even
resonate with you, my listeners, unlike
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:any other guests that we've had before.
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:It doesn't mean that our
stories are not important.
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:Each of the things that I've even shared
on this podcast are an important stepping
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:stone towards the greater vision that even
you, yourself, should achieve, but I think
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:that putting it all together sometimes,
especially with what our conversation is
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:like today, makes a profound difference
in how you're best able to move forward.
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:But with that, let's go to the episode.
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:All right.
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:We're here with Kathy Baldwin.
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:Kathy, thanks for sharing
your heart with us today.
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:Kathy: Joshua.
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:Thank you for sharing your
heart with all of us, too.
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:Joshua: Oh, yes.
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:I've been doing that for 140
episodes, and I'm so happy to have
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:you on this very episode to be able
to do that with you, so, Kathy,
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:I have to ask you, starting out.
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:Why be a coach?
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:I feel like it's always the age old
question when I have coaches on the
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:show, but, why be a coach, and that
probably means telling a little bit
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:about your story, but I would love
for our audience to hear about it.
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:Kathy: I'm going to answer the
question and then I'm going to
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:go backwards, if you don't mind.
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:Why be a coach?
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:Joshua: Absolutely.
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:Kathy: Because it's the next right step.
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:It's the next step in
my personal evolution.
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:I was a normal woman growing up in
the seventies, eighties, nineties.
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:I followed all the societal rules
about what I was supposed to be.
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:I went into trying to be my authentic
empowered self, while still trying to
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:be everything the old world said I was
supposed to be, and I got lost, and
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:when you get lost, and you start having
trauma responses like people pleasing,
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:and self sabotage, and all of these other
things, hitting glass ceilings, beating
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:myself up, eventually, when you're too
strong for too long, I broke, and I had
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:a full on breakdown that took me right
down and the medical system, I call it
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:offering me pills and platitudes, so
when I healed myself from everything
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:that I'd been learning for over 40
years, I realized that not only was
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:it irresponsible for me not to lend a
hand for the next person who was in my
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:situation, but it was also the way to
keep me safe and secure was to constantly
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:living this message by giving it away.
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:Joshua: When you had been going
through those tough times that you
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:had, what would you say was one of
the more difficult things that you
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:had to overcome, and I'm assuming that
maybe there were multiple things, and
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:if there wasn't, you can correct me.
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:Kathy: Oh.
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:There's always multiple things.
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:One of the scariest for me
was finding myself on the
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:floor, not knowing who I was.
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:I did not trust my brain.
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:I did not know who I was.
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:I was unable to comprehend
the world around me, and I
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:felt lost inside my own head.
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:It was so scary.
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:To lose yourself, when you've been
so strong and you've been the one
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:who's figured everything out, and
all of a sudden, you can't figure
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:out how to wash your own face.
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:That was one of them.
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:The other was involving
the medical system.
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:I had gone to the doctors
and asked them to help me.
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:I was broken.
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:I could not function.
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:I couldn't stop crying.
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:Seriously, I was one of those super women.
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:I could do anything, and then all of
a sudden, I couldn't do anything, and
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:so when I went to the doctors, they
sent me to a psychiatrist, and the
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:psychiatrist sat me down, and he had
me list every single stressor, every
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:trauma, everything that had happened
to me in my life, and when I finished
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:talking, he wrote on a piece of paper
my pills, sent me the prescriptions,
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:said, "I'll see in four months."
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:He did not close Pandora's box.
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:I left his office and I literally
could feel myself spiral.
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:Literally, I could feel myself
losing my brain, and I was scared,
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:and I was reaching out to people.
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:I had kept my darkness to myself.
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:Nobody knew what was
going on in my own head.
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:I kept putting on this face
that, "Everything's okay.
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:I got it.", and nobody knew what was
going on, so when I was reaching out
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:for help, nobody knew that I was in
trouble, and I found myself alone, and
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:I found myself in the darkness, and
next thing I know, the police had broken
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:down my door, dragged me out of my home,
and put me on a form in the hospital
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:under a suicide watch, and I came-
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:Joshua: Oh my God.
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:Kathy: Yeah.
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:I came to.
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:I could literally feel my brain start
to come back, and I could watch third
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:person that I was starting to retain
and come back to who I was, and so when
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:the psychiatrist came to evaluate me,
I said, "I'm okay now.", and he said,
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:"What do you mean?", and I told him this
whole situation, and now I'm talking
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:like myself and I'm normal again, and he
says, "You're not in trouble right now.?"
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:I said, "No.
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:It's over.", but that's what that did.
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:That's what the medical system did, and
when I went back to that psychiatrist,
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:Josh, do you know what he said to
me when I told him what happened?
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:He said-
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:Joshua: I'm kind of scared to find out.
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:Kathy: What he said to me is,
"My role in your recovery is
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:to give you the right pills.
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:I am not here to help
you on your journey."
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:That's what I knew.
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:Joshua: Man.
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:Kathy: That's what I knew.
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:I was literally dealing with life
and death, and if I didn't step
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:in and take care of this myself,
then I wasn't going to make it.
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:Joshua: You know, hearing this made me
feel like, first off, I'm very fortunate,
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:because I had been pushed into a therapist
that really gave a damn, and helped me
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:when I started through my journey, and
my listeners know a lot about what my
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:journey had been since March of 2020,
even when COVID was happening, this was
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:happening for me to get both feet firmly
planted, but I thankfully wasn't pushed
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:into a psychiatrist right away, but to
hear you go through this, first off,
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:this is what's wrong with society is that
we think that, "Here's this magic pill.
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:This will solve all your
problems.", and that's not the case.
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:We're actual human beings that
have feelings and emotions.
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:I can only imagine what you felt like,
because of the pit of despair that I felt.
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:I feel like what you just described
is sort of what I felt, so I
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:think it'd be really interesting
to hear for my listeners sake.
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:How did you actually crawl through all
these different obstacles then, because
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:if the psychiatrist wasn't helping you,
and you were trying to figure this out
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:yourself, what did you actually do?
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:Kathy: Well, I have been a student
of learning for 40 some odd years.
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:I mean, I was one of those curious
people that I wanted to know
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:everything, so I was studying neurology.
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:I was studying psychology, I was
studying biology, and quantum
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:physics, and anything and everything.
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:I studied the stock market.
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:I literally anything and everything I
studied, and I had been in management
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:for a very long time, so I sat down.
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:I thought, "Okay.
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:I cannot deal with the surface of
this; that's pills and platitudes.
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:I need to take my root cause analysis
and I need to work backwards.", and
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:so, I ended up becoming an energy
healer, because I realized that one of
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:the things that I had learned from Dr.
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:Bruce Lipton was that when we change
the environment, we change our cells
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:on a DNA level, and so I put that
together with biology and everything.
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:I thought, "Okay, so if our central
nervous system is sending off
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:hormones and chemicals in our body."
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:I don't know if I mentioned this,
but I suffered with fibromyalgia,
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:adrenal fatigue, osteoarthritis.
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:I've had two knees replaced.
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:My body was wrecked, and so
I was able to say, "Okay.
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:If all of that is chemical based, and
it's energetically based, then I need to
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:get this stuff out of my body.", so I did
all of the healing modalities, but then
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:I did the energy healing that released
it, and so I started just one step at a
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:time: work on foundation, work on safety,
then work on the next thing, and what
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:that psychiatrist did was the greatest
thing in the world for me, because I
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:was able to step back into my power.
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:It was a long journey.
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:It took a lot, but it has
got me where I am today.
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:It's what's the basis of my programs.
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:It's the basis of everything I stand
for now, but what would happen to
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:somebody who didn't go like that?
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:What if somebody got broken?
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:Joshua: Yeah, and I think finding somebody
that can help you, especially if you are
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:on that other side where you are broken.
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:I feel like it's a forest, sometimes.
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:It made me think of this like mind
picture when you're describing it.
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:It's almost like a forest, walking
around, trying to find the end of the
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:forest to be able to find civilization,
if you will, and it's not just the
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:answers are somewhere out there, but
yet, as you're going along, you're
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:finding ways in which you're adapting.
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:You're finding ways in which
you're growing, but I'm kind of
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:curious then, going back to the
very first question I asked you.
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:Why be a coach then, because if you
figured this out, you should be fine.
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:You should be happy.
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:You're now on the other side.
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:Why help others?
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:Kathy: First of all, I have a duty and a
responsibility, now that I have learned
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:that we are socially disempowered on
purpose, that our whole societal system
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:is designed to split us up, to break us.
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:It's designed to keep us locked into
a cycle of debt, of consumerism,
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:of being workers for a system.
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:My healing came about figuring out
who I authentically was, and I like
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:to describe it as a food processor, so
you cannot make a food processor work
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:until you get it clicked into place.
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:Well, when I clicked into place, I
had all the parts, but nothing was
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:clicked into place, and as soon as it
clicked into place, and I had my full
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:alignment, and I was strong, and I was
the best version of myself I'd ever
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:been in my life because I made conscious
decisions, and I made it happen.
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:If I'm going to keep that to
myself, what kind of person am I?
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:If I'm not going to take this information
and use it to help somebody else, to raise
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:the vibration of our world when we are in
such a critical, pivotal time, then that
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:doesn't say a lot about the integrity of
the quality of person I am, or anybody
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:else, because we are here for a purpose,
every single one of us, and until we get
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:into our authenticity, in my belief, until
we get aligned with who we are, and step
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:out of societal roles, and societal rules,
we aren't giving our gift to the world.
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:This is my gift to the world right now.
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:This is the accumulation of everything
that I have done and gone through in
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:my life, and except for terrorism or
things like that, there's not a lot of
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:stress that I have not gone through.
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:There's not a lot of trauma
that I have not gone through.
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:There's really very little that
I have not been exposed to and
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:learned and had to endure, so,
what am I going to do with that?
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:First of all, I have to share, second
of all, the only way to keep me
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:safe is to keep me in that cycle of
healing: give, receive, give, receive.
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:Joshua: This is a perfect segway because
I was learning so much about what this
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:topic was growing up, because I was
dealing with so many different things too.
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:Being bullied as a kid, then dealing
with what society had to say about what
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:I needed to do financially, socially,
culturally, so you wrote a book,
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:and I love the title of this book.
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:It's called Unlearn The Crap About
Personal Success and Empowerment, so
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:Kathy, I was wondering if you could
talk a little bit about, A, why you
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:wrote the book, and B, how does that
play into what you just shared with us?
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:Do you give tips about how you
expose that in your own life
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:and help others to do the same?
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:Kathy: Absolutely.
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:I have a gift of being able to take very
complex subjects and break them down
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:and create metaphors or ways of people
understanding, and so I go through the
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:whole history of how we got where we are,
so you understand that this is societal.
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:This is part of a whole,
systematic change that must happen.
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:It's not individual, and so when
you understand, "It's not me.
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:I didn't fail.
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:There's nothing wrong with me.", which
is what we all walk around feeling like,
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:then you now have the power to say, "Okay.
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:How do I access all that?"
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:Well, the book came out of me creating
my program, Drive Your Destiny, which
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:is- it was funny, because sorry, I
have to change subjects in order to
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:finish that sentence, but I had tried
to explain to somebody once that it
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:would be like throwing a person out onto
the road in a car that they had never
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:learned to drive and had never driven
in, and now you go, "Go figure it out."
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:Well, we have driver's license.
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:We have to go through training.
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:We have all of these things that we
need to prove that says we know how to
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:operate that vehicle, how to land on
the road, how to navigate, but we are
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:thrown into our world, and our lives,
without understanding the mechanics
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:of our body, the language of our body,
how our central nervous system works,
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:how our brains get wired, how all of
this comes about, so we're walking
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:around in these bodies and feeling like
a victim of our emotions, instead of
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:understanding that they are guiding us.
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:When I finished doing the
program, the book was just there.
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:It just arrived, and it was funny
because it was one of those moments
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:where I didn't plan on writing a
book, and one day it came to me.
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:"You're going to write a book and it's
going to be called Unlearn The Crap."
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:"Okay."
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:Guess that's what I'm doing.
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:Joshua: Well, I think we're all
doing that in one way or another.
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:Let's face it.
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:It is a lot of crap, because of what we've
been told is the right thing to do, isn't
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:necessarily the right thing to do for us,
so do you talk about strategies as to how
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:we find that authenticity in the book?
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:Kathy: Yes.
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:One of the biggest things after cutting
the ties to disempowering your path and
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:your belief, and cutting the past off,
because we're here in this moment and if
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:we're carrying baggage, get rid of it.
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:It doesn't belong.
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:It has no value in today, except for
what we take from it, so take what works.
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:That's one of the things in
the 12 step program says, "Take
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:what works and leave the rest."
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:Well, if we're going to carry
around things from our past that
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:don't work, and all they do is
break us down, get rid of it.
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:We clean our closets.
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:We clean everything, but
we don't clean our brains.
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:We don't clean our hearts,
so that's the first thing.
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:The second thing is understanding
that the universal laws are
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:not airy, fairy concepts.
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:They are actually the way we navigate
in this world, and if you understand
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:how they work, like you understand
gravity, then you're not going to be
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:beating yourself up against walls,
because you're going to understand that
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:those rules are there to guide you,
so if you hit a wall, turn around and
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:go the other way, and you can't know
that until you know how the rules work.
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:I love teaching this because as soon
as I tell people, they're like, "I've
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:never heard this in my whole entire life.
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:How is this possible?", and then the
third thing- this will blow you away.
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:When you begin a business, or you
work in a company, there's a vision.
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:There's a mission statement.
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:There's a value statement.
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:There are rules of culture and everything.
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:Does anyone ever been told you
get to do that for yourself?
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:What's your vision?
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:What are your values, and if these are
your values, these are the beliefs you
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:need to have to have those values, and now
you can create yourself, your identity,
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:instead of it just haphazardly coming
about by whatever life threw at you.
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:You get to choose.
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:You get to create, because we're here to
create, and so, boundaries become really
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:easy when it's tied to identity, because
it's either who I am or who am I not.
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:There's no question about what
you're going to do, because you
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:have your identity centered, and
we're not taught how to do that.
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:We're not taught any of the stuff.
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:We're taught how to get along in society.
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:We're taught how to go through school
and get the right answer, or we're judged
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:and we're told we're not conforming,
and then there's something wrong with us
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:because we don't fit into this little box.
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:Well thank God there's people
who don't fit in the box because
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:that's what's evolving our world.
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:Joshua: That last part.
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:It was exactly what I was thinking is that
if we didn't have those people that were
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:looking outside the box and like, "Oh.
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:Everybody's running around."
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:I almost think of it as an ant farm.
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:I don't know if he had one of these
as a kid, but I did where he had like
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:this- oh, don't give me that look.
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:I'm sorry; for my listeners.
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:Kathy's like, "Nuh uh.
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:I'm not having ants near me.", but
no, seriously, if you think about it.
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:Ant farms.
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:It was one of those green things, and
then the ants you would put in with the
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:sand and they would burrow around, so
they were be stuck in these confines.
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:I feel like we're those ants kind of
walking around, burrowing around, trying
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:to make our own path, but in reality,
the freedom was outside that ant farm,
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:so I want to be outside the ant farm,
not inside of it, so sorry, not to
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:make a disgusting reference, but that's
really what I felt was really appropriate
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:with saying that is I think that we
have to be thinking outside the box.
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:Kathy: Absolutely, because
we didn't build the box.
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:It's not our box.
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:Joshua: Yes.
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:Yes.
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:Kathy: This came about through the
Industrial Revolution when they
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:figured out how to automate, how to
make things replicatable, how to make
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:things conform and be repeatable, and
so the only way to have that industrial
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:revolution was to create a public
school system that created people who
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:were duplicatable and replicatable
and being able to fit into that role.
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:Well, that's not what
human beings are for.
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:We're not plastic.
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:Joshua: Yes.
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:We're not.
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:We're human tissue, and we all learn
in different ways, because of the
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:fact that we were all born uniquely
different for that matter too.
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:Kathy: Absolutely.
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:Absolutely.
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:Joshua: You said something that struck me
about learning how to drive, and learning
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:about riding around in a car, because I
was thinking about the fact that I grew
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:up in the age of driving in automatics.
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:My first car was a 1990 Dodge
Spirit by the way, and my
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:mom had it for so many years.
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:I had it for so many years.
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:We actually sold the car for about two,
300 bucks to somebody else, which then
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:that was their ultimate demise, but
that car lasted forever, and for other
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:people, they never learn in an automatic.
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:They learn stick shift, so how do you,
especially since your coaching business,
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:which by the way, I didn't even mention
yet what your coaching business is.
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:It's Rise Up Coaching.
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:That's the name of it, correct?
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:Kathy: That's correct.
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:Joshua: And so with your coaching
with Rise Up, how do you distinguish
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:between those that are stick shift,
and those that are automatic?
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:In other words, how do you deal with
people that are different based on what
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:they've learned in the past, so how do you
break that down to help find that purpose?
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:I like to call it purpose, but
you called it their mission,
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:their vision, their values.
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:I call it purpose, but same principle.
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:Kathy: I don't.
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:That's not my job.
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:My job is to help them
figure it out for themselves.
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:I am not going to be part of that
old system that says, "This is
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:how you do it, and these are the
techniques, and follow this system,
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:and do this breathing this way."
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:No!
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:We all have it inside of us.
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:It's up to us to bring it
out, and so I create safety.
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:I create a place where people can
authentically see themselves, and
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:reach in, because every time someone
pulls out a little bit more of
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:themselves, by themselves, now they're
learning how to have their own power.
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:Joshua: That was a trick question, and
I'm so glad that you caught right on,
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:because I don't feel like our job is to
lead people on a system of, "These is my
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:steps.", and it's so sad because I see
other coaches do this, and I'm not saying
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:that it's a bad thing, but when they are
up in the front of a room, or they're
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:with a client, and they're saying, "You
must do this or you're not a good person."
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:I feel like that's where we have all this
trauma that comes from churches, that
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:comes from schools, that comes from bad
people that just didn't have all their
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:S H I T together, which I promised you I
wasn't going to swear, but I had to spell
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:it, because it's so, so sad when people
are just stuck in that system, and I
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:feel that that was what was my story for
so long, so I'm so happy to hear that.
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:You're like one of the first
few people that have said, "No.
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:They're going to figure it
out, but not on my terms.
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:It's going to be on their terms."
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:Kathy: And that's why I'm a coach.
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:Joshua: Yes.
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:Kathy: That's why.
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:I have this vision that as we all
step into our authentic selves,
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:and you know, in our dreams,
that's our soul talking to us.
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:It's our soul guiding us, and so you may
have it in your translation as a house
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:or a car, but anyone who goes after the
house or the car, or whatever it is, and
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:they get there and they think they're
going to achieve what they want by
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:getting it, they're always disappointed.
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:Our soul talks to us in the
language we know, which is for you
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:to become who you're meant to be.
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:This is the path you need to go.
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:You need to go for the mansion.
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:You need to go for the Mercedes, whatever
it is, because that is going to get
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:you to where your gifts come out, and
the car, the house, all of it, just
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:becomes a reminder of who you've evolved
into, and now you can take the next
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:step, and the next evolution, and the
next step, and it all becomes joyful.
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:Joshua: It does, and all of it is so
important that when we go through,
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:and I've said this a few times on
the show too, about being in those
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:valleys, sometimes you have to also
be climbing up those mountains, but
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:nothing was given to us as being easy,
so if things were given to you easily,
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:you're going to have a difficult life.
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:I feel like it's so hard to be
able to achieve when you don't
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:have all those necessary tools.
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:I kind of think of it as your
toolkit, your tool belt, having
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:around you, you need to have the
right tool for the right time.
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:Kathy: Can I interrupt first, because I
want to challenge something you just said.
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:Joshua: Go ahead.
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:Kathy: You're okay with that?
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:Joshua: Absolutely.
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:Please do.
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:Kathy: Okay, so for me,
it's not about tools.
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:It's about understanding and knowledge.
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:We live in a universal law of rhythm.
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:That's one of the twelve universal laws.
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:Rhythm states that everything
is constantly in motion.
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:Everything has cycles.
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:Everything has a rhythm,
so we have seasons.
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:We have cycles of day and night.
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:We have sleep and wake cycles.
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:Every part of our life is in cycle.
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:So many times, people think that
when they're at a different part of
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:the cycle, that there's something
wrong and they need to fix it.
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:Well, what if you had this belief
that you're never supposed to sleep?
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:You would fall apart and you would break.
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:It's part of the cycle, so when we are
evolving, when we're building, when
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:we're growing, sometimes we're going
to be at the opposite end of creation.
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:Think about it like a figure eight,
or the infinity sign, which is how my
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:hands are moving every time I talk about
this, but if you understand that there's
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:rhythms and movement and you can look
at where you are, and you don't have to
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:beat yourself up that you're not there.
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:It's like, "Oh!
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:I'm in winter.
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:I'm in fall.
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:I'm in sleep cycle.
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:I'm in rest and rejuvenate."
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:That means that you need to do
something, learn something, take
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:care of something in that moment,
and then you'll go to the next step.
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:The seasons will come.
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:Joshua: Yeah.
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:I can see that, and in being able to
live in that moment, I think that it's
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:okay just to be able to embrace it.
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:I think you're right.
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:I think that we're often are built,
so yeah, I have to withdraw my
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:toolbox comment, or my tool belt
comment, because of that, so yeah.
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:Thanks for correcting me.
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:I like that.
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:Kathy: That's okay.
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:I would love to have a whole
conversation with you one day about
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:all of the universal laws and how
they work because it's so fascinating.
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:Joshua: Yeah.
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:I would love that.
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:I've had a few guests on the show
that I've talked about the universal
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:energies, the universal team, just
that whole subject matter is something
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:that's always a fascination to me.
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:Kathy: I bring it back into science and
biology, so that it's not airy fairy.
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:It's not woo woo.
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:Joshua: Yeah.
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:Yeah.
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:Oh, yeah.
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:No, you don't want it to be that.
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:Absolutely, because it'll be, "Well.
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:Wait.
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:What are you saying?", so
we don't want that either.
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:You want to bring it to reality.
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:There's one last question I have for
you, which is something that is on your
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:website that really stood out to me.
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:It says, and this is talking
about the Unlearn The Crap
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:book that you have written.
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:Part of it says, "Your discomfort
is a glorious sign of growth,
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:expansion, and possibilities."
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:Kathy: Yeah.
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:Joshua: Are you still
living in discomfort, Kathy?
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:Are you trying to live a life where you're
continuing to grow and expand and have
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:unlimited potential and possibilities?
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:What is it that you're working on?
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:Kathy: Oh, what am I not working on?
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:I have so much going on because
the more that I have developed and
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:created out of myself, the more I
find I have and I want to do, so
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:I'm working on the next two books.
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:I'm writing a book called Unlearn The
Crap About Stress And Burnout, because
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:that is our biggest sign that we are out
of alignment, and so many times people
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:think, "Just deal with the stress."
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:Well, no, you got a root cause there.
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:Let's get to the root cause, because
that stress is a signal, it's your
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:body talking to you, so I've got
that that I'm working on right now.
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:I'm part of a docuseries.
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:I'm part of Voices of 100 Women program.
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:I'm working on a TV show that I'm going
to be doing, but my passion is this
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:Drive Your Destiny program where I can
help other people bring their joy, their
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:bliss, their gift to the world, because
I don't know if I should say this to a
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:man, but I'm going to say it anyways.
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:Joshua: Oh, you're not
just saying it to a man.
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:You're saying it to my
listeners, so feel free.
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:Kathy: Okay.
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:Well, hopefully nobody
gets offended by this.
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:We've lived in a patriarchal society
for so long where everything has been
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:about control, and power, and taking
people down, and it is time for women
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:and femininity, which is one of the
universal laws of gender, and bring
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:balance back to the world, where we're
back to creativity and innovation, and
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:we're back to all of those amazing things
that make us human, because AI is coming.
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:It's here.
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:Automation is happening.
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:We are going to be out of jobs that
are repeatable and can be done by a
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:computer, but a computer will never
come up with creativity and innovation
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:and all of those things that make us
human, so that gives us the opportunity
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:right now that to seize this moment and
really all come to our best version.
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:Imagine how the world would
change if every single person was
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:living their best life, and just
giving their gifts to the world.
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:Joshua: I'm glad you said that, by
the way, because I agree with you, I'm
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:just going to leave it at that because
that's a strong statement to end with.
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:Kathy, I want to give
you the last few minutes.
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:We're out of time, but before we wrap
up, how can people reach out to you
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:if they're interested in being coached
with Rise Up Coaching with you, how
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:would they be able to get in contact?
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:How can they find out more information?
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:How can they pick up Unlearn The
Crap, which I also put a link in
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:the episode notes, by the way, with
the book, but maybe you have another
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:alternative that maybe they can
provide too, so I'm going to give you
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:the last few minutes to do all that.
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:Kathy: Thank you very much.
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:Okay, so Unlearn The Crap
can be bought at Amazon.
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:It's in every currency.
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:22.22.
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:That is a numerical number that
means that you are on the right path,
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:that you are doing the right next
step for you, so it's a numerical
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:number that's very passionate to me.
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:The Kindle version is 2.22,
so nobody can not afford it.
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:Go and learn about what your individual
power is, so that's on Amazon.
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:In my coaching program, you can
find me at riseupcoaching.io.
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:I have my website unlearnthecrap.com.
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:There's lots there as well.
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:I'm on all social medias, whether you
find me through Kathy Baldwin, or Rise
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:Up Coaching, or Unlearn the Crap, any
of those hashtags or whatever, you'll
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:find me, and I believe there's a gift
in the show notes that you're going to
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:share that I have a gift for everyone,
which is a quiz, and that quiz is to
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:help you figure out how at risk you are
for burnout, because one of my missions
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:is we have too many success stories of
people who have hit rock bottom, and lost
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:everything, and then found their success.
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:I don't think we all need to
lose everything and hit rock
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:bottom to hit our success.
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:If I can catch someone halfway
through and say, "Oh, look!
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:You're about to fall.", and they
catch and now we heal, that's my
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:dream, so I do have that quiz.
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:I wish someone had been able to catch
me before I fell, but I accept that
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:that was my journey, but I am here
because I'm here to help people,
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:and I want them to reach out to me.
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:Joshua: I hope they do, because I have
always said on this show, although I'm
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:a coach, not all coaches are created
equally, so if you're attracted to
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:what Kathy has said today, I highly
encourage you to reach out to her.
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:I will have the free gift that
Kathy's mentioned also in the episode
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:notes, so you can go check that out,
along with her book, along with her
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:website, along with her social media.
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:Oh!
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:I ran out of breath.
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:Kathy.
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:Kathy: I have one question for
you, Josh, if you don't mind-
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:Joshua: Absolutely.
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:Before we go.
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:Yes.
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:Kathy: How many coaches do you have?
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:Joshua: Hmm.
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:Good question.
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:Kathy: Because coaches need coaches.
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:We all need help.
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:Joshua: We do, and I've been fortunate
enough that when I started, I had a coach
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:by the name of Gary, and Gary had to
move on to other projects, but Gary was
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:a instrumental start for my business, and
what's funny is that although I wouldn't
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:say I have a quote unquote coach, the
coaches that I have are actually the
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:family, friends and other people that
have seen what my vision is, and have
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:continued to surround me and say, "I
see the worthiness in you, Josh, and
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:I want you to keep doing what you're
doing, and here's how I can help."
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:Those have been some amazing people,
but even now, I'm in this point in my
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:life where I definitely am looking for a
coach, and wanting to be lifted to a whole
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:new level myself, because even for that
matter, coaching is so important to be
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:able to do, so that's a great question.
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:I appreciate you asking that.
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:Kathy: Well, I want to take away
the negative association with a
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:coach, because every superstar in
every part of the world has coaches.
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:They have coaches for every part of their
lives, so, that is one of the things that
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:we need to unlearn the crap about, is that
we're supposed to go in alone, that we're
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:supposed to know everything, and if we
don't, there's something wrong with us.
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:Joshua: Absolutely, and I appreciate you
saying that because I feel that we need to
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:reclaim the fact that everyone deserves,
and is entitled, to having a coach.
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:I think that we often think that we can't
afford it, or we're not privileged enough
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:to have it, or, "I'm already doing fine.
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:Why would I need somebody?"
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:Well, you might be surprised
what you find out, and Kathy,
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:for all those reasons, thanks for
being on Speaking From The Heart.
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:I hope that people reach out to
continue to break the mold, to continue
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:being their authentic selves, and I
appreciate you being your authentic
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:self on this podcast episode today.
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:Kathy: Thank you.
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:Joshua: I want to thank Kathy again
for being part of the show, and even
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:as I continuously say on this show
about why I have the guests that
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:I have, one thing remains clear.
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:No matter what you might think about
what we have been through in our lives,
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:no matter what you try to do to achieve
what that best vision is of your life,
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:becoming authentic in your own nature
through relationships, confidence and
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:determination, which go all the way back
to the very beginning of this podcast,
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:remember that following the rules
might not always be your best friend.
621
:What we're trying to gain from this,
and what we're trying to gain from
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:the obstacles that we might face
in our life, mean that we have to
623
:understand that breakdowns are okay.
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:It doesn't mean that we have to be
feeling this inadequacy, or feeling like
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:we have to massively medicate ourselves.
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:Those are the jobs of the psychiatrists
and therapists that might need to
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:help you in the greatest time of need.
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:That's what makes therapists and
psychiatrists different from,
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:say, coaches, mentors, people that
are there that want to manifest
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:the dreams and aspirations of
what you're trying to achieve.
631
:These two intersections sometimes
are great, and we've had many guests,
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:like Jenny Jansen recently, talking
about these aspects in her own therapy
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:and coaching practice, but Kathy's
approach is like any other type
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:of opportunity that you can have.
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:It's allowing you to see that the energies
around you, the people you surround
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:yourself with, and the opportunities
that present themselves, all accumulate
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:into opportunities of finding out that
overarching question of who you are.
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:If you keep that darkness, that feeling
of being lost around you, of course
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:it's not going to pan out very well.
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:Kathy even talked about it today,
about why it's so important
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:to not be in that space.
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:Sometimes taking things into your
own hands, even if you feel that it
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:might not be the best way to move
forward, can still help you build
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:that value, helping to figure out what
are the best ways to move it forward.
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:Now let's be real, hiring someone to help
you along the way, to be that partner
646
:in crime by your side, which I think
coaches can be can help you get to the
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:root cause analysis that you're trying
to conduct of why you're going through
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:some of the things that you're going
through to help you to better gain clarity
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:and focus into a positive direction.
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:It's not necessarily a pep talk every
single time like somebody else, like
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:a football coach or a baseball coach
might do, especially if the game
652
:is going very badly for your team.
653
:This is about figuring out, are the
things that you're doing working, and
654
:are there better ways to approach it?
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:Dr.
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:Jim Salvucci, Navi Bliss, some of the
more recent guests have even talked about
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:a variety of different ways, whether
it's just doing it, to finding love,
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:all of them have unique perspectives.
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:To even figure out how we get
through this breaking of the cycle
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:means that we have to split those
ideas that we have about ourselves.
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:What kind of person do you want to be?
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:How does that align with where
you actually want to achieve?
663
:Figuring out the metaphor of life, as
Kathy would even describe it as, helps
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:us to understand where we need to get to.
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:It's almost like driving a car.
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:We know that we need to get out at certain
stops in order to stretch our legs,
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:especially if it's a long road trip, to
get to where we need to be, especially
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:when I've even talked about in a previous
episode, of that cross country adventure,
669
:which I encourage you to go check that
out because it is a lot of opportunity for
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:us to take pit stops and get to know each
other, but now let's focus on ourselves.
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:Let's focus on what might work if
we just are able to split the atom.
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:If we can just understand how that works,
how we can get that manifestation of
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:the energies that we have surrounding
ourselves, which even past guests
674
:even last year on our show like Bri
DiDino has talked about, can help us to
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:move towards that positive direction.
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:If you figure out how to clear
your heart, and how to clear your
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:mind of all the toxicity, and
you choose what your boundaries
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:are, I know that you can do this.
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:I know I can believe in you, but
you have to find the right system
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:that's paired with the safety
to create that manifestation.
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:Now, I have to pause, and even talk about
why that's so important from the context
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:of what even Kathy has shared and what
I have shared even in previous episodes.
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:It's not just about understanding
how that all connects together.
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:It's not about saying things that are
terrible about another person, and
685
:making them feel like crap, and even
saying to yourself that you need to
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:distance yourself from that person.
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:Maybe they have a point.
688
:That's one thing yet on this show that
we haven't really explored, which is why
689
:is it that that person is saying some
of the nasty things that they're saying?
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:Now, truth be told, maybe some of
the things that they are complaining
691
:about, that they are discussing,
are not healthy manifestations.
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:Maybe they're not productive overall,
because we have the things that we have
693
:going on in our lives, the reactions
that we're receiving might be valid,
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:but the point is, is that if you're
not able to distinguish between what
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:is really fact and fiction, which we
have even talked about what is a story
696
:and what is really a fact, how are you
ever going to figure out that growth?
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:You might try to do it,
but is it really working?
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:If you've been hitting roadblocks over
and over again, you need to figure
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:a way that is much better than what
you're working on today, and that is
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:why developing a system, regardless
if it's something that has been well
701
:established, or if it's something else,
can make such a profound difference in
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:how you're able to best move forward.
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:It's how you're able to achieve some
of the best things that you have
704
:yet to achieve in your entire life.
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:It's allowing you to have your soul guide
you into the direction that you want to
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:achieve; where you really want to go in
your own car that you're driving, but
707
:let's face it, that car will break down.
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:Your soul will be depressed.
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:There will be things that will happen in
your life that will challenge the status
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:quo that will knock you off your feet.
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:Those are the ebbs and flows,
or the rhythms and cycles as
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:Kathy had put it, that put us
into a different type of cycle.
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:Something that we normally
try to overcome, but we
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:can't quite do on our own.
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:Nothing might be able to be worked
through, because you either have the
716
:wrong impression as to what you might
think is the right thing to do, or you're
717
:just completely off, because someone has
pushed you off to the side, and has not
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:made you the best version of yourself.
719
:It is about getting to the root cause.
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:It's about building that strength,
that consistency, that passion, that
721
:ongoing accountability that you can
self check yourself, which ideally,
722
:that is where we're ultimately going
in this conversation, but what if you
723
:don't have the best support system?
724
:I've been blessed for over a year and
a half to have a variety of different
725
:people that have come through my
business, and I have seen it all.
726
:From the people that had the reach
deep inside of themselves to find
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:the courage to divorce people, remove
themselves from family members, or even
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:overcome stereotypes or thoughts that
are negative in nature, to realize that
729
:they have gifts to share to this world,
but sometimes that car that they've
730
:been driving in needs to be tuned up.
731
:Sometimes the soul that we have inside
of ourselves, needs to be revisited.
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:Even though they have been following
the rules of what they thought
733
:society asked them to do, society
told them a completely different
734
:story instead, and led them astray.
735
:That is where a coach can help provide
guidance and clarity, but we have
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:the ultimate responsibility, if I
dare say so myself being a coach
737
:myself, that we need to be careful
about how we go about that process.
738
:We need to be careful about
how we address ourselves.
739
:How we create that best version.
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:How we guide our clients, because
if we lead them astray, not only
741
:are they going to be mad at us,
we will be disappointed ourselves.
742
:That is where training, training,
training comes into play.
743
:I don't know about you, but we've
had so many different people share
744
:their stories over the course
of this whole entire process.
745
:It's been over a year of many different
guests, many different perspectives
746
:that I've provided, over the course of
140 episodes to get to where we're at.
747
:Has it really helped you?
748
:Has it shown you that you don't
have to walk in the darkness
749
:all by yourself anymore?
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:Has it helped you to realize that you
can split yourself from those thought
751
:patterns, those manifestations of negative
energy, the people that have been the
752
:past version of yourself, the things that
you idealize, or idolize for that matter,
753
:into metaphors, and positive affirmations,
and transformations, that allow you to
754
:lead into a life that could either create
multi million dollars of fame and fortune,
755
:or even having better relationships with
people that you always wanted, but it
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:all started with each and every one of
my guests about having a system, and
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:that system identifies with who they are.
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:If you don't know what that system
looks like, reach out to me.
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:Reach out to my guest.
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:Reach out to any one of
my guests for that matter.
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:There are plenty of episodes that there
are plenty of people that have gone
762
:through even trials and tribulations, and
would be happy to share what they have
763
:been through, but do me a favor today.
764
:Stop putting it off,
because it is your soul.
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:It is the rhythm that
you beat to on your drum.
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:It is the way in which you start your car.
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:If you keep on running that car for
many, many miles, and don't look under
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:the hood every once in a while, are you
really doing yourself a service of helping
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:yourself to feel appreciated, loved, and
valued, both physically and mentally?
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:What are you waiting for?
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:Are you waiting for that
breakdown to happen?
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:Are you waiting to feel sad and all alone,
or, maybe you just need that extra push,
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:because you are doing the right things.
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:Regardless of where your stance is at.
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:Regardless of what your background is,
just know, that you have everything,
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:and everything I mean, to make this
happen, just like my guest Kathy has,
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:because regardless of any universal
laws, regardless of any transformation,
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:regardless of the things that you take
in your own hands, I promise you, there
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:are greater rewards that lie ahead.
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:Those are the treasures, regardless
of whether you think it's gold or not,
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:that will help you become the best
version of yourself, in the personal
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:and professional struggles that you go
through, not just on a daily basis, or
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:a weekly basis, or a monthly basis, or
even a yearly basis, but in any time
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:period that you can think of, it will help
you see who you can ultimately become.
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:A person that is loved, respected, cared,
and appreciated in more ways than one.
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:Thanks for listening to episode
number 140 of Speaking From the
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:Heart, and I look forward to
hearing from your heart, very soon.
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:Outro: Thanks for listening.
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:services that can help you create
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:See you next time.