Episode #181 - A Brand New YOU Awaits!

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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 181 of Speaking from the

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Heart, and the final episode of 2024.

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I can't believe that we are ending this

year on a high note, especially for

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not only myself, but I hope for you,

as you've gotten through Christmas,

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that you're entering New Year's Day,

tomorrow for that matter, getting ready

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to not only start a new year, but also

have some optimism, knowing that the

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brand new you that you've been waiting

for is on the other side, or is it?

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Have you found your passion?

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Are you ready to get

started in a new year?

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Do you need a last minute pep talk to show

you that this year that is coming up has

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so much to bring to you, and to others?

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What is holding you back from being the

best version of yourself this coming year?

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What has happened in years past?

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What is it that is going

to help you move forward?

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Today's episode is definitely for you,

and we're going to talk about all those

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things building on episode number 179,

and getting you in the right direction.

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Now, if you haven't listened to episode

179 in which I talked about how your

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mood shouldn't be shifted, especially

amongst this type of year that we've had,

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I encourage you to go back and listen to

that one first, and then come back to this

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episode, but I have to say that when we

are thinking about the mood which we have

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now turned around, we can now say that

these are the goals that we want to do.

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These are the things

that we want to achieve.

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We are super excited

for what's ahead, right?

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Right?

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I don't know, but sometimes some

people are skeptical about what

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they can really achieve, even

after they shift that mindset.

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It's almost like a confidence factor is

still not there, despite all the things

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that they've been worked on, to now

be able to say that the brand new you

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that's inside is ready to march forward,

but holding on to the past is really

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what I want to focus on today, because

sometimes we do have those reservations.

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We do have those concerns, even if we

do change our mindset and know that it's

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going to be okay from a positive angle.

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Now I have to caveat this episode by even

saying that this has been a really tough

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year for me, personally, in 2024, and

I have heard that even for many people,

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even in surveys that I have read, that

almost half of the United States, that's

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almost 50%, have even indicated that

this has been a tough year for them,

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whether it has been from a financial

side, a political side, a cultural

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side, a societal aspect that might have

occurred, maybe it was with family.

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There's a variety of different reasons.

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Maybe you've been even let go of from

a job, and I'm so sorry if that does

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affect you, and you have been trying

to get back on your feet, especially

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during this holiday season, but I

promise you that if you want to really

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achieve greatness, if you really want

to get started on this path towards

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success, today is the day that it starts.

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I know that with past advice that

I've given, and even some of the

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things that we have been through

on this show, there have been many

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examples of people, going 180 episodes

back, that we can look at as prime

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examples, people that we can aspire to.

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Those are the people that will help

us to shift our mood, to let us know

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that it's okay to feel the way that we

do, but to also know that we can keep

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moving forward, that we know that best

version of ourselves can be on that

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other side of the fence that we have

to climb, but this opportunity, this

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great advice that I have to give to you

today is really going to change you.

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It's going to radicalize you in

a way in which you have never

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thought New Year's is possible.

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I'm even talking about some of the

episodes that I've done already all

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the way around this time last year

in: 2023

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you can start to leave the excuses

behind and start writing down goals.

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What is it on that sheet of paper that

you want to do, and if you even want to

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stop the episode here at this point, and

go back to last year's set of episodes

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around the month of December, in which

I talked about this, this will be the

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time to do it, but you don't want, more

than anything else, to hold yourself

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back from the ultimate advice that

I have with you today, the brand new

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you that's awaiting is already here,

and I'm already talking to you, that

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person that is that brand new you.

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Now you might be scratching your

head a little bit, and going, "Josh!

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Here you go again.

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Another wacky idea from you, and I'm

going to already cancel the episode out.",

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but before you hit the stop button and

you close out completely, or if you are

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stopping the episode so that you can go

back to those other episodes, hear me out.

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You have already crossed this threshold.

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You are really at the point now

that you can do anything that

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you ever wanted to because now

you have lived those experiences.

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You have been through the muckiness,

the shit that you've had to drag, and

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you had to get to where you are today.

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You have conquered fear itself, so for

all those reasons, I congratulate you.

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I give you a round of applause,

and I really, earnestly mean that.

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Some people don't stop to smell the

flowers of what they've been able

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to do, because sometimes they think

those flowers smell like shit, and

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I understand why you feel that way.

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Sometimes when we are thinking that

we have done so much and we have moved

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that needle forward, if we have been

able to get really positive about

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our lives and super excited about it,

that even then, it still smells murky.

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It smells like we are in

this disgusting sewage.

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We also are trying to get out of that

sewage, because it's stuck to us.

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It's almost like quicksand, and

we're trying to brush it off,

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but if you really boil it down

to it, you are the brand new you.

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Finding that passion, to be able to

start over again has already existed.

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It's already been dormant inside of you.

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I think that for many of us, we are often

hidden from those opportunities to show

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that great compassion about ourselves,

to see that we have what it takes to be

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able to renew our conviction to keep on

moving forward, to keep on achieving the

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dreams that we have been manifesting.

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Just this past Saturday, after this

recording, I had been working on a

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workshop that I've done multiple times

this year, not only with my clients, but

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also with a bigger audience, as it relates

to building your narrative vision, your

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future that you can envision, that you

know that you can ultimately achieve.

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Today it starts.

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Whatever goals you set, whether you want

to use the SMART methodology, or any

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other methodology that is out there, which

there are multiple aspects to choose from.

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Regardless of what you have, if you've

been able to write that story, what it

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looks like to actually live in your goals,

and to visualize them, be able to make

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that story come alive for you, I give you

kudos, because not many people are willing

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to take those concrete steps, actually

set time aside in their day, and actually

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marvel at what they've been able to do.

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Sometimes it's hard for me, your podcast

host, to even do that, and I had to

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really sit back, especially in the

last few days, to think about what I've

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been able to achieve, which, one of the

biggest things which I'm successfully

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have done, and I got it done right

before the end of this year, is graduate

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myself from therapy, so that's right.

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After almost five years, I'm so excited

about sharing my vision, my journey

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that I've been on in therapy, and

knowing that I have this future that

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now I don't have to go every single

week, see a therapist, tell my shit

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to them, and then get some helpful

advice, go about my week again, get

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beaten up, and then have to go back in.

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You have no idea, ladies and

gentlemen, how much that makes me feel.

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It has a freeing effect.

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It's almost like I get my time

back, but yet, at what cost?

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Sometimes going through change,

trying to address fear in itself, is a

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fucking scary thing, and I know that.

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I have lived that this past year with

the things that I've had to adjust to

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personally, but also, having to realize

that I have so much more to learn.

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I have so much more to grow when it

comes to my business that I didn't even

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calculate it when I originally was setting

out for my journey that I had with Your

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Speaking Voice, what I had set out for my

podcast, Speaking From the Heart, but more

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importantly, all the other things that

administratively, financially, and even

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relationship wise, I had to set out to do.

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It's a very tough situation that even

then, I don't know if sometimes I have

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what it takes to even see this brand

new you that I'm trying to figure out

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even for myself, that has arised from

the shadows, to get to where I am now.

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I don't know if that's really

possible, but I believe that we

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all have it, myself included.

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Past advice, renewed conviction, things

we have left on the table in: 2024

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that have been excuses that we should

have never even used in the first place,

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are just some of the underlining tones

that we can start with, that we could

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start to say to ourselves, "This is no

longer going to be the version of myself."

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It's hard work.

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It means that you have to even

dig deeper than you have ever

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dug before, and I get that.

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That's some messy stuff.

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That is, literally, shit that you have to

unleash from your life, and that it never

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comes back ever again, but I promise you,

when you do that, when you realize that

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past version of yourself is no longer

in control, the brand new you will be

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there, awaiting you, greeting you at the

door that you're going to walk through.

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For several episodes now, I've talked

about what it has meant for me to go on

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this journey, what it has meant for me to

get to this point, and I think for you,

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my listeners, you've been on this journey

with me, which, for those that have been

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faithful all along, thank you so much for

making: 2024

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to see what it is that I can do, but with

only a handful of listeners only listening

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to my advice, it makes me sad that

more people could be listening to this,

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changing their attitudes, being able to

affect themselves in more positive ways.

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In this world in which is surrounded by

negativity, and sometimes energy that

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we don't want to spend time in, why

listen to another bullshitter like Joshua

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Smith, your podcast host, talking about

things that maybe he has never done?

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He's a fake!

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He's a loser!

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I have heard it all, and it's okay if you

feel that way, even as you listen to this,

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my sworn enemy, if you will, but this

isn't about a conversation of why I think

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nobody wants to listen to my podcast.

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It's about a conversation of

what I need to do differently.

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What is it that I need to change today

that I know I have the skills in doing,

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so that I'm able to move forward to

become that brand new me, and friends,

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that's exactly what I'm asking you to do.

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Put aside what it is that

you've been doing wrong.

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Think about what is it that you can

do that you haven't been focused on.

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Maybe you already have the answer deep

inside of yourself that will change that

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perspective, that will help you to keep

moving forward, to help others keep moving

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forward, to help your colleagues keep

moving forward, but more importantly,

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as I've mentioned in many other places,

you can be the lighthouse, the light

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that shines for other ships, to guide

them where they need to be guided to.

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It's no secret that this year,

amongst other years, can be

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very tough for many people.

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Whether you are trying to overcome

some death that has happened this

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year in your family, a job loss, or

even yourself for that matter, in

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which you have been on some rocky

roads and you just need a break.

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You are here because you want to see

that brand new version of yourself.

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There is an inkling inside of you

that says that you want this more than

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anything, and I'm shouting from the

mountaintops that you can do this.

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I can do this.

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We can do this, and all it takes is

for you to see that regardless of

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what has happened, whether it's in

this year or other years that you're

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referencing back towards, you are ready

to take on what it is that: 2025

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I know that in this world, in this life

that we live, it can be very tough.

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It can be even challenging, and

even as you hear me say these words

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and shout them, you might still be

asking yourself, "What is it that I

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can actually do to make this happen?

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I don't have these resources.

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I don't have this or

that, that you have, Josh.

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How can you tell me to do something that

I don't even have the possibility to do?"

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I have been blessed this year to talk

to a number of guests, even more than

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I had my first year of this podcast,

that would tell you that you can have

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absolutely nothing in this world, nothing

at all in terms of worldly possessions,

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and still take everything that you have

inside yourself and change for the better.

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One of my guests, Bonnie Hardie, which

was from many episodes ago, shared her

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awesome story of what it means to be

a coach, even when she is homeless.

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Now, if you have felt at any sense at any

moment of what it means to be homeless,

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which I have been fortunate enough to

not be, but have come close enough to

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feel like I have lost it all and I would

be living on the streets, you start to

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appreciate the world a bit differently,

and Bonnie is somebody that, even to this

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day, all these months ago in which that

episode was recorded and then aired on

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this podcast, has been an inspiration for

me to work on becoming that brand new me.

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It doesn't take much to change

your mindsets, especially from

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positive to negative, but instead

of looking at it from that one way

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angle, why can't we look at it from

a negative to positive difference?

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Why can't we look at it from a

negative to positive transformation?

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Our advice, the things that we've been

given, whether that is from childhood, or

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even from contemporary times, the place

that we live in right now, what if we're

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able to speak to ourselves, to share

what it means to know that we have this

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manifestation, deep inside of ourselves,

and it's just waiting to be unleashed?

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I've had many people on the show,

especially as of late, that have talked

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about this, and in 2025, even more

guests are going to dig deep into what

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this looks like, but at this moment,

at this time, I want you to know that

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when you hit the stop button, once you

reach the end of this episode, or if it

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moves on to another podcast, I'll still

be here thinking of you, thinking of

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how great it would be to see this brand

new version of you, unleashed to the

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world in 2025, accomplishing your goals,

testing the limits, seeing what your

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voice can do with your relationships,

confidence and determination that you've

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been building on this show, and oh yes,

even reaching out to me, working with me

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in the new year, helping you to dig even

deeper than you ever thought possible.

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I don't know where you might be

as you listen to this, even now,

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today, as this airs, or in the

future, but I do know one thing.

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I know that you took an interest in

listening to this, and if you made

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it all the way through, that tells me

that brand new you is right there on

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the precipice, being able to step into

that uncomfortableness, that fear that

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you might be facing, but yet doing it,

knowing that you have what it takes, and

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I'm rooting for you, not only in 2024

as we wrap it up, but in: 2025

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Finally, I want to say thank you to

all my listeners, all of you, that have

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made me a brand new me in this year,

and I look forward to serving you in the

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new year with Speaking From The Heart.

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Thanks for listening to episode number

181 of Speaking From The Heart, and

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I look forward to hearing from your

heart, in the new year, very soon.

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Outro: Thanks for listening.

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