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This is beyond confidence and now here's your host, div Park.
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Good morning listeners. It's Tuesday morning, and I'm so excited
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to be here with you. I just want to share.
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I'm traveling and not in my usual space, so there
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may be a little bit disconnect, but I know you
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are patient with me. We love you and you'll love me,
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so it's all good. I want to share a very
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unique kind of story with you. So as I was
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traveling from Not Carolina to New York at the airport,
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there was this mom. She had a huge stroller and
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a couple of kids, and as I was approaching to her,
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you know, just kind of to check if I could
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help her out. What was interesting was that her five
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year old tapped his mama's legs and looked up to
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her and they had some conversation. And what was interesting
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was that he guided her how to go through It
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was just fascinating. I just took a step back, and
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it's amazing, like you can have that kindness for somebody
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in your family as well. So thank you to everyone
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keybo dot org. And let's welcome our guest, Carl Schligel.
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Welcome Carl, Thank you DBIA.
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So Carl, you bring a wealth of experience across we
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see family office, m and a tech and startups to
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drive seven to nine figure value increase through plug and play,
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strategic partnerships and executive access. So very impressive journey. So
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usually the journey begins when you are a child. We
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all start there. So do you recall a moment or
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a person that left a positive mark on you, either
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in your childhood or in your youth.
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Yeah?
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Absolutely.
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You know, my father has had a major impact on me.
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My father was born with physical disability, but he made
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up for it in terms of personality and the way
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in which he could build relationships, build trust, be able
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to create unforgettable memories and experiences. And that's something that's
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really left an impact on me and the work that
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I do today. As far as strategic partnerships executive access
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really focuses in on the relationships. I would also say
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that my father was one who encouraged me to dream
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and to think beyond the box or even think beyond
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you know, the Earth. So when I was about two
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years old, I really had the dream of becoming an astronaut.
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I wanted to explore, I wanted to move beyond the
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bounds of the Earth.
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And later on, many years later, when I was.
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Part of the Rocket Racing League running merchandising in apparel,
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I got to get closer to that vision as this
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was a NASCAR in the skies type racing league where
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the pilots would fly through these tracks that they would
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see in the sky in their heads up display like
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a video game, and people at home could actually be
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able to race against them.
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And the plan was eventually to go to some.
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Orbital races and really be able to drive exploration forwards.
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So my father planting those seeds, watching Star Trek with me,
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encouraging me to think outside of the traditional career routes
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as well as the opportunities, has left an impact on
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me in so many different ways.
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Yeah, and you brought up a really really good point
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that rather than the traditional career outes, there are so
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many things that can explore, and talking about a Star Trek,
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I'm as trucky too, so as you grew up, then
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did your life take you?
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My life took me in a lot of different directions.
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I could say.
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On the one hand, when I was younger, I was
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more comfortable speaking with adults, more comfortable speaking about science
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and just different things. I felt like I wanted to
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grow up faster, right, and I felt as I didn't
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fit into.
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My you know, into my peer group. And then I.
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Discovered the wonder of play, and so I really started
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then kind of settling in and through sports, through playing
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team sports like roller hockey. I was in a roller
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hockey league where I got to play basketball on my
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freshman basketball team.
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I was the rooty of the team quite literally. I
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mean I even in.
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Practice the coach would kind of play against us and
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rough us up, and then it was it was intense.
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But these types of experiences and then being able to
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step into opportunities to invite other people into the play
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or thinking beyond, I kind of found my own waterline,
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so to speak, and my own group of people, and
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yet found the ability to also cross over into a
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lot of different other categories. So like, on the one hand,
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kind of became you know, five year old Carl was
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looking to be an adult if you asked me at
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ten years old what I wanted to do, I would
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tell you I wanted to have five different businesses, you know,
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from car design and boat design and building rockets and
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all kinds of things. But then you know, team sports
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and different things in terms of school. Helped to pull
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me back into my pure group. To be able to
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find my love of music, not just from the violin,
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but from experiencing that with other people who were my age,
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and then you know, being able to iterate. So at
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one point I was with a friend of mine who
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introduced me to Bob Marley on the one hand, right
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and guitarists, and my buddy Justin could play like Jimi Hendrix.
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I mean, he was amazing, And on the violin, I
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was going, I'm classically trained, but I really really really
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want to do that. I was trying to figure out
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how I could do that, and at the same time,
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in his concrete basement, he's teaching me how to break dance.
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Right.
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So you talk about the world arriving in different types
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of areas and that freedom, you know, really to explore
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and to be able to try different things. I think
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was really the path that helped me not just for
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my father's influence, but also then finding that level within
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my peer group and while still not giving up the
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desire for imagination and for reinventment or coming at things
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from a different way.
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Yeah, and that is really powerful because what I'm hearing
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is that because you were exposed to so many different things,
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you get that experience, and that experience makes your life
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not only richer, but it also helps your brain to
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expand and look at that and see where there's invention
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or reinvention could happen. So how did you get into
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we see that's.
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A really funny story. The truth of the matter is
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that I kind of insulted my way into VC. Really
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comes down to it, and what I mean by this
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too is I was so green at the time.
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There was an opportunity that we were putting together and it.
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Involved being able to take a look at water supplies
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in the northeast Coca Cola and NESTLEI.
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They were having trouble getting water supplies.
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So I had been working on another project WebEx Meet
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Skype and being able to deliver to medical education to
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doctors and nurses sponsored by pharmaceuticals, and one of the
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people who was involved in a little bit in that
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process from the ancillary introduced me at that time to
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very very powerful magnets and as well as to this
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need for additional water sources to be able to help
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supply Coca Cola and others. So, long story short, I
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brought in a venture capitalist and an angel investor to
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be able to take a look at the opportunity. And
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when we found that we hit a roadblock where there
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was a concern about instead of having a freshwater aquifer,
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that there could actually be an issue with being on
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environmentally protected land.
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In my mind, I was like, no problem.
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So I had already been having conversations with a company
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that was looking to take water from glaciers over in
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Norway and bring it over into the United States, so
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transporting water from glaciers, and I was like, that's okay.
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Here's plan B.
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So the situation with the ventric capitalist, he goes, look,
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we're you know, we're going to do this deal with you,
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and we're going to be really generous.
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This is normally not what we really do.
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And I turned around to him and I said, no,
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this is supply and demand, right, I'm so green.
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I said, this is a fifty to fifty deal supply
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and demand. Here we go.
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So he says to me, he said, kid, you got
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style and you you got a lot of you know.
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He said, well, we'll work on that a little bit.
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But it led to me then getting an opportunity to
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be involved in venture capital and it was it was
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quite an adventure from there. So the relationship aspect and
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just being present and stuff, even more so than the
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traditional route, right is what opened has opened up so
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many doors in life, as well as advising you know,
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a foreign government on strategic commodities, reserves or or other
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other things that have come up in my life. Really
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being present and aware of the dynamics, but also looking
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at the exchange of value as has been a game.
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Changer absolutely, and any time, you know, any interaction is
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an exchange of value. When that happens, you're building relationships.
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So talking about relationships, what can Henry Ford teach us
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about strategic partnerships.
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Henry Ford was one on trial and he was being
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accused of not being a smart man. And what was
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amazing is that he turns around and he tells the
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judge and the court and he says, I might not
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know everything, but I've got a row of buttons on
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my desk, and I know if I press these buttons,
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the people that have the information, you know, will be
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able to come in and be able to supply that right.
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And this was instrumental.
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What I saw from this is that sometimes we think
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that we have to know everything, we have to understand
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how everything works, and we can fall into this trap
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of only seeing from our own perspective instead of the
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plug and play philosophy is, instead of trying to reinvent
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the wheel or try to see things only from our
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own image likeness, our own perspective, how are we able
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to collaborate with others who have that knowledge, that expertise
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in a way that's not threatening, but in a way
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that actually builds up both and both come out better
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for it in the process. And so that story from
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Henry Ford is something that has made impact on me
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kind of when I'm feeling like, oh, no, do I
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understand everything? Do I have all the lingo down, et cetera,
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of being able to step back, to relax, to step
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into the team modality and say I don't need to
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have all the answers. If I am surrounded by the
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right people and we have the right structures that allow
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us to be able to collaborate. We're all going to
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be able to help each other in this process.
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Absolutely, there's nothing like doing things together and talking about
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their different types of teams. So what would you say
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is like, you know, I know you talk about building
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SWAT teams. Yes, why share with us what is a
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SWAT team and why is creatively important and building those.
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So when I take a look at a SWAT team,
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I think of a rapid deployment force where individuals have
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been specifically picked for different types of capabilities. But one
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of the things that the Navy Seal had actually shared
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with me, you said, Carl, for all the training and
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everything that we go through, he said, the real breakthrough
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is one a round leadership. And what does this mean?
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Navy Seals have the unique ability he shared with me,