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This is beyond confidence and now here's your host, W Park.
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Good morning, It's Tuesday morning, and I'm.
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Thrilled to be here with you, of course, because you,
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my dear audience, are the life of the show. And
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thank you for those emails and messages that you keep
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sending it to us, because that's what keeps me coming
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back week after week. And I want to share the
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kind of circle story today. So somebody shared that it
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was a very interesting story and we are just going
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to call her Vicki. So Vicki shared that on Valentine's Day,
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you know, it was just this past month. What happened
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was she had done a surprise and didn't tell her husband,
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and guess what he had done a surprise as well.
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So then what she did was he was so enthusiastic
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and he shared it with her for the first verse
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before she could share. So she was so kind she
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canceled her appointment and reservations, like you know, I think,
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so they had a spoty or not sure all of
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the details, and what a beautiful gesture of kindness. It's
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not about I did or you did, so just wanted
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to share that with you and remember to keep that
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kindness circle going, spending that hour of your time every
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month with no strings attached. And I will tell you
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whenever you do even a small kind act for someone.
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You feel good.
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So you're not doing it for them, You're doing it
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for yourself. And for those of you who have got
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her books expert to influencer and the Entrepreneur's gotten and others,
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we thank you and keep the word going. And if
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you have not been love for you to get it
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because partial profits go to keyboard dot org. Because I
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do believe entrepreneurs are very special. And let's bring in
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our guest. So I want to share with you that
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Chris is a very special person. We connected on LinkedIn
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and his approach is completely different. So Chris will usually
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start out from the beginning, which is of course childhood
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for everyone. Do you recall a moment or a person
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from your childhood or from your youth that left a
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positive mark on you?
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Oh? Wow, yes, absolutely, my yeah, Oh my gosh, this
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is so fun. My best friend growing up was named
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Tommy Picchello, and wow, I've never talked about him on
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a show before. Tommy and I grew up like one
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house down from each other, and him and his family
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were just so kind to me. And Tommy's no longer
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with us. He passed a few years ago, way too young,
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and I know, yeah, and he like left such and
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hum and his family just left such a positive impact
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on my life. I think about them all the time.
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And Tommy grew up like we all do, and he
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left an awesome positive impact in our community here in Memphis, Tennessee,
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where were based. Just a super cool guy. And honestly
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it was because they were just kind, busy people like
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we all are, lots going on, but kind, and I
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always felt appreciated and loved and welcomed in their space,
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and that was really great.
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Yeah, it's amazing how kindness can leave a mark on you.
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And just as you mentioned that, it reminded me of
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one of my school teachers. She was I think so
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a sub and she had just come and probably she
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had taught us, maybe just for a few months and
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the whole and probably I think since grade or third grade,
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I don't remember, but her kindness touched us. And then
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later a few years later down the road, I found
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out that she had passed away very young, and I
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still remember her to this day. And it's amazing how
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kindness will remain in your heart. So tell us, like,
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you know what you interested in something specifics as you
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were growing up.
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Oh my gosh, yeah, so we grew up like skateboards,
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BMX bikes, play in the woods. You know, it was
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it was fun, it was great. My family was hit
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or miss on being great. They weren't. They weren't the best,
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but they but I had some I had some great
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folks around who were just super awesome. And kindness has
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stuck with me, really has. I appreciate that. Thanks for
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bringing this up. This is really.
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Nice, absolutely, and how wonderful that you're talking about, you know,
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playing in the woods, because I cannot find anything more
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powerful then commuting with nature. And when you communicate with nature.
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I learned every single thing in just a very quick story.
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I was just at on the weekend at the dealership
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getting my oil changed, and of course it was quite
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cold that day, and I'm like, okay, they're going to
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take a couple of hours. Let me just kind of
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step out, and these are still all great trees bare,
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and I saw this cardinal just sitting there, that bright
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spot of color, and my creativity just got sparked, and
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I wrote a poem, So tell us, like, you know,
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as you grew up in the nature and professionally, where
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did your interest take you?
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It stayed with adventure and nature. It really has so
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I know. I know what I do for a living
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is coach other coaches and experts how to build these
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high ticket masterminds your coaching programs. But that was driven
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out of my love for adventure in nature. My entrepreneurial
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journey followed a track of wanting more free time and
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more space, more opportunity to take myself and our family
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and friends out for adventures. I freaking love it. I
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love community, and I think what I keep doing as
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an entrepreneur is I keep looking for ways to grow
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in ways that builds more community for ourselves and others
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and freedom. I happen to love adventure and outdoors, but
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some people love different things. They love spending more time
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with friends, love curating their wine collection, love pursuing art,
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whatever it is. I just want people to have the
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freedom and the community to thrive, and that's what really
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is meaningful to me. I have one tattoo to bea
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you don't know's. I have one tattoo with the inside
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of my left bicep and it's the word free because
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that has just been such a meaningful word to me
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in my life. Is just pursuing freedom and remaining free
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with the choices we make on a daily basis.
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Absolutely, So tell us, like, when you talk about it adventures,
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what kind of adventures do you like?
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Oh, that's funny, this is going to be funny. We
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love adventures adventures, so we love anything that's out in
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the wild. So We've done lots of electric skateboarding. I've
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done a tremendous amount of high alpine mountaineering and some
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very cold alpine snowy, icy regions, lots of ice climbing.
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We've free dived in so many oceans around the world.
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We've been free diving with sharks multiple times. Gosh, lots
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of surfing adventures. The two times I thought we were
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lots of traveling around the world, we backpacked through Europe
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with our five kids. I mean, we just we like
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to play, and we like to meet new people that
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are not like us. And most of our adventures, even
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though we like say, oh we're going to go to
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this location so we can dive with sharks out in
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the scivic somewhere or whatever. It's like, the adventure is
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the thing we're googling and figuring out how to do.
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But the adventure always takes us to a place and
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with people that we have nothing in common with, and
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we end up falling in love with culture and community
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and people all over the place because it turns out
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we have everything in common with other humans on this planet.
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We all want the best for our families, the best
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for ourselves. We all want to be healthy. We want
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to be in great places and positions where we can
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do the things that create opportunity for us and those
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we love. And it's just wonderful to get to actually
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see new people doing that in different ways.
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Absolutely, And.
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What you're sharing is that what you can do and
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the way and how you do one thing, you do
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the rest of the things as well. So you talked
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about adventures, and you know there are so many people
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and I'm not saying everybody got to do adventures.
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It's basically whatever brings your joy.
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As you mentioned earlier, the key is that you don't
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let the obstacles.
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Deter you or stop you.
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Yes, they can delay, they can cause the delay, but
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they cannot deter you. So what I'm hearing is that,
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like even with kids you are, what you're doing is
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you're making them part of your adventures. It's not like
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just so I'm going, you know, it's you and your
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partner or you're just going on a guys trip or
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anything like that. You're making that whole family event and
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they're growing up seeing that. So what a beautiful lesson.
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So what would you tell a lot of professionals and
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entrepreneurs like, oh, you know, my kids are young and
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it's just a hassle, and how can I go about it?
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Before I before I say that answer, that's my perspective
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on this. Div Let me just say how interesting this
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show is. I'm lucky enough to be on a lot
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of stages in a lot of podcasts, and you're asking
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questions that nobody ever asks. This is really great. So
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all you lucky listeners out there listening to Divia, I'm
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super thrilled. This is so fun. Keep listening to more episodes.
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This is super cool. Okay, so the like, I really
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appreciate that. Yeah, really unique, this is this is great.
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So many so many podcasters the same old stuff, you know,
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same old questions. This is really great. So how have
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we what was a question, how have we incorporated kids
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and and that sort of thing family into what we do? Yep,
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Okay to two directions here. One, I personally am not
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a fan of working with family or friends. It just
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in my experience it's it creates more times than not,
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more often than not, it creates a lot of heartache
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and hardship and conflict and things like that. That just
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puts more strain of friendships. And family already have enough
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relational dynamics to put enough strain on that relationship and
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it can go really well, but there's already enough tensions
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around that. I think it's easier to keep that separate
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from business. So that's been our choice as a family.
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That's what we've done. So Jill and I don't work together,
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our kids don't work in our business, and we don't
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work with our extended family. That's just been our rule
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and it's served as well. I know some people do
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it very successfully. Maybe it's me.
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I think that's a golden rule to have because I'll
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tell you my son was well, he's even now very
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tech savvy, and he used to help me out and
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he was like, yeah, I used to help me out.
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Okay, good, Like we're working differently. I agree about that.
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But you know, as you know, traveling and being in
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part of other cultures around the world, a lot of
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cultures do that extremely well. But for some reason here
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in our American culture, more often than not it goes south.
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And I don't I don't want to do it. Obviously,
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there's some families to do it very very well. Okay. Now,
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from how we incorporate family and friends and kids whatever
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into other things, is we just treat everybody like we
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want to be treated. I think that's like the golden rule, right,
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doing to others as you want to have them doing
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to you. And I'm not saying we're saints and we're perfect.
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I'm just saying, like, when it comes to direct messaging
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on LinkedIn, when it comes to talking to our kids,
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when it comes to hanging out with our in laws,
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when it comes to just sitting over a cup of
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coffee and somewhere we've never been to before. I people
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are people. They just want to be able to say
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hey and have you find out something interesting about them.
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They want to find out something interesting about you, and
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you can take that theme and put it into how
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you do a family holiday, how you do a major trip,
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how you plan an anniversary. Like the example you gave
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about Valentine's Day a few minutes ago, that couple was
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kind enough to each other to treat the other person
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like they'd want to be treated. What a beautiful example.
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Yeah, so now you have. That's something very powerful and insightful.