900: Life-Changing Questions to Find Career & Creative Success | What's Your Problem? Podcast

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All right.

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3, 2, 1. Let's get it.

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Welcome back to what's your problem?

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The podcast.

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I'm your host marsh bison today.

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I got three questions.

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I want you to not only ask yourself, but also you need.

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Sit down and.

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Our do it on the run.

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Whatever drive down the road.

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Whatever it is, man.

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You need to not only ask yourself these questions, but also how do you answer them?

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And.

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This is going to help you for those who are.

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Thinking about switching.

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Switching careers getting into her career, but also in your creatives too.

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And I'm going to unpack both of these because.

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I think they are both, uh, super important.

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So let's start off with number one to three.

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The questions.

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And then also we'll, we'll kick it off.

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Off with career and how you should choose a career.

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And based on how you answer these.

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Questions is going to.

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To determine.

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You know, with.

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Maybe it's not the right time for.

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You to get into.

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To that career.

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Based on how you answer.

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Cause I think a lot of times.

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What we do is, is we.

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We kind of only look at the good side of things where we sell ourselves on.

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Why this is a great decision.

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And we really haven't given it.

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More well-rounded thought.

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And it's not like you just got to get into this.

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Huge deliberation process with, with yourself, because I believe sometimes you just got to take the leap.

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But also just, uh, you know, keeping things simple.

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If you just ask a. A few simple questions.

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And kind of.

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Spit this out, talk it out.

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I'm big on not only writing.

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It out.

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But also speaking it out.

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I just something that's, that's just really good for me.

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So.

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Uh, if you happen to ever see.

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See me at the red light and you see that I'm talking that's, what's good about.

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Bluetooth speakers.

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Seekers now people.

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Think that I'm on the foam.

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Foam when I'm actually, I'm just talking to myself.

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So I like to talk things.

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Out loud.

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I did it yesterday when I went running.

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I instead of taking the headphones with.

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Me.

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I had no headphones.

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Phones and I. I just was talking.

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So there were people that were working in the yard, so I'll be running by.

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Not very Fastly, but it's all me running by.

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And, you know, I. I was talking out loud.

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But this is how I just kind of worked things through whatever works for you.

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But let's jump into it.

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So the three questions that you should ask.

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Ask yourself is, do you love.

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Love it.

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Are you good at.

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It.

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And will they pay you for it?

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Simple enough.

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You've probably heard these before.

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But let's really just unpack this a little bit.

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So number one, do you love it?

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Let's look at the career side of it.

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Do you love it?

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Maybe you don't know.

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If you love this chosen career yet or not, I get it.

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But what you have to do is, is you have to ask yourself, What intrigues you.

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About the career that you're interested in.

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And.

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And it can't be all driven by money now.

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I'm not saying money's not important, but.

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I can tell you this, you will quickly flame.

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Flame out if a. You come in.

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In for the money.

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And it's not there.

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or B.

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Um, you.

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You get.

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Get in it and you.

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Absolutely love it yet.

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Yet you're always having.

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Having hit your mom.

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Mom and dad up.

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Because you can't pay your rent.

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So.

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So security is important from a monetary.

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Standpoint.

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Can.

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You pay your.

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Your bills not can you ball?

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Out of control, but can you pay.

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Your bills.

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Without having to depend on.

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Anybody, you got to have that.

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That.

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Independent.

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So, you know, not everybody's.

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Just going to.

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Uh, flow to.

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Tuition's to you, uh, and Support you while you're struggling.

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Plus when you're struggling.

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I do believe in the Sacra.

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Sacrifice.

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I do believe in productive struggle.

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We'll be a whole nother episode.

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So.

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So I do think you should strain.

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But also.

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Also when you're working.

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Working towards something, but you've got.

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To be able to make ends meet also.

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So do you love it?

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The money aspect is important, but there's gotta be some subs.

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Subsections to it too.

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So what, what intrigues you?

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What fascinates.

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At you.

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About this career and the reason why.

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I say that is because.

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From a monetary standpoint.

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Point there are going to be.

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Storms there.

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We're going to be clouds.

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There are going to be disruption.

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there could be layoffs or it could be.

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The economic shifts, they're gonna be all kinds of different things.

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So if you haven't really.

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Talked about.

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About or Find what really fascinates you.

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Say for instance, if you were super wealthy, Would you still.

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We'll do this.

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You know, if you didn't.

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Have to worry about money.

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But, you know, I, what, what act.

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Absolutely fascinates you.

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You or intrigues you or piques your curiosity?

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about this business.

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See for me.

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I chose sales 27 years ago.

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Did I love sales.

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When I got into it.

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I didn't.

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know I read a book.

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The secret of closing sales.

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And in my current situation, I was working at a casino.

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As a supervisor.

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And I was making $28500 a year.

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So I. I was like, and, and, and so for me, I had a five-year old.

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Son at home that I was raising.

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All my own.

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And so it was like, for me, I was like, There's gotta be something bigger and better for me.

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I mean, where does this road?

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Lead.

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And I didn't see that this.

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This road led to something 20 years down the line.

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I be.

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Just jumping from casino to casino.

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I didn't see that.

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For me, that just wasn't my bag.

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So.

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What interested me in.

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And sales.

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Was the freedom.

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To not only.

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Create my own.

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I own money.

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There was no ceiling.

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Uh, as far as what I could get paid.

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And I get.

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It was a very.

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Very low barrier.

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You know, basically.

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Really, if I was.

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Breathing.

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And I looked good.

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Then I could get a job in.

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And sales.

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And the rest of it.

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Self-education.

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I didn't have to go.

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And get 900.

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Hundred hours of some.

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Sort of, cause I was broke.

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So I didn't have to go pay for any.

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The formal training.

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The training was just self-education and sheer experience.

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That's what it was.

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And I was given a binder.

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That was like six inches thick.

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And pointed.

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Pointed to a meeting room and said, go learn.

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Good luck.

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And.

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That was it.

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And so I just, I took that.

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I was, I was, I was intrigued and fascinated that it.

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It wasn't the same grind day in and day out.

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And there was unlimited.

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Opportunity.

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Not.

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Only from a position standpoint, but also I could make money doing it.

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And.

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And I liked the aspect.

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Aspect that it wasn't the same grime.

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Grind.

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I thought it was pretty cool.

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Nice cars, brand new cars.

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Cars.

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I get to sell vehicles that I couldn't.

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And afford yet.

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And I. And, and I get to.

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Negotiate.

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Hell.

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Well, let's try it.

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So do you love it?

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That's the thing, man, that.

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That you've got to ask yourself.

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Or is it something that if.

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You're not quite sure if you love.

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Love it.

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Does it fascinate?

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does it.

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Pique your curiosity second.

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Second question are.

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Are you good at it?

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Are you good at it?

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Now it's not.

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That you're going to walk in.

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And be an instant success.

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No one is.

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But.

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Can you incrementally make improvements?

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And if so, how, this is important that you got to ask yourself on this.

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So.

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First take stock in.

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Skills and talents that you already possess.

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So.

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What traits.

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Do you already possess?

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That are well-suited.

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For the career.

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That you're interested in.

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Really important.

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So, what do you already have?

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And then what can be developed?

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As like a Snap-on right.

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It's an accompaniment.

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With the skills that you already have.

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This is why I say when you're young.

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You should try all kinds of different jobs.

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Just try him.

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I mean, you you're, you're living at home.

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You probably got no bills.

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Or very little.

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And so this is your prime opportunity to try some different stuff.

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And it's not that it's going to lead necessarily to this lifetime profession.

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It may, but also when you're young, you get to assimilate all kinds of different skills.

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And so you're going to find that when you start choosing careers, a, do you love it?

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B are you good at it that some of the previous jobs that you've had.

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The skillset that you developed in those jobs?

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Now you can leverage those skillsets.

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Into this new career that you're thinking about getting into.

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So for me, I was able to leverage a few different skills.

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Number one.

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I could tell a good story.

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I was all, I've just always been that way.

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Like I. My brothers were older than me.

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So a lot of times I just, I was alone.

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I had to play by myself.

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So I created stories as a kid and I would dream those stories up and I would be at my desk and, you know, I was just, I was just a good storyteller.

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And, and so that, that is actually a. A good skillset.

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So I was good at storytelling because selling is telling a story.

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It's telling that story, weaving it in with your product and what their needs are.

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And how can you tell the story better?

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How can you shape that story?

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I love that.

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I thought it was really cool.

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So a, I was good at storytelling.

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Good enough to hold my own.

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B I was.

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I come from a collegiate background.

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So I played football in college.

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I had a full scholarship was an all American.

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And we had, we were really good.

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And when you're really good, that means that you get into playoffs.

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That means that you're gunning for the playoffs.

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and you get into these fourth quarter high pressure situations.

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Everything's on the line.

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Everything's on this one, play.

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And we made it and we did things.

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And so I learned through my collegiate career, how to handle that pressure and not cave under pressure and actually Excel.

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That's a good thing in sales.

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So I was able to storytell.

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Bring that high pressure skillset I could handle that I could handle the end of the month.

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This is the last deal of the month and we have to make this deal to meet our quota.

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Because there were thousands of dollars on the line and compensation from the manufacturer, but we got to hit it.

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That worked well for me.

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And then the third aspect is I was good at reading body language.

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See, I was coming from a casino background.

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I've worked in surveillance.

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So surveillance.

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has no sound.

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All it is, is a bunch of screens.

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And you're looking at body language and looking at different ticks and things that just.

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The pattern disruption.

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That's what you're looking for.

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What is what's going on?

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Or what's a repeated pattern that just doesn't align with everything else.

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So I got really good at reading body language because I had no sound.

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And so those three skills that I got from other places in life.

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Now I could apply those in sales.

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Great.

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So I could not only bring those skills, but also I could leverage, I could leverage those skills and then I could amplify those skills and then bring on more skill sets along the way that's important.

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So are you good at it?

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And can you incrementally improve and how.

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And then the last one, will they pay you for it?

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Is this key.

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So, let me preface this by saying.

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Fast money.

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Equals short term.

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Slow money.

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Equals long-term.

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If you want the fast money, it ain't gonna last long.

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I'll leave it at that.

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If you want.

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Long money.

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Then it's going to build slow.

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But as it builds.

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You're building skillsets.

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And traits and talents.

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Along the way.

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Don't expect.

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To make this.

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shoebox ceiling money, man, if you walk in.

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Trying to get to the ceiling.

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That's it.

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That's all you're going to get.

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I prefer, and it's a long slog.

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But I prefer for you to walk in where it's slow money.

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You might even have to take a little bit of a pay cut.

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But if it incrementally improves, And is heading towards something.

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And you love it.

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You can incrementally improve.

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You can leverage the skills that you already have.

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And this thing builds.

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And we'll set you up longterm, slow money.

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Long-term.

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Then by all means, do it again.

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You have to be able to.

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You have to.

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be able to make.

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Uh, enough money to pay your bills, because if you're behind the eight ball, every single time you're going to get in this desperate situation.

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And this is when you're just going to go chase some other money.

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This is what happens with people.

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They get in these tough situations and then they just start chasing the fast money.

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But the fast money does it is short term.

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It's going to dry up.

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Let's see it all the time.

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And so if you can, this is a great opportunity for you to.

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Slow money.

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Long-term fast money short term, stay away from that, even though your friends are doing it.

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Stay away from it.

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If you chase money, it's never going to be enough.

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But if you chase skills, You'll have more than enough.

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It's funny how that works.

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Now let's flip to the creative side look, let me tell you something.

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You all are so creative.

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You just, you don't realize it.

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There's a creative outlet.

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Within you.

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R R or maybe you do it.

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you.

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just kind of dabble in it, man.

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These three questions.

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Ask yourself on those.

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And you need to do that.

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You need that outlet beside just a profession.

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So for me, my creative outlet.

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Is podcasting.

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I started the podcast in 2017 at the very worst time in my life, I was at the bottom wrong.

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I was demoted.

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I was broke.

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I was bankrupt.

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Borderline suicidal, like just a, I was just in a tough spot.

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But I loved.

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Podcast.

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And I'll always wanted to start a Podcast.

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So at that time I was at the bottom rung.

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I said, fuck it.

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I got nothing to lose and everything to gain.

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So I started a podcast.

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It was free.

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Always start with free.

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So do I love it?

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Absolutely.

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I loved.

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I loved.

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creating podcast.

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Or creating thoughts.

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Here's what I was good at.

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Here's what I'm good at.

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I guess that goes to my second point, but let me just bleed these two together.

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So.

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I love the aspect of being able to I'm really good at being able to grab a book.

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And, and something triggers in my soul and say, oh, I could talk about this.

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I got it.

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I understand this, this is what it means to me.

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And I could hear it in a podcast and run with that thought and it may be totally different than how they intended.

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How they published it.

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Even in books.

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This idea for this episode came from it just triggered in a book.

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And I was like, oh my God.

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That's important for career and creative.

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And I need to share this.

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And get this word out to people who were thinking about a certain career or who have maybe let their.

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Creative juices just kind of die out.

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Don't do that.

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They got to come back alive.

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This is why I'm I'm I'm adding this to this episode.

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Because the career aspect of it.

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Do you love it is super important by all means.

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If you love it, do it.

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And then are you good at it?

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So, what are you good at specifically?

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How can you do it?

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So for me, I'm good at, I could take something that I read in 15 minutes.

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And then I can create a story out of that.

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And a meaning out of that.

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This is what this is literally.

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This is what this is.

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So, and I've gotten, gotten good at it.

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I can incrementally improve.

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I'll never.

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The communication level.

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I'll I'll never.

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I'll never.

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arrive.

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It's always evolving.

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And so the way I thought, the way I wrote the way I communicated.

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You know, Just, it has evolved over time.

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And I've gotten better over time.

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And what's really good about this.

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Just as a side benefit.

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Is a learn how to communicate.

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Both in front of people, but also on camera.

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Uh, learn how to think and speak.

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And, and because I do this so often.

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It has helped me immensely and sales.

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But also everything that I've learned in sales.

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Has benefited me.

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In the podcasting.

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I'm very fortunate that my creative energies.

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Overlap.

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My professional endeavors.

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So the creative aspect, I get to use that in sales, the cure.

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Eh, they embrace all five CS communication, curiosity, creativity, continuous learning, and action, productive confrontation.

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And so I developed that while creating the podcast.

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But it was by asking what makes sales professionals.

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Good.

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How are they good at what they do?

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Those five things, communication, curiosity, creativity, continuous learning, and action.

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Productive confrontation.

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That's why the podcast started off as the sales life, because the skills you learn in sales also could be leveraged in life.

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And what you learn in life can be leveraged in sales.

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That's how I came about that.

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So I'm very fortunate.

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And you could be too, that you could leverage those things.

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Really it's a beautiful life when you can overlap those two things.

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both professionally.

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And Anne.

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Uh, creatively.

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So I'm able to actually, it's this ecosystem that I have, and I'm able to work in that.

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All the time.

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Every day.

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And so I'm able to get better and better and better at, so are you good at it?

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And then the, and can you incrementally grow and how.

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The way I do that is through the reps writing every single day.

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Recording every single day, sharing something every single day.

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And then lastly, will they pay you for it?

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I did not start this podcast to make a bunch of money.

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Will they pay you for it?

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Absolutely.

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Absolutely.

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And so, but that is not my main driver.

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The compensation that I receive.

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Is.

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So much more, it's more intrinsic.

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It's inside.

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Because it helps me think better.

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Think clearer.

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Break things down quicker.

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Communicate.

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Quickly, decisively.

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Accurately.

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And creatively.

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And, and so again, it's just this ecosystem.

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That I stumbled in.

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I didn't, I didn't, You know, I didn't.

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see this coming.

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This is why you got to try stuff.

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But.

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Will they will, they pay me for absolutely.

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But.

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also I'm paid.

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In non man monetary aspects too, because it has helped me in every area of my life.

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And so this is just a lifetime commitment.

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I just, I pinch myself every morning.

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Cause I'm like, my God.

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I'm so blessed.

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To be able to literally do what I love.

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I love sales.

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I love communicating.

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I love podcasting.

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I get to do both.

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The barrier for entry.

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Is non-existent.

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It's just, what do I want to do?

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What do I want to contribute to?

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It's so important.

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It's important for me.

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Hopefully it's important to you.

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So both in your career professionally.

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But also creatively.

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I want you to ask yourself these three questions.

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And see how the unpack, let me know if I can help you.

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How did it, how did this episode translate to you?

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What did it help you accomplish?

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Do I love it.

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Am I good at it.

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Will they pay me for it?

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Answer those three questions.

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Let me know how it?

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works out for you.

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Thanks for sharing today's episode.

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If I can help you with anything.

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marshbuice.com.

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It's my name.com.

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M a R S H B U I C E. Bottom, right.

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Is a mic from you to me also, you can send me a text message through your favorite podcast app and a that comes directly to me.

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So I will answer it directly back to you.

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And so I hope all is well with you.

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If I can help you with anything, please let me know, keep it simple.

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Keep it moving.

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Never settle.

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Stay tough peace..