April 13, 2026

Break Out of the Simulation!

Break Out of the Simulation!
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Season 1

My guest, Angela Sharpe, is a business and tech project and program manager and fellow media host of A Sharpe Outlook. We will be discussing two important but not easy questions related to the declining mental health, lack of personal agency, disconnects from community, burnout, and other challenges our young people are experiencing in middle school to high school and young adults in their 20’s and early 30’s. What's going on?
How can elders be & do to help?

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accelerating the health of ourselves, people, plant and profits. Now,

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here's your host, Captain Dave, your personal regenerator.

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All aboard, Welcome. I am so glad you're here. This

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is episode ten, and I'm really really thrilled that our

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theme today is going to be breakout of the simulation.

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My guest is Angela Sharp. He's a business and tech

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project and program manager. Turns out I just learned that

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she's an elder of the Cherokee Nation, and we're going

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to be talking about youth and the crisis that youth

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are experiencing in our country as around the globe as

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well as around the globe. Angela is also a media

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host on Talk four Media. She has a really fascinating,

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plectic show on business, on parenting, on social concerns, on

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how to live a flourishing life called a Sharp Outlook,

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So I invite you to check that out. So we're

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going to be discussing two important but not easy questions

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related to the declining mental health, lack of personal agency

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at some times for folks, disconnects from community and burnout

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which I faced a couple of years ago, and other

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challenges that our young people are experiencing from middle school

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to high school to early adulthood in their twenties and thirties.

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And it's impacting so many families and communities across Great

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Nation and around the globe. So I look forward to

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inviting now, please Angela Sharp to the Regenerate Show.

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Welcome, thank you, I'm happy to be here, and thank

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you for the introduction. And yes, let's chat about that problem.

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I really appreciate opportunity, our opportunity to chat because you

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bring obviously a woman's perspective to this, you bring a

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Native Indigenous perspective to this. As a older white guy, colonialist,

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not by intention, but by history, I have learned so

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so much about the power and the wisdom from Indigenous people.

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My own wife, of we've been married now thirty five years,

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she is an elder, recently of the Clinquet Nation in

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southeast Alaska. So I think we have elders have a

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unique opportunity during this challenging time globally to provide perspective

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and maybe limited advice, because nobody when they're younger really

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wants to get advice from us. But I'm wanting to

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just start our show with what is that one thing,

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Angela that you just love that lights you up, just

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to help our listeners get to know you just a

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little bit.

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Well, one of the things that really excites me is

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transferring information. As you mentioned, being an elder, it becomes

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a responsibility to pass wisdom on to the next generation.

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So when I get an opportunity to share information with

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one of our you know, youth, our children, grandchildren, great grandchildren,

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that helps them go after and achieve their goals. It

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makes me feel like my life was not in vain.

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I really feel like changing changing lives is very important

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to me, or at least bringing something that helps someone

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make the decision to regenerate and renew and revitalize with

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their lives, you know, from maybe a t aromatic situation

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that has occurred in their life.

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Yeah, that so inspires me.

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It gives me chills when I think about how that

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spirit of paying it forward without any transaction or wanting

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something in return. It's it's just conditional love. Like we

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were talking about before the show. Relationship with our dogs

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is that kind of relationship, And so often with humans

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we don't. We don't do that because there's this I

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don't know, need to get something in return or transaction.

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So tell us a little bit about your origin story.

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This is not your bio, but how have you become?

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Who have you before? You are a.

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Financial program manager, project manager, before many of the CFO

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VP director of finance functions that you've led for a

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becoming your media host.

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Yeah, story, I've had a very interesting journey. I had

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children right from hospital. You know, I was married and

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I had children right after high school. The marriage did

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not work out, and so I was a single parent,

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and I one of the things that I had decided

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at that time, I said, I'm not going to get

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caught up in a system that puts you in kind

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of like chains where you can't get out. And so

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I said, I'm going to go to school, I'm going

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to get education. I'm going to get whatever it takes

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that i need to make sure that I'm not caught

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in a system that does not help you to move on.

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You end up becoming stagnant. And so from there, I

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you know, I worked during the day, I went to

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school at night. My neighbor watched my kids. And it

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was challenging. It was very challenging. You know, we didn't

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have much, but whatever I had, I learned how to

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work with what was available. And in fact, I ended

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up opening a restaurant at one point in time in

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my life to provide healthy food. But from that journey,

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what I learned was you have to focus your mind.

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You have to decide. I'm not what others say. Their

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opinions are not what guides me. It's what's inside my

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spirit that guides me, and is what I have decided.

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My hopes, my dreams, and I even said, my purpose

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is to do these specific things. And from there, you know,

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I went to school, I started working. I started working

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at major corporations were my first jobs, Fortune ten companies,

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and I learned so many wonderful things there and then

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some things not so good. But I learned what a

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well oiled machine looks like. I learned what good processes

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look like. I learned what regulations and policies and procedures

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and audits and everything else. I learned that it's an

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organism and it's controlled by different systems, and how you

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build all those systems to make things work well. And

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from there, I decided to become a consultant instead of

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an employee because I needed more freedom to be able

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to express myself and to be authentic and to when

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I find something, I say something and not having that fear,

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oh gosh, if I say something, I may not have

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a job. I ended that I made sure that I

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determined where I worked, when I worked, how long I

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would work. Never would I ever have to be in

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a situation where I cannot be authentic and tell the truth.

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So that journey has taken me all the way to here,

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I am now, and I've started out in finance on

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a degree. It was in you know, business business, and

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my major was accounting. But I also started at the

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time where the first computer was coming and so, and

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if you wanted to keep your job, you had to

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learn how to write software. So I learned on the

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job how to write software, and then I took some

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classes and that was so fascinating because I just liked

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making things and creating things, and I was able to

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create and make things happen with software, and it was

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so fascinating to me. And I'm appreciative of all those

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mentors that were there sharing more information than my job required,

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so that I learned what their jobs were. I learned

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about the management, I learned about some of the challenges,

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and one of the things is I also learned that

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everyone doesn't have that same freedom. I had to decide

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to free myself so that I could make the choices

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that were right. And now I go out and work

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as a fraction or a finance person or a software

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engineer on a project basis, and when that project is over,

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I'm then gone. And I have a lot of information

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because I've worked a long time, and so I share

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it on the podcast because I see that this generation

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is maybe struggling more than what it should because it

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doesn't have all of that basic information. I've worked in

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like fifteen to twenty different industries, so a lot of information.

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What am I supposed to do with that? I can't

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just like keep it to myself. I need to share

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that and mentor the next generation of accountants, the next

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generation of CFOs and controllers, the next generation of software engineers,

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the next generation of project managers, the next generation of analysts,

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because they need the basic information to be successful, and

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I want to be there to help if I can.

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Yep, Yeah, it just warms my heart. So two things

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that I'd love to just pull a couple of threads

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from your origin story is very similarly. I realized that

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being an employee it has a lot of risk in

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speaking power, and like you, chose to move into a

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contracting role as the sole provider. It also paid a

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lot better, although, as you know, sometimes projects and early

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or they know there's a gap. So my lovely wife

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Margaret has had to endure a lot out of ups

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and downs of family finances. But I don't know that

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I would knowing what I know now, I don't know

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that I would trade that for a full time deployment again,

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because there is something deep inside you.

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I suspect.

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I know it's deep inside me to speak truth and

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sometimes the politics, especially in larger organizations, fraud, isn't it.

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And then the other thread that I just love to

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acknowledge is I think you and I share this common

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value of lifelong learning. You mentioned before we started our

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live show that you've had a number of transformations and

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identity shifts. We're both kind of nuts in that way,

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in a good way.

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And and you have this just.

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Deep purpose and meaning to share what you you've learned,

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both the good and I suspect the bad maybe.

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Even though yes, even the ugly yes.

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And I don't know if it's even remotely like what

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it was for you and I. But when I left

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college to join IBM, my training program, my onboarding program,

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Angela was eighteen months can you imagine eighteen months before

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I really, I mean, I was doing assistant work as

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a systems engineer and I have my little projects, but

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they didn't feel I was fully ready to take on,

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you know, the responsibilities of that job until very extensive

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training program.

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Did you have a similar experience with that big ten firm.

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Oh yeah, oh yeah. Definitely had a lot of time

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of learning and being able to understand. And I enjoyed,

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you know, the training and the prep work, like I said,

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because I had a lot of information that was being

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thrown at me. When the bigger the corporation, the more

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that you had to be responsible for, and the more

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you had to know, and to know a company from

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beginning to end is really valuable and it's vital these

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days especially. I think about it when you know they're

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moving to AI and I feel, just from some of

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the things that I'm running into when I'm going on site,

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there's something missing in the development phase, and it is

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the foundational information and you don't know it because you

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have not experienced all the different structures of an organization

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or the different industry of those organizations. Like I said,

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I've been in multiple industries. But I enjoy learning. I'm

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always learning. I can't just sit back and not learn.

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I want to know. I want to learn because I

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want to share, and it's like guess what I learned,

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you know. And but the biggest thing I'll just as.

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Much as my family and friends, Sorry to interrupt that

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does wanting to share irritate your family and friends as

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much as it irritates my family and friends.

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Oh yeah, so.

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We're trying to fill avoid I think many of us

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who are elders, because there isn't the eighteen month training

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programs anymore, and AI is, by all accounts, replacing a

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lot of the entry level office computer related Where are

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the next generation? Where are the young people going to

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be able to learn about situational leadership or SWAT or

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some of the things I listened to on your radio

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show earlier today, I have to I think they have

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to learn it from elders and people that are willing

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to share. Right, what is not necessarily always the formula,

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I knew we were kindred spirits and.

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and I want to keep dive into that with you.

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So as you and I discussed a couple of weeks ago.

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of our young adults. Yes, and so I'm thinking, you know,

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late teens to early thirties that that h strange. Maybe

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there's certainly gen Z and then the alphas that are

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right now the late teens coming into their twenties and

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by all accounts, and I'll put in the show notes

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some pretty horrendous happiness report information from Gollup that are

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the happiness is in decline in US and western countries. Interestingly,

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it's on the rise in a lot of the other

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countries around the globe. So it's not necessarily a youth

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across the globe issue, but it's a youth in the

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Western Europe and US, Canada.

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But the adults are feeling powerless and disconnected and often

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psychologically unsafe. And I have an adult son in a

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adult daughter, Catherine, and I know that they get really bummed,

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I mean sometimes even depressed with all of the social

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media and the news that's happening. So when we talk

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about breaking out of the simulation, what we've mean by

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that is many young people start their day picking up

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their smartphone and plugging in to the matrix and between

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work and school and just their personal lives, they're often

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spending so much of their time on screens and in

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these virtual worlds, we know that geopolitical tensions are certainly exacerbated.

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Declining affordability and concerns about can I even buy a

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home where you know, our generation, My wife and I

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needed a loan from my mom and dad to get

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into our first home, but people don't have access to

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that kind of help, family help. And then we know

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that the generator of AI is definitely taking jobs, especially

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the ent level jobs, and their generate show just to

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help level up people and businesses and use business as

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a leverage, as a lever to improve the health of

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people and planet and profit to inate this threat of

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climate change. That least in the Saddle area, we're having

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another horrendous fire season.

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So let's let's talk now about your views.

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anonymous but seeing in your world, well.

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a lot of frustration and even I don't want to

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say a disappointment also because, like you said, the jobs

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that were plentiful as we were, you know, working through

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our careers, they're not so plentiful. And then some of

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the you know, entry level positions are going to be

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with AI, and so now what do you do. It's wonderful.

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I believe in evolution of new ideas and new equipment

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and new systems and different things like that. But what

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is disappointing to me is the fact I just had

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a podcast talking about business process management. Well, you're supposed

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to be planning for the introduction of these new AI

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systems that are going to be taking place. If you

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knew that this was happening, of course you were planning

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on it, especially these larger companies who are benefiting financially

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from these systems. You knew that they would be replacing.

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Where was your conversations and why haven't we not seen

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these conversations of what the youth would be doing when

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these replacements were becoming. Yes they're lower level, but they're

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still analytics that need to be done that. If the

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development is not designed in the AI, you're not going

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to get the outcome. So I'm here to tell you

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right now because it is there when the first system

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started being built. And here we are today and there

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is a lot of processing, a lot of information and all.

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It's not a one size fits all. Industries are different.

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It was designed for a specific industry and so all

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of them have their own different systems that they use.

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all you need to do is just get this one

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AI system and it's going to solve all. Where have

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you been? Is your head in the sand? You cannot

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possibly be thinking that is reality. There are jobs that

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are available even with AI. Someone just does not want

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to either think about it or they don't know how

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to think about it. But you know, Captain Dave, we

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are here with knowledge to help them start thinking about

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it because there are there are areas that need to

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be addressed. And so when you know, I talk to

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young people and they're talking about, well, gosh, look at

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what's happening, and look at what's all going on, and

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you older people have called these cause these problems and this,

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that and the other. Yeah, we didn't plan well and

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some of us were not in the positions that we

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could have gotten the voice to say this is what

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we need to be planning. But here I'm saying, if

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you're going to this specific door then and that door

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is closed, you have to be like I was, reinvent yourself.

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Reimagine yourself in a totally different industry, a totally different

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place of work, a totally different idea. You know, takes

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on courses I'm even talking about because we don't have

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that anymore.

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for a second there, Let's let's go to a commercial

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break with this important message, and when we come back,

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let's pick up. If you were in your late teens

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and early twenties, you know, what are some of the

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things that could.

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Really help you.

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You know, lower the anxiety and and the feelings of helplessness.

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Let's let's pick this up in very concrete terms.

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Okay, sounds great.

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Welcome back.

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So if you're just now joining us, I've been speaking

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with angela sharp seasoned accounting and finance professional with over

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forty years of experience in senior management, ERP systems, internal audit,

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internal controls, clients reporting, and training. She's also fellow Talk

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four media host of her own show called a Sharp Outlook.

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I love to play on words by the way, and

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it's at eight am as well as on your favorite

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podcasts a few days later. So there she On her show,

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she shares practical information best practices based on her life experience.

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As we learned in the first half of this show,

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she loves, love, love learning, and more importantly loves sharing learning.

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Being an elder of the Cherokee Nation and just one

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of those souls that loves to pay it forward to others.

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We've been discussing the growing young adult challenges we're experiencing

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within her own families, and also you know, reading and

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hearing stories from those around the globe. Welcome Angela to

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Part two of the Regenera where we kind of delve

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into maybe a tool or an approach that you have

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found to be successful. And I would be delighted to

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kick it off with if I had known my core values,

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Oh G, I would be different place in my life.

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I left college trying to maximize income and title and

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just the prestige that one gets from different kinds of work.

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So I chose consulting, management, consulting and working for you know,

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at that time in the eighties IBM, one of the

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top corporations in tech. But when I learned that my

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core values which are love that is an uber value

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of family and community, world peace, empathy, compassion, adventure. I

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used to have challenge as a core value, but I

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was attracting far too many problems, so I pivoted to

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the word adventure and far fewer problems and way more

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exploration and fun. And then I have a kind of

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a combo core value of design build so I love

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the ideas I think you do as well, but then

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seeing them realized in the real world that gives me

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such joy that whole arc. And then leadership, because everything

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that we create begins with an idea, and then it

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takes leadership. I to find the influence, not necessarily position

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power like the title that we hold, but persuasive influence

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and then finally impact. So like you, wanting to make

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a difference in the world, create that legacy that we

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can look on our deathbed and say that we made

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a difference with that generation of folks. If I had

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known those six words and what they mean. My definition

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of success, what does a good day look like? I

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can use it as a criteria to check things off.

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Do I want to say yes to this thing it

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has been offered me, or do I want to spend

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money on this experience? I use the four values as

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a way to check those and if it doesn't check

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the boxes, I easy know pro diverse adhd person it's

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so much easier to say no and something doesn't fit

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my core values.

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So that's that's my.

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Big tool and approach for young people that may be

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really struggling.

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How about you, what would.

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Be your number one approach or tool to help young

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people right now?

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A lot of young people they see so much in

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authentic conversations, a lot of stuff, a whole lot of

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just how should I say this? Stuff that's not actually

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the truth that is just blowing up our media, our communications,

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the airwaves and different things like that. And nobody can

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imagine how bad that is when you have young people

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feel like they can't trust anything that they read anymore

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because there's so much garbage out there, And so what

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I use tell them, as long as you have truth,

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you will always be able to find truth in every

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place else. The stuff that is not true, the stuff

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that's not accurate, the stuff that's all there for the

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hype and the drama and the clicks. You don't let

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you don't have to let that into your space. You

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get to control your space, your eyes, your ears, what

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goes in them, You get to control that. If it

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crosses your line of authenticity, you don't watch it, don't

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let it get into your ears, don't let it get

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into your spirit, because it will end up causing you

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to think thoughts that never would have been there. When

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you're authentic, you are looking at yourself and analyzing where

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does the truth lie in me? Am I being authentic

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enough to say I'm not really good at this? So

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I have two choices. I'm going to go and qualify

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myself with more education. I'm going to go and work

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under a mentor to build my confidence. I'm going to

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go and talk to someone else who might have some

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trauma that you need to deal with and confront someone

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you need to talk to to confront that so that

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you can actually be whole and complete and you're not

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hanging on to baggage that's holding you back. Then you

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be authentic. If one door is closed and it's not

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opening for you, there are millions of other doors. Be

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able to reimagine yourself doing something else. But I would

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probably say, first off, look and see what are the trends,

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what is actually growing and what is actually falling apart.

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falling apart, the organizations that are struggling and can't find

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their way, if you think you have solutions, and I'll

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tell you it's really fun trying to go in and

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identify where the problems are and actually helping organizations turn around.

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It is such a charge you get. I mean, I

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get so thrilled. Man. It was rough, it was tough,

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it was hard, it was difficult, but look at the results.

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They are on their feet now. They've been able to

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turn themselves around. They're actually on the path of success,

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just being able to use those talents because industries out

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there are not perfect. Companies are not perfect, the processes

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are not perfect. The people working there, many of them,

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are just struggling through the day. But they're living a

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fake life. They're not authentic, they're not honest with themselves,

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and they really some of them don't even want to

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be there. Then reinvent what you're doing, find the door

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that fits you, and go through it. You spend too

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many hours on a job not to love what you do.

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You're supposed to love what you do if you invest

471
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that kind of energy and time.

472
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So I love what you're saying.

473
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You know two things really quickly again, being more self

474
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aware of how much the channels that we have in

475
00:32:22.400 --> 00:32:26.880
our lives, email, text, social media, et cetera. They're really

476
00:32:27.000 --> 00:32:29.839
driven by the corporations that are trying to keep our

477
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eyes attached and the stickiness so that they can soizing

478
00:32:34.000 --> 00:32:39.759
and monetize our data. So to take back agency, personal agency,

479
00:32:39.920 --> 00:32:44.440
to turn off notifications, and to be very selective of

480
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what you let into your space. I love, love love that.

481
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I think that is such wise words. And then you

482
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were talking just at the very end of your helpful

483
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processes that you think people young people could do, including

484
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going in and looking at a business or an organization,

485
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and there's always room for improvement. The tool that I

486
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use with all of my executive career coaching clients after

487
00:33:13.519 --> 00:33:17.200
the core values is what I call the ekey guy playbooks.

488
00:33:17.200 --> 00:33:20.319
So ekey guy is a Japanese term you're not familiar

489
00:33:20.319 --> 00:33:23.559
with it. For our listeners, it means your reason for being.

490
00:33:24.160 --> 00:33:27.200
So what are you good at? What are you quite

491
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gifted at doing? What are you passionate about? I think

492
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that's what you were alluding to. You know, your work,

493
00:33:32.799 --> 00:33:35.799
your play What does the world need you were talking

494
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about that, you know, what are the trends that young

495
00:33:38.519 --> 00:33:41.599
people can spot? And then what can they be well

496
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paid for? And it doesn't have to be necessarily just

497
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monetary pay. It could be learning and and building skills.

498
00:33:51.480 --> 00:33:54.640
You know when when when I was a younger person,

499
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my dear mentor Charlie Lampson said, don't worry about the money,

500
00:34:00.640 --> 00:34:05.960
worry about what can you learn the most wrong, et cetera.

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And then don't overstay, you know, go on and then

502
00:34:10.320 --> 00:34:13.519
learn new skills and new things that that you know,

503
00:34:13.559 --> 00:34:19.159
climbing that that that mountain of skills and experiences so

504
00:34:19.199 --> 00:34:23.559
that you create greater value in the work, create greater value,

505
00:34:23.960 --> 00:34:27.960
you enhance your compensation. So that Ekey Guy, I think

506
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is a tool that I can put it in the

507
00:34:30.039 --> 00:34:33.559
show notes. I love sending out that playbook other people.

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What what other things do you think would help young folks.

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I think a lot of things are because there's so

510
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many youths. They spend so much time on devices, and

511
00:34:44.480 --> 00:34:49.079
they're not interacting with community. They're they're not interacting with

512
00:34:49.119 --> 00:34:52.920
their family, they're not interacting with the community and their neighborhood.

513
00:34:52.960 --> 00:34:58.039
They're not interacting in a church, community or or anything

514
00:34:58.159 --> 00:35:02.599
like that. So there's this this sense of loneliness where

515
00:35:02.880 --> 00:35:05.880
they just don't know how to interact. They don't know

516
00:35:06.199 --> 00:35:10.679
the you know, how to communicate and socialize one another.

517
00:35:11.000 --> 00:35:15.639
We've got in fact, in some cases the social media,

518
00:35:15.760 --> 00:35:19.960
you know, could be extremely brutal if you look at

519
00:35:20.000 --> 00:35:24.039
some of those things and allow people to tell you,

520
00:35:24.039 --> 00:35:27.400
you know, you're ugly, or you're this, or you're that.

521
00:35:27.920 --> 00:35:31.760
I mean, it can really cause some emotions that are

522
00:35:31.880 --> 00:35:37.199
so destructive. Being able to turn that noise off and

523
00:35:37.280 --> 00:35:40.239
look in the mirror and say, this is who I am.

524
00:35:40.760 --> 00:35:43.199
You know, I could have I could listen to what

525
00:35:43.239 --> 00:35:47.199
others have to say, but I never did, you know,

526
00:35:47.480 --> 00:35:50.480
I always said this is who I am. I know

527
00:35:50.519 --> 00:35:54.360
who I am. I did inventory of myself. Not that

528
00:35:54.480 --> 00:35:58.440
I made all the right decisions all the time, but

529
00:35:58.760 --> 00:36:06.039
I really really truly took inventory of myself. I've I

530
00:36:06.159 --> 00:36:08.719
had trauma in my life at one point in time

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00:36:09.199 --> 00:36:12.400
that I needed to heal over and had to go

532
00:36:12.480 --> 00:36:18.039
to counseling, and it took a while. But that now

533
00:36:18.159 --> 00:36:21.599
becomes old news, old history, and in fact, it's almost

534
00:36:21.719 --> 00:36:25.239
like that's just another story or another chapter in my

535
00:36:25.440 --> 00:36:29.000
book of life. Think of your life as a book.

536
00:36:29.440 --> 00:36:32.920
You get to write your own chapters. Don't give anyone

537
00:36:32.960 --> 00:36:36.960
else the pen to write in your book. You are

538
00:36:37.039 --> 00:36:40.199
the one that writes your book. And if you don't

539
00:36:40.480 --> 00:36:44.920
like that story, change the story so that the book

540
00:36:45.000 --> 00:36:48.280
comes out the way you wanted to. You can always

541
00:36:48.400 --> 00:36:54.079
change the story, change your your direction, you know, change

542
00:36:54.079 --> 00:36:58.400
your mind. I think you know. I also tell young

543
00:36:58.440 --> 00:37:02.880
people you're young, you have the space and the time

544
00:37:03.199 --> 00:37:06.800
to make mistakes. We older people, we already made ours.

545
00:37:06.840 --> 00:37:10.440
You have a right to make mistakes. Try different things.

546
00:37:10.519 --> 00:37:15.000
I push entrepreneurship. Do you have an idea? So why

547
00:37:15.000 --> 00:37:17.639
aren't you doing something about it? Well, I don't know

548
00:37:17.679 --> 00:37:20.480
what to do. There's resources out there that tells you

549
00:37:20.559 --> 00:37:23.280
how to start, where to get the money to get

550
00:37:23.480 --> 00:37:27.440
to get started, how to hire people. There are other

551
00:37:27.559 --> 00:37:30.079
people out there that can be part of your team

552
00:37:30.760 --> 00:37:36.480
to make you successful in your entrepreneurial idea. But don't

553
00:37:36.519 --> 00:37:39.639
just sit on something. And that was your purpose for

554
00:37:39.800 --> 00:37:43.639
even being on earth, and you miss it because you

555
00:37:44.000 --> 00:37:48.039
listen to that noise coming from those devices. You listen

556
00:37:48.119 --> 00:37:54.239
to bad counsel, You listen to others who haven't reimagined

557
00:37:54.280 --> 00:37:57.159
their own lives. They're just complaining all the time about

558
00:37:57.519 --> 00:38:01.840
where they failed twenty years ago. Twenty you just wasted

559
00:38:01.880 --> 00:38:05.400
twenty years. Do you know you can't get that back.

560
00:38:05.559 --> 00:38:06.960
I'm sorry, I'm preaching.

561
00:38:06.719 --> 00:38:11.679
Now, So I love your passion. I truly do.

562
00:38:11.960 --> 00:38:17.480
And let's come back to the entrepreneurial idea that you shared.

563
00:38:17.880 --> 00:38:21.760
I think in the era of generative AI, hoping people

564
00:38:22.559 --> 00:38:25.960
learn how to take identify a problem and come up

565
00:38:26.000 --> 00:38:29.719
with a solution and be able to monetize that and

566
00:38:29.760 --> 00:38:33.920
reduce it, like all good entrepreneurs do. I think that

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00:38:34.480 --> 00:38:37.519
is one of the most important things. But we have

568
00:38:37.559 --> 00:38:41.880
a question from Rachelle Hemingway. First time this has come

569
00:38:41.960 --> 00:38:45.360
up on my radio show, so I'm excited. Thank you

570
00:38:45.440 --> 00:38:49.280
Rebel our producer for reposting this. And the question is

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do you think the lack of community and real human

572
00:38:52.840 --> 00:38:56.400
connection is one of the biggest issues and how can

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00:38:56.440 --> 00:38:59.320
we start rebuilding that in modern life?

574
00:38:59.559 --> 00:39:05.480
Thoughts, angel I do believe community the one thing that

575
00:39:05.800 --> 00:39:11.599
I love about Indigenous communities. Everybody is in the family.

576
00:39:12.199 --> 00:39:16.000
Every member is in the family, and not only in

577
00:39:16.039 --> 00:39:19.239
the family. We care about them as if they're your

578
00:39:19.559 --> 00:39:23.880
immediate family. We care about the elders, We care about

579
00:39:23.920 --> 00:39:28.840
those that might have disabilities, we care about those that

580
00:39:29.000 --> 00:39:31.880
are struggling. We care, and we not only just care

581
00:39:31.920 --> 00:39:35.519
and say oh I'm so sorry. We put our energy,

582
00:39:35.760 --> 00:39:41.159
our time, our thoughts, and even our finances into that community.

583
00:39:41.519 --> 00:39:45.000
So that they are able to rise up from where

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00:39:45.000 --> 00:39:48.519
they are and be all that they can be. Because

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00:39:48.559 --> 00:39:52.840
we feel that in a community, if one has fallen,

586
00:39:53.480 --> 00:39:57.719
we are there to help them up. Not picking yourself

587
00:39:57.840 --> 00:40:02.079
up by your own bootstraps. We help lift them up

588
00:40:02.480 --> 00:40:06.880
so they can then be able to walk and carry themselves.

589
00:40:07.159 --> 00:40:10.079
We don't just sit there and complain. We don't sit

590
00:40:10.119 --> 00:40:15.199
there and point fingers. We are involved. We care about

591
00:40:15.239 --> 00:40:19.079
the community. We care about the earth, we care about

592
00:40:19.119 --> 00:40:22.920
the animals, we care about even the bees. We care

593
00:40:22.960 --> 00:40:27.199
about everything that surrounds us. We want fresh water, we

594
00:40:27.239 --> 00:40:31.159
want great salmon coming out of Alaska because the water

595
00:40:31.239 --> 00:40:36.760
hasn't been poisoned. So that's what community we have. Community

596
00:40:37.239 --> 00:40:41.079
and community is there to tell stories to the youth,

597
00:40:41.400 --> 00:40:43.599
to say, you know what I did when I was young,

598
00:40:43.960 --> 00:40:46.519
and I made this mistake and I made this decision,

599
00:40:47.039 --> 00:40:51.280
and this was the consequences. I'm telling you this because

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I don't want you to make that same mistake, not

601
00:40:55.119 --> 00:40:58.280
because I don't think you're strong enough. I just want

602
00:40:58.320 --> 00:41:02.320
you to have that story in your life so you

603
00:41:02.400 --> 00:41:04.840
don't have to go and walk that path and become

604
00:41:04.920 --> 00:41:08.519
the story. Let me tell you my story, sharing those

605
00:41:08.559 --> 00:41:13.639
stories elderly people. Stop being ashamed of your journey. Tell

606
00:41:13.679 --> 00:41:17.280
your stories to the youth. Know you were not perfect.

607
00:41:17.880 --> 00:41:22.039
No you didn't do everything right. Yes you made bad decisions.

608
00:41:22.559 --> 00:41:26.360
Yes there were consequences, and share it so that they're

609
00:41:26.400 --> 00:41:31.519
not out there wandering around trying things and doing things

610
00:41:32.079 --> 00:41:36.360
and making bad decisions because they don't know what the

611
00:41:36.400 --> 00:41:40.480
real consequences are. Tell them your story. You don't have

612
00:41:40.559 --> 00:41:41.320
to be ashamed.

613
00:41:41.599 --> 00:41:43.039
Yeah, I love that. You know.

614
00:41:43.239 --> 00:41:45.920
One of the communities that I joined two years ago

615
00:41:46.400 --> 00:41:50.320
and I re opt again this year is Flora Storm's

616
00:41:50.880 --> 00:41:57.519
Regenerators Regenerative Journey, And I sent you a podcast over

617
00:41:57.559 --> 00:42:02.920
the weekend and you're here and was interviewing doctor Hate. Comparently,

618
00:42:03.719 --> 00:42:08.320
NYU is one of the top researchers and thought leaders

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in smartphone use and technology and social media and it's

620
00:42:13.159 --> 00:42:17.480
negative impacts on young people, and one of the prescriptions

621
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is go out and play. So, Rachelle, I think we

622
00:42:22.400 --> 00:42:26.719
need to help as parents, get our kids off the

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00:42:26.760 --> 00:42:32.840
screens and out into nature and playing and the process

624
00:42:32.880 --> 00:42:35.840
of doing what they love. They're going to shine, they're

625
00:42:35.880 --> 00:42:37.440
going to be their best selves, and they're going to

626
00:42:37.440 --> 00:42:39.960
meet other people that are doing something that they love,

627
00:42:40.199 --> 00:42:45.239
be it bike riding or foraging, or cooking, crafting, or

628
00:42:45.760 --> 00:42:50.159
skiing or sailing, you know, whatever lights people up. And

629
00:42:50.199 --> 00:42:52.800
then when people that are lit up with something that

630
00:42:52.840 --> 00:42:55.639
they are passionate about, they bring them their best selves.

631
00:42:56.039 --> 00:42:59.440
And I think then conversations like what we're having are

632
00:42:59.480 --> 00:43:01.000
more easy had.

633
00:43:01.559 --> 00:43:07.079
Yeah, yeah, yeah, definitely, I think what I kind of

634
00:43:07.119 --> 00:43:10.639
even feel sorry for the younger generation because we had

635
00:43:10.760 --> 00:43:14.960
fun going outside. We had fun playing with our friends

636
00:43:15.000 --> 00:43:19.360
and the communities and picnics and stuff. I think they're

637
00:43:19.400 --> 00:43:23.639
missing out and not having the fun that we had

638
00:43:23.639 --> 00:43:26.679
as children. I mean, we were out playing from the

639
00:43:26.760 --> 00:43:29.880
time we got up until we always had to come

640
00:43:29.880 --> 00:43:32.800
in when the light, the street lights came on, that's

641
00:43:32.880 --> 00:43:35.599
when we had to come in. But we interacted with

642
00:43:35.800 --> 00:43:40.519
other friends, our age, other peers, and it was a

643
00:43:40.559 --> 00:43:45.480
friendship almost like family. And you can't develop that from

644
00:43:45.519 --> 00:43:48.800
a distant screen. It's just not the same as.

645
00:43:49.440 --> 00:43:52.559
You so much.

646
00:43:52.679 --> 00:43:54.920
I'm so sorry to cut you off yet again, but

647
00:43:55.079 --> 00:43:59.440
we need to wind down. Rebels giving me two minute warning.

648
00:44:01.239 --> 00:44:02.760
How can people find out about you?

649
00:44:03.360 --> 00:44:09.599
Oh well, I'm on talk for TV also and just

650
00:44:09.679 --> 00:44:12.840
look up A sharp A s H A R P

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00:44:13.119 --> 00:44:18.079
E Outlook U t l o OK and you can

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00:44:18.199 --> 00:44:23.760
catch my show every Monday at eleven a m. Eastern time,

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show on K four HD and go out to my

655
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website is wwwa sharp outlook dot com and subscribe to

656
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catch all of the programming that we have. I talk

657
00:44:45.639 --> 00:44:49.440
over various topics and so that's opperated me.

658
00:44:49.679 --> 00:44:50.960
Yeah, I love it.

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Thank you so much. Well plead in the show notes

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as well. So part of call Friends. Our theme next

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00:44:59.440 --> 00:45:03.119
Monday is Lessons that Travel Home, and my guest will

662
00:45:03.119 --> 00:45:07.760
be Mike Schadroff, one of my best regenerative life and

663
00:45:08.119 --> 00:45:12.000
career coaching clients ever. We're going to be discussing his

664
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personal and professional transformation from being a private school teacher

665
00:45:16.639 --> 00:45:21.440
and sustainability advocate to founding and being the executive director

666
00:45:21.480 --> 00:45:24.480
of the Ripples Center, which is a nonprofit fellowship helping

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00:45:25.000 --> 00:45:29.360
youths eighteen to twenty four launch their own regenerative, socially

668
00:45:29.360 --> 00:45:32.440
conscious ventures. So going back to the entrepreneurial idea that

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angely we're just discussing. So please join us for episode eleven,

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Lessons That Travel Home, next Monday at ten am Pacific

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you so much for investing your valuable time with us

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We need you.

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Consider of you in your notes if you took any

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in applying, just one idea, just one today. Thank you

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for joining us and hope to see you next week.

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