Nov. 4, 2025

Moments That Redefined Strength: Best of Reels, Part I. Episodes 41 thru 50

What if the toughest moments: bullying, illness, isolation, hold the key to your most resilient self?

In this special episode, we highlight standout insights from EP 41 through 50 of the podcast, featuring past guests who turned adversity into strength and gratitude into impact.

🧠 What you will learn:

How past guests turned online hate into audience growth
Why gratitude expands through service and shared struggle
Ways real community beats empty digital engagement

🔑 Key takeaways:

Resilience grows in discomfort
Healing starts with ownership and honest reflection
True belonging is built through shared experience, not likes

Listen now for a powerful blend of hard-earned wisdom and practical hope.

Watch on YouTube or subscribe on your favorite podcast platform to explore more from YoggNation’s mission-driven archive.

00:00 - Purpose And Best-Of Setup

02:08 - Jen Hardy On Haters And Power

03:25 - Michael Hurst Walks His Daughter

06:10 - Redefining Gratitude Through Service

08:10 - Gilbert Martin’s Lonely Teenage Years

10:20 - A Student’s Wisdom On Social Media

12:02 - Host’s Vision Struggle And Support

14:20 - Meals, Memory, And Real Connection

16:08 - Choosing Out Of Depression

17:53 - Common Sense, Ethics, And Reality

19:10 - How The Host Books Big Guests

25:15 - Closing: Grow The Community

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Welcome to the Yoga Nation, the Spirit of Gratitude Podcast on the OneTech Gration platform.

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Hello, friends.

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My name is Yogesh Patel, and this podcast explores the themes of bullying, self-awareness, and the power of our inner spirit, including the silent battles we all face.

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Join me every week as I invite high-profile guests as we explore how adversity shapes us, how gratitude lifts us, and how we can all uncover the inner strength that we all have within ourselves.

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Join the conversation.

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I appreciate you listening in.

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Welcome to the Yog Nation Spirit of Gratitude Podcast on the OneTegration platform.

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Hello, friends.

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My name is Yogesh Patal, and this podcast explores the themes of bullying, self-awareness, and our inner spirit, inviting high-profile guests to share their experiences on these relevant topics.

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And today.

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Hello, citizens and new subscribers to the podcast.

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Every 20 episodes, I pause to reflect and share my favorite reels, one from each guest.

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Then the whole purpose of this podcast has always been simple: to put good messaging out into the world and offer some perspective of overcoming life's challenges.

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Each clip you'll hear comes from these incredible storytellers, as I can honestly say that I've grown just by being surrounded by their wisdom and spirit and energy.

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And I invite you to spend the next 20 minutes, whether you're driving, running, or simply unwinding, listening to these reels and finding the messages that speak to you.

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Because while I may be the brand of maybe the brand of the podcast, I'm really just the messenger to these voices.

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And when you're done, go check out the full episodes and see what resonates most.

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That's how we will all continue to grow this community authentically, one story at a time.

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So without further ado, let's get uh rolling on my first favorite reel from famous YouTuber uh Jen Hardy.

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Her podcast on YouTube is in the top 0.5%.

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And this is what she shares.

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Let's take a listen.

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When I got my first hate thing, whatever, comment or whatever, I reached out to a friend of mine and I don't even know which one it was.

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And I'm so thankful, whoever it was, because they said once you have a hater, that means you're successful.

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And I've just run with that.

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You know what?

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Fine.

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Because it's somebody pointing out you're doing something that matters.

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Because if you're not doing something that matters, people don't respond.

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It was very hard when I started on YouTube.

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I got some really mean people, and I did almost quit.

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There was a lot of bullying.

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But then I made a video about it and I made it fun, and I just made them B B sounds and I flicked them away, and it gave me power over it.

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What a great story.

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I mean, this I think what Jen describes as giving these bullies the proverbial middle finger, and just to say that you're simply jealous of my success.

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But I think more importantly though, what Jen reminded me after this recording, she made a very interesting point around bullies.

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She says, don't hate them, they hate themselves.

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And in the sense that uh hurt people, hurt people, perhaps this is one of the reasons why there are haters out there, is that they want to be in your shoes.

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And again, all you can do is spread your good energy, spread your good vibes to make sure that they understand where they're come where you're coming from.

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And uh again, it's it's it's all these gifts that we have.

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So I just thought it was really, really fun uh to hear this.

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Next, Michael Hurst, uh former law enforcement and another successful podcaster, having his show One More Thing Before You Go.

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I believe now in its nearly 500th consecutive episode, this man is a beast.

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Donald, eat your heart out, Mr.

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Beast.

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This guy is the real deal.

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And let's see what he has to say and why uh this particular reel is my favorite.

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Let's listen in.

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Always these technical difficulties.

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All right, let's let's do it.

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I was sitting in there in my wheelchair feeling sorry for myself.

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My wife, my daughters, my sister, my brother-in-law.

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Nobody ever treated me with a disability.

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Nobody ever treated me any less than I was as an individual, a person, a father, a son, a brother.

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When my oldest daughter was gonna get married, she came up and I said, Okay, let's have a talk.

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We're gonna pay for the wedding, of course, but what do you want for your wedding present?

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Here's where it becomes difficult.

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She put her hand on each one of my arms on my chair, and she leaned down and she looked me square in the face.

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She said, I want you to walk me down the aisle.

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And I know you can do it.

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It lit a fire under my butt to say, Why am I sitting here like this when I could be doing this?

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So it was at that time that we as a family set out to find out how I could do this.

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So we found a doctor here, wonderful doctor Robert Berghoff, and we went there to visit him.

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He said, What can I do for you?

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And I said, I want to walk her down the aisle.

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And he said, Yeah, we can do that.

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The journey was tough.

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I finished rehabilitation six weeks before I was supposed to, in order to walk her down the aisle.

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And it was up there with both of my marriage to my wife, both kids being born.

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It's right up there with that.

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Boy, just listening to this giz giving me goosebumps and actually shedding a few tears in my eyes.

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I've got two girls, and you know, there's nothing more powerful, more emotional than a moment than a father marrying uh his daughter on the down the aisle.

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And again, this is why the podcast exists, folks, is to put some phenomenal messaging from great storytellers on their courage, their will to succeed, their will and their drive not to give up.

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And certainly Michael um exudes the spirit uh time and time again.

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So, you know, the inner spark to set things in motion.

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And if he can do it with his challenges, having the doctors telling him no, you can't walk, and for him to be able to walk.

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And again, sorry, folks, still got a few uh tears running down my beautiful face.

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But uh again, it's that uh resilient the resilient spirit that defines Michael Hearst.

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So, Michael, thank you for being on the podcast and sharing your story.

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Next up, we've got Steve Moulter, corporate brand storyteller.

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He's the public face of well-known technology companies representing brands such as Cisco, Panasonic, Fujifilm at important trade shows and conferences.

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And this is interesting how he defines gratitude.

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I want you to listen in, see if you agree.

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When we think about gratitude in life, it can come in from so many different areas.

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Gratitude is not simply saying, I love my life and I'm grateful for it.

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It can also be a matter of how do I serve others in order to create gratitude in them for what I do, but their connection to me creates gratitude for me.

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Yeah, that's it's so important.

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Um, you know, he defines gratitude not for himself, but the sphere around him.

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And it's that energy, it's that people that can sense.

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And the classic example I want to think is volunteering.

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You know, how many of us feel better about ourselves after we give back to serving our community?

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And just goes back to the phrase: when we help others, we actually help ourselves.

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And this act of service nourishes our own spirit and sense of purpose.

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And talk about gratitude in the World Series.

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You got to give it to uh Rojas and what he did in the ninth inning to enable the Dodgers to win Game 7 World Series.

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Amazing.

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So imagine the gratitude that he felt hitting that home run and what it did to the team, what it did to the city of Los Angeles, and the Dodger fans all around the world.

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So you gotta get a little get a sports uh insight in there.

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Next guest is Gilbert Martin.

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He's a tech executive from the San Francisco Bay Area.

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And again, this is another one of these moments that uh it really tugged my soul, and you'll see why.

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Check this out.

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You were living on your own at 15.

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How do you do that?

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I was effectively a transient living friend to friend until one of my friend's mom actually took me in, and then essentially I went to school and I had a job, and I didn't really have any extracurricular activities.

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Emotionally, it was lonely.

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It was very lonely.

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There was a lot of different directions that you could have gone through.

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I was exposed to gangs, I was exposed to drugs, to women and girls.

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There could have been a lot of different directions.

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So I really do think God was watching out for me, but it was a very lonely time.

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I'm just gonna say that.

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Oh my gosh, the operative word here is uh God was watching me.

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So to the universe, the divinity, the God, thank you for um taking care of Gilbert during his trying times.

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And again, we all face adversity and challenges, but can you imagine being kicked out of your home at 15 and learning how to survive on your own?

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I can't imagine that, especially not saying that today's kids don't know that, but just again, what replace being kicked out at home to the anxiety a kid feels, the depression that they have, and what they did to overcome that.

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Um, you know, we always think that uh, well, we try not to think to take life for granted.

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And boy, another thing that reminds me of is just imagine the number of homeless teens that are out there right now and they're trying to escape their predicament and make good uh with their lives.

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Or to uh again, as I mentioned, to escape one bad situation to another.

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Um, citizens, I plead with you, if there's a person that you opens up to you in this manner, please help them, help them, you know.

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Uh gosh, I never knew this uh this soliloquy uh episode would be so um emotional for me.

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It's just again, as I mentioned before on the intro, all of these reels speak to my heart and speak to my soul.

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And so that's what I want to bring out.

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Um anyway, all right, on to on to uh happier uh guests.

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Uh Tanish Noshi.

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He's now a freshman at uh Ivy League School, Yale University.

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OMG on this uh on this individual with the wisdom beyond his years that he shares.

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You want to know why?

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Check this out.

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Social media, I think, gives you a sense of false community, especially when it's not actually grounded in the real world.

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For example, you can join, you know.

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I mean, we know we talk about Instagram and Snapchat, these typical ones, but you know, a very big social media platform is Reddit.

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You can join a dozen subreddits, you can join a dozen Discord servers, which can have people that have similar interests to you, similar values to you, whatever it might be, right?

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And you're in these big groups of people and you're having conversations which genuinely are enriching your life, right?

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Because you might be having conversations about this video game or this topic or this book, and it feels like genuine connection.

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And I do think it's genuine social connection, but I think the issue is when it starts to replace rather than support your in-person socialization with people your own age on a day-to-day basis.

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Boy, we need more young leaders like him in this world.

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I mean, the wisdom that he shows beyond his 19 years, he's super eloquent, as you just heard.

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And I think what he echoes the most is what normal adults even can't articulate, and that is you know, the ill wills of tech and social media.

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Um, I just happen to believe that when you define success, it's really not about the wealth and power and money, but it's about human connection.

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And I think Vanish does a masterful job at explaining to people well that yes, there's value in social media to help you with connections, it's still that one-to-one interaction.

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I'm just so grateful that uh he had chosen to be on the podcast.

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And uh my next episode, I call it my soliloquy episode.

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And for those that uh don't know what the word soliloquy means, it's talking to oneself.

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That's me, um, even now.

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But uh, I'm just kidding.

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Um, but let's uh let's hear what uh what was my favorite uh reel about turning the microphone on myself.

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Let's listen in.

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He talked about having eye surgery before.

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What happened?

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Life had changed for me back in December of 2021, and this blue bag helped me with that.

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Before that, my vision was terrible, really couldn't function.

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I had to work through a magnifying glass just because I wasn't able to read even words so clearly.

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So imagine the difficulty and the stress and struggle I had with uh my adversity growing up uh throughout these times.

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And so from age 15 to 50 is what uh I have struggled with, and I sometimes still struggle with it yet, still.

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But nonetheless, this blue bag.

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First, I was a number.

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That number was 150-979-5233.

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It was my number at the Mayo Clinic and during pre-ops.

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Boy, I raise a glass to everyone that has any sort of health uh struggle and issue, whether it's surviving breast cancer, whether it's uh having leg surgery.

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I mean, for my for me it was the vision.

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But again, we all, every human being on this earth goes through some sort of of adversity.

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Most of them experience a health struggle and you know a challenge, either mental, emotional, physical.

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And again, it's this power of the inner spirit that we all have to overcome and to be surrounded by uh, again, my anchors were my close friends and family who helped pray for me, who helped me energetically heal me.

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And it goes back to finding your tribe folks, right?

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It's like finding those friends and family, colleagues, law enforcement, teachers, school resources officer that can uh that can help guide you.

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Again, the success in life isn't on your own.

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Uh, it certainly takes uh a village, um Hillary Clinton, uh, to be who we are in life.

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And so um, again, being vulnerable to uh sharing my experiences, and I hope you get a nugget of perspective and wisdom and just build uh resiliency in you.

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You can do it, folks.

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I know you can.

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All right, my next guest, Nancy May, successful business leader.

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She herself has a very successful and entertaining podcast called Family Tree: Food and Stories.

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And it's interesting how she blends her business acumen with this podcast.

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Tell me if you agree with this particular reel.

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Sometimes it's as simple as things that take our breath away.

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We don't realize it till after the fact.

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And we don't stop enough to appreciate it.

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And if you do, I think you might say, Hey, that meeting really went well.

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Or I didn't realize how strong mom or dad was, or my sister, or my brother, or my uncle, my aunt, what they went through.

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And you hear about them quite often, sitting at a meal, having a beer together, or, you know, just a bowl of ice cream.

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The sweetest things that bring out the best memories.

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I can't tell you how many deals have gone, I say gone down or gone out positively.

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With conversations over meal with the new prospective client, because I got to know who they were as a person.

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I got to know about their family.

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I got to know, as you might say, their inner soul.

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And we connected.

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That's so important today, and we miss it.

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So don't forget, I say every meal has a story, and every story is a feast.

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Isn't that incredible as we celebrate Thanksgiving this month here in November?

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And it really is the simplest things in life, folks, that give meaning and give purpose.

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And having these dinner table conversations, I'm uh I think of uh Blue Bloods and how the uh Reagan family all came together with police commissioner Frank Reagan leading.

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And it's just I think it brings out the best in people, it brings out the best in your souls and friendships to help stay connected with one another.

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Again, it goes back to that human connection that I had mentioned earlier.

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So, Nancy Sherry, thank you for sharing this real and of your podcast, which I personally enjoy listening in and listening in.

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Cool, Gary Nichols, founder and famed architectural firm Revel Architecture.

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For those that are in the beauty area and that live in San Francisco, their headquarters was redesigned by uh Gary and his team.

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Wonderful individual.

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And I happened to ask him what are the elements of design and nature that reflect our inner spirit and self-awareness.

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And he had a very interesting take.

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I'll uh let you listen in something that I did not expect.

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But again, this is my favorite episode of Gary Nichols from Architecture Firm.

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Sometimes most of us don't feel like we fit in.

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Depression set in, and uh, one miraculous thing happened because I had foresight to just stop and try to control myself.

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And it was this late 70s, and people were doing self-help books my mom had out on the coffee table was I'm okay, you're okay.

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Don't know who the author is, never cracked the book open.

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I just saw that title, and in the middle of this very deep depression of crying every other day and listening to Karen Carpenter Records in my room, I took that to heart and thought, you know what?

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I'm gonna stop all this self-pity, which was my creation of the depression, and started having that little person on my shoulder talk to me and just say, Stop feeling sorry for yourself, just pick yourself up and just move forward.

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I say that because it took discipline for me to actually talk to myself and to say, I don't want this anymore.

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I don't want this depression, I will leave this depression room.

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And it worked.

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We all have inner voices, and I'm just so thankful that uh, you know, Gary found a way to combat his depression uh through the book that was on his coffee table.

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Imagine overcoming the self-pity.

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And again, it happens to all of us, um, even as an adult.

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I sometimes worry and have anxiety.

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Um takes courage, folks, right?

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If uh if you can't do it on your own, find that help.

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Again, Gary's a perfect example of how he overcame this black hole, what's called depression.

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And imagine how life would have been different for him if he didn't have that book at his house growing up.

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And imagine how life would be different for so many people that uh did not have the guidance and friendships from their peers and from their circle to help them escape this gravitational pull called anxiety, depression, and mental health.

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Again, very relevant today, as again, the podcast themes is all about the inner spirit, the self-awareness that we all have to help one another and you know to become the best version of ourselves.

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So hope you enjoyed that.

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My next guest is Stephanie Poe.

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This is the mouthful folks.

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She is a business consultant.

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More importantly, she's a multi-generational strategic advisor, consulting with families.

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Whew, that was a mouthful.

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She's based here in Phoenix, and again, five degrees, super smart, and uh lots to unpack here.

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You'll know why.

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Let's uh let's check her wisdom out.

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In today's world, common sense isn't all that common.

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And I think that's the challenge.

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We are struggling with trying to figure out what is common sense and what isn't, and what should be is not, and what is not, should be.

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I know that's a little tongue twister.

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And we're in a different world, in a different time where people are really more in tune with their feelings, who they are, but we still have to live in reality.

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And the reality is that people hurt our feelings.

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And the reality is things do happen that are not appropriate, or that's crossing an ethical line, or it's something that's impacting people.

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And if we don't stop to realize what that impact is, we're going to repeat it.

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Those aren't my words, right?

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I think Winston Churchill said something about, and I'm gonna paraphrase here because I can't do them justice, but the past is bound to repeat itself if we do not learn from it, we're doomed.

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Whew, like I mentioned before, there's so many different uh sub themes to this reel, but the thing that took away from me was two things.

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Number one, uh common sense isn't so common.

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I think it's uh framed by Thomas Paine, uh one of the folks that helped help us win the American Revolution.

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Um again, common sense isn't so common, I think.

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That's why you know, this podcast, if I could take the nice wording away, really this podcast, what it's aimed to do is knock some sense into people.

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They have that common sense, they just uh don't perhaps bring it on on a regular basis.

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Um, and I think that borders on the lines of what my second takeaway was in regards to ethics.

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Um, I think so many people, not to fault them, but they are gravitating away from their true self.

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And whether you want to blame social media or technology or AI, it's all bringing that sense of who we are as individuals.

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Let common sense guide us with our decisions, having that important North Star that I want to say that is our inner compass that helps guide us to be uh good people and to live a Dodomic life.

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Um, I think Stephanie hits on so many great points on this reel.

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So hope you enjoyed that.

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Next is really not a soliloquy, but I would have the fortunate pleasure uh to be interviewed by Jen Hardy on her podcast, interestingly enough.

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And so this is um the question that she asked and what I what I shared.

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Your podcast is relatively new on the podcast scene, and yet you get very incredible, high-profile guests.

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Why do you think that is?

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I'm allowed to dream.

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I guess it comes with my sales background.

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It's okay if I hear no.

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You know, perhaps for me, a no is really not a not yet.

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And diversity is also important in terms of the guests that I have on, in terms of their age, profession, background culture.

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Because Jen, I'm sure, as you know, the listener needs to have some sort of relationship with either with the host or the guests.

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And so what I try and do is trying to bring guests that are well-rounded, but are successful.

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Again, all episodes are not necessarily about bullying, but perhaps finding stories about their inner spirit or their self-awareness that the listener can identify themselves as well.

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Yep, and you know, I never really answered the question directly um in what she asked, how do you book incredible guests?

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And uh um again, a little bit of of uh of peeling the layers off the onion.

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Uh simply it is asking politely and respectfully in terms of uh the nature of what I'm trying to do.

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And I think uh all of my guests have sensed the authenticity in terms of uh my ask.

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Um again, I'm not here to brag or be bashful, but uh I do pinch myself sometimes, folks.

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I mean, I do get starstruck on the fact that I've had a Nick Laurie, all-time leader for the Kansas City Chiefs.

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You know, I do get starstruck having Matthew Earl Jones, uh younger brother of Darth Vader.

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You know, I do get starstruck um getting Cidney Justin uh from the miracles.

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It's like it's it's incredible.

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I think it just speaks to the power that all of and uh the the theme and spirit of what these all of my guests can can relate to when it comes to gratitude, when it comes to um overcoming adversity.

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And I guess another reason why I've uh you know how to book incredible guests is again, this kind of relates to my inner spirit, is that I'm ambitious.

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Um, and I'm not bashful to say that.

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This is where I'm I'm not modest, and I've never felt this ambitious ever in my 52 years on God's green earth.

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I mean, yes, I've had a um a purposeful uh career in sales, um, respectable career in sales, but this podcast and kind of the snowball effect of what I'm trying to do here to influence society in a more positive direction so that there is less divisiveness in society, there is more kindness and empathy to help uh your neighbor, it doesn't matter what political beliefs you have, again, it goes back to that human spirit of human connection.

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And so, you know, I want to surround myself with a community of change makers that are at the very core good people.

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And you know, then the third thing about um uh how do I get uh high-profile guests, as I mentioned before, I I'm allowed to dream.

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It's like you know, there's so many people I want to interview, and uh, you know, part of it is manifestation, part of it is um they come to me, you know, through God's grace.

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I'm so thankful that they also share in the same purpose and vision that I have.

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So it's just been a wonderful um experience, filled with gratitude, of course, uh, to be on uh to to be in the seat, um interviewing change makers and that are helping move and drive society forward.

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So uh this wraps up part one of uh my best of reels from each guest.

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And again, uh please, if you wouldn't mind, if something has resonated with you, go back to the to these episodes, listen to the full episodes, listen to their wisdom, their spirit, their energy to carry you forward, or perhaps carry forward with a family member or your community.

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Like and subscribe, uh, you know, share this with uh with others that happen to believe in the same vision we all share.

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Again, kind of a new theme that I'm working on messaging-wise is is addressing the audience members uh or the fans of Ted Lasso, which I happen to really appreciate that uh that that series.

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Again, I think it speaks to the themes of what this podcast represents, which is around grit that have uh always uh have a belief in people when perhaps they are down on themselves, and just that spirit of kindness and empathy that leads the world.

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Thanks, folks.

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We'll see you next week.

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Take care.