Empowering Leadership and Self-Growth: Navigating Your Path with Hope | Beyond Hope Project Podcast

In this inspiring episode of the Beyond Hope Project Podcast, Jason Tharp, the champion of hope, delves into the profound impact of leadership on personal and collective journeys. Whether you’re a leader in a professional setting, a coach, or simply leading your own life, this episode offers valuable insights into how your actions and words can significantly influence others’ stories. Jason discusses the importance of perspective, the power of listening, and the role of hope in overcoming obstacles and realizing potential. Discover how to be a positive force in the world, create meaningful connections, and lead with empathy and understanding. Join us as we explore the art of self-leadership and the ripple effect it has on the world around us. Sign up for our newsletter at BeyondHopeProject.com for more sparks of inspiration.

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Transcript

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hey guys welcome back to the Beyond hope

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project podcast my name is Jason Tharp I

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am your resident champion of Hope here

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to deliver another impactful podcast to

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you that will hopefully resonate with

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you and provide you with that spark to

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get started uh or maybe you're out on

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this path and you feel like you might

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have lost your way maybe some of the

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words in here will help guide you back

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to there and that is the goal of this

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podcast before we dive too far in

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there's a couple things I want to remind

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you of we have a beyondo project

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newsletter it's at Beyond hop

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project.com the newsletter link you can

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click on it scroll on the bottom sign up

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just free stuff I draw a weekly comic in

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there too that you can save to your

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phone or whatever uh just to little

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spark a little ideas for you as you

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start to navigate through this crazy

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thing called life and the other part is

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uh need your help help spreading the

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love and the uh hope so you're you're

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listening to this right now take a

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second and hit those five stars share it

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let people know about it um tag friends

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like any way that you can help spread

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this word I would really appreciate it

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because we have a huge Mission here

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which is to reach lots of people with uh

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hope and show them that what's they may

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predict as impossible in their life is

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quite

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possible and that's where I want to

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start out this this podcast with today

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is this idea that what power we actually

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hold in somebody else's story um and

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this is probably going to be more

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directed towards uh leaders people in a

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leadership role maybe you're a coach

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maybe you're a a team manager or uh just

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a thought leader but also at the same

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time you're also a leader of yourself so

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in a lot of ways this is a multifaceted

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and what I'm hoping to be able to

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encapsulate this all into is a way way

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for you to look at it and how it would

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affect you and help you adopt it in sort

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of way into your life and that's the

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main goal of this this one in

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particular so one thing I've been

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thinking about a lot lately is the role

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the story that is told about me from

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other people or the story that other

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people that have interacted through my

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life um what they what part what role

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they play I guess I should say

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because I think a lot of times what we

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don't realize is that we can either be a

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part of somebody's story that turns into

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something really special because we were

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part of it or we can be the Catalyst for

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somebody's story to Blossom because we

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were part of it not in a good way and I

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think that what we we tend to do is we

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come

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into interactions with others especially

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as a leader with a limiting belief of

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stuff

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and what I want to call this on to is

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kind of like what how the the first

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doctor I dealt with dealt with

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diagnosing me they had no clue who I was

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they knew zero about my background they

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knew zero about what I've overcome they

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knew zero about who I was but they knew

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a lot about one subject which is what

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they deal with every day that's not the

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discount that they don't know what

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they're talking about but there's a huge

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factor that Miss it's missing in that

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it's perspective it's being able to take

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yourself out and look in somebody else's

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shoes especially when you're dropping

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some sort of thing or you are in a

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position that you really hold a lot of

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weight in somebody's future decisions

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because maybe they're turning to you

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because you're an expert in something or

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they're coming to you because you they

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perceive you as the gatekeeper to their

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dreams which by the way you're not so if

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you're tripping on yourself thinking

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that you're somehow are some sort of

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Savior for someone you're not you're not

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a guru you're just a human going through

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experiences and your experiences just

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happen to be further along than the

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people that are looking to you for

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guidance but what you have is the

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ability to affect their story to take

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the moment to sit down and listen to

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this person and to hear what they're

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actually trying to do use your expertise

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to help them get to where they want to

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go don't give them some sort of false

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belief or keep dangling carrots in front

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of their face telling them that if we

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just get to this next thing then that

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will be the parts also don't kick their

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knees out to tell them that they can't

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do something or that they don't know how

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to do it because you can't think in a

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way that they do sometimes what you feel

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is normal is completely weird to

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somebody else and what is weird to you

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is completely normal to somebody else

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but what you have is information that

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could help them get to where they want

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to go and if you would help them you

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would actually learn something from them

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in return that would also help you along

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your journey because the thing is is

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we're all intersecting stories we're all

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living in each other's dreams these

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realities that we're building as we

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start to go through life are dictated

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through us through our perceptions of

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what we see in the world if you want to

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change the way that you see the world

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then change the things you

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do if you want to stay the same stay the

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same nobody's really going to care

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either way but don't spend so much time

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thinking that you hold the power over

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everybody else's worlds because all that

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happens is is we're just crisscrossing

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story

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lines what is happening your dream is

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different than mine but we might

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interact for a second and I can help add

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to your dream by a word or a look or a

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glance or simply by just saying hi

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because for so many of us we're going

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through life invisible too afraid to ask

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for help we'll put her head down in the

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sand because it's much easier if they

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can't see me for me then to not put

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myself out there because that's

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scary because I think I can get overcome

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this stuff but I'm too afraid to tell

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their people what I want to do because

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what if I don't then they're going to

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judge me and they're going to worry that

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if they associate with me that they

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somehow look

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bad and I think so many of us go through

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life this way thinking that somebody is

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holding the key we look for those blame

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points to say that this this didn't

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happen because of that this or the other

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when the truth is is if you ever want to

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figure out who's the one to blame just

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go find the near or

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smear stop thinking that somebody that

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is working with you or for you or as

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part of your group is somehow not valid

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enough for you to show them

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hope and this goes for yourself too it

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goes for the idea that you can give

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yourself the hope that you can actually

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make it to the other side of this

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problem because you figured out a path

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instead of thinking that your path is

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the only way and everything that you

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have in your head is the only

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way be open to the fact that somebody

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you just met might actually know more

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than you because what they're bringing

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to the table is themselves you could be

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part of this great story you know the

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first doctor that told me I would be

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dead in seven months will never be part

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of my story they will always be the

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Catalyst that got me started now that's

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not to say that that's a bad thing and I

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certainly think that I have un willingly

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or or willingly or you know thinking I

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was doing the right thing played that

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exact same role in other people's

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worlds but most of the time it was

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because my living belief was so small

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that I could not see a different way my

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intentions weren't to hurt somebody any

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more than I think that maybe that

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doctor's intentions weren't to hurt

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me but what they did not do is they

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didn't take a second to realize that the

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power that they hold in my story when I

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was struggling to figure a way out of

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this big dark cave and figure out how to

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be somebody that survives us stuff they

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had the ability to hand me a torch that

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would have lit up the path for me to

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step forward but instead what they did

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was they threw a boulder in it just

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because they took all their

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assumptions that was all past

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experiences and never bothered to ask

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simple questions like what can I do how

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can I be part of this person's thing

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maybe I might actually learn something

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from this patient now I have these great

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doctors around me who we have these

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great conversations about life and how

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you can change certain things how

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reality might change as we start to see

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what we can believe and how our

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confidence grows when we start to look

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to a different way other than the way

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that we draw limits

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on but at the end of the day all they

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are

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co-pilots we are the only ones steering

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this ship yes there are many other

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people steering ships around us but as

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we crisscross all we're doing is

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Criss-Cross in somebody else's

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dream we can choose to make some of

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their dreams are reality that's up to us

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or we can just keep

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moving you know I think that so often we

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think that we're alone but the truth is

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as a whole we are much stronger if we

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start to understand that our worlds

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matter that you matter that everybody

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around us is doing their best to try to

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survive and if we start to realize that

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we have a lot of power in helping

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somebody else shape that

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story you'll find that you will find a

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path for you that will continue to

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unfold even when you're failing even

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when you feel like you lost it it'll

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keep showing up for you because that's

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what you're meant to do is be a positive

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force in this world you're a Creator the

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world that you want to create is waiting

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for you to create it it's just up to you

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when you want to begin so as you start

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sharing your story and being a leader

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for not only yourself but for others

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understand that self leadership isn't

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about just you it's about how your

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actions actually have an effect on

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others around you so learn how to lead

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yourself better and you'll be amazed on

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what happens with the people around you

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how they almost Elevate because

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you think that you're doing something

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different but all you're doing is

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actually just being present and showing

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up and listening and not doing

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everything for everybody else give

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people a chance you might find in giving

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the chance that that person might teach

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you something that you never thought was

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possible and to me this is what hope is

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about it's starting that ignition for

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somebody else walking a path and when

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somebody Falls helping them back up

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figuring out a way to connect the dots

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between their dream and yours it doesn't

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mean you have to carry them forever but

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it does mean that you are part of their

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story The Good Parts the parts that you

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can look back on and say like man I'm

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really glad that I was part of that you

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know they're doing great stuff instead

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of I was the reason why that happened

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knowing that you might be the only one

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that knows

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that um but still it's not the kind of

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ending that you want to have you don't

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want your story to end in a bad way that

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no longer affects others in a good way I

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think I think by and large we all really

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want to help each other along the path

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figure out how life unfolds and to help

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them grow and the only way to do that is

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to get over

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yourself yes you might be in a good

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position to help others but if you're

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only out to cause harm you're not

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helping anybody including

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yourself maybe you need to find the PATH

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maybe somebody else that you look down

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on is walking a very path that you need

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to be on maybe you should just pay

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attention as they cross over into your

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dream and then they can help you create

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your

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reality so yeah that's that's that's all

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I got for you guys

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um that felt really good I'm G to be

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honest it felt really good to kind of to

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say that because I it's something I've

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been struggling with a little bit lately

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in a lot of the stuff that I've been

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working on writing books and stuff like

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that but uh yeah I want you guys to do

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let other people know it exists you have

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all been on a certain sort of mission as

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our paths cross here as our dreams

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crisscross I need your help in sharing

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this and spreading around so guys until

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I see you next time uh congratulations

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on making this far in life it's not easy

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being a human uh we all make mistakes

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and if you're giving yourself a hard

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time because you've maybe Fallen a

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couple times lately realized that you

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can't get back up and can change and it

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doesn't take a huge huge Catalyst for it

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you can change right now by just

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choosing a different path and I hope

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this helps power

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