Episode 163

Redefining success – Vision Tribe Summit 2025

Carlos, Laurence, and Lana present the first session in their Vision Tribe Summit from February 2025.

In this session they explore four key dimensions of success:

  • Finding ways to earn while doing what you love rather than chasing wealth at the expense of fulfilment
  • Prioritising what genuinely energises you rather than constant multitasking driven by feelings of "not-enoughness"
  • Surrounding yourself with people who energise you and share your values
  • Creating ripple effects by simply being your authentic self rather than trying to change the world through effort

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Over this following week, we are going to be taking you through a little

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bit of a journey, uh, a little bit of a meander through some of the ideas

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and, uh, approaches that we share with participants of our Vision 2020 program.

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All in service of this idea of building the business from the

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inside out, aligning what would you do with who you are so that.

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Work becomes less effort, effortful, uh, and you create, uh, more

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excitement and joy for the future that you wanna create for yourself.

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And so we're gonna talk today about this idea of redefining success.

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Uh, and we're gonna talk about it through the lenses of, well, four

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different lenses, money, time.

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Connection and impact.

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Uh, and we are talking about the contrast between what money means to

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people in terms of success, going from accumulation to flow, uh, what time

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means to people in terms of success, going from productivity and efficiency

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to presence and prioritization.

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And then there's how we talk about connection and going from this idea

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of customers and followers and, and status to real idea of like

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community and authentic connection.

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And being seen and seeing others who they are.

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And the final thing, the final lens is impact.

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And going from this idea of doing and making and and forcing impact to being the

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change, to modeling the change, to living the change and to be a guide, to be a

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part of a system of change where you are part of a group of people creating change.

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So we're gonna talk, uh, about these four different lenses,

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four different contrasts.

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We have our own take on this, uh, and Laurence and Lana and I. We'll

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share our own stories of what each of these redefinitions of success mean

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to us, and then how that relates to how we're trying to share that with

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people on our Vision 2020 program.

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So, given all that, where, uh, where will you like to take this first Lala?

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I'm glad that you already shared the different, uh, areas where

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we find redefining success.

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So for me, I. Immediately, immediately go to connection.

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And how my story is around success has been redefined with, uh, my

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first experience with breast cancer.

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That's more than 10 years ago.

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where the question for me was of how would I want to use my limited time, my limited

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energy, and um, my limited attention, you know, because that is for all of us.

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We have.

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Limited time, energy, and attention.

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Uh, no matter if you're healthy or sick, you know, we have a finite amount of that.

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And, uh, during that period, for me it was really evident that, for me to, uh,

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be able to engage in the ways that I would want to engage would mean I would have

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to redefine who I interact with, who I engage with, and who I collaborate with.

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And that was also the time when I was searching that I got connected with

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you, Carlos, and we got started to working with a happy startup community.

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And then five years ago we started Vision 2020.

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So, so for me, when I started redefining success base from, um, who I'm

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engaging with, who are in my circles of connection, it really shifted a lot

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in terms of how I'd want to show up.

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Um, what projects I take in, you know, what projects I collaborate on.

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And, um, and just also enjoy those collaborations because then I get to be

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with people that I love and that I respect and that inspires me and I. Funny enough.

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Yeah, those kinds of collaborations don't need any, you know, paperwork,

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don't need any, any contracts.

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No lawyers have, uh, come into our relationship yet.

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Exactly, exactly right.

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So it's interesting how, um, just because having the right

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relationships and connections can bring so much abundance and bring

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so much impact as well in my life.

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So for me, Redefining success based on who I engage with and who I want to

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nourish in terms of relationship, has, uh, created so much abundance in my life.

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How about you, Laurence?

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So if I think about me now, I think, or even me, maybe five years ago, I,

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I would say the same, like gravitating to the people who give me energy.

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You know, that energy exchange you get with.

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Connecting with the right people.

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and also knowing that the, the energy that can drain from you if you are,

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if you are with the wrong people.

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Um, but actually I think if I think about a big thing that shifted my thinking

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about success was probably about 25 years ago actually, which I think community

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came as a result of this, but it was really focused on the happy money part.

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Um, so focused on this feeling that.

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If I pursue the thing that I'm good at or the thing that I think I should do

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here, IEI did a degree in economics.

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Um, I should probably go and work in the city.

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I should probably get a good job and have a good salary.

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That makes sense given the career ladder I'm on.

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Um, and then tried that.

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And then after a few months it was quite clear that that just wasn't for me.

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Like I was in an environment where everyone ahead of me was earning way more.

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was a lot more successful in theory.

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Um, but actually they weren't selling this idea of this measure of success anyway.

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For me, it was much more about work, was everything.

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They worked all the hours.

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They seemed quite unhappy generally, even though they had

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nice houses and nice things.

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but I think more importantly, I was, I was of this belief that actually I'm

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a human being at the heart of this.

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And if I can make money doing something I actually love doing rather than.

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Something I, I'm good at.

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Then maybe longer term I'll actually be better off, not just financially,

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but in lots of other ways.

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So I probably had my midlife crisis age 23, I think, um, which actually led me

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on this path to eventually working with Carlos and then starting our agency

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and then eventually meeting you and, and working with you over the last five

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years in the program, as well as all the other wonderful people in the community.

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So that community to me has come as a result of a commitment to.

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Happiness ultimately through work.

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And that was, that was a big shift for me was like, um, even if I don't make

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the money that I will do in this career, certainly at the start, at least I know

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if I follow the path of curiosity, then actually I'm gonna be more fulfilled

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and stay in the game ultimately, rather than burnout, which I would've headed

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for if I'd stayed in that career.

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So, yeah, at that time, that was learning how to build websites and who knew, who

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knew that would lead to where we are now.

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Yes.

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How about you?

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Um, yeah, going from a crisis to Chrysalis I think is, that thing is like, rather

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than it like, ah, how, how do we see this all as a, as a process of transformation?

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Uh, and I think these four lenses for me just helps.

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What I've seen helps us just make sense of what this transformation is about.

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Uh, what are these two polarities that we might be dancing between?

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Um, I'm gonna talk about actually time and impact, um, and particularly around time

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going from this kind of, from metrics to meaning, from, from having a really being

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effective with a to-do list to actually.

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Doing meaning spending meaningful time on things, which means being

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present, not trying to multitask.

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And, and that multitasking thing I think comes well for me, came from this

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feeling of, uh, not enoughness needing to do more, to be more, uh, as opposed

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to really doing a bit more self-inquiry as to what really lights me up, what

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gives me energy so that I can be present with the stuff that gives me energy.

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Whether that's being here on Crowdcast, whether that's creating a curriculum, a

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new kind of course for our community, or deepening the work that we do with Vision

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2020, or talking with Laurence about how we can make altitude more impactful.

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Or joining up with Abby and having really, uh, creative conversations

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about the new way of taking summer camp.

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You know, these just to be present with that.

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As opposed to what's next?

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What's next?

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What's next?

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I think that is, that is the shift in terms of redefining success and it

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takes work, which isn't just a switch.

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It's about a little bit of self-knowledge, which only happens when you are, you

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are around people who allow you to say these things out loud when you try and

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do this in your head, really difficult.

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I think super difficult.

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For those of you who you can, who can do that, great.

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You probably don't need to be on this call.

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For, for a lot of us it's like, ah, you is like, you're in this like loop.

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And then when it comes to impact, this is the thing I really love about all this.

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What I'm wedd to this idea of effortless impact is this idea that.

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Particularly at a particular, a certain age where we are, you

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know, we've been around, we've seen things, we've experienced things.

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Not only seen things, we've lived things.

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And to be able to have that lived experience offer real tangible value

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to other people, I. That for me is amazing because at some point you don't

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even, you don't want money from that.

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You just want to, to know that your life mattered because you are sharing

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what you've been through and how you struggled, or how you've overcome and

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struggles, or how you've discovered something new or how you've felt

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something different and that offers something of a shift for someone else.

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And that to, to offer that shift from a place of abundance because

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it's just here, this is, this is us.

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We've just done this.

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It's not like we're trying to build something or make something.

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And it's like a scarcity thing.

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It's like, no, we've lived this.

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We wanna share that with other people and we have bills to pay.

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Yeah.

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And this is comes

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from, this is Us.

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I think that thing of, this is me, this is us.

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Like, um.

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I'm reminded of, I think it was Mattie, the lovely French entrepreneur who

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joined the program a few years ago, and he, he shared in that quadrant when he

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was working on the effortless impact, it was, impact by being me like, could

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I make impact just by being me, like forgetting impact with a big eye, changing

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the world painting thing, like you said, like changing systems, but like,

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just by showing up a hundred percent fully as me, maybe that can create

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ripple effects without me even trying.

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And to be able to do that is to be able to really tune in with ourselves.

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Right.

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And, and I know like what you said, Carla, this space of not enoughness is

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so much deeply ingrained, not just within ourselves, but also within our family,

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within our cultures, within society.

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So.

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How do we reconnect to those parts of ourselves that really know how, you know,

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what value we bring in to the world?

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And that for me is the deep inner work that's very much needed and that this is

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also why with the Vision 2020 program, we often say it's an inner and outer work.

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Um, it's not just about creating a business, but it's

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also creating a business that really suits you, your values.

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Your essence, who you are and who you stand for as a person.

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Around this aspect of.

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You talked about this, the sort of self-inquiry, the, the not

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enoughness, um, there are hurdles to get around to to overcome that.

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There isn't just about a marketing strategy or I know learning to

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become a public speaker or just necessarily just sort of learning

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skills for, for building confidence.

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There's a, like you're talking to this inner journey and I dunno if there's any

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hurdles that you think people might hit.

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If they were trying to become this, get into this space of being

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impact rather than doing impact.

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Now there's no one ever needs any support.

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It's all, it's all fine.

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Everyone's got this sorted.

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Right.

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Uh, I mean the stuff that we come across with all the people we support, I think is

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all the stuff we've probably either are or have struggled with ourselves in the past.

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Um, so for me, there's a big part of.

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Shedding some of the behaviors and the beliefs that aren't

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helpful to navigate this path.

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Because, put this way, if this was easy, everyone would do it, right?

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We'd all, we'd all follow this more, um, holistic view of success, but it's

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a lot easier to follow the path that societies give for, which is traditionally

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just, you know, go bigger, go go more, this is more of about, like you said,

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who am I, like when I say get paid to be me or make impact by being me?

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We need to know who we are in this, in this world.

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So a big part of it is understanding what is me and what is things

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that I've acquired along the way.

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And it could be hangups about money, like our relationship to money and

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what we associate to that, how that can mean we tie ourselves to roles

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and jobs and environments that aren't healthy for us, even if we know that.

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It's really hard to unpick that.

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So, I mean, money is a huge thing.

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Our stories, our relationship to that.

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Um, but even being visible, like the idea of being me and being

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visible to the world, uh, make an impact in that way is vulnerable.

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It's a vulnerable place to be.

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It's a really rewarding place to be when you, when you can

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get there, but on your own.

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I think it could be hard to have that spotlight on you

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where you say, this is me.

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You know, take it or leave it.

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Yeah.

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That judgment that comes when we put ourselves out there, or the fear of

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judgment is, is huge for, for people.

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And it doesn't necessarily mean that.

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Those judgements, or at least those expectations that we have and expectations

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that others have totally go away.

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I think this is also, you know, this is also the myth around, oh, now I know who

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I am, and then I'll just show up as who I am and I won't encounter any difficulties.

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I, I like what, uh, Terry already mentioned in the chat of, there's

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always a recalibration of who am I now?

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Who am I, five years ago?

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You know, even a year from now or a month ago, you know, so there's,

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there's a constant recalibration of are we still, you know, are we

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still aligned with our values and what we hold dear for ourselves?

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And if not, you know, how do we hold space for that?

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Of those changing identities?

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Those changing priorities, especially when you're transitioning to a

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different state in life, or, you know, there's, there's other aspects

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around your life that are shifting.

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So for me, there's.

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The, the recalibration is often, uh, a, a space of inquiry of, is

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this still true for, for myself?

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And there was a question that I'm using now as my, um, my barometer

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and this question of are you honoring that which you seek?

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And for me that that is a, you know, that's a good

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question to say, Hey, this is.

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How I'd want to show up, and this is what success means for me.

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And am I honoring that?

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You know, am I honoring that in the ways that I engage with others, in the ways

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that I, you know, talk about myself in the ways that I put out, you know, the work

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that I want to put out, um, in the world.

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So for me, having these moments of recalibration is very important.

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I like what you said is like, what is it?

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Was it ordering what I seek?

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Is that what you said, Lana?

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Yeah.

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And I think one of the challenges that gets in a lot of people's way

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is they dunno what they're seeking.

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And this is the work is that it doesn't matter how much support you get with

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building your business if you're looking for the wrong thing or if you don't

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believe in the thing that you're seeking.

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And there's a good chance that it won't succeed or it will succeed in a

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way that doesn't really benefit you.

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And we've seen that.

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We saw that a lot in our agency days, where we would be among other

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creative people building their creative agencies because they

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wanted to do amazing creative work.

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And then where they got to was Feeding the Beast.

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They'd built this big company, they had all of this staff, they

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were doing work for Google and Microsoft, et cetera, et cetera.

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But they were no longer creative people.

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They were managers, they were school teachers.

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They were trying to tell people off for doing the wrong thing.

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And that was that you could see them suffer and, and a number

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of those agencies folded.

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The, the, the f the founders just left the bus building, literally.

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Uh, and so that for me is a. A story of how you can follow a path that is

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very well defined, that takes you to a place of measurable success, but

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just doesn't feel successful at all.

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But then what does it mean to seek what success really means for you?

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That's, that's the perennial question.

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I think pe, some pe some of us are really trying to answer.

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Yeah, and I like what Yvonne said here about, how difficult it can

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be to detach ourselves from this, this model that is so ingrained in

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everywhere we look, advertising, all the information we're fed day to day,

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tells us that there is no other way.

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And so I. A big part of this for me is, is well, why our community

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exists really in communities like ours exist, is to surround yourself

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with people who are challenging this idea of success in this way.

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Because when you're surrounded by people who are living in a different

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way, then it, that's the norm rather than the other stuff we're fed.

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I think if you're the only one who's fighting against this,

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you feel like a lone wolf.

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And that's, I think, something we are, um.

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We've been driven by, since day one, really is to connect people and say,

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look, someone else like you, even if you don't fix your problem straight

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away, you've got someone to walk this path with and, and to know that

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you're not alone in this struggle.

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And I guess this is also where the, you know, the collective, uh.

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Vision also comes in right of when, when you're doing things on your own and you

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have your, you know, definition of success that you would want, it helps to also

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be surrounded, like what you said, helps to be surrounded with like-minded and

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like-hearted people of, Hey, this is also what we would want to see in a society.

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And rather than it just being just, you know, an individual vision.

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It becomes a collective vision.

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It becomes a collective, I would know movement of, Hey,

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this is how we can shift.

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The different systems and when we, you know, when we get to be in communities of

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practice, when we get to be in communities or change, we get to really also

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amplify this work and shift the systems.

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So for me, I see this as, you know, the ripple effect is not just within

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who you are, who you're serving, but it's also shifting the systems of

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the societies that we are part of.

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who is it?

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Who coined the term Seniors Laurence, you can remind me.

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well, I know it's true.

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Brian Eno, I think it might be Brian.

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Brian Eno.

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That's it.

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Brian Eno.

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and this idea of the genius that comes from being in a particular scene and that

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scene being a collective, a space where people think out loud and not to just.

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Teach or ask people for feedback, is this a good idea?

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But through that exchange, through that sharing of like a, a seed that then

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can grow through people's feedback and building on that and, and hearing other

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people's ideas, that then create basically more abundance in terms of creativity.

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And finding a place where you can do that, where you don't, and this is

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the, I would say, one of the contrasts to the definitions of success that

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we had as an agency versus now.

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We used to work with people who would make us sign an NDA before we

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could even learn about their idea.

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They were so scared that someone was going to steal their idea.

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And more often than not, well we would.

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Well we would, but still, more often than not, they would tell us the idea.

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And A, either we wouldn't uneven understand it, or B, it'd be

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like, this is not gonna work.

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But they would hold so tightly onto it that they wouldn't

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actually test it out in the wild.

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Yeah, because they were scared.

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They were scared it was gonna challenge them, and they would then, oh my God, I

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spend all this time thinking about it.

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Because of that, they were fixed in this kind of sunk cost fallacy that I

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cannot let go of this idea and I'm not letting it grow or develop and without.

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A seniors, you're never gonna have an idea that's really gonna create impact.

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That's our belief.

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And also when people asked us to sign those, the first thing I'd say is, well,

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if we sign it, the first thing we'll get you to do is share this idea with a

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bunch of people to get feedback on it.

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Right.

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So it is kind of counterintuitive at the early stage.

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Um, yeah.

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But yeah, I totally echo what you've said about.

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This.

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So the seniors thing for me is like getting out that guru mindset of like,

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I know it all, it's all about me.

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The visionary with my idea.

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I just need to tell the world about it.

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Versus actually, there's so much, wisdom in the crowd and

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the crowd of hearted people.

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That's the key thing.

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into this.

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I think that's

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a really interesting point there.

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Because there are situations in our lives, there are times in our lives

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where not only is time precious in terms of there's only a finite in the amount

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of time that we have, there's only a finite amount of energy that we have.

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Yeah.

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I remember when my kids were young, oh my God, I was not necessarily gonna be

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the most creative person all the time.

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Yeah.

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And so there's only so much time available.

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To do things, but at the same time, that was the time when

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my second daughter was born.

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That's when, when, uh, the Happy Startup School was born.

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Yeah.

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So it is possible.

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We launched at the worst time.

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Well, I think we launched

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and we made use of the time we had because there was a clear

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pull in a certain direction.

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yeah.

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And we, and we followed the call.

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I think, and that's the thing of this stuff is in some ways I. Having young

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kids, I think, gave me good boundaries.

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'cause I still wanted to be at home to have lunch with my

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wife and young son at the time.

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But it meant that, yeah, we couldn't do it all.

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So maybe if we had, we'd have worked 24 hours a day because

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we didn't have young families.

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Who's to say it would've survived if we'd carried on that road?

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So, well this conundrum, let's say is, is a common one we come up against, isn't it?

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Like, it sometimes feels that I wanna do this thing, but time

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and commitments are stopping me from moving forward on this path.

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There's two things here for me.

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One, in terms of our story, it's patience.

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This is like 13 years ago now.

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You know, this isn't like an overnight success.

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It's taken us time to get to where we are now, uh, and that that

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has its own story attached to it.

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But this idea of carving out time and headspace to explore me and my impact, it

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can feel like we don't have enough time.

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When you do that with a blank page.

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But if you're given structure, if you're given guidance, you can probably

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do this work in 15, 20 minutes.

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It doesn't have to take a whole day.

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And if you did that 20 minutes a day for a week, there's a

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lot of clarity you can get.

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And particularly if you do that with others, When you have people that ask

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you questions about what it is you're exploring, that gets you outta your

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own little loop, and you're limiting beliefs about what's possible and

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what's not and what you are allowed and, and, and even getting inspiration.

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And, and Carlos, there's also the element of having a safer enough space

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to unpack also what's, you know, what are the resistance coming, where, where

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is it coming from, and what would you need to be supported in this resistance?

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Because yeah, a big part of this is really looking at, you

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know, what, where, where am I?

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You know, what am I resisting?

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Yeah.

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And

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how can I be supported around it?

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And you're not al, and that you are not alone with it.

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This is the biggest problem I think we're trying to solve with what we do, is

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that all of us are in our heads thinking we are the only idiot thinking this or

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feeling this or struggling with this.

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And then you get to a space, everyone it worked out, and you say it out

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loud, particularly in like a small group, we have six or seven people.

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Someone says it and suddenly, boom, everyone's shoulders drops.

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Everyone says, yeah, okay, me too all.

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Let's move on.

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But I think another part of this too is.

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And I think this applies, I'm so sure to the young parents, but

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especially probably, do I deserve this?

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You know, do I deserve to devote some time and space for me because

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I've got other things to do.

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Maybe older parents, maybe young kids, maybe the job,

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the household or that stuff.

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So in some ways, I might come last.

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And so that feeling of like, actually I deserve this.

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I deserve to pay attention and give time.

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To my needs in the midst of all this.

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And I know, Lana, you've been, well, you've shared a lot about this blogging

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and through your work about boundaries, particularly for moms and given you a

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journey with cancer, then you had to put those boundaries in place, right?

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Yeah.

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Yeah, because there's, you know, the, the more that we are connected

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with ourselves, then the more that we can be self full and Yeah.

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And, and we are often given the narratives of, oh, if I, give too much

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attention to others, then I'm selfish.

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Uh, I, I'm just selfless.

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And then if I give too much attention to myself, then I'm selfish.

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But there is.

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You know, self fullness of how can we come from a place of wholeness,

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of fullness so that we don't.

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Keep on depleting ourselves.

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And I think that that is a challenge, especially as an entrepreneur

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and as a mother or a parent.

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We keep on depleting our resources and how can we resource ourselves with

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impactful work, with amazing connections, with, uh, a work that feels effortless?

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And, and this we, you know, we can only do as how we do it.

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Uh, generations ago.

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As a tribe, as a community, it's not something that we can do on ourselves.

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I felt a helpful reframe for me, particularly if you're a people

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pleaser, is that if I'm not allowed it, why is anyone else allowed it?

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If I'm not allowed to be selfish, does that mean no one

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else is allowed to be selfish?

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Am I so special that I'm not allowed to be selfish and everyone else else can?

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So you know that whole thing of like, actually I'm not worth it, is then that

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starts to project, that will eventually project on other people and you'll

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say that they're not worth it either.

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Subliminally,

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so,

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but it's modeling, isn't it?

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Offer that,

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as in Yeah, we've seen people, well I was just thinking it a,

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mainly as a mental hack, there's the modeling, which is to help other people,

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but really this is, I believe this is a big blocker for people pleasers.

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Yeah, because it's like everyone else deserves more than I do.

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But then not realizing that if you don't allow it for yourself,

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then you're not necessarily gonna allow it for other people.

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That's a way to basically turn that weapon on yourself in a sense.

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Like, no.

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Okay.

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I got, like you said, Laurence, I've gotta model it.

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I've gotta be able to do it to, so others are allowed as well.

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oh, oh, we've got a comment here from Yvonne.

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I just wanna have a quick look at which part of the problem is the

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range of limiting beliefs we may have absorbed as children, which can be

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a unseen, and b, deeply embedded.

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This is the work.

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This is

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the work LA like chomping to answer that.

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Your business school,

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this is the stuff they don't teach you step program to six figure success.

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It's like, oh, just flick that switch.

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No, this stuff is deeply ingrained.

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Yeah.

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But if we don't admit it, and if we don't have the courage to share

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that with others, we will be stuck.

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it's, it's also a matter of surfacing it in the first place.

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Uh, sometimes we just don't know what we don't know.

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And, um, in conversations being in a community, we get to surface certain

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patterns that are like, oh, wait a minute.

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That's also the same thing with me.

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And that.

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That form of mirroring is so helpful to unpack them and, and to slowly

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reveal the layers underneath.

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This is the point of the program where I direct people to Lana, say,

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you need a one-to-one with Lana.

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And then they come back typically in floods of tears, good tears, happy tears.

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Um, just to recap on today in terms of what we're, uh, we were

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trying to communicate about, um, this idea of redefining success.

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Uh, the tool that we use on Vision 2020 is called the Success Success Canvas.

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And the four reframes that we've try, we are trying to get people to

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think about, is to think about happy money, intentional time, authentic

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connection, and effortless impact, owning those definitions for themselves.

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'cause we believe that if you are like us and you want to do work that's

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more aligned to who you are, these are the four ways to look at success.

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Uh, and we will share with them this is what we do in the program.

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We share our definitions and what it means to us and how we've

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created that in our own businesses.

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And then we get everyone in the, in the program to share their own so

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that we can then with this seniors come with more, uh, grounded and

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personal and authentic definitions so that we can do more of the work.

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So, uh, take note if you are interested in this work.

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Uh, and if you want to, if you're curious about the program, if you

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just want to have a conversation and learn more about it, then go to the

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website vision, do happy startups.co.

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You'll find more information about how the curriculum works, and also

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there's an opportunity to schedule in a call with Laurence and myself so we

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can just find the fit, so to make sure that, uh, you're in the right place.

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Thank you everyone.

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any final words, Lana or Laurence?

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Ah, I'm just looking forward to seeing the conversations very, very alive,

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chat conversations, so looking forward for tomorrow around stories of change.

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Same for me.

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I think, um, yeah, covered a lot, but I think for me it's just moving on

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this path towards, towards the thing that, uh, sparks your curiosity or

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feels more aligned rather than having to change everything from day one.

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So yeah, not ignoring the feelings or the feels,

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