How Emotional Intelligence Can Transform Your Leadership (Part 5)

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There are so many things that's
a great story because there are

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so many things that we carry
forward that have just been

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these traditions, right?
And and it's OK to what I'll

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say, challenge those traditions,
right?

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Not challenge in a way that's
going to be disruptive, but ask

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the question, why, why do we
communicate this way, right?

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Why, why when we get together,
you know, the resolution always

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has to kind of, you know, take
these 6 steps versus, you know,

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there's a lot easier path.
We got three steps that we can

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get there.
Welcome to leadership

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sovereignty.
I'm your host Terry Baylor along

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with Ralph Owens.
And then this final episode of

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Emotional Intelligence geared
towards your personal growth.

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We'll review self-awareness,
resilience and well-being.

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Enjoy the show.
And we are live back again.

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Terry, how you feeling?
Hey man, I'm giving it

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everything I got to make sure
that I can articulate the

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winning side of life.
That's good, that's good.

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That's tweetable.
You know what I'm saying?

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But it's a lot going on, man.
I had, you know, someone called

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me today and just share, you
know, So here's the thing,

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right?
Emotional intelligence is so

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important because there are so
many things we don't control,

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right?
And so someone calling me about

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the things that they don't
control, and I'm like, you know

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what?
Stay at peace.

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Right.
Yeah, 'cause there's so many

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things we don't control, man.
I mean, people doing things for

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all kind of reasons, right?
So true.

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You know, they say, you know, we
like a family.

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You know, treat me like your
family did.

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Right.
You know, but, you know, and

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people are people.
There's a lot going on in the

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country.
People are stressed, you know,

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just all kind of things going
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But if you can stay at peace,
and I believe the beat, the base

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of that peace is anchored in EQ,
right?

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Yeah, yeah 'cause we can't
control the scenarios.

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That's true.
That's true.

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You know that's true, Pastor.
But we can't control how we.

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I'm sorry, but we can't control
how we react.

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That's the only thing you have
control over.

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That is the only thing you have
control over.

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Pastor Joe says it like this.
He says your your place of peace

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is your place of power.
Oh boy, that's good.

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If you can maintain your peace,
you can maintain your power.

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Wow, yeah, man, that's real good
right there.

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That's there's a lot in that.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Because.
Again, right.

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You, you control what you say,
right?

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You control what you do.
You control the action and the

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reaction.
Yeah, yeah, right.

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I know one of the techniques we
talk about sometimes when the

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situation is going on, just talk
softly.

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Yes.
Because when you talk softly,

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you know what people do?
They lean in.

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That's right.
They got to match you.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's a good, it's a great

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technique.
It's a great technique.

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Yeah, yeah.
So good.

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I'm excited about today's show.
Awesome, awesome, awesome.

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So this is episode 5 of how
emotional intelligence can

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transform your leadership.
So we're gonna talk about

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personal growth today.
First topic is emotional

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intelligence and self-awareness.
So understanding your strengths

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and weaknesses, Terry, what
what, what comes to mind for you

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when you talk, when you think
about, you know, EQ and you're

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and being self aware of your own
strengths.

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Yeah.
I mean, you got to know you,

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right?
No one knows you better than

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you.
I think I've talked about this

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in the past, but there's an
exercise that I do, you know, in

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the morning sometime I do it in
the evening, I'll just get in

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the mirror, right?
And I'd look in the mirror and

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I'm not just looking at my
silhouette, so to speak, right?

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I think a lot of times when we
look in the mirror, we're

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looking really at the external
us, right?

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But I look in the mirror and I
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You know, the Bible says that
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your soul, right?
So I look into my eyes and I and

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I, I, I'm like, Hey, who, who
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Who do you want to be, right?
What, what is your purpose?

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What is driving you right?
And I, I, I have these kind of

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internal self conversations and
then I state, Terry, this is who

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you are.
This is who you are designed to

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be.
This is your purpose on earth to

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serve those on earth for the
betterment of the Kingdom of

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God, right?
This is this is here's the

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thing, man, if we can align our
what and why to our purpose,

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that will help man fortify and
give you some direction in terms

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of, you know, what kind of
person, what kind of

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personality, what kind of
character do you want to show

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out there?
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All these, these little
techniques are, are really

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crucial to really get beyond
what I'll call that out of

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surface of who we are, right?
Yeah, no, it's good.

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Yeah, it's really good.
It's really good.

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I know for me, when it, when you
talk about understanding your

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strengths and weaknesses with
EQ, it it really tell it.

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It really speaks to putting
myself in situations where I

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know I could succeed, right, in
avoiding putting myself in

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situations where I know I may
have a weakness in, right.

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You know, there may be certain
conversations that you may not

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do well with because of issues
in your past or things of that

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nature.
Having the ability to use EQ to

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understand your emotions when
topics like that come up allow

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you to put yourselves in
situations where you can win and

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you don't have to worry about,
you know, react in a certain way

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and things of that nature.
So if you don't understand your

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own and your own emotions, then
you know, how can you avoid

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those situations, right?
Or look for the opportunities

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for your strengths to shine.
So I said it's a really good

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one.
What about setting goals and,

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and achieving personal growth,
right?

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What what what comes to mind for
you there with EQ?

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That's at the core, yeah.
Yeah, I think that's at the core

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really raffle what leadership
sovereignty is all about, right?

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It is getting better each day.
And I'll I'll just give you

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know, an, an anecdotal, you
know, real life scenario, right?

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So my wife tells me all the
time, Terry, you come from a big

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family, so you tend to interrupt
people when you when you're in a

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conversation.
I work really hard on that to

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wait.
Now, I never saw it from that

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perspective, but it makes sense,
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When you have six brothers and
two sisters.

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Yeah.
There's that's a big

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conversation, you know, when you
guys get together for holidays

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and whatnot.
And I'm sure there's something

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about that experience over the
length of my life that when I am

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in conversation, yeah, it's
something that I didn't really

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pay attention to or notice, but
it's something that I actively

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work on.
Like to this day when I'm, when

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I'm speaking with someone.
Wait, let them finish their

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thought, right?
And, and, and not, you know,

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waiting to respond.
But yeah, I mean, just getting

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better, right.
To your point about

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understanding your strengths and
weaknesses, right?

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So there are certain scenarios
that we're going to be in that

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we can't control, right?
There going to be certain

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triggers that we have.
And we know that those are the

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those are our triggers.
Some of them may be based in a

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life experience, right?
Some of them may be based in a

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pattern that we were just born
in, right?

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And so we have to be aware that,
oh, OK, this, hey, just because

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your family does, it doesn't
mean it's right.

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That's right, Right, Right.
You know what I'm saying?

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I'd be someone told the story
and my wife told me this.

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I'm sure you knew you, you may
have heard it too, But the story

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goes, someone was cooking a
roast, right?

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And they were like, why didn't
you cut the you know, why did

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you cut the butt off the roast?
Well, because grandma cut the,

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you know, butt off.
And and so we've been doing it

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for generations.
As a matter of fact, Ralph, you

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never even told me this story.
And then they went, well, let's

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go ask, you know, great granny,
why they, oh, man, great great

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grandma cut the butt off the
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small.
And so there are so many things.

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That's a great story because
there are so many things that we

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carry forward that have just
been these traditions, right?

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And, and it's OK to what I'll
say, challenge those traditions,

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right?
Not challenge in a way that's

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going to be disruptive, but ask
the question, why, Why do we

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communicate this way, right?
Why, why when we get together,

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you know, the resolution always
has to kind of, you know, take

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these 6 steps versus, you know,
there's a lot easier path.

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We got three steps that we can
get there.

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So I think it's, it's OK.
And, and then I'll say this,

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right?
I think the biggest lesson for

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me, and that is, and I'm still
learning things, right?

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When you are in a relationship,
of course, marriage is one of

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the easiest ones to, you know,
find this out.

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But even in friendships, right?
You're going to find out that

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there are patterns and things
that in relationships people do

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that may grate you the wrong way
and you're like, oh, that's

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uncomfortable.
Well, when you start getting

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down to the bottom of it, it's
just that family or whomever had

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a different pattern, so.
Yeah, that's good.

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That's really good.
That's really good.

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I love how you talked about, you
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interrupting thing, right?
And making it a goal for

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yourself.
You know, I'm, I'm going to

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become better in this area,
right?

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That's what it takes, right?
Is, is being real with yourself,

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right?
You know, looking at your

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emotions, using EQ to, to
analyze your emotions and

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saying, OK, this is something
that I can get better in, right?

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You know, for me it was, I think
for me, I think for me, it was

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in marriage.
It was not, not, not not

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listening to, to just to be
ready to say my part, right?

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Because you could be in a
conversation and you're not

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listening to anything the other
person's saying.

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I'm just waiting to say my part
because I think I'm right, you

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know, but thoughtfully listening
and, and active listening as, as

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they call it and, and really
asking deeper questions, you

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know, to, to get a better
understanding, right?

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That was something that I had to
really work on.

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Sure, you know, because I like
to move fast and sometimes

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things don't move fast, right?
You got to slow down and take

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the time that they serve.
So that's good.

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It's good.
So let's let's go to the next

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one.
Emotional intelligence and

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resilience.
So overcoming challenges and

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setbacks, right?
So first thing that came to mind

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for me when I read that was it
is not what happens to you

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that's most important.
It's what you do after what

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happens that's most important,
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You can have a bad incident.
And to Terry's point, he kind of

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opened up with it.
You cannot control what's what

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other people do You can't.
It is it is 100% out of your

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control.
And some of us think that we

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have the power to control what
other people do and we do not.

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God did not give us that power,
but what we have 100% complete

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control over is how we respond
to the things that come to us or

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the things that happened to us.
So by using emotional

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intelligence, you can change
your outlook and perspective in

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context on how or what happened
to you in a positive direction

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that allows you to overcome that
challenge and that set back

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right, because those those are
the things that are completely

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within your control to do.
But I tell you what comes to

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what comes to mind for you, You
know, when we talk about

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overcoming challenges and
setbacks with EQ.

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Yeah.
Here's the thing.

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Any challenge that you are
facing, you know, I would say

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the number one thing we can do
as it relates to EQ is to look

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at that challenge as an
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I think that is one of the
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all can probably work on because
typically we look at a challenge

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or, you know, our set back as
something that is holding us

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back, something that's keeping
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Here's the thing where I've
been, I've been, you know,

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studying this, this lesson about
that very thing, right?

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And so the, the, the orator of
the, of the lesson, I'm

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listening to he, he, he frames
it like this, right?

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Anytime a sword is, is is is
made, right?

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It's tempered, it's gone through
the fire and it's tested right.

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So that testing proves that it's
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Think of it this way.
If there's a challenge that you

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are facing or there is a set
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and this is this is a this is an
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Because our emotional
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salvaging situations is going to
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act out of whatever it is we're
experiencing, right?

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But if you can look at that
experience as, oh, I'm being

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forged, I'm being, I'm being
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This is this is this is a
scenario that's or experience

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that I'm in that is growing me
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So when you face any type of
salad, and so now it may not be

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something internal, maybe
something external, it may be a

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person.
So when you look at that

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scenario as, oh, OK, this is an
opportunity for me to grow and

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be forged as a stronger leader,
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I'll, this may be an opportunity
for empathy, right?

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This may be an opportunity to
challenge, right, Ralph, just to

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kind of go back to the dreaded
drama triangle, right, right.

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And so one of the biggest things
that we can do in those

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challenging moments is to not
see ourselves as a victim,

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right?
So we have some opportunities,

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right?
I can be a challenger.

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Most importantly, I can be a
creator.

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I can create out of any scenario
or situation that I'm in.

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Yeah, right.
Because creativity is my most

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powerful tool.
Sure is.

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That's awesome.
That is awesome.

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That is awesome, man.
That is, that is fantastic.

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Building resilience through
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regulating our emotions, we can
build resilience that we can

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come to count on and depend on
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I think it's a, it's a powerful,
you know, experience when you

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start to regulate your own
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resilient for yourself first,
which then allows you to become

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more resilient for others.
But I mean, what were your

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thoughts on that, Sir?
Wow, Ralph, I think that is that

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is tremendous resilience for
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I think there's no greater or
from a, from a, from a human

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standpoint, right, Other than,
of course, you know, the power

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of, of God.
But when you can rely on

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yourself, that's, that's a
pretty, that's a pretty, that's

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a pretty heavy statement, right?
I can rely on myself and

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situations of stress or
situations of eye concentration,

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situations that are demanding.
I can rely on myself to respond

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emotionally correct.
Yes.

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Right now, now, mostly correct
doesn't necessarily mean

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necessarily saying the perfect
thing, but it does mean the room

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is being managed properly,
right?

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It's not saying you have to be a
perfect human being, but we're

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all saying is that the energy in
the room, right, is being

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properly managed.
Because some things you're

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figuring out as you go, right?
Some, some scenarios are new,

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right?
Some situations are new, but

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because you've been practicing
and some of the key things that

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we talked about earlier, right?
You've been practicing spiritual

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health, right?
You've been practicing physical

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health, you've been practicing
mental health, right?

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You've been practicing
relational health.

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So when you get into these
situations, now you can draw

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from that, right?
So you, your, your senses, your,

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your ability to sense what's
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Because here's the thing, right?
We're talking to leaders here.

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And in these scenarios, people
are looking to you for the

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ballot, right, to maintain the
equilibrium in the room, right?

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Because things are going to
rise, right?

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Temperatures are going to rise.
Yeah, yeah.

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That's right.
How do we manage it?

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Yeah, yeah.
That's good.

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Oh man, it's some good.
That's that's really, really

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good.
That's really, really good.

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I mean, they're moving to the
the last major point about

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emotional intelligence and
well-being, right?

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You know, the connection between
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mental health.
I, I, I believe that, you know,

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strongly regulated emotions, you
know, produce a stable mental

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health, right?
Because when you are not a slave

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to your emotions, you just have
to just pop off and do whatever

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your emotions come to mind and
you actually regulate them.

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You have a, a more stable mental
environment and, and, and, and

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results in a stable mental
health.

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But like what?
What are your your thoughts on

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that here?
Yeah, I believe you saying who

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you want to be or who you're
going to be is a part of that,

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Is a part of that mental health,
right?

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Because you are.
Because here's the thing, we are

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becoming, right?
We are developing, always

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growing, always learning.
And so when you practice who you

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want to be, practice saying who
you want to be.

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Right.
So just like if you want to get

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some certification, you tell
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certification.
Well, when you start speaking

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that over yourself, then your
your consciousness, your

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subconscious, all the things
that you are start to act

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towards that start to move
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So if you start saying I am
going to be a person that

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operates with EQ, I'm going to
be a person of high character.

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I'm going to let my character
match my, my capacity and my

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skill level, right?
When you, when you start

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speaking that, then your being
starts to move towards that.

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You start to create that
picture, right.

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And so I love one of my favorite
books that I've bought, man, I

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probably bought 6 or 7 copies of
this is the, is the book that

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Joel wrote the I am book, right?
And so when you start saying

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what you are, you start moving
towards that very thing, right?

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Because again, I'm always going
to go back to, you know, my

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anchor is, is the Bible.
And so one of the techniques in

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there are one of the things that
it says about is look what you

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say you are.
That's what you're going to be,

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right?
So as a man speaketh, so is he.

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Out of the abundance of the
heart, the mouth speaks, right?

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So if you're saying I am kind, I
am courteous, I am thoughtful,

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right?
I am a strong leader.

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I am a leader with integrity.
I'm a leader with high

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character.
I'm a leader that shows empathy,

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right?
I'm a leader with balance.

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I am not a leader with over
character, right and and and and

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lack skill set, right, because
now I'm going to open compensate

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on the people side of things.
Yeah, I want my balance leader.

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So, yeah, I think if we start
practicing those things, I think

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it's key for us as leaders
because we carry a lot of, at

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the end of the day, man, there's
a lot on our shoulders.

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Yeah, that's right.
Right.

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There are a lot of people
looking to us for answers.

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And now it's not that we in and
our ourselves have all the

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answers, right?
There's another source.

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We have, you know, mentors,
right, mentees even kind of sold

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back into us.
We have a Board of Governors

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that's, you know, one of the our
personal things that we, yeah,

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our personal board rather where
there are folks that we can go

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to and say, hey, I haven't seen
this situation.

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Can you, can you help me?
So all these things help in our

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mental Wellness because we're
not carrying that load all by

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ourselves, right?
So that's where that relational

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piece plays a role.
But I think just being balanced,

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I, I just have to go back to,
to, to being balanced and

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knowing that you don't have, I'm
going to take go back to this.

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I love this.
You don't have to know it all.

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All you have to know is there is
an answer.

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That's right, Every day.
Every day you, you said

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something that made me think of
when you talked about how as a

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man thinketh, so is he.
I believe it was Henry Ford, if

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I quote this correctly, said.
A man who believes that he can

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accomplish something, it's
right.

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A man who believes that he can
accomplish something is also

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right.
Yes.

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You will be what you believe you
are.

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Yes, yeah, yes.
Yeah, yeah, that's so.

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Good.
Yeah, because because here's and

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I'm, I'm glad you said the word
believe because here's what's

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really key about the word
believe, right?

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Your beliefs are anchored in
your convictions.

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So let's dig deep again, right?
What are your convictions?

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These are the things that that
control your method of execution

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and operation, right at A at a
human level, at a life level.

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So, you know, really digging
into that is going to help us as

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leaders really understand what
our true north is, what's

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driving us, what's our purpose,
what's our passion, right?

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Are we doing it for ourselves?
Are we doing it for the bigger

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purpose, a bigger vision?
Right.

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It's good, it's good, it's
really good.

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It's really good.
Then finally promoting emotional

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well-being and happiness.
You know, and the thing that

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came to mind for me here is we
have to prioritize our emotional

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well-being.
We have to prioritize our

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emotional well-being and our
happiness.

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I, I came from a family of men
who believed in serving God and

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taking care of their families.
Did they prioritize their

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emotional happiness, emotional
well-being?

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Probably not as much as they
could have, right?

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And I, and I say all that to
say, you know, it's not a knock

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towards them, but you could be
so focused on doing a good thing

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that you miss out on doing the
right thing, right?

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You have to be, it has to be
something that's top of mind for

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you, because when it is top of
mind for you, then you can do

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the, the actions that you need
to do to prioritize your

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emotional well-being.
I mean, thoughts on that, Terry?

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Yeah, I'm just gonna say, man.
And Ken, I don't wanna.

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I think I'm just gonna, I think
as an African American man, we

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have to really focus in on that,
you know, because then the seats

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that we're in just really been
transparent here.

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You know, we, we, we're there,
there's not a lot of us in these

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seats.
And so we feel an extra burden

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and wait sometimes because we do
want to prepare the way for the

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next generation, right?
I, I had a call a couple weeks

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ago with a gentleman who's,
who's in college and, you know,

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he's like Mr. Baylor, you know,
I'm taking some classes and got

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a year left and really just want
to make sure that my career path

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is in alignment.
And, and he saw what, you know,

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what, what we're doing, you
know, aligns with, you know,

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where he wants to go on life.
And it really crystallized that

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for me that we are creating a
pathway, you know, for the next,

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you know, generation of African
American leaders.

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And because we just, I mean, in
my career, man, I just didn't

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have these conversations.
I just I.

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Just I didn't.
Hear this stuff.

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I didn't hear it.
I didn't hear it.

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And so I think it's important
that we are intentional about

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this message and but it's also
important that we are

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intentional about sticking
around because because you know,

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when we're off doing our next
set of things, right, those

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gentlemen can have somewhere to
go.

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And, and I'm going to refer back
to our previous podcast with

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Lawrence Losco and we talked
about succession planning and he

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talked about, you know, in order
to do that successfully, you

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have to have something you're
going to.

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So I think that's also a part of
our, our mental, you know,

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health and and understanding.
OK, guys, we need to be

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preparing to go to something so
we can be around right to, you

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know, to support the next
generation.

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Yeah, that's good.
Yeah.

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Yeah, absolutely.
I agree 100%.

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We have a responsibility.
You're right in the seats that

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we that we sit.
And it's not just to, you know,

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ourselves and our families, but
those who come after us because

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there are those who went before
us to make sure that we have the

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opportunity to sit in these
seats.

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So no, absolutely, 100% agree.
So this was excellent, excellent

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show.
We really dug into some really

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good Nuggets.
I think they're really going to

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help those who are listening and
building their careers and

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things of that nature.
So we thank you and appreciate

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all the listeners.
Right.

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Just want to give a heartfelt
shout out to those who listen,

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listen every week.
And I'm just going to throw some

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names out there.
You all won't know who they are,

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but thank you, Gary.
Thank you, Kennedy.

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Thank you, Regina.
Thank you, Renee.

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You know, all the ones that
always reach out to us and and

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always give us great feedback
and always, you know, support

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us.
Thank you very much.

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Just want to give you a shout
out.

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Yes, thank you.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.

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Well, until.
The next time, be blessed and we

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will see you on the next show.
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