TRUE PERSERVERANCE With Christa Rose

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Hello. It's Howard Brown. It's the Shining Brightly

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Show. Oh, my God, I have one of my most favorite people to me

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today, Christa Rose, welcome. Welcome. I'm so honored that

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you're having me on and thank you so much to your listeners

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and your viewers for spending their precious time watching me,

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hearing my stories, and, you know, collaborating with you.

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Well, I have to tell you our dear friend Sunette gave you the

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nickname rose bud. And it's so applicable. You are just a

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blossoming rosebud, and all that you do, you have your rose i

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love the nickname. She calls me her miracle man. I got a special

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shirt today for our show. Answer sucks. So for those that will

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see that pictures are listening, I'm wearing a Cancer sucks t

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shirt today, and we'll find out why about that in a little bit.

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Let me tell you about Crista, who's actually just across the

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water. I'm in the, you know, outside of Detroit, Michigan,

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and she's in Canada, in Ontario. We are really close, but it's

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absolutely amazing. So let me tell you about Crista. Crista is

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the author of Amazon number one best selling book. Skip the

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pain. Experience the pleasure. Cut the crap that's holding you

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back so you can live the life you love. Just let that sink in.

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She teaches others that the way they think, talk and act,

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creates their reality by using her profound experiences from

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surviving a head on collision, holding her husband as he took

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his last breath.

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Wow, continues battling from chronic, chronic illnesses, and

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she's an international speaker, a TV co host with us on the

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soul. Soul diamond author journey, healthcare advocate and

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fishing this. And she's also holistic her message and move

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from living a life in pain to the life that you love. And so

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Crista, welcome. I just the bio is just inspiring there. But

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tell us how you shine brightly each day.

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Oh, my goodness. What an amazing question. And I

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think everybody should ask that themselves every morning. So one

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of the things I do, generally, I've started this random act of

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kindness. So I've taken my books and randomly put them in

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different spots, and I literally write in if you find this book,

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there's no coincidence. It's meant to be. This is a book for

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you. You're going to find a message and hopefully change

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your life. And I leave it all over the place, and I have

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received some emails back saying you're probably not even going

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to get this, probably one of your team. And I'm thinking, No,

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it's really me and and they share, you know, how they how it

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inspired them or change your life. But you know that's that's

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maybe on a bigger picture every single day. And I use

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yesterday's example, I find even little ways to spread kindness.

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So for instance, yesterday, some I was getting a coffee, and

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someone, you could tell she she screwed up the order about like,

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five times with someone else, and the other person was getting

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so mad at her, and my heart just was going to her. And I just

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said, so I I pulled out, we're in Canada. We have looneys for

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$1 don't even get into that. So I pulled out Looney as a tip.

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And I said, you know, here you go. It looks like you kind of

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had a rough day. And thank you so much for making my coffee

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perfect. And she says, Oh my goodness, you have no idea I've

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been on my feet. And she continued on with her story. And

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I listened, I held space for her. So yeah, that's one of the

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ways I try to shine brightly every day.

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And you and I are identical because I look in the

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mirror, okay? Because most people look in the mirror, they

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don't look like what they see. And I say my daily mantra, which

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is to I am grateful, okay, I am blessed and I am lucky. And who

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can I lift up today? And we do that by choosing kindness is the

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first thing that we do, and so that's why we're so aligned.

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It's beautiful. Now I want to dig in, because the show, you

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know, we don't have a lot of time. It's a short show. It's a

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tease. So everyone can get to know you and just tell me, you

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know, you've been through a lot. So, you know, tell me about your

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resiliency. I mean, you've been through a lot, so start, start

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there with a quick background and what you've overcome.

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Yeah. So, you know, when I was younger, I

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overheard my mom say, yeah, she was a mistake, you know, big

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oops. Now, having said that, my brother was only two months old,

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and she got pregnant for me, so I wasn't quite planned, but

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being a child, what did I hear? I was a mistake. That's not what

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she meant. She, you know, was saying it casually to a bunch of

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woman, and now she says I was a pleasant surprise, but again,

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back then, all I heard was, I was a mistake, and if you're a

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mistake, what do you have to do? You have to fix yourself. You

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have to fix others. So it became this perfectionism. I I'm not

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going I don't get into my childhood a lot. My parents were

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divorced. Very, very unstable and abusive. But what I did do

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was I persevered, and I wanted to have a life that I didn't

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have, so I fast tracked through school. I became a nutritionist.

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I met the love of my life, named Robert, and things we had a son.

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I moved up as a director in the the hospital, and it was shortly

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after my my career, I was driving home, and that's when it

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was the first day of spring, and who would have thought we had a

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massive snowstorm. I mean, what we're supposed to have flowers.

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And as I was driving home, my car started sliding. And, you

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know, I saw these bright lights coming towards me. And, yeah, it

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was a full size pickup truck. And not only did it smack into

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my car, and, you know, cause all these injuries it, it brought

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back all this pain and all these memories from my childhood and

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you know, things that I've stepped down, you know, I had

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best friend who passed away, and they never really went through

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all that stuff. I had, all the survivors guilt. So that led me

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down a path of spiraling down and addiction. And I'm saying

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this right now because that was one of my secrets, because I

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want to look like someone who has it all together, if I'm a

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mistake, who has an addiction. But guess what? The face of

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addiction can look like anything. So at first my

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addiction was like validation, and then it was my pain pills,

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because I wanted to not feel and as I continued on doing that, it

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says right on the bottle, alcohol may intensify the

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effects of of this medication. I thought, great. So I opened a

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bottle of wine, and what I say is not good to keep things

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bottled up, not a good joke. But that didn't end up well. I

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completely spiraled down, and I, you know, did end up in a

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recovery home. I'm so grateful for that, because in that

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recovery home, I knew I learned the tools of how to basically

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live life on life's terms, regardless of what you go

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through. And I needed those tools because one year, one

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month and one day, as you said in my bio, my husband passed

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away. We he had leukemia, and we only knew for two weeks I

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thought he had mono, so when he went through that, we had a four

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and a half year old son, and I would have totally lost

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everything. My son would have lost two parents, but I had

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those tools from spiraling down, and I truly believe it was meant

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to be that I got in that car accident and that I did spiral

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down, so I had the tools to be that, that mother that I so

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wanted to be see. I didn't sign up to be a widow. I signed up to

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be a wife, but I had to learn acceptance. So that was a really

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big thing,

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that's resilience, that's resilience, and what I

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call that, and you know, we've read each other's books inside

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and out that walk in darkness, okay, you learn from it. Okay.

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Now, some people take a longer walk in darkness, and you did,

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and I have, and you've got to get out of there. And I have to

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tell you, I It's so commendable, that resilience, that hope, that

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you've been able to pull yourself back up, but you don't

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do that alone. You do that with the light of others. And that,

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that's really how it works. Now, I want to get into the book,

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because I love this. I keep this at my bedside. Everyone can see

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it, if you're watching on the video.

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Oh, we've got both our books up there, but I want you to you the

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acronyms that you use, okay? And I'm going to talk about the one

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that that's funny, that we always use, though, but cut the

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crap that's holding you back so you can live the life that you

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love. And I've got Mr. Poop here with me for those watching on

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video, squeezy poop. Okay, we're going to cut the crap. Tell them

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what the acronym means.

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So when I say that crap I use, clarity resolves all

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possibilities. And it's so true, break that down, really think

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about it. And when you have that clarity in your life, you're not

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focusing on the pain. And really, what I do and what my

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book is about is not focusing on the pain those tragedies I went

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through. I'm battling a chronic illness right now, it's a

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visible illness. I've gone through quite a few, but I don't

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let that stop me. So what I do is I learn to shift my mindset

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from pain to a place of passion and purpose. And it wasn't easy.

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So I make my book really easy, funny to read, full of acronyms

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and lots of humor. I had to get my mother's approval, like, for

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instance, what's the key spot is gratitude? Of course, I'm going

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to throw that up right right away. It's with a little bit

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bigger writing. And you know what? I really just hope to

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inspire people from my story. I Become very vulnerable, and when

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you get to that conclusion, you will not only start living a

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life you love, you will start living a life you like. Because

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you know how many people are walking around right now who

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really don't like their life, it is surprising. They look on

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Facebook and social media and they think, Oh, my goodness,

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what's wrong with me? And they put on this mask, and that's

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what I hope to expose by being vulnerable, by saying, Look at

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this. Is what someone who's a survivor looks like. This is

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what someone who's an addict looks like. This is someone who

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lives with invisible illnesses, chronic pain, disability.

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Sometimes I use a cane, and I'm used to be really self conscious

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about that, and my walker, and now if I have to do it, I have

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to do it. So yeah, that's, that's kind of the Cole's nose

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version.

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You have, you have turned your purpose, your pain,

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into purpose, and your people don't know you don't really

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don't know someone until you walk in their shoes a little

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bit. And you know these individual invisible

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disabilities, there's people walking around out there you

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just don't know. And most people, what we worry about is

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isolation. Okay, if you do it in isolation, you know that's where

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darkness and addiction and other things can happen, the bad

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stuff. But I always tell people that if you don't have a support

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group or a group of trusted caregivers, we'll help build one

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for you. That's what I do. As you do, we can help find you the

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right help and get you pointed in the right direction, but

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you've got to help try to lift yourself up so then you can go

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lift up others. And it all starts with our first word

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kindness, yes, by buying someone a random cup of coffee, you

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don't know how you change their day. And again, it's a

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beautiful, beautiful thing. So there's one other word called

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Wait. What's that acronym mean wait?

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So I love the word Wait, because before we

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impossibly do that, stop and wait. And I use it W, A, I T,

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for, what am I thinking? So what are we thinking? Are we thinking

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all these negative thoughts? Are we beating ourselves up? Are we

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thinking about everything that happened yesterday, all these

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negative things, and we lose hope? And my second one is, why

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am I talking? If you think about it, what's one thing everybody

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loves to do? Gossip and complain. Oh, my goodness, my

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back hurts. Someone stole my alien child, someone's, you

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know, my mother's bugging me in all this stuff, and we complain,

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and then we gossip about someone else, and you never know how

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deadly that gossip could be. So why am I talking and, most

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importantly, what? Why am I talking to myself? Am I beating

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myself up, saying I'm not good enough. Oh, my goodness, I left

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dishes in the sink, and people are going to think I'm a slob.

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That is not it. So stop before you speak, even to yourself. And

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last one is what actions I'm taking. Are you spreading

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kindness? Are you stopping to take a moment and acknowledge

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other people, listen to them, share your stories, and look at

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the actions you're taking every day. And is it enhancing the

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world, or are you, you know, bringing fear, kindness or fear,

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love or fear?

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It's so beautiful. And I'll add two others. One

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that we learned from Diane garger and our author journey

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show, which we're going to talk about next is that also bring a

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little joy in yourself and others each day, also what I

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call find your happy place. Now, mine's the basketball court. I'm

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out of time out right now for a little bit, but find a place

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that you love. It could be cooking, it could be meditation,

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it could be hiking, it could be travel, it could be the beach,

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it could be water, it could be anything, nature, art. Just do

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that and schedule it in, and go there to your stress free zone.

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And it's so repairing and healthy. And it could be, you

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know, meditation and mantras and music. So all that I want to get

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into. We both be, over the last year, have become TV hosts, and

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we are on a program called the soul author. I'm sorry. Soul

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diamond, author journey, and it's every Wednesday we record

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live to about 100 over 100,000 people on e3 60 TV and Sunette

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van Bretta, our fairy godmother, our dancing queen butterfly.

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Basically we all got introduced through her. And then our life

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energy, Laura ballet also joins us, and we basically bring

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authors in. What does that show mean to you? And how much fun

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Are we having doing?

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Oh my goodness, we are having so much fun. First of

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all, I got to make meet amazing people globally, not just you

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guys, but globally around the world. And not only do we hear

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all these amazing books and stories. We get to see the

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person, the author, behind the words, behind the pages, and it

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really has opened my eyes to, first of all, the different kind

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of books, the meanings behind the books. And we get to dance

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on TV. And one thing I really want to stress is For anybody

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who's an author, you know, we really want to open it up,

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because we want you to shine. We make sure the focus is on you.

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And you can say you've been on a TV show, you get featured in a

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magazine. You also are on a YouTube station and channel that

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is shared. So there's so many benefits. And again, you will

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walk away. I guarantee not one person has said anything

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different, but you will walk away saying, this has been

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amazing the time of my life, and so inspired and so full of

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happiness.

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I couldn't say it any better, because the art of

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storytelling is really important, but how your message

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is received out there. Because we all read the books

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individually. We ask them questions, but we actually find

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out who they are, what they were thinking, what their process

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was. And we've done stuff from a franchise manual to a murder

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mystery to people's, you know, you know, pain into into a real

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life transformation. And we're going to keep doing it. And it's

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very it's one of my favorite parts of the week, is to do the

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the soul diamond author journey with you now. Also, the other

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thing is, is that authorship is important. We've both written

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our own books, but we've also participated in collaborative

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books. And so here's another one I'm holding up, called the soul

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diamond author journey. And you participated with 20 other

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women, and you told a faction of your story. You wrote a chapter,

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okay? And that's how you got involved and expand your word.

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And we've also been in another one coming called the art

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collection, another group art centered people. Okay, telling

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the story. This one's the art of connection, of 365, days of

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abundance, they had gratitude and transformation. And in one

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page, I'm doing shining brightly with abundance. You keep in with

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your brand, and you share people, and every day you get a

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read, a little bit of inspiration. I think it's a

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beautiful way we invite others to come join us.

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It's amazing. I am so happy, and I got to meet

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Robert W Jones on his show. And you know, he's authentic, and

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that's what this book is about, authentic people sharing

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authentic stories.

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It is. And we shout out to Robert W Jones, the

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W Natalie McQueen, our publishing friend, also in the

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book. And and Buddy Thornton the human AI editor extraordinaire,

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and just incredible people, right? We've just been blessed

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with such a surrounding, and I feel so welcome, supported,

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engaged, and had that whole crew, and it's about 1500

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authors Now out of all the volumes of the books that'll be

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out in January, I also did another one called 52 secrets of

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goal setting and participating in these collaborative

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anthologies is very interesting work, because you're writing a

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page or a chapter and you're not writing the whole book. And I

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don't know about you, but writing a whole book took me

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three and a half years, and I dictated it on Zoom, and it's

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not it doesn't happen overnight to publish that way, so it takes

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time, and I am working on book two. Are you working on book

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two?

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I actually just got offered a book deal

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yesterday, so it's funny, you should ask that. But I just

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wanted to say one more thing about the art of connection that

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blew me away. It's going to be entered in the Library of

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Congress. I mean, right, who would have thought? And it's

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going to be featured on a jumbotron in New York. So, I

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mean, the amount of bonuses that your story can impact other

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people when they buy this book will be extraordinary, yeah. So,

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I mean, it's absolutely incredible.

Howard Brown: 00:18:33

So, and we met in New York, okay? And we, you're,

Howard Brown: 00:18:36

you're on the Jumbotron, it was really, I have to tell you,

Howard Brown: 00:18:41

between Sunette and Natalie, we couldn't stop hugging. I mean,

Howard Brown: 00:18:44

it was just incredible energy, because I only spent 45 minutes

Howard Brown: 00:18:48

in Times Square with you guys take a train back to New Jersey.

Howard Brown: 00:18:50

But it was such a highlight. It was incredible. Now, I want to

Howard Brown: 00:18:55

switch the topic, and because the last part of my book chapter

Howard Brown: 00:18:58

is is basically called sharing the hope and you and I, hope is

Howard Brown: 00:19:04

the fuel that gets us through almost every day. What does hope

Howard Brown: 00:19:07

mean to you?

Christa Rose: 00:19:08

You know hope has changed my life, because I

Christa Rose: 00:19:12

finally realized I can't be that perfectionism. So it stands for

Christa Rose: 00:19:17

heck over pleasing everyone, and then it leads down to hold on

Christa Rose: 00:19:24

pain end.

Howard Brown: 00:19:26

Wow. You have so many acronyms a book, and you

Howard Brown: 00:19:29

explain them and apply them, and it's actually, it makes the book

Howard Brown: 00:19:34

very a page turner. And I just love it. So it's really, really

Howard Brown: 00:19:37

incredible. And so it's, just wow. So what are you working on

Howard Brown: 00:19:44

now? Your book deal? Great. What else you got going on?

Christa Rose: 00:19:47

Yeah. So not only am I now collaborating with

Christa Rose: 00:19:51

another author, there's only gonna be 10 of us, we're all

Christa Rose: 00:19:54

gonna going to be writing a chapter I am collaborating with

Christa Rose: 00:19:59

a lot of different organizations. One called Epic,

Christa Rose: 00:20:01

and it stands for empowering people with invisible, chronic

Christa Rose: 00:20:06

conditions. And it's not just physical conditions, it can be

Christa Rose: 00:20:10

emotional conditions, grief, grief of loss of identity,

Christa Rose: 00:20:13

mental. There's just so many things, and they offer so much

Christa Rose: 00:20:18

support. I do speaking for them, and all the proceeds from my

Christa Rose: 00:20:23

book, I'm giving to them right now to help support them and

Christa Rose: 00:20:27

just an amazing organization, and I look forward to

Christa Rose: 00:20:30

collaborating with just more and more people to spread more

Christa Rose: 00:20:34

inspiration, more passion and more joy around the globe.

Howard Brown: 00:20:38

Yeah, that sounds incredible. With your

Howard Brown: 00:20:40

permission, I want to get the link and include that in the

Howard Brown: 00:20:42

show notes. That in the show notes, and when we push this out

Howard Brown: 00:20:44

over social media to expose the organization and let people

Howard Brown: 00:20:48

learn more about that, I think it's truly incredible. Well,

Howard Brown: 00:20:51

this is a short show, so I'm going to put on sunglasses. I'm

Howard Brown: 00:20:54

going to ask you to put on your sunglasses. Hold up your rose.

Howard Brown: 00:20:58

This is the shining brightly spotlight. This is the time

Howard Brown: 00:21:00

where you and I are sharing our light with the world. I want you

Howard Brown: 00:21:05

to tell people how best to get a hold of you. Okay, there'll be

Howard Brown: 00:21:08

lots of links to social and your book and things like that, but

Howard Brown: 00:21:11

the best way to get a hold of you, and then I'd love to leave

Howard Brown: 00:21:13

our audience with some inspiration, absolutely.

Christa Rose: 00:21:17

So really, the best way to get a hold of me is

Christa Rose: 00:21:20

through my website, Christarose.com and is spelled

Christa Rose: 00:21:24

as my mother says, don't hold me to it. Christ with it A. Christ

Christa Rose: 00:21:28

with an A, C, H, R, I, S T, A, Rose, R, O, S E.com, and my you

Christa Rose: 00:21:35

can also email me at message christa@gmail.com and one of my

Christa Rose: 00:21:40

inspirations is Be kind, spread joy, spread inspiration, be

Christa Rose: 00:21:46

vulnerable and show up for people.

Howard Brown: 00:21:50

Wow, wow, wow, wow.

Howard Brown: 00:21:54

I'm inspired by that. So it's incredible. You are incredible.

Howard Brown: 00:21:58

So this has been an amazing show, and it's just it's packed

Howard Brown: 00:22:02

with so much knowledge, wisdom and goodness that people can

Howard Brown: 00:22:06

really apply to their lives. And I encourage people to reach out

Howard Brown: 00:22:10

to us. And you know what, if we can't help you, we can connect

Howard Brown: 00:22:14

you. We are connectors. We know our networks are huge, and we

Howard Brown: 00:22:18

can connect you with the right people. So we, I put that as an

Howard Brown: 00:22:22

open offer to anyone for that as well. And so anyone going

Howard Brown: 00:22:25

through their struggles, but anyone going through good things

Howard Brown: 00:22:29

too, go help others. Right? Go help others. So this is the

Howard Brown: 00:22:33

shining brightly show. You can reach me at shining brightly.com

Howard Brown: 00:22:37

and at the website, you'll learn all about the podcast you want

Howard Brown: 00:22:41

to hire me to speak and make your event shine, or your

Howard Brown: 00:22:45

fundraiser or be on a panel? Please contact me. Also my

Howard Brown: 00:22:48

advocacy and the book are there, but the advocacy is most

Howard Brown: 00:22:52

important. So I do a lot of work in the cancer field about

Howard Brown: 00:22:56

telling people to get screened and not get cancer, okay, and if

Howard Brown: 00:23:00

you do get diagnosed, how to actually get through that

Howard Brown: 00:23:03

journey, and then also survivorship, which both of you

Howard Brown: 00:23:07

and I are living every single day. Survivorship is hard, okay,

Howard Brown: 00:23:11

but you can do it, and you can get up, and you should get up,

Howard Brown: 00:23:15

and we'll help you get up, and that's really important. And I

Howard Brown: 00:23:18

work with entrepreneurs at Babson College, and I do

Howard Brown: 00:23:22

interfaith advocacy, because in this time of you know

Howard Brown: 00:23:25

uncertainty, knowing the other that's why we're here. And so I

Howard Brown: 00:23:29

love that type of work as well. And so just remember, if you

Howard Brown: 00:23:33

know, you choose, okay, kindness and giving and healing and joy

Howard Brown: 00:23:37

and not to hate. Okay, we become a force multiplier for good and

Howard Brown: 00:23:41

positive change, right? So let me give a little shout out.

Howard Brown: 00:23:45

Thanks to some of my folks that make me look good, aka sponsors,

Howard Brown: 00:23:49

front edge publishing, my book publisher. Read the spirit

Howard Brown: 00:23:53

magazine, where I blog at least monthly, amplify you. That is my

Howard Brown: 00:23:57

podcast, finishing house. They make me look great every week,

Howard Brown: 00:24:01

as we build up and reach people. Also, there's a group actually

Howard Brown: 00:24:05

called Speak, inspire and prosper, that just came on

Howard Brown: 00:24:08

board. And then also the going through a chemo moment here for

Howard Brown: 00:24:12

a second, oh, we have to give a shout out to diamond moments

Howard Brown: 00:24:16

magazine, which I get to feature a podcast in every month. This

Howard Brown: 00:24:20

magazine is incredible. It's so rich, full of life affirming

Howard Brown: 00:24:24

transformation and and stories of hope. So you know, it's free,

Howard Brown: 00:24:28

it's online, it's digital, it's clickable, absolutely

Howard Brown: 00:24:31

incredible. So shout out to Sunday and to send out for the

Howard Brown: 00:24:35

diamond moments magazine as well. Just remember, if you

Howard Brown: 00:24:39

choose to shine brightly, just a little bit each day for

Howard Brown: 00:24:42

yourself, and then lift up others, the world, your

Howard Brown: 00:24:45

neighborhood, your community, your family, will all be in a

Howard Brown: 00:24:49

better place. Crista, Rose rosebud, thank you. You are

Howard Brown: 00:24:53

beautiful, and this is incredible.

Christa Rose: 00:24:55

Thank you so much. Applause.