Episode 55

TURNING TRIALS INTO TRIUMPHS With Timothy Mabry

“IS YOUR HOUSE ON FIRE?” How is your mental wellness? It’s time to RETRAIN YOUR BRAIN. In Episode 55 of the Shining Brightly Podcast Show (links in the comments) titled, TURNING TRIALS INTO TRIUMPHS. My special guest is Tim Mabry a first responder fire fighter who was trained to run toward fire to save lives. He shares how his personal struggles, depression and negative beliefs had him considering taking his own life and committing suicide. Tim focused on the now with gratitude and conquering his demons by admitting he had a problem and got help. Now as an inspirational speaker and corporate trainer Tim shares his wisdom and leaders guide to help you GET BACK UP AGAIN in business and life. TIM AND ALL FIRST RESPONDERS THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE. Come listen, download, share and review this powerful

episode.

Mentioned Resources –

https://lead-fire.com/

https://timothymabry.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/tmabryspeaker/

https://www.facebook.com/tnmabry

Free guide can be downloaded at 

https://lead-fire.com/leadersguide

About the guest -

Timothy Mabry is a seasoned speaker and corporate leadership trainer with a unique blend of real-world experience and actionable insights. With over a decade in the fire service, culminating as a Lieutenant, Timothy knows what it takes to lead under pressure and drive organizational excellence. His Lead Through Fire Program goes beyond superficial fixes, diving deep into the root causes of ineffective leadership to offer sustainable solutions that reduce turnover and elevate performance.  A sought-after keynote speaker, Timothy has graced the stages of major events like UNICON 2023 in Salt Lake City and Million Dollar Mingle in Arizona. He's also been a featured expert at two Speaker School Masterminds, one in Chicago and the other in New York, sharing his transformative leadership strategies with aspiring speakers and corporate leaders. His compelling topics and engaging delivery make him the go-to speaker for organizations that are serious about breaking through to the next level of excellence. Don't miss the opportunity to bring transformative leadership to your organization. Book Timothy Mabry today and set your team on a course for unparalleled success.

About the Host:

Howard Brown is a best-selling author, award-winning international speaker, Silicon Valley entrepreneur, interfaith peacemaker, and a two-time stage IV cancer survivor. He is also a sought-after speaker and consultant for corporate businesses, nonprofits, congregations, and community groups. Howard has co-founded two social networks that were the first to connect religious communities around the world. He is a nationally known patient advocate and “cancer whisperer” to many families. Howard, his wife Lisa, and daughter Emily currently reside in Michigan, and his happy place is on the basketball court.

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Transcript
Howard Brown:

Hello, it's Howard Brown is the shine shining

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brightly podcast show. Oh my god after Thanksgiving, we are

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grateful. It's it's just amazing. I have an amazing guest

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as usual. Tim, welcome to the show. How are you?

Timothy Mabry:

I'm doing fantastic, Howard. Thank you for

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having me on this show.

Howard Brown:

Oh, it's it's great. You're, we're we're going

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to, as you say you're wearing your T shirt for those listening

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lead through fire. So, this is a episode called Turning trials

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into triumphs. And let me let me tell you a little bit about

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about Tim. Tim Avery is a seasoned speaker, corporate

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leadership trainer with a unique blend of real world experience

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and actionable insights with over a decade in the fire

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service. By the way, thank you for your service as a first

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responder, you guys are real heroes. And really, it's just

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amazing that the training and and that dedication. So in the

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fire service, you comment culminated as a lieutenant and

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you know what it takes to lead under pressure and and drive

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organisational excellence. You lead through the fire programme

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goes beyond superficial fixes. It takes a deep dive into the

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root cause of ineffective leadership to offer sustainable

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solutions and reduce turnover and elevate performance in the

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corporate setting. A sought after keynote speaker Tim has

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graced the stages of major events like unicorn to 2023 in

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Salt Lake and the million dollar Mingo. In Arizona. We talked

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about that. That was cool. He has been featured as an expert

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at two speaker school masterminds, one in Chicago, the

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other in New York. And you're sharing transforming leadership

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strategies with aspiring speakers and other corporate

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leaders. Your compelling topics and engaging delivery make you

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go to speaker for organisations, corporations, businesses that

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are serious about breakthrough to the next level of excellence.

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Don't miss this opportunity to bring transform leadership to

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your organisation. Book, Tim today will put his contacts in

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Oh, he'll talk about that at the end. And then you can also visit

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his website at • https://lead-fire.com/.

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Welcome, welcome. Welcome. I'm excited to get into it. But

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first, tell me about something we may not know about you that

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you want to share with the listening and the viewing

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audience.

Timothy Mabry:

Most definitely. So one unique thing about me is

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I love being outdoors. It doesn't really matter what it

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what it looks like to be outside, whether it's hiking,

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camping, fishing, flying, I just like to be outside. And when I

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say flying, yes, I can fly a plane having my private pilot's

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licence. So the sky, the ground, below the water, whatever it is,

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I just like to be outside in nature. There's something to me,

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that healing and relaxing about just being outside and

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connecting back to our roots.

Howard Brown:

I love that I speak in my book about finding

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your happy place. And I don't care if it's cooking,

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meditation, art, music, outdoor nature hiking, it sounds like

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you're happy places, the outdoors, mines, the basketball

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court, you have to find that stress free zone go there as

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much as you can. So I love that thank you for sharing as well.

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But you had to overcome some a bunch of stuff here, Tim. So

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let's dig dig right in. Tell me a little bit about your personal

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crisis. And that how that led to your own leadership, your own

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self development, your own transformation.

Timothy Mabry:

Most definitely to the person I am today that

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you see before you or your hearing is not the same person I

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was the past year, year and a half. I've gone through a lot of

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trials and tribulations in my lifetime. And I'm just going to

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give a brief overview of them. Because what I really want to

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focus on is not the problems, but the solutions. But for me to

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talk about the solutions, you need to understand where I came

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from what it happened. So growing up, I grew up in a very

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sheltered home. My parents would monitor and control every little

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thing that we did. And we watched him listen to and I was

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overactive hyper kid on ADHD medication. I was high as a kite

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most of my childhood. I call it high as a kite because I didn't

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really understand what of what it was. Now as an adult, like

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Oh, I get it. It's that dreamlike state of existing in

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the real world. So I was sheltered medicated. Then I got

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into the real world. I got into the Navy because I wanted to

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serve. I want to help other people. I went through some

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pretty messed up things in the Navy, and I was in for less than

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two years because I spoke out against a really horrible

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situation. And that affected my mental health. The Navy I was

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discharged let some two years as I mentioned before, just hey,

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you're out, go figure it out. So the trauma that I had in the

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Navy, it culminated, I brought it with me into the fire

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service. So yeah, I got into the fire service because I watched

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my neighbour die in a house fire. When I was in sixth grade,

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I just remember that moment of feeling hopeless and lost. I

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wanted to serve people I was, I wanted to make sure that nobody

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felt that same way that I myself to rise above. So I joined the

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fire service straight out of the Navy. I spent nine years

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learning how to be a fireman how to be a leader, how to charge

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into situations that most people were running back. So as most

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people are running away, we charged it. And then I taught

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other people how to do that, how to riots how to overcome. But

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the one thing that I never got taught in any of my journey, was

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how to deal with the fires in my mind. See, seeing all the

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trauma, the death, the hurt, and the pain associated with the

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life of a first responder, and military is heavily taxing. The

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I call it like Superman effects. Superman is big, and he's

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strong, everyone on the outside, he can handle everything. And

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he's bulletproof. But what about his mind? What about the battle

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that goes on in his mind? The I didn't know those tools and

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strategies. So I ended up getting severely depressed, not

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caring about myself, not caring about other people. And I sought

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to end it all. And I actually did, I tried to end it all, I

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started to take my own life. With my wife, who was nine

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months pregnant in the room next door, she had no idea what was

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happening, because I concealed the struggle on the trauma so

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well, that on the outside, everything looks fine, except

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the subtle warning signs that were there. And it was out of

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that in that moment, I decided, You know what, I'm not going to

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do this again. What happened? How did I get from being happy,

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loving my life, and my job to suddenly hating all of it. And

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that's where the rise came out is a pure dedication to say I'm

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tired of this, let me figure out how to rise and overcome. And

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let me teach other people, because I don't like that

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feeling

Howard Brown:

So Tim, I just want to take just a moment here,

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and just honour this space that you had a child on the way you

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had a loving wife. But the demons you are facing inside,

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from what you went through and saw in the military, leading to

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the you know, your your fire training and running in and not

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away from fires. You work you're conducting an outside life. But

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inside it was it was eating you up enough that you would

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consider of taking your life. And so I will put this in the

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show notes I want I'm going to put the suicide prevention

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hotline and information in the show notes. And in this in

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social media. I know that coming out of COVID loneliness and

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depression has led people to think about taking their lives.

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And I'm glad you're here. And I don't say this lightly. I'm glad

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that you're you're teaching people not to do that to move

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away from that to get out of that darkness. Because that's

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what my book is about. Listen, committing suicide, having stage

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four cancer, there are two different things, but there's

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darkness, you can learn from that darkness, but you can't

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have it consume you. And so please continue. I just needed

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to stop you right there. Because I'm feeling it I'm feeling kind

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of that internal struggle that you had to, you know, overcome.

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For the sake of yourself first, and also a beautiful, you know,

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child on the way you one you have one daughter and then one

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on the way plus a wife and a family and a life. So take us

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take us kind of some lessons there. And I just want to stop

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and say that I'm so glad that you didn't actually take your

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own life and you're here to now teach others.

Timothy Mabry:

I'm glad to that the biggest thing that I've

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noticed, and I found on my journey is the secret to

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happiness. They people always ask, what's the true secret to

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happiness? How do you live an abundant life and it comes back

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to gratitude. Gratitude is the secret and the key to happiness.

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Because by focusing on the things you're grateful for, you

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start to see a different perspective. The The reason and

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how I got to where I was, but because I was so focused on the

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past and the future that I wasn't paying attention You know

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what I had in front of me, I wasn't paying attention, that I

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had a loving wife, I had a daughter on the way I had a

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career that I absolutely loved. I was focusing on so many bad

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things and the demons in my head, that they started to run

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the show. And I started to retrain my brain of, you know,

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what, let me actually say, I'm thankful, I'm grateful for my

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wife, I'm grateful that I woke up today, I'm grateful I have a

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job. And it was those subtle shifts that I started to believe

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there's more to live. And, and the VA therapy is called

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Cognitive Processing Therapy, CPT. If you're a veteran, and

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you've been through the VA Health System, or mental health,

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you might know what this means. But if you don't, I'll explain

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it. CPT, it has one big lesson. And it's called stuck points.

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Stuck points are negative beliefs, thoughts, or behaviours

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that you have about yourself or other people that hold you back.

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And I had about 15 of those stuck points that I was able to

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write down. Five to 10 of them, were the most prevalent, and

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those were, I was on a constant repeat in my brain. And that was

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holding me back because I'm not good enough. I'm a loser, I have

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no value to add, oh, God, why me. And in the training, and

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I've created this in my programme, to reshape it a

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little bit to be more refined. And I talked about not only how

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to identify what a stuck point is, but to retrain it, like to

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evaluate, alright, this is what it is. This is that the

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behaviour This is the emotion, this is the feeling. This is

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what triggers it. And then how to retrain your brain. To where

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when you have those negative beliefs, like, Oh, God, why me?

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You know what, why not me? Why not me being blessed today? I'm

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not worth dying, I'm worthless. You know what I let this car in,

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on the merge Lane today, I opened this door for this lady,

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you know, what I am adding value, it doesn't have to be

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this big monumental thing that I thought was us might think it's

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the subtle things that build to be bigger and happier.

Howard Brown:

Wow. I mean, you're I love that because it

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doesn't have to be you don't you know, in order to climb the

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mountain, you got to take the first few steps. So that that's

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a that's a really great exercise to be able to put down your

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stock points and, and have them written down and look at the

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prioritise them. Really great exercise, Nate, thank you for

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sharing that. So you're, you're taking that now, and you're

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taking your own experience. And you're taking that to

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corporations and to employee engagement type of programmes.

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Tell us about where that is and how that's going.

Timothy Mabry:

And most definitely, it's going great.

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And what I do for a company specifically, is I start

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identifying what is going on in that organisation? Do the

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companies that I target, they have high turnover rates. And

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high turnover is typically one of two things. It's either bad

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benefits, or a bad culture, bad culture equates to bad

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leadership, and unengaged employees. So what I do is I

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actually send out a survey to the company, and the employee

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has figured out, hey, what's the problem? In your opinion? What

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is the issue going on here. And then I give the leadership team,

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a DISC assessment, to figure out how they operate, and how some

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of their employees and high level management operate as

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well. Because sometimes if there's a disconnect between

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upper and lower management, it throws everything off. And I saw

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that in the fire service. Where I got this from was several fire

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scenes. I'm gonna give you a quick example on that. One day,

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we had a house fire. It was a routine fire. We were second to

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third in engine first in normally gets all the glory, and

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they have to make decisions. So we're all the way to this fire.

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And the first arriving crew didn't really know what they

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were doing. You could hear the lieutenant's voice on the radio.

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He was lost. He was confused and he was wishy washy. He was not

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certain on himself, which translated to whenever every

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other truck came in. Things were going to hell people didn't know

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what to do, like, Hey, what are we doing? Ah, I don't know.

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Finally, someone had a chief got there, stepped in and said no,

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this is what we're going to do. This is how we're going to do

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it. and sort of mitigate the situation better. See, when it

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comes to employees and culture and leaders, the leader has to

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be decisive in certain moments, but also know when to take that

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step back. Even if your strategies aren't working, you

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got to be bold on it. Let me call somebody in, let's

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reevaluate this. And it's taking that mentality and presence into

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corporate world. Because a lot of people, when they promote,

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they promote and look for themselves, they don't look for

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other people or consider others. And that's a unique trick of,

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hey, you know, it's not weak, asking for help, it's actually a

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major strength to say, I don't have all the answers. Let me

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take a step back, and let me find it. And that's what I

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helped teach leaders do and organisations and say, let me

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take a step back. And it's okay, and we're gonna, we're gonna

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reevaluate this.

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And that I love that strategy, the story of the

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chief, you know, who had maybe a little more training, a little

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more wisdom, a little more experience to come in and

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rectify that situation. I liked that story. And also the

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ability, you know, as your perspective, from the outside

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looking in, makes you hopefully more objective, as well, and do

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that. I play team sports all my life, Tim, and I will tell you,

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I've been a point guard on the basketball court, which is the

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floor general or the quarterback, trying to make

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decisions coach on the floor. And, you know, I played on lots

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of teams, and the culture matters. Trust matters, right.

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And so it's hard to change that, like, in a day, it has to be

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built up over time, it has to be earned. So that's, that's some

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of the lessons. But I guess you're going into a fire, you

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got to know that the partner and the team that you're running

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into has your back, they're all going to do their jobs in order

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to get that fire out, get the people to safety, assess the

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situation properly. So So I love that your experience of

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assessing that because if the team doesn't, doesn't do their

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job in a fire, the place burns down lives can be lost. Also,

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your own team can get hurt, right? You get yourself into

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real danger. So I've never been a firefighter. But in talking to

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you, I'm learning and understanding a little bit more.

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And so do your strategies work across the board? Or do you

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actually tailor them for like different industries or things

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like that,

Timothy Mabry:

they can work across the board. And I just

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tailor them a little bit per the person per the organisation, the

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I can go into a fire department, or a military or veteran run

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organisation, local governments. And I can be a little bit brash,

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I can say you're screwing up here and X, Y, and Z and use

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curse words, I go into the civilian sector, I had to be a

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little bit careful of what I say and how I say it just because

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the culture first responders, veterans, the culture is a

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little more brash, if you come at them, Hey, sweetheart, gotta

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be careful, we're gonna be like, No, I'm not gonna listen to you.

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You have to find that nice gap in how to interact with people

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that was great about the DISC assessment, and you start to see

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how to interact, building that report, as well. It's the

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language, a unique trick and hack that I learned, that's

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extremely valuable. I learned this on a private jet flight. If

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you're trying to get into a new industry, or get a better

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client, learn exactly what that person talks like those people

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behave, and you start mimicking it. Because by doing that,

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you're going to be able to adapt what they're saying. And they're

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going to be comfortable with you. And they're not going to

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ask as many questions because if you sound like an expert, they

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don't, they won't have too many questions for it. They'll just

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accept it. Or the moment they see that you're wishy washy,

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you're not certain of yourself and what you're saying, that's

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when they're going to poke and prod. And that's where it goes

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for bigger leaders as higher up as well. They sense that as as,

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as well. So if you're trying to advance, you're trying to get a

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better client. learn exactly what how that person takes how

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the industry behaves, and you'll be able to adapt to it. And

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that's what I do is I watch and learn from the company that I'm

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about to get into and the people and figure out how to best

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interact with them. And that's how I tailor No,

Howard Brown:

I love it. I also like the disc system. It's tried

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and true to know who you are. I actually did something similar.

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Tim it was it was actually the bird exercise. And it's what

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type of bird Are you? Are you the eagle or hawk or are you the

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owl or are you the dove or are you the peacock to create it

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right and how you got to define who you are. And you could be

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more than one bird? And how do you see the other bird? How do

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you get along? So how does the hawk or the eagle get along with

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the dove and get along with the owl, because this is all

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Organisational Behaviour. This is this is working individually

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pulling your own weight, but also being a team player. So I

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that's that's kind of that your story reminded me of that. I

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wanted to share that. So tell me about some misconceptions about

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leadership in a time of crisis, and how you address those in

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your training. Because, I guess, first responders in the military

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crisis, you're running into a fire that is a time of crisis.

Howard Brown:

You know, what are some of the misconceptions there share with

Howard Brown:

me?

Timothy Mabry:

Definitely. So one big misconception that

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people don't realise is that it's not always easy to make

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those decisions. Earlier, or like a year ago, this month, we

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had a call to where it was a hazmat situation, we didn't

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really know the hazmat. So we went in to this chemical

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warehouse. And it was either smoke or steam. We didn't know

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what it were chemical release, we didn't know what it was. So

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we had to go back go in there. We ended up having a scare where

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compressors shot off. And my crew and I thought we were

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gonna, like we thought we're gonna die. Like, we literally

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just looked at each other. And we're like, Oh, my God, what

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happened? So we come back out. And my chief gets there, he's

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assessing the situation, conditions are getting worse,

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like, I still don't know what's happening. And this is a man

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I've never seen frazzled before in my life. I'd seen him on a

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lot of messed up calls. And he has never once been afraid,

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except in this moment. But he had to make a tough decision to

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send this back in to assess it, I had to be able to lead my a

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new crew who had never met in my life, into this chemical storage

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warehouse to see is this a buyer? Or is this still a hazmat

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released, we didn't know from our first entry, because we got

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scared like, something's not right. So we went back in, and a

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different type of suit. But it's okay to show a little bit of

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weakness and those moments or concern, because then that

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relates to your people, you're human, and building rapport.

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That's a major thing. I didn't realise that until after this

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call, that when you're actually vulnerable, and you start to

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show your human side, people find you more approachable. And

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so in times of crisis, you have to be that strong pillar to say,

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You know what, we're going to rise up together, I got you. But

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after the call, after the situation, you can open up and

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say, This is my thoughts. This is your thoughts, let's, this is

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what happened, let's actually divulge this. And to bring it

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back to the humaneness by doing that. And you're able to build a

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greater strength with your crew, with your team and showing that

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vulnerability. And that's one big misconception that you must

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be strong. The other thing too, is, yeah, you have to be

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decisive. Because in that moment, why is that my chief, he

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showed weakness, a little bit of being afraid. That's a good

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thing, but also a bad thing. See, for me, it got me

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concerned, because I knew he had never done that before. And I

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actually told my wife goodbye. I sent her a text saying, Hey, I

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may not make it out of this. So I'm going to say goodbye. And

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there's a pro and con to that. It's Yes, you have to show

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strength. But if you show weakness at the or, yeah,

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weakness or afraid of the wrong points, it can cause a negative

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effects. And being the leader who hears that or sees it, they

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had to be able to be strong to say their team may not see it.

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And that's what I had to do.

Howard Brown:

Yeah, I it's a really poignant story, because

Howard Brown:

your chief is human. He's trying to make the best decision, he

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can at that time with the information that he had. And so

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the ability he doesn't want to put more lives at stake, but he

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also needs to get that fire under control, and he needed

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more information. And so I can totally understand that, you

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know, when you're under the fire under that gun, you know, make

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those split second decisions matter. But, you know, you can't

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be afraid of being wrong either. You have to actually go with

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your training, you have to make the best decision and he sent

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you guys back in and you got sent back in not knowing what

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the outcome was. So that's why you sent your your wife a text

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and and that's that's one It's bravery and two, you're doing

Howard Brown:

your job, but you didn't know the outcome, you did not know

Howard Brown:

the outcome. And I will tell you, the only thing I can relate

Howard Brown:

to that is that when you get told you have stage four, cancer

Howard Brown:

twice, you don't know if you're going to, you know, live through

Howard Brown:

it or not. And here I am, you know, breathing and I made

Howard Brown:

through it, you made it through. So we're sharing our, our

Howard Brown:

stories, that's where we're aligned here and, and able to

Howard Brown:

help people that get knocked down, help them get back up

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again. I mean, I can't imagine those new guys that you let in

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what the after meeting was like, I mean, some of them probably in

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tears, some of them, just stunned. Some of them. I can't

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imagine when you when you regrouped with the team that you

Howard Brown:

lead in there. So maybe that's a story for another time. But the

Howard Brown:

I just, I want you to tell me through, you know, and guide our

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audience here on kind of how to take that first step. Because

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that's really, you know, if you don't take the first step, you

Howard Brown:

you stay stuck. So how do you how do you how do you how do you

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tell people and when you get into your training, and your

Howard Brown:

speaking, how do you have them take that first step,

Timothy Mabry:

the first step to any problem is identifying and

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saying you have a problem. I met a gentleman who was buying at a

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company. And they're all reason he was buying out the company is

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because the owner, three years prior had an issue and he didn't

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speak up with it at all. So he let it bother him so much. And

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in fact, his company so bad that he ended up having to sell his

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company to save the employees. So the first step is admit you

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have a problem. The second step is to get help, you may not be

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able to do it yourself, hell, or heck, most of the time, you can

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do it on your own, we're not supposed to do it on our own.

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That's why I believe in God, believe in friendship, you need

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somebody to help pull you out and pull you up. That's why it's

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leaf through fire. Because I help you lead through the fire

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of your life, your business, your finances, so that you're in

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a happier, healthier state. And it may not be me, it may be your

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best friend and maybe a co worker, but somebody out there

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truly cares. If you don't have somebody reach out a call there,

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I guarantee if you're at that point where you're desperate.

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There's numbers a suicide hotline, but Cohen military

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centre, the VA for veterans, there's resources out there that

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if you really don't know how to move forward, they're able to

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help you.

Howard Brown:

I'll ask them you and I are a wealth of

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information, we can help them find help as well. So in any

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area, whether it's corporate or how, or personal or family, you

Howard Brown:

and I can get them we can we can direct them to help help as well

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or not help I can help them themselves. So this is really

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been really great and very special. I want to transition

Howard Brown:

now we're gonna put on our sunglasses here. For those that

Howard Brown:

are listening. Alright, Tim's got his shades on he's looking

Howard Brown:

really cool. To get his lead through fire t shirt, I've got

Howard Brown:

my book and in the sun shining on me, and we've got our

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sunglasses on. This is the shining, brightly spotlight,

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please tell people how best to get a hold of you, you've got a

Howard Brown:

free gift. And then lead us with a story or some inspiration to

Howard Brown:

close out the show.

Timothy Mabry:

Most definitely. So you can contact me on my

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website, lead dash feiyr.com. And there, I have all of my

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contact information a way to get a hold of me, if you want to

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book me for speaking gigs and events, podcast in person, or

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even for your corporate needs. Timothy mabry.com, you can even

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directly get my cell phone number from that website. And

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I'm here to serve and to help as many people the big thing that I

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want to leave you with today is that you're never alone, that

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your journey starts with you taking that first step, you can

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always change your circumstances no matter what. And if you need

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a free resource to help you get started being a better leader to

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have engaging conversations that you need to have other people

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that build that report. I have a free guide that you'll find

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inside lead dash feiyr.com/leaders guide. And

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right there, you can download it and that'll help you along your

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journey. Because you got this you can overcome if I can do it.

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You can too. I look forward to being the change and affecting 1

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million leaders by 2028 with y'all. Wow.

Howard Brown:

Oh man, I'm on the team. Sign me up. This is

Howard Brown:

amazing. So, Tim, I'll have all your information inside the show

Howard Brown:

notes and on social media, but that free guide is lead hyphen

Howard Brown:

feiyr.com Leaders Guide you can download that actually right

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now. So if your house is on fire or your head is on fire We can

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help and Tim can help. This is really important to ask for

Howard Brown:

help. I love that is to admit the problem, get some help. So

Howard Brown:

this has been an amazing show, the shining, brightly podcast.

Howard Brown:

I'm your host and Maestro of the mike Howard Brown, you can reach

Howard Brown:

me at shining brightly.com Check out my book. It's my memoir. It

Howard Brown:

starts with kindness and gratitude, it ends with hope.

Howard Brown:

And my speaking information as well on the website, as well as

Howard Brown:

this podcast, and my advocacy in the entrepreneurial world, in

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the corporate world, in the cancer world and in the

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interfaith world. So Tim, here's this is really an amazing thing

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that we're so similar is that we all get knocked down, you've

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been knocked down, I've been knocked down. But we've now got

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back up again, and we've chosen to lift up others. So it's easy

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choice to shine brightly each day for ourselves, for others

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for our communities, the world will be a better place. Thank

Howard Brown:

you, Tim. Great, great show and I wish you all the best and

Howard Brown:

thank you again for your service.

Timothy Mabry:

And thank you for having me however, I'm really

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appreciate for having this opportunity and being on your

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show.

Howard Brown:

My pleasure.