Episode 100

WINNING AT LIFE with Howard Brown

Episode Summary – 

ARE YOU HAVING A GOOD LIFE? In MILESTONE Episode 100 titled “WINNING AT LIFE” – (so amazing to have reached 200,000 DOWNLOADS! (links in the comments) I offer up a solo show with a reflection of where I have been and experienced, what I have learned along the way and where am I going. We all get knocked down in life, business, health and relationships and we must get back up again and again. I teach, preach and live a resilient life with hope each day and YOU CAN TOO! How do you find joy? What gives you hope? Are you living your best life? You can keep SHINING BRIGHTLY with kindness, giving, gratitude, healing, abundance, joy and choose not to hate. Real transformation is possible. BE AUTHENTIC AND INTENTIONAL. I am living proof every day. Come listen, download, share and review EPISODE 100 – KEEP SHINING ALWAYS!

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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:

Howard. Hello. It's Howard brown. It's the

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Shining Brightly Show. So glad to have you here. This is a

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really cool episode 100 it's my 100th episode. I'm so excited. I

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started this back in February of 23 and today is episode 100 what

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a great milestone. Celebrate the success. So for those of you

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that don't know me, I am affectionately known as Mr.

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Shining Brightly. I'm putting on my golden white shades right

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now, and I'm reflecting sunshine and light everywhere. I'm just

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really happy to be here. For those that you will see some

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video clips I want to show you. I'm wearing my little sunshine

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pin with my shades on, and also I have the grateful live shirt,

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so I look like the Grateful Dead band, but I'm really grateful to

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be alive and with you here today. So it's amazing. Well, I

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have to tell you, this is going to be a little bit of a

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different show, because you get me solo, I'm not interviewing a

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guest. I'm basically interviewing myself today, and

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this is a solo episode. And for those of you that have been

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tuning in and been touched by my platform here, my broadcast, my

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entertainment value, I intend to motivate, educate and inspire

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every single week. And another milestone that I've hit is

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200,000 downloads. So this is an amazing way to celebrate a 100th

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episode and also 200,000 downloads. So the show is going

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to go like this. I'm going to actually do a little bit of a

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reflection of what's been happening over the last two

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years, since my book was published, since my memoir, and

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then I'm going to talk about the present, and then I'm going to

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plan for the future, and I'm going to be talking about great

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success and wins little ones too, and then also some hurdles

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that we all have in life. And it's what an amazing ride. So,

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so thrilled that I'm sharing this time with you now. You

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know, my episodes are short. They're about 27 minutes, so

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I'll keep it to that, maybe a little bit less, and we'll do a

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little bit of reflection right now. So one is I look in a

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mirror every single day, and I'm going to actually hold up a

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little baby mirror. This is the mirror that I gave out to the

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cancer patients at Dana Farber Cancer Institute. It says, I

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like me. Now there's a chapter in the book on that. It's

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chapter five, and when you look in the mirror to put on your

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makeup or shave, many people do not like what they see. So they

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don't like their lives, they don't like their appearance,

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they don't like their attitude, they don't like their

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relationships too fat, too skinny, all that stuff is out

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there. And you need to start the day, okay, by looking in the

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mirror and counting your blessings. And I say, I am

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blessed. Then you need to actually show some gratitude and

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say what you're thankful for, just getting up in the days is,

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you know, for many, even cancer patients, that's, that's, that's

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what you're doing, you're getting up that day. But for

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others, you're actually going to work. And you've got fun things

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planned, but you've got hard things to deal with and but you

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got to be thankful. Then I always say, I am lucky, and

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that's the ability to basically just show appreciation. And so I

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know I'm lucky. And for my two time cancer survivorship stage

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four, I know I'm lucky. So then you have the ability to look in

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that mirror and say, How can I lift myself up and then, how can

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I lift up others? Simple. That's the shiny, brightly movement.

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That's the brand I've been building. How can you lift

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yourself up each day to a better place and go lift up others? And

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the shortcut is to choose kindness. This is Chapter One of

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my book from Bubby Bertha, lived to 101 stuck in Belgium before

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she could come over in the early 1900s as a like 1516, year old.

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Anyways, that's chapter one of my book. So choose kindness.

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Then you can also choose to be healing for yourself and others.

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Take care of yourself, your emotional well being, your

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physical well being, financial well being and in relationship.

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I preach that all the time. You. Got to take care of those four

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areas. And I call that for myself, putting Humpty, Dumpty

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back together again, over and over again, which I have proven

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to do. It's not easy, but it's necessary. And then you can

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choose to heal others. You can choose joy. What joy can you

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bring to yourself and others? And that is just simple, okay?

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Joy through kindness, Joy through gratitude. It all

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reflects back. It's all intertwined. It's all kind of

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meshed together. So choose joy you have that opportunity to do

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that each day, then you can choose what not to do. Here's

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the discipline, here's the mental toughness, to choose not

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to hate, choose not to hate, choose to be accepting of

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others. Learn from them, learn the special stuff about them,

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their culture, their foods, their history. You don't have to

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agree. Many of them don't, but we live in a world where we're

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all not the same. That's that's later in my book. That's the

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world's a big place. It's an interfaith world. So you need to

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actually understand that and have that discipline of what not

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to choose. And as I say, if we do this and we join the shining

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brightly movement, okay, we can build a better world. We can be

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a force multiplier for good and positive change. It's done every

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day, and in your small way, you can do it, and in your

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neighborhoods, when you join forces with others, and you join

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forces with me, and I joined forces with other networks, we

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show we can't do this each and every day. So that's my opening.

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That's how you get it. That's what we're doing. Now I want to

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tell you that, from a cancer standpoint, big anniversary for

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me. This is, this is a show of big wins, huge wins. On

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September 20, I actually, through the summer, took blood

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tests, I took CT scans, CAT scans, and I actually had an

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annual colonoscopy, and it actually had polyps. It was a

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little scary for a moment, but those polyps were benign. My

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scans were clean, my blood tests, and it is great. It's all

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good, all normal. And this is my fifth year being cancer free.

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Just let that sink in for a second. Take a moment think

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about that. The odds of be living five years were very

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small. 4% chance of living actually a year when you get

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metastatic cancer, and I had metastatic colon cancer that

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spread to my peritoneum, which is my stomach lining my omentum,

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my stomach lining my liver, major organ, my bladder. The

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chances of living were not long. My life flock was shrinking, and

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now I got it back again, and get to put Humpty, Dumpty version

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three, oh, as a work in progress, back together. And we

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are just a work in progress in so many areas, but cancer free,

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and we call that no evidence of disease at this time, Ned. And a

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lot of us like to say we're dancing with Uncle Ned, and we

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want to keep dancing with Uncle Ned. So I'm dancing with Uncle

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Ned. That's a big Amen and a big Hallelujah. Now, looking back

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over the last couple of years, the book came out September 27

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basically October. And I spent three and a half years writing

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Shining Brightly, thank you. David Crom, thank you. Front End

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Publishing. Thank you. Read the Spirit Magazine. Thank you for

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the 158 most important influential people in my life

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that I interviewed over that three and a half year period. To

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get the transcripts from zoom, thank you zoom to become draft

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chapters get edited and become an actual book. And for those

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that are listening, I'm holding up a copy of Shannon Brady. It's

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a picture over my shoulder too, but I'm holding up the actual

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hard knock of the book. This was my memoir. This is how to live a

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resilient life with hope and with that also, I had discussion

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resource guides. I have survivorship, okay and

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resiliency. How to build true resiliency? Have mentorship as

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leadership and entrepreneurship. Being a mentor makes this world

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a better place. Being a mentee and allowed to be guided makes

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this world a better place. And then interfaith bridge building.

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do you do this work? Why should. We be like Abraham and Sarah and

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Why

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let the stranger into our tent and feed them and be kind to

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them. That's how we're supposed to live a good life. Some other

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memories. Got to watch over the last five years my daughter

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graduated high school wasn't a guarantee for me. Darren, she

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graduated from the University of Michigan, summa cum laude,

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amazing. And she's working as a TV reporter at capex TV in

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Missoula, Montana, living her best life climbing mountains.

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Has a year long boyfriend, Chris, gonna meet him soon, and

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Lisa and I celebrated 30 years of marriage, major

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accomplishments, major beautiful, beautiful memories,

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and I've been able to travel and speak and visit great places.

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Been back home to Boston for my 40th reunion. Last week,

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amazing, just to reconnect with people that I went to high

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school with, and I asked them three questions. I conducted a

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social experiment. We just didn't drink and eat. I asked

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them, How did they bring joy to their lives. I ask them, what

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gives them hope? And then lastly, I asked them if they're

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having a good life. And I'm going to compile all those

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responses into a beautiful article for read the spirit in

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the coming weeks that I will share out there. And I've really

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just changed from scratch. I started the shining brightly

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brand. I started the shining brightly movement, which

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comprises of assets called the book, my speaking, my

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motivational speaking, and my facilitating workshops and my

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speaking at fundraisers. I love it. And then this podcast, which

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has been the most amazing experience I have, episodes in

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the can up to 107 and each week you can go back and look at the

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archive and learn something, learn about the human resolve of

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the individuals that I interviewed. Learn what they

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they actually lessons. Learned what they learned. Learned how

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they lifted themselves up, learned how they get out of the

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walk with darkness and how they lifted up others. And at the end

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of every show, we put on those sunglasses, and we end up

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shining to the world together, and then you can go get in touch

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with them and continue that conversation. I love this

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platform, and it's been incredible. And so now it's the

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Jewish holidays, so it's a time of reflection. So I've been

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really doing a lot of reflection. And I ask you, do

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you know thyself? Do you really know yourself? Or you just

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surfing along? You know, at the top level there, you got to know

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yourself. How are you feeling? What do you want to do

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differently? It's not going to come overnight. It takes time.

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It takes work. Rebuilding Humpty. Dumpty, for me has been

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a lot of work, emotionally, physically, financially and in

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relationships, tons of work. What is your ability to bounce

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back? I had Dr Robert Wicks, the grandfather of resilience, write

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the forward of my book. He's written 33 books on the topic. I

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say, when we get knocked down, as we do in life and in business

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and in health and in relationships, you have to get

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back up again. You can walk in that darkness, learn those

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lessons, but you've got to relight your flame. And how do

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you do that? Well, I tell people to go, help someone else. Go

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light their flame, and that lights your flame. Go allow

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people to light your flame. I had 1000s upon 1000s of people

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praying for me during my cancer treatments. I had 1000s of

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people sending me books and movies and jokes and hugs

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because it was sometime during the pandemic too, and that

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helped light my flame. And that's the simple message. It's

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not one of the basic truths of my book, is not what we get in

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life, it's it's what we give, go out there and give givers get.

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So I'm really grateful. The other thing is that I'm

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continually learning and. As I interview these people, and I

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they share their stories of life and hardship and also in

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celebration and in business and in health, I'm learning, and

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that's the way to self improvement is to allow you to

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be able to do that. Also you have to set goals. Like really

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good friend Deb Ackerley. She's basically sets. Her middle name

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is setting goals. And she's got a new book coming out, the 52

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secrets to goal setting, which, I mean, it's coming out in

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January. I'm so excited. Shout out to you, Deb Ackerling, and

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that's really, really important, and finding your purpose. I

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found my purpose. I am Mr. Shining Brightly. This is what I

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want to do. This is what I want my career to be. This is what I

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want my life to be. It can be done. We can get back up again.

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We can get what we want. You can build an abundant life, and also

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another shared book coming out with my time I paid shining

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brightly for with abundance coming out in the garden of

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connection, coming out in January, February too. So

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excited for these major milestones as well. And you can

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be adaptable and you can transform. And one of the keys

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to doing that is knowing thy authentic self and being

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intentional about your well being. That's part one. Part

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two, the present day. Where are we at right now? Let's evaluate

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so I have to tell you, my health is great, but I suffer. I suffer

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all the chemotherapy, the trauma that I've been through, that I'm

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still processing today. Let's be honest. Okay, cancer affects the

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individual. Your caregivers. God bless. The 85 million caregivers

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are out there taking care of somebody, unpaid, by the way,

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whether it's an older adult parent or relative a young child

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or someone who's sick. There's other definitions of caregiver.

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Thank you to our caregivers. Well, I'm out there at my last

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episode, Episode 99 was I'm grateful for my nurses and my

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doctors and the staff, but I spent a lot of time with my

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nurses, a lot of time with nurses, and they were there to

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comfort me and care for me, and in emergency, deal with tough

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situations. I deal with chemo brain. Chemo brain is PTSD. No

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one would really know where to recognize it, but I have trouble

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recognizing names some things I don't remember. Maybe it's just

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getting old, right? Maybe I'm just can't remember s disease,

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right? But it's had some effect on me. The other thing is that

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my fingers and toes, they're stinging. They're numb. How do I

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even shoot a basketball? Most people don't even realize it. I

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can't feel the ball. This isn't it crazy. So I have chemo

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induced peripheral neuropathy that's probably stage three, and

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it's never going to go away. Those cancer patients that have

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it from the toxicity of cancer, sometimes it goes away, and it

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takes years. Some people lucky enough to get it taken away. So

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I try with arthritis, screams and rubs and other things, but

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not happening with me, but I have it, and I deal with it

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every day, and I power through it. That's what you have to do,

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right? And then also, I have digestive issues, and that's

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just one of the consequences of having 23 inches of colon that's

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been removed. And I deal with that, I just deal with it. And

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some days are good, some days are worse, and you just get back

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up again. And that's that's the Mental Toughness part of doing

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that. I have financial toxicity. Cancer is not cheap. Cancer is

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expensive if you don't have the right insurance. And before I

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got on disability and got on Medicare, thank you, Blue Cross,

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Medicare plus blue I got pounded with medical bills and still

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dealing with some of that. It's horrific. And for all the people

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dealing with that financial toxicity out there, it's it's no

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fun. That's the real life that we face, and that's what I'm

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facing right now as well. But Humpty, Dumpty three, three.

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Dotto doing great. And I help people to find a happy place,

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right? Find your happy place. Mine's

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the basketball court. I played outdoors on Saturday. I played

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indoors. On Sunday, not bad for a 58 year old, old guy, and just

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sweating with the boys. It's my stress free zone. I love it, and

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I will continue as long as I can continue to do it, but go find

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yours. Is it yoga? Is it meditation? Is it cooking? Is it

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travel? Is it the beach? Is it the mountains? Is it your

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children? Is it your parents? Is it going to a movie? Is it just

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taking a time out and eating popcorn? Go to a sporting event?

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Write down what your happy place is and schedule it in. And some

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of that happy place should be without your digital device

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called your phone. Go walking without it. It'll be there when

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you get back and then from the last chapter of my book, I want

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to tell you that Sharon Hope. Hope is the fuel that lights

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that fire that shines brightly inside all of us and inside

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others, H, O, P, E, don't lose hope. And if you do lose hope,

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you call me, or you call someone else that you know, and we'll

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blow that hope right back into you. We'll build your Calvary

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for you. Do not isolate. You can walk in darkness a little, but

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if you need help, there's help for you. We'll find it together.

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I mentor cancer patients, caregivers, students,

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entrepreneurs, business folks. This is what coaching is, but I

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call it mentorship, and I help and mentor lots of people. Just

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need to reach out and I get mentored too. I become the

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mentee. I became a big brother 42 years ago to Ian, who was 10.

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He's now, I think he's now. 42 got a baby boy, noble wife,

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Sarah, and maybe I did the math wrong, but one of the best

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things I ever did, we embraced each other. We're family. That's

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in my book as well. One of the best experiences I ever did was

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become a big brother mentor, and thank you for those that are big

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brother and sister mentors. And I allow myself to be mentored. I

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allow people that have more experience or can see my blind

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spots help me figure out how to navigate and transform, and I

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allow that and allow that to and I learn from them. That's part

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of becoming that lifelong learner. And I have a discussion

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guide on mentorship is the lost art of leadership. Go mentor

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others. Go allow yourself to be mentored. Do it with hope. All

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right, the future. Now I'm going to continue to shine brightly,

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going to continue to lift myself up and continue to help others,

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but I got a couple of cool new projects that I'll let you get

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on. I'm working towards an audio book. It's the number one

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request that I get from everybody is to, can I listen to

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your book? And I got a couple surprises with that, and I'm

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trying to get that done. And there's a couple of ways I want

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to do that, but that's that's on my pop to do list. I also have a

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master class that I'm working on. Shout out to you. Yale

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craft, one of my mentors and friends, and I call her the

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flow. She lives in a flow state of letting the universe come to

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her, and I'm learning all about that world on the go, Mr.

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Resilience, Mr. Get Up And Go when you've been knocked down.

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And so the flow and the go working on something very

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special, very, very cool, and just collaboration is the way

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that we move forward. And I'm still speaking. Please, please

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contact me to speak. I'm still doing my advocacy work and the

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Chairman of the Board of Powell Town Development Foundation.

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We're running a fundraiser called the Colontown Quest. It's

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so cool. You buy items and learn about how we help colorectal

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cancer patients, caregivers and families every single day. It's

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important to me because it helped save my life, help my

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wife, get smart and be collaborative in our process

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with my Docs and nurses and my care teams. And it works. Shout

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out to colontown. Amazing helping people every single day.

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Go to Colontown org. I'll take a timeout right now and say,

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Listen, get screened. Don't get cancer, right? I wear my blue

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shoes every day, basically to remind me to go get screened,

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right? So for women, go get your mammogram, go see your lady

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doctor. For men, go. Get your prostate checked for all of us,

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go get your colon screening, either cologuard or a FIT test

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or a blood test now, which is out and or go get the gold

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standard colonoscopy. Shout out to cologuard and my friends at

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exec science. So I just want you not to get this disease. It's a

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horrible existence. It changes your whole world. You get

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stopped right in your tracks. So go go to the dentist, because I

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actually have implants now. Thank you chemotherapy, the gift

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that keeps giving. I go get my ears checked, because I have

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ringing in my ears. Thank you chemotherapy. Who wants that?

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Stay, live a good life. Eat, right, exercise, right? Get

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enough sleep, hydrate. That's what you got to do. Those are

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the basics, right? Those are the basics. So I just, I want to

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tell you that I'm just thrilled, thrilled where I'm at right now.

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Lots of work to do. Got to go figure out the financial piece

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for me, what I'm going to do, and go make a living for the

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rest of my life and still help others, but that'll come in,

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that'll come to place. So I just want you to look in. That's the

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reflection. Is a look inward. See where you're at. See where

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you are going by looking outward and what is around you, that's

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what you need to do. So I'm going to put on my glasses.

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We're going to shine brightly together, right? So for those my

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glasses and I'm reflecting and shining out to you and the world

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to be kind, be grateful, be healing. Find joy. Choose not to

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hate. Choose that discipline. You can do it. Thank you to my

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people that make me look good, front edge publishing, my book

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publisher, David Crom, Susan Stett and the team, Read The

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Spirit Magazine, my podcast, group that make me look so good

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from Amplifyou. Thank you. You do an amazing job, week in and

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week out, and I it's a great partnership. I can't do it

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without you. And then Sunette van Bretta, the sole author

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journey, which we get to co host with you on e3 60 TV that's

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touching so many lives, the power hour. And then the

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Tanzanite heroes of men and the diamond beauties for women. And

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coming soon. Mr. Hot weekly Zoom is coming soon. Lots of great

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stuff happening and so Diamond Moments Magazine, thank you.

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Thank you for featuring my cover. Thank you for featuring

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me in this podcast every month and featuring my articles as

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well. I love it so you know what to do in order to shine brightly

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just a little bit each day you shine brightly for yourself and

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go lift up others in your family, in your neighborhood, in

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your community, and then in the larger spheres, we join hands,

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we become a force multiplier for good and positive change and

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yes, we do make the world a better place. Thank you. I love

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you. Keep listening and just go shine brightly every day. Keep

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shining. I love you.

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Shining Brightly every day does make the world better place! Be prepared to be inspired!

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