Feb. 1, 2026
Episode 330 - Mindset, Self-Leadership, and the Power of Knowing Your Circle in 2026
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In this episode of the Wealth Academy Podcast, we explore why 2026 demands more than ambition, it requires a powerful mindset, deep self-awareness, and intentional relationships. Learn how knowing yourself and knowing the people in your circle personally and professionally can shape your leadership, income, and legacy.
Key Takeaways:
- Why mindset is the foundation for success in 2026
- How self-awareness fuels better decisions and leadership
- The impact your circle has on your personal and professional growth
- Practical reflection questions to reset your year with clarity
Perfect For:
- Professionals ready for growth
- Leaders seeking clarity and influence
- Anyone serious about wealth, leadership, and personal mastery
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[SPEAKER_00]: Welcome to Wealth the Academy podcast.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Thanks for tuning in to listen to this dynamic and insightful podcast with host Paul Lawrence Van.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Paul and his guests provide content rich information that will enhance your knowledge.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Enjoy this episode!
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[SPEAKER_01]: as part of my January broadcast and what I want to talk about today is all about the mindset and when you really think you know yourself or whether other people know you.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I want to welcome you here to this particular episode and I hope everything is progressing nicely for you and I'm honored to have you here.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Listen to this live and in the archive.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So again, Paul Lois van, it will give you a little bit of background about me and how I started this podcast which started in August of 2020, it started doing the period of COVID-19 and I decided that I wanted to branch out and do it globally, nationally and globally and that's exactly what I did so I'm up to episode 330 and of course our mantra is wealth is more than just money so I'm honored to have you here.
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[SPEAKER_01]: and sharing this with your family, your friends, and also with the colleagues so that they can learn more and more about it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I'll be bringing on some experts to come in and discuss some areas, perhaps some in leadership, others may be in financial intelligence, and some may be relationships.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I get into a lot of different areas because they all kind of work together.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But what I want to talk about today is about mindset.
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[SPEAKER_01]: is really all about your perception of things.
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[SPEAKER_01]: What you may perceive as one thing, someone else may perceive as another.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But the main focus is going to be on you and what your mind said is, for example, I'll give you an example of my high school guidance counselor and as I was a senior in high school, just finished the football team season that ended and then went on to track and feel that in the springs
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[SPEAKER_01]: My high school goddess council, like my peers did.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I get to the meeting with her and guess what she told me.
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[SPEAKER_01]: She said, Paul, you and that college material.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And of course, I know everything that she had to say because I knew who I was.
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[SPEAKER_01]: She just simply didn't know who I was.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's what it was.
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[SPEAKER_01]: She thought she knew, but she really didn't.
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[SPEAKER_01]: She didn't know that I'm a hard worker.
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[SPEAKER_01]: She didn't know that I'm walking to something.
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[SPEAKER_01]: She didn't know who my spiritual guidance comes from.
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[SPEAKER_01]: She didn't know these things, how could she?
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[SPEAKER_01]: But I just want to go on to say that I went on and graduated from high school, no problem.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Then it was time for college.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I had no money.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I want to attend children.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Then I just decided, I'm going to college.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to find a way.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm not going to prove anything.
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[SPEAKER_01]: to my high school guidance class, so because I don't have to.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But I am going to prove something to me.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And that's the most important thing and you already know this.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But the end result was I did graduate from high school.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I got a summer job at the recreation apartment.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Then I had a teacher who had a brother-in-law.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And once I made it to campus, I ended up at Shaw University in Lollin, North Carolina.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He picked me up every day at the class, and I went to work with him.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He was his own electrician business, and pressed me when I said, it was shocking to say, at least I'd stick my hand in the basket, shocked again.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then when I touched the door knob out the work, everything was lighting and being up.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I tell you, it just wore me down, but I stayed the course.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so when it was time for the end of my freshman year, I had a plife at UPS, and I had a parcel service.
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[SPEAKER_01]: three and a half years almost four because at the two of you mark in my junior year, I had attended between my sophomore junior year, I had attended Air Force Reserve Officer Training Cadet Program at Dover Delaware.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I was going in to maybe have the opportunity to join our FCC to a year program or not.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And they would offer me a scholarship that I accepted it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But I turned to scholarship down because I had to job at UPS.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I had plenty of money
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then I ended up graduating a day, I graduated, I had a bachelor's degree in business in accounting.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then I was so on and as a second lieutenant and commissioned a second lieutenant on the day that I graduated away, which is one of the greatest days of my life because I did something I had never done before.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I was really the first generation to finish high school and college.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And those five girls are five boys and family.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I was the second oldest child, the first one said, and so I was really paving away for those, my siblings who follow up behind me.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But I said that to say this, that when someone tells you that you can't do anything, misguided counselor, you better know who you're talking to.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You're talking to me, I love that lot in the book.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You're talking to me, you weren't talking to me, you were talking to yourself.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Because when I look in the mirror and I want you to do the same thing when you look in that mirror tomorrow, who do you see?
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[SPEAKER_01]: I know when you see you see greatness on inside of you and you see it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so I went on from there, I left a college also where it's academic excellence.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then I was a distinguished graduate of ROTC and a two year program.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so I went on and served 22 years in the United States Air Force went from second to
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[SPEAKER_01]: of the 22-years-of-serve 12 consecutive years in the Pentagon and one-year on Capitol Hill working for a minimum of Congress in the US House of Representatives.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And yet, I was told, you're not college material.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And college had everything to do with these things have to lay it on in my career.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so when I look at this, what I want you to understand is that you have to have an abundance, my sad arc,
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[SPEAKER_01]: You apply for something and someone say, no, you say next.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You go on to the next person and the next thing that's on your checklist and you check that thing off and you don't ever allow anyone to limit you because when they're trying to limit you, they're really limiting themselves because, guess what?
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[SPEAKER_01]: They can't do it exactly, so you can't
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[SPEAKER_01]: rely on anyone else.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to share a little example for you this year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I was working on a project more or less one about as that protection thing different things like that and I contact and I reached out to a few people.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I wanted them to be trustees on my particular from my particular program.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And one person, they sign up right away.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know why?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Because they believe in themselves and they believe in me.
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[SPEAKER_01]: and they they know what it takes to do this.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So then I went to another person I had worked with at mobile or company.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And mobile chemical company in Beaumont, area, Texas, area, and the person first thing they said was, could a person get sued as a trustee?
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[SPEAKER_01]: I said, yeah, you can't.
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[SPEAKER_01]: If you do something wrong, but I think what it was, he simply didn't understand what,
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[SPEAKER_01]: the project was.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so he wanted to automatically assume, I'll put himself in this way.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I got to protect myself.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But how can you protect yourself?
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[SPEAKER_01]: I haven't even put it together yet.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And it was almost like, oh, I'm trying to con you.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not the type of person to con.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know what?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Because if I con somebody, I'll lose my military pension.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm not about to lose that trust me on that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So then,
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[SPEAKER_01]: I just said, you know what, I'm checking out with this person because even though they have a college degree, they really don't know as much as I thought they did.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They had to be fooled for many, many years.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Then I got to the second person, someone I went to high school with, I went to that person and I sent them the information explained what the trustee does.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And first thing, first of all, I didn't hear back from the interviews, who got known for?
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[SPEAKER_01]: decades.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I just assumed, well, this person went to college at college graduate and understand what I'm talking about.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I want to give an opportunity to talk to them about it, but they never returned to college.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I said enough, email, hey, which you might have given me a call.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Again, another day went by, they didn't call.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So then I call them.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And the person said, well, you know, I'll get the grocery store, and I'll give you a call back later on today.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Never heard anything from them.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So, at that point, I just decided, you know what?
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[SPEAKER_01]: They simply don't understand.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They don't believe in me, they don't believe in themselves.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And the person, the last person said, oh, it's a scam.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I thought it was a scam, I'm like, uh, well, I can hear such an thing with a scam.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Again, I'm not risking anything on that pension.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And,
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[SPEAKER_01]: with my customers, my clients.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, why would I do something like, if I know what I'm doing and I'm presumed to you to drive me with an assist, then I'll pay you for this.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Why would it be a scam?
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[SPEAKER_01]: But it had more to do with then than it did with me.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Apparently, they didn't have any self-esteem, the confidence, the lack of knowledge of which we could have talked about it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I'm not the type of person to try to scam anybody because it's just not in my DNA.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's just not there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You do not serve as a secondary officer for over 22 years and you a current artist in just doesn't happen.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They would throw you in jail.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Ultimately, what I was talking about was in the case I have this instrument in place that could help my
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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, it was nothing deep, but it was scaven, Carnot, and all of the items sitting there like, yeah, I don't know these people as well as I thought I did.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I really didn't, and I just said, you know what, I'm chilling, you know, I'm not even gonna deal with this with them, I'm going to someone else.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I went to someone else and they understood exactly what I was saying, they at least gave an opportunity to share what it was all about.
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[SPEAKER_01]: what the point I'm trying to make is you not only have to know yourself, but you just hope that the people that you believe, that you can trust, would also, that you know then, and I found out that two of them, I did not know them, and the person who signed the first was the person I have not known as long, but they understood exactly what I was saying.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so that's what I want you to take with you here in this first corner of the year is to know that self and to really go back and look at what you call your friends and your socials, your colleagues and do a double check because it may not be what you think it is.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so it's very important that you do these things.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So let's move on.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm going to talk now a little bit about some
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[SPEAKER_01]: to help move you through this first quarter of the new year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I want you to set some goals.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You set some financial goals, you know, $5 in the bank, $10, $25 a month.
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[SPEAKER_01]: In fact, have it if you're still working, have it taken out of your pay.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And building up, building up, building up, and I'm going to tell you why.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Start investing in the stock market.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It doesn't take that much money.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You could do it actually with a dollar.
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[SPEAKER_01]: fraction of a stop, but put yourself in a position where your money is working for you and you're not working for your money.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You have assets coming in based on your job or as an entrepreneur.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And instead of believing in the bank where it grows zero interest, put it in some instruments that can work for you.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then you have to study, of course, any stocks, anything that you're interested in purchasing.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And that's what I've been doing.
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[SPEAKER_01]: leading into that and just taking other options.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Now, I have other instruments that I work with as well, as a part of my, but into maturity, but I want you to start doing that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And don't be a move by any, what I would call every win of doctrine.
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[SPEAKER_01]: In other words, what you see on TV, what you see on social media,
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[SPEAKER_01]: on radio TV, don't look at it too much because it would tear you down.
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[SPEAKER_01]: What you want to do is spend a look at externally.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You want to look internally and build up your mind, your body, your spirit, and we're going to throw the soul in there too.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Because if you listen to everything on television, a lot of it isn't actually reality.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And people say, well, how do you know how do you know?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, just think about how your parents and all your grandparents raise you.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They raise you to be a good person.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They pull for you.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They want you to do good in school.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They, my parents want me to go to a house of worship every Sunday and I did.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And they want you to have self respect as well as the respect your elders.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's kind of the mantra for my family.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm sharing this with you because it doesn't matter what generation you come from,
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[SPEAKER_01]: Gen Z, whatever it may be, but if someone has taught you over the years and they've showed you through their example of living in life, then you know that to be true.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And that's where you hear today.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so that's what I want to say to you and don't get too caught up into the political side of things because again, politics is just a different animal.
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[SPEAKER_01]: and I worked on Capitol Hill for a year and when I worked there, that time is nothing like it is today, nothing.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, if you Blake, that's how much of a difference it is when you open it, if you blink, you look at it something different.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So you want to really go inward, build up your spirit person, yourself, belief, what you know to be true after all these years
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[SPEAKER_01]: When it's changed, it's the really the side show that you will.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And you want to stay away from the side shows.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And just try to look for truth and look for justice.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, that's really what it would have all comes down to.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And don't be swayed as I stated before about everyone of Dr. Because someone said something, it doesn't mean that it's true.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You can have to do some research.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You're going to have to experience a person or a thing
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[SPEAKER_01]: know for yourself.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And that's really the way to go.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And remember this, every person that says that they're your friend, like a hit they aren't.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I just found that out in Q1 in the first quarter this year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And but you have to move on from them.
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[SPEAKER_01]: because in order for you to continue to grow, you can't grow with people who don't even believe in themselves, or are interested in even listening to what you have to say.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And some will listen, and yet they're only interested for what's in it for them.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So you have to look at that, and are a what's in it for me, the WIFM is what is called in the professional development arena.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so I'm not preaching and I'm not teaching.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm just sharing my experience.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, and I digress, I did have another experience, but it happened before the new year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I was talking to someone, and I was sharing them about my experience and some of the things that I'm aware of.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And the person said to me, you don't have to impress me.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They actually got angry.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I was there like, I'm just talking about my experience, my life experience.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And as though they didn't want to hear what I had to say, but they wanted to meet a listen to what they had to say.
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[SPEAKER_01]: In fact, they went on to say, you know, I'm just into me.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not thinking about the politics and all these other things that happened.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then I received a call from them about, I don't know, three weeks later.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I did not take that call.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I did not take that call because they'd already told me they would end it themselves.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I don't get across that line anymore.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm letting that go.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But if you can't take out the 10 minutes to listen to someone who's a friend or a family member, then you have to let it go.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Just have to let it go because they don't, they only have their own self-interest in mind.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They don't have you in mind and I think that's very important.
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[SPEAKER_01]: S.L.
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[SPEAKER_01]: and Arthur's major speakers entertainers.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I've brought up all over the course of years, but I'm not only have this 303th episode of a well-for-canted podcast, but I had a previous show called The Wellfies Speaker Show.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I had 900 episodes of that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I've spoken to people all over the world.
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[SPEAKER_01]: 40 times, Arthur, best soy, I think you name it pretty much bottom of wrappers.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You name it up pretty much brought a lot of people.
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[SPEAKER_01]: 30, having family friends and colleagues go out to Temple Park at Ray, we'll do this episode, and thanks for all my span.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And what you say, second chapter of my life haven't retired from the Air Force over almost 24 years ago now.
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[SPEAKER_01]: as part of my January broadcast and what I want to talk about today is all about the mindset and when you really think you know yourself or whether other people know you.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I want to welcome you here to this particular episode and I hope everything is progressing nicely for you and I'm honored to have you here.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Listen to this live and in the archive.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So again, Paul Lois van, it will give you a little bit of background about me and how I started this podcast which started in August of 2020, it started doing the period of COVID-19 and I decided that I wanted to branch out and do it globally, nationally and globally and that's exactly what I did so I'm up to episode 330 and of course our mantra is wealth is more than just money so I'm honored to have you here.
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[SPEAKER_01]: and sharing this with your family, your friends, and also with the colleagues so that they can learn more and more about it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I'll be bringing on some experts to come in and discuss some areas, perhaps some in leadership, others may be in financial intelligence, and some may be relationships.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I get into a lot of different areas because they all kind of work together.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But what I want to talk about today is about mindset.
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[SPEAKER_01]: is really all about your perception of things.
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[SPEAKER_01]: What you may perceive as one thing, someone else may perceive as another.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But the main focus is going to be on you and what your mind said is, for example, I'll give you an example of my high school guidance counselor and as I was a senior in high school, just finished the football team season that ended and then went on to track and feel that in the springs
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[SPEAKER_01]: My high school goddess council, like my peers did.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I get to the meeting with her and guess what she told me.
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[SPEAKER_01]: She said, Paul, you and that college material.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And of course, I know everything that she had to say because I knew who I was.
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[SPEAKER_01]: She just simply didn't know who I was.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's what it was.
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[SPEAKER_01]: She thought she knew, but she really didn't.
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[SPEAKER_01]: She didn't know that I'm a hard worker.
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[SPEAKER_01]: She didn't know that I'm walking to something.
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[SPEAKER_01]: She didn't know who my spiritual guidance comes from.
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[SPEAKER_01]: She didn't know these things, how could she?
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[SPEAKER_01]: But I just want to go on to say that I went on and graduated from high school, no problem.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Then it was time for college.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I had no money.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I want to attend children.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Then I just decided, I'm going to college.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to find a way.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm not going to prove anything.
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[SPEAKER_01]: to my high school guidance class, so because I don't have to.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But I am going to prove something to me.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And that's the most important thing and you already know this.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But the end result was I did graduate from high school.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I got a summer job at the recreation apartment.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Then I had a teacher who had a brother-in-law.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And once I made it to campus, I ended up at Shaw University in Lollin, North Carolina.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He picked me up every day at the class, and I went to work with him.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He was his own electrician business, and pressed me when I said, it was shocking to say, at least I'd stick my hand in the basket, shocked again.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then when I touched the door knob out the work, everything was lighting and being up.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I tell you, it just wore me down, but I stayed the course.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so when it was time for the end of my freshman year, I had a plife at UPS, and I had a parcel service.
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[SPEAKER_01]: three and a half years almost four because at the two of you mark in my junior year, I had attended between my sophomore junior year, I had attended Air Force Reserve Officer Training Cadet Program at Dover Delaware.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I was going in to maybe have the opportunity to join our FCC to a year program or not.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And they would offer me a scholarship that I accepted it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But I turned to scholarship down because I had to job at UPS.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I had plenty of money
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then I ended up graduating a day, I graduated, I had a bachelor's degree in business in accounting.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then I was so on and as a second lieutenant and commissioned a second lieutenant on the day that I graduated away, which is one of the greatest days of my life because I did something I had never done before.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I was really the first generation to finish high school and college.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And those five girls are five boys and family.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I was the second oldest child, the first one said, and so I was really paving away for those, my siblings who follow up behind me.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But I said that to say this, that when someone tells you that you can't do anything, misguided counselor, you better know who you're talking to.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You're talking to me, I love that lot in the book.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You're talking to me, you weren't talking to me, you were talking to yourself.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Because when I look in the mirror and I want you to do the same thing when you look in that mirror tomorrow, who do you see?
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[SPEAKER_01]: I know when you see you see greatness on inside of you and you see it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so I went on from there, I left a college also where it's academic excellence.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then I was a distinguished graduate of ROTC and a two year program.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so I went on and served 22 years in the United States Air Force went from second to
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[SPEAKER_01]: of the 22-years-of-serve 12 consecutive years in the Pentagon and one-year on Capitol Hill working for a minimum of Congress in the US House of Representatives.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And yet, I was told, you're not college material.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And college had everything to do with these things have to lay it on in my career.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so when I look at this, what I want you to understand is that you have to have an abundance, my sad arc,
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[SPEAKER_01]: You apply for something and someone say, no, you say next.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You go on to the next person and the next thing that's on your checklist and you check that thing off and you don't ever allow anyone to limit you because when they're trying to limit you, they're really limiting themselves because, guess what?
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[SPEAKER_01]: They can't do it exactly, so you can't
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[SPEAKER_01]: rely on anyone else.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to share a little example for you this year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I was working on a project more or less one about as that protection thing different things like that and I contact and I reached out to a few people.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I wanted them to be trustees on my particular from my particular program.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And one person, they sign up right away.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know why?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Because they believe in themselves and they believe in me.
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[SPEAKER_01]: and they they know what it takes to do this.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So then I went to another person I had worked with at mobile or company.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And mobile chemical company in Beaumont, area, Texas, area, and the person first thing they said was, could a person get sued as a trustee?
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[SPEAKER_01]: I said, yeah, you can't.
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[SPEAKER_01]: If you do something wrong, but I think what it was, he simply didn't understand what,
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[SPEAKER_01]: the project was.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so he wanted to automatically assume, I'll put himself in this way.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I got to protect myself.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But how can you protect yourself?
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[SPEAKER_01]: I haven't even put it together yet.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And it was almost like, oh, I'm trying to con you.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not the type of person to con.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know what?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Because if I con somebody, I'll lose my military pension.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm not about to lose that trust me on that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So then,
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[SPEAKER_01]: I just said, you know what, I'm checking out with this person because even though they have a college degree, they really don't know as much as I thought they did.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They had to be fooled for many, many years.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Then I got to the second person, someone I went to high school with, I went to that person and I sent them the information explained what the trustee does.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And first thing, first of all, I didn't hear back from the interviews, who got known for?
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[SPEAKER_01]: decades.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I just assumed, well, this person went to college at college graduate and understand what I'm talking about.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I want to give an opportunity to talk to them about it, but they never returned to college.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I said enough, email, hey, which you might have given me a call.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Again, another day went by, they didn't call.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So then I call them.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And the person said, well, you know, I'll get the grocery store, and I'll give you a call back later on today.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Never heard anything from them.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So, at that point, I just decided, you know what?
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[SPEAKER_01]: They simply don't understand.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They don't believe in me, they don't believe in themselves.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And the person, the last person said, oh, it's a scam.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I thought it was a scam, I'm like, uh, well, I can hear such an thing with a scam.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Again, I'm not risking anything on that pension.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And,
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[SPEAKER_01]: with my customers, my clients.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, why would I do something like, if I know what I'm doing and I'm presumed to you to drive me with an assist, then I'll pay you for this.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Why would it be a scam?
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[SPEAKER_01]: But it had more to do with then than it did with me.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Apparently, they didn't have any self-esteem, the confidence, the lack of knowledge of which we could have talked about it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I'm not the type of person to try to scam anybody because it's just not in my DNA.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's just not there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You do not serve as a secondary officer for over 22 years and you a current artist in just doesn't happen.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They would throw you in jail.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Ultimately, what I was talking about was in the case I have this instrument in place that could help my
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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, it was nothing deep, but it was scaven, Carnot, and all of the items sitting there like, yeah, I don't know these people as well as I thought I did.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I really didn't, and I just said, you know what, I'm chilling, you know, I'm not even gonna deal with this with them, I'm going to someone else.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I went to someone else and they understood exactly what I was saying, they at least gave an opportunity to share what it was all about.
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[SPEAKER_01]: what the point I'm trying to make is you not only have to know yourself, but you just hope that the people that you believe, that you can trust, would also, that you know then, and I found out that two of them, I did not know them, and the person who signed the first was the person I have not known as long, but they understood exactly what I was saying.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so that's what I want you to take with you here in this first corner of the year is to know that self and to really go back and look at what you call your friends and your socials, your colleagues and do a double check because it may not be what you think it is.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so it's very important that you do these things.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So let's move on.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm going to talk now a little bit about some
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[SPEAKER_01]: to help move you through this first quarter of the new year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I want you to set some goals.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You set some financial goals, you know, $5 in the bank, $10, $25 a month.
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[SPEAKER_01]: In fact, have it if you're still working, have it taken out of your pay.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And building up, building up, building up, and I'm going to tell you why.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Start investing in the stock market.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It doesn't take that much money.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You could do it actually with a dollar.
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[SPEAKER_01]: fraction of a stop, but put yourself in a position where your money is working for you and you're not working for your money.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You have assets coming in based on your job or as an entrepreneur.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And instead of believing in the bank where it grows zero interest, put it in some instruments that can work for you.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then you have to study, of course, any stocks, anything that you're interested in purchasing.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And that's what I've been doing.
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[SPEAKER_01]: leading into that and just taking other options.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Now, I have other instruments that I work with as well, as a part of my, but into maturity, but I want you to start doing that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And don't be a move by any, what I would call every win of doctrine.
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[SPEAKER_01]: In other words, what you see on TV, what you see on social media,
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[SPEAKER_01]: on radio TV, don't look at it too much because it would tear you down.
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[SPEAKER_01]: What you want to do is spend a look at externally.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You want to look internally and build up your mind, your body, your spirit, and we're going to throw the soul in there too.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Because if you listen to everything on television, a lot of it isn't actually reality.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And people say, well, how do you know how do you know?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, just think about how your parents and all your grandparents raise you.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They raise you to be a good person.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They pull for you.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They want you to do good in school.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They, my parents want me to go to a house of worship every Sunday and I did.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And they want you to have self respect as well as the respect your elders.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's kind of the mantra for my family.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm sharing this with you because it doesn't matter what generation you come from,
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[SPEAKER_01]: Gen Z, whatever it may be, but if someone has taught you over the years and they've showed you through their example of living in life, then you know that to be true.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And that's where you hear today.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so that's what I want to say to you and don't get too caught up into the political side of things because again, politics is just a different animal.
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[SPEAKER_01]: and I worked on Capitol Hill for a year and when I worked there, that time is nothing like it is today, nothing.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, if you Blake, that's how much of a difference it is when you open it, if you blink, you look at it something different.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So you want to really go inward, build up your spirit person, yourself, belief, what you know to be true after all these years
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[SPEAKER_01]: When it's changed, it's the really the side show that you will.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And you want to stay away from the side shows.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And just try to look for truth and look for justice.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, that's really what it would have all comes down to.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And don't be swayed as I stated before about everyone of Dr. Because someone said something, it doesn't mean that it's true.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You can have to do some research.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You're going to have to experience a person or a thing
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[SPEAKER_01]: know for yourself.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And that's really the way to go.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And remember this, every person that says that they're your friend, like a hit they aren't.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I just found that out in Q1 in the first quarter this year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And but you have to move on from them.
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[SPEAKER_01]: because in order for you to continue to grow, you can't grow with people who don't even believe in themselves, or are interested in even listening to what you have to say.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And some will listen, and yet they're only interested for what's in it for them.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So you have to look at that, and are a what's in it for me, the WIFM is what is called in the professional development arena.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so I'm not preaching and I'm not teaching.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm just sharing my experience.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, and I digress, I did have another experience, but it happened before the new year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I was talking to someone, and I was sharing them about my experience and some of the things that I'm aware of.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And the person said to me, you don't have to impress me.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They actually got angry.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I was there like, I'm just talking about my experience, my life experience.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And as though they didn't want to hear what I had to say, but they wanted to meet a listen to what they had to say.
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[SPEAKER_01]: In fact, they went on to say, you know, I'm just into me.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not thinking about the politics and all these other things that happened.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then I received a call from them about, I don't know, three weeks later.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I did not take that call.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I did not take that call because they'd already told me they would end it themselves.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I don't get across that line anymore.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm letting that go.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But if you can't take out the 10 minutes to listen to someone who's a friend or a family member, then you have to let it go.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Just have to let it go because they don't, they only have their own self-interest in mind.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They don't have you in mind and I think that's very important.
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[SPEAKER_01]: S.L.
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[SPEAKER_01]: and Arthur's major speakers entertainers.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I've brought up all over the course of years, but I'm not only have this 303th episode of a well-for-canted podcast, but I had a previous show called The Wellfies Speaker Show.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I had 900 episodes of that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I've spoken to people all over the world.
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[SPEAKER_01]: 40 times, Arthur, best soy, I think you name it pretty much bottom of wrappers.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You name it up pretty much brought a lot of people.
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[SPEAKER_01]: 30, having family friends and colleagues go out to Temple Park at Ray, we'll do this episode, and thanks for all my span.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And what you say, second chapter of my life haven't retired from the Air Force over almost 24 years ago now.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Have a great day and a great evening and get out there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm ready to review this episode.
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[SPEAKER_01]: My time is up and I thank you for yours.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Again, the name is Paula's fan.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Have a wonderful day.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'll see you on the next episode.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, the Academy.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you for listening to this episode with Paul and his guest.
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