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She is sure, she is true, she is straw is straw,
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She is true, is true, she is praise, pray, she
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is she is you.
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Hello, everyone, welcome to today's Ward of Mom Radio. Here
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on the Ward of Mom Media Network, I'm your host,
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Dori Di Carlo, and you know we are here week
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after week, show after show, breaking those myths that morepreneurs
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and business women, especially those of us building our businesses
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from home, that we're just dabbling in between bake sales
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and getting our nails done. We're not. We are smart,
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we are savvy, and we are sharing the wisdom of
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women in business and in life. And I'm looking forward
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to bringing today's guest into our Morepreneur model show. Maggie
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Clancy didn't start with entrepreneurship in mind. With a Bachelor
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of Science and Biology, she initially pursued medicine, but managing
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forces ignited a love for business that shifted her career.
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Over two decades, Maggie has led strides writing Academy through economic, environmental,
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and pandemic challenges while gaining invaluable lessons in resilience and adaptability. Today,
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Maggie shares these insights with aspiring equestrian business owners, embracing
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each twist and turn with passion and purpose. I grew
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up in a horse riding family, so I am so
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excited to be sharing Maggie today. So welcome to Word
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of Mom Radio.
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Thank you. I'm so excited to be here with you.
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I'm thrilled to have you here, and I would love
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for you to take us on your journey to go
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from you know, thinking you're going to go to study
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medicine to becoming an equestrian. I love it and I
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can't wait to hear this journey, Maggie.
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Oh perfect.
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Well, it was totally unplanned and unexpected. But when I
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look at that, like back at it now twenty years later,
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all the pieces were in place to take me there.
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I just had to listen and pay attention. I planned
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on going to medical school so I could afford to
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keep writing.
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Mostly that was really my motivation. I loved horses.
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I rode as a kid, I rode in college, and
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I just wanted to figure out how to keep them
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in my life. I won't get too detailed, but basically
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the first time I bombed the mcat to get into
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medical school. So I had to wait a whole another
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year to take it. And during that year I started
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what's called catch writing. So you know, Dorry would call
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me up, for example, and say, my horse is bucking
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and being naughty and I need you to fix it.
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And so I'd be like, okay, great, I have time.
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I'll hop on your horse and fix it.
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So by the time I applied again to medical school,
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i'd sort of naturally built up a business that was
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just supposed to like fill my time until I went
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to medical school. As it laid out, you know, I
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sort of had this moment, why in the world, if
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I get to do what I love and people are
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actually paying for me to get groceries, would I not
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take that opportunity? And so luckily I did. And it's
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now been right at twenty years now, and it's been great.
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It's been amazing, it's been hard, it's been all the things,
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and here we are.
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I love that. You know, it's so funny because quite
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often if you are open to listening to the universe,
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it points you where you should be. And so good
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for you that you followed the journey. And so as
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a mom, you know, how did you manage especially younger
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kids in the beginning had to be really difficult because
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forces the gentle creatures that they are very gigantic creatures still,
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So I would love to know how you handled the
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scheduling of building your business being a mom, running all
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over the place let it go.
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Yes, definitely having kids changed every It changed everything in
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the business. So up until that point, you know, it
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was me. I did all the work. I showed up,
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I rode all the horses. That was really the business,
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So it wasn't It was more like a job I
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had built for myself to work a lot of hours.
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Once kids came along, being a mom was always a
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huge priority on my list, Like that was always something
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I wanted to do in life.
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And I'm so lucky and I have two great kids.
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So it really forced or encouraged I'm not sure which
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word to use. Probably forced them me, you know, look
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at the business and figure out how I could show
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up for the kids and still keep growing the business.
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When my daughter was my daughter's down nine, so when
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she was six months old is when we actually bought
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our property. And it was so funny because I my
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husband was like, oh, it'll be so great. You can
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run the business and be home with the kids all
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the time. So that was how it all started, right,
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And then we bought a twenty acre property which had
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over eighty horses on it, and I had a tiny kid,
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So the reality of the first couple of years was
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not exactly that, but it forced me to build a
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business that could run a little bit on its own.
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And so now I can pick and choose what days
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I show up. I can take vacation on the days
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I want, I can show up at the school events.
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run in a very solid way so I could come
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and go.
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So, yeah, and what have you learned about parenting and
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running a business? I mean, you know, there's those ebbs
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and flows that happened. And you know it's funny because
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very often, especially women who've been full time moms and
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then going back to work, I feel like, oh, I
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don't have that many skills. So how you incorporated all
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of those business skills, moms skills and everything else.
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Yes, just being a parent, Just being a parent being,
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I feel like, gives you so many more skills than
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you ever thought you would have or need, and so
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many of them are just learned in the moment. I mean,
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I I was one of the moms that like bought
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all the things hoping it would fix, you know, every
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Like I bought all the seat things hoping everyone would sleep,
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and I bought all the b And now I look
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back and I'm like, I just sort of had to
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go through it and figure out how to do it,
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and then it started to get easier and easier and easier.
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So all of the skills, you know, like the process
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of negotiation that is applied with children and in business,
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working through challenges and being in the moment, I think
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is the biggest one. So if I am you know,
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fires start hitting at work and I'm looking at my phone,
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immediately everything will blow up at home, like guaranteed, kids
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will start fighting, things will be like it will just
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be a hot mess.
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So forcing myself to.
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Be at home more and at work more and let
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those lines be less blurry is huge. Yeah, And the
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negotiation went like how do you do sales? How do
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you talk to a person you don't know and convince
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them of X, Y and Z. Is similar to teaching
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a two year old to go do something that they
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don't necessarily want to do. So a lot of those
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skills can apply to many different scenarios.
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It's amazing, isn't it. You have scheduled, conflict resolution, budgeting,
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you know, time management, all of these different delegations. Yes,
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when do you start testing things to the kids to do?
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When do you start delegating things to your employees? It's amazing.
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But it's funny, Maggie, because quite often women don't give
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themselves credit on the job training that being a mom.
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I always think back a friend of mine had a
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cartoon on her refrigerator and it was a woman sitting
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at a desk. The inbox is piled about three feet
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by stuff everywhere, and she's talking to this other woman
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and saying, I can't tell you how relaxing it is
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to come back to work after raising three kids, because
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again it is sometimes the insanity of work is so calming.
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Totally absolutely yeah, and you're right.
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And then juggling, like I feel like becoming a mom,
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you have this mastered art of being able to juggle
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more things than most people think they're capable of and
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keep all the balls in the air. And so that
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is definitely learned at home and then applied at work.
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For me, it's funny because very often you know how
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they talk about that work life balance and I say.
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It all the time.
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It's like balance forget it. It is a juggling act.
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And how do you keep all the balls in the
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air at the same time and then you're throwing them
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around your back and up and over your shoulder. Because,
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let's face it, moms know how to think on their feet. Yep,
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we really And when it comes to business especially, you know,
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most people, Hey, a kid cameo. We've got a kid
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cameo going on right now.
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Casey's homesick from school today, So nice to.
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See you, you know, being word of Mom radio. We
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love kid cameo. I really do. So it's never My
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grandson every once in a while would be with me
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and he'd come in and he'd want to ask a question.
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I'm like God, because he was listening this is life. Yeah,
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well he was, you know, four, wanting to come in.
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But you know, and this again, this is the joy
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of motherhood. This is what is wonderful about building a business,
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raising a family, Your daughter's home sick. Guess what life
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gets to shift.
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That's the difference between working in your business and on
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your business. When you are so totally enmeshed in it.
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Then something like this happens and everything has to come
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to a fault, yeah, as oppose to where you have
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yourself in working on your business. So that's how we
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work through all of those things. And you know, with
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your daughter home, what are some of the lessons and
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the biggest lessons you really hope that you are teaching
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and modeling for your kids.
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You know, these days it's sort of having the passion
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and confidence to follow your heart. I think that there's
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so much external influence. I mean, there always has been,
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but it seems like it's greater in my opinion these days,
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so much external influence on what you should do and
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what's right and what's wrong and follow this path and
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only do this and only wear that, and having that confident,
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like that inner confidence and passion to say, you know,
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this is really what I want to do and what
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I was born to do, and I'm going to figure
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out a way how to make it work would be
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the most amazing gift to pass on. So hopefully I
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can sort out how to pass that on. But I
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was lucky enough. It's funny. My dad always said, do
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what you love and the money will follow and that
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sounds like such like flippid advice, like yeah, right, you know,
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we all need to actually pay bills. It sounds not.
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But if you hold that and really stick to it,
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it is possible to do what you love and make
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a living and like and like your life.
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So you know what you can And it's funny, I
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was just talking about it. So often we go into
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that scarcity mentality of starting to worry about, oh, this
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bill is coming in this you know, this client just
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dropped off and things like that, and I constantly reinforce
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for myself and people that I work with, living in
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that scarcity mentality creates scarcity. You have to trust that
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you are doing what you have to do. Trust it,
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do what you love, the money will. So I completely
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agree with that, and I know for some people that's
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just like yeah, okay, yeah, you're nuts, right, And and
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that's where I say to people, then get a job. Yeah,
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you know, if you can't get yourself out of that
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scarcity mentality, make sure you have a job where you
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have a guaranteed paycheck yep, and let somebody else sweat it.
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Yeah, Well, and having that, you know, it's funny. The
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horse has taught me so much, like written, resilience just
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literally from riding them, you know, and falling off and
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getting back off, like getting back on the horse, as
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they say, and having some of that that you can
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carry into running your own business. So you know, we
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all have hard days, we all have hard months, We'll
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have hard years, but knowing okay, like I will get
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to the other side of this and I will keep
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forging forward. And having a network around you that reminds
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you when you're like, well, I don't know, is this
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gonna happen. Having people who are like, yeah, it is, get.
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Up, go do it. It is so important.
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you know what, that support system is huge. We're going
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she is you, and we want to tell your story.
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Are you ready to share your journey with us on