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Churchill said, those who failed to learn from history are
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condemned to repeat it. Kevin helen N believes that certainly
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applies to business. Welcome to Winning Business Radio here at
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and now your host, Kevin helen N.
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Thanks everyone for joining it again today. I am Kevin
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Hallanan and welcome back to Winning Business TV and Radio
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It's that and that's at Winning Business Radio. And of
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wherever you listen to your podcasts YouTube, I Heart Radio, Spotify, Apple,
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et cetera, et cetera. The mission of Winning Business radio
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and TV, as regular viewers and listeners know, is to
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offer insights and advice to help people avoid the mistakes
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of others, right to learn best practices, the how tos,
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the what toos, the what not tos, to be challenged
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and hopefully to be inspired by the successes of others.
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Who are those others consultants, coaches, advisors, authors, founders and owners, entrepreneurs,
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people with expertise. But you know, virtually every successful person
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that I've ever had a chance to chat with has
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that some form of failure in their lives and careers. So,
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as I say, every week, while we have to all,
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well we all, excuse me, you have to get our
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knees skinned once in a while, I'm driven to keep
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these scrapes from needing major surgery. Let's endeavor to learn
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from history so we don't repeat it. I've spent the
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better part of my career equipping businesses to grow from
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solopreneurs to small to medium sized businesses all the way
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up to the fortune fifty. I've seen some of those
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companies win, and to varying degrees, I've seen some fail
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I've had the opportunity to rub eilbles with some of
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the highest performing people around and with some who probably
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should have found other professions. In my own businesses, I've
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had a lot of success, but some failures too, and
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I like to think I've learned a lot from those experiences.
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So you're going to hear from me my opinions and insights,
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but you ask anybody who knows me, though have a
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hard time staying quiet. But more importantly than me, you're
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going to hear from experts, those consultants, coaches, advisors, authors,
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founders and owners. And today is no exception. She's Caitlin Young,
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founder and of Social Media Doctor, member of Stepping Up Academy,
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affiliated with Iconic Alliance, best selling author and marketing coach.
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Here's your bio. Caitlin Young is the owner of Social
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Media Doctor, proud member of Stepping Up Academy, a best
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selling author and marketing coach to entrepreneurs. She's been in
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the business world in one form or another since the time
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she was eighteen, and through her combined years of experience,
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the mentorships she's received and the relationships ships I can
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talk Caitlin don't worry that she has made She's been
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able to grow her own business as well as help
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multiple businesses flourish. She's been married to Scott Young since
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twenty seventeen and currently lives in their home in Selina, Texas,
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with their adorable cats and dogs. Caitlin, Welcome to Winning
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Business Radio and TV.
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Thank you so much. I'm so honored that you asked
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me here, really excited to talk it up with you.
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Cool. I'm glad to have you. So let's just start
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right here, right from the beginning. Where'd you grow up? Nice?
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I grew up in Michigan on the East side, and
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then we moved to the West side, and then literally
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a month ago, we moved to Texas.
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That's why I asked. I knew that what precipitated the move.
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It's multiple different factors. One is a lot of our
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clienteles down here. The other thing is community. There are
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business owners and best friends and people have that become
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family that we wanted to move closer to. And then
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just also so that way a little bit more sunshine,
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because it doesn't a little more happiness, all.
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Right, So let's go back to the question I was
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trying to ask thanks for your patients. Caitlin sell us.
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What it was like to grow up in Michigan where
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you in the town where you lived?
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Yeah, so it was kind of fun because first ten
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years of my life we lived near Detroit, like near
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the city, right, so we I was homeschooled, so I
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would go to homeschool groups and stuff. I was very
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much a city girl. But then we moved to Lake
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Odessa and well nowhere near Grand Rapids, and me and
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my brother started a farm. We got lamas, we got sheep, goats,
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works and completely three sixties flip. So it's it's gotten
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city girl, country life, back to sea girl goes back
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and forth.
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Well do you have a brother?
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Yeah, I actually have five siblings. I'm one of six.
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There's three girls.
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Where are you in that birth order?
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I am the third, the oldest girl, but third on
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the totem pole.
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Cool, wow, big family. And do your parents work? What
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do they make their careers? Where they do Your dad
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what's his career?
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So he is the sales professional for a carrier in Gable.
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He does traffic signals, so he's like the traffic signals
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salesman for the West side of Michigan.
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Well, that's interesting. So I always ask that because I
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wonder if people get some dudes some don't get, you know,
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skills or mindsets or entrepreneurial mindsets from parents. So where
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did your entrepreneurial mindset or if you come from.
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I think he came from two things. It came from
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my dad because he had the sales background. That also
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came from just learning different things. When we were doing
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four ahe doing farming and stuff like that. Right, so
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me and my brother would pay for all the hay,
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the things like that, Like we were the ones doing
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the farm. And so because of that, if I knew
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the value of money, I knew the value of putting
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in the hard work to get the result on every
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side and learning Okay, we can't spend this much on
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feed or we have to do this right. So that
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kind of opened the door. I didn't know what door
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was opening until many years later, but definitely did.
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Wow, that's pretty cool. So what were your early interests,
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say high school, before you graduated, what were you into?
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So I've always had a passionate for animals. I thought
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for a long ast time that I would be a veterinarian.
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And I remember reading somewhere. You were the Lama girl
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at one point.
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Yes, yes, I showed lamas. We were grand champions multiple
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years in a row, and obstacle courses. But yeah, it
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really it's the the animals were the forefront, and then
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from there I didn't really know. Once I realized I
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didn't want to be the one putting animals down, dealing
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with all that art, I kind of became a quest
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of Okay, what am I actually here for?
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And you're a dog and cat mom.
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Yes, I have two dogs, Zola and Sammy. They are
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the lights of my life. And then my yeats nice.
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And you're married to Scott, So tell us about Scott.
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Yeah. So Scott and I met at Amway where he
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worked and I was in town.
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Oh that's right, I knew that. Yeah, you told me
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that before.
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Yep. And I was the shy one, which is funny
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if you guys ever meet Scott, he's actually the shy
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one and her really, But for at first I was
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the shy one and we met going back and forth
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on the elevator and next thing, you know, after he
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asked me out, we got married eight months later.
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So now for those listening, you hear, am why you
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think of selling you but you guys were working in
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the warehouse and distribution, right, Yeah, I.
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Made some actual cosmetics.
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Yeah. Side story, I have a friend who sells Amway
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and I used the men's face wash that you was
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really good. It's really good, all right. So let me
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ask you this, when did you know you wanted to
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be in social media?
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Honestly, not until three years ago. Like it was kind
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of a little backup on this, But I from the
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time I was sixteen to twenty three, I was convinced
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I was not supposed to be on this earth, and
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so there was a time where I didn't see myself
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doing anything. I kind of gave up, and when I
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was twenty three, I got institutionalized and during that time,
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those six weeks, I had to have a real heart
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to heart with myself with my higher power and kind
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of go through a Okay, why what am I supposed
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to do here? So that kind of put me on
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this quest because I realized that if I wasn't supposed
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to be here, I want to still be here and
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I wouldn't have this drive to do something more. So
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that kind of started me on this quest to find, Okay,
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what am I supposed to do. So I started kissing
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a lot of frogs, worked at Walmart, worked at the factory,
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worked at that factory, became an insurance Aye, didn't you
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name it? And it was during a event I had
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this feeling wash over me of just like you know,
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I love the online space. There are so many people
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pretending to be stuff they're not. There so many people
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pretending to be something they're not meant to be. So
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my passion and calling came from helping people stuff authentically
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into themselves online and grow their businesses. And so that's
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kind of where it started from. Long term answer short.
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That's really great. It's really great, And I was going
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to ask that a little later. And I appreciate you
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sharing that. It's very vulnerable. You have dealt with depression,
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you have dealt with the kind of negative influences, outlooks, mindsets,
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et cetera, and I know you've powered through that. So
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congratulations and so glad to have met you when you
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are so positive and you do have a passion. It shows.
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I've met you several times now in full disclosure at conferences.
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We go to a similar con at the same conference
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a few times a year and that's where I you know,
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of course I met you, and you don't come across
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as somebody who struggles with those things. Yeah, nobody's perfect,
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but you seem to have really got to handle on it.
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So yeah, it took a lot of years of work
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on it, realizing oh my gosh, I might be the
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problem when you start taking ownership. It's funny how things work.
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So I want to ask you about a few here's
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the lesson or here's the question. It's about lessons. I'm
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going to ask you about Walmart, about the various warehouse
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and if it's one collective answer for warehouses, fine, But
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working for Walmart, what was your key lesson? Learned everybody
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we learned things and as you've said, you know your
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journey has shaped you into who you are today. So
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what did you learn from the Walmart experience?
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So, Walmart, it was definitely learning how to communicate with people,
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learning how to deal with the interesting people you meet
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and not like you know, because there are certain you
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get everything when you come into Walmart. You get every
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type of class, every person, and it's learning that every
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person has their value and learning how to communicate to
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them effectively and not just do the easy like, oh
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my gosh, this person's so annoying, right, like, because that's
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the first indication, especially when you're coming out of high school,
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like you just want to you're the best, and you know,
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right to take that step back and go, okay, this
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is looking at from their point of view of if
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they have a problem, what can I do to fix
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that problem? You know, is it something I can handle?
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And then from there knowing okay, is this something I handled?
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My team handles because I had to team under me,
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and so it taught me the power of delegation and
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communication for sure.
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Well that's excellent. And how about the well, am I,
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what was the lesson or lessons you took away from
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amly am we.
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It would be SOPs of all things, because they were
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all these cleaning procedures, all these things that kept things
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so that way you knew the prime product was the same, right,
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And I saw so many times what would happen if
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someone didn't.
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Follow it, and why it was so important to have
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different operations and procedures, and so that part instilled in
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me like, oh my gosh, if I ever do something
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like this, I need to have those same things because
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I want to make sure I'm giving the same exact
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thing that I promised this person to this person at