May 31, 2025 • 25 mins
Episode 80: What is your Why?
Discovering Your Why: A Journey Through Adversity and Inspiration
In this episode of Conversations with Kimen, host Kimen Petersen delves into the profound concept of finding one's 'why' to live a more soulful and fulfilling life. Through personal anecdotes, life lessons, and the inspiring stories of remarkable individuals, including athletes and a dedicated medical professional, Kimen explores how overcoming adversity can lead to a deeper sense of purpose. Listeners are encouraged to identify their own 'why' and understand the critical importance it plays in navigating life's challenges. The episode underscores the power of compassion, resilience, and continuous self-improvement in the pursuit of helping others and achieving a greater good.
00:00 Introduction to Conversations with Kimen
00:28 Finding Your Why 01:03 Overcoming Personal Challenges
02:44 Inspiration from Athletes 05:28 The Power of a Strong Why
06:07 Stories of Resilience
09:13 Embracing Your Unique Journey
11:53 The Philosophy of Helping Others
16:14 The Importance of Health and Fitness
19:14 Encouragement to Find Your Why
25:00 Conclusion and Call to Action
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. Conversations with Kimen is aboutinspiration, life lessons, and wisdom.
Your host, Kimen Petersen shareshis stories to inspire you to live
a more soulful and illuminated life.
The topics covered in this podcastare as personal opinions inspired by
life, experience, and conversationsshared with amazing people.
Kimen hopes to encourage you tobe guided by life in the flow.
(00:23):
So the whole journey is moremanageable and joyful and fulfilling.
If you have a powerful enough why
you can overcome any how,
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and this is one of the quotesthat gets me through the day.
Sometimes
you see there was a time Ihad no why I had a dream.
I kind of had this dream that Iwanted to make a difference, but I
didn't know how it was gonna show up.
And I spent a lot of timeworking on two books.
(01:08):
The first one I'd had a, I had calledit, uh, A Child Steps Into the Flow,
and it was the story of my life andthe story of challenges that I've had.
Things I've had to overcome andwhere the place, the places that
(01:30):
these really trying things took me.
And then as I kind of grewolder, I started to see how these
things taught me amazing things.
Like the tough things I went throughtaught me this incredible amount of
compassion for other human beings.
(01:51):
And it wasn't in spite of goingthrough these things, it was
because I understood what it feltlike to hurt at a deep soul level,
and I didn't want anybody else toever have to go through that alone.
So I guess that starts to point at my why.
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Like what is my why?
What is your why?
Do you have a why?
Do you get up in the morning and
just kind of like coast through yourday trying to distract yourself from
all the things that trouble you?
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Or do you get pulledoutta bed in the morning?
Like some of the athletes I know,they jump outta bed and they
charge right into their work.
And I, I honestly think the mostamazing group I know of athletes
is the, uh, university athletes.
Um, namely on any team.
But, uh, the, the most interactions Ihave is with the track team and this group
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of human beings is absolutely amazing.
'cause typically they, they have, they'rein the top programs getting top marks
and finding time to do all the work.
In order to be an incredibleathlete at the same time,
like these people inspire me to be more,
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to do more
and to try harder.
I mean, one of the reasons I got intorunning in the first place was because
I was, I was fortunate enough to beinvited, um, to support a national team.
Or a couple national teams actually,
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and I was just so inspiredby these human beings
because people thinkathletes like, I don't know.
I think a lot of times we havea misconception of what it's
like to be an athlete, right?
Especially if it's pro or semi-pro.
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Most of these people arenot making a lot of money.
So their why is not around money
and you know, they're not, alot of them are not getting a
lot of sponsorships and things.
You know, companies are really kindto send them tr uh, shoes to tryout
and such, but literally, for the mostpart here in Canada, the majority of
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the athletes are just barely scrapingby and they're counting on wins from
races in order to fund their life.
Unless of course they get goodenough to, um, to qualify for the
Olympics or something, and thenthey get, they get a small amount
of money and you'd be surprised.
It's, uh, carting is, iseither 900 or $1,200 a month.
(04:56):
That's all they get.
So I definitely guaranteetheir why is not for the money,
you know.
I, I think I remember I asked oneof my athletes once like, like,
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what do you love about running?
And she said, I love to win.
And I thought, yeah, I can see that.
See how amazing that is.
But I feel like in order to really sustainanything really extraordinary, anything.
To a high level to make itthrough all those days that
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things aren't gonna go right.
Right.
Because sometimes they're not, as anathlete, you're going to go through times
probably with injury, and you're gonnahave moments when you wonder if you're
ever gonna get back to what you love.
So it's like if you couldcreate a big enough why,
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I wonder how much that would helpyou during those moments where
things just aren't going right.
And then there was, there's thisincredible human being that I
work with from time to time, andthey're, they're in, um, uh, medical
program, specifically physiatry.
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And this human being
is just amazing.
And like we have these incredibleconversations when they're here.
And I, at one point I was talkingabout like, like, what is your why?
And sh she said, well, she basicallysaid, I, I'd have to explain it to you.
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I couldn't really, maybe I can't elaborateit in the way you see this person had, uh.
I had an incident, uh, on vacation wherethey stepped on something and it caused
an infection in their foot, and theylost the majority of their lower leg.
So they have a prosthetic.
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And can you imagine howchallenging that would be?
You're already in this incrediblyhard program of physiatry,
and then you lose a leg.
Can you imagine how many people woulduse that as like, I don't know, maybe
that's just too much, but not this person.
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And she was telling me this story, uh,about, uh, a patient she was working
with a young, young person under the ageof 14 who'd, uh, who'd lost the limb.
And he was pretty devastated.
He was depressed.
He didn't feel like, or he just didn'tseem to feel like he was ever gonna
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have a chance to amount to anythingbecause he'd lost his legs or his
one leg and he didn't really wantparticipate in the rehab or anything.
And he didn't really want to befitted for a prosthetic or anything.
And one day this amazing humanbeing went into his room.
And he was pretty gloomy and she justpulled up her pant like and went t,
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and he looked at her and he goes, youhave a prosthetic and you're a doctor.
Just that action changedthat young man's life.
It showed him what's possible.
And literally this incrediblehuman being, tears in her eyes.
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That's my why.
That's my why right there.
How powerful is that?
Why?
You know, you go through somethingincredibly difficult and then you
come in and you change somebody'slife just by sharing the fact
that you went through that.
You know, that's touching onthe edge of my why right there.
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Like why?
You know, I went through a lotof stuff and like I take totally
respon total responsibility for thefact that I took the stuff I went
through and I would beat myself.
I use it.
I had was on a, in a war with myselfand I was undermining the po uh, the
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possibility of me and encouraging theimpossibility or the destruction of self.
In my mind and I was encouragingdriving myself deeper and deeper
and deeper into hopelessness andthrough depression, through bipolar,
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through even some, you know,almost self abuse in many ways,
physically and through substance.
And
yeah, I just.
I went through all that and I takeresponsibility for all of what I created.
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And the amazing thing is, even though,or not in spite of, but because
of everything I went through, allthe pain, I caused myself, all the
pain that was, that came my way.
I really learned what it's like to livea life of despair, depression, sadness.
Self-loathing
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and something clicked in me atone point that, that all these
things I've been through weren'tactually taking away from me.
I mean, they, they were in themoment because I was indulging them.
But when I started to rise above them andI started to see that, like each one of
these things had taught me these amazingthings, they taught me how to care.
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And like I'll tell you, you comeinto my space, you come into my
life and you're hurting, you'regonna see a human being click on,
you know, I have this athlete, she oncetold me, you know, until it gets really
hard, I don't feel like I can give my all,but as soon as it gets hard, I'm there.
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And this is exactly whatI live, like I love.
Well being around human beings, Ilove contributed to human beings.
I love supporting human beings.
But if you are in a really, reallytough place, you're gonna see me
come alive because that's my why.
What is my why?
My why is I want to help.
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I want to help.
You know, I once heard theBuddhist, um, I don't know if
you know anything about Buddhistphilosophy, but they talk about this.
Being called a body satis.
And please forgive me if I don'thave this completely right.
This is my understanding of what abody satis, it might not be the proper
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understanding, but it does give the gt
see the Buddhist believe in reincarnation.
They believe that we come back likethis world is a world of learning.
We're here to learn.
That's what we're here for.
And so we go through all thesethings in order to learn and.
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And as we learn and learn andlearn and learn, we're work,
working our way to enlightenment.
And enlightenment means, um, basically
pre preparation to moveon to whatever's next.
And they don't really talk about what'snext because it's, it's funny, like, uh,
sitar Katima, the Buddha, the, the Buddha,we talk about, he said, um, somebody
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asked him like, what about the gods?
What about what, what's next?
And he, he was, he would.
He would just say, why would you concernyourself with all that when the most,
more, most important thing to do righthere and now is to work towards your
own salvation, to do the work, towork towards your own enlightenment.
That is the most importantthing in this lifetime.
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But the interesting thing is, as soonas I heard about the body satis and
this, these beings are beings that are.
Just about ready to pass over intoenlightenment to move on to what's next.
Like literally, they're one step fromthis, and yet they choose to stay and
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come back and come back and come backuntil all beings find enlightenment.
Until everybody works through allthe stuff they've had to work through
or they have to work through inorder to move on to what's next.
And God, I said like if this is true, ifthis is real, and if I have any choice in
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this matter, I want to be a body satis.
If it's true that we come backand our whole purpose is to help.
Because that's my why.
Why do I get up in the morning?
'cause I want to help
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if, if it's true that there is abeing that will continuously make
the choice to come back to helpuntil everyone gets it figured out.
I want to be that.
If I have a choice, I want to be that.
I want to keep on coming back over andover and over again and learning and
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teaching and helping and supporting.
I want, like I understand that Ican't take pain away from people when
they're really suffering, but whatI can do is make sure the hell that
they do not feel alone when they'rein my presence, when they're in pain.
And if I can do that in thislifetime, if I can help a few
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people, this is why I do this.
This is why I'm sitting here on a Sunday.
Like I take one day off a weekand I come here to record this
because I want to help.
That's my why.
Like why am I up sevendays a week before 5:00 AM.
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Running five days a week,going into, uh, doing strength
and mobility two days a week.
Why am I doing that?
My, my why is 'cause I want to help.
And how does that fit into my why?
And like you could take alook at your why, right?
How does that fit into my li why?
Well, my life is pretty good and this.
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Um, this message that I'm trying to getout and I'm trying to elaborate and I'm
trying to build is getting better andbetter and better, but I do know it's
gonna take, it's probably gonna takemore than my lifetime to get it right,
and my health wasn't really great.
A couple years ago.
My blood pressure was through theroof and I was quite overweight.
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Now I'm significantly smaller.
I'm at least 50 pounds smaller than I was.
And how I look at that is like if Icontinuously dive into fitness, into
health, into exercise, cleaning upmy mind, my thought process, if I
take care of myself, that I will beextending this life by minutes and
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hours and days and weeks and years.
And every minute I can add tothis life will serve for my why.
Because honestly.
What do I want to do?
I wanna change the world.
Is that even possible?
Probably not in my lifetime, butI want to spend my life going
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for this as if I believe it.
Like, like going as hard as Ican with this delusional belief
that I can do this because.
I spent too much time in my life justgiving up and, and just accepting
what's so, and like listening to myinner critic that I would never amount
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to anything, and I'm done with that.
I'm so done with that Now.
I'm living my why.
I want to help and in order to reallyhave a chance to really get as close
as I can to my massive goal, I needto extend this life as long as I can.
I need to.
Just keep on working on my mentaland my emotional and my psychological
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help over and over again.
I need to get up and keep on recordingthese things and speaking, and speaking,
and speaking till it becomes more and moreclear and closer and closer to the message
that will really, really touch people.
And if it's possible, if it's thetruth, if it's real and I have a choice.
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Then I will come back next lifetimeand I'll come back after that and
over and over and over and over untileveryone finds their way through.
I mean, there's this quotethat I just love and it's like,
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blessed are the amazing humanbeings who escape through
the, from the fires of hell.
Only to return with water tohelp those who are still trapped.
And maybe that's a little dramaticbecause not everybody's in hell,
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but everybody has their ownversion of of tough times, right?
And this is why I speak, like mymessage, my why is I want to help.
This is why I talk about reframing.
This is why I talk about acceptance.
Like, what's your why?
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Like,
why do you get up in the morning?
Like, are you sitting in a place where youfeel like you don't have an opportunity
where you're, you're not going toachieve anything great in this life?
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Because I was there, okay?
And that ain't true.
That's the inner critic.
That's the inner critic islying to you, that you aren't
here, that you aren't special.
I mean, in my episode, embracinguniqueness, the power of not
being normal, I talk about this.
If you do not think you'rean extraordinary human being,
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I can prove it to you rightnow, right here and right now.
At one point, just before your conception,you were in a race with hundreds
of millions of others, and you won
hundreds of millions of others.
There's no race that big.
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It's except for that one.
But not only that, that when,when you were conceived the
combination of DNA, that is you.
Is completely unique, 100% unique.
There is not another person withthe same DNA bar, a twin, like
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an an egg that's split into two.
Two.
That twin does have the same DNA.
So do you think it's just random thatyou all this came together that you.
Won that race that you havethis incredible amount of DNA.
Like, if you want to figure outwhat you're supposed to be doing
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in this planet, you've gotta lookat all your, all the things that,
all the little benefits you have.
Like for instance, I'm dyslexic, right?
Is that a detriment oris it, does it help me?
Well, there was a time whenI thought it was a detriment,
but now the way I see patterns.
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It is very unique and different than alot of people, so I'm in my practice,
I'm able to unwind things in a differentway than other people do, and I'm,
it's just, it comes to me so simply,
you know, the level ofcompassion I have and caring.
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You know, there's so many thingslike how strong my body is.
'cause like I do manual therapy,like that's with your hands.
I do it.
I'm in the office 12 hoursa day, six days a week.
I have this incredibly strong bodythat will just continue doing it.
Like, if you could start reallytaking a look at all the things
that you are interested in, all thethings that are driving you, all
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the things that you are attracted tothe, the direction you want to go.
If you, and you can start enhancingthat and not looking at what's taking
away from you, but it's lookingat what's giving to you and what
it gives and how you're unique andhow you're different than others.
And if you could juststart following that path,
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maybe you can find your why I,
and even if you don't findyour ultimate why right now.
Okay.
Find a small why.
Right.
Find, find a little why,
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and then build it and refine it.
'cause I'm, I'm honestly,I'll still, I'll continue.
It's hard for me to elaborate in my way.
I want to help.
I know.
That's part of my why.
But I don't know the level.
I don't know how incredible it is.
I don't know like how thatwill expand as I grow.
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There is a reason you're here of that onething, I'm sure, and some of the stuff
in between you right here, right now, andyou achieving that reason you're here.
Is the inability to see the gift inthe darkness, in the tough times, in
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the the problems you've been through.
The inability to see how you'vebeen guiding you're being, or
you've been guided to this moment,
if you can let go of the way it shouldbe and just follow the path that's
laying out before you, you can find.
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Where you need to be.
'cause literally you're unique,you're special, you're amazing.
You have a gift for this planet.
Please work on finding, get, getcurious, get curious, like, you know, get
curious like, what is this teaching me?
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Where is this guiding me?
Why?
Why do I have this strengthand not that strength?
Because honestly, onceyou really get your why,
it will tear down all the how's to get inthe way of the path to your ultimate life.
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. Conversations with Kimen is aboutinspiration, life lessons, and wisdom.
Your host, Kimen Petersen shareshis stories to inspire you to live
a more soulful and illuminated life.
The topics covered in this podcastare as personal opinions inspired by
life, experience, and conversationsshared with amazing people.
Kimen hopes to encourage you tobe guided by life in the flow.
(00:23):
So the whole journey is moremanageable and joyful and fulfilling.
If you have a powerful enough why
you can overcome any how,
(00:45):
and this is one of the quotesthat gets me through the day.
Sometimes
you see there was a time Ihad no why I had a dream.
I kind of had this dream that Iwanted to make a difference, but I
didn't know how it was gonna show up.
And I spent a lot of timeworking on two books.
(01:08):
The first one I'd had a, I had calledit, uh, A Child Steps Into the Flow,
and it was the story of my life andthe story of challenges that I've had.
Things I've had to overcome andwhere the place, the places that
(01:30):
these really trying things took me.
And then as I kind of grewolder, I started to see how these
things taught me amazing things.
Like the tough things I went throughtaught me this incredible amount of
compassion for other human beings.
(01:51):
And it wasn't in spite of goingthrough these things, it was
because I understood what it feltlike to hurt at a deep soul level,
and I didn't want anybody else toever have to go through that alone.
So I guess that starts to point at my why.
(02:13):
Like what is my why?
What is your why?
Do you have a why?
Do you get up in the morning and
just kind of like coast through yourday trying to distract yourself from
all the things that trouble you?
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Or do you get pulledoutta bed in the morning?
Like some of the athletes I know,they jump outta bed and they
charge right into their work.
And I, I honestly think the mostamazing group I know of athletes
is the, uh, university athletes.
Um, namely on any team.
But, uh, the, the most interactions Ihave is with the track team and this group
(03:00):
of human beings is absolutely amazing.
'cause typically they, they have, they'rein the top programs getting top marks
and finding time to do all the work.
In order to be an incredibleathlete at the same time,
like these people inspire me to be more,
(03:24):
to do more
and to try harder.
I mean, one of the reasons I got intorunning in the first place was because
I was, I was fortunate enough to beinvited, um, to support a national team.
Or a couple national teams actually,
(03:45):
and I was just so inspiredby these human beings
because people thinkathletes like, I don't know.
I think a lot of times we havea misconception of what it's
like to be an athlete, right?
Especially if it's pro or semi-pro.
(04:06):
Most of these people arenot making a lot of money.
So their why is not around money
and you know, they're not, alot of them are not getting a
lot of sponsorships and things.
You know, companies are really kindto send them tr uh, shoes to tryout
and such, but literally, for the mostpart here in Canada, the majority of
(04:31):
the athletes are just barely scrapingby and they're counting on wins from
races in order to fund their life.
Unless of course they get goodenough to, um, to qualify for the
Olympics or something, and thenthey get, they get a small amount
of money and you'd be surprised.
It's, uh, carting is, iseither 900 or $1,200 a month.
(04:56):
That's all they get.
So I definitely guaranteetheir why is not for the money,
you know.
I, I think I remember I asked oneof my athletes once like, like,
(05:16):
what do you love about running?
And she said, I love to win.
And I thought, yeah, I can see that.
See how amazing that is.
But I feel like in order to really sustainanything really extraordinary, anything.
To a high level to make itthrough all those days that
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things aren't gonna go right.
Right.
Because sometimes they're not, as anathlete, you're going to go through times
probably with injury, and you're gonnahave moments when you wonder if you're
ever gonna get back to what you love.
So it's like if you couldcreate a big enough why,
(05:59):
I wonder how much that would helpyou during those moments where
things just aren't going right.
And then there was, there's thisincredible human being that I
work with from time to time, andthey're, they're in, um, uh, medical
program, specifically physiatry.
(06:21):
And this human being
is just amazing.
And like we have these incredibleconversations when they're here.
And I, at one point I was talkingabout like, like, what is your why?
And sh she said, well, she basicallysaid, I, I'd have to explain it to you.
(06:47):
I couldn't really, maybe I can't elaborateit in the way you see this person had, uh.
I had an incident, uh, on vacation wherethey stepped on something and it caused
an infection in their foot, and theylost the majority of their lower leg.
So they have a prosthetic.
(07:09):
And can you imagine howchallenging that would be?
You're already in this incrediblyhard program of physiatry,
and then you lose a leg.
Can you imagine how many people woulduse that as like, I don't know, maybe
that's just too much, but not this person.
(07:34):
And she was telling me this story, uh,about, uh, a patient she was working
with a young, young person under the ageof 14 who'd, uh, who'd lost the limb.
And he was pretty devastated.
He was depressed.
He didn't feel like, or he just didn'tseem to feel like he was ever gonna
(07:58):
have a chance to amount to anythingbecause he'd lost his legs or his
one leg and he didn't really wantparticipate in the rehab or anything.
And he didn't really want to befitted for a prosthetic or anything.
And one day this amazing humanbeing went into his room.
And he was pretty gloomy and she justpulled up her pant like and went t,
(08:25):
and he looked at her and he goes, youhave a prosthetic and you're a doctor.
Just that action changedthat young man's life.
It showed him what's possible.
And literally this incrediblehuman being, tears in her eyes.
(08:49):
That's my why.
That's my why right there.
How powerful is that?
Why?
You know, you go through somethingincredibly difficult and then you
come in and you change somebody'slife just by sharing the fact
that you went through that.
You know, that's touching onthe edge of my why right there.
(09:11):
Like why?
You know, I went through a lotof stuff and like I take totally
respon total responsibility for thefact that I took the stuff I went
through and I would beat myself.
I use it.
I had was on a, in a war with myselfand I was undermining the po uh, the
(09:31):
possibility of me and encouraging theimpossibility or the destruction of self.
In my mind and I was encouragingdriving myself deeper and deeper
and deeper into hopelessness andthrough depression, through bipolar,
(09:54):
through even some, you know,almost self abuse in many ways,
physically and through substance.
And
yeah, I just.
I went through all that and I takeresponsibility for all of what I created.
(10:19):
And the amazing thing is, even though,or not in spite of, but because
of everything I went through, allthe pain, I caused myself, all the
pain that was, that came my way.
I really learned what it's like to livea life of despair, depression, sadness.
Self-loathing
(10:44):
and something clicked in me atone point that, that all these
things I've been through weren'tactually taking away from me.
I mean, they, they were in themoment because I was indulging them.
But when I started to rise above them andI started to see that, like each one of
these things had taught me these amazingthings, they taught me how to care.
(11:07):
And like I'll tell you, you comeinto my space, you come into my
life and you're hurting, you'regonna see a human being click on,
you know, I have this athlete, she oncetold me, you know, until it gets really
hard, I don't feel like I can give my all,but as soon as it gets hard, I'm there.
(11:28):
And this is exactly whatI live, like I love.
Well being around human beings, Ilove contributed to human beings.
I love supporting human beings.
But if you are in a really, reallytough place, you're gonna see me
come alive because that's my why.
What is my why?
My why is I want to help.
(11:51):
I want to help.
You know, I once heard theBuddhist, um, I don't know if
you know anything about Buddhistphilosophy, but they talk about this.
Being called a body satis.
And please forgive me if I don'thave this completely right.
This is my understanding of what abody satis, it might not be the proper
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understanding, but it does give the gt
see the Buddhist believe in reincarnation.
They believe that we come back likethis world is a world of learning.
We're here to learn.
That's what we're here for.
And so we go through all thesethings in order to learn and.
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And as we learn and learn andlearn and learn, we're work,
working our way to enlightenment.
And enlightenment means, um, basically
pre preparation to moveon to whatever's next.
And they don't really talk about what'snext because it's, it's funny, like, uh,
sitar Katima, the Buddha, the, the Buddha,we talk about, he said, um, somebody
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asked him like, what about the gods?
What about what, what's next?
And he, he was, he would.
He would just say, why would you concernyourself with all that when the most,
more, most important thing to do righthere and now is to work towards your
own salvation, to do the work, towork towards your own enlightenment.
That is the most importantthing in this lifetime.
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But the interesting thing is, as soonas I heard about the body satis and
this, these beings are beings that are.
Just about ready to pass over intoenlightenment to move on to what's next.
Like literally, they're one step fromthis, and yet they choose to stay and
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come back and come back and come backuntil all beings find enlightenment.
Until everybody works through allthe stuff they've had to work through
or they have to work through inorder to move on to what's next.
And God, I said like if this is true, ifthis is real, and if I have any choice in
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this matter, I want to be a body satis.
If it's true that we come backand our whole purpose is to help.
Because that's my why.
Why do I get up in the morning?
'cause I want to help
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if, if it's true that there is abeing that will continuously make
the choice to come back to helpuntil everyone gets it figured out.
I want to be that.
If I have a choice, I want to be that.
I want to keep on coming back over andover and over again and learning and
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teaching and helping and supporting.
I want, like I understand that Ican't take pain away from people when
they're really suffering, but whatI can do is make sure the hell that
they do not feel alone when they'rein my presence, when they're in pain.
And if I can do that in thislifetime, if I can help a few
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people, this is why I do this.
This is why I'm sitting here on a Sunday.
Like I take one day off a weekand I come here to record this
because I want to help.
That's my why.
Like why am I up sevendays a week before 5:00 AM.
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Running five days a week,going into, uh, doing strength
and mobility two days a week.
Why am I doing that?
My, my why is 'cause I want to help.
And how does that fit into my why?
And like you could take alook at your why, right?
How does that fit into my li why?
Well, my life is pretty good and this.
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Um, this message that I'm trying to getout and I'm trying to elaborate and I'm
trying to build is getting better andbetter and better, but I do know it's
gonna take, it's probably gonna takemore than my lifetime to get it right,
and my health wasn't really great.
A couple years ago.
My blood pressure was through theroof and I was quite overweight.
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Now I'm significantly smaller.
I'm at least 50 pounds smaller than I was.
And how I look at that is like if Icontinuously dive into fitness, into
health, into exercise, cleaning upmy mind, my thought process, if I
take care of myself, that I will beextending this life by minutes and
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hours and days and weeks and years.
And every minute I can add tothis life will serve for my why.
Because honestly.
What do I want to do?
I wanna change the world.
Is that even possible?
Probably not in my lifetime, butI want to spend my life going
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for this as if I believe it.
Like, like going as hard as Ican with this delusional belief
that I can do this because.
I spent too much time in my life justgiving up and, and just accepting
what's so, and like listening to myinner critic that I would never amount
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to anything, and I'm done with that.
I'm so done with that Now.
I'm living my why.
I want to help and in order to reallyhave a chance to really get as close
as I can to my massive goal, I needto extend this life as long as I can.
I need to.
Just keep on working on my mentaland my emotional and my psychological
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help over and over again.
I need to get up and keep on recordingthese things and speaking, and speaking,
and speaking till it becomes more and moreclear and closer and closer to the message
that will really, really touch people.
And if it's possible, if it's thetruth, if it's real and I have a choice.
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Then I will come back next lifetimeand I'll come back after that and
over and over and over and over untileveryone finds their way through.
I mean, there's this quotethat I just love and it's like,
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blessed are the amazing humanbeings who escape through
the, from the fires of hell.
Only to return with water tohelp those who are still trapped.
And maybe that's a little dramaticbecause not everybody's in hell,
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but everybody has their ownversion of of tough times, right?
And this is why I speak, like mymessage, my why is I want to help.
This is why I talk about reframing.
This is why I talk about acceptance.
Like, what's your why?
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Like,
why do you get up in the morning?
Like, are you sitting in a place where youfeel like you don't have an opportunity
where you're, you're not going toachieve anything great in this life?
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Because I was there, okay?
And that ain't true.
That's the inner critic.
That's the inner critic islying to you, that you aren't
here, that you aren't special.
I mean, in my episode, embracinguniqueness, the power of not
being normal, I talk about this.
If you do not think you'rean extraordinary human being,
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I can prove it to you rightnow, right here and right now.
At one point, just before your conception,you were in a race with hundreds
of millions of others, and you won
hundreds of millions of others.
There's no race that big.
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It's except for that one.
But not only that, that when,when you were conceived the
combination of DNA, that is you.
Is completely unique, 100% unique.
There is not another person withthe same DNA bar, a twin, like
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an an egg that's split into two.
Two.
That twin does have the same DNA.
So do you think it's just random thatyou all this came together that you.
Won that race that you havethis incredible amount of DNA.
Like, if you want to figure outwhat you're supposed to be doing
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in this planet, you've gotta lookat all your, all the things that,
all the little benefits you have.
Like for instance, I'm dyslexic, right?
Is that a detriment oris it, does it help me?
Well, there was a time whenI thought it was a detriment,
but now the way I see patterns.
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It is very unique and different than alot of people, so I'm in my practice,
I'm able to unwind things in a differentway than other people do, and I'm,
it's just, it comes to me so simply,
you know, the level ofcompassion I have and caring.
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You know, there's so many thingslike how strong my body is.
'cause like I do manual therapy,like that's with your hands.
I do it.
I'm in the office 12 hoursa day, six days a week.
I have this incredibly strong bodythat will just continue doing it.
Like, if you could start reallytaking a look at all the things
that you are interested in, all thethings that are driving you, all
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the things that you are attracted tothe, the direction you want to go.
If you, and you can start enhancingthat and not looking at what's taking
away from you, but it's lookingat what's giving to you and what
it gives and how you're unique andhow you're different than others.
And if you could juststart following that path,
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maybe you can find your why I,
and even if you don't findyour ultimate why right now.
Okay.
Find a small why.
Right.
Find, find a little why,
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and then build it and refine it.
'cause I'm, I'm honestly,I'll still, I'll continue.
It's hard for me to elaborate in my way.
I want to help.
I know.
That's part of my why.
But I don't know the level.
I don't know how incredible it is.
I don't know like how thatwill expand as I grow.
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There is a reason you're here of that onething, I'm sure, and some of the stuff
in between you right here, right now, andyou achieving that reason you're here.
Is the inability to see the gift inthe darkness, in the tough times, in
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the the problems you've been through.
The inability to see how you'vebeen guiding you're being, or
you've been guided to this moment,
if you can let go of the way it shouldbe and just follow the path that's
laying out before you, you can find.
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Where you need to be.
'cause literally you're unique,you're special, you're amazing.
You have a gift for this planet.
Please work on finding, get, getcurious, get curious, like, you know, get
curious like, what is this teaching me?
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Where is this guiding me?
Why?
Why do I have this strengthand not that strength?
Because honestly, onceyou really get your why,
it will tear down all the how's to get inthe way of the path to your ultimate life.
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