April 1, 2025 • 17 mins
Louie Sharp -- international speaker, best-selling author, and accelerated business growth consultant -- opens this episode with a powerful, personal story about a helicopter emergency landing. He emphasizes three key points: preparation, decision-making, and the 'what if' question.
Louie takes the conversation even deeper by introducing the formula E+R=O (Event + Response = Outcome). Come discover the power that lies in the space between an event and your response, including a breathing technique to help maintain your composure.
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Louie’s Leadership & Love Nugs (podcast time stamps)
- Apply the E+R=O Formula (4:17)
- Decide in advance who you want to be in challenging situations: ‘What If’ Thinking (9:19)
- Implement the breathing technique: inhale for four counts through the nose, exhale for eight counts through the mouth (11:03)
- Practice the pause between event and response to choose better reactions (12:22)
- Identify and align with core values to help determine who you want to be (14:51)
- Choose love over fear in leadership situations (15:40)
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(00:01):
Welcome to the Leadership and Love Podcast.
We will cover leadership, mindset, personal development,
and sales and marketing.
You'll experience thought-provoking conversations with both
nationally and internationally recognized leaders.
Our goal is to inspire you and deliver actionable items
that you can implement that will help you accelerate your
(00:22):
growth.
Get ready to discover the magic and the power when you lead
with love.
Mayday, mayday.
We're going down.
Bill Nerman made that radio call as calmly as if he was
ordering breakfast on a Sunday morning.
We were at 700 feet in a Huey helicopter loaded with troops
(00:47):
and equipment going into a landing zone, an LZ,
and we were heavy,
and we were slow because we were slowing down to land.
And at that point, we were about 700 feet, a
bout the height of a 70-story building, we lost an engine,
and we were about to crash, and he made that call.
Mayday, mayday.
(01:07):
We're going down.
I was the crew chief and door gunner on that mission,
on that flight,
and I got the passengers in the crash position.
I had briefed them earlier that morning in the event that
we were going to have some sort of an emergency,
all the things they were supposed to do.
And I had taught them how to get into the crash position
and how to bend over and hold on to their calves or their
(01:33):
ankles.
Bill Nurbin assessed the situation,
and we had been flying over a very wooded area,
and so he was looking for a place to land.
We both found a spot that was a clearing in the trees.
And so at this point,
I had gone through my emergency procedures with the
(01:55):
passengers in the back.
He was going through his emergency procedures as the pilot.
I opened the right side cargo door.
One of my responsibilities as a crew chief pilot in a
helicopter in the Hueys cannot see directly below him.
So one of my responsibilities was to call our altitude as
we were going into the landing zone.
(02:17):
Now helicopters, unlike an airplane,
an airplane has the good fortune it can put its nose down
and force airflow over the wings and that would give it
lift so it can glide in even under no power.
It may be a little bit of faster than they'd like,
but they still have the ability to stay in the air.
(02:38):
A helicopter, on the other hand,
is like a Coke machine that's been pushed off the back of a
delivery truck.
You're just falling out of the sky.
One of the things that a helicopter has is a thing called
an auto rotation.
At the very bottom before the helicopter crashes,
you do something called pulling up on the collective.
The collective is a lever next to the pilot seat that gives
(03:00):
the main rotor pitch.
So at that point, whatever power you have left,
you pull the collective that gives you pitch it cushions
the crash, literally the crash.
In this particular case, what Bill Nerman and I did,
we had found the landing zone and we were headed into it
and I was calling him through the altitudes, 500 feet,
(03:22):
400 feet, 300 feet.
And what my point I wanna make to this is,
obviously I lived to tell the tale,
otherwise I wouldn't be here sharing this with
you. But one of the things I want you to know is that this event, both Bill Nerman and I had thought about the what ifs prior to this event.
(03:47):
So, welcome back to another episode of Leadership and Love.
Today I wanna talk about how to be able to control you as a
leader,
how to lead yourself and how to be able to choose the best
solution to be your best self,
to save yourself from embarrassment,
(04:09):
or those silly things and sometimes stupid things that we
say and do to and for and in front of other people.
So,
what I'd like to share with you is a very powerful formula.
It's called E plus R equals O.
E stands for the event, R stands for your response,
(04:34):
and the O stands for the outcome.
One of the things I do when people bring me into
organizations and other places to speak, events,
associations, those kinds of things,
one of the things I do when I share this,
I'll find some of the audience, and I'll pick a guy,
for example, and I'll ask him, if I give you,
(04:55):
let's call him Bob, Bob,
I'm gonna give you a thousand dollars.
And I, and then I tell the audience,
Bob calls all his friends up and says, Hey,
I got a thousand dollars.
Let's go out partying tonight.
And Bob buys everybody dinner and drinks and all that
stuff.
Tomorrow,
Bob wakes up and he's hungover and the thousand dollars is
gone.
That's the, the event was I gave him a thousand dollars.
(05:17):
Same event.
I give Bob a thousand dollars.
He calls up his investment guy,
and his investment guy and tells him,
I'd like to buy a mutual fund.
Now Bob wakes up tomorrow,
his net worth has gone up a thousand dollars.
It was exactly the same event.
Bob got a thousand dollars.
(05:38):
His response either taking everybody out partying or
investing the money changes the outcome.
That one's pretty easy to see.
The next one I use is I use, I'll pick a female and I'll,
and I'll, I'll say, let's call her Sue.
I'll say Sue,
I've been all over the world. I know lots and lots of
(05:59):
people.
You've got to be one of the dumbest people I've ever met.
And Sue can say to herself, Oh my God, Louie,
doesn't even know me.
How do you figure it out so fast?
What's going to happen to her self-esteem? Self-esteem is
going to go down.
Same event.
I tell Sue, Sue, I've been all over the world, coached,
coached hundreds of people spoken in front of thousands and
(06:20):
thousands, tens of thousands of people.
You have to be one of the dumbest people I've ever met.
Sue says, Louie doesn't know me that well.
I'm happily married.
I've got a good job,
and I'm raising some good kids. At a minimum, h
er self-esteem is going to stay the same.
Same event.
I tell Susie, Susie, you know,
(06:42):
I've been all over the world.
You have to be one of the dumbest people I've ever crossed
paths with.
And Susie says to herself, you know what?
Of all the women here, Louie's picked me.
I think Louie likes me.
I think Louie's flirting with me.
Now, usually that would get a laugh out of the audience.
But what,
what I share then is what's going to happen to her self
(07:04):
-esteem?
It's going to go up.
But the event was the same in all three of those scenarios.
The event was the same.
What mattered was what Susie said to Susie when Louie was
done talking.
The event was exactly the same.
I say Susie,
the dumbest person I've ever crossed paths with.
What happened to her self-esteem was all based on what she
said to herself after Louie was done talking.
(07:30):
Now, we've got...
we've got clarity and life is just going to do what life
does.
Your response to whatever life does, whatever your spouse,
your employees, your business partners, your vendors,
the list goes on.
The government, anybody else.
They're just doing what they're doing.
Your response to that always changes the outcome.
(07:53):
So now, I want to share something really powerful with you.
Our power...
our power is to ask the what if question.
Remember, I get...
so I shared the helicopter story with you because I wanted
you to understand that when the proverbial stuff hit the
fan and we were about to crash,
both Bill Nerman and I had put ourselves through the paces
(08:15):
many times and thought I thought in my head,
if we have a fire, what what am I going to do?
If if we lose an engine, what am I going to do?
I already knew all the things I was going to do without
having to think about it.
And it just started happening,
because I had done it in my head over and over.
I had asked the what if question.
What if this happens?
What if that happens?
In life, you're going to have your emergencies,
(08:38):
but you're going to have interactions and events all day,
every day.
You can't "what if" everything in life.
But what you can do is you can "what if" for you?
You can "what if" for you?
And so "what if" whatever might happen?
Who do you want to be?
(08:58):
Very important.
Who do you want to be?
Do you want to be loving?
Do you want to be kind?
You want to be patient?
Do you want to be understanding?
You want to be forgiving?
Do you want...
you want to be relaxed?
Do you want to be one of those people that takes a step
back?
Whoever you want to be, decide that today.
(09:19):
I do these podcasts because I want you to take away at
least one thing. Today, t
he one thing I want you to think about is who do you want
to be?
Because you have the choice and the power to be that
instead of being the crazy person that that honks their
horn or freaks out because somebody cuts him off in traffic
or yells and screams at your spouse or your kids or your
(09:40):
employees. You have the power to choose who you want to be
in any moment, regardless of the event.
I want to repeat that.
You have personal responsibility as my friend,
Mike Jones said in a previous podcast.
You are personally responsible for your response.
(10:00):
Response-able, responsible.
But before the proverbial stuff hits the fan,
you want to decide who you want to be.
I had thought about all my emergency procedures long before
we lost that engine and we're headed into the ground to
crash.
This is the same thing.
Today, decide who do you want to be.
(10:22):
Now, once you take the time to decide who you want to be,
I'm going to give you the real keys to the castle.
And the real keys to the castle is the plus sign.
E plus R equals O, the outcome.
And so our power is in the plus sign.
(10:46):
The space between the event and your response is where your
power lies.
Right now,
I'd like you to pause for a second and whether you're
driving and listening to this or whether you're someplace
where you could close your eyes, either way,
it doesn't make any difference with your eyes open or your
eyes closed.
I'd just like you to take a breath in through your nose for
a count of four.
(11:11):
And now breathe out through your mouth for a count of
eight. You notice in just that one breath you feel calmer,
a little more relaxed. So,
what I want you to understand and practice is that once you
(11:32):
decide who you're gonna be when whatever the event happens,
take that one breath and ask yourself who do I want to be? A
nd you will have already decided much like I had already
decided all the steps I had to take when we were about to
crash, you will have decided. It's very difficult very,
(11:54):
very, very difficult, and I would say almost impossible,
to be in your logical,
analytical mind when you're emotional virtually
impossible. That breath will calm you down to get you back
to a place where you can be analytical,
where you can be the problem-solver. But, in that breath,
(12:16):
you want to ask,
who did I want to be and then you get to choose.
I'm gonna be patient.
I'm gonna be kind.
I'm gonna be loving, leadership and love.
I'm gonna be loving this moment, W
hat would love do? Love would seek to understand. Love
would ask questions love wouldn't jump the gun jump and
yell at people. Love might walk away from it to calm down
(12:41):
and come back later. But again,
you get to choose who you're going to be,
but you need to do it before you're in that emotional state
where it goes bang bang. And that's the problem most of us
have. The event happens and it instantly triggers something
and it goes bang bang. The kids do something and we start
(13:03):
yelling at them. An employee comes in late and we just jump
on them and it goes bang bang. We don't take the time to
take one breath and remember and have done the homework. T
hat's why that today I want you to figure out who do you
want to be all the time? You can be that all the time. Who
do you want to be?
And then when it goes bang, you breathe,
(13:25):
and then you choose your response. And remember your
response to that situation to that event is always,
always going to change the outcome every time.
we've been watching in social media in the news there's an
event and everybody has this instant it goes bang bang. E
(13:47):
verybody instantly responds,
and they have this outcome. And most of the time that
outcome is a thing called fear,
and I want you to know that I really believe at this point
in my life,
there are are only two emotions (13:57):
love or fear. Everything
else is is a derivative of one of those two emotions.
And,
so fear is when we when we do those silly things. We say
the things that we regret. When we we do the things that we
wish we could take back. And,
(14:17):
we all know that once they're out,
once we've said whatever we've said or done whatever we've
done it can't come back. And sometimes,
it people will never forget...and that's an whole nother
topic. But again,
if you figure out who you want to be and realize that in
any event, any situation,
(14:39):
anything that happens in your life,
you have the power to take a breath and decide who you want
to be. And,
that will change your response and that changes the outcome
every time.
So again, I gave you a pretty easy thing to do today,
and there's lots of things you can go look up,
like core values and those kinds of things,
(15:00):
if you need help deciding who you wanna be.
But I suggest that you consider seriously being love. B
ecause love is understanding, love is kind,
love is patient, love is fair, love listens,
love seeks to understand,
love does all the things that are positive.
Fear does all the things that are negative.
(15:22):
You'll notice that if somebody's greedy,
they're fearful that they don't have enough money or
somebody else is gonna get more than them.
If people are jealous,
they're fearful that somebody's gonna take somebody away
from them.
So,
if you think about any negative emotion or negative thoughts,
they're all driven by fear.
Fear of something,
fear of something drives everything that's a negative
(15:43):
emotion.
Love is the driving factor between everything,
behind everything that's positive.
And so really,
I believe it comes down to those two things (15:50):
love or fear.
And so that's why I started this podcast because I believe
we all can choose love, we can all be love.
And that love is the power that changes everything.
And it will change who you are as a leader.
It will change how you show up in the world.
And trust me when I tell you,
you won't have to tell people anything,
(16:10):
they're gonna feel you and they're gonna know it.
So,
I hope you got something out of this week's episode of Leadership
and Love.
And I enjoy these single podcasts.
They're just as much fun for me as the interviews.
Some of the interviews,
all the interviews really have been very amazing.
And if you haven't checked out all of them,
please do so because each one of them has been amazing in
(16:32):
the sense that everybody has wisdom to share around all
kinds of topics.
And everybody I've interviewed is just a living example
that everybody's got wisdom.
You just need to take the time to ask and listen.
So I love
you. Thanks for showing up today and enjoy the rest of your day.
Thanks again for joining us and listening to this episode
of Leadership and Love.
(16:54):
I would like to challenge you to ask yourself,
what's one thing that you heard today that you can
implement immediately to improve your leadership and
accelerate your growth.
If you've gotten value out of this episode or learned
something that you can implement today,
we'd ask that you please share it with those that you care
about.
(17:14):
Our goal is to create more leaders who are leading with
love!
Welcome to the Leadership and Love Podcast.
We will cover leadership, mindset, personal development,
and sales and marketing.
You'll experience thought-provoking conversations with both
nationally and internationally recognized leaders.
Our goal is to inspire you and deliver actionable items
that you can implement that will help you accelerate your
(00:22):
growth.
Get ready to discover the magic and the power when you lead
with love.
Mayday, mayday.
We're going down.
Bill Nerman made that radio call as calmly as if he was
ordering breakfast on a Sunday morning.
We were at 700 feet in a Huey helicopter loaded with troops
(00:47):
and equipment going into a landing zone, an LZ,
and we were heavy,
and we were slow because we were slowing down to land.
And at that point, we were about 700 feet, a
bout the height of a 70-story building, we lost an engine,
and we were about to crash, and he made that call.
Mayday, mayday.
(01:07):
We're going down.
I was the crew chief and door gunner on that mission,
on that flight,
and I got the passengers in the crash position.
I had briefed them earlier that morning in the event that
we were going to have some sort of an emergency,
all the things they were supposed to do.
And I had taught them how to get into the crash position
and how to bend over and hold on to their calves or their
(01:33):
ankles.
Bill Nurbin assessed the situation,
and we had been flying over a very wooded area,
and so he was looking for a place to land.
We both found a spot that was a clearing in the trees.
And so at this point,
I had gone through my emergency procedures with the
(01:55):
passengers in the back.
He was going through his emergency procedures as the pilot.
I opened the right side cargo door.
One of my responsibilities as a crew chief pilot in a
helicopter in the Hueys cannot see directly below him.
So one of my responsibilities was to call our altitude as
we were going into the landing zone.
(02:17):
Now helicopters, unlike an airplane,
an airplane has the good fortune it can put its nose down
and force airflow over the wings and that would give it
lift so it can glide in even under no power.
It may be a little bit of faster than they'd like,
but they still have the ability to stay in the air.
(02:38):
A helicopter, on the other hand,
is like a Coke machine that's been pushed off the back of a
delivery truck.
You're just falling out of the sky.
One of the things that a helicopter has is a thing called
an auto rotation.
At the very bottom before the helicopter crashes,
you do something called pulling up on the collective.
The collective is a lever next to the pilot seat that gives
(03:00):
the main rotor pitch.
So at that point, whatever power you have left,
you pull the collective that gives you pitch it cushions
the crash, literally the crash.
In this particular case, what Bill Nerman and I did,
we had found the landing zone and we were headed into it
and I was calling him through the altitudes, 500 feet,
(03:22):
400 feet, 300 feet.
And what my point I wanna make to this is,
obviously I lived to tell the tale,
otherwise I wouldn't be here sharing this with
you. But one of the things I want you to know is that this event, both Bill Nerman and I had thought about the what ifs prior to this event.
(03:47):
So, welcome back to another episode of Leadership and Love.
Today I wanna talk about how to be able to control you as a
leader,
how to lead yourself and how to be able to choose the best
solution to be your best self,
to save yourself from embarrassment,
(04:09):
or those silly things and sometimes stupid things that we
say and do to and for and in front of other people.
So,
what I'd like to share with you is a very powerful formula.
It's called E plus R equals O.
E stands for the event, R stands for your response,
(04:34):
and the O stands for the outcome.
One of the things I do when people bring me into
organizations and other places to speak, events,
associations, those kinds of things,
one of the things I do when I share this,
I'll find some of the audience, and I'll pick a guy,
for example, and I'll ask him, if I give you,
(04:55):
let's call him Bob, Bob,
I'm gonna give you a thousand dollars.
And I, and then I tell the audience,
Bob calls all his friends up and says, Hey,
I got a thousand dollars.
Let's go out partying tonight.
And Bob buys everybody dinner and drinks and all that
stuff.
Tomorrow,
Bob wakes up and he's hungover and the thousand dollars is
gone.
That's the, the event was I gave him a thousand dollars.
(05:17):
Same event.
I give Bob a thousand dollars.
He calls up his investment guy,
and his investment guy and tells him,
I'd like to buy a mutual fund.
Now Bob wakes up tomorrow,
his net worth has gone up a thousand dollars.
It was exactly the same event.
Bob got a thousand dollars.
(05:38):
His response either taking everybody out partying or
investing the money changes the outcome.
That one's pretty easy to see.
The next one I use is I use, I'll pick a female and I'll,
and I'll, I'll say, let's call her Sue.
I'll say Sue,
I've been all over the world. I know lots and lots of
(05:59):
people.
You've got to be one of the dumbest people I've ever met.
And Sue can say to herself, Oh my God, Louie,
doesn't even know me.
How do you figure it out so fast?
What's going to happen to her self-esteem? Self-esteem is
going to go down.
Same event.
I tell Sue, Sue, I've been all over the world, coached,
coached hundreds of people spoken in front of thousands and
(06:20):
thousands, tens of thousands of people.
You have to be one of the dumbest people I've ever met.
Sue says, Louie doesn't know me that well.
I'm happily married.
I've got a good job,
and I'm raising some good kids. At a minimum, h
er self-esteem is going to stay the same.
Same event.
I tell Susie, Susie, you know,
(06:42):
I've been all over the world.
You have to be one of the dumbest people I've ever crossed
paths with.
And Susie says to herself, you know what?
Of all the women here, Louie's picked me.
I think Louie likes me.
I think Louie's flirting with me.
Now, usually that would get a laugh out of the audience.
But what,
what I share then is what's going to happen to her self
(07:04):
-esteem?
It's going to go up.
But the event was the same in all three of those scenarios.
The event was the same.
What mattered was what Susie said to Susie when Louie was
done talking.
The event was exactly the same.
I say Susie,
the dumbest person I've ever crossed paths with.
What happened to her self-esteem was all based on what she
said to herself after Louie was done talking.
(07:30):
Now, we've got...
we've got clarity and life is just going to do what life
does.
Your response to whatever life does, whatever your spouse,
your employees, your business partners, your vendors,
the list goes on.
The government, anybody else.
They're just doing what they're doing.
Your response to that always changes the outcome.
(07:53):
So now, I want to share something really powerful with you.
Our power...
our power is to ask the what if question.
Remember, I get...
so I shared the helicopter story with you because I wanted
you to understand that when the proverbial stuff hit the
fan and we were about to crash,
both Bill Nerman and I had put ourselves through the paces
(08:15):
many times and thought I thought in my head,
if we have a fire, what what am I going to do?
If if we lose an engine, what am I going to do?
I already knew all the things I was going to do without
having to think about it.
And it just started happening,
because I had done it in my head over and over.
I had asked the what if question.
What if this happens?
What if that happens?
In life, you're going to have your emergencies,
(08:38):
but you're going to have interactions and events all day,
every day.
You can't "what if" everything in life.
But what you can do is you can "what if" for you?
You can "what if" for you?
And so "what if" whatever might happen?
Who do you want to be?
(08:58):
Very important.
Who do you want to be?
Do you want to be loving?
Do you want to be kind?
You want to be patient?
Do you want to be understanding?
You want to be forgiving?
Do you want...
you want to be relaxed?
Do you want to be one of those people that takes a step
back?
Whoever you want to be, decide that today.
(09:19):
I do these podcasts because I want you to take away at
least one thing. Today, t
he one thing I want you to think about is who do you want
to be?
Because you have the choice and the power to be that
instead of being the crazy person that that honks their
horn or freaks out because somebody cuts him off in traffic
or yells and screams at your spouse or your kids or your
(09:40):
employees. You have the power to choose who you want to be
in any moment, regardless of the event.
I want to repeat that.
You have personal responsibility as my friend,
Mike Jones said in a previous podcast.
You are personally responsible for your response.
(10:00):
Response-able, responsible.
But before the proverbial stuff hits the fan,
you want to decide who you want to be.
I had thought about all my emergency procedures long before
we lost that engine and we're headed into the ground to
crash.
This is the same thing.
Today, decide who do you want to be.
(10:22):
Now, once you take the time to decide who you want to be,
I'm going to give you the real keys to the castle.
And the real keys to the castle is the plus sign.
E plus R equals O, the outcome.
And so our power is in the plus sign.
(10:46):
The space between the event and your response is where your
power lies.
Right now,
I'd like you to pause for a second and whether you're
driving and listening to this or whether you're someplace
where you could close your eyes, either way,
it doesn't make any difference with your eyes open or your
eyes closed.
I'd just like you to take a breath in through your nose for
a count of four.
(11:11):
And now breathe out through your mouth for a count of
eight. You notice in just that one breath you feel calmer,
a little more relaxed. So,
what I want you to understand and practice is that once you
(11:32):
decide who you're gonna be when whatever the event happens,
take that one breath and ask yourself who do I want to be? A
nd you will have already decided much like I had already
decided all the steps I had to take when we were about to
crash, you will have decided. It's very difficult very,
(11:54):
very, very difficult, and I would say almost impossible,
to be in your logical,
analytical mind when you're emotional virtually
impossible. That breath will calm you down to get you back
to a place where you can be analytical,
where you can be the problem-solver. But, in that breath,
(12:16):
you want to ask,
who did I want to be and then you get to choose.
I'm gonna be patient.
I'm gonna be kind.
I'm gonna be loving, leadership and love.
I'm gonna be loving this moment, W
hat would love do? Love would seek to understand. Love
would ask questions love wouldn't jump the gun jump and
yell at people. Love might walk away from it to calm down
(12:41):
and come back later. But again,
you get to choose who you're going to be,
but you need to do it before you're in that emotional state
where it goes bang bang. And that's the problem most of us
have. The event happens and it instantly triggers something
and it goes bang bang. The kids do something and we start
(13:03):
yelling at them. An employee comes in late and we just jump
on them and it goes bang bang. We don't take the time to
take one breath and remember and have done the homework. T
hat's why that today I want you to figure out who do you
want to be all the time? You can be that all the time. Who
do you want to be?
And then when it goes bang, you breathe,
(13:25):
and then you choose your response. And remember your
response to that situation to that event is always,
always going to change the outcome every time.
we've been watching in social media in the news there's an
event and everybody has this instant it goes bang bang. E
(13:47):
verybody instantly responds,
and they have this outcome. And most of the time that
outcome is a thing called fear,
and I want you to know that I really believe at this point
in my life,
there are are only two emotions (13:57):
love or fear. Everything
else is is a derivative of one of those two emotions.
And,
so fear is when we when we do those silly things. We say
the things that we regret. When we we do the things that we
wish we could take back. And,
(14:17):
we all know that once they're out,
once we've said whatever we've said or done whatever we've
done it can't come back. And sometimes,
it people will never forget...and that's an whole nother
topic. But again,
if you figure out who you want to be and realize that in
any event, any situation,
(14:39):
anything that happens in your life,
you have the power to take a breath and decide who you want
to be. And,
that will change your response and that changes the outcome
every time.
So again, I gave you a pretty easy thing to do today,
and there's lots of things you can go look up,
like core values and those kinds of things,
(15:00):
if you need help deciding who you wanna be.
But I suggest that you consider seriously being love. B
ecause love is understanding, love is kind,
love is patient, love is fair, love listens,
love seeks to understand,
love does all the things that are positive.
Fear does all the things that are negative.
(15:22):
You'll notice that if somebody's greedy,
they're fearful that they don't have enough money or
somebody else is gonna get more than them.
If people are jealous,
they're fearful that somebody's gonna take somebody away
from them.
So,
if you think about any negative emotion or negative thoughts,
they're all driven by fear.
Fear of something,
fear of something drives everything that's a negative
(15:43):
emotion.
Love is the driving factor between everything,
behind everything that's positive.
And so really,
I believe it comes down to those two things (15:50):
love or fear.
And so that's why I started this podcast because I believe
we all can choose love, we can all be love.
And that love is the power that changes everything.
And it will change who you are as a leader.
It will change how you show up in the world.
And trust me when I tell you,
you won't have to tell people anything,
(16:10):
they're gonna feel you and they're gonna know it.
So,
I hope you got something out of this week's episode of Leadership
and Love.
And I enjoy these single podcasts.
They're just as much fun for me as the interviews.
Some of the interviews,
all the interviews really have been very amazing.
And if you haven't checked out all of them,
please do so because each one of them has been amazing in
(16:32):
the sense that everybody has wisdom to share around all
kinds of topics.
And everybody I've interviewed is just a living example
that everybody's got wisdom.
You just need to take the time to ask and listen.
So I love
you. Thanks for showing up today and enjoy the rest of your day.
Thanks again for joining us and listening to this episode
of Leadership and Love.
(16:54):
I would like to challenge you to ask yourself,
what's one thing that you heard today that you can
implement immediately to improve your leadership and
accelerate your growth.
If you've gotten value out of this episode or learned
something that you can implement today,
we'd ask that you please share it with those that you care
about.
(17:14):
Our goal is to create more leaders who are leading with
love!
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