July 7, 2025 • 58 mins
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Your host, Jimmy Dunselas. Hello, Hello, Hello, Hello, what a
wonderful day.
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Thank you, thank you, thank you.
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I want to first begin by saying I hope everybody
had a happy fourth and that a lot of our
this episode is going to be about the whole concept
of the fourth, So let's just begin. In this weekly podcast,
I focus on sparking your inner confidence and igniting your
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belief in yourself. I'm your host and I am always
very thrilled to share my thoughts and research with you
as we go along on this journey together. Episode one
Wow You. I and Henry my co producing cat My
Cocat can nurture a mindset that empowers us to reach
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our fullest potential. I write a record every episode to
challenge your thinking and to encourage you to reflect and
to think and inspire realistic, actionable steps towards your personal growth,
because that's what you do during life, whether you're facing
a career transition, seeking to overcome challenges, or simply striving
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for greater fulfillment in life. Hopefully, Hopefully, this podcast, which
has been for many people, can also be your go
to resource for motivation and practical, realistic insights. Nothing I'm
asking you to do is crazy, just sometimes you gotta
do the work. Speaking of the work, my inspiration is
to do this show is to teach people to focus
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more on what they can accomplish, so you can do
the things you need to do when you need to
do them, so that the big scheme of things, you'll
be ready to have the things you want when you
want them. And as always, this episode is dedicated to you. Yeah,
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you in the back there, but now as I like
to share, tell me what you want and I will
show you how to get it. The question is are
you willing to do the work? And that seems to
be such an issue with people that.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
I talked throughout my regular day.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
People are wanting and wishing and kneading, and then you
know culdish at a woodhahs, and and it's like, well,
you know you can do and receive what you want
by doing X, Y and z. But then people look
at you like you have four heads because they create
these walls, these boundaries.
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These obstacles which are non existent.
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Because for many of you, as you know, when you've
wanted something bad enough, did you get it?
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And don't say no, I did it.
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You did.
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There's a lot of stuff that you.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Wanted that you wanted bad enough, and nothing heaven or
hell stopped you.
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You got it. It's called free will. We'll get into
that too.
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So on the fourth of July, Americans celebrate not just
the signing of the Declaration of Independence, but the beginning
of something more enduring, the right to live freely. What
does that mean? Not just from England and our freedom
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from taxation because we still have toxes. But it is
a day marked by you know, fireworks, parades, cookouts, and
patriotic music.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
But its essence runs a lot deeper than in just
these festivities.
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It's not just political freedom. This date stands as a
powerful reminder of the triumph of the human spirit, the
strength of unity, and the beauty of choice.
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Freedom is not a static condition.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
It is a living, breathing force that we must cherish
and honor every single day. It gives us the right
to shape our own destiny, to pursue happiness on our
own terms, and to build lives of meeting and joy.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
This podcast.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Celebrates the vast concept of freedoms that we are very
fortunate to enjoy, and emphasize why gratitude and appreciation for
these liberties are more important than ever. For those of
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you that know me, I am a huge fan of history,
and because of this, how can I really go on
and talk about the fourth of July without a little
bit of history behind it.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
I know some of you are like, oh God, but I.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Love the you know, the this time period the American
Revolution is one of my favorites. The fourth of July
commemorates the adoption of the Declaration of Independence in seventeen
seventy six, a revolutionary document that stated unequivocally that all
men and women are created equal and endowed with certain
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unalienable rights, among them life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
The pursuit of happiness, but what does that mean? That
was a movie, right, But there's so much more to it.
These ideals formed the backbone of a new kind of nation,
one built on the promise of freedom and self determination.
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The founders risked everything to proclaim these rights. They knew
the cost of freedom would be high, but believe that
benefits would endure for generations, which it has so far.
Their vision gave birth to a nation where, over time,
rights have expanded, systems have evolved in the voice of
the people have grown louder and louder, and life. For
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those of you that are still here thinking that we
have not go visit another country.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
I have.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
As we reflect on the historical context, we must remember
that freedom did not come easily, and it does not
come all at once. It took years of struggle, wars,
protest movements, and many, many, many sacrifices to begin living
up to the promises made in seventeen seventy six. That
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struggle continues today, doesn't stop, and the fourth of July
serves as a reminder of both how far we've come
and how much further we still need to go. Now,
that is all fine and dandy, and for you history
buffs out there, you may see the fourth of July
with a little bit more interest and just fireworks.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Hot dogs, and apple pie.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
I remember being a very young kid in grammar school
and taking a bus trip to the Trumbullmall in Connecticut
to a movie theater which is used to be out
in the middle of the parking lot, which is no
longer there, to see a movie called seventeen seventy six.
Makes me laugh because I remember all the other kids
thought it was the dumbest, constant, dumbest movie. They want
to go see a Disney movie, but I have no
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interest in seeing a Disney movie.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
I'd rather see a movie about seventeen seventy six, and
I loved it. But that was then and this is now.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Let's focus on what freedom means today. In the modern world,
freedom means much more than the absence of tyranny. It
is the ability to live a self directed life, to
have choices, to make decisions, and to act in alignment
with our your values. Freedom means that we are not
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defined by where we were born, who we love, how
we worship, or the path others believe we should follow.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Today we can choose our.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Careers, decide where to live, express our beliefs, advocate for change,
and define our identities. We can vote we can protest,
we can build businesses, marry whom we love, and reinvent
ourselves over and over and over again. Me being of
a Cuban background and visiting Cuba and seeing what a
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country destroyed by communism, forgotten by communism, I went when
communism was actually helping it, and which sounds like that's impossible,
but yeah, the money was coming in from Russia. And
I remember being a kid and noticing things. Everything had
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the little Soviet USSR stickers on it, so I mean
they were being taken care of, and then at some
point they just took off. So I have an island
which is starving, which is struggling, wishing that it had
the basics.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
And then you have people.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Here who have the rights and the ability to just
go go in your.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Car and go get the basics, and you.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Won't the ability to go out and make more money
and to live a healthier life, and to love who
you wish to be with instead of who you're with.
So many opportunities, but we choose not to. But here
we have the power of choice in a free society. Now,
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of course, I can't go on without mentioning the idea
that it seems to me that in the past ten
years or more, I think it's mostly because of social
media that we've allowed people to have such strong opinions
in our lives by letting them in through social media
and us sharing what I feel sometimes is too much,
and then when people.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Criticize you, you lose your shit.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
But I mean, people know too much about our personal
lives and our choices. To me, when you let people
in a little bit too much, it gives them too
much leeway to now criticize you and to judge you.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
And to let you know what they think is best
for you.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
That is why I'm a strong believer that there should
be a line drawn where friends can cross, acquaintances can cross,
and then you have social media friends, which may be
one or the other or neither. But I find it
fascinating that for some time we are allowing people to
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judge us too much and believing in it and in
creating this struggle of mindset.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Not realizing that.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
We have a right to change our mindsets and we
don't have to allow people to be too pushy and
to opinionate it boss in our lives. It's funny. For
years I always saw two things. Two things you don't
share or talk too much about politics or religion. It's
always been taught to me, But it seems that religion
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people feel that they need, that they have the need
to do more than their share when offering their opinion,
and that they can so choose to tell you.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Who to pray to, or what to pray to, or whomever, not.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Realizing that there are over four thousand religions and that
everybody has a different way of coping, and everybody has
different everybody has different faith and beliefs, and I just
find it fascinated.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
There are still people that it's it's not that they.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Believe in what they believe, but they get angry if
you don't believe in what they believe because their way
is the only way, which to me, when it gets
to that point.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
It's kind of cultish, scary.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
When when you're when you're shre and teaching love, but
then you find yourself wanting to kill someone. Yes, it's
gotten to that point. To kill someone because they don't
believe in what you believe doesn't make sense to me, Like,
obviously you're not reading what you're believing. I mean, all
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you have to do is some basic research and history
and realize that for many, many years, people have been
practicing many different faiths and coping in their own way.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Which to me is a beautiful thing.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
I love learning what other people do and what they
believe in and why, and then I walk away. It's
just I have my beliefs in faith and religion and
in many things, and I don't mind listening to other
people's beliefs.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
I have a very strong faith in what I believe in.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
So just because I listen to someone else doesn't mean
that fear that you know, they may change my mind
is just. I love learning about different faiths. I love
learning about different political beliefs. I love learning about different
recipes and music from different nations, different countries, different families,
different backgrounds. I mean, we say this country is a
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melting pop but to me, the entire planet is at
this point because I mean, you know, we travel around
constantly spreading love, spreading our opinions. You know, so many
cooking shows they travel around different countries learning about different recipes,
which to me, those shows, my favorite thing is when
people go to the little hole in the wall places
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or to somebody's kitchen, where like you sit in a
family and just have their meal and listen to their
stories of why they eat what they eat and what
they believe in. And that's as far as it goes.
And then you move on and you've learned something about
somebody else, which to me is the most beautiful thing.
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I mean, I've shared this before, but I grew up
in a Catholic household. I went to a Catholic school
that had nurses, nurses, nuns many and I began I
became an altar boy. And for quite a number of
years I was an altar.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Boy, and then one day.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Meeting my first Jewish friend, I was a monkey wrench
in the whole plan of life. Huh.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
I mean, it didn't change what I believe in.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
It was just fascinating that there are other people out
there with other opinions. It's almost like I was smacked
across the face with wait, you you believe in?
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Wait what?
Speaker 1 (16:39):
And then visiting family their family, and then visiting their
synagogue and there, you know, which is their church, and
reading and listening to to the reading of the Torah,
and it was fascinating to me. And they believe it
and they're good people, and it's just it's so it
makes the planet turn, the beauty of humans, and what
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we really believe in weird search of It's funny. When
I was a kid, I remember, uh, there was a
Russian a Russian Orthodox church.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Up the street from my house. One day, I just
walked in.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
There was a Pentecostal church over down by putting 'em.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
I just walked in.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
There was Jehovah's Witness over by this department store called Rallies.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
I just walked in.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
A few synagogues there was like I think too that
I just walked in and I just walked in, and
and I'm curious, so I asked questions.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
I'm not afraid to ask questions.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
And I learned so much about people and what they
believe and why they believe and the beauty that I
didn't have to agree with them. I just had to,
you know, pay them respect by listening to them and
hearing them out. And I mean back then, people weren't
so judgmental because of my belief is social media, so
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they just shared their opinion and that was pretty much
as far as it went. But I got to learn
about their freedom of religion and their freedom to practice
what they believe and what feels good to them. And
that's when I learned that the freedom of religion really
is a beautiful thing, and that we live in a
wonderful country that many other countries will not allow it.
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But I must admit there are parts of this country
where there are still people that are mentally prehistoric, that
are still walking around thinking that their weight their belief
is the only way. And I personally don't mind it.
I just go okay to each their own and I
pray for you, and I hope you and your family
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are safe, and just don't hurt anyone, don't criticize anybody
or anybody else's beliefs, because again, that's the beauty of
this country. You have a right to believe in what
you believe, which kind of makes it obvious that I
then have the right to believe in what I believe.
And this also leads to the freedom of politics of
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what part do you choose to vote for or if
you choose not to vote.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
It's funny.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
I remember MTV there was a time period back then,
late eighties, early nineties that it was rock to vote,
and he had puff Daddy dancing around singing rock to Vote.
Now he's trying to just get his freedom. But I
kind of felt that it wasn't the brightest of ideas,
simply because a vote without any form of investigation is
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a wasted vote. It's not about the amount of numbers
that are created when we vote, but it's just educated votes.
Just voting because your friends are voting for and such parties,
so you're gonna vot vote for the same party the
same beliefs. Because that's a funny thing. Come to find out,
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in the past few elections, I've talked to quite a
few people. Now that I have social media, I could
turn it around and find out information being me being
very neutral and not voicing my opinion of who I
voted for why, but finding out and realizing that so
many people are out there are voting or leaning towards
the political party, which actually, if they were to do
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some research, basic research, they would figure out that the
party that they're voting for doesn't have the same views
that they actually think they do, but they just assume
it does because somebody at some point told them.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
That's just the way it is.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
And it's just like no, because my father always voted
for a specific party thinking that it believed in a
certain thing, and that the other party was horrible because
they and he was wrong. It's a shame, but one
of the most profound aspects of freedom is the power
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of choice. In a free society, our lives are not
dictated by fate or control, but by our ability to
make decisions. If you have the right to walk around
and ram your beliefs down somebody else's throat, don't get
mad when somebody tries it on you. You can choose your beliefs,
your careers, your partners, your friends, and your goals. This
gift is not afforded to all people around the world,
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and thus we must appreciate with all of our hearts
that we have this freedom. Choice gives us agency. It
turns dreams into reality. When we understand the power we hold,
we no longer drift through life. We begin to live
it on purpose. The ability to choose again, to change
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our direction, to say yes or no, or no, or
yes or just maybe from a place of authenticity.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
It's a sacred freedom.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
When you wake up in the morning and you decide
what to do with.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Your day, you're exercising your freedom.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
When you leave a job that no longer fulfills you,
you're exercising your freedom. When you pursue a calling that
ignites your soul, exercising your freedom, or when you walk
away from something that no longer aligns with your values,
you're practicing Freedom's then you get into the concept, let's say,
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from politics religion, let's just talk about love and who
you're loving, and hopefully you're loving the one you're with.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Because I have had many.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Experiences of meeting people that have been in relationships that
wish they weren't or have thought that maybe the relationship
had run its course, but because of some odd loyalty,
they felt it was not in their best interest to
break their vows, not realizing that the vowel as you make,
especially let's say in marriage, aren't for just one person
getting married, but two. So here you are not wanting
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to break your vowels because you feel it's wrong, but
not coming to grips with the fact that the other
half is constantly breaking their end of the vowel over
and over and over and over, so it's okay for
them to break their.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Vowels, but not you.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
I understand this is a degree, but I also understand
to a degree. But I also understand and believe in
marriage counseling. I'm not saying if you're in a relationship,
even if it's just dating, that the minute you're not happy,
you should just walk away.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
I say this because I've seen.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Countless relationship suffer and others end because of a lack
of communication life kids in the way, it happens to
all of us, It happens to me, and before you
know it, your knee deep and not expressing yourself like
you used to with your thoughts or beliefs, your actions.
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Because as we get older in life, that we have
knocking us down and picking us up and then knocking
us down again, and we start to just collect scars,
scars of love, scars of war. Some of our beliefs change.
There are many of us that upon dating someone, we
tend to take their beliefs simply to make the relationship work,
and come five, ten, twenty years later, we come to
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realize that we want to go back to what we
believed originally. And then, of course you get the famous
who are you You've changed? But the bottom line is
that you haven't. It's just that, sadly, for many years,
you've worn a cloak, a mask, a facade, that you've
created that you really shouldn't have, and it's not fair
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to the other have. So I feel that honesty sometimes painful.
You should be as communicative as possible. It's important to
make a relationship work. And if your first thought being
in a relationship is if I told my better half
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my other half, they may be angry at me, they
may dislike me, they may not trust me. I may
hurt them by what I have to say, But then
you're not in a real relationship. A relationship is fifty
to fifty between two people. And if you have to
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be able to if you can't be able to share
everything and say how you feel at all times and
express your thoughts or believes your actions without the fear
of being put down or judged, does this mean that
they or you may say something that may hurt the
other Oh my god, Well, as long as it's not
like horrible. I'm not saying to be an asshole to somebody,
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but to be honest as possible. I mean, I don't
know if it's a young or old thing, but I
feel that as I get older, I prefer honesty more
than anything in the world. It just lets me know
where I stand. And where you stand, and that the
person you're with is either with you or with or
not with you, which is not a bad thing. But
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at this point, does this again mean that you have
to walk away from a relationship? Absolutely not, absolutely not.
It's like if you have a job and you don't
like it, do you have to quit? Absolutely not. I
recommend not doing that. I recommend just start looking for
another job, unless, of course they're beating the shit out
of you, then you know it is what it is,
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you call the cops.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
But anyway, but.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
If it's as long as it's not to the point
of horrible abuse, A good marriage counselor maybe two, maybe
three can really work wonders, not only helping a relationship,
but helping end your relationship. Sometimes some relationships should end,
and they help you realize that this is not just
going to work, and that the thing is life.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
Is too beautiful to waste.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
And to not live it with somebody that just does
not make you one hundred percent happy, one hundred percent happy.
Wait a minute, I know I can think of a
few people right now off the top of my head
that their attitude is marriage is not totally happy, and
a lot of people complain about Oh, like, I was
watching a video. It's funny. It's a video of a couple.
They do a lot of videos on TikTok and stuff.
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And the husband is walking over to the car and
he's looking at his phone and he's like with his
wife right there, and he's like, Oh, life is wonderful.
Marriage is wonderful. Having a wife is wonderful. I love
being married. And then she gets in the car. He
closes the door, and then he turns around as he
walks around the car, So I have five seconds to
tell you, don't get married. Run for your life. I
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did it.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
I regret every moment it was.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
It's horrible. I can't sleep late, I can't play video games,
I can't fuck off. I can't do this. I can't
do And then by now he's at the other side.
He opens the door and he goes.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
But I am so happy.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
I love my wife. And I know he's kidding hopefully,
But if you find yourself in that type of relationship,
Jesus like walk away or do like on crime TV
and just murder.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Them, because that makes total sense.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
I watch a lot of murder TV, and I'm always
shocked when people their first choice, and being in a
relationship they're not happy with is to just murder the
person as if you're going to get away with it,
even if you do. To me, it's just jail is
only four walls. Your mind is forever. It's very different
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knowing that you did this. I just hear and it's
always like, well, I don't want her to have half
of it, you can have all of it.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
I just want my freedom.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
I've been divorced and I walked away from everything. It's
just a sense of freedom. You can't always be.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
Happy in a relationship.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
But to me, it's a crime to live sharing your life,
your mind, your body, your interest, your hobbies with someone
that you just don't want to someone that looks at
you very differently than the way you look at them.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
And it's not fair to you.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
But it's also not fair to them because chances are
this someone out there that is much better for them.
Because at this point I feel that there is, obviously
and I believe this wholeheartedly, someone that can make them happier, yes,
happier than you. Does this mean that you were a
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waste of time or a bad person?
Speaker 2 (29:57):
Absolutely not. That's silly.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
You would even think that what it means that there's
a thing called chemistry, and not the thing that you
failed in high school, but there's chemistry about everything within everybody,
and that sometimes you meet people like you can meet
somebody at a coffee shop or at a diner for
the first time and you find yourself very intrigued by them,
attracted to them. This doesn't mean sexually. It just means
that it's as if you've known each other for years.
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And then there's people that you meet and you're just
it's not that you think they're horrible, but it just
there's nothing. They're just like you talk, you have a conversation, goodbye, goodbye.
But then there's those people that before you know it,
a friendship starts off. It could be, like I said,
a romantic relationship or just a great relationship that lasts.
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For many, many, many years.
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And I think that's a beautiful thing. Because we have
the freedom to love and be loved. Love love, love
Love is a deeply personal choice and one of the
greatest expressions of freedom. To choose whom to love and
how to love is a right that must never be
taken for granted, never be taken for granted. In a
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truly free society. Love is not regulated by race, gender, religion,
societal norms. It is celebrated as just a human truth,
the fluttering of your heart. The freedom to love whom
we choose allows us to build families rooted in authenticity.
It opens doors to connection, community, and shared purposes, and
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it empowers us to live openly and courageously without fear
of discrimination or persecution. It's funny, I'm sitting here with
two windows. This window looks like there's a storm coming.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
That window.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
The sun is out, and it's beautiful, very confusing. But
we must continue to protect the right to love, to
allow every individual the dignity of loving with their whole heart,
free of shame or condemnation. It isn't loving and being
loved freely that we find the greatest joys of being human.
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And one of the greatest joys is to pursue a
life of happiness. One thing that I enjoy being a
coach is simply saying the right thing, the right phrase,
the one word that makes somebody have their AHA moment,
like I do my Monday morning minds, I meditations, and
I love sending them out in the morning. I send
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them to quite a few people, and to get people
writing me back throughout a few days, few weeks when
they finally get to it, thank you for the inspiration.
Usually it's like, you know, I feel like you were
in my mind. You happen to say the right thing
at the right place when I downloaded this, And it
was funny because I just did it yesterday and I
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already got three people that wrote back like I needed
to hear this, which is awesome. I think it's wonderful
and I'm blessed by that. But I mean, it's just
when this creation, this connection is made, that the person
realizes that they're not a piece of shit, they're not
a loser, they're not lazy, they're not incompetent, and that no,
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not everything that your parents or family or teachers thought
about you is true. Because then here I come along
years later and I say to you, you're an amazing person,
and that maybe you're just carrying a lot of baggage,
sometimes too much baggage. It's like an anchor in the
ocean holding you back from your dreams, your goals and
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sailing forward with aspirations because you're holding on to these
beliefs that people have put into you, they've embedded into
your DNA, basically that you believe a lot of this
negative bullshit about yourself and that you can't make it.
But yet, because of this wonderful miracle of social media
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being in everybody else's mind and listening to everybody's opinion
and seeing how everybody else lives, we wonder, why is
it their life so amazing? Why are they just rolling
in dough? Why do they have everything better? They have
better relationships, they have nicer children, or animals are nicer.
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But my life is just so difficult because I'm cursed, and.
Speaker 2 (34:21):
Honestly, you're not.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
It's a choice that you have poor choices, that's what
it's called.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
You've made some stupid choices.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
And now you're blaming everybody else and saying that you're
cursed because of your poor choices. But my life is
just so difficult. It's a choice that you have made,
that you believe in the limiting beliefs that you have
been implanted with, and that as quickly understand that as
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quickly and easily as negative thoughts or a negative word
can ruin your day a happy one, an innovative word
can make you think, can make you become inspired and
believe in yourself and believe that you have the knowledge
and the drive and the hunger to accomplish whatever the
hell you want. But instead we tend to put this
wall between us and make excuse after excuse that those
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people are just lucky and it's just not meant for you.
I meant for life of misery and sadness and blah
blah blah. And I can't help it but take it
personally and feel it in my heart when I meet
people that I feel.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
Are very amazing. I meet some amazing people.
Speaker 1 (35:43):
And then I start talking to them and I realize
that they are so down on themselves and they just
believe the worst of the worst things about themselves and
that in their life they have absolutely no hope. And
here I am on the outside looking and thinking to myself, Wow,
this person is amazing, and I would love to have
a piece of their energy, a piece of their drive,
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and that they have what it takes to be one
of the most incredible people out there. Yes, I've met
a lot of those people. They didn't know it, but
I knew it, but they just didn't see it. I've
been blessed to work with a lot of people through
hypnosis or talk therapy or even meditation to help people
reverse this negative mindset bullshit that they are not worthy
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of accomplishing wonderful things and that they don't deserve to
have the things they want. The abundance that is out
there for everyone. It is out there for everyone. There's
a huge piece of the pie for everyone.
Speaker 2 (36:44):
It's up to you.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
Just get off your ass and go get it if
you actually think it's going to be cut and brought
over to you. It's just funny how people they live
through soap operas, they live through shows, and they believe
celebrities and these people have wonderful lives.
Speaker 2 (37:04):
But look at me.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
Yeah, I'm just living paycheck to paycheck and that's it
for me.
Speaker 2 (37:12):
It's negative bullshit.
Speaker 1 (37:17):
The perfect life is out there just for other people,
not for you. It's out there for entrepreneurs that just
happen to be swimming in dough not realizing that if
you actually do a lot of research, not just memes
of TikTok about what they're saying about this person and
that person, but if you actually do your research in
the lives of many entrepreneurs, invenors and even some celebrities,
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you'll realize that, yes, they also bleed red. They put
their pants on the same way as you do. Sometimes
they have problems going into the bathroom. Sometimes they suffer
from depression, sometimes they have too much anxiety. But there's
a different level of growth in their mindset overall, that
they're willing to try, They're willing to change, or willing
to get up and do things and not simply give
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up and feel that their failures again and again and
that they're not worthy. Are you worthy to a degree, yes,
but to have it just hand it to you, which
is sadly what a lot of people believe in. I mean,
it happens, God blessed. The chances of it happening.
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Are pretty slim because most people.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
Have to work, they have to earn it, they have
to strive, they have to sacrifice, they have to they
have to bust their asses.
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But I believe in you. I do.
Speaker 1 (38:35):
Then there's the religion thing that a lot of people
just say, well, I'll just sit back, do nothing and
leave it in God's hands, which I just think, Wow,
you're a jerk, because God has already done so much
for you, He has given us so much and here's
my belief growing up having read the.
Speaker 2 (38:53):
Bible a few times to a degree.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
Yes, you have to have faith in God, as I
do every day, every morning, every night. But at the
same time, God has given, as I said me, the opportunities,
the goals, the drive, the knowledge, the curiosity that's my favorite,
the curiosity to try.
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And to believe in me in His name.
Speaker 1 (39:22):
Instead of blaming God every time something finally goes wrong.
Speaker 2 (39:27):
That's some sick shit.
Speaker 1 (39:29):
Why is everything going on badly just for you? Not
realizing that you have neighbors and even those amazing people
that have everything on social media sooner or later come
to find out that they have been living also a
pretty tough life. They might have nicer cars at bigger house,
but they also have problems. They've also lost a lot
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and on that now money, come to find out it's
not everything they thought.
Speaker 2 (39:55):
It would be.
Speaker 1 (39:56):
But what would you say, is the pursuit of your happen?
Because the pursuit of happiness is the foundational promise of
the American dream. It means what we are not bound
by others expectations, or by other circumstances of our birth.
We are free to dream as big as we want
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to chase any dream we want and to live life
the life that reflects our deepest values and passions. Think
about that this pursuit is not about wealth or status,
but about fulfillment, about living a life of meaning, of
contribution and joy, whether that means becoming an artist, a parent,
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a teacher, a scientist, an entrepreneur, or a world traveler.
Speaker 2 (40:44):
The freely sell hot dogs.
Speaker 1 (40:47):
As long as it's what makes you happy, what feels
you with joy. You have the freedom to shape your
own happiness because it is a privilege that must not
be overlooked. Happiness is not a guarantee, but the ability
to sue it freely, without repression or limitation, is what
gives life its vibrancy. We must recognize that we live
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in a society where happiness is not a luxury reserved
for a few, but it is a great, wonderful potential
frau freedom to change our minds and involve. My heart
also breaks when I hear somebody older stating that because
of their age, there are things are just more difficult.
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The funny thing is that's the biggest crock of shit
I've ever heard. Especially more and more every day I hear.
I see it every day. The funny thing is there's
also a great team of seniors out there turning life
upside down and giving into trying and believing and doing
and traveling and adventuring as much as they can with
an opinion of time is running out and is not
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time to sit and wait eat for the green reaper
to find you. He will, but it is up to
you to get off your ass and experience the life
that God has given you fully, to meet people, to dance,
to be silly, to eat, to travel, to try anything. Sadly,
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if your first thought is fear or my favorite uh oh,
I've always had a belief that's that's just evil. That's
evil that keeps people in a mental cage, that you
feel that you're not worthy, that you can't try things.
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That you're just you live.
Speaker 1 (42:42):
In fear of our opportunity. I mean, do you realize
that that's the same thing. You might as well just
be in jail. I just had this conversation with somebody
recently about.
Speaker 2 (42:57):
Being bored. Being bored.
Speaker 1 (43:02):
I've never been bored in my entire life, thank God,
because there is always something to do, somewhere to go,
someone to be with someone to laugh with, something to eat,
some new place to go to. Right now, as I'm
writing this, I have hundreds of pictures flashing through my
mind of really wonderful conversations that I've had with people strangers,
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either face to face or on social media. Listening to
other people's stories, their journeys, their trials and many tribulations
throughout life, and to me, the more interesting ones is
how tough it can be and how they surpassed it,
but yet overall, how wonderful life is. When you find
yourself waking up again and again the next day knowing
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that you can try what you did yesterday again today,
knowing that you can try saying it differently today than
maybe how you said it yesterday. What you can say
today that you may have said wrong yesterday, but you
have a second chance to call that person up and
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say how you feel today instead of missing out of
an opportunity. It's like being a kid and going to
the school dance and wanting to ask that girl to dance,
and wanting to ask that girl to dance, and wanting
to ask that girl to dance, and either they call
out the last song and you chose to not do
it out of fear or somebody else with the balls
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to do it went up and asked her to dance,
and you missed out. And like that, We've done that
in so many things, even through it, through our adult lives.
You may not have had you may have had the
chance to go somewhere, but you chose not to. And
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now you look back and wonder, why how many things
do you have in your bucket list that you've been
meaning to look into? Well, I mean, like I said,
if you wake up again, you have a chance to
look into it. Does this mean that oh it's crazy
or this that, or my faars I don't have.
Speaker 2 (45:19):
The money for it.
Speaker 1 (45:20):
It's just okay, Well, how much is it? What's involved
in it? What do you have to do to get it?
That's what life is to me. Every day waking up
again so you can try again, you can experience life
even more. To me, true freedom also lives on our
ability to grow and evolve. We are not stuck in
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old versions of ourselves. You know that you can pivot,
you can transform. We can admit that a path we
once followed is just no longer for us. We can
reimagine who we want to be again.
Speaker 2 (45:58):
And again.
Speaker 1 (45:58):
I mean in my life, I'm fifty five. I have
reinvented myself completely main stories four times. And trust me,
I never look back in anger and never, I never.
I don't regret or resent. I went on a path,
and if I was on the path, trust me, It's
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where I was supposed to be.
Speaker 2 (46:22):
And I learned so much from it.
Speaker 1 (46:26):
I've met so many people, I've had wonderful conversations, great stories,
great laughter, so much passion.
Speaker 2 (46:35):
And then one day I just go, all right, I'm done.
I'm done. I feel that there's no more for me.
Speaker 1 (46:45):
There not gonna beat it to hell. All right, It's
time to try something new. As I said, you can pivot,
you can transform, you can reimagine who you want to
be again and again. This is the freedom of reinvention,
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A liberties say I've changed, and to begin again. It
is the freedom to fail ooh that word, and rise again,
to learn from mistakes so I'll grow environments and to
rewrite our personal narratives. You see, I actually this podcast
is listened to. I haven't looked at it in a while.
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Last was over almost thirty or just over thirty countries,
and I've seen some of them. A lot of them
don't have the freedom we have here. But for those
of you that are listening to this podcast from this country,
in a free society, no one has to live within
the boxes they were placed in. We're not obligated to
continue down the roads that no longer service. And that
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is one of the most incredible, inspiring, beautiful, empowering freedoms
that we have. And then once you have all of
this freedom that we're talking about, but then you have
this wonderful thing called gratitude. Something that I often bring
up on my podcast and my meditations, feeling gratitude, being appreciative.
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How often do you really mean it when you say it?
I mean, there was so much going on in our
lives that I can see where things happened to fall
by the wayside, and I understand that, But that does
not mean that you can just forget every breath you
take and why you took it, every meal that you've had,
every person that you've met, good, bad and ugly. They've
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all been a part of your life, your story, everybody, everybody,
even those sons of bitches, even those bastards, And now
you wish you never met the people you dated, people
you were married to people, that you had businesses with, partners, whatever.
Then now you're like, I wish I never why you
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are where you are because of them, even the bad aspects.
Speaker 2 (49:03):
Hopefully you learned.
Speaker 1 (49:07):
To me, it's what makes life exciting, that's what makes
life worth living. Not knowing what's around the corner. New ventures,
new concepts, new ideas, new chapters. I personally am working
on a new chapter in my life that's starting in
about a week, maybe two weeks, and I'll get more
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into that later, but it's a new chapter, new interest.
Every place you go, everybody you talk to, there's a
reason behind it. There's a meaning behind it. That conversation
was created so that you can pick something up, and
if you can't figure it out, then it was probably.
Speaker 2 (49:48):
For them something you actually said.
Speaker 1 (49:52):
Yes, you made them think because remember, the world again
doesn't revolve around you. Please don't think it does, because
it doesn't. There's no way a world of this capacity,
this magnitude of people, a billion plus, and it all
is about just you. It's not. Things are going to
happen one way or another. Experiences are going to happen.
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Sometimes you're just gonna have to sit back and be
patient and honestly, these are my favorite moments because when
I feel that I'm being challenged, which is often, these
are the times that I really get to think and
ponder my life, where I am and how I got here,
all the different things that had to happen, and lay
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out a certain way so that I can be exactly
where I am right now. With great freedom comes great
responsibility and deep gratitude. To be free as a privilege.
Speaker 2 (50:53):
That millions around the world long for.
Speaker 1 (50:59):
We must not treats our freedoms with indifference or entitlement.
We must recognize, reflect on them, and give thanks for
them every day, because gratitude turns freedom into purpose. And
when we appreciate our freedom, our liberties, we stop taking
life for granted. We recognize each morning as a new
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chance to live boldly, to take risks. We treat others
with more kindness, more patience, more compassion, knowing that shared
freedom must also include shared dignity being grateful. Being grateful
means using our freedoms not just for personal gain, but
for the greater good. It means living in a way
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that honors those who came before us and inspires those
who come after us. Freedom even in the most progressive societies.
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Is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (51:57):
It can be eroded by complace and see by fear
by injustice. This is why we must remain vigilant. Defending
freedom means standing up against inequality, injustice, and oppression in
all forms. We must ensure that freedom continues to expand
and grow, not just for ourselves but for all people,
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regardless of background, belief, or identity. Defending freedom means listening
to those who feel unheard, including those who freedoms are
still fragile.
Speaker 2 (52:27):
Ar denied.
Speaker 1 (52:30):
Complacency is the enemy of liberty. When we stop fighting
for what matters, we risk losing everything. Let the fourth
this holiday not just be a celebration, but as I
read and I love this, but a call to action,
to vote, to speak out, and to educate yourself, and
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to build more than just a free society for all.
But celebrating freedom.
Speaker 2 (52:59):
To not be just the fourth of July.
Speaker 1 (53:01):
It should be a way of life. Every day we
have the opportunity to honor our freedom through our choices,
through our actions, and especially our mindset. We honor it
when we live with authenticity, and when we speak our truths,
when we treat others with respect and empathy. Living with
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intention means recognizing that your time is your own and
that you are not just a passive observer for life,
but you are the author of your life. Write a
story worth telling? Is has your life been worth telling?
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If your entire story? I think about it right now,
your life was in a book in a bookstore people
are walking in. Is it worth reading? Is it interesting?
Is it exciting? Or is it just filled with misery
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and drama? No hope, no dreams, no goals? Is your life?
Is your story worth telling? Be bold in your choices
forgive freely, love deeply, dream wildly, give.
Speaker 2 (54:22):
Generously throughout your life. That is what it means to
live freely.
Speaker 1 (54:29):
Let us use freedoms, our freedom, to not just build
better lives for ourselves, but a better world for others
to teach to our actions. Let us wake each day
with the question, how can I make the most of
my freedom today?
Speaker 2 (54:52):
Think about that? So Fourth of July is coming gone.
The smell of fireworks in the air is dissipated.
Speaker 1 (55:05):
We've already we've already digested our many hot dogs and
potato salad, and you know, macaroni salad and hamburgers and
the fourth of July is not just about freedom from tyranny,
but it is the freedom to be fully human, to
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live by choice, to love with heart, to evolve with courage,
and to make each day a masterpiece of intention. Let
us never forget that freedom is not just a political concept.
It's a deeply personal one. It's your freedom. It is
the right to shape your life with your own hands.
It is the power to say, this is who I
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am and this is how I choose to live. So
this year and every year, celebrate with more than fireworks.
Let us celebrate with gratitude, with purpose, with courage and love.
Make your life a living expression of the freedom that
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you are so fortunate to have. I hope I made
you think. I hope I made you question your existence
and to appreciate every tomorrow, every today, and be grateful
for all the experiences of the past that have made
you who you are. Right now, keep this in mind.
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Choose action over excuse, purpose over comfort, and the work
that matters over the distractions that don't.
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My name is Jim Gonzalez and this was the.
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Reset Yourself twenty two podcast. Go forward and live your
life to the fullest. Thank you so much. For listening, liking,
and especially sharing with others means a lot to me.
Many many blessings to us all. God bless America, God
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bless every.
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Nation on this country.
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Send good intentions out there to those that don't have freedom,
that wish that they had.
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A fraction of the freedom that you have. Right now.
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I want to first begin by saying I hope everybody
had a happy fourth and that a lot of our
this episode is going to be about the whole concept
of the fourth, So let's just begin. In this weekly podcast,
I focus on sparking your inner confidence and igniting your
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belief in yourself. I'm your host and I am always
very thrilled to share my thoughts and research with you
as we go along on this journey together. Episode one
Wow You. I and Henry my co producing cat My
Cocat can nurture a mindset that empowers us to reach
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our fullest potential. I write a record every episode to
challenge your thinking and to encourage you to reflect and
to think and inspire realistic, actionable steps towards your personal growth,
because that's what you do during life, whether you're facing
a career transition, seeking to overcome challenges, or simply striving
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for greater fulfillment in life. Hopefully, Hopefully, this podcast, which
has been for many people, can also be your go
to resource for motivation and practical, realistic insights. Nothing I'm
asking you to do is crazy, just sometimes you gotta
do the work. Speaking of the work, my inspiration is
to do this show is to teach people to focus
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more on what they can accomplish, so you can do
the things you need to do when you need to
do them, so that the big scheme of things, you'll
be ready to have the things you want when you
want them. And as always, this episode is dedicated to you. Yeah,
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you in the back there, but now as I like
to share, tell me what you want and I will
show you how to get it. The question is are
you willing to do the work? And that seems to
be such an issue with people that.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
I talked throughout my regular day.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
People are wanting and wishing and kneading, and then you
know culdish at a woodhahs, and and it's like, well,
you know you can do and receive what you want
by doing X, Y and z. But then people look
at you like you have four heads because they create
these walls, these boundaries.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
These obstacles which are non existent.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Because for many of you, as you know, when you've
wanted something bad enough, did you get it?
Speaker 2 (04:46):
And don't say no, I did it.
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You did.
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There's a lot of stuff that you.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Wanted that you wanted bad enough, and nothing heaven or
hell stopped you.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
You got it. It's called free will. We'll get into
that too.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
So on the fourth of July, Americans celebrate not just
the signing of the Declaration of Independence, but the beginning
of something more enduring, the right to live freely. What
does that mean? Not just from England and our freedom
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from taxation because we still have toxes. But it is
a day marked by you know, fireworks, parades, cookouts, and
patriotic music.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
But its essence runs a lot deeper than in just
these festivities.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
It's not just political freedom. This date stands as a
powerful reminder of the triumph of the human spirit, the
strength of unity, and the beauty of choice.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Freedom is not a static condition.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
It is a living, breathing force that we must cherish
and honor every single day. It gives us the right
to shape our own destiny, to pursue happiness on our
own terms, and to build lives of meeting and joy.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
This podcast.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Celebrates the vast concept of freedoms that we are very
fortunate to enjoy, and emphasize why gratitude and appreciation for
these liberties are more important than ever. For those of
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you that know me, I am a huge fan of history,
and because of this, how can I really go on
and talk about the fourth of July without a little
bit of history behind it.
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I know some of you are like, oh God, but I.
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Love the you know, the this time period the American
Revolution is one of my favorites. The fourth of July
commemorates the adoption of the Declaration of Independence in seventeen
seventy six, a revolutionary document that stated unequivocally that all
men and women are created equal and endowed with certain
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unalienable rights, among them life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
The pursuit of happiness, but what does that mean? That
was a movie, right, But there's so much more to it.
These ideals formed the backbone of a new kind of nation,
one built on the promise of freedom and self determination.
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The founders risked everything to proclaim these rights. They knew
the cost of freedom would be high, but believe that
benefits would endure for generations, which it has so far.
Their vision gave birth to a nation where, over time,
rights have expanded, systems have evolved in the voice of
the people have grown louder and louder, and life. For
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those of you that are still here thinking that we
have not go visit another country.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
I have.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
As we reflect on the historical context, we must remember
that freedom did not come easily, and it does not
come all at once. It took years of struggle, wars,
protest movements, and many, many, many sacrifices to begin living
up to the promises made in seventeen seventy six. That
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struggle continues today, doesn't stop, and the fourth of July
serves as a reminder of both how far we've come
and how much further we still need to go. Now,
that is all fine and dandy, and for you history
buffs out there, you may see the fourth of July
with a little bit more interest and just fireworks.
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Hot dogs, and apple pie.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
I remember being a very young kid in grammar school
and taking a bus trip to the Trumbullmall in Connecticut
to a movie theater which is used to be out
in the middle of the parking lot, which is no
longer there, to see a movie called seventeen seventy six.
Makes me laugh because I remember all the other kids
thought it was the dumbest, constant, dumbest movie. They want
to go see a Disney movie, but I have no
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interest in seeing a Disney movie.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
I'd rather see a movie about seventeen seventy six, and
I loved it. But that was then and this is now.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Let's focus on what freedom means today. In the modern world,
freedom means much more than the absence of tyranny. It
is the ability to live a self directed life, to
have choices, to make decisions, and to act in alignment
with our your values. Freedom means that we are not
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defined by where we were born, who we love, how
we worship, or the path others believe we should follow.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Today we can choose our.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Careers, decide where to live, express our beliefs, advocate for change,
and define our identities. We can vote we can protest,
we can build businesses, marry whom we love, and reinvent
ourselves over and over and over again. Me being of
a Cuban background and visiting Cuba and seeing what a
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country destroyed by communism, forgotten by communism, I went when
communism was actually helping it, and which sounds like that's impossible,
but yeah, the money was coming in from Russia. And
I remember being a kid and noticing things. Everything had
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the little Soviet USSR stickers on it, so I mean
they were being taken care of, and then at some
point they just took off. So I have an island
which is starving, which is struggling, wishing that it had
the basics.
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And then you have people.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Here who have the rights and the ability to just
go go in your.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Car and go get the basics, and you.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Won't the ability to go out and make more money
and to live a healthier life, and to love who
you wish to be with instead of who you're with.
So many opportunities, but we choose not to. But here
we have the power of choice in a free society. Now,
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of course, I can't go on without mentioning the idea
that it seems to me that in the past ten
years or more, I think it's mostly because of social
media that we've allowed people to have such strong opinions
in our lives by letting them in through social media
and us sharing what I feel sometimes is too much,
and then when people.
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Criticize you, you lose your shit.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
But I mean, people know too much about our personal
lives and our choices. To me, when you let people
in a little bit too much, it gives them too
much leeway to now criticize you and to judge you.
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And to let you know what they think is best
for you.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
That is why I'm a strong believer that there should
be a line drawn where friends can cross, acquaintances can cross,
and then you have social media friends, which may be
one or the other or neither. But I find it
fascinating that for some time we are allowing people to
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judge us too much and believing in it and in
creating this struggle of mindset.
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Not realizing that.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
We have a right to change our mindsets and we
don't have to allow people to be too pushy and
to opinionate it boss in our lives. It's funny. For
years I always saw two things. Two things you don't
share or talk too much about politics or religion. It's
always been taught to me, But it seems that religion
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people feel that they need, that they have the need
to do more than their share when offering their opinion,
and that they can so choose to tell you.
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Who to pray to, or what to pray to, or whomever, not.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Realizing that there are over four thousand religions and that
everybody has a different way of coping, and everybody has
different everybody has different faith and beliefs, and I just
find it fascinated.
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There are still people that it's it's not that they.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Believe in what they believe, but they get angry if
you don't believe in what they believe because their way
is the only way, which to me, when it gets
to that point.
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It's kind of cultish, scary.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
When when you're when you're shre and teaching love, but
then you find yourself wanting to kill someone. Yes, it's
gotten to that point. To kill someone because they don't
believe in what you believe doesn't make sense to me, Like,
obviously you're not reading what you're believing. I mean, all
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you have to do is some basic research and history
and realize that for many, many years, people have been
practicing many different faiths and coping in their own way.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Which to me is a beautiful thing.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
I love learning what other people do and what they
believe in and why, and then I walk away. It's
just I have my beliefs in faith and religion and
in many things, and I don't mind listening to other
people's beliefs.
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I have a very strong faith in what I believe in.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
So just because I listen to someone else doesn't mean
that fear that you know, they may change my mind
is just. I love learning about different faiths. I love
learning about different political beliefs. I love learning about different
recipes and music from different nations, different countries, different families,
different backgrounds. I mean, we say this country is a
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melting pop but to me, the entire planet is at
this point because I mean, you know, we travel around
constantly spreading love, spreading our opinions. You know, so many
cooking shows they travel around different countries learning about different recipes,
which to me, those shows, my favorite thing is when
people go to the little hole in the wall places
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or to somebody's kitchen, where like you sit in a
family and just have their meal and listen to their
stories of why they eat what they eat and what
they believe in. And that's as far as it goes.
And then you move on and you've learned something about
somebody else, which to me is the most beautiful thing.
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I mean, I've shared this before, but I grew up
in a Catholic household. I went to a Catholic school
that had nurses, nurses, nuns many and I began I
became an altar boy. And for quite a number of
years I was an altar.
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Boy, and then one day.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Meeting my first Jewish friend, I was a monkey wrench
in the whole plan of life. Huh.
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I mean, it didn't change what I believe in.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
It was just fascinating that there are other people out
there with other opinions. It's almost like I was smacked
across the face with wait, you you believe in?
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Wait what?
Speaker 1 (16:39):
And then visiting family their family, and then visiting their
synagogue and there, you know, which is their church, and
reading and listening to to the reading of the Torah,
and it was fascinating to me. And they believe it
and they're good people, and it's just it's so it
makes the planet turn, the beauty of humans, and what
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we really believe in weird search of It's funny. When
I was a kid, I remember, uh, there was a
Russian a Russian Orthodox church.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Up the street from my house. One day, I just
walked in.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
There was a Pentecostal church over down by putting 'em.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
I just walked in.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
There was Jehovah's Witness over by this department store called Rallies.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
I just walked in.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
A few synagogues there was like I think too that
I just walked in and I just walked in, and
and I'm curious, so I asked questions.
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I'm not afraid to ask questions.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
And I learned so much about people and what they
believe and why they believe and the beauty that I
didn't have to agree with them. I just had to,
you know, pay them respect by listening to them and
hearing them out. And I mean back then, people weren't
so judgmental because of my belief is social media, so
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they just shared their opinion and that was pretty much
as far as it went. But I got to learn
about their freedom of religion and their freedom to practice
what they believe and what feels good to them. And
that's when I learned that the freedom of religion really
is a beautiful thing, and that we live in a
wonderful country that many other countries will not allow it.
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But I must admit there are parts of this country
where there are still people that are mentally prehistoric, that
are still walking around thinking that their weight their belief
is the only way. And I personally don't mind it.
I just go okay to each their own and I
pray for you, and I hope you and your family
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are safe, and just don't hurt anyone, don't criticize anybody
or anybody else's beliefs, because again, that's the beauty of
this country. You have a right to believe in what
you believe, which kind of makes it obvious that I
then have the right to believe in what I believe.
And this also leads to the freedom of politics of
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what part do you choose to vote for or if
you choose not to vote.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
It's funny.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
I remember MTV there was a time period back then,
late eighties, early nineties that it was rock to vote,
and he had puff Daddy dancing around singing rock to Vote.
Now he's trying to just get his freedom. But I
kind of felt that it wasn't the brightest of ideas,
simply because a vote without any form of investigation is
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a wasted vote. It's not about the amount of numbers
that are created when we vote, but it's just educated votes.
Just voting because your friends are voting for and such parties,
so you're gonna vot vote for the same party the
same beliefs. Because that's a funny thing. Come to find out,
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in the past few elections, I've talked to quite a
few people. Now that I have social media, I could
turn it around and find out information being me being
very neutral and not voicing my opinion of who I
voted for why, but finding out and realizing that so
many people are out there are voting or leaning towards
the political party, which actually, if they were to do
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some research, basic research, they would figure out that the
party that they're voting for doesn't have the same views
that they actually think they do, but they just assume
it does because somebody at some point told them.
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That's just the way it is.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
And it's just like no, because my father always voted
for a specific party thinking that it believed in a
certain thing, and that the other party was horrible because
they and he was wrong. It's a shame, but one
of the most profound aspects of freedom is the power
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of choice. In a free society, our lives are not
dictated by fate or control, but by our ability to
make decisions. If you have the right to walk around
and ram your beliefs down somebody else's throat, don't get
mad when somebody tries it on you. You can choose your beliefs,
your careers, your partners, your friends, and your goals. This
gift is not afforded to all people around the world,
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and thus we must appreciate with all of our hearts
that we have this freedom. Choice gives us agency. It
turns dreams into reality. When we understand the power we hold,
we no longer drift through life. We begin to live
it on purpose. The ability to choose again, to change
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our direction, to say yes or no, or no, or
yes or just maybe from a place of authenticity.
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It's a sacred freedom.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
When you wake up in the morning and you decide
what to do with.
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Your day, you're exercising your freedom.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
When you leave a job that no longer fulfills you,
you're exercising your freedom. When you pursue a calling that
ignites your soul, exercising your freedom, or when you walk
away from something that no longer aligns with your values,
you're practicing Freedom's then you get into the concept, let's say,
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from politics religion, let's just talk about love and who
you're loving, and hopefully you're loving the one you're with.
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Because I have had many.
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Experiences of meeting people that have been in relationships that
wish they weren't or have thought that maybe the relationship
had run its course, but because of some odd loyalty,
they felt it was not in their best interest to
break their vows, not realizing that the vowel as you make,
especially let's say in marriage, aren't for just one person
getting married, but two. So here you are not wanting
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to break your vowels because you feel it's wrong, but
not coming to grips with the fact that the other
half is constantly breaking their end of the vowel over
and over and over and over, so it's okay for
them to break their.
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Vowels, but not you.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
I understand this is a degree, but I also understand
to a degree. But I also understand and believe in
marriage counseling. I'm not saying if you're in a relationship,
even if it's just dating, that the minute you're not happy,
you should just walk away.
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I say this because I've seen.
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Countless relationship suffer and others end because of a lack
of communication life kids in the way, it happens to
all of us, It happens to me, and before you
know it, your knee deep and not expressing yourself like
you used to with your thoughts or beliefs, your actions.
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Because as we get older in life, that we have
knocking us down and picking us up and then knocking
us down again, and we start to just collect scars,
scars of love, scars of war. Some of our beliefs change.
There are many of us that upon dating someone, we
tend to take their beliefs simply to make the relationship work,
and come five, ten, twenty years later, we come to
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realize that we want to go back to what we
believed originally. And then, of course you get the famous
who are you You've changed? But the bottom line is
that you haven't. It's just that, sadly, for many years,
you've worn a cloak, a mask, a facade, that you've
created that you really shouldn't have, and it's not fair
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to the other have. So I feel that honesty sometimes painful.
You should be as communicative as possible. It's important to
make a relationship work. And if your first thought being
in a relationship is if I told my better half
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my other half, they may be angry at me, they
may dislike me, they may not trust me. I may
hurt them by what I have to say, But then
you're not in a real relationship. A relationship is fifty
to fifty between two people. And if you have to
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be able to if you can't be able to share
everything and say how you feel at all times and
express your thoughts or believes your actions without the fear
of being put down or judged, does this mean that
they or you may say something that may hurt the
other Oh my god, Well, as long as it's not
like horrible. I'm not saying to be an asshole to somebody,
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but to be honest as possible. I mean, I don't
know if it's a young or old thing, but I
feel that as I get older, I prefer honesty more
than anything in the world. It just lets me know
where I stand. And where you stand, and that the
person you're with is either with you or with or
not with you, which is not a bad thing. But
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at this point, does this again mean that you have
to walk away from a relationship? Absolutely not, absolutely not.
It's like if you have a job and you don't
like it, do you have to quit? Absolutely not. I
recommend not doing that. I recommend just start looking for
another job, unless, of course they're beating the shit out
of you, then you know it is what it is,
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you call the cops.
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But anyway, but.
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If it's as long as it's not to the point
of horrible abuse, A good marriage counselor maybe two, maybe
three can really work wonders, not only helping a relationship,
but helping end your relationship. Sometimes some relationships should end,
and they help you realize that this is not just
going to work, and that the thing is life.
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Is too beautiful to waste.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
And to not live it with somebody that just does
not make you one hundred percent happy, one hundred percent happy.
Wait a minute, I know I can think of a
few people right now off the top of my head
that their attitude is marriage is not totally happy, and
a lot of people complain about Oh, like, I was
watching a video. It's funny. It's a video of a couple.
They do a lot of videos on TikTok and stuff.
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And the husband is walking over to the car and
he's looking at his phone and he's like with his
wife right there, and he's like, Oh, life is wonderful.
Marriage is wonderful. Having a wife is wonderful. I love
being married. And then she gets in the car. He
closes the door, and then he turns around as he
walks around the car, So I have five seconds to
tell you, don't get married. Run for your life. I
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did it.
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I regret every moment it was.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
It's horrible. I can't sleep late, I can't play video games,
I can't fuck off. I can't do this. I can't
do And then by now he's at the other side.
He opens the door and he goes.
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But I am so happy.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
I love my wife. And I know he's kidding hopefully,
But if you find yourself in that type of relationship,
Jesus like walk away or do like on crime TV
and just murder.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Them, because that makes total sense.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
I watch a lot of murder TV, and I'm always
shocked when people their first choice, and being in a
relationship they're not happy with is to just murder the
person as if you're going to get away with it,
even if you do. To me, it's just jail is
only four walls. Your mind is forever. It's very different
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knowing that you did this. I just hear and it's
always like, well, I don't want her to have half
of it, you can have all of it.
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I just want my freedom.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
I've been divorced and I walked away from everything. It's
just a sense of freedom. You can't always be.
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Happy in a relationship.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
But to me, it's a crime to live sharing your life,
your mind, your body, your interest, your hobbies with someone
that you just don't want to someone that looks at
you very differently than the way you look at them.
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And it's not fair to you.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
But it's also not fair to them because chances are
this someone out there that is much better for them.
Because at this point I feel that there is, obviously
and I believe this wholeheartedly, someone that can make them happier, yes,
happier than you. Does this mean that you were a
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waste of time or a bad person?
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Absolutely not. That's silly.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
You would even think that what it means that there's
a thing called chemistry, and not the thing that you
failed in high school, but there's chemistry about everything within everybody,
and that sometimes you meet people like you can meet
somebody at a coffee shop or at a diner for
the first time and you find yourself very intrigued by them,
attracted to them. This doesn't mean sexually. It just means
that it's as if you've known each other for years.
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And then there's people that you meet and you're just
it's not that you think they're horrible, but it just
there's nothing. They're just like you talk, you have a conversation, goodbye, goodbye.
But then there's those people that before you know it,
a friendship starts off. It could be, like I said,
a romantic relationship or just a great relationship that lasts.
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For many, many, many years.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
And I think that's a beautiful thing. Because we have
the freedom to love and be loved. Love love, love
Love is a deeply personal choice and one of the
greatest expressions of freedom. To choose whom to love and
how to love is a right that must never be
taken for granted, never be taken for granted. In a
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truly free society. Love is not regulated by race, gender, religion,
societal norms. It is celebrated as just a human truth,
the fluttering of your heart. The freedom to love whom
we choose allows us to build families rooted in authenticity.
It opens doors to connection, community, and shared purposes, and
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it empowers us to live openly and courageously without fear
of discrimination or persecution. It's funny, I'm sitting here with
two windows. This window looks like there's a storm coming.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
That window.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
The sun is out, and it's beautiful, very confusing. But
we must continue to protect the right to love, to
allow every individual the dignity of loving with their whole heart,
free of shame or condemnation. It isn't loving and being
loved freely that we find the greatest joys of being human.
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And one of the greatest joys is to pursue a
life of happiness. One thing that I enjoy being a
coach is simply saying the right thing, the right phrase,
the one word that makes somebody have their AHA moment,
like I do my Monday morning minds, I meditations, and
I love sending them out in the morning. I send
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them to quite a few people, and to get people
writing me back throughout a few days, few weeks when
they finally get to it, thank you for the inspiration.
Usually it's like, you know, I feel like you were
in my mind. You happen to say the right thing
at the right place when I downloaded this, And it
was funny because I just did it yesterday and I
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already got three people that wrote back like I needed
to hear this, which is awesome. I think it's wonderful
and I'm blessed by that. But I mean, it's just
when this creation, this connection is made, that the person
realizes that they're not a piece of shit, they're not
a loser, they're not lazy, they're not incompetent, and that no,
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not everything that your parents or family or teachers thought
about you is true. Because then here I come along
years later and I say to you, you're an amazing person,
and that maybe you're just carrying a lot of baggage,
sometimes too much baggage. It's like an anchor in the
ocean holding you back from your dreams, your goals and
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sailing forward with aspirations because you're holding on to these
beliefs that people have put into you, they've embedded into
your DNA, basically that you believe a lot of this
negative bullshit about yourself and that you can't make it.
But yet, because of this wonderful miracle of social media
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being in everybody else's mind and listening to everybody's opinion
and seeing how everybody else lives, we wonder, why is
it their life so amazing? Why are they just rolling
in dough? Why do they have everything better? They have
better relationships, they have nicer children, or animals are nicer.
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But my life is just so difficult because I'm cursed, and.
Speaker 2 (34:21):
Honestly, you're not.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
It's a choice that you have poor choices, that's what
it's called.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
You've made some stupid choices.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
And now you're blaming everybody else and saying that you're
cursed because of your poor choices. But my life is
just so difficult. It's a choice that you have made,
that you believe in the limiting beliefs that you have
been implanted with, and that as quickly understand that as
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quickly and easily as negative thoughts or a negative word
can ruin your day a happy one, an innovative word
can make you think, can make you become inspired and
believe in yourself and believe that you have the knowledge
and the drive and the hunger to accomplish whatever the
hell you want. But instead we tend to put this
wall between us and make excuse after excuse that those
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people are just lucky and it's just not meant for you.
I meant for life of misery and sadness and blah
blah blah. And I can't help it but take it
personally and feel it in my heart when I meet
people that I feel.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
Are very amazing. I meet some amazing people.
Speaker 1 (35:43):
And then I start talking to them and I realize
that they are so down on themselves and they just
believe the worst of the worst things about themselves and
that in their life they have absolutely no hope. And
here I am on the outside looking and thinking to myself, Wow,
this person is amazing, and I would love to have
a piece of their energy, a piece of their drive,
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and that they have what it takes to be one
of the most incredible people out there. Yes, I've met
a lot of those people. They didn't know it, but
I knew it, but they just didn't see it. I've
been blessed to work with a lot of people through
hypnosis or talk therapy or even meditation to help people
reverse this negative mindset bullshit that they are not worthy
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of accomplishing wonderful things and that they don't deserve to
have the things they want. The abundance that is out
there for everyone. It is out there for everyone. There's
a huge piece of the pie for everyone.
Speaker 2 (36:44):
It's up to you.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
Just get off your ass and go get it if
you actually think it's going to be cut and brought
over to you. It's just funny how people they live
through soap operas, they live through shows, and they believe
celebrities and these people have wonderful lives.
Speaker 2 (37:04):
But look at me.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
Yeah, I'm just living paycheck to paycheck and that's it
for me.
Speaker 2 (37:12):
It's negative bullshit.
Speaker 1 (37:17):
The perfect life is out there just for other people,
not for you. It's out there for entrepreneurs that just
happen to be swimming in dough not realizing that if
you actually do a lot of research, not just memes
of TikTok about what they're saying about this person and
that person, but if you actually do your research in
the lives of many entrepreneurs, invenors and even some celebrities,
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you'll realize that, yes, they also bleed red. They put
their pants on the same way as you do. Sometimes
they have problems going into the bathroom. Sometimes they suffer
from depression, sometimes they have too much anxiety. But there's
a different level of growth in their mindset overall, that
they're willing to try, They're willing to change, or willing
to get up and do things and not simply give
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up and feel that their failures again and again and
that they're not worthy. Are you worthy to a degree, yes,
but to have it just hand it to you, which
is sadly what a lot of people believe in. I mean,
it happens, God blessed. The chances of it happening.
Speaker 2 (38:18):
Are pretty slim because most people.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
Have to work, they have to earn it, they have
to strive, they have to sacrifice, they have to they
have to bust their asses.
Speaker 2 (38:28):
But I believe in you. I do.
Speaker 1 (38:35):
Then there's the religion thing that a lot of people
just say, well, I'll just sit back, do nothing and
leave it in God's hands, which I just think, Wow,
you're a jerk, because God has already done so much
for you, He has given us so much and here's
my belief growing up having read the.
Speaker 2 (38:53):
Bible a few times to a degree.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
Yes, you have to have faith in God, as I
do every day, every morning, every night. But at the
same time, God has given, as I said me, the opportunities,
the goals, the drive, the knowledge, the curiosity that's my favorite,
the curiosity to try.
Speaker 2 (39:15):
And to believe in me in His name.
Speaker 1 (39:22):
Instead of blaming God every time something finally goes wrong.
Speaker 2 (39:27):
That's some sick shit.
Speaker 1 (39:29):
Why is everything going on badly just for you? Not
realizing that you have neighbors and even those amazing people
that have everything on social media sooner or later come
to find out that they have been living also a
pretty tough life. They might have nicer cars at bigger house,
but they also have problems. They've also lost a lot
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and on that now money, come to find out it's
not everything they thought.
Speaker 2 (39:55):
It would be.
Speaker 1 (39:56):
But what would you say, is the pursuit of your happen?
Because the pursuit of happiness is the foundational promise of
the American dream. It means what we are not bound
by others expectations, or by other circumstances of our birth.
We are free to dream as big as we want
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to chase any dream we want and to live life
the life that reflects our deepest values and passions. Think
about that this pursuit is not about wealth or status,
but about fulfillment, about living a life of meaning, of
contribution and joy, whether that means becoming an artist, a parent,
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a teacher, a scientist, an entrepreneur, or a world traveler.
Speaker 2 (40:44):
The freely sell hot dogs.
Speaker 1 (40:47):
As long as it's what makes you happy, what feels
you with joy. You have the freedom to shape your
own happiness because it is a privilege that must not
be overlooked. Happiness is not a guarantee, but the ability
to sue it freely, without repression or limitation, is what
gives life its vibrancy. We must recognize that we live
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in a society where happiness is not a luxury reserved
for a few, but it is a great, wonderful potential
frau freedom to change our minds and involve. My heart
also breaks when I hear somebody older stating that because
of their age, there are things are just more difficult.
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The funny thing is that's the biggest crock of shit
I've ever heard. Especially more and more every day I hear.
I see it every day. The funny thing is there's
also a great team of seniors out there turning life
upside down and giving into trying and believing and doing
and traveling and adventuring as much as they can with
an opinion of time is running out and is not
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time to sit and wait eat for the green reaper
to find you. He will, but it is up to
you to get off your ass and experience the life
that God has given you fully, to meet people, to dance,
to be silly, to eat, to travel, to try anything. Sadly,
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if your first thought is fear or my favorite uh oh,
I've always had a belief that's that's just evil. That's
evil that keeps people in a mental cage, that you
feel that you're not worthy, that you can't try things.
Speaker 2 (42:40):
That you're just you live.
Speaker 1 (42:42):
In fear of our opportunity. I mean, do you realize
that that's the same thing. You might as well just
be in jail. I just had this conversation with somebody
recently about.
Speaker 2 (42:57):
Being bored. Being bored.
Speaker 1 (43:02):
I've never been bored in my entire life, thank God,
because there is always something to do, somewhere to go,
someone to be with someone to laugh with, something to eat,
some new place to go to. Right now, as I'm
writing this, I have hundreds of pictures flashing through my
mind of really wonderful conversations that I've had with people strangers,
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either face to face or on social media. Listening to
other people's stories, their journeys, their trials and many tribulations
throughout life, and to me, the more interesting ones is
how tough it can be and how they surpassed it,
but yet overall, how wonderful life is. When you find
yourself waking up again and again the next day knowing
(43:51):
that you can try what you did yesterday again today,
knowing that you can try saying it differently today than
maybe how you said it yesterday. What you can say
today that you may have said wrong yesterday, but you
have a second chance to call that person up and
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say how you feel today instead of missing out of
an opportunity. It's like being a kid and going to
the school dance and wanting to ask that girl to dance,
and wanting to ask that girl to dance, and wanting
to ask that girl to dance, and either they call
out the last song and you chose to not do
it out of fear or somebody else with the balls
(44:38):
to do it went up and asked her to dance,
and you missed out. And like that, We've done that
in so many things, even through it, through our adult lives.
You may not have had you may have had the
chance to go somewhere, but you chose not to. And
(45:00):
now you look back and wonder, why how many things
do you have in your bucket list that you've been
meaning to look into? Well, I mean, like I said,
if you wake up again, you have a chance to
look into it. Does this mean that oh it's crazy
or this that, or my faars I don't have.
Speaker 2 (45:19):
The money for it.
Speaker 1 (45:20):
It's just okay, Well, how much is it? What's involved
in it? What do you have to do to get it?
That's what life is to me. Every day waking up
again so you can try again, you can experience life
even more. To me, true freedom also lives on our
ability to grow and evolve. We are not stuck in
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old versions of ourselves. You know that you can pivot,
you can transform. We can admit that a path we
once followed is just no longer for us. We can
reimagine who we want to be again.
Speaker 2 (45:58):
And again.
Speaker 1 (45:58):
I mean in my life, I'm fifty five. I have
reinvented myself completely main stories four times. And trust me,
I never look back in anger and never, I never.
I don't regret or resent. I went on a path,
and if I was on the path, trust me, It's
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where I was supposed to be.
Speaker 2 (46:22):
And I learned so much from it.
Speaker 1 (46:26):
I've met so many people, I've had wonderful conversations, great stories,
great laughter, so much passion.
Speaker 2 (46:35):
And then one day I just go, all right, I'm done.
I'm done. I feel that there's no more for me.
Speaker 1 (46:45):
There not gonna beat it to hell. All right, It's
time to try something new. As I said, you can pivot,
you can transform, you can reimagine who you want to
be again and again. This is the freedom of reinvention,
(47:06):
A liberties say I've changed, and to begin again. It
is the freedom to fail ooh that word, and rise again,
to learn from mistakes so I'll grow environments and to
rewrite our personal narratives. You see, I actually this podcast
is listened to. I haven't looked at it in a while.
(47:27):
Last was over almost thirty or just over thirty countries,
and I've seen some of them. A lot of them
don't have the freedom we have here. But for those
of you that are listening to this podcast from this country,
in a free society, no one has to live within
the boxes they were placed in. We're not obligated to
continue down the roads that no longer service. And that
(47:51):
is one of the most incredible, inspiring, beautiful, empowering freedoms
that we have. And then once you have all of
this freedom that we're talking about, but then you have
this wonderful thing called gratitude. Something that I often bring
up on my podcast and my meditations, feeling gratitude, being appreciative.
(48:15):
How often do you really mean it when you say it?
I mean, there was so much going on in our
lives that I can see where things happened to fall
by the wayside, and I understand that, But that does
not mean that you can just forget every breath you
take and why you took it, every meal that you've had,
every person that you've met, good, bad and ugly. They've
(48:38):
all been a part of your life, your story, everybody, everybody,
even those sons of bitches, even those bastards, And now
you wish you never met the people you dated, people
you were married to people, that you had businesses with, partners, whatever.
Then now you're like, I wish I never why you
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are where you are because of them, even the bad aspects.
Speaker 2 (49:03):
Hopefully you learned.
Speaker 1 (49:07):
To me, it's what makes life exciting, that's what makes
life worth living. Not knowing what's around the corner. New ventures,
new concepts, new ideas, new chapters. I personally am working
on a new chapter in my life that's starting in
about a week, maybe two weeks, and I'll get more
(49:27):
into that later, but it's a new chapter, new interest.
Every place you go, everybody you talk to, there's a
reason behind it. There's a meaning behind it. That conversation
was created so that you can pick something up, and
if you can't figure it out, then it was probably.
Speaker 2 (49:48):
For them something you actually said.
Speaker 1 (49:52):
Yes, you made them think because remember, the world again
doesn't revolve around you. Please don't think it does, because
it doesn't. There's no way a world of this capacity,
this magnitude of people, a billion plus, and it all
is about just you. It's not. Things are going to
happen one way or another. Experiences are going to happen.
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Sometimes you're just gonna have to sit back and be
patient and honestly, these are my favorite moments because when
I feel that I'm being challenged, which is often, these
are the times that I really get to think and
ponder my life, where I am and how I got here,
all the different things that had to happen, and lay
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out a certain way so that I can be exactly
where I am right now. With great freedom comes great
responsibility and deep gratitude. To be free as a privilege.
Speaker 2 (50:53):
That millions around the world long for.
Speaker 1 (50:59):
We must not treats our freedoms with indifference or entitlement.
We must recognize, reflect on them, and give thanks for
them every day, because gratitude turns freedom into purpose. And
when we appreciate our freedom, our liberties, we stop taking
life for granted. We recognize each morning as a new
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chance to live boldly, to take risks. We treat others
with more kindness, more patience, more compassion, knowing that shared
freedom must also include shared dignity being grateful. Being grateful
means using our freedoms not just for personal gain, but
for the greater good. It means living in a way
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that honors those who came before us and inspires those
who come after us. Freedom even in the most progressive societies.
Speaker 2 (51:55):
Is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (51:57):
It can be eroded by complace and see by fear
by injustice. This is why we must remain vigilant. Defending
freedom means standing up against inequality, injustice, and oppression in
all forms. We must ensure that freedom continues to expand
and grow, not just for ourselves but for all people,
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regardless of background, belief, or identity. Defending freedom means listening
to those who feel unheard, including those who freedoms are
still fragile.
Speaker 2 (52:27):
Ar denied.
Speaker 1 (52:30):
Complacency is the enemy of liberty. When we stop fighting
for what matters, we risk losing everything. Let the fourth
this holiday not just be a celebration, but as I
read and I love this, but a call to action,
to vote, to speak out, and to educate yourself, and
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to build more than just a free society for all.
But celebrating freedom.
Speaker 2 (52:59):
To not be just the fourth of July.
Speaker 1 (53:01):
It should be a way of life. Every day we
have the opportunity to honor our freedom through our choices,
through our actions, and especially our mindset. We honor it
when we live with authenticity, and when we speak our truths,
when we treat others with respect and empathy. Living with
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intention means recognizing that your time is your own and
that you are not just a passive observer for life,
but you are the author of your life. Write a
story worth telling? Is has your life been worth telling?
(53:44):
If your entire story? I think about it right now,
your life was in a book in a bookstore people
are walking in. Is it worth reading? Is it interesting?
Is it exciting? Or is it just filled with misery
(54:07):
and drama? No hope, no dreams, no goals? Is your life?
Is your story worth telling? Be bold in your choices
forgive freely, love deeply, dream wildly, give.
Speaker 2 (54:22):
Generously throughout your life. That is what it means to
live freely.
Speaker 1 (54:29):
Let us use freedoms, our freedom, to not just build
better lives for ourselves, but a better world for others
to teach to our actions. Let us wake each day
with the question, how can I make the most of
my freedom today?
Speaker 2 (54:52):
Think about that? So Fourth of July is coming gone.
The smell of fireworks in the air is dissipated.
Speaker 1 (55:05):
We've already we've already digested our many hot dogs and
potato salad, and you know, macaroni salad and hamburgers and
the fourth of July is not just about freedom from tyranny,
but it is the freedom to be fully human, to
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live by choice, to love with heart, to evolve with courage,
and to make each day a masterpiece of intention. Let
us never forget that freedom is not just a political concept.
It's a deeply personal one. It's your freedom. It is
the right to shape your life with your own hands.
It is the power to say, this is who I
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am and this is how I choose to live. So
this year and every year, celebrate with more than fireworks.
Let us celebrate with gratitude, with purpose, with courage and love.
Make your life a living expression of the freedom that
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you are so fortunate to have. I hope I made
you think. I hope I made you question your existence
and to appreciate every tomorrow, every today, and be grateful
for all the experiences of the past that have made
you who you are. Right now, keep this in mind.
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Choose action over excuse, purpose over comfort, and the work
that matters over the distractions that don't.
Speaker 2 (56:45):
My name is Jim Gonzalez and this was the.
Speaker 1 (56:49):
Reset Yourself twenty two podcast. Go forward and live your
life to the fullest. Thank you so much. For listening, liking,
and especially sharing with others means a lot to me.
Many many blessings to us all. God bless America, God
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bless every.
Speaker 2 (57:10):
Nation on this country.
Speaker 1 (57:14):
Send good intentions out there to those that don't have freedom,
that wish that they had.
Speaker 2 (57:21):
A fraction of the freedom that you have. Right now.
Speaker 5 (57:49):
A shell was brought to you by Noema Gignosis and
Healing and the Mindset Meditation.
Speaker 1 (57:53):
And dedicated to all those that get up every day
and hustle and do all they can to make a
difference in their lives and the lives of others. Oh
my God.
Speaker 5 (58:01):
If you are interested in learning more about the services
that Jimmy offers, visit www dot n O E M
a h h dot com. Jimmy offers a downloadable ebook
and a link to his Mind's Eye meditation sessions, which
are both offered for free. Please consider it a gift.
And for those that like the do it yourself approach,
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Jimmy also offers pre recorded self hypnosis sessions. If you
prefer that one on one approach, feel free to reach out.
You have been listening to the Reset Yourself twenty two podcast.
Speaker 1 (58:33):
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