December 13, 2024 • 22 mins
TRANSITION. On this episode of the Wake Up and Show Up podcast, I am sharing why I am relaunching the podcast but more importantly why I stopped. I invite you to embrace the power of gratitude and grace as guiding forces in your life. Discover how divine timing and love have played pivotal roles in my journey and how they can inspire you to pursue your dreams with purpose.
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
Hello darlings, you're listening to the Wake Up
and Show Up podcast with PortiaScott.
This podcast is a collection ofstories, interviews and
conversations, weaving togetherlife's pivotal moments and the
decisions made to show up andimpact humanity, one person at a
time.
What am I grateful for?
(00:30):
So you got me, because that'swhat I ask everyone In this
moment.
I am grateful for grace.
I'm grateful for the fact thatwe can always get another chance
, and I feel like grace has beensuch a big thing in my life.
I've not always gotten it right, I don't always do it right,
(00:52):
and so I have that ability tolean on God's grace and also
have grace for myself and forothers.
So that's what I'm grateful for.
Since you moved here, likegrace has really affected our
lives, because what you'll hearin some episodes with the kids,
(01:17):
you'll hear that you know theirtransitions were each different
and I think them having gracewith my husband and I such a big
transition.
I think my husband and I havinggrace with one another.
But the biggest thing wouldhave to be the grace and the
(01:39):
provincial timing of God in thisseason, like he has been so
gracious to us too.
I tell people the story of themove and they just cannot
believe how the pieces cametogether so seamlessly.
What else could that be Like?
What else could that be Right,but the hand of God, but the
(02:00):
grace of God.
And so, um, when stuff startedhappening, I would just say, all
right, god, now you're showingout, because at first it was
like, oh my goodness, this issuch a blessing, this is amazing
.
And then it gets and it's likeyou're really showing out, like
this is really too much for meto handle, because I know how I
guess like feeling undeserving,right, that we feel, but that is
(02:25):
the grace of God.
Um, I have children, threechildren, and we think, oh, my
goodness, we're not deservingand he's so loving.
You know, I can't love mychildren as much as he loves us,
but I don't, you know, I can'tlove my children as much as he
loves us, but I don't do thingsfor my children because they
(02:48):
deserve it per se.
I do it out of love.
And so I would say that feelingthe love of God, just because
he loves, has literally been aguiding force for us this season
.
I know that was a long way toanswer that question, but yeah,
(03:12):
so the wake up and show uppodcast is was born, um, on a
beach in South Africa and Irealized that I was not living
this amazing life, crazy lifethat we all have intentionally
and with impact.
It just was kind of goingthrough the motions.
(03:33):
So the Wake Up and Show Uppodcast really is a podcast of
stories and interviews thatweaves together life's pivotal
moments and the decisions thatwe make to intentionally show up
and impact our world, becausewe may not impact millions of
people, but we can impact thepeople in our world and so I get
(03:55):
the opportunity to talk withincredible people and share
stories about those pivotalmoments and how they're showing
up and impacting their world.
And your second question was therelaunch of the podcast.
Right, what caused me torelaunch it and can I go back
(04:17):
and say kind of why I stopped orwhy I took a break Is because
when I started this podcast, Iloved podcasting for podcasting.
I loved podcasting because Irealized that it was making an
impact.
Right, it wasn't impactingmillions of people like I
initially thought, right, butI'd only been in it like a few
(04:40):
years, but I knew it wasimpacting people.
I knew they were listening tothe stories and some people were
starting their ownorganizations or some people
were saying I'm livingdifferently and um.
But I stopped because that whyshifted and it was no longer
about impacting people, but itwas about impacting numbers.
(05:02):
And it was about, well, thisisn't monetizing and everybody
else is monetizing and followingeverybody else's flow.
And I feel like I needed topause so I could get back to the
why and get back to what reallymattered for me in podcasting.
And so that's why I paused, andso I'm relaunching, because I
(05:26):
found that whyies I meanthirties and twenties, but in a
(05:49):
world where youth is so like, so, so very important that you
could get to this age and feellike, well, all my dreams, all
my visions, all that stuff, I'mtoo old for it.
And so I want people to see thepodcast and I want them to be
inspired to write the book, Iwant them to be inspired to go
feed the homeless, I want themto be inspired to go back to
(06:11):
school or whatever that dream is.
Miles Monroe would always saythat the richest place is the
graveyard, and it is because weleave this earth with so much
that we didn't accomplish, butso much in us.
And so if someone listens to apodcast like I did, that will
(06:32):
say I'm going to start thepodcast, I'm going to go take
some pictures, I'm going to gobe part of the PTA, whatever it
is, whatever it is.
So I feel like the relaunch ofthis podcast is so that people
will be inspired to live thisbeautiful thing that we call
life with purpose and withimpact.
(06:52):
Um, as far as so, as far aslike the goals for this podcast,
okay, so what I desire for thisseason of the podcast um, for
me, I will say is that I will beas committed to it as I was
(07:17):
when I first launched it, whenit was just about the impact,
where the numbers were not thedriving force.
That's what I perceive for thisseason.
I do want people to come in andhear the stories and we have
some incredible interviews linedup with incredible people and
(07:39):
whether or not they go and dotheir own thing, or whether or
not they come in and theysupport somebody else that we
have on another organizationSometimes we're not called to
create maybe our own, but we'recalled to really support that.
So I hope that, again, thatwhen people hear this season of
the podcast that they'reinspired to do the thing that
(08:03):
they know that they're called todo, that they change a mindset,
that they impact someone youknow in their world, as I like
to say.
Yeah, you guys have a secondepisode where you tell me you
love podcasting.
And does this love ofpodcasting come from your love
(08:36):
for people and, ultimately,god's love for you to be able to
talk to people my children andmy husband.
Sometimes they're like wecannot, we're scared to let you
go somewhere by yourself,because you are always so
friendly, like you're meetingpeople, and so, secretively, I
do my podcast so I can meetpeople, so I can hear stories.
(08:58):
I love stories and so it's sofunny because I can meet someone
literally walking my dog inthis neighborhood and I learned
so many stories about people insuch a small amount of time.
And all of those stories matter, and I think that sometimes we
(09:22):
don't realize how our storiesmatter, and so I do this podcast
because I want people to knowthat their stories matter, and
when they hear other people'sstories, it gives them
permission to share theirs, itallows them to know that they're
created on purpose, for apurpose.
(09:42):
So so, yes, I selfishly do thispodcast because I get to meet
incredible people, but I lovepeople and so it really is a way
to tell those incrediblestories of, of people who are,
you know, building multi-billiondollar, you know nonprofits or
(10:04):
whatever.
And also the little lady thathas a coffee truck, um, that I
had, uh, in Georgia, so, um,that I had on the podcast in
Georgia.
So it is all of those storiesculminate this beautiful thing
that we call life.
Yeah, can you share yourpersonal experience with living
(10:27):
intentionally and why youbelieve it's important?
Yeah, can I share my personalstory about living intentionally
?
I was doing amazing in mycareer.
So I tell people all the time Ididn't leave corporate.
Oh, this makes me tear up.
I didn't leave corporatebecause it's a big bad.
(10:49):
It's a big bad wolf.
Most people are like, ah,corporate is terrible.
It was so amazing.
I had such a great career.
I was traveling, um, I wasworking, um, in hospitals, um
and so.
But I remember my daughter had.
She went into school, was likeone of the first weeks of school
, and they did this tell meabout yourself.
(11:11):
And they said what is one thingyou love about your mom?
And she was like she's such ahard worker and I was like, oh,
yeah, you know.
And then one of the questionswas like what is something you
wish she did less of.
And she said work.
And I was like brokenheartedbecause I'm like, wait a minute,
(11:31):
what is going on?
So that's like August, fastforward to that.
November, october, november, myhusband and I take a trip to
South Africa and we're on thebeach in Cape Town.
It's absolutely beautiful, it'sthis big moment of life, right.
And I say, john Henry, I feelso connected being with you on
(11:57):
this beach.
And he says, portia, I feelconnected to you whether I'm on
this beach or whether we'rehaving a coffee date.
And I cried my eyes out becausesomewhere he had still been
living intentionally, where thesmall moments mattered.
But for me I had been goingthrough the motions, I had been
(12:21):
a wife and a mom and doing allthe right things but not taking
in consideration that momentsmatter.
And so it was on that beachthat I decided that how many
people are livingunintentionally, not thinking
about the moments that aremattering in their lives?
And so that's that's kind of mystory With transitioning from
(13:04):
corporate into becoming anentrepreneur.
Um, one of the reasons why was Iwanted time with my children
and I realized how importanttime is.
I realized it in thattransition and in the transition
from Georgia to California.
It was about time spending time, and so I think one of the
(13:29):
things that I try not to do istake time for granted.
Whether it's my children comingto ask me if he has time to
make some soup before I do thisfor the world, I'm going to take
that time and I'm going to talkto him.
Or whether it's my daughterthat needs five minutes, but
(13:49):
maybe I have something I couldbe doing, I'm going to take that
time.
Or maybe my husband needs totalk through something.
So for me, it is beingintentional about those moments,
and so I've taken that from mycorporate career into, you know,
entrepreneurship, into thepodcast and then definitely into
(14:12):
our transition.
Is that I didn't want to rushthis moment.
I didn't want to just be like,okay, god, you did all this
amazing things.
We're here, yay, the sunshine.
But I wanted to take thosemoments to breathe and be like,
wow, god, you did amazing.
And I love that my family isstill together, even after a big
(14:33):
move, and I love that mychildren are thriving after a
big move.
So, making sure that, like I'mso grateful for time and
spending that time, how do youtranslate this concept of
intentional living into yourpodcast and how do you hope it
resonates with your audience?
Yeah, so how do I translate theconcept of intentionality or
(14:58):
intentionally living um into thepodcast?
I think I'm, I'm really I won'tsay picky because I'm I'm not
in that way, but I am.
So the podcast is my baby, so Iwouldn't let anyone just come
give my children advice.
The same way that when you knowpeople are like I want to be on
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a podcast because I want to beon a podcast, well, that doesn't
work here, because whether ornot your audience is 200,000 or
2000 or 200, it really is aboutwhat impact are you making and
the motive of that impact,where's it coming from.
And so when it comes to thepodcast, I do I have like a pre
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interview so that I canunderstand who's coming to give
advice, you know, to my childrenper se, and so I just the
questions that I ask and tryingto hear their stories of the way
that they're showing up in theworld and how they're impacting
their sphere of influence,whatever that looks like.
(16:06):
So I try to translate that intothe stories and the interviews
that I tell.
Can you share some examples ofguests or stories that
particularly exemplify this ideaof making an impact.
Yes, can I share stories ofinterviews that I've done that
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exemplify intentional living andmaking this impact.
I've had incredible guests.
I'm I've had, like, someincredible people, but right off
my head would be one KittyMurray.
She is the founder of refugecoffee and they started out in
Clarkston Georgia.
I went to school, high schoolin Clarkston Georgia.
I went to school, high schoolin Clarkston Georgia and what
they do is they have a coffeetruck.
Look at that and they give jobsto refugees, and so not only do
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they give them jobs but theytrain them in coffee making, in
business and how to run thetrucks, and so they've been able
to expand business and how torun the trucks, and so they've
been able to expand.
So Kitty Murray would be one.
Markita Goodwin would beanother one.
She was a breast cancer survivorand I remember from her
interview when she said whensomething's going on whether
someone has breast cancer, maybesomeone's lost something, or
(17:16):
you know they're going through atough time she said that when
people would ask her what can Ido, she was like I didn't know.
So she would always say just doit Right.
So just come by the house andsee do you need me to take the
kids or send a meal or send acoffee or send a tea, um.
So she was incredible, um, Iwould say.
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Let's see go Zulu from SouthAfrica.
Her and her husband wereclimbing Mount Kilimanjaro and
unfortunately, she tragicallylost him.
However, she does so manythings.
She is still keeping his memoryalive.
She wrote a book.
I read the book.
She supports anotherorganization called Caring for
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Girls, and so that is RobertMabasso.
He is the founder of caring forgirls, and what they do is they
provide feminine hygieneproducts to girls in um South
Africa and around the continent.
Um, because they miss about Ican't remember the number cause
(18:21):
it's been a minute, but theymiss school.
Some of them drop out becausethey don't have what they need.
So that's just like off the topof my head.
A couple of um impactfulinterviews, um that honestly,
you can go watch right now.
And are there any interviewswith this next interview that
you tease us about but alsoshare stories of potential work?
(18:43):
Yes, so I guess I'll give you alittle teaser.
One of the people that we areinterviewing is Kevin Adler, and
he wrote a book when they Walkby, and it is about homelessness
and the work that he is doingaround homelessness, and it is
(19:04):
doing around homelessness, um,and it is a beautiful story, and
so that just kind of gives youa little teaser of where we're
going, um, in this season of thepodcast.
So, yeah, and to go back, Idon't know if you necessarily
are a fan of this, but you wantto add to why did you stop
podcasting?
Yeah, so why did I stoppodcasting?
(19:27):
I think I I did answer, but Iwill go back is that I lost the
joy of the?
Why?
Because I allowed what everyoneelse was doing, what every
other podcast looked like, whattheir numbers were, how they
were monetizing.
You go to these conferencesthat are absolutely incredible
(19:50):
and I've had the opportunity tospeak at a really incredible
podcast conference, podcastmovement but you go and you see
what so many people are doing,right.
Or even you look at the JoeRogans of the world, right, just
because his podcast is soeverybody knows that podcast.
I don't care what you listen to, what your niche is, you know
(20:11):
his podcast, um, and so you lookat that and when your numbers
don't line up, when you feellike I think for a while I was
like I was putting so much intothis podcast and the numbers,
what was going, what am I doingwrong?
Um, and so it is very easy toforget your why, to look at what
(20:34):
other people are doing and feellike you have to change to fit
that.
And a couple episodes I didchange to fit that.
And a couple episodes I did,and I felt terrible because I
knew that wasn't me, that's notmy podcast.
(20:56):
I tell real stories about realpeople making a real impact, and
there are people who want tohear that.
But when I stopped, I didn'tsee it that way and so, yeah, I
just felt like I'm not goodenough.
But I know differently now.
So life has changed.
You said you know differentlynow.
So can you give us an update onwhat's happened since your last
(21:19):
podcast episode?
Yes, so a lot has happened sincemy last podcast episode, but
what I will say is you'll hear alittle bit of it in some
episodes this season, but myfamily and I relocated from
Georgia to California, somethingthat we have wanted to do for
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many, many, many, many years,and this was just the
opportunity that God gave us.
I keep saying that this is ourseason of Sabbath.
It's a season of rest.
It doesn't mean like we're notdoing anything, but it is a
season of rest and so, yeah, meand my family, on May 22nd, once
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our kids got out of school, wehopped on a flight, landed in
LAX, and California has beenhome for the last 60 something
days and we are loving it.
We are absolutely loving it.
So that has happened.
John Henry and I continue torun our consulting business and
(22:25):
the podcast is back, so thoseare like some big life updates.
Yeah, that has happened sincethe last podcast.
So this season of the podcast,we're super excited because we
are a video podcast now and Icannot wait to see you as you
join us on this journey ofimpact.
Hello darlings, you're listening to the Wake Up
and Show Up podcast with PortiaScott.
This podcast is a collection ofstories, interviews and
conversations, weaving togetherlife's pivotal moments and the
decisions made to show up andimpact humanity, one person at a
time.
What am I grateful for?
(00:30):
So you got me, because that'swhat I ask everyone In this
moment.
I am grateful for grace.
I'm grateful for the fact thatwe can always get another chance
, and I feel like grace has beensuch a big thing in my life.
I've not always gotten it right, I don't always do it right,
(00:52):
and so I have that ability tolean on God's grace and also
have grace for myself and forothers.
So that's what I'm grateful for.
Since you moved here, likegrace has really affected our
lives, because what you'll hearin some episodes with the kids,
(01:17):
you'll hear that you know theirtransitions were each different
and I think them having gracewith my husband and I such a big
transition.
I think my husband and I havinggrace with one another.
But the biggest thing wouldhave to be the grace and the
(01:39):
provincial timing of God in thisseason, like he has been so
gracious to us too.
I tell people the story of themove and they just cannot
believe how the pieces cametogether so seamlessly.
What else could that be Like?
What else could that be Right,but the hand of God, but the
(02:00):
grace of God.
And so, um, when stuff startedhappening, I would just say, all
right, god, now you're showingout, because at first it was
like, oh my goodness, this issuch a blessing, this is amazing
.
And then it gets and it's likeyou're really showing out, like
this is really too much for meto handle, because I know how I
guess like feeling undeserving,right, that we feel, but that is
(02:25):
the grace of God.
Um, I have children, threechildren, and we think, oh, my
goodness, we're not deservingand he's so loving.
You know, I can't love mychildren as much as he loves us,
but I don't, you know, I can'tlove my children as much as he
loves us, but I don't do thingsfor my children because they
(02:48):
deserve it per se.
I do it out of love.
And so I would say that feelingthe love of God, just because
he loves, has literally been aguiding force for us this season
.
I know that was a long way toanswer that question, but yeah,
(03:12):
so the wake up and show uppodcast is was born, um, on a
beach in South Africa and Irealized that I was not living
this amazing life, crazy lifethat we all have intentionally
and with impact.
It just was kind of goingthrough the motions.
(03:33):
So the Wake Up and Show Uppodcast really is a podcast of
stories and interviews thatweaves together life's pivotal
moments and the decisions thatwe make to intentionally show up
and impact our world, becausewe may not impact millions of
people, but we can impact thepeople in our world and so I get
(03:55):
the opportunity to talk withincredible people and share
stories about those pivotalmoments and how they're showing
up and impacting their world.
And your second question was therelaunch of the podcast.
Right, what caused me torelaunch it and can I go back
(04:17):
and say kind of why I stopped orwhy I took a break Is because
when I started this podcast, Iloved podcasting for podcasting.
I loved podcasting because Irealized that it was making an
impact.
Right, it wasn't impactingmillions of people like I
initially thought, right, butI'd only been in it like a few
(04:40):
years, but I knew it wasimpacting people.
I knew they were listening tothe stories and some people were
starting their ownorganizations or some people
were saying I'm livingdifferently and um.
But I stopped because that whyshifted and it was no longer
about impacting people, but itwas about impacting numbers.
(05:02):
And it was about, well, thisisn't monetizing and everybody
else is monetizing and followingeverybody else's flow.
And I feel like I needed topause so I could get back to the
why and get back to what reallymattered for me in podcasting.
And so that's why I paused, andso I'm relaunching, because I
(05:26):
found that whyies I meanthirties and twenties, but in a
(05:49):
world where youth is so like, so, so very important that you
could get to this age and feellike, well, all my dreams, all
my visions, all that stuff, I'mtoo old for it.
And so I want people to see thepodcast and I want them to be
inspired to write the book, Iwant them to be inspired to go
feed the homeless, I want themto be inspired to go back to
(06:11):
school or whatever that dream is.
Miles Monroe would always saythat the richest place is the
graveyard, and it is because weleave this earth with so much
that we didn't accomplish, butso much in us.
And so if someone listens to apodcast like I did, that will
(06:32):
say I'm going to start thepodcast, I'm going to go take
some pictures, I'm going to gobe part of the PTA, whatever it
is, whatever it is.
So I feel like the relaunch ofthis podcast is so that people
will be inspired to live thisbeautiful thing that we call
life with purpose and withimpact.
(06:52):
Um, as far as so, as far aslike the goals for this podcast,
okay, so what I desire for thisseason of the podcast um, for
me, I will say is that I will beas committed to it as I was
(07:17):
when I first launched it, whenit was just about the impact,
where the numbers were not thedriving force.
That's what I perceive for thisseason.
I do want people to come in andhear the stories and we have
some incredible interviews linedup with incredible people and
(07:39):
whether or not they go and dotheir own thing, or whether or
not they come in and theysupport somebody else that we
have on another organizationSometimes we're not called to
create maybe our own, but we'recalled to really support that.
So I hope that, again, thatwhen people hear this season of
the podcast that they'reinspired to do the thing that
(08:03):
they know that they're called todo, that they change a mindset,
that they impact someone youknow in their world, as I like
to say.
Yeah, you guys have a secondepisode where you tell me you
love podcasting.
And does this love ofpodcasting come from your love
(08:36):
for people and, ultimately,god's love for you to be able to
talk to people my children andmy husband.
Sometimes they're like wecannot, we're scared to let you
go somewhere by yourself,because you are always so
friendly, like you're meetingpeople, and so, secretively, I
do my podcast so I can meetpeople, so I can hear stories.
(08:58):
I love stories and so it's sofunny because I can meet someone
literally walking my dog inthis neighborhood and I learned
so many stories about people insuch a small amount of time.
And all of those stories matter, and I think that sometimes we
(09:22):
don't realize how our storiesmatter, and so I do this podcast
because I want people to knowthat their stories matter, and
when they hear other people'sstories, it gives them
permission to share theirs, itallows them to know that they're
created on purpose, for apurpose.
(09:42):
So so, yes, I selfishly do thispodcast because I get to meet
incredible people, but I lovepeople and so it really is a way
to tell those incrediblestories of, of people who are,
you know, building multi-billiondollar, you know nonprofits or
(10:04):
whatever.
And also the little lady thathas a coffee truck, um, that I
had, uh, in Georgia, so, um,that I had on the podcast in
Georgia.
So it is all of those storiesculminate this beautiful thing
that we call life.
Yeah, can you share yourpersonal experience with living
(10:27):
intentionally and why youbelieve it's important?
Yeah, can I share my personalstory about living intentionally
?
I was doing amazing in mycareer.
So I tell people all the time Ididn't leave corporate.
Oh, this makes me tear up.
I didn't leave corporatebecause it's a big bad.
(10:49):
It's a big bad wolf.
Most people are like, ah,corporate is terrible.
It was so amazing.
I had such a great career.
I was traveling, um, I wasworking, um, in hospitals, um
and so.
But I remember my daughter had.
She went into school, was likeone of the first weeks of school
, and they did this tell meabout yourself.
(11:11):
And they said what is one thingyou love about your mom?
And she was like she's such ahard worker and I was like, oh,
yeah, you know.
And then one of the questionswas like what is something you
wish she did less of.
And she said work.
And I was like brokenheartedbecause I'm like, wait a minute,
(11:31):
what is going on?
So that's like August, fastforward to that.
November, october, november, myhusband and I take a trip to
South Africa and we're on thebeach in Cape Town.
It's absolutely beautiful, it'sthis big moment of life, right.
And I say, john Henry, I feelso connected being with you on
(11:57):
this beach.
And he says, portia, I feelconnected to you whether I'm on
this beach or whether we'rehaving a coffee date.
And I cried my eyes out becausesomewhere he had still been
living intentionally, where thesmall moments mattered.
But for me I had been goingthrough the motions, I had been
(12:21):
a wife and a mom and doing allthe right things but not taking
in consideration that momentsmatter.
And so it was on that beachthat I decided that how many
people are livingunintentionally, not thinking
about the moments that aremattering in their lives?
And so that's that's kind of mystory With transitioning from
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corporate into becoming anentrepreneur.
Um, one of the reasons why was Iwanted time with my children
and I realized how importanttime is.
I realized it in thattransition and in the transition
from Georgia to California.
It was about time spending time, and so I think one of the
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things that I try not to do istake time for granted.
Whether it's my children comingto ask me if he has time to
make some soup before I do thisfor the world, I'm going to take
that time and I'm going to talkto him.
Or whether it's my daughterthat needs five minutes, but
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maybe I have something I couldbe doing, I'm going to take that
time.
Or maybe my husband needs totalk through something.
So for me, it is beingintentional about those moments,
and so I've taken that from mycorporate career into, you know,
entrepreneurship, into thepodcast and then definitely into
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our transition.
Is that I didn't want to rushthis moment.
I didn't want to just be like,okay, god, you did all this
amazing things.
We're here, yay, the sunshine.
But I wanted to take thosemoments to breathe and be like,
wow, god, you did amazing.
And I love that my family isstill together, even after a big
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move, and I love that mychildren are thriving after a
big move.
So, making sure that, like I'mso grateful for time and
spending that time, how do youtranslate this concept of
intentional living into yourpodcast and how do you hope it
resonates with your audience?
Yeah, so how do I translate theconcept of intentionality or
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intentionally living um into thepodcast?
I think I'm, I'm really I won'tsay picky because I'm I'm not
in that way, but I am.
So the podcast is my baby, so Iwouldn't let anyone just come
give my children advice.
The same way that when you knowpeople are like I want to be on
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a podcast because I want to beon a podcast, well, that doesn't
work here, because whether ornot your audience is 200,000 or
2000 or 200, it really is aboutwhat impact are you making and
the motive of that impact,where's it coming from.
And so when it comes to thepodcast, I do I have like a pre
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interview so that I canunderstand who's coming to give
advice, you know, to my childrenper se, and so I just the
questions that I ask and tryingto hear their stories of the way
that they're showing up in theworld and how they're impacting
their sphere of influence,whatever that looks like.
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So I try to translate that intothe stories and the interviews
that I tell.
Can you share some examples ofguests or stories that
particularly exemplify this ideaof making an impact.
Yes, can I share stories ofinterviews that I've done that
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exemplify intentional living andmaking this impact.
I've had incredible guests.
I'm I've had, like, someincredible people, but right off
my head would be one KittyMurray.
She is the founder of refugecoffee and they started out in
Clarkston Georgia.
I went to school, high schoolin Clarkston Georgia.
I went to school, high schoolin Clarkston Georgia and what
they do is they have a coffeetruck.
Look at that and they give jobsto refugees, and so not only do
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they give them jobs but theytrain them in coffee making, in
business and how to run thetrucks, and so they've been able
to expand business and how torun the trucks, and so they've
been able to expand.
So Kitty Murray would be one.
Markita Goodwin would beanother one.
She was a breast cancer survivorand I remember from her
interview when she said whensomething's going on whether
someone has breast cancer, maybesomeone's lost something, or
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you know they're going through atough time she said that when
people would ask her what can Ido, she was like I didn't know.
So she would always say just doit Right.
So just come by the house andsee do you need me to take the
kids or send a meal or send acoffee or send a tea, um.
So she was incredible, um, Iwould say.
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Let's see go Zulu from SouthAfrica.
Her and her husband wereclimbing Mount Kilimanjaro and
unfortunately, she tragicallylost him.
However, she does so manythings.
She is still keeping his memoryalive.
She wrote a book.
I read the book.
She supports anotherorganization called Caring for
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Girls, and so that is RobertMabasso.
He is the founder of caring forgirls, and what they do is they
provide feminine hygieneproducts to girls in um South
Africa and around the continent.
Um, because they miss about Ican't remember the number cause
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it's been a minute, but theymiss school.
Some of them drop out becausethey don't have what they need.
So that's just like off the topof my head.
A couple of um impactfulinterviews, um that honestly,
you can go watch right now.
And are there any interviewswith this next interview that
you tease us about but alsoshare stories of potential work?
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Yes, so I guess I'll give you alittle teaser.
One of the people that we areinterviewing is Kevin Adler, and
he wrote a book when they Walkby, and it is about homelessness
and the work that he is doingaround homelessness, and it is
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doing around homelessness, um,and it is a beautiful story, and
so that just kind of gives youa little teaser of where we're
going, um, in this season of thepodcast.
So, yeah, and to go back, Idon't know if you necessarily
are a fan of this, but you wantto add to why did you stop
podcasting?
Yeah, so why did I stoppodcasting?
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I think I I did answer, but Iwill go back is that I lost the
joy of the?
Why?
Because I allowed what everyoneelse was doing, what every
other podcast looked like, whattheir numbers were, how they
were monetizing.
You go to these conferencesthat are absolutely incredible
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and I've had the opportunity tospeak at a really incredible
podcast conference, podcastmovement but you go and you see
what so many people are doing,right.
Or even you look at the JoeRogans of the world, right, just
because his podcast is soeverybody knows that podcast.
I don't care what you listen to, what your niche is, you know
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his podcast, um, and so you lookat that and when your numbers
don't line up, when you feellike I think for a while I was
like I was putting so much intothis podcast and the numbers,
what was going, what am I doingwrong?
Um, and so it is very easy toforget your why, to look at what
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other people are doing and feellike you have to change to fit
that.
And a couple episodes I didchange to fit that.
And a couple episodes I did,and I felt terrible because I
knew that wasn't me, that's notmy podcast.
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I tell real stories about realpeople making a real impact, and
there are people who want tohear that.
But when I stopped, I didn'tsee it that way and so, yeah, I
just felt like I'm not goodenough.
But I know differently now.
So life has changed.
You said you know differentlynow.
So can you give us an update onwhat's happened since your last
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podcast episode?
Yes, so a lot has happened sincemy last podcast episode, but
what I will say is you'll hear alittle bit of it in some
episodes this season, but myfamily and I relocated from
Georgia to California, somethingthat we have wanted to do for
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many, many, many, many years,and this was just the
opportunity that God gave us.
I keep saying that this is ourseason of Sabbath.
It's a season of rest.
It doesn't mean like we're notdoing anything, but it is a
season of rest and so, yeah, meand my family, on May 22nd, once
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our kids got out of school, wehopped on a flight, landed in
LAX, and California has beenhome for the last 60 something
days and we are loving it.
We are absolutely loving it.
So that has happened.
John Henry and I continue torun our consulting business and
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the podcast is back, so thoseare like some big life updates.
Yeah, that has happened sincethe last podcast.
So this season of the podcast,we're super excited because we
are a video podcast now and Icannot wait to see you as you
join us on this journey ofimpact.
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