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Kevin Lowe: What if there was just one word that, when spoken out loud, could completely change your life?
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Kevin Lowe: I'm talking about one word, simple two-syllable word that, when spoken,
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Kevin Lowe: it can lead to new opportunities.
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Kevin Lowe: It can create relationships. It can lead to experiences that you never even
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Kevin Lowe: knew existed until you said just this one word.
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Kevin Lowe: Now, ironically, you speak this word every day, probably multiple times a day.
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Kevin Lowe: Especially every time you answer the telephone.
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Kevin Lowe: What is this word? Well, if you don't know, well, you got to keep listening.
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Kevin Lowe: Because this is a word that I'm going to prove to you that when you use it with
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Kevin Lowe: intention, it can completely change the trajectory of your life.
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Kevin Lowe: If nothing else, it can open your eyes to see people in a whole new light.
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Kevin Lowe: It can make the day a whole better day, a brighter day, all by just saying this one simple word.
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Kevin Lowe: It's all inside of today's 363rd episode of Grit, Grace, and Inspiration.
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Kevin Lowe: Hey, I'm your host, Kevin Lowe, and you are listening to Grit,
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Kevin Lowe: Grace, and Inspiration.
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Kevin Lowe: When I'm getting ready to record an episode for the podcast,
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Kevin Lowe: I'm always looking for inspiration from different sources. Maybe it's something I'm here.
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Kevin Lowe: Maybe it's an email I open, Or maybe it's something that I just experience out doing life.
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Kevin Lowe: Well, today, the inspiration came from an email.
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Kevin Lowe: Now, if you ever went back way back in the episode catalog of this podcast,
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Kevin Lowe: you would find an interview with a guy named Sean Anderson.
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Kevin Lowe: He is known as the Extra Mile Man. And even though that interview was years
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Kevin Lowe: ago, I've maintained an amazing friendship with Sean Anderson.
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Kevin Lowe: And one way that makes it real easy to stay up to date with what he's got going on with life,
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Kevin Lowe: and more so to stay plugged into the amazing insights that this guy has to share,
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Kevin Lowe: is through his weekly Thursday newsletter.
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Kevin Lowe: It's called Extra Mile Thursday.
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Kevin Lowe: And it was in one of Sean's recent newsletters that sparked the curiosity to
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Kevin Lowe: dive a little deeper and to share his amazing insights with you here on the podcast.
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Kevin Lowe: Now, I'm going to highly encourage you that before today's episode is over so
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Kevin Lowe: that you don't lose track, please be sure to go down and check out the episode
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Kevin Lowe: show notes, also known as the episode description,
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Kevin Lowe: where I'm going to leave a link where you can sign up to start receiving Sean's email newsletter.
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Kevin Lowe: Like I said, comes to your inbox every Thursday.
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Kevin Lowe: Short, uplifting, powerful.
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Kevin Lowe: It literally is one of those newsletters that just totally just changes your day.
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Kevin Lowe: And while you're there inside of the show notes, also be sure that you check
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Kevin Lowe: out the link for the official newsletter for this podcast.
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Kevin Lowe: The newsletter is called Where Grit Meets Grace, and that comes out each and every Friday morning.
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Kevin Lowe: So now you got two days of the week where you can have a little bit of something
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Kevin Lowe: good waiting for you in the email's inbox.
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Kevin Lowe: So definitely be sure to check out the links for both of those inside of today's show notes.
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Kevin Lowe: But today, my friend, we're talking about the power of a single word,
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Kevin Lowe: a two-syllable word that, when spoken out loud, has the power to change your life.
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Kevin Lowe: And that word, drum roll, please, is none other than the word hello.
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Kevin Lowe: It's nothing difficult. It's not complex. It's only two syllables.
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Kevin Lowe: We speak it every time we open the door or we answer the phone. We simply say hello.
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Kevin Lowe: And yet, if you think about it, hello, it's more than just a word.
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Kevin Lowe: It's an invitation. It's you opening the door for somebody to speak.
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Kevin Lowe: It's you laying out a welcome mat for somebody to get to know you.
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Kevin Lowe: Saying hello, my friend, is a portal that you're opening to a whole new world of possibility.
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Kevin Lowe: It is basically the key that unlocks the door to new relationships,
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Kevin Lowe: opportunities, to chances that you never would have had if you hadn't started
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Kevin Lowe: a conversation by simply saying hello.
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Kevin Lowe: In Sean's Extra Mile Thursday newsletter, he shared the power of this word.
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Kevin Lowe: He was traveling. He was in the airport.
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Kevin Lowe: Something that we all do. It's totally boring. We typically find ourselves digging
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Kevin Lowe: into our phones, staring at the screen, listening to an audiobook,
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Kevin Lowe: totally ignoring everyone else around us.
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Kevin Lowe: But, well, that's just not quite Sean Anderson's style. So he set out to do
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Kevin Lowe: something that maybe we should all start to do, is to start to say hello a little bit more.
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Kevin Lowe: And by him deciding to simply say hello a little bit more often,
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Kevin Lowe: look at the three amazing experiences that he had to share.
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Kevin Lowe: On one of his flights, he happened to be traveling with a college basketball team.
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Kevin Lowe: Now, lucky enough for Sean Anderson, he's a man big into college basketball. So this was pretty cool.
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Kevin Lowe: Now, here's where the hello comes into play. The flight was over, walking to get luggage.
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Kevin Lowe: And he found himself walking next to the head coach.
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Kevin Lowe: So what did Sean do? He simply said, hello.
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Kevin Lowe: By him saying hello, he started up an awesome conversation with the head coach of the basketball team.
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Kevin Lowe: It wasn't anything in-depth, but he just got to meet somebody who he never would
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Kevin Lowe: have gotten to meet if he didn't simply say hello.
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Kevin Lowe: So here you have what was supposed to be the end of a leg of a trip.
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Kevin Lowe: Instead turned into a cool conversation about a mutual love for his sport.
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Kevin Lowe: His second chance at saying hello was with a fellow traveler on the second leg of his trip.
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Kevin Lowe: Now, this time when Sean said hello, it opened up to get to learn about this
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Kevin Lowe: woman who was an adventure seeker. She had been skydiving.
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Kevin Lowe: I think he said that she had already done six different jumps,
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Kevin Lowe: was getting ready to do her seventh.
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Kevin Lowe: And through their conversation, that all started by him simply saying hello,
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Kevin Lowe: he got to understand her process for conquering fear, for what goes into the
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Kevin Lowe: mindset of somebody willing to jump out of a perfectly good airplane.
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Kevin Lowe: Not only did he find a way to pass the time, but he found a new way to look
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Kevin Lowe: at life, to look at life from a perspective of somebody who's willing to jump
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Kevin Lowe: out of an airplane, to go soaring through the sky time after time.
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Kevin Lowe: And then, of course, there was the third hello, a man sitting across the aisle on the plane.
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Kevin Lowe: He noticed that he was kind of nervous, fidgeting.
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Kevin Lowe: So what did Sean do? He simply said, hello.
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Kevin Lowe: A simple act of kindness, it led to an amazing, heartwarming story.
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Kevin Lowe: Because this passenger was on his way to Miami to see his girlfriend,
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Kevin Lowe: somebody who he hadn't seen in much too long.
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Kevin Lowe: Being on opposite sides of the country due to work meant that they didn't get
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Kevin Lowe: to see each other very often.
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Kevin Lowe: And yet, this trip, he had decided was going to be different.
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Kevin Lowe: He actually pulled out of his pocket and showed Sean the engagement ring that
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Kevin Lowe: he was about to present his girlfriend, soon to be his fiance.
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Kevin Lowe: This, a little insight into somebody's world, this amazing opportunity to get
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Kevin Lowe: to be a part of something bigger than you or me,
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Kevin Lowe: than Sean or this passenger, all because somebody was willing to simply say
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Kevin Lowe: hello, to start a dialogue, to start a conversation.
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Kevin Lowe: My friend, the stories I'm sharing, they're not just stories.
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Kevin Lowe: They're relationships. They're opportunities.
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Kevin Lowe: We never know what is going to be on the other side of us simply saying hello.
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Kevin Lowe: Because behind every person, every stranger we pass, they have a story.
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Kevin Lowe: They have lessons that we can learn from.
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Kevin Lowe: Who knows? They may be somebody who we're meant to be doing life with.
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Kevin Lowe: But if we never have the courage, if we never have the time to simply say hello,
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Kevin Lowe: to smile, to even just nod at somebody as you pass, to acknowledge their presence.
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Kevin Lowe: And then to even take it a step further and say hello, we never know all the
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Kevin Lowe: missed opportunities that we're passing up on this life, all because we're so
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Kevin Lowe: wrapped up in our own lives.
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Kevin Lowe: The whole point in today's episode, my friend, is to have you looking at the
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Kevin Lowe: simple things in life from a little bit different angle.
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Kevin Lowe: What you thought was just a word that you say when you answer the phone,
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Kevin Lowe: a word that you say when you answer the front door, it's actually an invitation.
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Kevin Lowe: It's a game-changing invitation to start a new relationship,
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Kevin Lowe: to develop a friendship, something that you never would have known unless you
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Kevin Lowe: had the courage to simply say hello.
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Kevin Lowe: And as I read through the end of Sean's newsletter, I couldn't help but think,
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Kevin Lowe: wow, here we have a guy who just took an ordinary trip, a couple of flights,
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Kevin Lowe: something that most of us don't think anything about.
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Kevin Lowe: And yet he turned it into a life-changing experience to show us all the power of simply saying.
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Kevin Lowe: Hello.
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Kevin Lowe: It's not just the word. No, it's the intention behind it.
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Kevin Lowe: It's you deciding to possibly make someone's day by acknowledging them,
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Kevin Lowe: by showing that you're interested in who they are, all because you simply said.
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Kevin Lowe: Hello.
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Kevin Lowe: So as you end today's episode, I hope that I encourage you to stop waiting for
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Kevin Lowe: others to say hello to you.
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Kevin Lowe: You start being the one to say hello to them and see what lies on the other
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Kevin Lowe: side of that simple two-syllable word.
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Kevin Lowe: With that, my friend, I hope today's episode inspired you, motivated you,
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Kevin Lowe: maybe got you a little bit excited about life, about opportunities, about relationships.
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Kevin Lowe: You just have to do something so simple, so normal, but now with a little bit
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Kevin Lowe: more intention behind it of just simply saying.
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