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Kevin Lowe: Have you ever found yourself in that spot where you're.
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Kevin Lowe: Sitting in your car?
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Kevin Lowe: You've turned the engine off, and yet you can't take your hands off the steering
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Kevin Lowe: wheel because you can't find the courage to.
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Kevin Lowe: Open the door and get out of the car
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Kevin Lowe: Because you don't want to face what you're about to deal with. Maybe it was in.
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Kevin Lowe: The morning before heading
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Kevin Lowe: Into what you knew was going to be a really stressful day at work.
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Kevin Lowe: Or maybe it's sitting in the parking lot of your doctor's office, getting ready to go in to
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Kevin Lowe: Receive the results of the test.
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Kevin Lowe: That you've been waiting to come back. Or maybe you're at home,
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Kevin Lowe: you're parked in the driveway,
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Kevin Lowe: And you know that you're about to have a really tough conversation with your spouse when.
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Kevin Lowe: You go inside.
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Kevin Lowe: It's in this moment.
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Kevin Lowe: The moment in between, the moment when
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Kevin Lowe: Everything tells you to just quit.
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Kevin Lowe: To not go inside, and yet you know you have to.
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Kevin Lowe: It's in this moment that today's episode meets you because it's inside of that
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Kevin Lowe: moment that we're going to equip
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Kevin Lowe: you with the tools you need to move forward, to do what you have to do.
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Kevin Lowe: What's up, my friend, and welcome back to Grit, Grace, and Inspiration.
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Kevin Lowe: This is the podcast here for you today, helping you to get through what we're going to refer to as your.
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Kevin Lowe: Own parking garage
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Kevin Lowe: Moment. Now, who am I? Well, I am your host, Kevin Lowe, a guy who went blind
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Kevin Lowe: over 20 years ago, and yet, for some reason,
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Kevin Lowe: has been on this crazy mission in life to use what I've gone through to inspire the world.
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Kevin Lowe: And hopefully today, that is you.
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Kevin Lowe: And to inspire you to do what? Well, simply to keep.
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Kevin Lowe: Going in life,
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Kevin Lowe: To not allow.
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Kevin Lowe: The little things to turn into big things, to not allow
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Kevin Lowe: The big things.
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Kevin Lowe: To stop you from achieving your goal.
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Kevin Lowe: Now, today, we're taking inspiration from the guest inside of last week's episode.
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Kevin Lowe: And that, of course,
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Kevin Lowe: Was none other than the absolutely awesome Steve Garrity.
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Kevin Lowe: And if you caught Steve's interview, you heard his story of being diagnosed with cancer.
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Kevin Lowe: He would end up having a grapefruit-sized tumor that was cancerous.
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Kevin Lowe: This all happened when he was only 18 years old.
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Kevin Lowe: But what really I want to focus on today is just one little aspect of his story,
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Kevin Lowe: one little piece that really stayed with me.
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Kevin Lowe: And it was the story he told that happened inside of a parking garage.
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Kevin Lowe: In case you didn't catch the interview or just to catch you up on speed to exactly
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Kevin Lowe: what I'm referring to, I want to put you in the driver's seat of exactly where
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Kevin Lowe: Steve was at this point in his life.
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Kevin Lowe: Here he was, almost done with chemotherapy.
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Kevin Lowe: He'd been doing it for 10 grueling months.
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Kevin Lowe: At this point, he'd lost all his hair. He was exhausted. He was honestly a total wreck.
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Kevin Lowe: He was physically and emotionally spent.
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Kevin Lowe: He had nothing left to give.
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Kevin Lowe: And there he was.
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Kevin Lowe: Back in the parking garage for another chemo treatment. And yet he couldn't do it this time.
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Kevin Lowe: He couldn't make himself go inside.
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Kevin Lowe: He didn't have the strength.
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Kevin Lowe: He didn't have the fight left in him.
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Kevin Lowe: And he broke down.
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Kevin Lowe: In that moment, he didn't want to keep going. He didn't want to go back in.
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Kevin Lowe: He didn't want to receive another round of chemo.
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Kevin Lowe: Now, I want to take a quick pause and.
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Kevin Lowe: Illustrate what's really important here.
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Kevin Lowe: This wasn't the beginning. This wasn't the diagnosis.
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Kevin Lowe: This wasn't the first round of chemo.
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Kevin Lowe: This was after almost a year of.
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Kevin Lowe: Going through chemo.
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Kevin Lowe: And the reason I bring this up is because this is what's so important.
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Kevin Lowe: Sometimes the hardest moment isn't when something begins, but rather it's when
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Kevin Lowe: you're tired of fighting.
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Kevin Lowe: When you've been giving it your all and you feel like nothing's working and
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Kevin Lowe: you feel like you have nothing left to give.
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Kevin Lowe: It's the ninth inning of the baseball game.
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Kevin Lowe: It's the fourth quarter of the Super Bowl.
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Kevin Lowe: And you've been getting beat up all game long. and you feel like you got nothing left.
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Kevin Lowe: And yet you've got a coach on the sideline screaming at you to run one more play.
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Kevin Lowe: My friend, that's what we're doing today is encouraging you that at the lowest
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Kevin Lowe: point that you find yourself, I want you to dig deep enough just to be able to run one more play.
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Kevin Lowe: Now, to get real and honest with you, let's face it.
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Kevin Lowe: We think that being strong is never breaking down.
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Kevin Lowe: We feel like to be strong means that we don't have a parking garage moment.
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Kevin Lowe: But instead, I want you to reframe that idea. Because what I feel real
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Kevin Lowe: Strength looks like.
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Kevin Lowe: Is sitting in a car in a parking garage. And you're unable to open the door
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Kevin Lowe: Because you've just been going through 10 months of chemotherapy.
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Kevin Lowe: Your body is completely wrecked. You are done. You're done fighting.
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Kevin Lowe: And yet,
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Kevin Lowe: You choose to.
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Kevin Lowe: Open the door and step out of the car and walk back into the doctor's office anyway.
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Kevin Lowe: That, my friend, is strength.
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Kevin Lowe: And the key here
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Kevin Lowe: Is that there's a key difference.
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Kevin Lowe: Between wanting to quit and actually quitting.
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Kevin Lowe: Your body might be screaming at you. Your emotions might be completely wrecked.
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Kevin Lowe: And maybe your confidence is gone.
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Kevin Lowe: But the decision, the choice.
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Kevin Lowe: That's still in your control. You still hold the key here. You are the
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Kevin Lowe: One who gets to make the decision.
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Kevin Lowe: Whether or not you stay seated, whether or not you turn the car back on and
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Kevin Lowe: drive away and pretend that everything can just go away.
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Kevin Lowe: Or you can make the decision to give it one more shot.
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Kevin Lowe: To run one more play.
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Kevin Lowe: And the reason this is so important and the reason that I bring up the story
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Kevin Lowe: of Steve Garrity to you is because we all have had that moment.
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Kevin Lowe: We'll all be
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Kevin Lowe: Faced with another moment just like it.
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Kevin Lowe: I want you to think of the entrepreneur who's in this
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Kevin Lowe: Moment right before.
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Kevin Lowe: Finally launching the product that he's been working on, been designing.
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Kevin Lowe: Or what about the parent before sitting down to have a tough
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Kevin Lowe: Conversation with your kid?
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Kevin Lowe: Or maybe it's an addict in the moment before they walk in to another AA meeting. It's the moment
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Kevin Lowe: When we all ask ourselves.
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Kevin Lowe: Do I have one more round in me? Am I able to run one more play?
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Kevin Lowe: My friend, that's a question that we all have to wrestle at.
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Kevin Lowe: Some point in our life.
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Kevin Lowe: What I want you to remember is that so many times we.
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Kevin Lowe: Want a breakthrough. Well, my friend, the breakthrough only happens when we're
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Kevin Lowe: in the midst of a breakdown.
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Kevin Lowe: You hold the key. You hold the choice, the decision to make to keep moving forward,
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Kevin Lowe: To keep swimming.
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Kevin Lowe: Wasn't that from the movie Nemo when the fish told us we just
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Kevin Lowe: Have to keep swimming?
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Kevin Lowe: My friend, you just have to keep moving forward. You have to keep going.
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Kevin Lowe: Now, it's easier said than done.
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Kevin Lowe: No doubt.
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Kevin Lowe: And so I want to make this as tactical as possible, giving you some strategies. And so I've.
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Kevin Lowe: Narrowed it down to three ideas that I want you to at least think about,
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Kevin Lowe: to at least keep in the back of your mind, strategies that can help you get
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Kevin Lowe: out of the car and walk in and face whatever you're about to deal with.
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Kevin Lowe: My first step.
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Kevin Lowe: Is to borrow strength.
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Kevin Lowe: Sometimes we don't have the strength in us.
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Kevin Lowe: Sometimes we've got to lean on others. We've got to borrow strength,
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Kevin Lowe: Whether that's prayer or.
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Kevin Lowe: Picking up the
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Kevin Lowe: Phone and calling a friend, or sometimes it's.
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Kevin Lowe: Borrowing it from
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Kevin Lowe: Our future self.
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Kevin Lowe: Because honestly, that's what we're doing it for. We're doing it for the person
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Kevin Lowe: We want to.
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Kevin Lowe: Be,
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Kevin Lowe: For the life we want. So if you don't have the strength right now.
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Kevin Lowe: I want you to
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Kevin Lowe: Borrow it from your future self.
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Kevin Lowe: From tomorrow. Step two, I want you to shrink the horizon. Instead of you
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Kevin Lowe: Thinking to yourself about the next 10 months, I want you to just focus on today,
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Kevin Lowe: this appointment, this meeting.
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Kevin Lowe: Don't think about the years ahead.
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Kevin Lowe: Don't think about the big picture. Don't
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Kevin Lowe: Think about what.
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Kevin Lowe: Could happen on the other side.
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Kevin Lowe: Instead, I just want you to focus on taking the next step.
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Kevin Lowe: Shrink your horizon.
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Kevin Lowe: And my third tip.
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Kevin Lowe: Is I want you to remember why you're here, why you started.
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Kevin Lowe: There's a reason that.
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Kevin Lowe: You're in the
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Kevin Lowe: Fight you're in. There's a reason this matters to you.
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Kevin Lowe: For Steve, he was fighting for his life.
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Kevin Lowe: For you, maybe you're fighting for your job. You're fighting for your relationship.
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Kevin Lowe: You're fighting for you, your freedom.
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Kevin Lowe: My friend, you just have to make the next step.
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Kevin Lowe: Open the car door, step out, exit the parking garage, walk into the door and
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Kevin Lowe: sit down and do whatever has
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Kevin Lowe: To be done. So I leave you with one final thought.
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Kevin Lowe: If maybe you find yourself in your own parking garage moment right now and you
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Kevin Lowe: feel like you can't keep going, You're crying. You're angry.
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Kevin Lowe: You're upset.
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Kevin Lowe: You're angry at the world.
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Kevin Lowe: You're angry that this has to be happening.
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Kevin Lowe: Why can't things be good? My friend, I want you to be reminded that you got this.
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Kevin Lowe: I want you to recognize how you're feeling,
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Kevin Lowe: To acknowledge it, to understand it.
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Kevin Lowe: And then you know what I want you to do? I want you to open the door.
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Kevin Lowe: And I want you to step outside.
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Kevin Lowe: And the reason is because this next choice that you make, the next action you take.
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Kevin Lowe: It might just change your entire life. My friend, if you didn't listen to my
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Kevin Lowe: Interview with Steve Garrity.
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Kevin Lowe: I highly encourage you
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Kevin Lowe: To go back and listen to his interview. It was just one episode previous to
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Kevin Lowe: this and get to hear the full story.
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Kevin Lowe: To get to hear from him firsthand of exactly what this parking garage moment was like,
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Kevin Lowe: all in the hopes of it equipping you with the motivation that you need to be
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Kevin Lowe: able to keep going when times are tough.
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Kevin Lowe: If today's episode spoke to you, I would love to invite you to maybe leave a
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Kevin Lowe: rating and review for the podcast.
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Kevin Lowe: If you've never left a rating or review for grit, grace, and inspiration,
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Kevin Lowe: please consider on whatever app you're on, clicking the little five-star button and leaving a review.
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Kevin Lowe: I would love to hear from you.
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Kevin Lowe: I would love to know what is resonating with the podcast, what you think.
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Kevin Lowe: So, like I said, if you've never
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Kevin Lowe: done it, maybe consider this being your invitation to do so right now.
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Kevin Lowe: And until next time, my friend, I'm, of course, your host, Kevin Lowe.
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Kevin Lowe: And this was another episode of Grit, Grace, & Inspiration.