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Hello everyone.

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Tim Winders here.

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Welcome to this special edition of.

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Seek GoCreate.

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I called it when I was thinking about doing this between the holidays, depending

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on when you're listening to this, you may have just finished up Christmas.

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You might be preparing for the new year.

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You might be listening to it after the new year, but.

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I just called it between the holidays, we usually release episodes on Mondays.

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And this year 2023 Christmas fell on Monday.

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New year's day fell on Monday.

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And I just thought it might be best to do an episode.

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Right between the two and release it then, and look at this as a time to maybe.

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Reflect and renew look back on 2023 at some cool stuff that happened.

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Maybe some of our top episodes and some things we created and then Do a look

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ahead into 2024 and what we can look forward to and what we can prepare for is.

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Far as 2024 goes, but, man, I'm excited here.

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We're having a kind of a chill time of year just for us personally, just so

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you know, I'm recording this a few days before Christmas and Gloria and I are in

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Arizona and I'm sitting here in a t-shirt.

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I've got no shoes on.

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I've got a pair of shorts on.

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And it's going to be 70 something degrees outside today.

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And I love it.

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I love that kind of weather.

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I will tell you my wife kinda digs snow.

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If you're listening to this, when it releases between the holidays.

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We actually are going to be visiting our daughter and her

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family and our granddaughters.

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Up in Colorado and I'm thinking we're going to be having some snow then.

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So you might be listening to this.

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She might be getting her wish glory might be getting her.

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Gift, which is being around snow.

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And of course we'll both be enjoying cause we'll be hanging out.

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With our granddaughters, which is something that we love to do.

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But before I go any further, I just want to say this.

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It is my wish, my prayer, that you, your family, the people around you,

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that y'all have had a fantastic holiday.

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Holiday season, maybe it's continuing, maybe you're finished.

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Maybe you've already moved into the new year.

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But I just hope it's been a blessed time, a relaxed time, a peaceful time.

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A time that you've remembered the season and what all it stands for.

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And so I'm just hopeful.

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It's been a joy to, yeah.

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Wanted to put on a festive, maybe a red shirt to celebrate that.

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To celebrate.

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Christmas, but guess what?

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I don't own a red shirt.

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If you've listened in here, watch these, you know, that.

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Black is my primary or color.

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I really got for those that might be watching this video got

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pretty aggressive and put on.

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We got some new merchant.

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Seat GoCreate.

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This is actually a, a bright gold, which is one of our colors.

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That, says seek, go create.

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And I'm not in a festive color, I guess for me, it's festive.

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Maybe as I head into the new year, I'm getting pretty radical with, New wardrobe

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so I'm not festive thought about putting on a, Santa hat or something, but.

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Most of you probably would know that's not me.

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That would not be authentic.

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I would be faking and doing something different and we want to stay.

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Authentic here is seek co-create as we work on redefining what success is and not

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try to copy other people and not try to do what other people say we should do, but

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really adhere to what success means to us.

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Let's talk about 20, 23 and just some of the cool things.

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That occurred I guess maybe let me just do a few things, maybe

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personal, Gloria and I had.

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One of these years, I call it a Dickens' year tale of two cities.

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It was the best of times.

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And it was the worst of times.

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And I'm guessing that a lot of you may have been very similar.

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I mean, it was a real up and down year.

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I'll admit it really tested us in a lot of ways.

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But then we had so many cool things that happened.

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we stayed, we're in an RV, so we stayed in some really cool spots.

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We spent some time in the black Hills.

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We, we obviously went back and forth to Colorado a few times, which

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is where we get to visit with our granddaughters and our daughter's family.

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There.

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And, also spent some time in Southern Utah.

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And as I mentioned earlier now in, in Arizona, but in the midst of all that.

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We had to make a few trips back east and really spent almost a month there.

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at one time and then a few weeks, they're just taking care of some family things.

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Gloria's mother wasn't doing very well.

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And so we had to go tend to that.

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And then also, in may.

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We had to go back and, and take care of my father's Memorial service.

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We didn't show.

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He passed away just a little over a year ago in December of 2022.

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A little bit of a bittersweet, a little bit of a challenge with those.

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Those things, but, but had so many.

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Great things like the travels and the places that we went and the things

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we got to see, and the people that we interacted with and just so many things.

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And I know y'all are so used to me saying this, but.

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Being a grandfather being TDD, which is my name.

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To what is almost a four year old and approaching a two year old is

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one of the coolest things ever.

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And so about every six weeks or so, we were able to pop in and visit

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them, or they were able to visit us and we had a summer camp with them

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and that was just a load of fun.

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so again, some ups and downs, I'm sure.

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Just like you went through, but.

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That was part of what our year was.

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And we're excited about moving into the new year.

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Not sure what it's going to hold, but we're getting prepped for it

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and are excited about what 20, 24 might have in store for us.

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There are also a few cool things that I did just to mix it up a little bit.

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During the course of the year, I actually had my 60th.

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Birthday.

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I celebrated 60 years.

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In November.

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And in early October, I just decided I wanted to do some things

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a little bit different, and I may talk about this at the end.

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As I talk about some things we can do to prepare and get ready for a new year.

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But I actually made the decision to do two things in October.

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I gave up alcohol for the month of October and I was going to give up.

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News or media or the information I'm an information junkie.

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I love gathering information.

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I feel as if I need it.

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So it's okay for me to say, I probably have an addiction to information like many

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people do in our culture and world today.

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And I had four new sources that are read every morning and then I go out

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and I find other sources and have some emails that come in and I just.

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Wanted to stop doing all of that.

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And that's what I did in October.

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And what was interesting is I noticed just a few weeks in, I didn't really notice

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a lot of different things physically.

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With eliminating alcohol.

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However I noticed some incredible things.

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Mentally by eliminating all that stuff that came into my head.

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And so what I did was is I decided to continue having a

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sip of wine or a little whiskey.

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As I headed into November, but I decided that I would discontinue

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going to new sources and reading news.

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So I'm now in almost 90 days, plus without doing that.

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And I'll tell ya, I am noticing a significant difference.

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In my mindset.

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In my attitude in my outlook, I am, I think, more positive.

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I'm believe I'm less cynical.

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I think I'd look at opportunities and I can have a freshness and a lightness

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about being, there's a lot of heavy stuff.

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Going on in the world and it is so easy to get bogged down in it.

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And I am not making light.

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Of any of the things going on.

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there's always conflicts that are going on in parts of the world.

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There's always.

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Issues and shootings and political things and financial things and business.

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There's always things going on and I am in no way.

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Making light of those.

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I'm just coming to recognize.

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That many of those things, there is nothing.

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That I can do about them.

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I can lift them up in prayer.

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I'm may at times be able to do somethings about those.

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But in most situations that you're just clouding and confusing my mind.

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Probably causing me to think about things, dwell on things that

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I shouldn't be thinking about.

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Because as many of you have heard me say, I think we all have assignments.

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Here on earth.

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I think that those of us that are believers and followers of Christ, that

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we have an assignment in God's kingdom.

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And I just realized that all the news, all the media, all the

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stuff that was clouding my mind.

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Was in all likelihood preventing me from pursuing.

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That assignment that God has for me in his kingdom, because I

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kept thinking about all the junk.

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I just kept dwelling on it.

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Rolling it over.

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Rolling it over.

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Rolling it over.

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That's one thing I did.

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And we'll talk more about some things as we head into the next year, but those

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were a couple of cool things that I did.

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Again, I'm taking a little sip of wine here and there, and I'm

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actually probably drinking a little bit less than I was pre October 1st.

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But eliminating all the news and the sources of information was a big deal.

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Let's talk about some cool things that happen here at seek GoCreate.

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During the course of 20, 23, the year started off with a bang.

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We had a lot of good things going on, but over the course of 20, 23, we made.

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A number of shifts.

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Some might've been noticeable to you.

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The people that are watching our videos or listening to our audio.

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And some may not.

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One of the big things that I did was I decided to do.

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A series released in the month of may.

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It was called the faith driven leader.

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And it was five episodes of just me on my, there was some content that

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I wanted to put together and create.

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I put them in some compact episodes, right around 30 to 40 minutes each.

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We put a quiz with it, the faith driven leader quiz.

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That has some great information in for those that go through the quiz.

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There's also a 12 email step, training that you get over the

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course of about a month or month and a half after you take the quiz.

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And so I was very pleased with how that came out.

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So if you haven't checked that out, Make sure you go check out the faith.

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Driven leader series, either on YouTube, we've got the videos and things there

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or on the audio and just check it out.

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I think we grouped it together as a season.

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So you should be able to get that all together.

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And we'll also include links to get.

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Tied into the quiz and also some links so that you can check that out.

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Another thing that we did was we changed some of our processes.

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Behind the scenes.

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We, we were outsourcing our audio editing, our video editing and some video clips.

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and I'll tell you what we did with some tools that are now available with

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AI and just some of the technology.

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We were able to bring all of that in.

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And most of that I am now doing, I've got some help from my wife.

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He does a great job with.

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Some scheduling and just putting together some of the structure and systems.

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And she also helps with the graphic.

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She's the one that does this.

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For those that are looking at these cool graphics on this t-shirt that

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I've got and got a mug here with seat GoCreate and some other things.

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This is our merge.

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That before you ask it is not available for sale, yet it might

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be in the not too distant future, but right now this is just.

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Especially for the host.

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So it's my it's stuff that I have that is seek GoCreate.

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We're checking some things out.

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We'll see if we want to make that available, but we, we brought all of that

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in house and started doing some things.

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That allowed us to create some more content.

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And I'll tell you, I want to go ahead and admit this.

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That AI chat GPT, and a lot of other tools.

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Allowed us to do this.

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We are using a lot of tools behind the scenes so that we can create some

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of the things that we're creating.

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With our content, our audio, our video here at seat GoCreate

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and just a few examples.

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One of the things that we're doing with each episode, we are.

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creating three short 62nd ish.

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Clips that are not really to promote the episode.

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They are content rich.

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They are short.

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Content driven clips.

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That we're putting on all of our social platforms.

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We're putting those on YouTube and other places.

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So that you can get short bursts of information.

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And, another thing that we're doing with that is we're creating content.

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That is articles.

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In other words, we started.

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putting articles on LinkedIn.

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That are summaries of the episodes that are really good.

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Three to five.

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Highlights or key lessons that you can get from each episode.

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And then, also just recently started putting articles on medium.

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So if you're plugged into any of those and want to check out

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our things there, go do that.

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And we just started trying to put more.

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Valuable content on all the social platforms that we are on.

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And just as a reminder, we are definitely on all the podcast platforms.

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And we're also on YouTube and we're putting information,

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obviously on both of those.

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But we are also on Facebook.

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Seat go create.

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We're also on LinkedIn seek co-create.

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We're also on Tik TOK seat.

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Go create Instagram.

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And I believe that might be an O X, Twitter, whatever we're calling it now,

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ex Twitter and threads the new threads.

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So we've got information on all of those.

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So if any of those are your.

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Favorite or your social media platform of choice.

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I definitely follow us and connect with us there and add comments and things

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because we're putting short videos up there, short bursts of content so

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that you can stay plugged into what we're doing here at seek co-create.

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And one other thing that we're able to do because of the AI tools is we

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are able to update some of our notes.

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We're constantly adjusting and tweaking.

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But one of the things that I really want to do is I want someone who goes

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to our notes either on one of the platforms, some of the platforms we

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can't put this much content there.

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But if you go to seek, go create, not come to any episode.

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We typically put some short descriptions.

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A quote.

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some information on the guest.

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If we have a guest.

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And we also have resources.

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We like to put links to all the resources that are mentioned.

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In other words, if I'm mentioning some of our episodes and all here on this.

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Special episode there should be links that are there.

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But another thing we like to do is to put key learning points, action items.

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And then also some summaries so that if you happen to not be able to listen

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to an episode, or if you listen in your car while you're out and about,

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and just want to go back and do re.

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A review of a few points.

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You can go to the website and you can get that pretty darn easily

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because we're able to include a good bit of information there.

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We also have transcripts and all too, but you can actually go check out

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and get a lot of information on our website, on our notes, our new notes

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that we're developing at CECO create.

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And there's one other, thing's interesting.

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I know that not everyone is a fan of Tik TOK.

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And a lot of people say, don't go to tick tock, they're collecting

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and gathering information.

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I just have a clue for you.

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All these social media platforms are gathering your information yet.

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Take talk might have a connection to a foreign government, but.

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Just between you and me.

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I'm not sure that I trust many of the governments.

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But take talk is one.

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I actually enjoy going and just looking at short videos and short clips of things,

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but we do put our short video clips there.

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And something that's really cool that they added.

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They really do add a lot of features over there is that you can go look

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at a clip from any of our episodes over the last, I think six months

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we've been able to put clips up there.

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And if you like that clip or want to listen to the full episode, there's a

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place that you could click right on that clip and just write in the tick tock.

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in the Tik TOK application there, the app, you can listen to the full podcast

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interview or the full podcast episode.

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Now.

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To me.

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I think that's pretty cool because most other places you would listen.

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To a clip or a short or short burst of information.

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And then you would have to leave that app and go somewhere else, go to your

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podcast app or go over to YouTube.

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To watch or listen to the full thing.

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take talk allows you to do it.

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So at some point, if you're a Tik TOK fan, if you're not that's okay, cool.

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Don't throw stuff at me or anything like that.

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But if you're a Tik TOK fan or go to Tik TOK from time to time,

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Visit tick tock, go to seek.

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Go create.

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Look at some of our clips and Jumped down and.

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And then go listen to the full episode.

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And we just added this towards the beginning of December.

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But we now have a place where If you dig this content and really love what we're

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doing here at seat, go create you can.

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By the host, me, Tim.

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A cup of coffee or.

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A simple whiskey or whatever you would like to buy, supporting us financially.

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All you have to do is go to seek, go create.com forward slash support.

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And you can leave a tip.

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We, I think we've got $1, $5, $10 or put in your own amount.

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I will tell you any amount you put in would be welcome.

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There's a place you can add some comments.

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I'll tell you, if you put a comment there, there's a good

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chance that you will be featured.

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On an episode, I'll give you a shout out and I would appreciate it greatly.

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any support is welcome.

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We are attempting to redefine success and.

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really put some stories out there so people can hear the journeys

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that people have gone on to define what success means for them.

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Either they've been forced to redefine it, or they have forced

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themselves to redefine it.

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And they're redefining success, really trying to find out

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what success means to them.

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And I believe that message is important.

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So if you want to support that, You now can do that at CECO,

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create.com forward slash support.

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Go check it out and give us a tip.

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Or buy me a cup of coffee or support us, whatever you would like to do,

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that would be greatly appreciated.

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One of the things that's always cool to do is to look back.

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And see.

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Which episodes or short video clips were the most popular.

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And now we've got multiple places that we can look back and see which content

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is just resonating or getting out there.

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And people are responding to it.

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positive, negative, either.

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One of those is fine.

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and so what I want to do now is I want to do a recap of some of the top clips.

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And episodes from 2023.

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The first thing that I want to do here, and I'm going to

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actually bring these clips in.

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Is, I want to share with you the short clips.

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The short highlights that got the most views over on YouTube.

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I really love that.

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We're able to put this short form content up.

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Because it really is a way to find out what really resonates with

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people and things that people want to hear and want to listen to.

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And I'm going to, I'm going to actually go through the top three.

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The top three short video clips that we put up and we

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only started putting up clips.

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Around may of 2023.

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And so let me go 3, 2, 1, here.

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And I'm actually going to show you these clips.

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If you're, you'll be able to listen to them, if you're listening in,

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on your podcast player, but if you're on YouTube watching this.

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I'm going to pull these clips.

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The third, most.

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Viewed clip that we had was from, Craig Fayer.

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And let me set this up.

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Craig Fayer was a trauma surgeon.

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And, he actually had dyslexia and he is all about.

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Redefining success.

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And, this is a clip where I asked him about his dyslexia because

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he was able to become a surgeon.

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with having the issue of dyslexia.

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And so this was a pretty powerful clip.

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Listen, in on this clip from Craig.

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Fair.

Craig Thayer:

I just grew up first, second grade teachers, he is a slow reader.

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He needs to read more.

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And third grade, they actually tested your words per minute.

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And, I skipped around, I jumped front lines.

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I sweat when Star Wars comes on and there's that hole.

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And I land far away.

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Long time ago, I'm like, oh, I can't keep up, or I can't stand

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watching titled, subtitled movies.

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I miss 'em or I gotta pom and read it.

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And then, so I just knew that, but I never really thought that

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it was a disability or a problem.

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and I've taken a million tests.

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MCATs are eight hours long.

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Your boards are eight hours long.

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You're, I just, I have angst about those exams because I look at the

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time and the number of questions and make sure I stay on pace.

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And then I worry more about staying up, which is completely distracting.

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But I do okay.

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and then the dyslexia for processing speed.

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Cuz when you read, you use your cortex normally, but

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dyslexic use deeper gray matter.

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So we have a higher speed to do that.

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It's just not as organized.

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So reading's hard.

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All right.

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This next clip is our second most watched clip over on YouTube.

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And man, I loved this conversation I had with Joshua Brown and.

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And he is the pressure washing pastor.

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At a background in ministry and has started a Pressure washing

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business in the Nashville area now is actually allowing other people

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to participate in that business.

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and we had a great conversation because I love talking ministry.

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I love talking business.

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We're able to mash those all together.

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But what I really loved was him telling his story.

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So in this clip that you're going to listen to here.

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He's giving some of the background.

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Of his story.

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And let me just tell you it's powerful.

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So listen to this clip from the pressure washing pastor.

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Joshua Brown.

Joshua Brown:

Frankie said to my mom, I'll pay for his abortion,

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but I won't be in his life.

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My mom at 15 with nothing, no support, no money broke.

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Look at her.

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So like nothing, she's got nothing.

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She ended up saying, I can't kill him.

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And so the reason I like to talk about it is cuz I'm like, it's everything.

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And

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True to Frankie's words.

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He chose to not be in our lives when we grew up homeless and

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with different boyfriends.

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And my mom had married two or three different times.

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We lived in the back of soup kitchens church fellowship halls, cars, and

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different cities, different projects, and moved from place to place.

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By the time I'm 17, I'm in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

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I'm a drug dealer, pothead high school dropout, which makes sense.

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It looks like that was my pathway for where we were at.

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I had no dad figure except for Tupac, nwa Snoop Dogg.

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Those were the guys that I looked up to

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That was quite an episode.

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And let me tell you, if you haven't listened to it, maybe jump.

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Listen to all these, And then the number one, I interviewed Mike Moraski.

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And Mike's got a great story.

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He's in commercial real estate.

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But some years back, he actually spent some time in prison.

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And we go through the full story and everything here, but this clip.

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Is just a brief snippet.

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Of the conversation we had about time he spent in prison and the impact that had

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on him and how he had to redefine success.

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And let me tell you, it was quite a story of resilience.

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So listen to this clip.

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This was our most listened to short clip.

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Of seat go create in 2023 from Mike Moraski.

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I went to prison and, I thought my life was over and I always

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tell people, I say, I never flew private.

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I didn't have a big house.

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I didn't have a boat.

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We didn't have a fancy car.

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I was the neighborhood baseball coach.

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I was home every night for dinner.

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And I got ripped from that to live in a 12 by 12 room with three men.

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I didn't know, nor did I like wondering what the hell happened in my life.

Tim Winders:

at what age and when you were 50, mid fifties.

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53.

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And I, I'm in prison about three weeks and my wife divorces me and it

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wrecked me and now I'm like, okay, now what, how do I get through this?

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and I'm mad at God, by the way, at this point now I'm pissed.

Mike Morawski:

PhenoMEnal episode there.

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That was excellent.

Mike Morawski:

It's one of the things I want to mention here.

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That's just odd to me a few years back.

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So it wasn't released.

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In 2023, it might've been 22 or 21.

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I was doing some book reviews, just me looking in the camera and in 60 seconds

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or less, I would talk about a book.

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And some of them did pretty well, but one of them.

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I don't really know how to define viral, truthfully.

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I don't, but there is a video that I did where I reviewed the book, the Alchemist.

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Put it up on our YouTube channel.

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And to this day.

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It is.

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Continually our most watched video clip, our most watched of anything we've done.

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And truthfully the quality.

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I was in an Airbnb in Colorado Springs when I did it, I just flipped on the

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camera, held the book up and said, I just finished reading the Alchemist.

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And I said a few things about it.

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I would not have considered it to be my best work.

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However.

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It is had massive amounts of views.

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And continues to every single day.

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So if you're over on our YouTube channel and you want to just look

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at our most viewed, it would be the short book review of the alchemists.

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Now that does bring up in history in question, maybe a little bit

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of audience participation here.

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Because if you think that is something that I should do more of,

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if you're listening in via podcast on audio, or if you're watching

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this on YouTube, I'd love to you.

Mike Morawski:

If you're on YouTube, watching this jump down in the comments and let me know.

Mike Morawski:

Yeah, Tim, give us some more of those short book reviews

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or Nan not for me or whatever.

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I'd love to hear it because I can do more of those.

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But.

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It's just something that I did for a while and stopped doing.

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I do go through a lot of books, read a lot of books and I could

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definitely do some book reviews like we did what the outcome is.

Mike Morawski:

We also do.

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our entire 60 minute videos.

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And now our 60 minute audios.

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Are now going up to our YouTube channel so you could listen to audio.

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Just on YouTube or you could watch the interview and there's some back and forth.

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That you can actually see of the guest.

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During the interview process over on YouTube.

Mike Morawski:

Do you want to go ahead and tell you that our number one watched long form.

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Video over on YouTube is, is one of my gosh, I've got

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so many favorite interviews.

Mike Morawski:

I love what I get to do here and talking to people, but it's called living out

Mike Morawski:

your faith redefining church and embracing everyday discipleship with Caesar And

Mike Morawski:

that was such a phenomenal interview.

Mike Morawski:

So if you want to check out our number one video of our long interviews, then

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go check that one out with Caesar Calla.

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Now, ski.

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Or go listen to it.

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It's a great interview.

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Now another thing that we can track and measure is that we can go to

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our host for our audio podcast.

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And we can see which episodes over the course of the year or a period of time.

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Has been downloaded the most.

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The number one episode that was downloaded.

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It released back in March.

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And it was when we celebrated our 200th episode.

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And it was a little bit of a different episode because my wife and I sat

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down at the camera and I think we did it for those of you that are

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watching this just to my right.

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In the RV here.

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And we just sat down and we flipped the table a little bit.

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And she interviewed me and just ask some questions about the podcast

Mike Morawski:

and that milestone that we reached that 200th episode and some things

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that I thought about it, and some other things that she asked.

Mike Morawski:

And so that episode was our most downloaded and it was.

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Our most downloaded by a good margin.

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Over our next, most downloaded, but let me just give you a few.

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That are top ones.

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And then I'm going to say something about our number one downloaded

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episode, regular episode.

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we had three of our episodes.

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That, that I'll mention here.

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The, the third place that I'll say is the interview we did with Mary Schneider.

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great interview.

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Take the stage, the power of your voice with Mary Snyder that released

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towards the tail end of January in 2023.

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And so that was a great one.

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We'll include links.

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If you want to go check that out.

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The next episode, that was one of our most downloaded, I guess

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the second most downloaded.

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Was, it was a solo episode.

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It was interesting.

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it was one that I put together fairly quickly, but it was a

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topic that, that I was noticing in some of the coaching I was doing.

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And some of the teams and organizations I was working with.

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And I just put something together called the power of

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being emotionally intelligent.

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And I just put a, it was a teaching that I did and it really

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turned out well, I enjoyed it.

Mike Morawski:

We'll put, we'll include a link down below.

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But, that episode was our second.

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Most downloaded.

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And drum roll, please.

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The number one downloaded episode of 2023 podcast episode for seek.

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Go create.

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Was an episode that released right at a year ago, it was

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the first episode of 2023.

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From January 2nd.

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And it was something it's really resonated on some of our social medias.

Mike Morawski:

And every time I mentioned this to people.

Mike Morawski:

They either scratch their head or they go, that's awesome.

Mike Morawski:

Or I want to get more information and the title was.

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Jesus never hustled.

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Why should you, and I'll tell you that it was my.

Mike Morawski:

Response to the hustle culture.

Mike Morawski:

And it was my response to something that I keep seeing.

Mike Morawski:

That's bothering me and that is this hustle culture mindset

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that a lot of people have.

Mike Morawski:

Now, the reason I can speak to that is because.

Mike Morawski:

I am one that has attempted to overcome.

Mike Morawski:

That hustle mindset myself.

Mike Morawski:

And there's nothing wrong with working hard.

Mike Morawski:

There's nothing wrong with hustling.

Mike Morawski:

I'm not saying that.

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But when you become addicted to it, And you believe that it is the

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way, the only way to be successful.

Mike Morawski:

Then I believe it's something that you need to really make

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sure you're defining it properly.

Mike Morawski:

And it's why it fits into the redefining success.

Mike Morawski:

That we do here.

Mike Morawski:

So the number one podcast episode from 2023 was Jesus.

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Never hustled.

Mike Morawski:

Why should you, if you have not heard that one.

Mike Morawski:

Go down and click on the link and go listen to that.

Mike Morawski:

And I do want to give you a glimpse of something that might.

Mike Morawski:

Be a clue as to something you'll see, as we head into the next year.

Mike Morawski:

This is a topic that's been more and more.

Mike Morawski:

Something that I've been thinking about it.

Mike Morawski:

And seeing, and I see a real contrast between many of the

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people we talked to on CECO create.

Mike Morawski:

And some things I see out in the culture now, out in the world.

Mike Morawski:

and again, I am not anti working hard.

Mike Morawski:

I'm not, All for being lazy.

Mike Morawski:

I just know that there are certain people.

Mike Morawski:

That, when they hear things like if it is to be it's up to me or

Mike Morawski:

hustle, hustle, hustle, hustle, and grind, things like that.

Mike Morawski:

That they start going down that path.

Mike Morawski:

And it becomes an addiction to them that if they believe they can get

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certain things done in eight hours a day, Then they can push it and

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do nine hours, 10 hours, 11 hours.

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And I want to confess.

Mike Morawski:

That was me.

Mike Morawski:

I was that guy all during the late eighties and the nineties

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into the two thousands.

Mike Morawski:

Until I came against a brick wall, which was the financial downturn of 2008.

Mike Morawski:

And let me tell you what, if that didn't get my attention.

Mike Morawski:

God got my attention.

Mike Morawski:

And I realized, what?

Mike Morawski:

I cannot continue at that pace.

Mike Morawski:

It is not working.

Mike Morawski:

I've got to do things differently.

Mike Morawski:

And so that's what this topic is all about.

Mike Morawski:

And I am strongly considering.

Mike Morawski:

Another podcast.

Mike Morawski:

That is entirely focused on people.

Mike Morawski:

That have had that Addiction to hustle and grind.

Mike Morawski:

And, you need to overcome it because it's not sustainable.

Mike Morawski:

It's bad for your health.

Mike Morawski:

It's bad for your relationships.

Mike Morawski:

It's not working.

Mike Morawski:

You might be.

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Thinking that you're achieving and accomplishing some things.

Mike Morawski:

But you look in your bank account and you look at how much time it's taking

Mike Morawski:

and you realize, That's not working.

Mike Morawski:

And so keep your eyes out.

Mike Morawski:

Right here.

Mike Morawski:

We'll announce it here first.

Mike Morawski:

For a possible new podcast, that'll have a community and some

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other things wrapped around it.

Mike Morawski:

That might be related to people that are addicted to that hustle.

Mike Morawski:

Okay.

Mike Morawski:

So that's our recap.

Mike Morawski:

Our look back.

Mike Morawski:

At 2023 and what a great year it was.

Mike Morawski:

I'll tell you what, I'm super excited, but I tell you what's even more interesting.

Mike Morawski:

And that is the people that we have been connected with.

Mike Morawski:

That we're able to interview and then share with you.

Mike Morawski:

As we head into 2024, we have recorded.

Mike Morawski:

Almost all the episodes that are going to be released in January.

Mike Morawski:

Let me just tell you what they are off.

Mike Morawski:

The charts phenomenal.

Mike Morawski:

And so let me just give you a brief glimpse.

Mike Morawski:

We've got Jean TN.

Mike Morawski:

It's going to be coming up and let me just tell you what she had Ivy league degrees.

Mike Morawski:

Working in the financial world, everything that anybody would say is successful.

Mike Morawski:

But yet in her mind and early on, she realized this was not the success.

Mike Morawski:

That she wanted and she helps people.

Mike Morawski:

That realize that overcome or redirect or shift.

Mike Morawski:

And so it was like the perfect definition of redefining success.

Mike Morawski:

And so gene TN is coming up.

Mike Morawski:

I think that'll be in early January or one of the first episodes.

Mike Morawski:

And then we've got Mike Barczyk and Mike has a great story.

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He had a large company.

Mike Morawski:

That company had done well.

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he basically ran mountain bike adventures.

Mike Morawski:

All over the world trips.

Mike Morawski:

Where you take a trip and go mountain biking to remote exotic places.

Mike Morawski:

It was the largest company in the world.

Mike Morawski:

As I understand it, that did that.

Mike Morawski:

And he sold that company a few years ago.

Mike Morawski:

And now.

Mike Morawski:

Hey get this.

Mike Morawski:

A few times a year, he takes a group of entrepreneurs.

Mike Morawski:

To some of the most remote and unique places in the world.

Mike Morawski:

I think he just came back from Mongolia with a group.

Mike Morawski:

He's been to Morocco, to the desert.

Mike Morawski:

And we just have a conversation about how.

Mike Morawski:

Those type people that he interacts with, how they redefined success.

Mike Morawski:

And let me just tell you what, there's so many incredible lessons.

Mike Morawski:

That you can get from that conversation from that interview.

Mike Morawski:

And then there's a conversation that I had with Heather parody.

Mike Morawski:

And Heather's one that I've been connected with on social media for some time.

Mike Morawski:

And she runs a, a group and a podcast called unconventional leaders.

Mike Morawski:

That's how I first connected with her.

Mike Morawski:

and I just have always loved what she does there.

Mike Morawski:

I noticed that She had made some shifts.

Mike Morawski:

In what she was doing and what she was creating.

Mike Morawski:

And I recognize that she was going through quite.

Mike Morawski:

The redefining of success in her life and all that she was doing.

Mike Morawski:

So we had a really cool conversation and she comes from the deep

Mike Morawski:

south to spiritual background.

Mike Morawski:

She's gone through a lot of changes and all in the way she looks at her

Mike Morawski:

fate and we had a great conversation about that and just success.

Mike Morawski:

In general.

Mike Morawski:

And so make sure you listen to Heather parody when she comes up in January.

Mike Morawski:

And then many others that we have on the books.

Mike Morawski:

I've got a scheduled to interview people that have exited companies

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and made eight and nine figures.

Mike Morawski:

That realize that all that they did, all that they went through

Mike Morawski:

was not really successful to them.

Mike Morawski:

When they look back on it now yet it was about the money.

Mike Morawski:

But that they would do things different now.

Mike Morawski:

And we can learn so much from those people.

Mike Morawski:

They're just so many cool.

Mike Morawski:

Interviews, a lot of people in ministry, a lot of people in business.

Mike Morawski:

So make sure you stay plugged in.

Mike Morawski:

If you're watching this, you're still with us here again, make sure you're

Mike Morawski:

subscribed and following because there's so many good things that are coming up.

Mike Morawski:

I don't know when you're listening to this.

Mike Morawski:

As I said, when we began, you could be listened to this between

Mike Morawski:

the holidays, which is when it was released or as you've.

Mike Morawski:

Moved into the new year, but I really do want.

Mike Morawski:

This what we're doing here to support.

Mike Morawski:

The cool and great things that you have in store in your near future.

Mike Morawski:

It is my desire.

Mike Morawski:

That whatever success means to you, that you are in the process of defining it.

Mike Morawski:

And getting as clear about what that means for you.

Mike Morawski:

And your organization, your business, your ministry, your

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family, as clear as it can possibly.

Mike Morawski:

B.

Mike Morawski:

And that, and again, I'm just hopeful that these conversations that we have here.

Mike Morawski:

Are helpful.

Mike Morawski:

I do encourage you to shake some things up this year.

Mike Morawski:

I don't know if it'll be an awesome year.

Mike Morawski:

I don't know if it'd be a challenging Lear year.

Mike Morawski:

Like I talked about our 20, 23 was in many ways, but I think that if

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we're living life, we're going to have some things that are really cool.

Mike Morawski:

And some things that are challenging.

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That's part of life.

Mike Morawski:

That's part of living it.

Mike Morawski:

And so those ups and downs are the things we just have to deal

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with, but just get prepared.

Mike Morawski:

For a phenomenal year.

Mike Morawski:

Maybe you need to do something like I did where you remove some of the.

Mike Morawski:

Information that comes into your head.

Mike Morawski:

So that you can just be clearer in your thinking.

Mike Morawski:

And if that's the case, I just am hopeful that you're able to identify those

Mike Morawski:

things that need to change as a coach, as someone who works with individuals.

Mike Morawski:

I'm always looking to adjust and tweak things and I encourage people.

Mike Morawski:

To do the same.

Mike Morawski:

If there is anything that we can do for you here at CECO create

Mike Morawski:

don't hesitate to reach out.

Mike Morawski:

If you need a coach or want to book a discovery call with me,

Mike Morawski:

there's links typically down below that you can go do that.

Mike Morawski:

I will get on the phone with just about anyone for a 30 minute call.

Mike Morawski:

Just to chit chat and discuss what I might can help you with or what you might

Mike Morawski:

need a coach for, or maybe you used to help you get unstuck or move forward.

Mike Morawski:

So be more than happy to do that.

Mike Morawski:

I appreciate you listening in here.

Mike Morawski:

I'm so thankful for you.

Mike Morawski:

We should be back on our Monday release schedules.

Mike Morawski:

In January, not January 1st, but January 8th is when we released an episode.

Mike Morawski:

So this was about a much different episode here between the holidays.

Mike Morawski:

I've enjoyed it.

Mike Morawski:

I enjoy just flipping it on the mic and talking and sharing some things.

Mike Morawski:

Hope has been a great season for you until next time.

Mike Morawski:

Continue being all that you were created to be.