July 20, 2026

Brain Fitness, The Advantage in Learning and life

Brain Fitness, The Advantage in Learning and life
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Season 2

What if student success starts long before grades and test scores? In this episode, Dustin Dean and Jeff Apse of MindMaxED Brain Fitness Academy joins us to talk about brain fitness, the foundation behind focus, confidence, resilience, emotional regulation, and long-term success. We explore why these skills matter so much in education, how they shape learning and behavior, and what parents, teachers, and students can do to strengthen them.
We will discuss what brain fitness actually means.

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Hi am Angela Sharp your host. I'll arm to your

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discussions with industry experts will give you the steps, tools

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and information to be successful in business and to prepare

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you to be your best self. Hello, and welcome to

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a Sharp Outlook. I'm so excited that you're joining us today.

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You are going to learn so much about how to

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get prepared and get the brain fitness for success and

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for life. And I'm just glad you tuned in and

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so we're talking today about brain fitness. The advantage is

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that you will have in learning and life if you

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understand the skills that you should have so that you

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are able to do the critical thinking. What if student

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success starts long before greed and test scores. In this episode,

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my guests Dustin Dean and Jeff Apps of nine max

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Ed joins us to talk about brain fitness, the foundation

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behind focus, confidence, resilience, emotional regulation, and discipline and long

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term success. We explore why these skills matters and so

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much in education, and how they shape learning and behavior

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and what parents and teachers and students can do to

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strength of that. We'll learn what brain fitness is and

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what it actually means, and how to apply it, why

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it matters, how students can strengthen critical mental skills, and

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that is a major issue right now. Critical thinking is

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very very missing right now. What parents and educators can

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do right now to change the trajectory of where our

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students are going, and how my max ed is approaching

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student development differently. In this episode, we'll talk about what

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brain fitness really means, why it matters, and my guests

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today are Dustin and Jeff, and I want to welcome

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you to the show right now so we can get

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into this conversation.

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Hi, good and so great to be back. It's always

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a pleasure.

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Yeah, it's always great to have you because you always

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have these just phenomenal projects that you're working on and

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things that are available for people so that they can

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make changes in their lives and be able to become

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all that they imagine and all that they dreamed and

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actually find out what their purpose for breathing is. And

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so it's really important. And I'm always excited when you're

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here because you you well, helps me learn a lot,

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and then it just expands the minds of everyone that's

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listening today. So I'm glad you're here on the show,

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and i want to give you this moment to tell

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us a little about your background and what has led

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you to this work.

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Do you want to fire first, Jeff, or do you

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want me to go?

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You go for a dustin, I'll follow you.

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Okay, all right, Well, so you know what I've spent

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over twenty six years in healthcare. The majority of it

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has been in psychiatry, many of those in child and

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adolescent psychiatry, and then about five years ago I went

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back and became a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner, which

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means I can prescribe and I can do psychotherapy and

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and you know, pretty much the similar to what a

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psychiatrist would do, but I went the nursing route.

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And then also I'm professor at Mental Wealth, well professor

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of Mental Health at Winona State University, Sat Kate University.

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So a lot of experience in mental health. But what

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I'm really excited about now is, you know, I met

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Jeff OPSI and he has like just an extensive it

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has extensive experience in education, and it's always been something

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I'm passionate about because I really feel that if we

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can if we can educate people, the therapy practices and

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that sort of thing that I do will be probably

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less intensive and we can come in early with developing

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the skills to thrive rather than just survive, and train

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the brain through our Brain Fitness Academy to get those

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skills of resilience and accountability and just you know, focusing

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processing life through their power and potential rather than their

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pain and their past. And Jeff and I have developed

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a curriculum that's based on tapping your inner superhero.

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We'd like to call ourselves the Marvel of mental wellness.

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And so that's kind of where I come from and

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my experience and I, you know, we just co authored

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I mean, he did the majority of it, but we

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co authored our first book and I'll just I'll let

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Jeff introduce himself and then tell a little more.

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Sure, Yeah, Jeff APSI. I've been an educator for oh

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my gosh, twenty seven years now, and I started out

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as a high school business and marketing teacher Decca advisor.

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I've been for the majority of my career a football coach,

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a track and field coach, and a soccer coach. My

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journey has been in the classroom for my first seven

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or eight years. Then I became a high school principal,

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and then shortly into the principal ship, I was approached

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by the school board of the district I was working

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in and they strongly encouraged me to apply for their

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superintendent role. And then I served in the role of

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a public school superintendent for thirteen years and a lot

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of highs, lots of lows, and seeing just a number

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of different things throughout my career. And after thirteen years,

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I stepped away from it and it was time to

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move on to different adventures. I'm still associated with education,

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still in the admin role, but in my current role,

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I also get a chance to get in the classroom

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and get back into coaching and get back to doing

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the things that I've really loved throughout my career, gotten

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to know Dustin over the past few years. We discovered

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that we're both mutual nerds love sci fi, love fantasy,

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love adventure, strong passion for superheroes, the Marvel universe, the

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DC universe, and obviously you get into some of the

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other realms like Star Wars, and we've had a lot

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of just deep conversations on different things at we could do.

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Dustin introduced me to the work of Russ Harris and

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practical act strategies, and then that led into some bigger

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conversations of how Dustin had leveraged some of his work,

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some of his curriculum, and then we got into conversations about, hey,

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I've got a very strong background and curriculum design, and

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we have taken some of that early work that Dustin

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had used, you know, in therapy sessions in in an

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effort to engage his clients, his patients to have breakthroughs,

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and we formed it. We basically revamped it, reformed it

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into what we call the Smart Strength Curriculum, and as

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Dustin mentioned, we're kind of on the verge of it.

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Our first our first attempt, our first course is published

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it's live. We feel it's it's great for anyone of

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all ages, anybody who's got an interest in One of

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things that we've tried to do is turn it into

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something more than just your you know, from the world

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of education. There's been into so many different professional development

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presentations and setting where it feels to be like a

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camp PowerPoint or something else. And we've had conversations about

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let's make this engaging and not just engaging, but entertaining.

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So we've had a lot of fun curating a universe

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of characters and then tying in their adventures by tapping

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into research based practices on brain fitness and basically, you know,

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inspired by the work of experts, taking those strategies and

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building them into a curriculum that our characters are basically

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teaching the learners. So yeah, so I'm sorry I've got

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a little long winded there, but.

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Yeah, wonderful. Yeah, it's wonderful. And because I'm the curious kind,

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I had to go check it out. I love I

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love the marvel world there, and they're being able to

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approach people, you know, not only stimulate the mind, but

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the visual which helps to stimulate the mind even more. Uh,

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and it's a world where a lot of the younger generation,

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you know, lives, and so they're going to they understand

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the superheroes, they understand the the attacks of the intruders

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out there and things like that, and so they they

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can apply that. They can probably apply it better than

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somebody you're reading some book to them. You know, it's

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just it's just how their mind is now wired because

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of what the stimulation they've all become, you know, exposed to,

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and with.

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The approach, I mean, basically, what we've done is that

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all of those challenges that people deal with, from anxiety

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to stress to self doubt, we've personified them and they're

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actually the the the villain roster that we've treated with

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in this adventure.

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So yeah, yeah, and and and like I said, to

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reach the younger generation, I mean, I get excited by

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this stuff because I'm a sci fi and not myself,

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but you know, they are going to really be able to,

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uh look at that, get the message from it, and

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actually start applying it to their lives. And seeing what

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I'm seeing out there, you know, in social media and

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on the news and different things, and what's happening with

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our younger generation, I am just excited to introduce this

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to those that are watching and listening and going to

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share this because it is going to it's a difference

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between night and day. It's going to help your your student,

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you're you know, grandchild, your sons and daughters become more

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equipped to actually be able to deal with life and

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deal with setbacks. Most people don't know how to deal

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with setbacks. It used to be in sports, they learned

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in the competition someone was going to win and someone

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was going to lose. But I guess the losing was

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so overwhelming. Now everybody gets to win, and so I

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think it's the wrong. I mean, I'm not wanting kids

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to get hurt, but I want them to understand there's

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a message there that when you don't get that award,

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then there's a little more that you need to apply

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to yourself. There's a little more that you may want

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to do. There's a little more studying you may want

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to do. There's a little more practicing you may want

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to do. There's a little more. But to cry is

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not the answer, you know, to get to practicism.

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I think the one thing that excites me too is

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even at a corporate level and an institution level. You

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know you have Jeff touched on it earlier, but you know,

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imposter syndrome, like imposter syndrome has become something. And what

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we really found and what I've found over the years,

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and what we've really been trying to stress in the

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Smart Strength curriculum is one not being overly entitled and

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thinking everything should just land in your lap, but two

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not doubting yourself once you get there. There's this combination

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and I think in a lot of other things have

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caused this that your value comes externally instead of internally.

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And that's what we really want to help people see,

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is that these skills training your brain to see the

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amazingness in you and not listen to the deceiver or

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the accuser or any of those villains we've created that

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are in everybody's head right. And I think it's furthermore

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with a lot of generations that are obtaining their value

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from social media likes and and shares and like all

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this stuff, they are you know, when that's going good,

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they think, okay, I should be able to do anything

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without any effort. And when it's going bad or those

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the accuser comes in their brain, they think I'm not

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good enough. To handle this and really us using the

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act approach, which is acceptance and commitment therapy. But this

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is obviously education, but seeing that the value is in you.

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The value is resilience.

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The value is training your brain to not operate from

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the fight or flight perspective, but from the perspective of

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locus of control, and that I do have a lot.

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Of good things about me. Instead of being all good, I.

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Should be able to access every everything, and I should

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be able to be president, or I suck and I

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can't do anything. When you train your brain right, everything

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is accessible and you have the ability to accomplish it anything.

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But that training is what gets you there, not just

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a natural way of external validation.

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Right. I remember when I got my first job, and

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my first job was with this major Fortune ten corporation,

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and I felt so small there. I felt because I

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hadn't been exposed to a lot of the things, and

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I thought, yeah, I had the education, but I'm in

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an environment that's not familiar. When I went home and

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told my mother, I said, I don't know that I

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can do this. I don't know if I can compete.

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I don't know who said stop it. All of us

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put our pants on the same way. All of us

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eat food the same way, and then she went on

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about all the human things that are similar. She said,

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the only difference between you and them is opportunity. So

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you keep striving, you keep looking, you keep working to

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find out what it is that helps open that door

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and start making opportunities. And now you will be where

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they are and won't be sitting here crying talking about

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you're not good enough. You are good enough because you're

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my child. I mean, I had parents that talk me

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like that. You know what I don't care was somebody

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to say, you can call me all kinds of things.

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I'd be like, you don't know me, get away from

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me and keep on stepping. I know me, I know

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who I am. And that's what I don't think.

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Will they tap that inner superhero and that's someone Jeff

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and I. There's some ability within the curriculum and some

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other things that as people go on, uh, they'll be

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able to see themselves as a superhero and and just

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that approach, you know, just like your mom said, you

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got this, it's in here. You just might not have

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all the access to everything, or haven't achieved access to

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everything that other people have, but in here. You are

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a superhero and that's really what what we want to tap.

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Yeah, it's I'm sorry, I was gonna say the way

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we have this package, so Angel, like you shared the example,

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you know of your mom giving you that that pep talk,

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that reassurance, that confidence building approach. You know, I like

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to think I've taken that same approach with my own boys.

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I've got three sons. Those are the same types of things.

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I can remember anytime that I was sinking my head

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or lowering my head as a child, you know, my

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mom lifting me up in China instill in me like, hey,

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you've got this, you can get through this. And you know,

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in in education, one of the difficult things that you've

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seen happen is those same types of experiences that we

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had an opportunity experience growing up, where a parent, a

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strong parent is working in still grit and their children.

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I remember, you know, as a principal sitting down with

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parents and teaching them how to do that. And I'm like,

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my boys were babies at that time. You know, now

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they're grown. But when I look back on it, I'm like,

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how am I sitting here giving you advice when your

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children are sixteen, seventeen years old, and you're twenty years

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older than me, you know, as a parent when I

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was a principal, and I think so much of that

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has been lost and I've seen how kids have grown

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up today compared to how we grew up. You know,

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we talk about sports, for one. I mean, how many

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times with if you want to play sports, was that

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you getting outside with your friends doing a creating your

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own pickup game. I can remember as a as a coach,

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I had to actually create scenarios or during the summer,

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I would just advertise pickup games because in the community

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that I worked in and where our team existed, we

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had poverty, had a lot of a lot of kids

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that didn't have resources. So I wanted to make sure

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that they had free access, free resources. So we just

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advertise these as pickup games. And I remember showing up

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to those in the summer, and you know, me being

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with my friends when I was a kid, you know,

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you know, playing paper rock scissors to determine who the

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captains were going to be. Well, they would sit there

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and look at each other with playing stairs and I'd

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be like, hey, guys, somebody's got to step up. Somebody's

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got to step forward. Well, coach, sure, I'll pick the

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teams today, but this is the only time I'm going

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to show you how it's done. After today, I'm going

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to walk around the track and get my exercise because

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I got to get my steps in. But you boys

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take charge. You can just figure it out. You build

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your team. So whereas in the past, you know a

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lot younger riding your bikes to a park with friends

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and not not not only were you figuring those things out,

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but you're also figuring out how to resolve the different

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conflicts that you'd experienced with your friends too. And you

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know you're all trying to do different things. But so

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exciting thing about our curriculum. You know those core lessons

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you think of like lessons on self efficacy, you know, growth, mindset,

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learned optimism. You know those PEP talks that we used

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to get We talked a little bit about practical act strategies,

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psychological flexibility, a grit, perseverance. Dustin mentioned locus of ConTroll

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earlier in neuroplasticity, you know, and that ability to actually

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rewire your brain. Those are those those are the key

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tenants that we've tapped into experts their work to use

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that as the foundation to drive for our curriculum. And

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those are the those are the types of lessons that

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we're hoping if people take our course in future courses

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we develop those that they'll walk away with a stronger

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sense of each one of those aspects and become stronger

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human beings in the process.

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Yeah, So tell us in in Layman's terms or whatever,

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what is brain fitness? How would you describe it?

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So you know, just admit the science.

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The scientific term would be neuroplasticity, but I will give

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it in Layman's term, so you know, to summarize it.

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Our brain has these pathways, right, and they're developed over

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like any other thing over repetition. And the natural state

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of our brain is the natural function of our brain

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is to keep us alive. The base state of that,

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the way it keeps us alive is to identify threats.

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So our brain is negative naturally. Our brain is anxious.

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It's looking at everything that's going to hurt us. Right,

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we have to train it to thrive. We have to

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train it to be fit, just like we have to

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train our bodies. Right, if we want to be able

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to run five miles, we have to start training and

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start jogging and feel that pain and feel that uncomfortability

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that comes with that through repetition. So we get it

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with our bodies, but most people don't get it with

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your brain. So for every negative thought, you've got to

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counter it with at least three amazing things about you, three.

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Possible and realize that that fight or flight is the

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natural state. You actually have to train it.

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You have to you know, rebuild, rewire those pathways to

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look at the good. It's naturally going to see the deficit.

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You have to train it to see where you're awesome.

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And how that works is through repetition. How it is

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to seeing what you control locus of control other than

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what is in other people's hands, you know. And there's

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there's so many concepts that that we go over. Our

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curriculum actually has about twelve lessons and we just launched

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the first so there's a lot of superhero skills to develop.

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So really, brain fitness is the same as physical fitness. Repetition,

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but the whole purpose is is for us to function

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in a healthy manner, for our brains to embrace the

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good rather than the fear, rather than the deceiver, And

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you know, those things are there for a reason. But

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we also have to look at the way our brains

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have evolved. Right, Like, we're not going to have like

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you know, you know, some big animal most times chasing

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us down with not a lot of shelter to run to.

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But if somebody, you know, our brain still functions the same.

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If somebody sees the ZiT on our face, it's such

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a threat in our untrained brain as if we're being

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chased by something that's going to kill us. Okay, And

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that's the hard part is using these skills to counter

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that and go, this really isn't a threat and one

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good Where.

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Do I have power? And the more you do that,

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the more it reduces the reaction and the control that

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that anxiety and stress has over you. Just like the more.

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You do curls or the more you run, the stronger

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your muscles get or the stronger your heart gets.

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I could maybe give you an example too of kind

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of how things work and what we've got tied into

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this first course. Along with there are some different creative

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approaches that we can take credit for for actually creating

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the premise of them, the results what they're intended to do.

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They're inspired by you know, the these core experts that

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we've called our cognitive masters, we've also tapped into some

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of the actual strategies that they embrace. And a prime

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example that we feature in our first course is Martin

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Seligman's A B, C D strategy, So where we provide

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people kind of what we walk them through, what that

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approach means, and how it leads them from embracing their

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the adversity that they're experiencing to developing creating a plan

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to challenge negative beliefs that they have to actually energize themselves.

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So we take them through adversity, we bring up the

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importance of beliefs. You know, we're talking about you've got

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to to uh two domains basically, if we're talking about

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Seligman learned helplessness and learned positivity, and so those beliefs.

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You know, you if you just speak negatively, negatively about yourself,

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those negative beliefs, that negative self talk is going to

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have consequences. So we help people that this approach within

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our course will walk people through, you know, and now

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actually break out what those consequences are if you're going

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to keep if you're going to continue down that path. Well,

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now let's focus on some other things. Here's some beliefs,

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right now, you know what those consequences are. Now, what's

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your evidence dispute those beliefs, because there's actual evidence, there's

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things that you've done in your life that show that

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those negative beliefs don't hold merit, and not only don't

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hold merit, but don't hold control over yourself. So now

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you're disputing those, okay, And as you dispute those, now

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you start gearing yourself or energization, because ultimately we want

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people to be able to do is to move forward,

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So we'll take people through approaches like that within the course.

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Don't get a chance to experience. It's actually a research

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based practice developed by one of our cognitive cognitive or

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who we attribute to the course the activity to no

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Martin Seligman, one of who we coin as a cognitive master.

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And then it provides people an opportunity like Okay, how

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can I how can I engage in that on a

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regular basis? And that's what this course will do. That's

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an example of brain fitness, Right, I can work through

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a b I can take five to ten minutes out

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of my day and walk myself through abcde or if

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I feel a negative thought coming in my brain, I

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can engage in that practice just as I would. You know, hey,

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if I set a goal like I want to bench

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press four hundred pounds, I'm going to have a physical

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fitness routine that's going to allow me to achieve that goal. Well,

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now I want to become more resilient, I want to

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become more forward thinking, I want to become more positive thinking. Well,

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now let's tap into that ABCD strategy for ten minutes

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a day for the next thirty days, and let's see

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what happens. So that's that's kind of in the nutshell,

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how you know, we're how we're hoping people will embrace us.

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Yeah, and Angela that I think is interesting about how

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this and Rashida. You know, my wife who you know

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and you've add onto, uh you know, has contributed some

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with this toe White Jeff's wife has a lot of

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unique experiences. We have another business partner who's a principal

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at a school, Ryan Ryan Erkei's his name. And what's

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interesting I think is that a lot of we have

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the professional, we have the educational. But like with Rashida,

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you know, she survived the Somali Civil War. So a

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lot of these concepts and the contributions that she's you know,

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that she's talked about to all of them tie into proof.

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Like Jeff said, with the abc d E approach, we

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know these work not only on paper and not only

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what you read about in a book, from all of

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our experiences that have have put this together, not only

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from a professional perspective, because we do know our stuff,

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but more importantly, in my opinion, from a personal perspective.

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you know, even you know some people, and we have

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all made bad decisions at one point or another, and

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we beat ourselves up and don't seem to be being

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able to get out of the chastisement room and go

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to But I survived it, and now I'm better off

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from it. And you know what, in fact, I can

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maybe even advise someone else about the hole in the

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road so that they don't fall in it. So now

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I become a superhero by sharing with someone else. Don't

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go down there, because this is what happened when I

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fill in that ditch and it's a you know, a

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hard ditch, and it'll start pulling you. So you don't

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want to drop in that ditch. And now you know

465
00:29:48.680 --> 00:29:51.640
you've gone in there and been the protector. Yay. So

466
00:29:51.799 --> 00:29:55.240
don't think of every bad decision or a slip or

467
00:29:55.240 --> 00:29:58.240
a fall or whatever as being the end of your life,

468
00:29:58.599 --> 00:30:03.559
because you know, I just defeated the accuser.

469
00:30:03.720 --> 00:30:09.519
You know, that's right right, You're already on your way,

470
00:30:10.000 --> 00:30:12.759
you know, And I just that just ties it all

471
00:30:12.839 --> 00:30:13.640
right back to.

472
00:30:15.160 --> 00:30:23.319
Adversity. It can be painful, but if we work through it,

473
00:30:23.319 --> 00:30:28.119
it's growth. And that growth is life experience. And that

474
00:30:28.119 --> 00:30:30.960
life experience doesn't necessarily mean it has to be things

475
00:30:30.960 --> 00:30:35.279
that we have to constantly repeat, nor do we have

476
00:30:35.359 --> 00:30:40.880
to constantly tear our own selves down because we've already

477
00:30:40.880 --> 00:30:44.119
been through the pain. So how do we use it?

478
00:30:44.160 --> 00:30:46.880
How do we embrace it to help the greater good?

479
00:30:47.400 --> 00:30:51.039
Yea? And the thing is you made when you make

480
00:30:51.079 --> 00:30:55.319
it through the pain. You don't ever give yourself a

481
00:30:55.359 --> 00:30:59.799
pat on the back. I survived this. I'm made through this,

482
00:31:00.079 --> 00:31:02.680
even though, yeah it took you know, maybe a couple

483
00:31:02.640 --> 00:31:05.279
of years out of my life, but I made it

484
00:31:05.359 --> 00:31:09.799
out and I'm better for it because I'm smarter, I'm stronger,

485
00:31:10.440 --> 00:31:14.440
I have resilience now, I'm not so stupid anymore either.

486
00:31:15.000 --> 00:31:17.200
I can see you know.

487
00:31:17.880 --> 00:31:19.640
Well, that's one of our talking pictures there.

488
00:31:19.519 --> 00:31:22.680
Coming and let and read him his read him his

489
00:31:22.799 --> 00:31:25.880
papers really quickly. Let me tell you who you are

490
00:31:26.000 --> 00:31:29.920
and which you're not going to be. And yay, I

491
00:31:30.000 --> 00:31:37.039
got the victory. Oh sorry, Oh no, I was just saying,

492
00:31:37.200 --> 00:31:41.319
just using those for they're my cheerleading moment. Hey, look

493
00:31:41.359 --> 00:31:44.880
where you look, where you've been. So no, I'm not

494
00:31:44.920 --> 00:31:46.440
going to fight. I'm gonna be fighting.

495
00:31:48.599 --> 00:31:50.079
And that's one of our talking points.

496
00:31:50.160 --> 00:31:53.119
You're focusing on our power and potential rather than our painter.

497
00:31:53.480 --> 00:31:55.160
Jeff, can you turn around and show the back of

498
00:31:55.160 --> 00:31:55.599
your shirt?

499
00:31:56.400 --> 00:32:02.759
Oh sure, I hopefully you guys and maybe you can

500
00:32:02.799 --> 00:32:03.200
see it.

501
00:32:03.240 --> 00:32:07.960
Maybe, yeah, yep, yep, yep. Unlocked. So it says, unlock

502
00:32:08.039 --> 00:32:10.920
your power and potential. So exactly what you said.

503
00:32:10.720 --> 00:32:13.960
Is realizing when we get through that pain, we got

504
00:32:14.000 --> 00:32:18.680
to realize that's powerful. I survived that pain. I've acquired

505
00:32:18.759 --> 00:32:22.160
the strength to survive that pain. Now, an untrained brain

506
00:32:22.400 --> 00:32:25.440
just worries about the next pain, you know, But a

507
00:32:25.519 --> 00:32:29.000
train brain that's that that understands this, that's starting to

508
00:32:29.039 --> 00:32:33.039
tap its super superpero strength, it's unlocking its power and

509
00:32:33.079 --> 00:32:35.640
potential rather than focusing on its pain.

510
00:32:35.720 --> 00:32:37.880
So, like you just said, Angela.

511
00:32:37.519 --> 00:32:40.119
Well along with that, and I think another phrase that

512
00:32:40.160 --> 00:32:44.200
you'll hear regularly within our course is we want people

513
00:32:44.200 --> 00:32:46.720
to get to the point where they stop focusing on

514
00:32:46.839 --> 00:32:50.720
what's wrong with them and they start focusing and spending

515
00:32:50.720 --> 00:32:54.200
more time on what's strong with you know, what's wrong

516
00:32:54.240 --> 00:32:57.079
with me? No, what's strong with me? Because we can

517
00:32:57.119 --> 00:33:01.079
sit in that constant cycle of you know, for me,

518
00:33:01.880 --> 00:33:05.440
there's this, there's that, there's us, but my gosh, there's

519
00:33:05.480 --> 00:33:07.839
a lot of good in you too. So let's let's

520
00:33:07.920 --> 00:33:10.720
unlock that, let's embrace that, let's focus on that and

521
00:33:10.880 --> 00:33:14.200
use that to help fuel that next step forward that

522
00:33:14.200 --> 00:33:14.880
you're going to take.

523
00:33:15.519 --> 00:33:19.920
Yeah. Absolutely, And I mean I'm thinking about you know,

524
00:33:20.039 --> 00:33:23.400
all of this, you know, for our younger generation. But

525
00:33:23.920 --> 00:33:26.519
you know, I work in the corporate world and work

526
00:33:26.599 --> 00:33:30.400
with a lot of companies where there are there staff

527
00:33:30.480 --> 00:33:34.599
there that they're they're defeated every morning when they come

528
00:33:34.640 --> 00:33:39.160
in because they have taken on this this language that

529
00:33:39.240 --> 00:33:42.640
they just don't know or I don't do anything right.

530
00:33:42.680 --> 00:33:44.240
I mean I used to have to tell me I

531
00:33:44.279 --> 00:33:46.359
don't ever want to hear that kind of talk in

532
00:33:46.359 --> 00:33:50.079
this office again. I mean, I do not want to

533
00:33:50.160 --> 00:33:52.960
hear it. Now. If there's something you feel you don't understand,

534
00:33:53.200 --> 00:33:55.920
let's go and find some courses so that you can

535
00:33:55.960 --> 00:33:59.920
equip yourself. So you now have that confidence that you're

536
00:34:00.480 --> 00:34:03.000
and capable to do this and anything else. You're going

537
00:34:03.039 --> 00:34:05.119
to ask me a question at any time. I'm not

538
00:34:05.240 --> 00:34:08.039
judging you. That's what you're supposed to do. That's how

539
00:34:08.039 --> 00:34:12.920
you learn is asking questions. But this defeatist I can't

540
00:34:13.079 --> 00:34:16.000
handle that kind of language. I stop people as soon

541
00:34:16.039 --> 00:34:19.239
as they start saying I stop him right there. You

542
00:34:19.679 --> 00:34:25.079
can't possibly believe that you were created of a being

543
00:34:25.519 --> 00:34:29.559
that was born to be creative, to be inventive, to

544
00:34:29.639 --> 00:34:33.280
be all of these things, and you've got all these problems. No,

545
00:34:33.719 --> 00:34:36.880
you've been listening to the wrong voices in your head.

546
00:34:37.119 --> 00:34:40.639
You need to put a wrap around its mouth and

547
00:34:40.760 --> 00:34:43.360
lock him in the closet and don't let him out,

548
00:34:43.440 --> 00:34:46.039
no matter how much he bangs on the door, because

549
00:34:46.119 --> 00:34:49.800
he's not your friend. But I you know, but right now,

550
00:34:49.800 --> 00:34:54.239
the social media is so that they they enjoy the

551
00:34:55.159 --> 00:34:57.400
ugly and the negative and all of that stuff. And

552
00:34:57.440 --> 00:35:00.000
we've got to stop them. You don't know what you're doing.

553
00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:02.920
Go into your brain. You don't know what you're doing

554
00:35:03.559 --> 00:35:06.599
to yourself. And you've got yourself now in a stalled

555
00:35:06.760 --> 00:35:10.239
situation because you've got this thing that means you no

556
00:35:10.400 --> 00:35:15.480
good in the driver's seat instead of having the powerful

557
00:35:15.519 --> 00:35:18.000
person that really you were born to be powerful, you

558
00:35:18.039 --> 00:35:21.079
were born to be creative, you were born to be inventive.

559
00:35:21.119 --> 00:35:26.079
You were born to be leaders and teachers because there's

560
00:35:26.119 --> 00:35:28.960
always going to be a next generation. So everybody has

561
00:35:29.159 --> 00:35:33.679
a role of teaching somebody something, and we're missing that

562
00:35:33.760 --> 00:35:37.000
opportunity because we're over there's still crying about something that

563
00:35:37.079 --> 00:35:42.119
happened at twelve, you're sixty. I'm sorry, I just can't.

564
00:35:42.320 --> 00:35:45.440
I know now, I know you've had plenty of time

565
00:35:45.480 --> 00:35:49.400
to get over that problem. But that's why I'm not

566
00:35:49.480 --> 00:35:51.840
the counselor, because I'm stuck.

567
00:35:51.639 --> 00:35:55.079
To what we call that the chaos king, like the

568
00:35:55.159 --> 00:35:58.159
chaos is the king of the king of all.

569
00:35:58.079 --> 00:36:03.360
Those the accuser and you know, all the all the

570
00:36:03.519 --> 00:36:04.599
enemies you know, and.

571
00:36:06.079 --> 00:36:08.880
Of despair, of despair.

572
00:36:10.719 --> 00:36:14.719
And see they can come over there to mind max

573
00:36:15.000 --> 00:36:19.159
Ed and go down to the academy and learn about

574
00:36:19.360 --> 00:36:23.559
those minions and how to fight them. You don't know

575
00:36:23.599 --> 00:36:26.239
how to fight them, and nobody taught you to fight them.

576
00:36:26.960 --> 00:36:31.079
Mind max ed Brand Fitness Academy is the place to

577
00:36:31.159 --> 00:36:33.440
learn how to fight strong. I mean, it's one of

578
00:36:33.480 --> 00:36:38.920
the best games out there, and you get to see

579
00:36:38.920 --> 00:36:45.119
the superheroes and you know, and it's changing you inside

580
00:36:45.199 --> 00:36:47.840
at the same time, so you can be all you

581
00:36:47.880 --> 00:36:51.320
want to be. You do want to be better. I know,

582
00:36:52.079 --> 00:36:55.039
I know they want to be better. They just don't

583
00:36:55.079 --> 00:36:57.599
know how to get out of the rut and they

584
00:36:57.639 --> 00:36:59.840
don't know how to shut that part of their brain

585
00:37:00.079 --> 00:37:06.000
off the chaos the minions. You know, we're always beaten

586
00:37:06.079 --> 00:37:08.679
the minions, So why are we? You know, come on,

587
00:37:09.440 --> 00:37:11.519
just call them minions, give them names. What have you

588
00:37:11.599 --> 00:37:14.679
got to do and tell them to be quite? That's

589
00:37:14.719 --> 00:37:17.760
what Hey, I didn't give you permission to talk. Get out,

590
00:37:17.800 --> 00:37:25.920
get out, get out, get up, get out. Yeah. Absolutely,

591
00:37:27.320 --> 00:37:30.800
So with this kind of foundation of learning how to

592
00:37:31.840 --> 00:37:37.599
get that those skills, I think we'd have so happier people,

593
00:37:37.960 --> 00:37:42.760
more productive people, people that are being inventive, people that

594
00:37:42.880 --> 00:37:48.599
are creating, people that are solving problems because they understand

595
00:37:48.599 --> 00:37:52.679
the atmosphere of what's causing the problems. Oh my gosh,

596
00:37:52.760 --> 00:37:55.719
the whole world would be different if we just get

597
00:37:55.760 --> 00:38:00.360
in there and learn these skills from the beginning. You know,

598
00:38:00.440 --> 00:38:03.519
your grandparents may not have known it, your your your

599
00:38:03.559 --> 00:38:06.599
parents may not have known it. But here you are.

600
00:38:06.960 --> 00:38:10.880
You have an opportunity to change the world going forward,

601
00:38:11.119 --> 00:38:13.840
because we're going to have a brand new language and

602
00:38:13.920 --> 00:38:17.480
a brand new approach in a brand new way of

603
00:38:17.880 --> 00:38:24.760
handling problems. Instead of inebriation and all those other things

604
00:38:24.800 --> 00:38:29.159
you run, you to silence the noise. We're gonna this

605
00:38:29.400 --> 00:38:32.320
program is gonna teach you how to silence the noise.

606
00:38:32.840 --> 00:38:35.159
And you don't have to be knocked out to do it.

607
00:38:35.800 --> 00:38:39.559
You knock it out and keep on. Oh man, that

608
00:38:39.639 --> 00:38:41.280
makes me. I want to play the game. I want

609
00:38:41.280 --> 00:38:46.159
to play the game and it works. That works the

610
00:38:46.280 --> 00:38:50.559
breakthrough this situation, this situation.

611
00:38:51.199 --> 00:38:53.199
Well, I think that's where you know, Jeff and I,

612
00:38:53.280 --> 00:38:57.800
and especially with Jeff's background and education and and Ryan

613
00:38:58.079 --> 00:39:03.239
our other uh partners background and education, is you know,

614
00:39:03.360 --> 00:39:08.039
there's not, in my opinion, there's nothing like there in

615
00:39:08.199 --> 00:39:12.159
school that is laying that foundation for you know, we

616
00:39:12.559 --> 00:39:16.960
look at it as probably for about twelve twelve years

617
00:39:16.960 --> 00:39:18.360
and twelve years and up.

618
00:39:18.360 --> 00:39:19.440
Did we say ten or twelve?

619
00:39:19.719 --> 00:39:25.679
Jeff Ryan thought maybe ten okay, be a little maybe

620
00:39:25.719 --> 00:39:28.840
it's a little dark with the chaos king, but definitely

621
00:39:28.880 --> 00:39:31.599
twelve and up. And like I said, we also think

622
00:39:31.599 --> 00:39:35.280
it's viable for adults too, And we have packaged yet

623
00:39:35.559 --> 00:39:39.199
as an individual course, and we also have an opportunity

624
00:39:39.199 --> 00:39:41.760
for if there's schools organizations that are looking for a

625
00:39:41.800 --> 00:39:45.840
different way to reach individuals, they can reach out to

626
00:39:45.920 --> 00:39:49.880
us and we can create a customized group learning package.

627
00:39:50.280 --> 00:39:52.239
But as far as like the individual piece, we've got

628
00:39:52.239 --> 00:39:55.320
to set where if there's a professional author who's looking

629
00:39:55.360 --> 00:39:58.679
for kind of a fun new approach to kind of

630
00:39:58.679 --> 00:40:01.760
develop their self resilience. Uh, if they complete the course,

631
00:40:01.840 --> 00:40:05.440
they'll get five content continuing need units, So obviously you'll

632
00:40:05.480 --> 00:40:09.159
see us they're important for for so many professions. And

633
00:40:09.199 --> 00:40:13.119
then the world of education, teachers need regular continuing need

634
00:40:13.199 --> 00:40:18.639
units to and administrators need regularly continuing need units to

635
00:40:18.639 --> 00:40:21.960
to apply for their relcense when their licensing period runs up,

636
00:40:22.000 --> 00:40:24.519
so we we we've tied that in there as well.

637
00:40:24.559 --> 00:40:28.039
So again, twelve and up is probably the ideal age.

638
00:40:28.440 --> 00:40:32.360
But you say available for everyone, you know, if if

639
00:40:32.360 --> 00:40:34.400
a parent wants to sit with their with their child

640
00:40:34.440 --> 00:40:38.000
on their lap, uh, you know, to to help them

641
00:40:38.000 --> 00:40:40.159
fight through the chaos king at an early age. They're

642
00:40:40.159 --> 00:40:40.880
definitely they can.

643
00:40:40.960 --> 00:40:44.760
Definitely, they're watching the video games, they're watching the movies.

644
00:40:45.320 --> 00:40:48.599
So let's let's let's turn it on to something that

645
00:40:48.719 --> 00:40:52.599
has still a similar background but is actually going to

646
00:40:53.360 --> 00:40:55.679
impact them to the point where it's going to change

647
00:40:55.679 --> 00:41:00.280
their lives so that chaos can never be in their eyes,

648
00:41:00.400 --> 00:41:03.280
but that point claim them yeah.

649
00:41:03.280 --> 00:41:05.079
Point definitely not as dark as many of the things

650
00:41:05.079 --> 00:41:05.480
that they're.

651
00:41:05.360 --> 00:41:08.559
Exposed to, right right, So I mean this is this

652
00:41:08.679 --> 00:41:14.840
is just regular standard television watching for them, so and

653
00:41:14.840 --> 00:41:17.159
and and something's going to come out of it so

654
00:41:17.159 --> 00:41:21.000
that they'll remember those voices telling them, you know, uh

655
00:41:21.599 --> 00:41:24.920
to not pay attention to that and not fall for

656
00:41:25.000 --> 00:41:27.880
that and different things like that, because we we've just

657
00:41:28.000 --> 00:41:31.920
got to kind of help our this generation right now

658
00:41:32.559 --> 00:41:36.559
be prepared to be parent and utilize these tools so

659
00:41:36.679 --> 00:41:41.159
that their children. Their children are going to be strong,

660
00:41:41.639 --> 00:41:45.000
they're going to be resilient, they're going to be able

661
00:41:45.039 --> 00:41:48.320
to make good sound decisions. They're not going to be

662
00:41:48.840 --> 00:41:54.360
you know, uh, having uncontrollable anger and doing things and

663
00:41:54.400 --> 00:41:58.760
making decisions that takes people's lives and things like that.

664
00:41:58.880 --> 00:42:02.159
They're going to have more self control because this is

665
00:42:02.199 --> 00:42:05.000
how you're going to be training your brain that you

666
00:42:05.079 --> 00:42:09.320
don't take that frustration and that anger and react on

667
00:42:09.519 --> 00:42:13.960
someone else. You think through that and you realize it

668
00:42:14.119 --> 00:42:17.079
really wasn't that big of a problem. You have the

669
00:42:17.199 --> 00:42:19.840
choice and not even deal with that situation again, So

670
00:42:20.159 --> 00:42:21.920
there's no reason to be anger. You don't have to

671
00:42:21.960 --> 00:42:24.639
deal with it anymore. You know, they do have the

672
00:42:24.800 --> 00:42:29.440
on off button. Turn it off. That's all you have

673
00:42:29.480 --> 00:42:32.519
to do. Turn it off, turn it off in your brain,

674
00:42:32.800 --> 00:42:35.079
turn it off of your phone, turn it off at

675
00:42:35.119 --> 00:42:39.440
your door. You know, you don't have to let that

676
00:42:39.639 --> 00:42:43.199
in your life. You protect. My mother always used to

677
00:42:43.199 --> 00:42:46.519
tell me you protect your eye gate and your ear

678
00:42:46.599 --> 00:42:50.679
gate because it goes into your mind and now it

679
00:42:50.800 --> 00:42:53.239
becomes a part of who you are. So something as

680
00:42:53.239 --> 00:42:55.400
soon as I say, no, that's not me, I'm not

681
00:42:55.480 --> 00:42:57.440
watching it, I'm not putting that inside of me.

682
00:42:59.480 --> 00:43:03.440
Really like we'd really like to, you know, especially laying

683
00:43:03.519 --> 00:43:06.840
that foundation in classrooms across the world.

684
00:43:06.960 --> 00:43:10.000
Actually, you know, because we can't actually change the.

685
00:43:12.679 --> 00:43:17.119
You know, the language and all that is can be adjustable,

686
00:43:17.239 --> 00:43:20.320
but you know, starting here, starting at home, like getting

687
00:43:20.440 --> 00:43:23.559
that foundation in the classroom of kids that you know,

688
00:43:23.800 --> 00:43:27.239
it's going to be a game changer and we would

689
00:43:27.440 --> 00:43:30.400
love to see it in every classroom, but also in

690
00:43:30.559 --> 00:43:32.760
every corporate meeting room too.

691
00:43:32.840 --> 00:43:35.760
We tried to be very mindful about.

692
00:43:35.920 --> 00:43:40.920
Keeping it for all ages because we're inspired by it,

693
00:43:41.039 --> 00:43:44.239
like this is what you know, a lot of people

694
00:43:44.320 --> 00:43:49.199
our age that you know, have been you know, exposed

695
00:43:49.239 --> 00:43:51.000
to sci fi like their whole life.

696
00:43:51.039 --> 00:43:53.159
You know, I was born in nineteen seventy.

697
00:43:52.800 --> 00:43:56.000
Six and our words came out in seventy seven, and

698
00:43:56.320 --> 00:43:58.840
my life is like engaged and with.

699
00:43:58.840 --> 00:44:00.599
The comic books and all those things.

700
00:44:00.599 --> 00:44:03.920
I think there's a it resonates across the board, and

701
00:44:03.960 --> 00:44:05.679
I think this is something that.

702
00:44:08.159 --> 00:44:10.000
Yeah, I think lots of people that.

703
00:44:10.000 --> 00:44:12.840
Are listening can will reach out and and and let

704
00:44:12.920 --> 00:44:15.840
us know because we can. I think it can really

705
00:44:15.880 --> 00:44:20.760
resonate with helping people overcome there is a way out.

706
00:44:20.800 --> 00:44:23.920
There is a way to overcome all that anxiety and

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stress and imposters, all those things that you think is

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just the way your brain works. These can you know,

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really help train it in a different way, Just like

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like any workout video or anybody you watch on YouTube

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that you know helps you get those biceps or those

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pecks that you want, or you know what we can

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we can do that for your mind. And I think

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so many people think that it's hopeless and that they're helpless,

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and that's not the case.

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Let's superhero.

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The thing is, if you can learn the latest song,

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and you can learn the latest dance, you can learn

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how to retrain your brain. I mean, I'm just thinking

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about how wonderful this could be if it's in the schools,

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so that those that have not gotten that training at

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home aren't coming in to a school ready to you know,

723
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harm one of the other students there because they turned

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them down for a date. Hey, you know, let Grandma

725
00:45:27.840 --> 00:45:31.639
just be honest. She's just not the one. She doesn't

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realize how wonderful you are. Let her go. She's not

727
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worth it. There's another one waiting for you that's got

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everything you need. You don't need to go through all that.

729
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She's not worth it, man, it's not worth it.

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Well years of Grandma.

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When I worked in child and adolescent psychiatry inpatient facilities,

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this could have avoided so many hospitalizations. If there was

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something this engaging and this applicable in schools, it could

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I truly believe it could have greatly reduced hospitalizations in

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regards to just like you said, those rejections that then

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led to thoughts that, you know, external validation is important,

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which then leads to thought of thoughts of you know,

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am I worthy?

739
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Do I want to be here? Which then leads to

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being hospitalized.

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Where if you catch that before and they're seeing their

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locus of control and they're seeing their value and they're

743
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being able to defeat the accuser and you know all

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00:46:39.559 --> 00:46:46.519
the different minions of despair we have, that's going to

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work across the board to build a foundation, right and as.

746
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We've as we've worked on developing this one of the

747
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one of the great memories that I had as a teacher,

748
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and I shared it with Dustin, I shared it with

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Ryan as we're working on building the curriculum pieces is

750
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I still can remember a student. I'm out there in front,

751
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young teacher, you know, early twenties, and the student was

752
00:47:13.239 --> 00:47:16.360
just bored to death by the lecture that I was presenting.

753
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And she looked at me and raised her hand and

754
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she said, mister APSI, you need to focus more on

755
00:47:23.679 --> 00:47:26.599
entertaining us. I'm like, well, you guys want me to

756
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be like a stand up comedian or something like that.

757
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But it's that's a piece that really resonated with me,

758
00:47:32.119 --> 00:47:35.199
and as I moved forward as an educator and as

759
00:47:35.239 --> 00:47:38.599
in teaching, it wasn't necessarily about entertainment, but it's about

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engagement and what am I doing to purposely make sure

761
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that I'm able to relate to, to engage to. You know,

762
00:47:46.119 --> 00:47:50.000
granted we've fully embraced the entertainment aspect. We wanted to

763
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make this fun, but our hope with that is that

764
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people do have fun when they're taking these courses, well

765
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the first course that we have in the future ones

766
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that will be coming, but not only that, but if

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they do enjoy it, if they those and they have

768
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those endorphins from that opportunity to experience something kind of fun,

769
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that those lessons, those core, those core lessons on on

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bring fitness and self resilience and growth, mindset and grit

771
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and perseverance, that they stick and they hold onto those

772
00:48:24.679 --> 00:48:25.280
that much more.

773
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Right, Well, I want you to inform our audience of

774
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how to get in touch with you, how to join

775
00:48:36.440 --> 00:48:41.599
the academy, how to identify the minions and the protectors

776
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and get signed up for this.

777
00:48:46.639 --> 00:48:48.960
Sure I you know, I mean to give a kind

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of a.

779
00:48:49.480 --> 00:48:51.119
Yeah, yeah, go for it. Yeah yeah.

780
00:48:51.840 --> 00:48:54.039
The most way to find the easiest way to find

781
00:48:54.119 --> 00:48:57.599
us is mindmax dot com, M I N D M

782
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A X E ed dot com. And there's a direct

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link to the academy. It's one of the first links

784
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that people will see when they go when they go

785
00:49:04.440 --> 00:49:07.119
on there, if they go to the academy, if they

786
00:49:07.119 --> 00:49:09.400
click on that link, it'll take it to It'll take

787
00:49:09.559 --> 00:49:12.559
learners to the Academy's page and they'll get an opportunity

788
00:49:12.559 --> 00:49:15.840
where they can register directly for the course. They can

789
00:49:15.880 --> 00:49:19.840
explore the graphic novel that we've just recently had published

790
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that's available out there as well. They can search Dustin's Name,

791
00:49:23.840 --> 00:49:29.920
my Name, or mind Max on Amazon, Walmart dot com

792
00:49:29.960 --> 00:49:32.559
and they can actually and soon we'll have the link

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available on our on our website as well, but they

794
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can actually actually purchase a graphic novel that tells the

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story that learnings learners actual experience within the course, so

796
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they get a chance to read from the recruits perspective,

797
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and then they get to actually if they take the

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course and bed themselves in the exact same learning experience

799
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that their recruits receive in the graphic novel, so I think.

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And the graphic novel is brand new, and like like

801
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Jeff said, if you go to mind Max, Brain Fitness

802
00:50:04.199 --> 00:50:07.039
on Amazon, anywhere, the novel.

803
00:50:06.760 --> 00:50:07.480
Will come up.

804
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We'll be there, yeah, minemax dot com. And then Academy

805
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is where you go for the curriculum. But the book

806
00:50:15.000 --> 00:50:17.760
is everywhere now. And we just got that was it

807
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the seventeenth or the fifteenth.

808
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The fifteenth it officially published and we're you know, people

809
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should watch too. We're in the process of launching a

810
00:50:26.559 --> 00:50:30.760
preparing to launch a Kickstarter campaign to help us not

811
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just again, we've got the first course, and as Dustin mentioned,

812
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there's twelve courses within our curriculum that we have a

813
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vision for mapping out. But we're in the process of

814
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launching a Kickstarter campaign, hopefully within the next month, to

815
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help me, you know, generate funds to help us take

816
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things to the next level. So we're very excited.

817
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Well, I'm excited that this is out there because I

818
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can see that this is a tool that's going to

819
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make changes in a lot of lives and maybe curve

820
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the emotion to do some of the things that we've

821
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been experiencing in the news. I just want to thank

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our audience for tuning in. Please download this and share

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this with your friends and family and on your social

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media because this is a very, very very needed tool

825
00:51:23.199 --> 00:51:25.679
and I know that you have learned a lot. I

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want to thank you Aur Shower Sharp Outlook. We're here

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able to be able to be your best self. So

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as I always say, whatever you do, stay informed. I

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want to thank you for joining us on a Sharp Outlook.

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