Unleashing Your Authentic ‘It’ Factor : Beyond Hope Project with Jason Tharp

Join Jason Tharp, the champion of Hope, in a powerful episode where he shares insights on embracing your authenticity and discovering your unique “it factor.” From overcoming imposter syndrome to navigating life’s challenges with grace, Jason dives deep into the importance of showing up as your true self and inspiring others along the way. Tune in for a dose of motivation and learn how your story can empower others to find their path to hope and resilience.

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Transcript

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hey guys welcome back to the Beyond hope

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project my name is Jason Tharp the

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champion of Hope and I have a good

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episode in here and before we get

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started first off I just want to get

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some thank you out of the way I want to

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thank you for showing up today I want to

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thank you for listening to this um I

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guarantee that there's going to be

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something in here that's going to be

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relatable like always I really want to

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encourage you to hear my story not from

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somebody that is trying to explain

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something to you but uh as if you're

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hearing yourself in my story that's

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really kind of the goal of all of that

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and if you know two people that know two

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people that's all I'm asking you for is

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to share this with at least two people

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um because what we're going to do is

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we're on a mission to spread hope we're

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on a mission to help people see that

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they're not alone to see that the path

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is in front of them and show them the

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path so they can get started and as you

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go down that path you might fail but

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you're not failing you're learning and

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that's what this is all about and that

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is a perfect segue into what we're

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talking about today um I wanted to talk

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about this idea of this it factor and

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how we always hear when we're trying to

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do something is people will say you'll

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see it a lot of times on these singing

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shows or these talent shows or whatever

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where they're like you have the it

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factor and I'm not exactly sure what

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that means um but I have been told that

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from a lot of people that when I speak

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that I have the IT thing or what

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whatever and so I spent a lot of time

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trying to dig through that a lot of it

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was based on just a personal experience

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lately where I was asked to do something

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that was um with a much bigger client

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company than um I usually do I guess and

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it felt a little a little impostor

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syndrome I guess would might be the way

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best way to do it but I started to

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analyze that stuff and start to figure

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out like what all that meant and really

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what I came to the conclusion that came

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to and I wrote it down here so that way

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I could make sure that I summed it up

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the right way uh because usually I do

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just kind of flow but this one I felt

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like I needed to write down just so I

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can make sure I get it right but you're

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going to inspire people by just showing

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up and being

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yourself it's going to be surprising

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especially because when you're standing

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up there and you're doing these things

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you think that you don't have quote

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unquote it but really what you're doing

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is you're showing people the authentic

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side of of life you're really giving a

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bridge to those people that are

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struggling through life to be seen I

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think a lot of times what we're doing is

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we're going through life thinking that

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you know people aren't going to

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understand the stuff I'm going through

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this all seems way too overwhelming my

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job is just pulling me in a thousand

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directions my home life is Wild on top

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of it you know I got a big old commute

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to the office and the world seems more

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divided than ever before and it just all

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seems to be just snowballing and a lot

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of times I think we could feel like the

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wor stuck in a Looney Tunes cartoon

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where we're just running from that

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snowball waiting for it to plow us over

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and then when somebody shows up in front

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of us and just is them is themselves are

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themselves you you're kind of Blown Away

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by it because I think a lot of times

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what it is is that people just are

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shocked by somebody that's not coming in

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with an agenda you know when I show up

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in this or any other thing that you may

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me see me speak at I'm not coming with

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some preconceived notion I do have an

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intention my intention is always to

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provide a power up and how I divide how

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I Define that power up is the ability to

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turn your attention towards your

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intention I want to help you figure out

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a way to turn the attention to what

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you're trying to

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do into that instead of shying away from

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how can we take your your attention and

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focus on is the are the things that I'm

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doing right now in alignment with the

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things that I intend to do and if not

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how can we adjust those things instead

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of like worrying about some sort of past

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memory because they're always going to

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be kind of there hanging out right and

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we're trying to predict the future based

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off of those leftover Parts instead

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being able to be in the present moment

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asking asking

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ourselves is it possible that I'm doing

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everything I can to get toward my

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intented goal that is what I set out to

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do when I'm speaking whether it's this

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or anything else or if I'm writing a

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post on social media or if I'm posting

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something on any Tik Tok or Instagram uh

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just trying to put good in the world and

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that is is really kind of all that my

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goal is is that it hopefully finds

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somebody and that was kind of surprising

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to me if I'm being honest uh that people

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react to it

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because really what it is for me

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personally is it feels a lot like some

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sort of weird therapeutic thing where

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I'm kind of healing myself and putting

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out the things that I wish that somebody

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would have told me when I was struggling

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the most and I guess what I kind of

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quietly do um is send everything out

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with this almost like little blessing

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you know that says I hope this finds the

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right person who needs to hear this when

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they need to hear it um because we're

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all going through these storms and we're

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all going through these battles and

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everybody's battle is different it's

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easy for us to want to write somebody

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off or forget them or

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whatever but that isn't necessarily the

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best way to go about everything I think

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what is the best way is to have a little

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Grace for everybody understanding that

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we're all kind of going through stuff

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and when we can show up and just be us

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you're going to be amazed people are

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actually inspired by that um I was I was

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amazed by that because I really didn't

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know that what I was doing was actually

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that important and not in an ego sense

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um but just from a point of drawn a

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boundary with what I'm willing to accept

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for myself and to step into that world

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of this is what I want to share now

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because it not only makes me feel better

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but I'm hoping that it might help

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somebody else as they're going through

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their stuff and and what has happened

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since doing that has been these these

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gate openings of people that have come

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to me and said like wow like I didn't

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know or you know I've had people come up

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to me and get really mad at me in a

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funny way it wasn't really they were

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seriously mad at me but like that I made

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them feel so much um because they've

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built up walls I think all of us have

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done that recently is we built up these

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walls in what it is is just truly being

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authentic with people understanding that

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everybody's going through stuff if you

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can share your story in a way that shows

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somebody else that they're seen and that

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you are available as a beacon for

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somebody else to see that the path is

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there we just have to step towards that

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path and understand that along this path

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it's going to be hard you know if we

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were to go out into any sort of place

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and say that there's this mountain or or

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some sort of obstacle and you got to get

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over it as fast as you can but you have

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no clue of how to start it's a really

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lonely thing because it's confusing

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you'll just sit there and look at this

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thing and you'll be baffled by like what

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do I do to get over that but then if

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some all of a sudden along the path

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somebody comes that says like oh yeah

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I've seen something like this and you

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know this kind of is what I did and

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hopefully in that thing that I'm

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explaining to you of how I got over this

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obstacle you'll start to see yourself in

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that story which is going to involve you

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being a little creative and a little bit

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of you shutting down those past things

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that you're hanging on to instead of

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like thinking that you can't have a

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vision of a future for yourself you

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because you're living in a past that's

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completely predictable and then taking

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those predictions that are based off of

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things that are probably not true

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anymore and you're trying to project

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onto a future that isn't here either

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you're missing everything that you need

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that's right in this moment to kind of

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get over that part you know so the real

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it factor is that simply being

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you understanding that you are a unique

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creator that your experience is uniquely

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yours but there are lots of people that

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could use your story to help them get

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through what is the biggest thing for

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them right

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now and while your big thing and my big

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thing might be completely different what

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is in that is that shared pain or Joy or

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sadness or any of those other emotions

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that we all have at those moments as

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we're trying to climb out of or through

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something that will help other people

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get over that that hurdle and so what I

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would encourage you to do is maybe you

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are somebody that wants to lead in a

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heart heartfelt matter you want to be a

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part of service to other people it's to

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not be afraid to do that there are no

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answers out there that are going to tell

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you how to do it what I have found is

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that most of the time the things that

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have worked out the best for me was when

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I stopped trying to do what everybody

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else told me I should be doing and I

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started doing what I felt was the right

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thing to do and that really came back to

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what was my value that I wanted to put

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out in the world what did authenticity

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look like to me how do I give myself the

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grace and forgiveness when I'm not

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living up to those or I've let myself

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down in the past to learn to forgive

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myself for past mistakes to understand

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that I can't keep holding on to all this

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stuff and think that I'm building a

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future of where I want to go and getting

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clear on my intention and putting my

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attention towards that and starting to

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move each time and becoming aware of am

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I doing the things right now to move

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towards that and if I'm not how can I be

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more openhearted to myself to allow

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myself the space to learn the lesson and

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then when that when that fail quote

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unquote fail happens to persist enough

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to pick up the next day and reset the

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next day and then when those all come

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together I'm going to feel pretty

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empowered as I start to feel empowered

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that intention can grow and it can

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continue to move because time is moving

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whether we like it or not and just

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getting to your dreams you know is a

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great thing but if you don't if you get

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to your dreams and you don't deal with

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all of those things don't think that

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those things don't follow you too you

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can be in this dream world but still

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surrounded by all kinds of nightmares if

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you don't address the big thing in the

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room which is how can I show up the best

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for myself how can I have the it factor

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for myself and those things start to

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come together when you realize that your

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story matters that you matter that

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everything that you're going through

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everybody else has that shared thing and

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they're going to have their own opinion

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about it and some people are going to

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want to tear you down but that's not

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about you that's about them and yeah

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you'll find your people and it may take

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a lot of

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tries but it you keep showing up for

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yourself you'll start building that

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future out that all along you've been

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looking for and it's pretty amazing when

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that starts to happen because it's more

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than likely not going to be all the work

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that you've projected for yourself that

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it's supposed to be I'm not saying it's

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gonna be easy but what I mean is it's

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not going to be the allnighters and all

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those things that you think the hustle

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your faces off the The Grind till you

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can't stand it all of those things it's

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not going to be surrounded by all that

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stuff most of the time it's just

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surrounded by just you stepping into the

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stuff you're afraid to share thinking

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that nobody's going to understand but

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that is what the it factor is because

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like I've said many times on here and

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maybe you need to hear this one more

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time there is only one person in this

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world that can do the thing that you can

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do in the exact way you can and that is

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you everybody else wants to tell you

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what you should be doing but they're

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speaking from their expert role of

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knowing themselves not their world world

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of knowing who you are you're the only

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one that knows what's going on inside

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your head and who and what you are and

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what you can bring to this world if you

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can be brave enough to bring that it to

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the the world I believe that you're

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going to find lots of other people that

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are going to be attracted to that and

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the beauty of it is is that they've been

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there all this whole time and um waiting

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for you to see exactly what they have

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been seeing and they're going to be the

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foundation people and they're going to

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be the people that have been there and

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you're going to be amazed and it will be

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amazing to see you come to life as you

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start to believe in yourself and you

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find Hope and you get that spark to move

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and you find that path and then go go

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along that path and be brave enough to

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fail and once you fail realize that you

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didn't actually fail you've been

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learning and this is your new starting

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point to pick it back up and move

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forward with it and this is what life is

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it's constantly showing up for yourself

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so that is the it factor and I hope that

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you find it for yourself because it does

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exist so guys as we wrap this up again

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if you know two people if you got

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anything out of this share this with

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somebody this is how this is going to

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grow we need your help we appreciate you

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putting these together isn't easy we're

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all working hard over here to make sure

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that these all sound good look good and

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are hitting the right notes so if you

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could just share this with other people

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and uh one last thing before we go life

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is tough and being a human isn't easy

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but you're doing a great job just keep

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doing what you're doing showing up for

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yourself bringing your it factor to

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today because your it factor is going to

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make somebody else find theirs hope this

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helps power up

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