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and i wanted to quit and walk away but
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if i did i could throw in jail so i was
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like this is the worst point ever
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paid to sell your product i love this
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guy
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i honestly the entrepreneurs are the
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only people that can actually change
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this planet
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when people think of team building a lot
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of times you probably think of the
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classic trust fall
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or maybe even this what are you doing
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are these activities really that
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effective in today’s episode i’m gonna
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show you guys my number one team
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building
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activity it’s something that’s super
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powerful and helps you get to know
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everybody on your team
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at a deep level in just minutes or maybe
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an hour i guess it depends on how big
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your team is
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but it works trust me recently i was
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inspired we had a chance to go to
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fiji with tony robbins on an affiliate
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retreat and what i didn’t know at the
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time is there’s a lot of companies that
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actually bring their entire teams to
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to fiji to do something that tony calls
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the log jump no the pull down
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we did that by literally climbing up
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this huge pole which was scary enough as
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it is
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after you’re on the pole you literally
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look out and you see the like trap piece
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and you have to
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jump and grab it the whole time trusting
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that your team is actually going to hold
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it on the other end
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if they let go of it you pretty much are
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dead so it’s a good way to
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build trust with the team who’s
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literally going to save your life as you
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take
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the lead
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[Music]
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it was a fascinating team building
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activity but unfortunately when i got
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back to boise they wouldn’t let me build
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a pole
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so uh there’s other activities you can
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use as well including the one i’m gonna
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show you guys today now before we get
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too deep can you take a second and
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please like this video down below and
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make sure you subscribe to the channel
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that way i can keep making amazing
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videos for you walking you through the
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stuff that’s gonna help change your
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business and change your life
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the activity i’m going to teach you guys
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today is something i learned a couple of
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years ago when i had a chance to join an
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organization called
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eo there’s a whole bunch of
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entrepreneurs and business people and a
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chance to get to know each other in a
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very short period of time when they try
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to figure out what’s the best way for us
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to get to know everybody they introduced
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me to
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this activity which shows you guys the
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lifeline of your life
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this is how it works you get a white
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board and you draw a line across the
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middle
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and the left-hand side is your birthday
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the day you were born and then the
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right-hand side is today
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you start at the very beginning you
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start your birth and you go and you get
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the top and you draw a dot
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at the very first peak of your life
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right and and then you explain what
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happened to you at that point
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you keep going you draw down and then
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you talk about what happened there and
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then you’re ups and you’re down
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sometimes they’re little ups and downs
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sometimes they’re big ups
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or really big downs and each point at
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the peak in the valley
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you draw a dot and you explain that part
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of your life
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what happened why it results in
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something that’s either really good or
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really bad
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and why it meant so much to you now when
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we did at the ey event it was really
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cool
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and i had a chance to watch everybody do
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theirs and because i was the new guy i
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did mine at the very end
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and a lot of these people become
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lifetime friends ever since then and so
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because of that
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that’s why i wanted to bring it to the
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clickfunnels marketing team in our team
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retreat
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[Music]
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now at our employee retreat we brought
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the entire marketing team to an airbnb
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here in boise
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and we spent the first days kind of
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working and getting to you know working
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on the projects and talking about
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everything
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and then about dinner time and said look
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i want to do something with everybody
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that i promise you is going to be very
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uncomfortable
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but by the end of tonight we’re going to
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work better as a team we’re going to
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understand each other
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we’ll be able to get to our goals way
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faster and when i announced to everybody
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that we were gonna do this activity
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almost everybody was like wait i don’t
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know if i’m willing to share those
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things in this group
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anyway so that’s kind of context so
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everyone’s gonna actually be doing this
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and so
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i’m gonna do it once and then everyone’s
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gonna have five minutes to do it
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in front of everybody um so i’m gonna do
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it
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all right so the first step in the
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process i need to show them how it
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actually worked now most of my team
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knew my highlights right they’d seen the
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highlight reel and so i got there very
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first and i said okay this is how it
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works everyone’s got five minutes to do
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this you have to be careful because if
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you’re not careful
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people will spend three hours telling
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their life stories so then i started i
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drew
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my birth i drew today and i started in
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real time going through my very first up
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that i can remember and my very first
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down am i up am i down
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and over the next five minutes i
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explained to them all the things that
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have made me me
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it was interesting because i think a lot
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of people heard some of the stories up
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here
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but most stories down here people didn’t
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know as i shared those things they got
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emotional it let people see a side of me
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they didn’t understand before
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then we found out the person was in our
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books didn’t pay taxes for
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a year and i found out that i owed like
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250 000 payroll taxes and if i didn’t
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pay it as soon as i go to jail so that
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like really sucked too and i wanted to
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quit and walk away but if i did i get
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thrown in jail so i was like this is the
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worst point ever
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i got in this business i want to sell
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stuff and now it’s like we have a team
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like 2167 people
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and it’s heavy on me like because of
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this whole thing here i have a lot of
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uh stress about times of just like man
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if i screw up my job then there’s 260
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people whose families go hungry like
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that weighs heavy on me so i have a lot
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of pressure
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but same time like things are so good
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it’s just it’s been awesome so i’d say
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like right now i think it really helped
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people understand where i’m coming from
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why i do what i do and uh help people to
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respect me and trust me at a different
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level now after i was done they’d seen
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the process and what they were supposed
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to be doing
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i gave everybody three minutes to get
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their pad of paper out and to dry out
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their timeline and to try to think
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through all the core things
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the ups and downs of their life not just
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their business but their personal life
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their relationships their family
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and then after they’re finished we’d
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everybody come up one at a time and do
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their five-minute presentation
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and it was interesting because again
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some people were really excited to share
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and some
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i think i could have asked them to do
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anything on this planet and they would
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have been more happy than having to go
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up and share in front of everybody but
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it was cool because as people got up
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there people who who i had been working
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with for years people always had a
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strong shield and always seemed
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so invincible when they told their
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stories as a group i cried and they
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cried and
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other people who who i always assumed
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believed one thing or thought one thing
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or whatever
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i realized how much more diverse and how
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much more exciting as a person that they
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actually were and just
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it opened my eyes to what our team was
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you know i think we thought we were
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gonna go for an hour and a half two
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hours we ended up going most of the
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night doing this
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and nobody budged typically when you
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meet somebody what they’ll do is they’ll
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tell you their highlight reel right
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their resume
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i accomplish this and this and this and
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this and so you have a chance to see
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them at all the peaks of their life now
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their peaks don’t really give you a good
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view of who they actually are as a
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person it just shows you what they’ve
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accomplished
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every human is so much more than that
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typically these ups and downs aren’t
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just
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business right it’s what happened in
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your family what happened in your
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relationships a lot of people like to
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share the highlight real but no one
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likes to share
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the valleys and when you share the
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values and you become vulnerable it
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gives people access to
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things that made you who you are today
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and by doing that
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all of a sudden you start realizing that
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this person ahead of you the person
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that’s that’s presenting the person
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you’re getting to know
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you get a very uh holistic view of their
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life and it helps you to have connection
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with them at a level that i’ve never
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experienced any time before
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that wasn’t comfortable for anybody
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right second thing i just want to um
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let you guys know how grateful i am that
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you all went through a whole bunch of
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crap
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all the crap down here is what made each
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of you who you are today which made it
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possible for you to be on this team and
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like
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after this event was done and people
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flew back to their individual homes
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and got back to work just the level of
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compassion of understanding
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of friendship had changed had shifted it
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was like they had grown up with this
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person their entire life and they knew
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you know everything they’d gone through
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and i think ever had more respect for
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each other we watched
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as the team grew closer together and
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because of that the company started to
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grow faster
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so for any of you out there who are
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trying to grow a team especially if
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you’re the entrepreneur and you’re
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pulling your hair out because you don’t
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understand your team and why they’re
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making decisions the way they are
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i highly recommend taking a pause and
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doing this activity with them now that
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could mean
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going renting an airbnb and flying
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everyone together getting together and
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actually doing it in person
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or maybe just do it on zoom and get
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everybody to zoom in and share their
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timeline as well
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either way it’s going to give you guys
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understanding compassion and it’s going
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to build you closer as a team
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there’s no more powerful tool that i’ve
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ever found than this to get to the heart
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of exactly what your people care about
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and when you understand that it changes
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the entire dynamic of the team
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with that said thank you again so much
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for watching this video if you got value
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make sure you like and subscribe
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and even share it i wouldn’t mind if you
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share this with your entire team so you
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guys knew your own team back
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building activity as well on top of that
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i got tons of other videos here on my
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channel
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on the sides here about funnel building
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growing your company and a whole bunch
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more
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please take a minute watch those videos
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as well and thank you again for coming
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and hanging out at my channel
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