Finding Your Inner Drive: Motivation and EQ

In this empowering episode of Friday Feelings, host Jenelle Friday explores the journey of reconnecting with inner drive and reigniting motivation through Emotional Intelligence. Joined by guest Brad Davis, founder of Success Panda, they dive deep into understanding your "why," overcoming doubts, and building a purpose-driven life.

Brad shares his personal experiences, from career pivots to discovering the satisfaction of serving others, and how these lessons helped him develop Success Panda—a platform for career development in customer success. Together, they unpack the role of self-awareness, values, and persistence in maintaining motivation during life’s challenges.

Key Takeaways:

• Learn actionable strategies for reigniting motivation and defining your purpose.
• Understand how emotional resilience and value-based living create long-term satisfaction.
• Discover the power of persistence and taking action, even in the face of fear and doubt.

Tune in for insightful advice, relatable stories, and practical tips to help you rediscover your inner drive and transform your life.

🎙️ Listen now to start your journey toward a more motivated, purpose-filled life!

Transcript

SPEAKER_01: 0:03

Hello, everyone, and welcome to the Friday Feelings podcast, where we focus on emotional intelligence. We turn emotions into power. We focus on turning vulnerability into strength and remind you to feel everything, fear nothing, and transform your life from the inside out. I'm your host, Janelle Friday. And today on Friday Feelings, we're talking about finding your inner drive through motivation and EQ. And we're going to explore how you can reconnect with your inner drive and rediscover motivation, especially during times of doubt or stagnation. So I'm really excited to introduce today's guest, uh Brad Davis, who is the founder of SuccessPanda, a friend, and a mighty voice in the industry of customer success. So, Brad, thank you so much for being with me uh here today.

SPEAKER_00: 0:54

Thanks, Janelle. Happy to be here.

SPEAKER_01: 0:57

So let's just give my uh let's give our audience a little bit more information about you. So maybe share a little bit about uh what you're doing with SuccessPanda, your career path, and why this topic specifically was one that you um grabbed a hold of.

SPEAKER_00: 1:13

Yeah, no, thanks. Thanks for that. So I guess a little bit about me. As you said, currently uh working on SuccessPanda, it's a career development platform for customer success professionals to thrive in their career. Uh the aim of SuccessPanda is to really help provide people uh kind of the one-stop shop where they can find what they need, whether it's mentors, mock interviews, access to hiring managers. We're building out a marketplace where if you have fun little PDFs or PowerPoints, you can either give them away for free or sell them. So building all the things to just really help people um have clarity, you know, what events are going on in the industry, what communities exist. So that's a labor of love and it's going well. Uh before that, just I'd been working in some Series A companies as uh a director of customer success, leading customer success teams. So it's a space I'm quite familiar with and been in uh client-facing positions pretty much my whole career. And uh yeah, looking forward to talking about finding your inner um drive with motivation and EQ. Because I chose this topic because to me, um in everything you do within your career, you have to know what your why is and then just continue to circle back and continue to have the drive. Because what I tell people is uh I I have a small coaching practice, and sometimes when I'm talking to those people, I say, if you love what you do and you have energy, the the money takes care of itself. Because people who love what they do and they have energy for what they do, they're they have an inner drive to succeed. Uh, those people always kind of stand out in any team.

SPEAKER_01: 2:54

Yeah, that's true. And I and I think the caveat, right, is that those people need to know how to focus their energy. To your point, they need to understand their why. So let's talk a little bit about how do you work to understand your why, your motivators, what drives you, especially when we think about emotional intelligence. Uh, really the the primary foundation of EQ is self-awareness because you've got to understand your drivers, your motivators, your emotional triggers, your experiences that have shaped your perceptions and your perspectives. Um, so talk us a little bit through how you got to that place within yourself to really understand yourself and what your drivers were.

SPEAKER_00: 3:38

Yeah. So I wish I could have a like a silver bullet that I could give to everybody, but it's not. I think uh Socrates said, know thyself, right? Meaning, no, you have to come to know yourself, you got to do the self-work, what motivates you, what doesn't. And for me personally, what I found over my career is that it's just been a lot of different trial and error, and then also just gaining feedback uh from trusted friends, uh trusted people, people like my wife who knows me pretty well. Um, so you know, a lot of trial and error. One of the things that um I worked at a large insurance company as like a an underwriter way back in the way back in the day. And uh, I guess the end of the moral of that story is I found out that's not what I wanted to do. So learning what you don't want to do and what you do want to do, I think are both very constructive. So between between doing that, I think it's just it's been uh a a labor of love, kind of like success panda, you know. You're the probability that you're going to find exactly what you're calling or what you love to do the very first time you come out of college is it's a pretty low percentage uh for most people. Um so for us normal people, we just kind of got to figure it out.

SPEAKER_01: 5:00

Yeah, and and I think um intrinsic motivation, right, is is that what gets you out of bed every morning? Why do you keep pushing forward and keep living and keep striving? Um, your why, I think the question I ask a lot of people is who are you? Right. So if I said to you, Brad, take away your spouse, your kids, your house, your job, your hobbies, those are labels. And then I ask you the question of who are you, what remains? That is the ultimate, that's where we start with emotional intelligence. Because if you don't understand what motivates you and what gets you out of bed in the morning, if you don't understand why you get emotional about things, for me, you know, I had this perspective growing up that my opinion was always right because I was a Christian, that's what I was taught. Um, and that created a very judgmental superior mindset, complex percept perception, right? So you have to understand those things because without those things, your emotions and managing your emotions is going to be extremely difficult. You're gonna have a really hard time understanding how you impact others and how others seriously impact you, and how to build and maintain healthy relationships. Those are all the pillars of EQ. So from a from an inner drive, inner motivation perspective, that knowing your why is a huge part of that equation.

SPEAKER_00: 6:18

Yeah, and I think for me, in my experience, um when you I guess the best way I could say this is when you when you truly experience how you can help people and you're able to see the reaction of actually helping someone in a real world way improve their life, then that's really all that you really want to do, whether it's and there's a million different ways to do that. Anybody, you know, I'm a big believer that there's dignity in all work. Um and that they there's a lot of jobs right now that sometimes people feel like you know are menial and you know aren't super dignified or they're not very high, high, you know, a lot of high visibility. Um but there's there's all these anecdotal stories about how people who are doing everyday jobs that you know aren't flashy, if they do them the best they can and they um you know do them well, they can really make a difference in people's lives and bring them joy. And I'll share one personal example. When I was in college, I worked for uh the Olive Garden and I was a server there.

SPEAKER_01: 7:36

And that's a dangerous place.

SPEAKER_00: 7:39

Yeah, I mean the bread, you know, the breadsticks, uh, we used to call them crack sticks because it was I was like, what do they put in these things? These are so good. Um, and if you disagree, then you're just wrong, but it's okay. I've got wrong. Uh yeah, so the the story the story is I was just uh it was just a normal shift like any other day. And uh this mom and her about nine or ten-year-old daughter came in and they they sat down there at um one of my tables. And I'm a fairly affable, outgoing guy, and I just you know I've always kind of been an extrovert, so getting to know people is um easy for me to do. And they were sending signals where it was very clear she wanted to talk and she was, you know, wanted to have dialogue, um, so it wasn't unwarranted. So the night's just going fine, and we're having a good time. I'm learning about them and asking them about their what they like to do and things like that. And it was just it was just very genuine. But anyways, so the time comes where uh, you know, I give them the check, they're about to leave, I give them their two mint chocolates, uh, because if you don't, then you I'm sure that's like 10 minutes and you're breaking the rules. Yeah, 10 minutes and timeout, I probably got. But uh but I remember uh her daughter, I actually remember her name because uh she she did mention her name, but she said, Mommy, I really like Brad. He's really nice. Can we come back and see him again? And um I just remember how great that made me feel.

SPEAKER_01: 9:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 9:13

That you know, I was doing the job that I had at the time and I was doing the best I could. And she ended up giving me like a$50 tip on like 40 bucks.

SPEAKER_01: 9:22

Wow.

SPEAKER_00: 9:23

My manager had to, he he was like, Did you write this in? I'm like, no, it was it was legit. They really liked me. It's like, okay. Well, if it comes back, just know you're fired. I was like, okay. But uh, but it but it was just it was really it's just you know, kind of stories like that. And I have so many more of those stories that when you're doing a good job and you're really thinking about the person behind the service or the product, um, then you're able to find that elusive word of happiness, right? That a lot of times seems to evade so many people in their work.

SPEAKER_01: 10:00

Yeah, there was actually a recent um daily talk show that said the key to happiness is to remove all expectations from people. And I'm like, my inside voice is like that's a terrible piece of advice. Because if you don't expect goodness, if you don't expect kindness, if you don't expect to be challenged and encouraged, like to have zero expectations means you hope for nothing. And hope keeps us moving forward. Hope keeps us pushing and surviving when things are difficult. And I think one of the things I want to highlight though is that this role of per the role purpose, you found a purpose in helping others, right? And again, like you said, there's a million different ways to help others, but that was a primary motivational driver for you is to help others. So for listeners who maybe they don't like serving other people, maybe they're called to, you know, raise horses and they don't want to interact with anyone, or maybe they're called to be a gardener and create a beautiful space outside, or maybe they're entry-level, you know, um SDR, BDR, and and you know, that can be a little bit undignifying at the beginning because it's an entry-level role, right? So really what I want to highlight is your purpose comes from your values. And one of the things I talk a lot about with Lionheart is understanding your values and that your values are created by the experiences that you've had in life, right? You either you could have been taught values. So for me, coming from a conservative Christian household, the values that I have were grounded in the Christian faith because that's how I was raised. But for you, for you or for someone else who maybe you were raised differently, your values look very different. That's not saying that they're wrong, because values that you hold true to you are never wrong. But your values have to be identified and understood because that's how you then build your purpose. When you build your purpose and you find your drive and your why built on your personal values, it drives you to long-term perseverance and satisfaction, which I would also partner with happiness. When you're doing a job, no matter what the job is, and you're living and breathing your values, no matter what that job is, you're going to find a level of satisfaction and um and motivation in your day-to-day. Is that a fair way to say that?

SPEAKER_00: 12:29

Yeah. I think I think how you just said that is really important where you have to, you know, talking about certain studies and things that we might come into contact with. I remember um reading a study where we don't we don't have ideas, more ideas have us, and we can try on different ideas. And the idea is that, you know, one of the I think one of the big litness tests of is something serving you is exactly that. Is this belief or is this idea really helping me get to where I want to go? And you know, even though some of these um like the movie in Alice in Wonderland, the Cheshire cat is uh standing before Alice at the towards the end of the the movie, and uh he appears and he asks Alice, which way do you want to go? And she said, Well, I don't know. And he says that well, it doesn't matter which way that you choose then. So um if you don't know where you want to go, then it really doesn't matter because you're as someone once told me, if you stand for nothing, you'll fall for anything.

SPEAKER_01: 13:39

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 13:39

And so I think it's just you have to take the time um and no one else can do it for you. The internet search can't do it for you. Your mom or your dad, like yeah, the Cheshire cat can't do it for you. It's just it's just inner work that you have to do by sitting alone with yourself, um, meditation, um, thinking about what are where is it that you ultimately want to go, and then just deciding this is uh this is how I want to get there. I mean, that sounds super kind of basic, but that's surprising, you know, it's surprisingly a common challenge for many people. And uh and you can be open to changing it too. It's not like you make one decision like you know, when I was eight years old, I wanted to be an army ranger that jumped out of planes, and it's amazing how quickly uh that changed when I went on my first plane, and then I was like, no, thanks. I don't feel like jumping out of this perfectly good plane.

SPEAKER_01: 14:40

Yeah. Well, I mean, and and I think um, because I want to really kind of break this down even further. So really, when you're in, if you're in the process of figuring out who you are, what is your why, what drives you, there's a lot of things that bombard our thought process, and whether we call that imposter syndrome, whether we call that insecurities, but there's a lot of things that we tell ourselves or that we listen to that take away from our ability to understand ourselves, right? That that put us into kind of this numb day in and day out routine. Because sometimes when we ask those questions of ourselves, like, who am I or why am I motivated by this, we don't like the answer. Right. So when I started to really ask myself, why do I feel this way or why am I doing this, the answer was because I had experienced this thing as a kid that I wasn't aware of at the time, right? And so those negative memories invoke emotions because we know that our thoughts produce emotions and our emotions drive our behaviors. So when that negative thought comes in and I lean into the emotion, I've basically steered myself off course and off path. And it it makes it that much more difficult to come back. So a lot of the things I talk about is like you said, when you have a thought of um, I want to go do this, or can I do this, or I'm not even sure I'm capable of doing that, to captive to bring a thought captive, to grab it and hold it captive. There's three questions that I encourage people to ask. The first, is it true? So I have a thought that I want to be a podcast host. And my first thought is, well, who am I to launch a podcast? Like who's gonna want to listen to me? The first thought is, well, is it true? Is that comment true? No, because I've had so many people, you included, who have encouraged me and supported me and given me the confidence and the and the encouragement to step forward in faith, right? So it's not true. Is it helpful? Meaning, in the midst of planning and doing what you're gonna do and you finding your motivation to help other people, that intrusive thought that says, well, who's gonna listen to you or who are you to give advice to other people? Is that helpful in the moment as you're trying to push forward and motivate yourself? No. Okay, and then the last question is it uplifting? How are you talking to yourself on a regular basis? To find your true motivation and drive means that you have to be able to look at yourself in the mirror and like yourself, be kind to yourself, talk to yourself in a positive way. Otherwise, you are pushing a boulder uphill for all the things you want to do. But the boulder is this voice in your head, whether whatever you call it, let's call it imposter syndrome, that's telling you that you can't, that's telling you that you're not worthy, that's telling you that you're not enough. And that eats away at purpose and identity and ultimately the thing that gets you out of bed in the morning when you could tell me that you have nothing to live for. Right. So, Brad, have you ever experienced those moments of maybe with Success Panda, you know, maybe with the current things that you're working on where you had a doubt, the drive, you have the drive, but you're you're not feeling so motivated. How do you work through those moments when you feel a little bit lost?

SPEAKER_00: 17:47

Yeah, so one story comes to mind, uh, which I kind of mentioned before. I was working at a large insurance company, and it was a I was hired as one of two people every year that were brought into this management rotation program that was, you know, very, you know, a lot of people wanted to get into it, right? The the other person that got into it was the CFO's son. So um it was strange because I was in my early 20s and you have all these people who look to you and they start, you know, deploying, you know, political playbooks. Oh, this guy is gonna be somebody. But the whole time that I was there, it was just miserable. And um what I found is that I remember sitting um on the weekend, I was sitting there thinking about, you know, I'm miserable right now at where I'm working, everyone thinks that this is an amazing opportunity, but I don't like it at all. What what brings me joy? Um and I thought about just I I've had, you know, like you said, I've had kind of a culture of of helping and serving people my whole life. And so I realized, hey, if I go back to doing that, and then I had an interest in woodworking, and so essentially um I started like this custom furniture business, which slowly grew over time, and eventually it was making more money than um I was making at my day job. But one of the things that I really liked about kind of being alone uh working on a piece of furniture for someone, um mostly farmhouse tables, was that when I when I delivered uh the custom piece to someone's house, the amount of gratitude uh that people showed was it even till this day is unlike anything that I've experienced because one, they know I did I did a task which they themselves couldn't do, right? So I was able to do something for them that they couldn't do, but not only was I able to do it, but I was able to do it in such a way that it brought them you know joy and it brought them a lot of happiness. They would they would come to me and they would say, Hey Brad, you know, bring your family over. We want you to be the first people to eat around this table, and like this is gonna be amazing. And they already had their decorations and their table decor like waiting to put on it. And um they were just very uh gracious with their comments. And you don't get that a lot when you uh you know work at wherever tech companies, big companies, small companies, like not everybody's like that, right? The d that direct feedback.

SPEAKER_01: 20:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 20:41

And so that was it's just you gotta kind of stay true to yourself when you have to realize um that what brings you satisfaction. Um and for me, it was just seeing people light up and being able to see people experience, you know, moments of happiness where they're um they're truly happy. Because I think anybody who's lived enough life has had enough days where they feel down, had enough moments where they've had self-doubt where they feel like they don't do things well. Yeah. Um they don't uh that maybe they've been fired or let go from a job before and they just have thoughts of uselessness. Yeah. I've had those thoughts before as I've been let go from positions in the past where you just kind of replay through your mind, like, what did I do wrong? What can I do better? Um I have this like spicy tape though on it now. Like years later, is I just tell people sometimes, you know, it's half joke, half truth, but I was just like, you know, if you haven't been fired yet in your career, you haven't taken enough risks. I like halfway believe that, you know, but it's kind of true because um, you know, if you're just sitting back and being comfortable, like when I was working at that insurance company, I remember sitting next to To a guy who was supposed to train me on something. And he had been at the insurance company for 35 years. And he he was a nice guy, but I was just like, I just can't imagine doing this, you know, for 35 years.

SPEAKER_01: 22:14

And yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 22:15

You know, there's that curiosity kind of meter that people have, but there's just certain things that you think some people would get bored or they're like, hey, I'm ready to move on to the next thing. But some people will know. They just they like the uh the predictability. So that goes back circles all the way around to the know thyself, you know, know what you like to do. And I don't think we should be overly prescriptive when it comes to other people, but I think that we should encourage them to really try different things, especially if what they're currently doing isn't bringing them the happiness.

SPEAKER_01: 22:52

Well, and and in the job industry that you're you know you're very heavily involved in, we know that there are a lot of people that are not happy, but they can't afford to leave because the job market is just a little bit out of control. So let's let's take our last couple of minutes and focus on um actionable strategies for reigniting motivation, right? So, Brad, what can you share to a listener today who's looking for how do I how do I get my passion back? How do I reignite my drive in life? How do I where do I start? How do I go about that?

SPEAKER_00: 23:25

The first thing I would probably say is go to people that you trust and ask them this question. What do you think I'm good at?

SPEAKER_01: 23:33

I love that.

SPEAKER_00: 23:33

Right.

SPEAKER_01: 23:34

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 23:35

And I think their their answers will surprise you because, you know, Janelle, I've gotten to know you a little bit over this past year. And I think if you ask me that question, you might be surprised with the answer, right? Because what a lot of times what we what happens is other people are able to see in us things that we can't readily see in ourselves. There was a point in my life when you know I had been let go of a job that I wanted to continue at, and it wasn't even due to like performance, it was just the company was struggling and they had to let people go. And I went to people, I you know, practice what I preached there. I went to people, I was like, What do you think I'm good at? They're like, dude, you're good at like what you were doing.

SPEAKER_01: 24:23

You know, they're like, you're all wah, wow.

SPEAKER_00: 24:27

But I'm like, but I know, but I'm like, but uh then why'd this happen? They're like, because companies run out of money, you know, or because the market changes. And I think that especially in our times of doubt, it can be you can make a lot of um knee-jerk decisions like, oh, well, this must not be for me. Or so just being able to understand like when you're in certain when you have certain emotions like anger is known, you know, anxiety, all these different emotions can unless you understand how you can help control yourself within those emotions and not take any like you know rash action and try to master your feelings, I think that's very actionable to just to understand um anger. Usually nothing really comes of like anger, um, especially in nothing helping be professional.

SPEAKER_01: 25:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 25:23

Um, some other things uh I thought of is um learn to single task. I mean, multitasking is like a big, it's almost like an article of faith within the customer, you know, success industry. It's like he or she that cannot multitask cannot work here. But you know, a lot of the research and talks about you know single tasking and being able to finish um certain, you know, the tasks that you're on. And I found that to be super important, uh, to be able to focus, or in other ways, just be able to focus on on one thing. And as I've been a founder and in Success Panda, there's been countless opportunities for me to kind of go down winding roads, whether it's in product or other opportunities that have come up. And I've always had to go back to I need to focus on the product and building a first class product that um people will enjoy, you know, and always kind of going back to that, because there's there's never a shortage of people who either want to collaborate with you or help you in other different ways, but try to take you off of what your main goal is. And uh so I'm a big believer in kind of single tasking and keeping focus because especially in a world of distractions where we have some of the highest paid, you know, um psychologists working for social media companies where their the whole purpose is to get you to spend time on their app. Uh, it's fairly easy to do. And unless you put up some guardrails mentally, you can find yourself scrolling all day and not getting a whole lot done.

SPEAKER_01: 27:03

Well, and and social media, I was just talking to a friend uh recently about the psychology behind social media, the psychology behind the TV shows that we're watching are meant to create negative emotions within you. Fear, anger, rage, jealousy, sadness, depression, anxiety, and they're fake emotions because they didn't come from you naturally, right? They were fed to you. And so uh emotions are energy. We get out positive energy in lots of different ways, but I don't think we're very good at understanding how to get out the negative energy. And that's a whole different podcast episode. There's lots of episodes we're gonna get into when it comes to managing emotions, but really overcoming the challenge to becoming motivated is really where I want to kind of close this out because if you're afraid of failing, fear of failure, if you believe that everything has to be perfect all the time, there are massive speed bumps that are gonna position themselves in front of you and how you're motivated and how you're driven, because that's just how life works. And so, again, what are you in moments of self-doubt, Brad? In moments of I don't feel motivated today, or I was on this upward trajectory and now I've just lost all of my drive. What do you do in those moments to get your mind right and to get you back on track?

SPEAKER_00: 28:24

So three things. One is um I have written goals and I have a journal where I talk about where I want to go. So you have to have a vision for your life.

SPEAKER_01: 28:37

Yes.

SPEAKER_00: 28:38

And that vision needs to be crystal clear because when you're the leader uh in an organization, it's your job to vote to provide clarity for your team, for your organization. But if you're running your life, you're the one that's got to provide clarity for your life. So I would say make sure that you journal, you have written goals, um, you know generally where you want to go. Now it's not written in stone. There are things that can change, right? Um, we don't have to be super dogmatic about it, but you generally want to know where you want to go. Because like Alice in Wonderland, if you don't know where you want to go, then it doesn't really matter. So second is I also have um I also think about and I have a list, and it's called my 10 most expensive mistakes.

SPEAKER_01: 29:22

Ooh, I like that.

SPEAKER_00: 29:24

Yeah, and it's uh it's a written list and it's grown over time. Um and uh right now my top most expensive mistake was$42,000. I'll save what that was, but uh yeah, it was so it's just there's a there's a list, but I think it's also very practical, Janelle, to have to have within keeping in within your memory what you want to run away from. So you want to have something you want to run to, right? You want to have an ideal, but then there's also things you want to run away from. You know, it's been interesting because um there are definitely times and seasons in my life where I was just like, I don't ever want to feel that way again. And I want to make sure that this is recorded and documented. And then third is just I'm just someone who is a big believer on being persistent. So, for example, there's a a quote um that I wanted to just read. It's by Calvin Coolidge. He was the 20th president of the United States. He said, Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Uh, talent will not, nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not, unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not. The world is full of educated derelicts, persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The key to success has always been and always will be press on. So I like that because I think this got this gets back to what you were saying earlier about like what you know, I'm gonna start a podcast. Why would anyone want to listen to me? You know, you have these, and I think that's the comparison, like um, comparison is the thief of joy. Is another quote, right? You're comparing yourself to people who have been doing this for years and years, which is why, you know, um the the amount of people that would love to start something like a podcast or maybe their own business is quite high. Um, I think I saw a study it's in the seven somewhere in the 70% people would like to start something. Uh but the number of percentage of people that do is like under 1%, because the amount of people that take that first action in order to take action, take action, take action, um, is very few because of the doubt or the what I call the FUD, the fear, uncertainty, and doubt. The FUD just takes over, and you have analysis by paralysis. You know, there's a there's a lot of terms.

SPEAKER_01: 31:56

I love it.

SPEAKER_00: 31:56

Yeah, yeah, there's there's so many, there's so many things, but um, you just have to be persistent, you got to take action because really there are no guarantees in life. That and when you come to the mature and adult understanding that this world owes you nothing, um you have no you have no uh promises that what you're gonna try is going to work, you realize that inaction is still a choice. And that's what I've that's what I found is like taking no action is making a choice, right? And so I don't know, I just feel like being emotionally kind of resilient and then just I'm a big believer in just taking action and then iterating on that process.

SPEAKER_01: 32:39

So I love that. And that's gonna close us out. So I have a couple reflection questions if you're listening with us today. Um, what personal values drive your goals when you think about what's important to you, when you think about your values and your moral compass, what are those driving factors? And from all the things that Brad has shared with us today, what's one action that you can take today to reconnect with your purpose and define your values? So a lot of the things I talk about are you're gonna do a lot of thinking, you're gonna do a lot of introspection and reflection and critical thinking about who you are and what you want. But if that's where it stops thinking, if you don't get those thoughts out of your head into a journal like Brad does, into a goal list that sits in front of you, into something I talk about a lot called the I am statement, if you don't get it out and in front of you, it will get lost in the shuffle of life and all of the pressures and expectations and responsibilities that you have. And so if you take one thing away from today's conversation, I want to highlight that Brad is taking action to pursue what he wants. It's not just a thought in his head that he comes back to. He is physically getting out of his brain onto a piece of paper or printing a picture that's motivational. But if you don't do something different, you'll remain where you are forever. And we know that that's the definition of insanity, right? Is to do the same thing over and over and expect a different result. So my encouragement to you today is to take one thing away from this conversation to do for yourself that gets you back in alignment with your values and helps you become more driven and motivated to be actionable, to be transformative for yourself and to change your life because you want to for yourself, not for anybody else. Because if you don't do it, nobody else will, right? So um we're gonna wrap today. Brad, where can people connect with you? And if you want to give a little bit of a shout out to Success Panda uh and and how people can get engaged with Success Panda, now's your chance.

SPEAKER_00: 34:36

Yeah, no, just check us out at successpanda.io. And then feel free to uh you can send me an email at Brad at SuccessPanda.io or connect with me on LinkedIn.

SPEAKER_01: 34:46

I love that. Well, thank you again for being here. Uh your your wisdom on this topic is so great. You've been such a motivator and inspiration to me. So um, thank you for your time and for giving today.

SPEAKER_00: 34:57

Thanks, Janelle.

SPEAKER_01: 34:58

Really appreciate it. All right. Well, as we wrap today's episode, I'm gonna encourage you to be inspired, to feel deeply, to fearlessly and authentically move forward, to keep leaning into your feelings and emotions because transformation starts within. See you next Friday.