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Speaker 2Welcome back to another episode of the Jasmine star show. Whether you're listening on the go at home during a workout or maybe you are sipping your morning coffee. So cheers to that. I am so glad you tuned in today because my friend, wherever you are, you need to hear this message. So on a Saturday morning, just a few weeks ago, my podcast manager asked me, if you were to write a book, what would it be? Okay. Well I actually wasn't going to get into the actual story cause that made it sound like we were sitting by a fire. We were pontificating the actual, the actual story was I was seated on a plane coming home from Nashville and we had an opportunity to hang out and she texted me, Hey, I had this random dream that you wrote a book and I was helping you talk about it. That's the actual story. And as I read her text on the plane, I knew that there was a book inside of me. Like she said, I had a dream. You wrote a book and I just nodded my head like, yeah, that book, it's inside me. And if you're listening to this, you might think it's a little weird for me to talk that way, but I should probably remind you that I was homeschooled and my mom was a hippie and she was really, really creative. Like she was one of those moms who was like, anything that you create has always existed inside of you and it's your job to bring it out in the world. Now about half of you listening are nodding your heads to be like, yeah, I totally get that. And the other half of you are like, that's really weird and I'm okay with it. I am okay. But I have chosen to like follow suit because there were too many times in my life where I knew something was in me and it had to come out. When I was nine years old, my mom asked us, because being the hippie she is, she didn't use school bucks because we actually couldn't afford school books . So she would just make up a curriculum off the top of her mind. Now, I know that sounds crazy, but it was also just like our life and so she asked me, what do you want to learn about? And I said I want to know everything there is to know about Australia. So my mom found me a pen pal in Australia and I've spent an entire semester learning about Australia. I studied koalas for science, I studied Sydney opera house for geography. I studied the aboriginals for history. It was like I fell in love with this place that was in my imagination and when I told my mom I'm going to go to Australia one day my mom just nodded and said, yeah, you now to other people that might not sound like a big deal, but when you have like government assistance, when you have food donated on your porch and like when you do your Christmas shopping or Easter outfit shopping and you're doing it at a thrift store, when you're looking across from your kid and your child says, I'm going to go to Australia. Maybe some parents would be like, maybe we should check a book out from the library and see how that goes. But not my mom. My mom was the kind of person who said, yes you are. And when I was 27 years old on a ferry sailing past the Sydney opera house, I cried big fat tears. It was as if my mom knew that the thing inside of me had to come out because that was my future. I knew that was the thing I was supposed to do. And so if you're listening to this right now and there's something on the inside that you know has to come out, friend, let it come out. Give yourself the ability to dream that one day you will be sitting on a proverbial ferry watching the thing you dreamt about. Pass on by. So when Christie says, Hey, I had this dream that he wrote a book and it was kind of like, ha ha, I read her text and I instantly knew, yeah, there's a book inside me, like I don't know what it is, but it's there. And so she said like, what would it be about? And I texted her, just do it, you know, like Nike, but way less cool. I continued to text her the thoughts. They were just kind of like pouring out of my head and I wrote whatever it is, just do it. Make it, break it, learn from it. Be afraid of it. Love it. Standby it. Get others to love it. Just do the dang thing. Yeah. I mean I am a stream of consciousness texter. I mean it. You want to hear this and you'd get like a litany of like 16 texts . Trust me. It's enduring. These ideas just come to me. Now, of course I want to state plainly, I am not writing a book right now. No, this is not going to be a future podcast pitch to preorder my book. No, I don't have a book deal. I am not speaking to any publishers. Although one day I believe the time will come, but this episode is not about my text messaging ideas. It's not about Australia. It is about a message I really desperately want to share with the world. Just do it. That's it. You see every single week I speak to thousands of business owners who have amazing gifts, big hearts, and they have these wild dreams of sharing those gifts with the world. I am beyond blessed to connect with you every single day, but maybe you can relate to these business owners because I know I can and sometimes they can be held back by their fear. They spend their days wanting, wishing desperately, hoping that they will make a difference, but yet they're unable to take action because of their fears, because of doubts, because of haters, because of an inner critic saying, who are you to want that life? Who are you to dream that big? Who are you to make that amount? And I get it. For a long time, I have been opened that I had struggled and battled depression for a very long time. I've gone through the highest of highs and the lowest of lows. I have hit rock bottom more than once and there were times in getting out of bed was the hardest thing to do with the help from my friends and families and getting a lot of professional help. I have been able to work through my darkest moments. But one of the biggest lessons I learned to overcome this is that we are not guaranteed another year on this earth. We are not guaranteed another month, another week. We are not guaranteed a single other second. And I don't know about you, but that fact alone is enough to make me get out of bed every morning, put on some big hoop earrings and take action. Even though my knees are shaking, even though my voice is wavering. And even when it feels like the whole world is watching, this is why I do it. Scared. I am not guaranteed tomorrow and not even guaranteed the next minute. And because of this, I will do it scared because not doing it scared is robbing the universe of the thing that I have been put here to do. And when you don't do the thing that you have been put here to do, you are robbing others of the blessing that you are. So do it. Scared a new year's Eve. Um , just a few minutes before ringing in the new year in 2005, my family stood around my mom's hospital bed and we had noisemakers and we were party hats. The doctors told me , dad, that it was time for my family to make funeral arrangements, that my mother's brain cancer was not responding to chemotherapy any longer, but we wore party hats because we continued to hope. Yesterday though I called my mom. She is all say around the age of 65, give or take 10 years. Uh , because my mom refuses for me to talk about her age on my podcast. She's give or take 65 today and we are making plans for JD and I to go over for dinner against all odds. My mother battled cancer and she won. As we celebrate each year of her life, we acknowledge the ever present reminder that life is short. In 2005, I dropped out of law school and I started my first business as I sat my mom in her hospital bed on new year's Eve. I promised myself to live a full life, a fearless life, a reckless life, an exciting life. In that moment, I realized I never wanted to lay in a hospital bed and wonder what if 14 years later I am making plans with my mother for dinner and I randomly blurted out or the phone, thank you for showing me how to fight for what a wanted, had a clean to hope and how to live like chemotherapy stopped working. Here's to never wondering what if, because I know you, you love to do what you were called to do, whether it's dog-walking photographing, interior decorating or accounting, you know, just like I do that when you love creating, you make time. You find time. You acknowledge the potential to fail. You acknowledge the potential to succeed. You find yourself drinking extra coffee as needed. You cry easily. You laugh easily. You hustle when the odds are stacked against you. You believe when others doubt you work even when you're on vacation because it isn't work. When you love what you do, continue creating. Continue standing in your strains and doing what you have been called to do. Your success is a foregone conclusion and if you simply acted like you knew that to be true, what would you do? Would you start the YouTube channel? Would you hire a team member? Add a new service, invest in your personal development, write a post. You see, it's amazing how big we are. Allow ourselves to dream. If we know we will be successful. So let's play pretend like let's pretend like the same way we did when we were in elementary school. Let's act as if we were destined to succeed. Do the work. Take the first step, continue running. One day you'll look back and you will see how far you've come. Remembering this right here was the moment that changed everything. Friend, I hope that you're inspired today. I hope that one day today as you are writing about koalas and the Sydney opera house, whatever that is for you, that in 10 15 2025 years from now, that you stand in front of the thing that you know has been inside of you. If you feel in your heart that you need to hear this message or you know somebody who needs to hear this message, can you please share this with them? Because life is short and I just want to stand up and say, Hey y'all, let's do this because we're not guaranteed tomorrow, and what could we do and how could we impact the world? And what changes could we make if we did it to gather? If you liked this episode in your sharing it on social, can you please tag me at Jasmine star so I can personally send a DM to thank you. Every single tag, every single share review and rating helps get the Jasmine star show inside of the earbuds of more people just like you. And I appreciate your help in my pursuit of helping entrepreneurs is I believe that you can do it. I believe that nothing is impossible and I believe that you are enough. The world needs what you have to share. Friend, and I look forward to talking to you again in a future episode.
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