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six years, I could be wrong. those dates, but it's been quite a while, so our company closes twice a year and now the company is in a place where not everyone in customer service takes those exact same two weeks, so they stagger so we can take care of people, but everyone has two weeks of dark time two weeks of dark time and the good thing about that is that you don't have FOMO thinking that you're out and there's all these other things happening and there are projects moving forward and there are these things that You want to be involved, but you feel that tension because the rest of the company is moving forward and you're trying to relax, so it's been a game changer for us.

Wow as a team about five years ago, yeah, interesting, have you felt any negative effects from that? What if you took a month off in the winter and a month off, there's too much time where you're fine, now people say that's a big question, we haven't tried it so I don't know, two weeks for us they felt like a really beautiful amount of space, so over the last two years, we've gotten feedback and we've all talked about what we do when we come back and also shared very openly how it feels and

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Since the break they're so excited to get back from work, it's almost like a little joke, they're like, "Oh my god, I miss you guys so much," and they talked about how they spend time with their families and the adventures they've had. how they had the opportunity to refresh and renew themselves and they came with all these ideas, they didn't work on those ideas while they were away, it's just them, they came up with it because they had the opportunity to do it, yeah, and this is the other interesting thing. Which is Louis, I'm very proud of this and a lot of times I don't find out about this until after the fact, they come back and I see these photos uploaded to Slack, they want to hang out together.

Wow, and I was like. That's cool, awesome, that's cool, yeah. Wow, change those four weeks from the paid ones or is it simply that we are free and you take

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time off. No, they are paid. That's great, yeah. We have pretty good benefits because I feel like in our culture I was talking about this last night with my creative director we were having dinner and you know it's such a strange environment that so many people who work for companies feel scared mm-hmm like they feel expendable mmm like they don't had a sense of loyalty and we were talking about someone we know collectively who is super talented, but in an industry where things are changing rapidly and this person you know always has this undercurrent of not knowing if they're going to be fired or not because of budgets or this or that and there is not necessarily a connection between the employee and the employer and it is true that many people may be fine this is how the business works, this is how it should be and I do not agree with that since I want to the people who work for me and with me to feel a sense of security and protection.

I mean, nothing is guaranteed. I get hit by a bus, but you know, you don't know that something can happen, but all of that is out of our control, but in one day. day by day so that someone feels that if they are contributing their best gifts, their talents and their time to an organization, that organization is also equally committed to their health and well-being, their sanity, their ability to fully present themselves so that their family has time to have flexibility. I think that's where we need to go if we want to create real change in our culture.

I mean, there's a statistic that's been around for a while that says about 70 percent of people here in the United States are actively disengaged from their work, you know? I understand about two hours actively. You know, maybe there's two hours of work a day, right? Or even the feeling that they have toward their job like they're not satisfied with it. They're, you know, doing the paperwork just by showing up, they're doing it just because they get a paycheck, there's no point or purpose to it and the economic repercussions of having 70% of our workforce disconnected from work, they don't like their jobs.

Not being satisfied with this is huge, which says nothing of the emotional, psychological or spiritual cost of having that proportion of our workforce unhappy. Yes, that's true. Wow, yeah, that's good. What are the things you think you are not doing well in

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life? business I think a lot of these have started to change with this book project, so I tend to be a person. This comes from two places. I like to get involved in things because I'm very collaborative here, so I love seeing how things are. I come out and I love giving them my opinion or at least having my opinion, but at the same time you know that can be overbearing.

I don't want people to feel like they have to constantly have things happen to me. You know my team. I definitely know I trust them, so what I haven't done well in the past is delegate enough control, and particularly with this project it's pushed us all so far outside our collective comfort zones that it's been a pleasure to be like that. you guys make the decision you're amazing you're smart you're smart whatever you choose um we'll be happy with Wow yeah that's hard to do put that aside right it's been great let's get started it's been really great like the The fact that I'm like this of awake and happy and as in this moment it speaks to me, you know, of letting go and letting Jesus take the wheel and in this case Jesus manifests itself as my team just lets people make decisions and move forward, yes, you. do what you have to do and then yeah, don't do what they do, yeah, it's the only way to have sanity.

What do you think is missing in your life? Honestly, I'll probably sound like an idiot saying this. I do not do it. I feel like I'm missing something. First of all, I feel very grateful for everything. The fact that I have health. The fact that I have a team and people that I love and people that love me. And I don't feel like there's a Overall, if that makes sense, what do you think you'll regret if you don't do something in the next ten years? Hmm, so you've been launching this version two of your business for ten years now.

I would say yes, SSS. and now the next decade is coming up, what would you regret if it's 2030, we're doing this again sitting here and you're like, I'm really mad at myself because I didn't do this in my personal life and in my business. health my family the world yes, I would say the only thing I can foresee right now without regret is not continuing to take that quality time with the people I love, that would be what if for some reason I started to justify myself correctly, this opportunity is What amazing, I go here like this, it would be the only thing that would be really transparent with you, yes, because looking back on these last 10 years, quality time with the people that I love is everything and I know that this so viscerally in my body is that We are not going to be here forever mm-hmm and we never know when the people we love are gone, so for me there is nothing more important than maintaining, enriching and deepening those personal relationships, such as those of friendship, Josh, my family I can see so clearly the success on an external level, it is incredible and I am grateful for it, but nothing can compensate for not having a sense of love in your life and not having people who matter to you and who accompany you. inverted, so there's nothing I can strive for or achieve that's more important than this if that makes sense, yeah, of course, yeah, you probably asked us a lot, is my hair real?

They asked me for that one too, it's like those. extensions I know, dude, I knew it was like that, but I just wanted that, yeah, no, I get it, the kids, the kid thing, hmm, do you feel like, oh yeah, I think he asked this? I get asked this a lot, but do women ever feel pressure or judged or whatever criticized because you don't have kids yet and I think you don't want to have kids coming along, you know, that's how it is, so I want to flirt with all of them because each one of those you mentioned pushed, judged or criticized, so let's continue with pressure drugs or criticism because they are very different flavors, so at this stage they don't ask me as much anymore because I have been talking about it very constantly and trying to Be as loving and direct as possible about the topic.

The fact that I never wanted to have children and the truth about the fact that I consciously or unconsciously chose a man who already had a child, so a part of me clearly wanted to be a stepmother because I am one and I love my stepson and him it's amazing so there's that but I never wanted to have my own biological children why do you think you know? I didn't want to get married either. I just believe that we are all born with these innate desires and sometimes we adopt them. Expectations from our family, from society, from the culture we grew up in, for whatever reason.

I feel like I came to this earth with a very clear internal compass of the things I would like to explore, learn or experience, and a very clear compass as well. one of those things that I'm just NOT interested in, I don't want them for other people, it's almost like when you go to a beautiful buffet and you walk up and say, oh my God, there are these vegetables and oh, there are these. Deserts and these possibilities do not necessarily take from every option there is, you are naturally attracted to some things more than others and that is why in my life I have always known what I want to pursue and the little dish that has children. and the little dish that is like receiving several of you was that I simply thought that it is not for me, desire, it is not my path and that is why, at the beginning of my life, many people told me that I was making the worst mistake I have ever made. task.

I will regret both the marriage and the baby, not having babies and mostly babies, mostly babies, was that I was going to get to a certain age and just completely hate myself and like the rules were wrong. I like that he was going to die alone and I'm like he was going to die alone anyway, that's exactly true enough, hoarding has died with someone else, not unless you know he has something and Elaine likes him, so there was that in terms of you know, so the sentiment was judged about it and criticized, let's go to those pockets because that's interesting to me.

I've had people and I can understand this, so I understand it, but I think there's room to explore and have a discussion, you know, when it comes to having a conversation about productivity. having a conversation about business growth having a conversation about priorities you know and people can be very bold and brave in an Instagram comment where they wouldn't be around so you know if you were sitting on the other side of the table and just having a conversation outside Like Well, it's easy for you to say those of us who have children and I think that now, all of a sudden, everything that comes out of my mouth suddenly has no merit because I haven't biologically given birth to a child through my vagina. .

That's really where we're going to take this, oh, and by the way, let's look at other people that I've worked with who have seven children, eight children, who say, oh, I found value in this principle and this is how it came to me. this idea occurred. I work in the context of my life, so I think it's really interesting that someone judges another person by their choices. You know what I mean? So I guess how do you handle being judged for that or anything? absolutely no attention F yeah I just don't do it because you know the more you care about what other people think the more they own you the more power they have over you yeah and it's like I want people to win that's what I am as a person.

I want people to win I want them to be well I want them to succeed If there's anything I can share, even a little nugget of what I share helps them become who they want to be and I feel like I've done that. my job successfully I have all the answers by no means does anyone have all the answers but I do believe that what we create in our company and the programs we create and the things we share help people find their own answers, so Honestly, no I care, yeah, I really don't care, because if someone takes the time to make that comment or that judgment, my perspective would be that there is something in their own life that is not working and that is putting them in danger. in that position of feeling pain or feeling like you have to judge someone else to justify what's happening in your own life, I just don't think that gets us anywhere, so what do you do when people judge you online or ?

Do you just delete it? Do you just leave it and not say thanks for the comments and move on if it depends? I think contextually as if someone had a different opinion and expressed it respectfully. It's amazing if someone is being hateful and tries to do it. incite other people into a space of negativity and there is no basis, in fact, there is no desire to have a meaningful conversation again depending on where it is, as if we have a very, very clear and strong boundary in our programs, as if there is zero negativity, zero drama zero. policy we have because no one can learn if they are in an unsafe environment and if they feelIn a rural area he could find food that he could tolerate and he could get medical equipment that would allow his mother to spend her last days and, indeed, her last five weeks at home, which is where she wanted to be, so she wrote and said it In fact.

Turns out everything is resolved and thank you for sharing that talk that made a difference for me and my mom who live on the other side of the world so I just wanted to say that for anyone listening who is struggling with one. Of those really difficult hard truths, there is still the ability to use this idea to awaken an innate power that you have within yourself to discover things that will make a tremendous difference even in the midst of really challenging circumstances. Yes, those are two powerful final questions. It's called the three truths question at the end, okay, so imagine that you have achieved everything you want and you live as long as you want, but at one point you have to say yes, okay, you are one hundred and two hundred, whatever you want to be. . as much as you want and you have created everything you want again, but for some reason you have to take all your work with you, all your written words, your audio, your video books, whatever it is that you have created, it must go with you to the next world wherever it goes, okay, so there will be no more access to it, okay, but you have a piece of paper and a pen to write down three things that you know are true about your entire life and the lessons you learn that you would share with the world, you won the three lessons for the world, okay, but they would have to remember you for but it's also like a guide for their life, okay, what would you say?

They are your three truths. Don't try to square all this. They would be everything. It would be this. It's all about discovering a ball. mm-hmm, everything is discovering a ball. by the way, it's all about discovering a ball, I'm not kidding, there you have it, it was good, it turned out well, perfect, simple and the last question is what is your definition of greatness. My definition of greatness inspired by how I see success inspired by the great Mayans. Angelou's success is that I like who I am, that I like what I do and that I like how I do it, so I think that greatness is an expression that is an extension of liking who you like, liking like what you do and like how you do it, if those things are aligned. one of us can feel that it is great m-m-m-marrying for you I love it thank you, thank you