1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,360 How do leaders lean into that funding? 2 00:00:02,360 --> 00:00:04,840 You had talked about stepping into a new you, 3 00:00:04,840 --> 00:00:06,760 can you go further into detail about that? 4 00:00:06,760 --> 00:00:10,320 Definitely, so to lean into this funding, 5 00:00:10,320 --> 00:00:14,880 it's giving yourself permission to fail 6 00:00:14,880 --> 00:00:17,640 is one, going back to that aspect of that idea. 7 00:00:17,640 --> 00:00:19,680 If your fear is failing, 8 00:00:19,680 --> 00:00:21,680 and that's why you're not funding your vision, 9 00:00:21,680 --> 00:00:23,000 then I wanna encourage you 10 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:25,040 to give yourself permission to fail. 11 00:00:25,040 --> 00:00:29,400 And understand that it's not up to you 12 00:00:29,400 --> 00:00:32,200 when it comes to letting someone else down, 13 00:00:32,200 --> 00:00:35,520 because it may seem counterintuitive, 14 00:00:35,520 --> 00:00:38,320 but essentially people were believing enough 15 00:00:38,320 --> 00:00:42,040 or you're believing enough in your vision to fund it. 16 00:00:42,040 --> 00:00:44,400 And therefore, if you don't believe enough in your vision, 17 00:00:44,400 --> 00:00:46,600 how do you expect anyone else to? 18 00:00:46,600 --> 00:00:49,960 And it's kind of getting, shifting out of that mindset 19 00:00:49,960 --> 00:00:52,160 of that doubt and disbelief. 20 00:00:52,160 --> 00:00:55,120 And even like you mentioned that I mentioned before, 21 00:00:55,120 --> 00:00:59,000 it's really becoming the person that you need to be. 22 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:02,240 And I even take that to a different approach, 23 00:01:02,240 --> 00:01:04,600 because I truly believe that the person 24 00:01:04,600 --> 00:01:08,800 that we've been created to be is already inside of us. 25 00:01:08,800 --> 00:01:12,040 But unfortunately, the life up until now 26 00:01:12,040 --> 00:01:15,320 has really shaped us to see ourselves the wrong way. 27 00:01:15,320 --> 00:01:17,840 We're living, I love Myron Goldin said it, 28 00:01:17,840 --> 00:01:20,240 a lie identity instead of an identity. 29 00:01:20,240 --> 00:01:22,600 And I would love to take credit for that, 30 00:01:22,600 --> 00:01:26,240 but I can't Myron is a genius when it comes to that idea. 31 00:01:26,240 --> 00:01:28,760 But it's that idea and I look at it as a story. 32 00:01:28,760 --> 00:01:32,280 Like I'm not sure you and your audience 33 00:01:32,280 --> 00:01:35,240 may know who Michelangelo is, I would hope so. 34 00:01:35,240 --> 00:01:37,720 He's one of the amazing artists, 35 00:01:37,720 --> 00:01:39,680 painters, sculptors that are out there. 36 00:01:39,680 --> 00:01:43,600 And I always think back to when he made the statue, 37 00:01:43,600 --> 00:01:48,360 the sculpture of David, he literally took a huge hunk of rock 38 00:01:48,360 --> 00:01:50,160 and turned it into this masterpiece 39 00:01:50,160 --> 00:01:52,760 of this strong biblical character. 40 00:01:52,760 --> 00:01:56,360 And I remember there was a story where this guy 41 00:01:56,360 --> 00:01:59,920 was asking him, how in the world did you take nothing, 42 00:01:59,920 --> 00:02:02,080 essentially just a big old hunk of rock 43 00:02:02,080 --> 00:02:06,320 and somehow see the masterpiece of this sculpture in it? 44 00:02:06,320 --> 00:02:08,320 And he said, it's simple, I just chiseled away 45 00:02:08,320 --> 00:02:10,120 the parts that weren't David. 46 00:02:10,120 --> 00:02:13,520 And I feel like that's what we as leaders 47 00:02:13,520 --> 00:02:15,960 should do in our life, whether it's getting a coach 48 00:02:15,960 --> 00:02:18,320 or a mentor like myself that can help you 49 00:02:18,320 --> 00:02:20,800 not only see the blind spots, but see the strengths 50 00:02:20,800 --> 00:02:23,120 and what you're doing to help you fly 51 00:02:23,120 --> 00:02:26,120 and chisel away those stories that have been told 52 00:02:26,120 --> 00:02:30,640 over you, over me even, that we believed all our lives. 53 00:02:30,640 --> 00:02:32,960 And if we can chisel away those stories 54 00:02:32,960 --> 00:02:35,680 and what's left is the person that we are 55 00:02:35,680 --> 00:02:37,840 and the person we've been created to be. 56 00:02:37,840 --> 00:02:41,280 So when we're becoming the person we're created to be, 57 00:02:41,280 --> 00:02:43,240 a lot of it is unbecoming the things 58 00:02:43,240 --> 00:03:02,240 that we've been told we have to be.