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What is your why? Why do you do what you do?

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Well, I've been a professional owner.

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I've been a speaker since I was 15 and my late father died.

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20. My father died 25 years ago when I was 15.

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He took me to Toastmasters and in 1984, I was South African Toastmasters champion.

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And so I've always loved being a speaker.

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And when I started my financial services group, I spoke a lot and I've sold over a

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billion dollars of mortgages from stage.

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When I had my stints and I had to re-evaluate what I wanted to do with my life.

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I decided that that's my why.

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My why was to share the the ups and downs, the learnings, the the bad times and the good

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times with audiences.

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But with a very much a focused approach to them.

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So although I have sort of standard talks that I do, every single one is customized

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to the audience, to the people I'm talking to, to the experience that they are having.

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And that's my why. That's what drives me.

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When I when I when I see the lights come on in people's eyes and the dots joining in

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their heads, then I know I'm making an impact.