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my friends welcome to this special episode of the sheep get sheared podcast

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I'm your host Austin creed and my friends I did a piece and that I'll probably

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put in with this video called the crossroads and the reason I called it

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the crossroads was well it's actually a long story but essentially today's

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episode along with what you're about to hear is an ongoing story not one even

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though this is not a live show it's something that's ongoing and so as it's

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something I'm currently in you're getting a little backstage pass into my life

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we could say you don't care well that's okay you don't have to care right now

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because as the show grows this will become a piece of sheep get sheared

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history in which I will refer back and the loyal fans of the show will remember

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forever but that being the case I'm getting a little off topic the topic of

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the today's show is the crossroads and it's about making hard choices which is

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ironic because I literally did a whole show about hard choices not too long ago

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and so it was very fitting I suppose but my friends the problem is it's easy to

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talk the game and not know what you're gonna do when life really gives you a

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pipslap in the face and your face with a difficult choice you know difficult

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choices are easy to plan for but you can't plan for everything because you

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think you know what's gonna happen you look at watch the movies you listen to

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other people go through hard times and you think you know what the plan for but

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you never truly know how you're gonna respond until a situation presents itself

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and the current situation that I'm in is having to decide between the career that

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I've been working on for the last couple months my couple I mean since August of

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last year or do I do something else now my passion is this show my passion is to

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write books my passion is to do this show and to explain to myself and to you

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how the world as I see it and talking about people politics popular culture

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and about men's issues that's what this show is all about the show was made when

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I was back in college because I was sick and tired of people talking about issues

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that I could counter late on but not fully they didn't approach it in the way

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that I wanted or dive deep enough in topics that I cared about and I could

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sense that you yes you listening to the show whether it's on your computer on

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your iPhone your Android or on Chrome you know that this show hits you

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differently you know that you're listening to this show and you would

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normally have hung up by now but you're you're interested you want to know what's

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going on behind the scene you want to understand and you can hear the

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anguish in my voice because you know that something's going on and my friends

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you know I'll tell you the story I'll tell you a story probably because my boss

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doesn't listen to the show or he doesn't even know the show exists I don't

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advertise it to him it's kind of like my private snapshot if you will or my my

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private Instagram if you know what I'm talking about my boss came to me so this

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last week I'll start the beginning this last week I was at a conference for my

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work and this conference was every single day eight to five o'clock with lunch and

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a couple breaks here and there but we were just learning all about the roofing

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business all about what was going on when it comes to roofing siding gutter work

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and how to relate to customers how to deal with manufacturers you know stuff

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that is largely kind of boring but it's incredibly important to our job the

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problem was as the week progressed the drama that had been building over the

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course of the last couple months started to really simmer and heat up and then

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it started to boil over and that boil over point happened yesterday yesterday

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my boss comes up to me and tells me Austin here's what's going on you got to

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get rid of your girlfriend and I said what he said yeah I don't want her on

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my team you remember my girlfriend right her name is Reagan she was on the show

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before she on the show last yeah so in other words he wants my girl he wants

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me to break up and fire my girlfriend and to do that immediately or he wants me

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off his team so essentially I'm having somebody dictate to me what I need to do

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with my life now don't get it twisted he's not an evil man he's done a lot of

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good for me in the last couple of months but the problem is I don't like the way

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the table is set I left the military well I didn't leave it I was medically

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separated because there were so many issues going on in my life and I tried

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to just get away from that type of environment that was just so unbelievably

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stressful on me like that and not only stressful but toxic and yet here I am in

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the same exact situation I tried to run from I tried running from it and yet here

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I am and so my friends the crossroads is real he literally even told me he said

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the crossroads are here you're looking at it there's a path to the left there's a

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path to the right behind you is the chasm of the past you can and when you

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lean back you can feel and a little pebbles does a trickle off right into

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the ravine you can't go back can only go forwards you gotta choose the left path

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or the right path and that's where I'm at right now that's what this weekend is

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all about because I have to decide my fate and my friends I'll tell you the

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truth I'm really leaning towards not doing the job I'm doing right now and

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going full-on content creation focusing on the building this show because this

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show has been around for a year and a half almost two years now and it's been

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a part-time thing but I want this to be my full-time show I want to go back to

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having a full camera set up I want to go back to really throwing myself into this

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show because this show is what I'm passionate about I love talking to you

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my friends who listen to the show you may not know me in real life but to you

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you know parts of me I mean man that you've never maybe met more than a lot

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of the people in my life who know me and my friends you're special to me even

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though we're not big just yet this show is the most important thing in my life

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truth be told because to me you matter a lot it's very easy to get caught up in

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the big marketing of other shows and it's really easy to just not listen to

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people and as I've talked to some of you my YouTube comment section and sometimes

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you hit me up on X the more I interact with people more I realize how important

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this show is there are people I listen to when I was younger that helped shape my

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life coach Greg Adams is a huge one shout out to him Stephus Cole was a huge

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one these guys are gonna need no more like reddish pill guys but dude perfect

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wasn't he ways to watch them a lot with their type of content and my friends

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it's incredibly important that wherever you might be facing in your life I don't

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know what you're doing but it's important to never just take what you're

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given it's important and realize if you don't like the way the table is set

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don't be afraid to turn over that table do what Jesus did walk up to the tax

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collectors table and flip that right over don't take that don't just sit there

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and say you know what I like where this table is set by gotta choose something

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no no you don't powers like real estate it's all about location location

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location and I found myself in a very unsavory location frankly and it's not

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the first time either I'll tell you that my friends I'm sure you've been in

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situations that were very unsavory yourself where you like the wood the hand

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you've been doubted felt like you maybe you you've given away three cards gotten

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free back in like I'm gonna throw back in you got more maybe through on four and

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you got back for that's where I'm at right now my friends I don't want to fold

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those songs like no win fold them no win to walk away no win no run I'm telling

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you my friends I'm trying to get away from the situation I'm trying to get

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clarity so I can make the right choice because when you're on a crossroads

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sometimes none and I'm I'm saying don't I mean none no option seems right or

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these all seem like they have merit and you don't know which one to choose I feel

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you I'm in it right now but what I will tell you is you have to slow down and

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ask yourself what do you actually care about I don't know my son really self

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improving hokey motivational speaker type but I really want you to pause and do

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what I've been doing over the last day and ask yourself what do you actually

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want to do because a lot of the jobs and working ever since I left the

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military have been to help fundraise to afford to do this show buy better

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equipment to get better marketing material to reach out to a wider

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audience that's what this these jobs around I've been really pouring into is

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to find to help build this show and the brand of the sheep get sheared podcast

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and knowing that the wolves aren't just slaughtering the sheep anymore they're

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shearing them coming back every season and taking something from them over and

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over and over again and my friends we are the sheep who are getting sheared over

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by not only corporations the government big tech I could go on and on and on and

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it's important that we highlight this because it's something I'm passionate

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about I love doing this I know some of you who love listening to the show you

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can't get enough of it how I know because you're here every single show my

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friends this is gonna unfold as days go on and I'm gonna let you know how

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everything plays out the more I learn but don't be afraid to let me know what

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you think of the show what you weigh in on this I want to know what you think

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because I'm on a very difficult choice that I have to make do I go out in the

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unknown or do I play it safe do I really go full on what I care about or do I

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play it safe I risk it all risk a little bit or risk none let me know what you

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think about the subject how do you how's it affected you what are you doing in

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your life and how has it played out for you when you've had to make a hard choice

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like this my friends let me know I want to hear what you have to say because

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your input your input matters to me we might not know each other face to face

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or maybe we do but I really want you to know that your opinion matters to me I

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wish I could sit down either at the pub or at the coffee shop and have a drink

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with y'all and we can talk about this but you take care of yourself my friends

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I'll let you know what happens as the days go on and then decisions are made

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take care of yourselves I'm not here peace