WEBVTT 00:00:08.589 --> 00:00:11.509 What's going on, Pursuers? Welcome to The Pursuit 00:00:11.509 --> 00:00:14.710 of Calling, the podcast that provides you with 00:00:14.710 --> 00:00:17.629 the strategies and tools needed to successfully 00:00:17.629 --> 00:00:21.149 discover and pursue your calling. Whether it's 00:00:21.149 --> 00:00:23.609 through inspiring stories, thought -provoking 00:00:23.609 --> 00:00:26.530 interviews, or quick, insightful episodes on 00:00:26.530 --> 00:00:28.929 personal growth and development, we've got you 00:00:28.929 --> 00:00:32.729 covered. I'm your host, Thomas Carney. Enjoy 00:00:32.729 --> 00:00:41.729 the episode. All right. Hey, Yolanda, how's it 00:00:41.729 --> 00:00:46.070 going? Hi, Thomas. Good. How are you? I'm doing 00:00:46.070 --> 00:00:48.329 good. I'm doing good. Thank you for your yes. 00:00:48.390 --> 00:00:51.490 Thank you for agreeing to be on the podcast. 00:00:53.409 --> 00:00:56.590 You're so welcome. It's my honor to be here with 00:00:56.590 --> 00:01:02.090 you. For those who don't know, I met Yolanda 00:01:02.090 --> 00:01:06.719 at IMC. which I've brought up multiple times 00:01:06.719 --> 00:01:10.299 and have had other guests on that I met there 00:01:10.299 --> 00:01:16.500 as well. And Yolanda, we got to talking. The 00:01:16.500 --> 00:01:21.439 reason I got the chance to ask her onto the show 00:01:21.439 --> 00:01:25.900 was because it was a seemingly random conversation 00:01:25.900 --> 00:01:31.400 where I went just to say hi to a guy that I was 00:01:31.400 --> 00:01:34.540 at my... was at my table and she was there having 00:01:34.540 --> 00:01:39.599 a conversation with them as well. And it ended 00:01:39.599 --> 00:01:43.739 up being a, I don't know, hour and a half, two 00:01:43.739 --> 00:01:47.219 hour. It was a long conversation just about, 00:01:47.280 --> 00:01:50.939 uh, what we're going, what our goals are, why 00:01:50.939 --> 00:01:54.079 we're doing what we're doing. Um, Yolanda is, 00:01:54.180 --> 00:01:56.420 um, with Maxwell's going down the coat of the, 00:01:56.439 --> 00:02:01.430 uh, speaking track. Um, and I'm, uh, like, you 00:02:01.430 --> 00:02:03.090 know, I, I go through the coaching, you know, 00:02:03.129 --> 00:02:05.829 I have my, um, the free coaching sessions that 00:02:05.829 --> 00:02:10.189 you can, um, you can, uh, sign up for down in 00:02:10.189 --> 00:02:15.810 the show notes and, uh, the, and yeah, we got 00:02:15.810 --> 00:02:18.830 to talking and I remember thinking as Yolanda 00:02:18.830 --> 00:02:24.889 was talking to Adam and I, um, I was like, man, 00:02:24.930 --> 00:02:27.919 I can, it makes sense that she's a speaker. It 00:02:27.919 --> 00:02:29.860 makes sense that that's the track that she went 00:02:29.860 --> 00:02:31.800 down because she captivated our attention and 00:02:31.800 --> 00:02:33.599 without even meaning to, she had almost demanded 00:02:33.599 --> 00:02:38.620 it. So, uh, so it was, so I want you guys to 00:02:38.620 --> 00:02:41.180 just kind of get ready for that because she has 00:02:41.180 --> 00:02:44.080 a lot to say, but she also has, uh, but her, 00:02:44.120 --> 00:02:48.400 a lot of good things to say. Yeah. And, but yeah, 00:02:48.439 --> 00:02:50.259 Yolanda, for those who don't know you, cause 00:02:50.259 --> 00:02:52.620 many people that are listening won't, um, who 00:02:52.620 --> 00:03:00.099 is Yolanda? Well, my name is Yolanda Ayala. I 00:03:00.099 --> 00:03:02.939 live in Los Angeles, California. I'm a nurse. 00:03:03.120 --> 00:03:06.699 I work at UCLA and I've been at UCLA since 2003. 00:03:07.800 --> 00:03:12.479 And that had been my childhood dream is to become 00:03:12.479 --> 00:03:15.099 a nurse. So when I was eight years old, where 00:03:15.099 --> 00:03:17.520 the seed was planted was when I was eight years 00:03:17.520 --> 00:03:20.620 old, I was on vacation with my family and I was 00:03:20.620 --> 00:03:24.400 hit by a car. And fast forward of being in the 00:03:24.400 --> 00:03:29.919 hospital for over two months. That's where it 00:03:29.919 --> 00:03:32.520 was ingrained in my brain of becoming a nurse 00:03:32.520 --> 00:03:36.979 because of what happened to me. And I would see 00:03:36.979 --> 00:03:41.759 the nurses. And I remember clearly of I was being 00:03:41.759 --> 00:03:45.060 advocate for the other patients. I was the most 00:03:45.060 --> 00:03:50.439 critical kid in that unit. Yet I was the outspoken 00:03:50.439 --> 00:03:56.219 one. And there was this one nurse that. I was 00:03:56.219 --> 00:03:59.280 just not a fond of, and I'm like, I want to make 00:03:59.280 --> 00:04:02.879 a difference. Fast forward to becoming a nurse, 00:04:03.039 --> 00:04:06.419 moving from a small town, all central, leaving 00:04:06.419 --> 00:04:09.199 my family to pursue my dream and moving to Los 00:04:09.199 --> 00:04:13.039 Angeles and becoming a nurse. And it was hard 00:04:13.039 --> 00:04:18.779 work, but I was so determined to be the nurse 00:04:18.779 --> 00:04:21.910 because I would always see myself. And I became 00:04:21.910 --> 00:04:24.149 a certified nursing assistant, which is right 00:04:24.149 --> 00:04:27.550 before becoming a nurse. But I would see myself, 00:04:27.829 --> 00:04:34.689 Yolanda Ayala, RN. I graduated from Glendale 00:04:34.689 --> 00:04:39.290 Community College in 2003 and pursued to go to 00:04:39.290 --> 00:04:43.370 UCLA. And that was my childhood dream, to work 00:04:43.370 --> 00:04:47.350 in a teaching hospital. And within the same time, 00:04:47.370 --> 00:04:49.569 I also worked in a community hospital. So I was 00:04:49.569 --> 00:04:53.870 doing two jobs at the same time. And in that 00:04:53.870 --> 00:05:00.110 pursuit, after 10 years is where I saw myself. 00:05:00.170 --> 00:05:05.870 I felt myself and asking myself, what's next? 00:05:06.949 --> 00:05:10.430 I had worked so hard from eight years old all 00:05:10.430 --> 00:05:14.879 the way into 10 years of my nursing career. And 00:05:14.879 --> 00:05:19.579 this is, you know, like in 2015, 2016, that I 00:05:19.579 --> 00:05:23.300 kept on asking myself, what's next? And I felt 00:05:23.300 --> 00:05:26.639 like a little hamster just going 100 miles an 00:05:26.639 --> 00:05:32.480 hour, not going anywhere is where I saw myself 00:05:32.480 --> 00:05:38.100 at the time. And seeing myself of this is all 00:05:38.100 --> 00:05:41.279 I wanted to do in life, like what happened to 00:05:41.279 --> 00:05:50.990 me. What happened? The guilt kick in. Am I being 00:05:50.990 --> 00:05:55.769 selfish? What else do I want? And it's of living 00:05:55.769 --> 00:06:00.170 my childhood dream and finding myself becoming 00:06:00.170 --> 00:06:04.689 unfulfilled and asking myself those questions 00:06:04.689 --> 00:06:09.850 of what is next is where those emotions kind 00:06:09.850 --> 00:06:15.569 of kicked in. of not being enough feeling lost 00:06:15.569 --> 00:06:21.629 unfulfilled so after 10 years going into 13 years 00:06:21.629 --> 00:06:27.829 of being a nurse I saw myself I don't know what 00:06:27.829 --> 00:06:34.089 else to do and it was up until in 2018 I went 00:06:34.089 --> 00:06:38.329 to my first skincare conference and that was 00:06:38.329 --> 00:06:44.730 my first that was the door of And at the time, 00:06:44.750 --> 00:06:49.009 even though it didn't make sense, because I've 00:06:49.009 --> 00:06:54.050 been a nurse my whole life, yet in 2018 of walking 00:06:54.050 --> 00:06:57.949 into this conference where I saw Mel Robbins, 00:06:58.050 --> 00:07:02.670 who is a personal growth coach, motivational 00:07:02.670 --> 00:07:07.050 speaker, and everything she said just made me 00:07:07.050 --> 00:07:10.660 feel alive. And I asked myself, how did I go 00:07:10.660 --> 00:07:16.220 from reaching the highest mountain of my childhood 00:07:16.220 --> 00:07:20.639 dream to become a nurse and falling into depression, 00:07:20.920 --> 00:07:23.959 to want to commit suicide and not wanting to 00:07:23.959 --> 00:07:29.399 live, to suddenly I felt alive. And what is business 00:07:29.399 --> 00:07:34.199 and nursing? They have nothing to do with each 00:07:34.199 --> 00:07:39.170 other within the time. And it's within that journey 00:07:39.170 --> 00:07:45.649 that more doors started to open onto, you know, 00:07:45.649 --> 00:07:49.329 becoming a business person. So that's pretty 00:07:49.329 --> 00:07:52.370 much where my journey started from being a nurse 00:07:52.370 --> 00:07:58.769 onto business. Wow. And just so people know, 00:07:58.810 --> 00:08:02.470 like, how's that pursuit going right now with 00:08:02.470 --> 00:08:09.290 business? So in 2018, where that first door opened 00:08:09.290 --> 00:08:13.610 of, is this what I want to do? And at the time, 00:08:13.610 --> 00:08:18.670 my only skills at the time was being a mom, a 00:08:18.670 --> 00:08:25.290 nurse, a wife, and that's it. So to do business, 00:08:25.430 --> 00:08:29.170 I had none of those skills, like none whatsoever. 00:08:29.790 --> 00:08:34.210 But I was determined. I was determined exactly 00:08:34.210 --> 00:08:38.350 the same concept of wanting to be a nurse. My 00:08:38.350 --> 00:08:43.610 grit, determination, where do I see myself? I 00:08:43.610 --> 00:08:46.370 don't have the skills, but how can I become? 00:08:47.289 --> 00:08:50.789 And it's within that time, 2018, it was like 00:08:50.789 --> 00:08:53.929 two years right before the pandemic hit. So pandemic 00:08:53.929 --> 00:08:58.029 happened and I was still kind of like just going. 00:08:58.960 --> 00:09:01.460 In that spiral of like, what else do I want to 00:09:01.460 --> 00:09:05.740 do? In the back of my mind, starting that idea 00:09:05.740 --> 00:09:10.320 of my first business. And my friend asked me, 00:09:10.340 --> 00:09:12.759 when we were on lockdown through the most difficult 00:09:12.759 --> 00:09:17.000 time, she's like, Yolanda, who are you? I didn't 00:09:17.000 --> 00:09:19.419 know how to answer. And I'm like, what do you 00:09:19.419 --> 00:09:24.480 mean? Yeah, who are you? I'm like, is this a 00:09:24.480 --> 00:09:27.460 truth or dare question? Like, I had no idea how 00:09:27.460 --> 00:09:31.789 to answer. And it's through personal growth that 00:09:31.789 --> 00:09:34.490 I have learned what she was asking me, what was 00:09:34.490 --> 00:09:38.750 my identity? And I didn't know how to answer. 00:09:40.110 --> 00:09:45.409 And seeing myself of who am I and who do I want 00:09:45.409 --> 00:09:49.750 to become? So I continue pursuing skincare business, 00:09:49.909 --> 00:09:53.769 even though I didn't have any experience at all. 00:09:54.870 --> 00:09:59.360 And I continue just learning. And growing and 00:09:59.360 --> 00:10:03.659 just looking back to how I felt the first time 00:10:03.659 --> 00:10:07.220 I walked into that conference. And I pursued, 00:10:07.360 --> 00:10:10.259 you know, reading books, watching YouTube videos, 00:10:10.840 --> 00:10:16.179 podcasts, audio books, and just learning. And 00:10:16.179 --> 00:10:19.179 in 2018 was when I was introduced also to John 00:10:19.179 --> 00:10:22.980 C. Maxwell and also everything that he said. 00:10:23.690 --> 00:10:27.669 I just enjoyed and I saw myself and my spirit 00:10:27.669 --> 00:10:32.809 just grow. And that's one thing that I kept on 00:10:32.809 --> 00:10:37.330 asking myself, who do I want to become? And it's 00:10:37.330 --> 00:10:40.309 through that difficult times of 2020 during the 00:10:40.309 --> 00:10:45.190 pandemic that I was driving to the desert Palm 00:10:45.190 --> 00:10:49.169 Springs area in California and seeing myself 00:10:49.169 --> 00:10:52.200 like, what else do I want to do? What else do 00:10:52.200 --> 00:10:54.919 I want to see in life? And I kept on asking myself, 00:10:55.039 --> 00:10:59.159 what is my identity? Who am I and who do I want 00:10:59.159 --> 00:11:03.259 to become? And that's where the second business 00:11:03.259 --> 00:11:10.240 came in mind or the ideas of, oh, I can be a 00:11:10.240 --> 00:11:13.879 private nurse and travel. So that was business 00:11:13.879 --> 00:11:17.820 number two. So now it's like five years pursuing 00:11:17.820 --> 00:11:22.299 that. And within that time. that time frame of 00:11:22.299 --> 00:11:26.559 traveling, I was like, well, can I buy an Airbnb? 00:11:26.740 --> 00:11:30.059 Can I buy a home instead of spending so much 00:11:30.059 --> 00:11:34.500 time or so much money at hotels? And that's where 00:11:34.500 --> 00:11:40.740 the third business idea came in of becoming an 00:11:40.740 --> 00:11:45.200 Airbnb owner. And that happened. So that was 00:11:45.200 --> 00:11:48.179 business number three. And throughout my years 00:11:48.179 --> 00:11:54.100 of seeing My growth, more ideas kept on popping 00:11:54.100 --> 00:11:56.740 up. And going back to like, what is my identity 00:11:56.740 --> 00:11:59.779 and who do I want to become? And how do I feel? 00:12:03.700 --> 00:12:07.399 So, sorry if you said it already, but whenever 00:12:07.399 --> 00:12:10.980 you say, what is your identity? What would you 00:12:10.980 --> 00:12:18.960 say it is now? Now I would say. The best version 00:12:18.960 --> 00:12:22.720 of myself is what I ask myself because I go back 00:12:22.720 --> 00:12:27.620 to what I'm doing right now. Skincare, online, 00:12:28.039 --> 00:12:34.360 private duty, nurse, Airbnb, and now in the pursuit 00:12:34.360 --> 00:12:37.440 to become a public speaker and everything else 00:12:37.440 --> 00:12:42.179 that falls under a public speaker, which is so 00:12:42.179 --> 00:12:44.879 many different things, as you know, and coaching 00:12:44.879 --> 00:12:50.690 is one of them. And I ask myself, what do I enjoy 00:12:50.690 --> 00:12:56.070 doing? And what is my pursuit? How do I want 00:12:56.070 --> 00:12:59.389 to feel? And where do I see myself in a year 00:12:59.389 --> 00:13:02.990 from now? And that's the question is that I keep 00:13:02.990 --> 00:13:06.590 asking myself, how am I feeling now day to day 00:13:06.590 --> 00:13:09.389 on what is it that I'm doing? And everything 00:13:09.389 --> 00:13:12.529 that I'm doing, I feel like I'm that eight -year 00:13:12.529 --> 00:13:15.570 -old girl or that little five -year -old girl. 00:13:16.320 --> 00:13:22.799 living her dream because of how I feel. Like 00:13:22.799 --> 00:13:27.299 with nursing, what I noticed the last year when 00:13:27.299 --> 00:13:34.519 I became a nurse is I'm so proud. I am so proud 00:13:34.519 --> 00:13:40.019 to say Yolanda Ayala RN. But in the pursuit of 00:13:40.019 --> 00:13:46.200 building three businesses, And going on to public 00:13:46.200 --> 00:13:50.340 speaking, when I think about or I'm in a situation 00:13:50.340 --> 00:13:53.659 like I was at the IMC on stage for the first 00:13:53.659 --> 00:13:57.679 time, that difference is completely different 00:13:57.679 --> 00:14:00.200 than as a nurse when I go to work. Being proud 00:14:00.200 --> 00:14:06.019 to knowing my calling of standing there and seeing 00:14:06.019 --> 00:14:11.860 myself and how I feel. I feel so alive from the 00:14:11.860 --> 00:14:16.299 inside. is what I've noticed the difference of 00:14:16.299 --> 00:14:21.940 the pursuit of the eight year old girl that was 00:14:21.940 --> 00:14:25.080 in a car accident, the seed planted to become 00:14:25.080 --> 00:14:32.240 a nurse and proud versus now be a public speaker. 00:14:32.559 --> 00:14:37.379 What are my strength and encourage people that 00:14:37.379 --> 00:14:42.159 life, you know, we can. built ourselves to that 00:14:42.159 --> 00:14:50.340 life that we truly want i like that you like 00:14:50.340 --> 00:14:53.440 building the lot building the life that we truly 00:14:53.440 --> 00:14:55.879 want and so you went you went along the path 00:14:55.879 --> 00:15:01.460 of well figuring out your identity figuring out 00:15:01.460 --> 00:15:03.299 what you really wanted to be doing in your life 00:15:03.299 --> 00:15:08.019 and doing what you needed to do to pursue that 00:15:09.080 --> 00:15:14.019 So, I have some questions written down, but I 00:15:14.019 --> 00:15:16.539 think we're kind of off of those by this point. 00:15:16.740 --> 00:15:22.379 But the question that I'm kind of thinking of 00:15:22.379 --> 00:15:29.679 right now, like, whenever you were going through 00:15:29.679 --> 00:15:33.679 and discovering that these were the things that 00:15:33.679 --> 00:15:37.139 you wanted to do, what kind of obstacles did 00:15:37.139 --> 00:15:44.080 you hit? along the way? Through, I would say 00:15:44.080 --> 00:15:47.159 since I was eight years old of becoming a nurse, 00:15:47.320 --> 00:15:52.080 that obstacle was just huge because going to 00:15:52.080 --> 00:15:56.580 nursing school was something that I never thought 00:15:56.580 --> 00:15:59.860 it was possible because of my parents. My parents 00:15:59.860 --> 00:16:02.740 didn't really, more my mom didn't really believe 00:16:02.740 --> 00:16:06.039 in going to school. She didn't really believe 00:16:06.039 --> 00:16:09.250 in At the time, she's like, Yolanda, you need 00:16:09.250 --> 00:16:12.529 to get married. You know, very tradition. And 00:16:12.529 --> 00:16:16.909 I had to battle with, but this is what I want. 00:16:17.230 --> 00:16:21.330 So I had to move out from the small town to Los 00:16:21.330 --> 00:16:25.669 Angeles to pursue. And during the process of 00:16:25.669 --> 00:16:30.250 becoming a nurse, I struggled with myself. Like, 00:16:30.269 --> 00:16:32.889 is this really what I want to do? Even though 00:16:32.889 --> 00:16:35.750 internally I knew what I wanted to do, but school 00:16:35.750 --> 00:16:38.789 was not my strength. And there was no other way 00:16:38.789 --> 00:16:42.990 out. So studying was very hard for me. Staying 00:16:42.990 --> 00:16:47.110 focused was very hard for me. I did have my belief 00:16:47.110 --> 00:16:50.389 that I knew I can accomplish it. But just going 00:16:50.389 --> 00:16:54.330 to school was hard. And at the time, my son was 00:16:54.330 --> 00:16:57.629 only four months old. So I had to go to school 00:16:57.629 --> 00:17:00.470 full time. I still had to work. And my son was 00:17:00.470 --> 00:17:04.390 only four months old. But what I end up doing 00:17:04.390 --> 00:17:07.309 is I was so laser focused and I was determined. 00:17:08.809 --> 00:17:12.009 And I would always put my son first, nursing 00:17:12.009 --> 00:17:16.430 school. And I just focused on that. And it didn't 00:17:16.430 --> 00:17:20.150 give me any room for those obstacles. I pretty 00:17:20.150 --> 00:17:22.990 much just kind of like was laser focused and 00:17:22.990 --> 00:17:26.730 I just ran through them no matter what. I didn't 00:17:26.730 --> 00:17:32.660 give myself that chance to spiral down to. Is 00:17:32.660 --> 00:17:37.039 this really for me? This is hard. I can't do 00:17:37.039 --> 00:17:39.759 it. I never told myself I couldn't do it. I was 00:17:39.759 --> 00:17:42.700 so focused on this is what I'm going to do. And 00:17:42.700 --> 00:17:46.559 my big why was my son. My huge why was my son. 00:17:46.940 --> 00:17:50.519 And also that vision that I would see myself 00:17:50.519 --> 00:17:54.720 as a nurse. So even though I had many obstacles 00:17:54.720 --> 00:17:59.900 along the way. I never saw it as an obstacle. 00:18:00.200 --> 00:18:03.980 It was more like I was determined when I became 00:18:03.980 --> 00:18:07.779 a nurse. Business is completely the opposite. 00:18:07.920 --> 00:18:13.400 In business, what I was chasing was I wanted 00:18:13.400 --> 00:18:18.299 to feel alive. With the skincare online network 00:18:18.299 --> 00:18:21.819 marketing, I joined, which is a network marketing. 00:18:21.920 --> 00:18:24.819 So I pretty much just joined online and it was 00:18:24.819 --> 00:18:28.680 fun and it was exciting. But it's through the 00:18:28.680 --> 00:18:31.579 personal growth that I learned, oh, there's a 00:18:31.579 --> 00:18:38.119 lot more out there for me to do. And that was 00:18:38.119 --> 00:18:42.839 pretty much obstacle after obstacle of not having 00:18:42.839 --> 00:18:49.180 the skills, not knowing like the end. part of 00:18:49.180 --> 00:18:52.319 it it wasn't structured like nursing school nursing 00:18:52.319 --> 00:18:55.279 school was very structured and this is what you 00:18:55.279 --> 00:18:58.160 did and you just did it network marketing completely 00:18:58.160 --> 00:19:03.259 different pursuit to um being a private duty 00:19:03.259 --> 00:19:06.680 nurse completely different so there were many 00:19:06.680 --> 00:19:12.099 obstacles meaning with myself am i capable yeah 00:19:12.099 --> 00:19:16.089 to do this I don't have the skills. And I kept 00:19:16.089 --> 00:19:18.730 on telling myself, I can't do this. I don't have 00:19:18.730 --> 00:19:22.309 the skills. Who do I think I am? To switching 00:19:22.309 --> 00:19:28.170 my mindset of what do you want? What do you want 00:19:28.170 --> 00:19:32.369 to do? What life do you want? Where do you see 00:19:32.369 --> 00:19:35.589 yourself? And what skills do you have? Because 00:19:35.589 --> 00:19:39.430 yes, from being a mom, a nurse, that was my only 00:19:39.430 --> 00:19:43.849 identity. You want to build businesses. You want 00:19:43.849 --> 00:19:47.789 to build that life. And how do you want to feel 00:19:47.789 --> 00:19:52.430 in the pursuit of that? How do you want to feel? 00:19:52.609 --> 00:19:55.930 And that's where I went back to unpacking myself 00:19:55.930 --> 00:20:00.990 and learning about trauma, learning about my 00:20:00.990 --> 00:20:05.950 emotions, learning about myself. Learning about 00:20:05.950 --> 00:20:13.420 myself, my true gift. my true potentials, my 00:20:13.420 --> 00:20:17.980 strength. And I've learned to pretty much work 00:20:17.980 --> 00:20:23.420 on that versus my weakness is what I noticed. 00:20:23.460 --> 00:20:26.500 Because when I was spending too much time on 00:20:26.500 --> 00:20:30.440 things that I wasn't good at, I wasn't moving 00:20:30.440 --> 00:20:37.920 forward. Versus, oh, I'm very positive. I have, 00:20:39.789 --> 00:20:45.289 That desire to want to do this. I want to feel 00:20:45.289 --> 00:20:49.109 alive. So those emotions came internally. How 00:20:49.109 --> 00:20:53.650 do I want to feel? And that is what's been helping 00:20:53.650 --> 00:20:57.309 me to overcome all the obstacles. Like John C. 00:20:57.390 --> 00:21:01.950 Maxwell says, when you put a bucket of crabs 00:21:01.950 --> 00:21:06.950 and you don't have to put a lid over it. One 00:21:06.950 --> 00:21:09.809 crab will be pulling the other one. And that's 00:21:09.809 --> 00:21:13.029 how I feel in business. In business is you will 00:21:13.029 --> 00:21:18.309 get pulled down. You will be dealing with self 00:21:18.309 --> 00:21:25.509 -doubt. And it's through building yourself, building 00:21:25.509 --> 00:21:29.650 that knowledge that you know better and then 00:21:29.650 --> 00:21:34.039 you do better. is what i noticed now with so 00:21:34.039 --> 00:21:37.099 many obstacles that i see you start building 00:21:37.099 --> 00:21:45.960 yourself to where do you want to go yeah i think 00:21:45.960 --> 00:21:48.940 there's the one thing that you said i liked a 00:21:48.940 --> 00:21:51.240 lot you said like you were working on your strengths 00:21:51.240 --> 00:21:52.960 versus working on your weaknesses because we 00:21:52.960 --> 00:21:55.400 are you worked on your weaknesses you didn't 00:21:55.400 --> 00:21:56.880 get it you didn't really move forward at all 00:21:56.880 --> 00:22:01.519 and in my mind the reason that is whenever we 00:22:01.519 --> 00:22:03.500 focus on our weaknesses versus our strengths 00:22:03.500 --> 00:22:06.559 is because if we're not working on our strengths, 00:22:06.579 --> 00:22:13.079 our strengths start to weaken. But even if our 00:22:13.079 --> 00:22:15.880 weaknesses are getting better, our strengths 00:22:15.880 --> 00:22:19.779 are weakening, and they might end up in the same 00:22:19.779 --> 00:22:22.220 spot, depending on how long you're on that route. 00:22:22.839 --> 00:22:28.140 And if you work on your strengths, and this is 00:22:28.140 --> 00:22:32.640 why people have teams. because people will work 00:22:32.640 --> 00:22:36.839 on teams in order to... People work on teams 00:22:36.839 --> 00:22:38.579 because not everybody has the same strengths. 00:22:38.839 --> 00:22:42.160 So you need to make sure there's a person that 00:22:42.160 --> 00:22:46.160 can fill in the gap for you if you need that 00:22:46.160 --> 00:22:51.960 gap to be filled. For me, I will eventually be 00:22:51.960 --> 00:22:53.420 looking for somebody to help me with my social 00:22:53.420 --> 00:22:57.359 media because I'm not great at it. That's not 00:22:57.359 --> 00:23:01.339 a strength of mine. And that's something that 00:23:01.339 --> 00:23:03.200 I've been wanting to do to grow my business. 00:23:03.640 --> 00:23:08.299 That's something from a more practical mindset. 00:23:09.799 --> 00:23:12.859 And something from during our pre -interview, 00:23:13.079 --> 00:23:17.420 you mentioned and you've touched on a little 00:23:17.420 --> 00:23:27.109 bit. You said you were getting energy from the 00:23:27.109 --> 00:23:29.829 inside out when speaking and doing things like 00:23:29.829 --> 00:23:36.029 IMC. Can you speak a little bit to that? Yes. 00:23:36.089 --> 00:23:41.589 So that moment being at IMC, along my journey 00:23:41.589 --> 00:23:48.849 from nurse feeling so depressed and so sad and 00:23:48.849 --> 00:23:53.650 want to commit suicide to feeling alive and doing 00:23:53.650 --> 00:23:59.150 business. Since 2018 up until now, what I've 00:23:59.150 --> 00:24:06.829 noticed is when I do more of becoming a public 00:24:06.829 --> 00:24:09.609 speaker, when I put myself in an environment 00:24:09.609 --> 00:24:14.869 of personal growth conferences, I just feel this. 00:24:15.180 --> 00:24:18.400 energy like my first time going to imc i was 00:24:18.400 --> 00:24:22.200 going down the escalator and for me at that time 00:24:22.200 --> 00:24:25.039 i had already gone to two other conferences previously 00:24:25.039 --> 00:24:27.579 so i was thinking like oh it's just going to 00:24:27.579 --> 00:24:30.940 be another personal growth conference yet i didn't 00:24:30.940 --> 00:24:33.940 know the feeling of going down the escalator 00:24:33.940 --> 00:24:40.359 and feeling that wolf of energy and i was like 00:24:40.359 --> 00:24:47.869 what is that and it went back to That moment 00:24:47.869 --> 00:24:50.849 of being in that empty room and the blue lights 00:24:50.849 --> 00:24:54.309 and that little good feeling inside of me like, 00:24:54.490 --> 00:25:01.089 what is this? And I just felt so alive. And being 00:25:01.089 --> 00:25:04.750 at the IMC, going down the escalator and from 00:25:04.750 --> 00:25:10.470 the inside of, this is so peaceful. This is where 00:25:10.470 --> 00:25:13.490 I belong. Even though I didn't know what it was. 00:25:14.299 --> 00:25:16.839 And fast forward to the following year, which, 00:25:16.900 --> 00:25:21.480 you know, I met you in March and being on stage. 00:25:22.140 --> 00:25:24.859 I had just talked to Mark and I just shared a 00:25:24.859 --> 00:25:29.539 glimpse of my story of from nurse feeling sad, 00:25:29.680 --> 00:25:35.460 depressed to finding hope. And what I have learned 00:25:35.460 --> 00:25:40.619 with hope is like you have hope for that light 00:25:40.619 --> 00:25:44.769 in the darkness. However, you need to take actions. 00:25:45.609 --> 00:25:50.869 And that's what I did in the dark moment of not 00:25:50.869 --> 00:25:54.670 knowing what was next. In that moment of, but 00:25:54.670 --> 00:26:00.670 I have everything. Why do I feel so empty? In 00:26:00.670 --> 00:26:04.329 that moment of, there is hope. But what did I 00:26:04.329 --> 00:26:07.869 have to do? There was a glimpse of light. And 00:26:07.869 --> 00:26:12.259 even though that dark moment is super dark. But 00:26:12.259 --> 00:26:14.259 just holding on to that little glimpse of light 00:26:14.259 --> 00:26:18.619 of hope and taking actions. So sharing my story 00:26:18.619 --> 00:26:23.279 with Mark of this is what's happening. This is 00:26:23.279 --> 00:26:25.420 what happened to me. This is where I'm at and 00:26:25.420 --> 00:26:29.160 this is where I'm going. And for him to take 00:26:29.160 --> 00:26:34.130 my story and to share it in the. audience and 00:26:34.130 --> 00:26:37.069 me walking on stage that was my first time this 00:26:37.069 --> 00:26:39.430 was just in March a few months ago that was my 00:26:39.430 --> 00:26:46.410 first time being on stage and that feeling on 00:26:46.410 --> 00:26:52.509 stage of you belong here and from the inside 00:26:52.509 --> 00:26:58.789 that little gut feeling my spirit my heart my 00:26:58.789 --> 00:27:05.259 higher Divine for me is God of you are on your 00:27:05.259 --> 00:27:10.140 path. And being so in tune on how I was feeling 00:27:10.140 --> 00:27:13.900 is the key. When you know you're in the pursuit 00:27:13.900 --> 00:27:19.119 of your calling and in the pursuit of what you 00:27:19.119 --> 00:27:21.740 want to do for the rest of your life. Because 00:27:21.740 --> 00:27:26.460 your spirit is internally. And what I have noticed 00:27:26.460 --> 00:27:30.779 is those moments when I'm there. And it gets 00:27:30.779 --> 00:27:36.380 hard on growing to become a public speaker. I 00:27:36.380 --> 00:27:40.140 think of that moment. I think of that moment. 00:27:40.519 --> 00:27:43.259 And those little moments that we put ourselves, 00:27:43.579 --> 00:27:46.980 we start taking action. You start building yourself. 00:27:48.359 --> 00:27:52.519 That when you have those obstacles of you can't 00:27:52.519 --> 00:27:55.559 do this, who do you think you are? You push through. 00:27:57.240 --> 00:28:00.740 Because when it's internal. It's in your heart. 00:28:01.359 --> 00:28:04.980 Nobody can take that away. It's inside of you. 00:28:05.339 --> 00:28:09.740 And you have that little gut feeling of this 00:28:09.740 --> 00:28:13.400 is right for me. No matter what other people 00:28:13.400 --> 00:28:17.740 say. Because your dream is your dream. No matter 00:28:17.740 --> 00:28:20.720 of other people. tell you like who do you think 00:28:20.720 --> 00:28:23.980 you are you're crazy like for me you're crazy 00:28:23.980 --> 00:28:26.019 you already make a lot of money why would you 00:28:26.019 --> 00:28:28.779 want to do something that you've never done you 00:28:28.779 --> 00:28:31.980 don't even have the skills but then those moments 00:28:31.980 --> 00:28:36.700 I go back to how do I feel inside it makes me 00:28:36.700 --> 00:28:41.000 very happy yeah like a true true happiness and 00:28:41.000 --> 00:28:43.400 I get like this natural energy like I can be 00:28:43.400 --> 00:28:46.680 working 12 hours and somebody can tell me like 00:28:46.680 --> 00:28:51.490 hey Yolanda What does it mean to be brave? I 00:28:51.490 --> 00:28:54.690 just sit up and I come to life and I feel it. 00:28:55.009 --> 00:29:05.430 I feel that desire inside of me. Wow. I think 00:29:05.430 --> 00:29:11.529 applying that to the listeners right now, thinking 00:29:11.529 --> 00:29:15.589 about the things that they find, let me just 00:29:15.589 --> 00:29:18.349 speak to the listener. listeners for a second 00:29:18.349 --> 00:29:21.529 like the things that she was just talking about 00:29:21.529 --> 00:29:26.049 guys she was just talking about like a moment 00:29:26.049 --> 00:29:28.890 in her life where she felt that when she felt 00:29:28.890 --> 00:29:32.049 that calling she felt that like this was this 00:29:32.049 --> 00:29:34.630 was right this is what it was this is this is 00:29:34.630 --> 00:29:37.150 this is what i'm meant to be doing or this is 00:29:37.150 --> 00:29:43.450 the um path i'm supposed to take I'm curious, 00:29:43.589 --> 00:29:47.309 and you can put it in the comments, you can message 00:29:47.309 --> 00:29:51.690 me, or you can write it down yourself. And just 00:29:51.690 --> 00:29:54.170 write down, what was the moment in your life 00:29:54.170 --> 00:29:58.789 where it just felt right? It just felt like it's 00:29:58.789 --> 00:30:01.970 something that you either felt like God has been 00:30:01.970 --> 00:30:04.190 calling you towards, maybe it's something that 00:30:04.190 --> 00:30:10.049 you just feel is... You don't really know how 00:30:10.049 --> 00:30:12.549 to explain it. It's just like whenever I was 00:30:12.549 --> 00:30:15.910 talking with this friend, whenever I was able 00:30:15.910 --> 00:30:25.809 to serve in this particular way, or maybe it's 00:30:25.809 --> 00:30:28.710 whenever you are at your job, maybe that feels 00:30:28.710 --> 00:30:32.769 right every day. It'd be curious for you to take 00:30:32.769 --> 00:30:39.410 the time. And think about those moments in your 00:30:39.410 --> 00:30:42.710 life that garnered excitement inside of you. 00:30:42.910 --> 00:30:47.549 And then thinking about how you can get that 00:30:47.549 --> 00:30:52.049 excitement and garner that as frequently as possible. 00:30:52.269 --> 00:30:56.309 Just like she was saying. She was going through 00:30:56.309 --> 00:30:59.970 any obstacle. Now, it's easier said than done. 00:31:00.089 --> 00:31:04.670 But any obstacle, you can get through it. Any 00:31:04.670 --> 00:31:06.630 obstacle that you've had in your past is now 00:31:06.630 --> 00:31:09.509 in your past, and you've gone through those. 00:31:10.750 --> 00:31:14.369 So thinking about all those times when you were 00:31:14.369 --> 00:31:15.930 excited, all those times when you felt like, 00:31:15.970 --> 00:31:18.670 I feel like this is what I'm meant to be doing, 00:31:18.869 --> 00:31:26.910 it would be awesome if you wrote that down. Write 00:31:26.910 --> 00:31:29.869 that down and then write down what you can do 00:31:29.869 --> 00:31:33.390 this next week in order to pursue your calling 00:31:33.390 --> 00:31:43.220 well. Yolanda, I don't have much more questions 00:31:43.220 --> 00:31:51.740 to ask. Go ahead. Telling your listeners, write 00:31:51.740 --> 00:31:54.900 it down. For example, with me at UCLA, when I 00:31:54.900 --> 00:32:00.799 go to work, I enjoy it. I still enjoy that. However, 00:32:01.119 --> 00:32:05.700 when I'm on stage, Like right now, doing a podcast 00:32:05.700 --> 00:32:10.619 is completely different. I get excited about 00:32:10.619 --> 00:32:13.480 going to work and I enjoy it and I don't hate 00:32:13.480 --> 00:32:18.339 it. I still love it. It's a passion. But my calling, 00:32:18.539 --> 00:32:22.940 I just feel like I come to life. When we start 00:32:22.940 --> 00:32:26.079 talking about personal growth, personal development, 00:32:26.259 --> 00:32:29.940 because I truly believe that's key. If you start 00:32:29.940 --> 00:32:35.089 building yourself, meaning... Peeling those layers, 00:32:35.509 --> 00:32:40.509 removing all those labels, growing up that people 00:32:40.509 --> 00:32:43.990 put those labels on you. That's really not who 00:32:43.990 --> 00:32:47.750 you are. Only keep the labels that you know in 00:32:47.750 --> 00:32:51.950 your heart, that's who you are. And what I'm 00:32:51.950 --> 00:32:56.009 noticing right now with myself is that I believe 00:32:56.009 --> 00:33:00.009 that it is my calling. Because the more I learn, 00:33:00.170 --> 00:33:04.250 the more I grow, the more... I see myself going 00:33:04.250 --> 00:33:08.690 forward no matter how hard it is. And it is going 00:33:08.690 --> 00:33:12.230 to get hard. And John C. Maxwell says, you know, 00:33:12.250 --> 00:33:15.670 a leader never has two good days. Right. So when 00:33:15.670 --> 00:33:20.109 you start learning and you start applying it, 00:33:20.210 --> 00:33:23.490 that's where you keep just growing so much. And 00:33:23.490 --> 00:33:26.890 in life, I truly believe we have to grow. And 00:33:26.890 --> 00:33:30.809 I believe what happened to me where. I went from 00:33:30.809 --> 00:33:35.549 pursuing my dream, but not my calling. What happened 00:33:35.549 --> 00:33:41.349 in the gap was I stopped growing. Becoming a 00:33:41.349 --> 00:33:46.170 nurse, a mom, to my true potential, I had climbed 00:33:46.170 --> 00:33:50.769 that mountain, but I plateaued. But what is my 00:33:50.769 --> 00:33:55.509 calling? It's something way bigger, way bigger 00:33:55.509 --> 00:34:00.329 than we can imagine. Because I had no idea. However, 00:34:00.710 --> 00:34:05.509 I think I share with you that your success leaves 00:34:05.509 --> 00:34:09.530 clues along your timeline. Right. So when I was 00:34:09.530 --> 00:34:13.329 a little girl, I would see myself on stage. I 00:34:13.329 --> 00:34:17.230 would see myself talking and I would do this 00:34:17.230 --> 00:34:19.010 as a little girl and I would just like pretend 00:34:19.010 --> 00:34:21.949 and I'd be like, oh, my house. And this is what 00:34:21.949 --> 00:34:25.829 I do. And I travel. But then working as a nurse, 00:34:25.909 --> 00:34:28.400 I'm like. That's not what I did when I was a 00:34:28.400 --> 00:34:33.659 little girl. And now what I'm doing, like on 00:34:33.659 --> 00:34:37.699 stage, on a podcast, being in an environment 00:34:37.699 --> 00:34:41.280 of personal growth, it goes back to that little 00:34:41.280 --> 00:34:46.739 girl. Feeling so alive. And even though we don't 00:34:46.739 --> 00:34:50.179 have the answers and you don't know, it doesn't 00:34:50.179 --> 00:34:53.739 matter. It's how you feel inside when you are 00:34:53.739 --> 00:34:57.190 doing certain things. And you start reaching 00:34:57.190 --> 00:35:01.150 that high potential. And no matter how hard it 00:35:01.150 --> 00:35:05.630 gets and those fears, but once you start learning, 00:35:05.869 --> 00:35:10.309 you start developing yourself. You start removing 00:35:10.309 --> 00:35:14.909 those labels that your environment put on you 00:35:14.909 --> 00:35:18.309 when you were young or a teenager or in high 00:35:18.309 --> 00:35:21.309 school. I was never a good student. Never. I 00:35:21.309 --> 00:35:24.460 never really cared for school at all. And those 00:35:24.460 --> 00:35:27.260 were all the labels that every single person 00:35:27.260 --> 00:35:33.519 around me put on me. Until I realized I need 00:35:33.519 --> 00:35:35.559 to remove them. They don't serve me anymore. 00:35:36.239 --> 00:35:40.179 Even my own mom putting those labels because 00:35:40.179 --> 00:35:44.679 they raise you or they help you with what they 00:35:44.679 --> 00:35:49.980 know. But it's our responsibility. To really 00:35:49.980 --> 00:35:53.900 look at ourselves and ask ourselves, am I happy 00:35:53.900 --> 00:35:57.679 with what I'm doing right now? Yeah. Immediately. 00:35:57.760 --> 00:36:01.900 You have two seconds. Yes or no. And then start 00:36:01.900 --> 00:36:06.219 looking at what is it that you're doing? And 00:36:06.219 --> 00:36:08.320 where do you see yourself in a year from now? 00:36:08.420 --> 00:36:10.980 Are the questions I keep asking myself, where 00:36:10.980 --> 00:36:14.260 do I see myself in a year from now? And along 00:36:14.260 --> 00:36:19.400 the way, too, is. What are the things that I'm 00:36:19.400 --> 00:36:25.199 doing that no longer serve me? They no longer 00:36:25.199 --> 00:36:30.440 serve me. Like putting myself down or doubting 00:36:30.440 --> 00:36:33.840 myself. Does that serve me? No, it doesn't. What 00:36:33.840 --> 00:36:37.659 is my full potential? Where do I see myself? 00:36:39.130 --> 00:36:41.929 And I want to share with you the books that I 00:36:41.929 --> 00:36:45.510 find very powerful is that I started with was 00:36:45.510 --> 00:36:49.630 Leadership with John C. Maxwell. Also, another 00:36:49.630 --> 00:36:51.829 book that I just love so much is the 5 a .m. 00:36:51.829 --> 00:36:55.349 Club. I learned to master that book because I'm 00:36:55.349 --> 00:36:59.489 like, I want to be the 5 a .m. Club because I 00:36:59.489 --> 00:37:02.590 started doing, I started waking up early. I started 00:37:02.590 --> 00:37:05.670 doing routines, journaling. I started reading. 00:37:06.050 --> 00:37:10.250 And that kind of went back to what is my identity 00:37:10.250 --> 00:37:13.170 and who do I want to be? I want to be someone 00:37:13.170 --> 00:37:15.750 that sees the sunrise because it makes me feel 00:37:15.750 --> 00:37:20.110 alive. I want to be a better writer because I 00:37:20.110 --> 00:37:23.710 want to be able to write all my thoughts. I want 00:37:23.710 --> 00:37:26.210 to be able to read a book without feeling tired. 00:37:27.849 --> 00:37:29.989 Because I remember when I first moved to Los 00:37:29.989 --> 00:37:34.750 Angeles back in 1997, I had piles of books I 00:37:34.750 --> 00:37:39.809 never read. But I had that desire that I wanted 00:37:39.809 --> 00:37:43.510 to read them. But at the time, I was so busy 00:37:43.510 --> 00:37:47.630 on to the pursuit to become a nurse. And another 00:37:47.630 --> 00:37:50.409 time, I remember working as a private nurse. 00:37:50.849 --> 00:37:53.829 And it was in the middle of the night. And at 00:37:53.829 --> 00:37:56.469 the time I had decided I was no longer going 00:37:56.469 --> 00:37:59.130 to pursue nursing to become a nurse practitioner. 00:38:01.130 --> 00:38:04.349 To sitting there, I was watching on YouTube. 00:38:05.869 --> 00:38:10.889 And I was watching John C. Maxwell in a podcast. 00:38:12.190 --> 00:38:14.949 And I remember the little glimpse of an idea. 00:38:14.969 --> 00:38:20.170 Can I get paid to learn? It was just a glimpse 00:38:20.170 --> 00:38:24.130 of an idea. That bag gets filed in your subconscious. 00:38:25.329 --> 00:38:28.050 And if it's something very important to you, 00:38:28.210 --> 00:38:32.570 it doesn't go away. It doesn't go away. And that 00:38:32.570 --> 00:38:35.929 goes back to internal, inside of you. It does 00:38:35.929 --> 00:38:38.809 not go away because it stays in your subconscious. 00:38:39.489 --> 00:38:44.929 And we have to learn to, oh, yeah, I forgot about 00:38:44.929 --> 00:38:48.369 that. To now, I mean, I have tons of books that 00:38:48.369 --> 00:38:51.099 I'm always reading. Tons of books. And what I've 00:38:51.099 --> 00:38:54.780 learned is the different books that I read is 00:38:54.780 --> 00:39:00.860 am I building myself? Yeah. So the 5 a .m. Club 00:39:00.860 --> 00:39:04.659 is one book that I mastered. The Mount by Robin 00:39:04.659 --> 00:39:09.500 Sharma. The Mountain is You by Brianna West was 00:39:09.500 --> 00:39:13.679 huge because at the time when I started reading 00:39:13.679 --> 00:39:17.980 that book, I felt I was at the highest mountain. 00:39:19.019 --> 00:39:22.260 And I didn't know where else to go. I had no 00:39:22.260 --> 00:39:27.480 idea. So learning about the mountains is what 00:39:27.480 --> 00:39:30.139 kind of helped me develop myself a little bit 00:39:30.139 --> 00:39:38.119 more to who I am, to who I really am. Wow. Well, 00:39:38.119 --> 00:39:40.179 thank you for sharing those. And you already, 00:39:40.260 --> 00:39:42.099 since you already, you went through my ending 00:39:42.099 --> 00:39:45.320 questions, at least one of them, but the, which 00:39:45.320 --> 00:39:49.340 is good. Cause I, I was going to ask you about 00:39:49.340 --> 00:39:51.199 resources. I always ask guests what resources 00:39:51.199 --> 00:39:54.739 you recommend to others, which you already did, 00:39:54.800 --> 00:39:57.739 which is awesome. And then the last, I want to 00:39:57.739 --> 00:40:01.940 wrap it up by asking a, just one final question 00:40:01.940 --> 00:40:04.559 that now that you've been on the Proceed of Calling 00:40:04.559 --> 00:40:07.760 podcast, who would you recommend as a guest? 00:40:10.420 --> 00:40:14.860 Oh, that's a good one. I would recommend as a 00:40:14.860 --> 00:40:20.500 guest would be I think we talked about Adam. 00:40:20.699 --> 00:40:25.980 Yeah. I would want to see Adam as a guest in 00:40:25.980 --> 00:40:28.820 your podcast because to see his transformation 00:40:28.820 --> 00:40:39.900 and to see as a man of his story, his journey, 00:40:39.920 --> 00:40:44.800 and to see him where he is and what he's battling. 00:40:46.280 --> 00:40:51.239 What he's battling. Yet I truly believe. He is 00:40:51.239 --> 00:40:56.079 on his way. To what is his calling. What is the 00:40:56.079 --> 00:40:59.920 pursuit of calling. And. I think he would be 00:40:59.920 --> 00:41:03.300 like a great guest. And I would always keep in 00:41:03.300 --> 00:41:09.599 mind. Of who else. Who else. Is going through 00:41:09.599 --> 00:41:13.400 the struggles. And who else. Is going towards. 00:41:14.429 --> 00:41:17.030 their true potential and their true calling. 00:41:17.809 --> 00:41:20.989 And going back to the references, and I know 00:41:20.989 --> 00:41:24.710 like myself, I never really, even though I had 00:41:24.710 --> 00:41:27.909 that desire of reading books, I just couldn't. 00:41:28.030 --> 00:41:31.369 I could not sit down and just read a book, even 00:41:31.369 --> 00:41:34.110 though I had that desire. So what I ended up 00:41:34.110 --> 00:41:36.409 doing at first was YouTube videos. That's where 00:41:36.409 --> 00:41:40.449 I started. So YouTube videos, you can put personal 00:41:40.449 --> 00:41:43.239 growth, personal development. And just pick that 00:41:43.239 --> 00:41:47.659 one person. Just pick that one person. Then from 00:41:47.659 --> 00:41:52.840 the YouTube videos, I went on to podcasts. Listening 00:41:52.840 --> 00:41:57.019 to podcasts. And people that you listen to will 00:41:57.019 --> 00:42:02.099 give you clues on what else to listen to. And 00:42:02.099 --> 00:42:07.519 from there, I went to audiobooks. And I discovered 00:42:07.519 --> 00:42:12.260 that I'm an audio learner. So what I end up doing 00:42:12.260 --> 00:42:16.280 is the audio book. And then I had the physical 00:42:16.280 --> 00:42:19.159 book and I started doing both things at the same 00:42:19.159 --> 00:42:22.440 time, listening to the book, reading the book 00:42:22.440 --> 00:42:27.579 and taking notes and mastering the huge key that 00:42:27.579 --> 00:42:30.699 I have learned is pick when you're, when you're 00:42:30.699 --> 00:42:33.179 reading through books and you're on this journal 00:42:33.179 --> 00:42:36.719 of learning and growing, because that's key to 00:42:36.719 --> 00:42:43.360 grow. That's our key in life is master. Pick 00:42:43.360 --> 00:42:49.139 a few books and master those books to become 00:42:49.139 --> 00:42:54.079 the best version of you and to start diving more 00:42:54.079 --> 00:42:59.940 into what is your true calling. And listen to 00:42:59.940 --> 00:43:05.820 those moments that you feel alive from the inside. 00:43:06.639 --> 00:43:11.619 and pursue that. And even though experts tell 00:43:11.619 --> 00:43:15.519 you not to, you continue on that path and that 00:43:15.519 --> 00:43:19.280 journey. And I truly believe we were all born 00:43:19.280 --> 00:43:23.219 for greatness. We just have to dive into what 00:43:23.219 --> 00:43:30.119 we really want. Yeah, that's great. I love it. 00:43:31.980 --> 00:43:35.440 Well, Yolanda. Thank you for being on this episode 00:43:35.440 --> 00:43:39.179 of the Pursuit of Calling podcast. And thank 00:43:39.179 --> 00:43:42.480 you all for listening to this episode. If you 00:43:42.480 --> 00:43:45.539 liked it, you can share it, give it a five -star 00:43:45.539 --> 00:43:50.980 review. And yeah, guys, keep pursuing your calling 00:43:50.980 --> 00:43:52.159 well. See you next time.