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Hey this is Lee chambers from essentialized and if you really want to learn how to level your life you should be listening to the time to shine today podcast with my good friend Scott Ferguson

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time to shine today varsity squad to discuss Ferguson and word Episode 165. With my really good friend Lee chambers have a centralized Lee went through some adversity in his life. I’m not going to share really what it was right now. But it’s something that I know I would have a hell of a time coming back from. And he will, he’s going to remind us to really take ownership of the things we can control focus on what is essential, hence a centralized his company. He’s going to tell us what a great leader is and how he wants his legacy left. So make sure you break out your notebooks sit back, relax, because here comes my really good friend Lee chambers from across the pond by the way from centralise. Let’s level up

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if you shine today, varsity swatted Scott Ferguson and I got my my brother from another mother here from over the pond in England, my boy Lee chambers who has faced some serious adversity in his life, but it did not make him a victim and he leveled up through it. I’m not going to share with you what it is now. But I’m going to let Lee share the story and he is an Li as an environmental psychologist, well being consultant founder of a centralized workplace wellbeing, guiding individuals and businesses to get aligned with their values promote energy and health and breakthrough habits and beliefs holding them back. That’s what we do here at time to shine today. We help people level up so without further ado, I’m going to have Lee Come on introduce himself to the time to shine today varsity squad. The Firstly, what is your favorite color and why?

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My favorite color is purple. Because it’s a beautiful mix red which is fiery, aggressive, energetic and blue. Which is calm peaceful. For also concise.

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Yes. Love that in. Its regal. Its royal. Yeah. No that allow that royal stuff going over there in England, you

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know that it’s noble, for sure.

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Yes. Love it. Love. Lee, man. It’s very interesting, your story that I’ve picked up on your website and the five minutes that we talked before we hopped on here, and I’m blessed that you came on. I’m very grateful, immensely grateful that you came on and spend your time with our squad. Let’s get to the origins of Lee chambers. Yeah, so

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we take deep, but nice and quickly. I grew up in a blue collar family here in England, we always have food, we always have shelter. And I was disruptive and curious as a kid, always wanting to know why things worked. Why was the world the way it was. And that actually took me to university. So I was the first one in my extended family to go. And I had no idea what to expect. I went found it amazing at first autonomy, phone freedom, but then struggled and actually had some issues which led me to be taken home by my parents. So mental health struggles and some challenges around that. But I managed to come up with that take ownership of my graph of my self awareness, and really push through, go back and graduate again, which was really powerful and taught me to be a bit more resilient, graduated and decided I wanted to become a financial advisor, because I like helping people. And I like numbers. I like statistics straight into the economic crash in 2008. So after six months of grinding, straight out the bottom the market I went and there was no way back in again, I had to move back home, pick myself back up. And I decided to set up a video game business because I don’t want to build something that I could be fired from, or lose the opportunity. I wanted control. I wanted ownership of my career, I started doing a number of qualifications because I wanted ownership of my learning and development. And that taught me so all of a sudden build a six figure business that tripled in revenue in the first year doubled and the second doubled again in the third. And all of a sudden I’ve got this life. It’s amazing. You know, I meet my wife, kids come along. And then in 2014, my immune system starts to attack a connective tissue in my joints, particular type of tissue, that leaves my knees like footballs, my shoulder, Obama ear and my wrist looking like two basketballs stuck together. And all of a sudden, I couldn’t walk, couldn’t look after myself. This happened in the space of five days, lost my independence, lost my physicality, lost my athletic ability, and just lost the ability to do anything for myself. And through that I had to I had to come back. I had to bounce back. I had to take ownership over the things I could control. And that was really powerful. And I went all in Extreme Ownership and just decided that everything in my life was gonna be around recovery around getting back to where I was as or as close as I could get given And all the health challenges are hard. And it was a challenging time, you know, My son was 18 months old when I went in why for six months pregnant, the people around me were amazing, I suddenly became incredibly grateful for the people that helped me to do those basic things to feed myself properly, couldn’t go to the toilet, or go and show myself. And all of a sudden, you’re aligning over people. But through that set fire inside of me, I had to be consistent with my recovery adult was born. And I was like, by the time she’s walking, I’m gonna be walking as well, you know, not not every decision, but all in on ship accountability to myself.

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That that’s just amazing. You basically took responsibility for something that really wasn’t your fault. Right? And, you know, people like we like to say your time to shine today, responsibility is the it’s rooted in the word itself and the ability to respond. Right. Yeah. So that’s just wow, that’s fantastic. Lee, so you got the ability to walk again? And did you have a centralized started up then? Or was that afterwards? No. So

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what happened is I don’t number of qualifications around personal development. So I’d done qualifications in sleep, nutrition. And at that point, I knew I wanted to help people. And I didn’t know exactly what I wanted to do. And obviously being knocked out of that pattern that I was in of growing the video game business and kind of neglecting the part of me that wanted to help people that suddenly reignited the fire inside of me. And it took 11 months to get back on my feet. Once I did, I was like, what’s the next mission, the next mission was to come off medication, because I was on toxic medication, which stopped my immune system working. And that led me to track what I was eating, how much I was sleeping, how much I was moving for three years. And as I was doing that, I was like, this is something I can help other people with. Because all of a sudden, I can hear my body. I know what energizes me, what drains me? what triggers what triggers my immune system, and understanding that I thought I can package this into something to help other people and realizing that, you know, I have a background in psychology and all that stuff. I was like, What if I bring together the work that I’ve done in sports, in local government, or qualifications across a number of different human disciplines, and my lived experience of getting back up on my feet, getting through mental health challenges? What if I put all that together to really help people, and that’s so essential eyes was formed. So I ultimately launched a year ago, attacking the decision to use my video game business to fund my recovery, and fund free years with my children before they started school. And that was a mission and a purpose that I’d aligned to because I knew certainty, state and education won’t seem as much. So now I have an amazing bond my children, but during that period, I’ve got my head down and started to build the framework for essentialize start to create a little bit of both, so that I can launch last year.

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Love that. Why? Where did a centralized come from?

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So the word essentially is, is something that’s kind of, it’s always bounced around in my head, it’s the idea that saw little in the world actually matters. But if you can work on the things that matter, all that trivial nonsense out there, you can ignore it, the nice drains away, and you’ve just got those few things you need to work on. The Truth be told, there’s only ever one thing you need to do at a time, that one essential thing that’s going to level you up, that’s going to get you to the next step, you go out there and do that. And you know, shut off all that stimulation, all these other inputs, and you get focused on that. You take it following you execute, you can pretty much do anything. And suddenly, you’ve gone from like a level five person to a level 10 person incredibly quickly

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leveling up every day. That’s fantastic. So what do you think makes a great leader a great coach, a great motivator?

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Yeah, it’s someone who can listen, really understand how that person sees the world. Because everyone sees it differently. Everyone has a different perception and perspective. But it’s someone who’s willing to ask those questions, which often people up, start to help people see all that’s inside of them. Because we all have the answers inside of us. We all have the tools to level up, right? A little bit of knowledge, a little bit of skills and a little bit of practice, but a leader who actually cares, who’s present with that person who actually has, in some ways, a little bit of love for the leadership that they do. But I think the most important thing for any leader is leading is actually understanding yourself. So if you can lead yourself first, you will inspire, empower and enable other people to lead themselves. And given that I do a lot of work in the wellness space. Sure. Well, there’s absolutely no point someone saying, Oh, you got to do this. You got to do this. Where too much advice. It’s all about you. What are you doing? You Congress deal, it’s those values. You’ve got to lead yourself first.

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So you’re also saying what I’m hearing and correct me if I’m wrong, you said you’ll give them the knowledge nuggets. We’d like to call here we you give them the knowledge, you don’t give them the answers. You give them knowledge Nuggets to help them inch by inch, it’s a cinch level up and make their own decisions. You just kind of a good leader will guide them to that correct?

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Yeah, cuz also ultimately, people don’t need to be the lead. People need to lead themselves. You need to help them transfer that authority, because lead to lead is to be human. Sure. And ultimately, something that we all lead us even if you’re a single person, because you lead yourself every day.

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Yes. So when you’re bringing somebody in, and I have to write something down, you just said to me, okay, gotcha. So when you bring somebody into this centralized family, what is some of your secret sauce? If you don’t mind sharing, that helps them maybe find their blind spot?

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Yes, that secret sauce is really digging into people’s Why? Why do they do what they do? Why do they believe what they believe, but ultimately, why they’re here? Because we’re all humans on this planet. But the truth is, the decisions that we make, the choices that we choose, and the things that we do a few buy reasons. And too often we just do things without thinking about the reasons or overthink the reasons and don’t do anything. Sure. And it’s about actually getting that acuity and that understanding about, you know, what’s purposeful to you. And there’s a lot of coaches out there saying, Oh, I’m going to help you find your purpose. And of course, doesn’t find the purpose. The person goes, Oh, yes. She’s the character, day after day chiseling that character until they realize Actually, this is me. This resonates with me, I don’t like this like this. Why do I like this? Why do I not like this Stein to understand what’s going on? And why I do what I do. And when people start to, you know, get into that, why? And that moreso? Why do I do what I do? And why do I like this and not like that? And you actually just ask them those questions that people don’t often ask themselves, and you sit there you listen, and you just pick them apart a little bit, pick them apart, but more and you problem from a number of different angles, and all of a sudden stuff starts dropping out.

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Sure. Lee, you might be asking your age

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3535

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while you look young bro. So you said I thought you were gonna say 25 now and I swear to my Lord and Savior, I’m serious. I thought you’re gonna say because I was gonna ask you, how do you deal with the objection of, you know, the youth. But we can just bypass that because a lot of people begin, they think they’re a leader or life coach, which they could be. And they’re 25, I was wondering how you handle that objection. But the way you’re speaking, it’s just so full of knowledge nuggets, and in totality of what you’ve lived through. So I’ll take it this way, then. So if someone’s coming into the centralized family, and you’ve kind of made it through to discovery, or maybe you’re during the discovery, is there any good question that you wish they would ask you, but never do?

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is a really good question, to be honest. And obviously, in this kind of cartoon world, you have clients who were affected clients who have the problems that you are really acutely skilled on picking a demon with. And again, so often people come and they’re trying to transfer this, this place where they’re at the stock, they’re overwhelmed or stressed onto you, as a coach, you can fix this. And it’s like, the next question is, what do I need to do? That’s what I like my clients to ask because it as soon as they asked that, I know they are they are accepting whether up the taking ownership over it, and know the seeking someone to help them with what they already have the acceptance and the commitment to make a change. And when you hear that, that’s the question that makes you go Yeah, this person the ready.

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Love it. So are you familiar with the movie Back to the Future?

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Not so much because of barely watch any movies or television?

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No problem. So it’s about this guy goes back in time in a DeLorean?

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Yeah, mine. I thought,

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yeah, Marty McFly. So let’s get in that story with Marty McFly. Let’s go back to the 21 year old Lee chambers. Yeah, what kind of knowledge nuggets? Are you dropping on lead to maybe help him shorten his learning curve level up and blast through?

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First one? Don’t worry, right. So So often when we’re 21, we want it all figured out. We want to know exactly what our career path is. We want to know, you know, we want to know, we want to know it’s going to be right. And I was 21 our worrying about the future. I don’t know what I’m going to do. Just like lost my job in financial advisory the world’s all over the place. And the truth is, I didn’t need to worry. I just need to think what’s the next thing that needs to do the few essential things go ahead.

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Who can you serve? Right? Just keep serving.

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Yeah. And lovelies, like, you know, you’re not gonna have it all figured out. You got a lot of options. To go in tech, and in your 20s, go out the experiment, try so many different things as a beautiful time for you to go out and literally treat life like an experiment, and go and share yourself, chisel yourself, build that person who you want to become in your 20s. You’ve got free rein to do that. And I think so many, you know, 20 year olds are like worrying about what other people are going to think what people are going to say, I would have have failed, go out and fail man, where the growth is where you realize that actually, yeah, that’s not worked. But there’s a little bit there, which you can set fire to the future and then every failure, so a little bit of treasure, someone that you can really take with you think about the Easter most of them end up in the seafood bar getting eaten, because if you go there get attacked by a parasite. They get uncomfortable. They get on certain the irritated does the ISIS create a pearl every failure? Suck a little pearl you can take with you. You want to be on your deathbed, like a pearl necklace of lessons that you’ve been utilized. My man,

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you know what you’re talking about failing, we always say fail forward. Right. That’s fantastic, man. That’s awesome. So how do you want? Lee’s dash remembered that little line between your incarnation date and your expiration date your life and death day? How do you want your dash trimmer? How do you maybe want your epitaph your legacy to read?

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Yeah, it literally is as simple as Lee left the world a happier and healthier place than when he came in. Love it. And that’s what guides that’s what guides my actions. That’s effectively what my business is all about. And you know what? So many people know are a little bit overly focused on what I quite like it to say I had, you know, 2 billion followers on May $2 billion for Who the hell cares?

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Have you helped who have you? What have you left behind? I love that. I love it. I love it. I love it. So what are three things? Take those cell phone out? Take the computer, take anything electronic, you don’t watch TV. So that’s good. Take all that out. What are three things we can’t live without?

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I would say that’s a good one that let’s see. See, I have one coffee a day. One coffee is all I need. Coffee, baby gas on coffee. But actually, I couldn’t live without my watch. No, I’m strange. No, you’re fine. Oh, but what I actually do is my watch kind of is Alliance my body’s rhythms. So I work in time blocks, and then disconnect completely from technology for 15 minutes to just get back so I can reconnect back to work again, straight and I wouldn’t have a way to measure that without my watch. Okay, so my watch, incredibly important. I think finally, just the ability to walk again.

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Love it alone. under two. Yeah,

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I hadn’t been grateful for walking until I lost it. And obviously, I have a real connection now with other people who’ve had serious disease with that. So we’ve got lower limb injuries, because they’ve been through a similar journey to me to recover as well as he could. And they also probably had the ownership mindset and not let the suffering and the resistance to the pain, stop them from growing. And you know, I have that resonance with those people. But it’s that gratitude. I’m so grateful now, because I realize I have so much. And I lost one part about a little bit sorry for myself, but then spun that round and realized, what about everything that you do have?

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Sure. Lee, what do you do in that 15 minutes sabbatical that you kind of take when you disconnect.

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So I leave a gonna walk. I’ll just have a moment of silence. I’m a map. I quite sometimes journal my mind down, get things out of my head. Sure. I occasionally, you know, utilize few exercises, occasionally meditate it. And sometimes I’ll literally just walk around in circles.

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Whatever takes you I have a daily sabbaticals about four of them myself an hour’s worth of sabbaticals, and I block them off into 1015 minutes as well. And that’s, you know, luckily, I’m looking at the Atlantic Ocean right now. And like, I’m blessed to be able to go there and in and take the walk, but that’s something my coach has me do, you know, I get reminders from my coach, you know, time does connect cuz I have everything hooked into his system, you know, so he knows when I’m working and what I’m doing. So I’m glad that you said you disconnect. That’s fantastic. It. So what is Lee’s definition of a life well lived.

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A life well lived is that you actually went and spent most of your life in an uncomfortable place and continue to grow and progress and really refine your own wisdom, your own self awareness and just get to a point where when you’re old You can share stories with younger people, like we used to around the campfire, you can actually have some tangible wisdom to pass on to the next generation of it. So there can be even wiser than you. And if we could do that as a as a race, you know, people, it’d be amazing. And for me, it’s so important that we just find a way to because age doesn’t matter. Wisdom is, in some ways, something that you can ultimately measure. And I want to be that older man who has given my children the chance to become the authentic people that they are expressed, however, and not that they can navigate a world because in all truth, don’t want to conform to society all the time. You don’t attack all the advice that you give in, you’re a unique person, gone live your life. And if you think about it, I talk a lot about authenticity. The root of the word authenticity is offer. And God damn you go, go write your own story. Love it, write your story, don’t other people write in your book. And when you’re a child, you know, you got parents, you got people writing your book, but when you become an adult, you get a chance to write and start a new chapter. Right?

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Who’s who’s writing your book? Love it. Everything’s unwritten, so beautiful. So as we wind things down here a little bit, Lee, this has just been awesome. We have our leveling up lightning round. You and I could talk an hour on each one of these questions, but you got five seconds, no explanation, zero ups explanations. We’re gonna fire through these five or six questions. No explanation. Just give me the answers. Top your head. All right.

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Yep. All right.

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Let’s level up here. What’s the best leveling up advice you’ve ever received?

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Don’t take advice and don’t conform. Love it.

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share one of your personal habits that contributes to your success.

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Listen, 10 minutes of a positive podcast every morning.

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There. You’re like time to shine today. Okay. Ah, not the book you’re reading now, or not the flavor of the month but if I’m in my doldrums just not feeling it? You’re like Fergie. read this book.

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mindset. Carol Dweck.

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Oh my man. So what is your most commonly used emoji? When you’re the cry one

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dragon?

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So not your age now but physically, physically in while you during this time, you can still gather wisdom and learn and progress and help people physically what age would you stay for the rest of your life if you could?

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30 free.

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There you go. Beautiful, beautiful. What’s your favorite charity and organization like to give your time and or money to?

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It’s an ace to M Ras saw their deal with the disease that I’ve got. And naturally, I aligned to them.

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What are them? Absolutely. Last question. It’s kind of hard. You can actually elaborate on this one a little bit. But what’s the best decade of music 6070s 80s or 90s 80s?

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You must have met a young Tyco in the 80s brother Yeah, so

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if you can imagine I’m like I’m not I’m not millennial, right? an analog childhood rose into cassettes. I was into vinyl and my parents I didn’t watch I didn’t saw I didn’t watch many movies so rarely watch any television. I’m always surrounded by music and that’s a big they see

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so transitional man you had so much stuff happen and you’re coming out of disco. You know you had you know your hair bands big hair don’t care you had your lap really started in that decade. You’ll Beastie Boys and Run DMC and stuff that great decade that’s my favorite to you know being I’m almost 50 so it’s like I grew up in the 80s so how can we find you Lee?

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Yep, so I’m on essentialized car.uk and Lee chambers.org on those websites you find my blogs my work all my socials contact details follow me and get in contact there we go

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love it and you know what everybody the the all those links will be in the show notes below here. So Lee if you can just one more last thing could you please do us a favor and leave us with one last Knowledge Nugget you want us to take with us internalize and take action on

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Yeah, find the value. So look at what what your strengths are what you enjoy what you can bring to the world and what you can make some money out of sorts to stand up Hey, thanks

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so much for today. middlemen probably brought real estate real estate excellent wide who can be reached if you had your own mess up last year? Excellent. My online.com is disrupt your misery owner of the professional now please visit Dan comm slash just challenges like this episode, please. Subscribe on Apple podcasts, Google podcasts. Spotify iHeartRadio get your podcast gonna tell you the same thing you might like to feel like your mind is great if you just find five star Raiders situate your friends have subscribed to listen to Scott Carson. And until next time in basically kind of blur out how our time while he’s asking the strong questions. No, he’s told us to to lead is to be human. He always digs into people’s why he’s gonna if you’re hiring a coach likely or anybody else, which I hope it is Lee, you’re going to ask them what do they need to do? You’re going to want to be engaged and be proactive and ask your coach what you need to do. He’s going to tell you if you’re younger, or even if you’re not going to stop worrying, and treat life as an experiment and just get out there and level up and get after it. He wants to leave the world a healthier and happier place. So basically, he’s a living legacy. He’s just fantastic. Once you spend most of your life uncomfortable, and grow and progress on a daily basis, you men writing you to write write your own story. Don’t live by anybody else’s shit. You are writing your own story. And lastly find your value. Once you find your value and you have that center take action on those to help people level up and Lee you just earn your varsity letter brother. We appreciate you coming aboard you level up your health you level up your wealth. You’re a total go giver. I love you man. Thank you so much for coming on. I can’t wait to have you on again and do some more collaborations. Frankie’s go have a great day, my friend.

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