LIVING A COMMITTED LIFE: BOOK LAUNCH CELEBRATION WITH LYNNE TWIST AND JACK CANFIELD November 29, 2022 Auto-generated transcript (Please excuse any incorrect or unintelligible content.) Full video available at https://soulofmoney.org/booklaunch-recording ============================= 00:30:38.000 --> 00:30:42.000 Hi! 00:31:00.000 --> 00:31:18.000 Thank you. This is like so exciting. Thank you for joining us for the next 60 min, and it's giving Tuesday a day of giving back to your initiatives and causes and that you're committed to so I can't think of a more perfect day to launch and celebrate with 00:31:18.000 --> 00:31:26.000 Jack and Lynne. Lynn's new book, Living A Committed Life, finding freedom and fulfillment in a purpose larger than yourself. 00:31:26.000 --> 00:31:33.000 I'm Sarah Vetter. I've I've been Lynn's business partner and everything for 1213 years. 00:31:33.000 --> 00:31:41.000 Both that sold Money institute, and also partnering with fundraising for Patch mom Alliance, and I'm a close friend of Jacks. 00:31:41.000 --> 00:32:01.000 I love him, and I'm so excited to facilitate this and a conversation with 2 of my favorite people, amber, so I also want to say, Thank you for all of those who have preordered already the sales the book it's out actually today's the actual actual actual launch day 00:32:01.000 --> 00:32:22.000 And already the book has been nominated living a committed life for the best book of the year by portslight books in the category of personal development and human behavior well, who and we're i'm gonna facilitate an inspiring powerful unforgettable conversation. 00:32:22.000 --> 00:32:28.000 With Jack and Lynn, and I promise it will be unforgettable. 00:32:28.000 --> 00:32:33.000 And these are 2 of the greatest storytellers of all time. 00:32:33.000 --> 00:32:40.000 In my opinion, and I promised, or the best out of both of them, and you'll have a chance to interact with them also. Later. 00:32:40.000 --> 00:32:41.000 In this 60 min together. So please keep your cameras on these 2 love. 00:32:41.000 --> 00:32:52.000 An audience. They love to see faces. Len could be saying Hello to every person here for the whole hour. 00:32:52.000 --> 00:32:53.000 Hmm. 00:32:53.000 --> 00:32:56.000 So she loves that we love that, and we want to. 00:32:56.000 --> 00:33:02.000 We might, we? Well, let's see, we may not are we skipping this part? 00:33:18.000 --> 00:33:27.000 Are we skipping it? So that okay, skip? Never mind, actually, I'm just gonna say, everybody I love to just see R your hand. Just be. 00:33:27.000 --> 00:33:36.000 Kind of fun for a second, of those of you who have Red Lynn's first book, The Solo Money 00:33:36.000 --> 00:33:43.000 Oh, okay, woohoo! Okay. And how many of you have taken a course with Lynne twist 00:33:43.000 --> 00:33:50.000 Okay, love me, Matt, and how many of you have read any of Jack Canfield's books 00:33:50.000 --> 00:33:57.000 Okay. Well, I'm loving that, too, and taking a course with Jack, I should be raising my hand for all these things. 00:33:57.000 --> 00:34:05.000 Okay. My last question, how many of you have pre order ordered the book, living a committed life. 00:34:05.000 --> 00:34:10.000 Okay, there's room for growth there, and that will happen in this hour. 00:34:10.000 --> 00:34:29.000 Awesome. I'll ask you again at the end, and we'll see all hands, all hands come up, so I'm just so grateful to facilitate this, and before I bring these 2 amazing people on some of you well, I'm sure, most of you know Lynn but 00:34:29.000 --> 00:34:36.000 I just wanna say a little bit about Lynn Twist, besides being my partner and friend and mentor and sister. 00:34:36.000 --> 00:34:47.000 She she's the founder of the Solomon Institute, and author of the best selling Award, winning book the soul of money, transforming your relationship with money in life. 00:34:47.000 --> 00:34:54.000 And now, of course, her new book, living a committed life, finding freedom and fulfillment in a purpose larger than yourself. 00:34:54.000 --> 00:34:59.000 She is co-founder with her husband and John Burkins, of the Potato Alliance. 00:34:59.000 --> 00:35:10.000 She's a global visionary pro activist, philanthropist, author, son after speaker, consultant, advisor, mentor to thousands renowned fundraiser. 00:35:10.000 --> 00:35:11.000 She's raised. I don't know must be in the billions at this point. 00:35:11.000 --> 00:35:19.000 Many of awards. But the thing I just want to say she's she lists a committed life. 00:35:19.000 --> 00:35:25.000 I am not kidding you every day of her life. And she is dedicated to have a world work for everybody. 00:35:25.000 --> 00:35:27.000 She's committed for decades to ending world. 00:35:27.000 --> 00:35:45.000 Hunger at the hunger project for decades to the permanent protection of the Amazon rainforest for decades of shifting the mindset of people's relationship with money totally committed to the empowerment of women and girls so it's sort of impossible to say, lynn's 00:35:45.000 --> 00:35:50.000 name, without having the word love in there she she it epitomizes love. 00:35:50.000 --> 00:35:55.000 So, Lynn, welcome to your launch. 00:35:55.000 --> 00:35:56.000 Thank thank you, Sarah, better thank you, and thank you. Everybody for showing up. 00:35:56.000 --> 00:36:07.000 I love looking at the screen and seeing your names and it's so incredible to launch the book with people that I love, and people that I don't know yet. 00:36:07.000 --> 00:36:28.000 But promise to love and really appreciate also this time with you, Sarah, kind of drawing the best out of me, and also my beloved friend Jack, can feel so thank you everybody for showing up and I'm very very very excited this is like having a baby you know it's like a big 00:36:28.000 --> 00:36:29.000 Deal and and you're all here in the delivery room. 00:36:29.000 --> 00:36:37.000 So thank you for for being part of this. Thank you, Sarah. 00:36:37.000 --> 00:36:42.000 You're welcome. Okay, I wanna say a little bit about Jack, and then I'll bring Jack on. 00:36:42.000 --> 00:36:46.000 Jack Canfield also my friend, I love him. He's the founder and former CEO of chicken soup for the sole enterprise. 00:36:46.000 --> 00:36:57.000 A 1 billion that's with a B dollar publishing Empire over 500 million. 00:36:57.000 --> 00:37:08.000 That's an M. Books have been sold to date. He's he's been called or nominated, or are told to, is the top 25 most influential leaders. 00:37:08.000 --> 00:37:27.000 In the personal development field. It's multiple New York Times bestselling author of many, many books, one that's really stands up for me is the success principles, because he's now trained and he and his team he's trained over 4,500 people in the can field success principles and a 00:37:27.000 --> 00:37:37.000 117 countries. These are renowned, transformational speaker and trainer, and author, and has devoted his life by loving this, to helping others. 00:37:37.000 --> 00:37:44.000 Achieve their personal definition of success and create lives of greater joy, meaning, and fulfillment. 00:37:44.000 --> 00:37:55.000 And these just on the side. He's right now in the process of writing 4 books, not one, not too, not 3, 4, he's my friend he's my mentor, and I just want to say, I did participate in an intensive. 00:37:55.000 --> 00:38:01.000 Retreat with Jack, and the day after that retreat I got Lynn on Oprah. 00:38:01.000 --> 00:38:13.000 It's a story there, so I can honestly say we can say that the ultimate reason first Len wrote this book, but the ultimate reason she got an Oprah is our friend Jack so Jack welcome. 00:38:13.000 --> 00:38:16.000 Thank you, Sarah, so exciting to be here with you guys. 00:38:16.000 --> 00:38:24.000 I love both of you so much. I love the work that Lynn's doing, and I'm really glad to be part of helping bring this book to the world 00:38:24.000 --> 00:38:28.000 Okay. So here we go so this I'm gonna ask both to you. 00:38:28.000 --> 00:38:33.000 We're gonna start now with with both of you to ask some questions. 00:38:33.000 --> 00:38:35.000 I I just I you know I know the answer this question, but I know everybody here. 00:38:35.000 --> 00:38:39.000 I just would love to hear this. What catalyzed you Lynn twist to write this book. 00:38:39.000 --> 00:38:46.000 Living, a committed life. I know what it took for you to write this book. 00:38:46.000 --> 00:38:52.000 After 18 years of people telling you to do it and not doing it. 00:38:52.000 --> 00:38:55.000 And and here we are. Some tell us. 00:38:55.000 --> 00:39:02.000 Well, well, the the the short answer is, Jack Canfield that's the that's the short answer. 00:39:02.000 --> 00:39:07.000 But let me just say that I know Jack is really clearly an author. 00:39:07.000 --> 00:39:16.000 I mean a half a 1 billion books sold that they're almost no one can match that except the Bible, and maybe Harry Potter lady I'm not an author. 00:39:16.000 --> 00:39:21.000 I I mean I wrote this book and the other books that sold money, that many of you know. 00:39:21.000 --> 00:39:28.000 But I don't kind of live in the world of authors as much as I live in the world, of being a pro activist. 00:39:28.000 --> 00:39:36.000 And I say a pro activist rather than activists, because I I'm definitely an activist for not against. 00:39:36.000 --> 00:39:41.000 I know what's in between me and the goals that I have for for the world and the causes I care about. 00:39:41.000 --> 00:39:45.000 But I'm not against anything. I'm for the vision. 00:39:45.000 --> 00:39:46.000 And then the things that are in the way that need to be dismantled. 00:39:46.000 --> 00:39:48.000 I'm not afraid to address them, but I'm not against. 00:39:48.000 --> 00:39:54.000 If I can put it that way so I've been a pro activist. 00:39:54.000 --> 00:40:12.000 My whole life. I've actually think, since I was in probably grade school, and I'm I'm so engaged in the world that writing a book seems so solitary to me when I first was approached about writing the soul of money I couldn't imagine myself what did I have anything to say really 00:40:12.000 --> 00:40:16.000 Because my whole way of being is in communion with other people. 00:40:16.000 --> 00:40:18.000 In conversation with other people, and so I I've really never done anything alone that I can remember. 00:40:18.000 --> 00:40:28.000 So I I I you know I wrote soul of money with a collaborative writer, and that made it possible. 00:40:28.000 --> 00:40:39.000 She drew it out of me. Really, and so to write another book seemed like just impossible, because I was working on preserving the Amazon rainforest working with the Nobel women on v violence against women and girls. 00:40:39.000 --> 00:40:46.000 I couldn't imagine stopping to write a book, and one day Jack Canfield, my beloved friend, was hosting a conference, I think, it was in Santa Barbara said. 00:40:46.000 --> 00:40:52.000 You I can't remember, and we both spoke. Lots of people spoke. 00:40:52.000 --> 00:40:59.000 He spoke, of course, because he was convening everybody, and I spoke and at the end of my talk I got a pretty good response, and Jack took me aside, or maybe it was over lunch. 00:40:59.000 --> 00:41:09.000 I don't remember, he said. These are such great stories, this needs to be a book, and I said, Well, Yeah, that would be good. 00:41:09.000 --> 00:41:12.000 But I don't. I don't know how to get a book out of myself. 00:41:12.000 --> 00:41:17.000 It's just so hard to write for me. And he said, Look I'm going to make it easy. 00:41:17.000 --> 00:41:18.000 You come to my house, in Santa Barbara, where he lives, this beautiful home in Monte Cristo. 00:41:18.000 --> 00:41:26.000 I'll get 1020, 30 of my friends in my living room for a day or 2. 00:41:26.000 --> 00:41:37.000 You, and I will have a conversation with each other, and with them, and you can just tell story after story after story after story after story. 00:41:37.000 --> 00:41:52.000 I'll set up the you know. I've all the equipment to record and videotape everything, and then we'll transcribe it, and you know then you'll have the beginning of a book it'll be simple you will make it easy so I thought well, that sounds super great cause if 00:41:52.000 --> 00:41:56.000 there's people there then I have a lot to say, because I love interacting with people. 00:41:56.000 --> 00:42:01.000 So it worked perfectly. So Jack set up this amazing gathering. 00:42:01.000 --> 00:42:10.000 There was, you know, food and wine and people, and we were there from morning till evening, a couple of days, and he got out of me. 00:42:10.000 --> 00:42:16.000 I don't know. 50, 60, 70, 80. I don't know how many stories, and it was all transcribed, and this was years ago. 00:42:16.000 --> 00:42:26.000 Actually and then it's sort of sat the transcriptions sort of sat in in my office and sort of a digital actually over there. 00:42:26.000 --> 00:42:33.000 I can really see where I had it. Sort of located in the corner of my office, and I started feeling guilty and guiltier and guiltier. 00:42:33.000 --> 00:42:38.000 When I wasn't doing anything with it. After Jack had done this beautiful thing for me. 00:42:38.000 --> 00:42:39.000 So then finally, after guilt, I was raised Catholic. 00:42:39.000 --> 00:42:44.000 So I I'm really good at guilty. I get an a and they guilt department. 00:42:44.000 --> 00:42:47.000 My friend Mary Chase, who's a collaborative writer who I love and has been working with me often. 00:42:47.000 --> 00:42:57.000 On for 2030 years, and she's a really good writer. 00:42:57.000 --> 00:42:58.000 She loves to write, but she's a collaborative writer. 00:42:58.000 --> 00:43:07.000 She writes with someone. She helps someone get their message delivered, and she said, I'd love to do this book with you. 00:43:07.000 --> 00:43:13.000 Just give me 2 or 3 h a week for the next lesson about a year, and we'll get it done so I said. 00:43:13.000 --> 00:43:14.000 Sure, and it was painless. Mary came over to my house. 00:43:14.000 --> 00:43:22.000 Excuse me. Mary came over to my house just kind of sat with me. 00:43:22.000 --> 00:43:26.000 She would ask me about the story she or organized them. 00:43:26.000 --> 00:43:31.000 It's all my work, but Mary made the book happen, and so I just wanted. 00:43:31.000 --> 00:43:46.000 She's on this call with us. I just want to bow to Jack Canfield and bow to Mary Chase, and then to say It is my book, and now that it's happened, I realized it was Jack's vision for me then it was mary's vision for me and now it's clearly my vision for myself. 00:43:46.000 --> 00:43:50.000 It's just gonna make me cry because I couldn't have done it without you, too. And I know Jack. Just you know. 00:43:50.000 --> 00:44:01.000 He, he produces books, 1010 a year, or something. I don't know she's doing 4 right now. 00:44:01.000 --> 00:44:07.000 That to me is like miraculous. I can go to Ethiopia and work with people after a famine. 00:44:07.000 --> 00:44:23.000 I can speak at the United Nations. I can go to Ecuador and lead trips to the Amazon, but writing a book was like a really tall order, for me, and without Jack Canfield and Mary Chase no book so this is in homage, to both of you so thank you so much Jack you're the best 00:44:23.000 --> 00:44:26.000 And, Mary, you're the best 00:44:26.000 --> 00:44:31.000 Well, it was really a a pleasure to do that. I remember it was less of a conversation with me. 00:44:31.000 --> 00:44:35.000 You sat on a stool in front of about 20 people in my living room, and you told story after story. 00:44:35.000 --> 00:44:41.000 I think occasionally, I said, tell that story, or was there more to that? 00:44:41.000 --> 00:44:46.000 And it was so delightful, and the reason I did it I mean literally. 00:44:46.000 --> 00:44:48.000 The the the fact is, the conference was in San Diego. 00:44:48.000 --> 00:45:05.000 It was for business people, and I remember that telling you you got to tell these stories, and as a guy who wrote chicken soup books and collected stories over 20,000 of them over the life of the time I was with that we sold the company number years ago to some people in New York but what happens is 00:45:05.000 --> 00:45:11.000 I knew inspirational stories in every story you would tell was inspirational, and give me goosebumps. 00:45:11.000 --> 00:45:14.000 Make me cry. Make me want to get up and do things think bigger, etc. 00:45:14.000 --> 00:45:22.000 And so given the fact that the world needed to hear these stories, and that you were so good at telling them I I could. 00:45:22.000 --> 00:45:28.000 I would have had to come up and kind of kidnap you, I think, if you hadn't come down voluntarily 00:45:28.000 --> 00:45:30.000 Oh, it was it was, and it was. I'll just say also. 00:45:30.000 --> 00:45:41.000 And now that I've done it, it's almost like the timing was divine for that meeting. 00:45:41.000 --> 00:45:50.000 And then the actual book coming out. Now that the world is in such crisis, there's so much not working there so much for people to work on. 00:45:50.000 --> 00:45:54.000 It's such an epic time to be alive that the book now is well. 00:45:54.000 --> 00:45:59.000 I'm probably always would have been relevant. But super relevant, for right now. 00:45:59.000 --> 00:46:04.000 So even even waiting as long as I did was probably a little bit of a divine intervention. 00:46:04.000 --> 00:46:08.000 So. Yeah, thank you for making me do it, though. 00:46:08.000 --> 00:46:09.000 Yeah? Yeah? And that. Okay. Bye. 00:46:09.000 --> 00:46:10.000 I I I've had a lot of titles, but never divine inspiration or intervention. 00:46:10.000 --> 00:46:16.000 My divine intervention is there you go. 00:46:16.000 --> 00:46:23.000 Excellent, I'm just looking at your picture, Jack, and wondering where Lynn's book is going to go back. 00:46:23.000 --> 00:46:25.000 All those books. 00:46:25.000 --> 00:46:26.000 Right now. It's it's right next to me here. 00:46:26.000 --> 00:46:27.000 There, this looks pretty full 00:46:27.000 --> 00:46:29.000 But it'll have a good place 00:46:29.000 --> 00:46:39.000 Excellent. So that's perfect Lynn, cause I I'm I'm interested in both you and I'll I'll ask you when first you know why now why this conversation why, this book and and what do you want all of these amazing people all of your friends. 00:46:39.000 --> 00:46:52.000 And new people, and and Jack allies. What would you like them to get out of this particular conversation between you and Jack and in speaking about the book? 00:46:52.000 --> 00:46:56.000 What shows up for you. 00:46:56.000 --> 00:47:03.000 Well, that that kind of will make me cry probably. Yeah, let's see. 00:47:03.000 --> 00:47:14.000 I just a second. I just feel that if we're alive today we have a role to play. 00:47:14.000 --> 00:47:35.000 That if you're born and alive, and this in this historic time twenty-twenty to 25, we have a huge role to play as a human beings on this planet, and the crisis that we face are all happening at the same time you know it's not just a nuclear 00:47:35.000 --> 00:47:38.000 Crisis which would be big enough or a health care crisis which would be big enough or a political crisis. 00:47:38.000 --> 00:47:52.000 A democratic crisis and education crisis, a climate crisis. All of them are big enough to require humanity. 00:47:52.000 --> 00:47:54.000 Taking, a a a big step up, but they're all happening at the same time. 00:47:54.000 --> 00:48:18.000 Economic education, education, health, well-being species, extinction weather, really huge crises, all coming from in my view, the great mother the earth, everything comes from the earth, including the virus and it's in my view this is the time this is an epic epic. 00:48:18.000 --> 00:48:26.000 Time to be alive, and it's a privilege to be alive this time, because we all have a role to play it's an all hands on deck time, so we're all actually we have a big opening and aperture to to live a life. 00:48:26.000 --> 00:48:38.000 Larger than our our our own little lives, star starring ourselves and living in epic life, a a life that's larger than your own lifestyle. 00:48:38.000 --> 00:49:01.000 You with a purpose that really calls to you that moves you, that pulls you out of the petty thoughts you have in your head about yourself, or whether you're seen enough or tall enough or cool enough or pretty enough or handsome enough or all the things that we do to kind of invalidate ourselves, or doubt 00:49:01.000 --> 00:49:09.000 Ourselves, or be tentative about ourselves. Once you have a large purpose, a purpose larger than your own lifestyle. 00:49:09.000 --> 00:49:16.000 You all of that noise moves to the background it doesn't go away because we're human beings, and that's part of being human. 00:49:16.000 --> 00:49:33.000 But it moves to the background because what moves through the foreground is your big commitment, whatever it is, and you know for me, ending world hunger really pulled me out of the life that I was living which was it was wonderful people would say you know look at her she's married to 00:49:33.000 --> 00:49:38.000 a wonderful man. She has 3 beautiful kids. He's doing very well financially. 00:49:38.000 --> 00:49:41.000 They're pretty, you pretty good shape, and they seem to be happy. 00:49:41.000 --> 00:49:56.000 But at the same time I was always concerned about whether I looked right or whether I was measuring up to other people, and once I I discovered and became engaged in ending world hunger through the hunger project all of those worries. 00:49:56.000 --> 00:50:10.000 About myself move to the background, and what moved to the foreground was, I have a life that I can give to something larger than my own concerns than my own worries about myself. 00:50:10.000 --> 00:50:13.000 And I'm going to put what I've got toward that. 00:50:13.000 --> 00:50:16.000 And that was the beginning for me but you don't have to. 00:50:16.000 --> 00:50:23.000 He's someone who ends world hunger. You can be just being the best kindergarten teacher you could possibly be. 00:50:23.000 --> 00:50:32.000 That will touch the children so deeply when they're 5 and 6 years old that they will be formulated in a way that they know who they are. 00:50:32.000 --> 00:50:37.000 They may never remember that it was their Kergarten teacher who truly saw them. 00:50:37.000 --> 00:50:52.000 But if you have a purpose way larger than your job than your concerns about yourself, then it shapes you into the the person you need to be to fulfill it, and and so I feel like this conversation today in right now and the book itself. 00:50:52.000 --> 00:51:02.000 Which is this conversation, is really really really timely and important, because people are so worried. 00:51:02.000 --> 00:51:09.000 They're so fearful. They're shutting down they're retracting, and what we actually need to do. 00:51:09.000 --> 00:51:16.000 The world is calling us to step up, to step out, to step into life, to really make a difference with our lives. 00:51:16.000 --> 00:51:22.000 And so that's the purpose of this conversation. It's the purpose of the book I want to inspire people. 00:51:22.000 --> 00:51:38.000 I want to catalyze people I want to motivate people, but most of all I want to mirror back to people the capacity they have to live a life of meaning and fulfillment, and and there's so much to do you, know it's not like being idle is really gonna work now. 00:51:38.000 --> 00:51:45.000 We all need to step up, and it's an all handsome deck time, and what happens when you do that? 00:51:45.000 --> 00:51:54.000 If you find freedom and and fulfillment and joy in really making a difference with your life, so that's what I want. 00:51:54.000 --> 00:51:58.000 People get out of this conversation, and that's what I want them to get out of the book. 00:51:58.000 --> 00:52:12.000 Great and Jack for you like. Why, why, this book? Why, now, why, this time, what shows up for you, as far as you know what you would like to see everybody here, get out of your this conversation together? 00:52:12.000 --> 00:52:17.000 Well, I think everything Lynn said about the timing of it is absolutely true, and also with the pandemic. 00:52:17.000 --> 00:52:33.000 I think a lot of us would have more time to think about our world, to look at it, to spend time I mean, we're told, for example, that George Floyd probably wouldn't have been such a big issue if people hadn't been sitting around watching TV at home if they hadn't had time to go out on the 00:52:33.000 --> 00:52:37.000 streets, because they weren't working to start proteins, etc. 00:52:37.000 --> 00:52:42.000 So a lot of things shifted in our awarenesses, and I think many of us have been aware for a long time, but I think a lot of people. 00:52:42.000 --> 00:52:54.000 The the the connection of the human family, the fact that the whole world was being affected by the pandemic, and then starting to see the whole world was being affected by so many things. 00:52:54.000 --> 00:53:01.000 You know, the, the what I want to say, the lack of of equity among the the wealthy and the poor. 00:53:01.000 --> 00:53:05.000 You know very few people owning almost everything, etc. 00:53:05.000 --> 00:53:06.000 We just became more aware, and I think th the those are the things that that made this book so relevant to the time. 00:53:06.000 --> 00:53:25.000 What I hope people will be inspired to take from the book, and from the conversation they couple of things and I could probably list to which we don't have time for, because I read the book you know when the first was in draft and I read it. 00:53:25.000 --> 00:53:41.000 Again in preparation for this on a plane home from Mexico last week where I spent Thanksgiving with my family, but I think one of the things is that that you know lens live this what I call no matter what attitude that and my favorite stories in a book was about how bill and the board 00:53:41.000 --> 00:53:48.000 of, on the lines we're talking about. Well, what do we do if we don't raise that money and then said, I'm not going to be pulling that conversation. 00:53:48.000 --> 00:53:49.000 I don't go there you can go have that conversation, but I'm I'm gonna raise the money. 00:53:49.000 --> 00:53:57.000 It's not. It's not an issue, and that kind of attitude that we're gonna get there, no matter what. 00:53:57.000 --> 00:53:58.000 We'll figure it out. The solution will emerge by the process of doing it that, I think, is huge. 00:53:58.000 --> 00:54:19.000 We all need to to get that the belief that anything's possible, you know, for so long we've thought that war was inevitable, that hunger was inevitable that you know a wealth inequity was inevitable, and nothing's inevitable, we have choice and that one of my 00:54:19.000 --> 00:54:35.000 Favorites is by Muhammad Ali, who's said, you know impossible is a big word used by small people who would rather live by the world in a world that other people created and create the world that they would want to live in and I think that that's so true and would change the word impossible to 00:54:35.000 --> 00:54:39.000 I'm possible we're possible. We can create whatever we want. 00:54:39.000 --> 00:54:52.000 I think one of the big takeaways from me, and I sometimes get caught in it is not to judge other people that we perceive as obsession just to our goals, one of the things that Lynn's taught me in the book reinforces over and over is that they're 00:54:52.000 --> 00:55:05.000 Not our enemy. They're they all have a point of view that when we look at the whole, what they're what they bring to that is important, and we have to understand and get to know and be and love each other no matter what and you know when you're looking at things like putin and what's 00:55:05.000 --> 00:55:06.000 Happening in Ukraine's sometimes difficult to remember that, but I think it's the only way out. 00:55:06.000 --> 00:55:24.000 So that's important, and I think you know every point of view is valuable to the whole we all have a role to play which Lynn said: I love that if your life today you have a role to play and I think too, the thing I would say is in my training so I always do a life 00:55:24.000 --> 00:55:28.000 purpose exercise, and invariably it's a very deep spiritual approach to that. 00:55:28.000 --> 00:55:35.000 And when people come out they've talked to a guided, you know, a guardian angel they've gotten a gift to represent the like purpose. 00:55:35.000 --> 00:55:38.000 Most people are flabbergasted by what they got, because it's always bigger than what they thought you know. 00:55:38.000 --> 00:56:00.000 It has to do with something about helping the world be a better place and all the different issues we talked about, whether it's women, or education, or love, or justice or whatever, and so I think that I my my experience in working with everybody has a purpose everybody's purpose is usually much bigger than they think it is when they really go 00:56:00.000 --> 00:56:01.000 There I think a lot of. I'm not enough I'm not worthy of, you know. 00:56:01.000 --> 00:56:05.000 Success. All this stuff plays into it. Gets in the way of it. 00:56:05.000 --> 00:56:06.000 But I think if we all realize we have a purpose in our purpose. 00:56:06.000 --> 00:56:23.000 Is expressing our essence in a way that serves the whole, so that whether it's being a kindergarten, teacher, as Lynn said, or being a baker, or being someone who fixes airplanes or someone who is out there solving hunger problems or feeding the 00:56:23.000 --> 00:56:30.000 hungry, or, you know, doing medical work and healing work and educating kids in Africa doesn't matter. 00:56:30.000 --> 00:56:38.000 But each of us has something that makes us come alive, and when we do that there's a way it serves the whole, and that's what we have to all get back to 00:56:38.000 --> 00:56:39.000 Wow! So great, so this this next inquiry, because the book is stories. 00:56:39.000 --> 00:56:47.000 It's stories of, you know well known people global leaders. 00:56:47.000 --> 00:57:01.000 It's stories like ordinary people like myself and all of us here, and you are both to me the most prolific storytellers that of our time. 00:57:01.000 --> 00:57:10.000 I mean you really developed this capacity to tell a story in a way that not only teaches you, but opens, opens us all up to our own power and our own storytelling. 00:57:10.000 --> 00:57:11.000 But in the way in which you story, Johnny, been doing it for decades and decades. 00:57:11.000 --> 00:57:19.000 And it's just you're both like I I don't even it's it's it's amazing to me. 00:57:19.000 --> 00:57:35.000 So I would love. We would love to hear. I would love to hear you share a story in your life that does just that that teaches us through your decades of living the committed life, and Lynn, I'll have you share some stories and or a story or whatever shows up for you and then Jack. 00:57:35.000 --> 00:57:48.000 Well, I would say I I was gonna tell one story, but let me tell the a big story that I I realized I wanted to tell on this this Webinar, and some of you have heard me. 00:57:48.000 --> 00:57:52.000 Say, this but I think one of the things that's available. 00:57:52.000 --> 00:58:01.000 Now first of all story is in. We live in stories. We live in the conversation we have about the world, and that's a story, and it can change. 00:58:01.000 --> 00:58:05.000 You know you can live in a negative conversation. You can live in a disempowering conversation. 00:58:05.000 --> 00:58:23.000 You can be a victim. You can be a hero, whatever it is, it's really in the conversation you that you have about yourself and about the world in which you live, and I really feel that you know sometimes we think we can change things in the world but what you may or may not be able to do 00:58:23.000 --> 00:58:26.000 That I hope all the all of us that we can. 00:58:26.000 --> 00:58:32.000 But you we have absolute omnipotence over the conversation we have about the world. 00:58:32.000 --> 00:58:38.000 I think we don't actually live in the world or in our relationships, or in our lives or in our jobs. 00:58:38.000 --> 00:58:44.000 We live in the conversation we have about the world. The conversation we have about our lives, the conversation we have about our jobs that's actually where we live. 00:58:44.000 --> 00:58:51.000 We live in that conversation, and may you may not be able to change your job right away. 00:58:51.000 --> 00:58:57.000 But you can absolutely change the conversation you have about your job. 00:58:57.000 --> 00:59:15.000 You can absolutely change the conversation you have about your relationship. That's where the levers and dials of life actually are, and that's also called story, and I'll just say this pandemic that we've been through that we're still in waning yes, but sort of 00:59:15.000 --> 00:59:33.000 Returning and coming back and forth is, it can be a a a horrible thing that we're the victim of, and people getting sick and so many people don't, and so many people are heavily marginalized by it as hitting the poorest and the least least healthy and well people, first 00:59:33.000 --> 00:59:38.000 And worst all of that is true, and I don't want to discount that for a moment. 00:59:38.000 --> 00:59:41.000 At the same time another way of looking at the pandemic. 00:59:41.000 --> 00:59:45.000 And this is merely a story, but it's a story that empowers me. 00:59:45.000 --> 00:59:54.000 I look at the pandemic as possibly morning sickness, for a pregnant species. 00:59:54.000 --> 00:59:59.000 That's ready to give birth to a new way of being that we're a species. 00:59:59.000 --> 01:00:10.000 The human species that's about to take an evolutionary leap to be reborn in a new way, and you could say morning sickness like those of you who've been. 01:00:10.000 --> 01:00:17.000 Pregnant those of you are women. You may remember that when you were pregnant and didn't know you were pregnant, you thought there was something wrong with you. You. 01:00:17.000 --> 01:00:19.000 Thought you were sick. You're throwing up in the morning. 01:00:19.000 --> 01:00:23.000 You're hungry all the time you want to sleep in the afternoons. 01:00:23.000 --> 01:00:31.000 You can't really you don't feel your energy is a little compromised but then you go to the doctor and find out your pregnant. 01:00:31.000 --> 01:00:34.000 Oh, my God! How exciting! I'm gonna have a baby! 01:00:34.000 --> 01:00:53.000 And so suddenly the context, the frame. The story is different. It's sort of thrilling not exactly thrilling, but just for off in the morning, knowing that you're pregnant, you're gonna have a baby and the resting in the afternoon becomes essential because you're gonna have a baby and having people help you bring 01:00:53.000 --> 01:00:54.000 In your groceries is essential because you're gonna have a baby. 01:00:54.000 --> 01:01:03.000 You create a it's a completely different story, and it changes your life and it changes the way you behave, and it changes your experience of life. 01:01:03.000 --> 01:01:09.000 So. I wanted to tell that story, because I actually think that's an empowering story for the times that we're living in, and I actually feel for me that it's valid. 01:01:09.000 --> 01:01:14.000 And it's true, and then let me tell another story. 01:01:14.000 --> 01:01:19.000 A smaller story than that big giant story. But a story that really changed my life. 01:01:19.000 --> 01:01:24.000 That's in the book, and I work in the Amazon rainforest. 01:01:24.000 --> 01:01:40.000 Many of you know that, and Jack's been there, and Sarah goes regularly with me, and we work with indigenous people who live in the sacred headwaters region of the Amazon Rainforest in Ecuador and Peru and I was once alone with the leader of the 01:01:40.000 --> 01:01:41.000 Zappra people and the Zapper people are facing extinction. 01:01:41.000 --> 01:01:49.000 There's only 535 of them left, and their leader is named Minare Yushiwa. 01:01:49.000 --> 01:02:08.000 Some of you even know him, and it was one of the first times that I went to Zappra Territory, which is roadless and pristine and beautiful, and I was hiking behind Menari Ushiwa in the Rainforest on what nobody would ever call a trail because was thick 01:02:08.000 --> 01:02:13.000 jungle, and he had a machete, and he was cutting a trail for himself and for me. 01:02:13.000 --> 01:02:33.000 Right behind him, and Menari is a big, very handsome, indigenous man, bare chested, with long hair, and he had on a beautiful feather headdress, and and then he was barefoot and I of course was covered with all my wicked women, rei outfits 01:02:33.000 --> 01:02:42.000 In my high boots, and walking slowly behind him, as he cut the trail and it was a little bit scary you know the rainforest when you haven't been there a lot. 01:02:42.000 --> 01:02:50.000 There's all kinds of critters and you know there's branches and brambles and vines and thorns and bugs and snakes and all kinds of stuff. 01:02:50.000 --> 01:02:54.000 So I'm carefully right behind him, staying close to him as he cuts the trail. 01:02:54.000 --> 01:03:07.000 If you can imagine that, and at a certain point Minori stops, and he turns around, and he says to me, Can You feel them 01:03:07.000 --> 01:03:10.000 And I thought, What's he talking about? And he was speaking in Spanish? 01:03:10.000 --> 01:03:18.000 So I thought maybe I didn't understand it. So I said what very quietly can you feel them? 01:03:18.000 --> 01:03:30.000 I said, What do you mean? And then he said: the millions and millions of souls 01:03:30.000 --> 01:03:42.000 And in that moment what I had previously before he said that seen his bugs and brambles and snakes and scary things that were out to get me became souls. 01:03:42.000 --> 01:03:47.000 Every leaf, every twig, every tree, every insect, was a soul. 01:03:47.000 --> 01:03:53.000 It was so inspiring to leave me cry, because from that moment on M. 01:03:53.000 --> 01:04:01.000 Experience of the natural world is completely transformed, and I see now at least from his point of view. 01:04:01.000 --> 01:04:24.000 And now also from mine, that everything is alive, everything different deserves our reverence, our respect, and when you think of it as having a soul very, very different experience of taking a walk through the Amazon rainforest or going anywhere in the natural world so that was a shift complete shift in my experience a 01:04:24.000 --> 01:04:30.000 Transformational story, and hopefully a transational story for you, a teaching story. 01:04:30.000 --> 01:04:36.000 So those are 2 of mine and Jack over to you 01:04:36.000 --> 01:04:38.000 I I I often tell people I've never seen Lynn speak without crying. 01:04:38.000 --> 01:04:47.000 So you're not letting me down again but you have such an open heart. 01:04:47.000 --> 01:04:54.000 I love it you know it's interesting. You talk about that experience and and you've always been there to serve. 01:04:54.000 --> 01:05:00.000 And yet the transformation that you received back was huge, and I haven't chapter in my book to success. 01:05:00.000 --> 01:05:03.000 Principles, it's one of the successful number 62. 01:05:03.000 --> 01:05:21.000 It's called, find a way to serve and it starts with the quote from off Auto Emerson, which says It's one of the beautiful compensations of this life that no man and i'll update it or woman can sincerely try to help another with helping himself and the story that I'm gonna share with you is a story about 01:05:21.000 --> 01:05:22.000 Kimbering. I was at a meeting in Chicago. 01:05:22.000 --> 01:05:26.000 It was called the International Achievement Summit, and it was like all kinds of amazing people. 01:05:26.000 --> 01:05:47.000 You know John Lewis, the civil rights worker, the 2 guys who started Google, you know I could go on just authors and and politicians and famous people Martin Korea, Scott King was there etc. and I was there because of Chicken soup for the soul there's a Lot of 01:05:47.000 --> 01:06:01.000 people who had done amazing things on the planet. I was honored to be invited, and we all got to give like a Ted talk about 1,820 min talk to these it was about 300 graduate students some of the smartest people in the world that they wanted to inspire to do. 01:06:01.000 --> 01:06:11.000 Great things like we as supposedly done, and there was a guy who got up to talk as his name was Kenneth, Bering, and he at the time was worth about 495 million dollars in he'd been a billionaire. 01:06:11.000 --> 01:06:18.000 By the time he was 27, and he said his life had gone through 4 stages, and the first stage he called. 01:06:18.000 --> 01:06:21.000 He said it was more stuff, and he said all the basic stuff. 01:06:21.000 --> 01:06:22.000 I got a car, a house. My business was expanding, he said. 01:06:22.000 --> 01:06:27.000 I thought it would make me happy, but it didn't he said. 01:06:27.000 --> 01:06:29.000 Then I went through the second stage. It was called Better stuff, and he said, so I got a big mansion. 01:06:29.000 --> 01:06:36.000 I got an expensive car. I got a private chat to a yacht. 01:06:36.000 --> 01:06:39.000 I had exotic depictions all jury for my wife. 01:06:39.000 --> 01:06:42.000 It's, etc. He said. None of that would make me happy, but it didn't. 01:06:42.000 --> 01:06:45.000 Then he said that the third stage was called different stuff. Then he buy. 01:06:45.000 --> 01:06:54.000 He bought a 100 classic cars. He actually built a museum, he bought the cattle seahawks, football team with one other guy, he said, now I'm gonna be on the field with the players. 01:06:54.000 --> 01:06:55.000 I'm gonna be interviewed by the press. I can go to that sit in the owners box. 01:06:55.000 --> 01:07:11.000 I thought that would make me happy, but it didn't, and he said the 4 stage of his life was called purpose, and he said the friend of his called him up, who was wealthy, and he said he was going to be going to Romania where he's going to be dropping off 6 wheelchairs, for people 01:07:11.000 --> 01:07:12.000 In this hospital, and would you like to come with him? And Ken knew the guy really well. He said. 01:07:12.000 --> 01:07:20.000 Sure. Let's go. So they fly over to Romania they land, they go to the hospital and ken. 01:07:20.000 --> 01:07:21.000 When he lifted up one of the old men, who was very frail and put him in a wheelchair. 01:07:21.000 --> 01:07:26.000 The guy started to cry. He said: I was touched at the level. 01:07:26.000 --> 01:07:31.000 I'd never been touched at before now. The following year his friend asked him again, and they went down to Mexico, and they landed on a tarmac. 01:07:31.000 --> 01:07:41.000 There was about 30 or 40 kids. They bought wheelchairs for, and he said: I picked up this one frail 11 year old boy. 01:07:41.000 --> 01:07:44.000 He was blind and disabled, and at put him in a chair. 01:07:44.000 --> 01:07:58.000 But then the boy said, Please don't leave yet, so Ken bent down and took his hands so the way would know where he was, and through, tears and interpreter the boy, said, I can't see you now but I will see you in heaven and when I do I will thank you, one more time 01:07:58.000 --> 01:08:02.000 And Ken said that was the first time in his life he felt pure joy. 01:08:02.000 --> 01:08:10.000 He came back. He created the ken bearing wheelchair foundation, and since that time given away over a 1 million wheelchairs and 152 countries. 01:08:10.000 --> 01:08:11.000 So I think it's important to find a way to serve that's uniquely yours, because it's gonna come back to you like, he said. 01:08:11.000 --> 01:08:16.000 Hmm. 01:08:16.000 --> 01:08:18.000 He's never been happier in his life than doing this work. 01:08:18.000 --> 01:08:21.000 And he had all the stuff that people could could possibly want, and I love the phrase from Howard Thurman. 01:08:21.000 --> 01:08:30.000 I know you like it, too, because you quoted says, Don't ask what to world needs. 01:08:30.000 --> 01:08:44.000 Ask you what comes alive and go do that, because what the world needs is people have come alive, and so he came alive in that in that the process of of serving and his thing was wheelchairs, or someone else who just said it might be teaching kindergarten but I love. 01:08:44.000 --> 01:08:45.000 That story. I think it's very, very powerful. 01:08:45.000 --> 01:08:49.000 Hold on! Wow! That's that's that's good. 01:08:49.000 --> 01:08:50.000 Beautiful. Hmm, hmm. 01:08:50.000 --> 01:08:51.000 Wow, okay. Well, I'm I'm gonna ask you another question. 01:08:51.000 --> 01:09:11.000 Jack sort of a twofold question here is, is, you know, you've read the book on your trip back from Mexico and tell us what for you what are some of the insights and takeaways that you've gotten from reading the book and then also is there an area in some of those 01:09:11.000 --> 01:09:17.000 insights, or something that really touch you, that you would like Lynn to go a little deeper in conversation with 01:09:17.000 --> 01:09:24.000 Sure, I think a couple of the principles that that touch me really deeply with persistence. 01:09:24.000 --> 01:09:41.000 How Lynn never gave up, and as I, was reading that kind of kept showing up in several days chapters of the book, I realize a number of years ago I'd set a goal to train 1 million trainers by twenty-thirty and we've now Trained 4,500 01:09:41.000 --> 01:09:50.000 Trainers that have trained over a 1 million people in in the 117 countries around the world. 01:09:50.000 --> 01:09:56.000 But we're a long way from having a 1 million trainers, and I think a couple of years ago I kind of decided well, that was an unrealistic goal. 01:09:56.000 --> 01:09:57.000 And then reading list book. I will wait a second. You're giving up you know you haven't done everything you can do. 01:09:57.000 --> 01:10:10.000 Let's start thinking about that. So I'm sitting on the plane and I started brainstorming with myself all the things we could do that would help us. 01:10:10.000 --> 01:10:11.000 You know. Get out of this place where we are now, and generate a 1 million trainers. 01:10:11.000 --> 01:10:18.000 And so I started realizing we need to train more trainers of trainers than we. 01:10:18.000 --> 01:10:22.000 Have so I have to put energy on that we need to create regional coordinators. 01:10:22.000 --> 01:10:39.000 So we empower people. I once studied how you build international organizations, and you have to have people in position to power who, you know, get the fulfillment of doing something so they'll keep doing it and train other people and then coordinate all that have country coordinators for every country 01:10:39.000 --> 01:10:46.000 Put together an International Advisory board. So I ended up with about 13 activities that I could do, of which I'm actually starting a couple of this week. 01:10:46.000 --> 01:10:52.000 So for me the big takeaway was, you know, when it gets difficult, or it seems like it's too big. 01:10:52.000 --> 01:10:55.000 Don't stop! And so it re it revitalized me. 01:10:55.000 --> 01:11:02.000 If you will, and I appreciate that, Lynn. Thank you very much, and what I would say to you is I was reading the book. 01:11:02.000 --> 01:11:03.000 You make a distinction between change and transformation and I'd love to hear you talk more about that. 01:11:03.000 --> 01:11:10.000 The then share with us what that means for you 01:11:10.000 --> 01:11:14.000 Let's see if I can do that in a efficient way. 01:11:14.000 --> 01:11:34.000 So change. Thank you, Jack. Thank you. So much change is a beautiful thing, and we all have change in our lives, and it's very important and and there's a dynamic that I believe around change that we need to be aware of and change often in order to make a change you make something wrong so that you make 01:11:34.000 --> 01:11:40.000 What you want to change to right. So whatever's you want to change you, you make it wrong. 01:11:40.000 --> 01:11:52.000 You insult it a little bit. You insult the past, or you insult the present so you can create a different future, it's sort of required out of change, and you can see that in our political landscape you know everybody's? 01:11:52.000 --> 01:11:55.000 Saying, we need change, and so then you have to say what's bad. 01:11:55.000 --> 01:11:58.000 So that you can say what would be better, and and change is important, and we all we all engage in it all the time. 01:11:58.000 --> 01:12:14.000 Transformation has completely different dynamics. Transformation doesn't insult the past or the present doesn't deny the past or the present. 01:12:14.000 --> 01:12:30.000 It has it complete and suddenly makes sense. So when you have a transformation you look back at what was, and you see that it's the was the perfect entree or on ramp to what's now taking place. 01:12:30.000 --> 01:12:48.000 And so you don't discredit the past. You actually honor it, complete it and build on it rather than insult it, and make it wrong and transformation is, I think, what we all really seek and what we really want we don't want to otherwise. 01:12:48.000 --> 01:12:50.000 We go back and forth and back and forth between. Yes, no pro life from choice, you know. 01:12:50.000 --> 01:13:06.000 Positionality is very important and powerful and asking for changes is, is is important and powerful, but at the same time transformation. 01:13:06.000 --> 01:13:21.000 What requires in everything that has come before honoring it, give it it, give it some respect, so that it can be the platform for what is is going to emerge that you are bringing forth in transformation? 01:13:21.000 --> 01:13:24.000 So you know there's a I think there's a whole chapter on that, but I think it's a really a powerful distinction and very important for the times. 01:13:24.000 --> 01:13:37.000 We're living in now, because I think what we're what we're we're in is a huge huge epic evolutionary transformation. 01:13:37.000 --> 01:13:42.000 It. It also will require change. So change isn't bad. 01:13:42.000 --> 01:13:51.000 But the transformation always leaves you with a sense of completion, fulfillment, and a big aperture and opening in front of you. 01:13:51.000 --> 01:13:57.000 So that's a little bit about changing transformation. Thank you for that excellent question. 01:13:57.000 --> 01:13:58.000 Excellent. Okay. So now we're going to open it up for questions. 01:13:58.000 --> 01:14:08.000 Comments, sharing, and if we could keep it on the topic of living a committed life and get to the question, or the comment would be fantastic. 01:14:08.000 --> 01:14:19.000 So we can hear from a lot of people, and either raise your hand with the reaction. 01:14:19.000 --> 01:14:28.000 Icon at below. You can put your question in the text, and we'll try to get to as many as possible, and question for Jack question for land. 01:14:28.000 --> 01:14:39.000 Let's go for it. Okay, I'm gonna start with you. Shookorette. 01:14:39.000 --> 01:14:40.000 Hi sugar at 01:14:40.000 --> 01:14:44.000 Hey, hey, veter! Hi, Lynn! Oh, I'm so excited for this book! 01:14:44.000 --> 01:14:45.000 Hmm. 01:14:45.000 --> 01:15:04.000 I can't wait to get my copy. My question is, how do I manage all of the responsibilities that I have as a life coach and bring my gift to the world where I don't feel overwhelmed at times 01:15:04.000 --> 01:15:06.000 Is that for both Jack and me, or for just me. 01:15:06.000 --> 01:15:10.000 Oh, my gosh, yes, I would be honored to have you and Jack answer both 01:15:10.000 --> 01:15:13.000 Okay. Well, I'll I'll say a couple of things first. 01:15:13.000 --> 01:15:20.000 It's it's a it's a privilege to have so many responsibilities that you can't fulfill them. 01:15:20.000 --> 01:15:25.000 That means you know you make a difference. That means you're really up to something useful, you know. 01:15:25.000 --> 01:15:31.000 We always ask the busiest people to do the job that we need to get done, because we know they'll do it because they're up to something. 01:15:31.000 --> 01:15:35.000 They believe in themselves, and they're they're they're out there. 01:15:35.000 --> 01:15:46.000 So number one: if you have that problem, hooray for you number 2. 01:15:46.000 --> 01:15:47.000 Hmm. 01:15:47.000 --> 01:15:48.000 I I like to pay more attention to managing my energy than I do my time. 01:15:48.000 --> 01:15:55.000 So. I have a very you know, clear schedule, Mikei, my wonderful Mikey and Sarah, and our team. 01:15:55.000 --> 01:16:06.000 We all work on the schedule very, very carefully to prioritize and make things really work, and at the same time to pay more attention to your energy. 01:16:06.000 --> 01:16:24.000 Then your schedule, so that you, when you, when you look at your energy when you look at your time, there's a wonderful phrase that comes from someone else, but I'll I'll steal it cultivate the lilies, and a voiceches in your calendar and in the people, around 01:16:24.000 --> 01:16:26.000 You cultivate the lilies and avoid the leeches, and you know when I say that that's just a phrase to help you? 01:16:26.000 --> 01:16:37.000 Do the things that really turn your on turn. You want turn you on, make your life a work, make your heart sing and the things that you have to do. 01:16:37.000 --> 01:16:52.000 Their leeches, you know sometimes you just gotta do them, but if the energy of the lies is is with you, then the leeches won't be so hard, and then third, I'll I'll just say that it's it's a powerful powerful thing. 01:16:52.000 --> 01:17:01.000 To know that that people are counting on you. 01:17:01.000 --> 01:17:15.000 And so look and see who's counting on you, and whatever it is that they're counting on you for give it to them as an act of love then it's not a duty, it's not an obligation. 01:17:15.000 --> 01:17:16.000 You get to do that for that person rather than you have to do that for person. 01:17:16.000 --> 01:17:25.000 So when you re replace the word, I have to to. 01:17:25.000 --> 01:17:31.000 I get to, and then there's a privilege, a joy a gift in there for you. 01:17:31.000 --> 01:17:34.000 So there's a couple of ideas, and over to you. 01:17:34.000 --> 01:17:36.000 Is it over to you, Jack? I know you have lots to say about it. 01:17:36.000 --> 01:17:37.000 Okay. 01:17:37.000 --> 01:17:38.000 Well, I won't say too much, because I want to get to the people that. 01:17:38.000 --> 01:17:43.000 But there was a quote that I found from somebody once, and I put it on my other computer. 01:17:43.000 --> 01:17:47.000 I'd read it word forward here, but it says something like the desires of my heart. 01:17:47.000 --> 01:17:54.000 Don't match the capacity of my body to fulfill all the requests that are made from me, and so the reality is, when you're overwhelmed it. 01:17:54.000 --> 01:18:08.000 Means you have too many options, and no criteria for which to choose, and so what Lynn's talking about is choose the things that are you're drawn to when I was in India I just saw so many children on the street that were just like you know begging and some of them, parents would even 01:18:08.000 --> 01:18:09.000 Break their arms to make them even more. You know to break your heart. 01:18:09.000 --> 01:18:23.000 Do you want to give money? And I remember saying to this woman who was over there who had breakfast with one morning who was a teacher, and she said: You know one child, will break your heart one? 01:18:23.000 --> 01:18:27.000 Child will speak to you. One child will there'll be a aura around them and says, This is my child. 01:18:27.000 --> 01:18:47.000 This is my purpose. This is my orphanage. This is the I can't support every orphanage, but I'm gonna support this one, and so find out the things that that you feel drawn to you know some people provide music for kids in the inner city some people provide sports equipment for kids some 01:18:47.000 --> 01:18:51.000 People teach kids how to meditate. Some people build schools in Africa. 01:18:51.000 --> 01:18:56.000 You can't do all of that so figure out which one is the one that most things to me. 01:18:56.000 --> 01:19:03.000 Once my attention, and then let the rest of it go and do it. Do what you can 01:19:03.000 --> 01:19:04.000 You're welcome 01:19:04.000 --> 01:19:05.000 Wow! Thank you so much. That was amazing. 01:19:05.000 --> 01:19:08.000 Wow! That's great thanks. There's great questions in the chat. 01:19:08.000 --> 01:19:11.000 Oh, my God, I want to answer all of them. All I want you to do, anyway. 01:19:11.000 --> 01:19:18.000 Let well, let's see. Let's go to Leslie, Leslie, darling. 01:19:18.000 --> 01:19:21.000 Lastly, darling Leslie, darling 01:19:21.000 --> 01:19:24.000 I'm I'm married to Mr. Darling, and he lives up to surname. 01:19:24.000 --> 01:19:26.000 I'm very blessed 01:19:26.000 --> 01:19:27.000 Yay. 01:19:27.000 --> 01:19:30.000 So great, and your missus. Hey! This is Darlene. 01:19:30.000 --> 01:19:39.000 It's so lovely to be in this conversation. It gives me great hope for the future, and what I wanted to ask both of you, if I can. 01:19:39.000 --> 01:19:50.000 Is obviously you've you've based on the most amazing things in the world, and they've not been easy especially the time that you started doing what you were doing. 01:19:50.000 --> 01:19:53.000 Now, you know it's more of a conversation. But when you started you must have seen a lot of obstacles. 01:19:53.000 --> 01:19:59.000 So what makes you discouragement, proof. 01:19:59.000 --> 01:20:00.000 Hmm. 01:20:00.000 --> 01:20:01.000 Oh! 01:20:01.000 --> 01:20:03.000 Well, I'll I'll I'll give a short answer. The word. 01:20:03.000 --> 01:20:11.000 Discouragement comes from being disconnected from your heart. 01:20:11.000 --> 01:20:31.000 Discourage, disconnected from your courage, and when I'm discouraged, what I know is that I've lost touch with my heart because courage comes from the heart from core the French word for heart, so discouragement is merely and I really mean this merely a brief and hopefully 01:20:31.000 --> 01:20:38.000 Not too long. Disconnection from your heart, and when you get re reconnected with your heart, anything's possible. 01:20:38.000 --> 01:20:40.000 Again. That's my short answer. 01:20:40.000 --> 01:20:41.000 Beautiful. 01:20:41.000 --> 01:20:46.000 I I I would say, if you're following your inner guidance if you're tapped into spirit. 01:20:46.000 --> 01:20:50.000 However, you hold that. Whether you meditate, call it gods source. 01:20:50.000 --> 01:20:55.000 You know all, of whatever. The fact is, if you're given a download as I've been given downloads, you know, call it computer guidance. 01:20:55.000 --> 01:21:05.000 Whatever then I trust that that's coming from a higher power that basically says that is possible, or I wouldn't ask you to do it. 01:21:05.000 --> 01:21:21.000 And so then, when the when the things that like chicken soup for the soul was rejected by 144 publishers over the course of 18 months, and so, but I knew that someone was going to say yes, yes, was out there it had to be because I was asked to do this and so I just 01:21:21.000 --> 01:21:27.000 Kept looking for the yes, eventually got one. We sold 10 million copies of the first book that we then went on to sell. 01:21:27.000 --> 01:21:34.000 You know half a 1 billion chicken super the soul books had I given up after a 100 I would not be here, Lynn and I would not know each other. 01:21:34.000 --> 01:21:48.000 A lot of things would never have happened so if you're following your heart as Lynn says, you're inner guidance, your intuition, then I think you know it's sometimes you may have to change strategies you may have to you know to go left go right. 01:21:48.000 --> 01:21:50.000 But never give up so that's how I handle it. 01:21:50.000 --> 01:21:56.000 I very rarely been the screen I've been. I've been I've been disappointed, but even that's called. 01:21:56.000 --> 01:21:58.000 You make an appointment with the future, then the future. 01:21:58.000 --> 01:22:12.000 This is your appointment, and so therefore you you have to feel that you know it's it's it's I created the appointment that's usually, but the date by when that gets disappointing I've every goal I've ever set with a few exceptions I've achieved it's 01:22:12.000 --> 01:22:16.000 Just usually sometimes later than I thought it would be 01:22:16.000 --> 01:22:17.000 Thank you so much 01:22:17.000 --> 01:22:18.000 Right. Excell excellent. Hmm! 01:22:18.000 --> 01:22:29.000 Hey? Yeah, you're both amazing. We're gonna have to just do this again because there's so many incredible questions. So we're gonna have one more, question Mary 01:22:29.000 --> 01:22:30.000 Mary Thorpe. 01:22:30.000 --> 01:22:32.000 There might be more than one Mary out there 01:22:32.000 --> 01:22:33.000 Great to it. Yeah. 01:22:33.000 --> 01:22:38.000 I'm very poor with their hand up. There you are, and you're muted, my dear 01:22:38.000 --> 01:23:03.000 There we go, Lynn. I've been trained over the years about that process of transformation, but I want to know if that process that you're talking about is in that chapter on transformation in your book so I can send people there instead of trying to teach everybody please please I hope 01:23:03.000 --> 01:23:07.000 Alright, awesome. 01:23:07.000 --> 01:23:08.000 Thank you for this 01:23:08.000 --> 01:23:09.000 Yes. The answer is yes 01:23:09.000 --> 01:23:15.000 Okay. Oh, gosh, yeah. I think everybody. Okay. So 01:23:15.000 --> 01:23:19.000 And we take one more. Sarah. 01:23:19.000 --> 01:23:20.000 Let's see. What can we take? 2 more? Can we take? 01:23:20.000 --> 01:23:21.000 Okay. We'll take one more cat 01:23:21.000 --> 01:23:30.000 Catherine, and I see Steve, the publisher of this book. I want to see what he has to ask 01:23:30.000 --> 01:23:31.000 Christmas. 01:23:31.000 --> 01:23:34.000 Okay, Steve Catherine Crockett and Steve Personty 01:23:34.000 --> 01:23:36.000 You're on there you go 01:23:36.000 --> 01:23:37.000 Katherine. 01:23:37.000 --> 01:23:39.000 So are you, Katherine? First? Hi, Lynn! 01:23:39.000 --> 01:23:40.000 Hi, Katherine! 01:23:40.000 --> 01:24:05.000 Oh, my gosh! I I wanted to. There's so much to say, but I wanted to say that I've been listening to the audio book, which is oh, wonderful way to experience this book although I want to get the hard covered too so I can underline but it's been adjourned listening to 01:24:05.000 --> 01:24:06.000 Hmm. 01:24:06.000 --> 01:24:13.000 the book has been a journey through my own life, and just reconnected with me with so much good. 01:24:13.000 --> 01:24:16.000 You in the Hunger project in Pachemama. 01:24:16.000 --> 01:24:37.000 Everything has brought to my little life and just wanted to reaffirm the fact that I realized that I'm a Yoga teacher now, and I'm committed to people connecting with their bodies so they can live healthy and vibrant lives and committed lives as long as possible 01:24:37.000 --> 01:24:40.000 Next great Katherine 01:24:40.000 --> 01:24:46.000 And I realized that I am living a committed life 01:24:46.000 --> 01:24:48.000 You are you? You got it? Thank you. 01:24:48.000 --> 01:25:01.000 Right. Thank you. So 01:25:01.000 --> 01:25:02.000 Hmm. 01:25:02.000 --> 01:25:12.000 As you get sure, and your book is also a teaching. It's it's stories, but it's teaching, and I love the chapter on close your forgiveness and openings, and I heard something that's really how helping me help other people and that's honorable closure and if you want to 01:25:12.000 --> 01:25:19.000 say anything about honorable closure really really has opened up a whole world for me. 01:25:19.000 --> 01:25:20.000 So. Thank you. 01:25:20.000 --> 01:25:24.000 Well, the honorable closure topic is is we're coming to the end of this wonderful hour. 01:25:24.000 --> 01:25:25.000 Yeah. 01:25:25.000 --> 01:25:27.000 Hi! Just realized. I'm sorry I didn't look at the cloud. 01:25:27.000 --> 01:25:28.000 Yeah. 01:25:28.000 --> 01:25:32.000 So, yes, it's in the book, and you can read it there. 01:25:32.000 --> 01:25:35.000 So maybe we'll just I'd love to have Steve say something short. 01:25:35.000 --> 01:25:40.000 And then, Sarah, if if people can stay on to Sarah, just gonna tell us how to get the book. 01:25:40.000 --> 01:25:43.000 That's kind of an important part of this. So, Steve, do you want to take one 01:25:43.000 --> 01:25:52.000 Okay. Thank you. Thank you, Katherine. Steve. You have 30 s 01:25:52.000 --> 01:25:59.000 There you are! You're muted 01:25:59.000 --> 01:26:00.000 Yeah. 01:26:00.000 --> 01:26:09.000 Okay. Okay. There we go. Well, it was a tremendous privilege and a pleasure to work with Lynn and Mary on this book, and I have to say as editor, working on. 01:26:09.000 --> 01:26:14.000 It. I was inspired throughout the whole process, and I cried many, many times, probably more than linded, even even working on it. 01:26:14.000 --> 01:26:18.000 But Lynn, one of my favorite chapters is, is Chapter 10, about being tested. 01:26:18.000 --> 01:26:34.000 I wonder if you could just say something about competing commitments and over commitment, and overwhelm how you deal with that 01:26:34.000 --> 01:26:35.000 Well, I think we we kind of dealt with that a little bit already. 01:26:35.000 --> 01:26:44.000 I'm gonna I'm gonna say to to Sarah because she's has to manage the time somehow in 2 min. 01:26:44.000 --> 01:27:00.000 Here. I'm gonna say that overwhelming over commitment is a once again an honor to be someone who has that kind of energy and commitment to the world that you that you're over committed and then some of the things that Jack said and then I said about managing energy rather 01:27:00.000 --> 01:27:17.000 than time cultivating lilies rather than leeches, prioritizing and knowing what's yours to do, and choosing that, because if it's not yours to do someone else, it is for someone else those things i'll just repeat and then if the people, stay on a little bit, longer, I can say some other things. 01:27:17.000 --> 01:27:23.000 but we want to close this out with with our request for everyone to buy the book to today. 01:27:23.000 --> 01:27:24.000 Right. Sarah 01:27:24.000 --> 01:27:25.000 Yes, right, Lynn, did you wanna say? 01:27:25.000 --> 01:27:29.000 Thank you to Jack before. Let me do that, and then you'll thank him. 01:27:29.000 --> 01:27:34.000 Should we should we do that? I'll 01:27:34.000 --> 01:27:38.000 Jack, can you stand for a couple more minutes, or should I thank you right now? 01:27:38.000 --> 01:27:43.000 Sure, sure, and I feel. Thank already. You don't need to do much about that. But let's let people know how to get the book, because I really everyone should read it 01:27:43.000 --> 01:27:48.000 Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Yeah. Everyone should read it. It's giving Tuesday. 01:27:48.000 --> 01:27:51.000 It's the perfect book to for holiday. Send your friends. 01:27:51.000 --> 01:27:54.000 You can buy it in local bookstores? It's available paperback. 01:27:54.000 --> 01:28:03.000 It's available on audio book. It's available in ebook the links in the chat that is the whole page book on the solemn money. 01:28:03.000 --> 01:28:12.000 Website you can go there and order it in all those different ways, and we do have a special offer from Porch light books, which is also you'll find in that little you can order. 01:28:12.000 --> 01:28:15.000 From them and you'll get a signed book by Lynn Twist. 01:28:15.000 --> 01:28:18.000 It's her actual signature. It is her signed book, and you'll get a free copy of a Pdf. 01:28:18.000 --> 01:28:26.000 Of the first chapter. Again, all that's in the book, and I just want to say, Thank you, everyone for your time. 01:28:26.000 --> 01:28:37.000 Your tension, your attention, and Jack and land for being together, and pulling this all together. 01:28:37.000 --> 01:28:38.000 And I'll just say one other thing. It's a really excellent holiday gift. 01:28:38.000 --> 01:28:39.000 Yay. Okay. Yeah. 01:28:39.000 --> 01:28:56.000 So you could buy not just one, but 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, for all the people that you want to give Christmas presence. Hanukkah, presence, quanza presence birthday presence new year's presence too as well, this is really good idea that I just think you oughta have 01:28:56.000 --> 01:29:00.000 In your in the back of your mind. And then, Jack, you're the best, the best, the best. 01:29:00.000 --> 01:29:08.000 I'd like to sell a half a 1 billion books. Also let me know how to do that when we get off this call 01:29:08.000 --> 01:29:09.000 It'll take a little time and look them in, but you can do it. 01:29:09.000 --> 01:29:11.000 And 01:29:11.000 --> 01:29:16.000 I just wanna say you reminded me about the the multiple presence couple of years ago. 01:29:16.000 --> 01:29:25.000 My my son Christopher, who you know I brought him out to my office, and I did a exercise with him about his life purpose. 01:29:25.000 --> 01:29:28.000 It was Christmas. And I and I gave him lots of other things he wanted. 01:29:28.000 --> 01:29:35.000 He likes clothes, he likes technology, stuff and all that, and about 2 weeks later he said to me: You know but that's Chris was present. 01:29:35.000 --> 01:29:38.000 You gave me Jack, and I. He calls me Jack. I said, No, what is it? He said. 01:29:38.000 --> 01:29:44.000 That session. You did with me about my life purpose, and I said, why, he says, I feel like I know who I really am. 01:29:44.000 --> 01:29:45.000 Hmm. 01:29:45.000 --> 01:29:50.000 Now, how could you give a better present than a book that helps somebody awaken to their purpose when they don't know what it is? 01:29:50.000 --> 01:29:59.000 So if you think about kids who are in high school college, you think about people you know that are wealthy. 01:29:59.000 --> 01:30:00.000 I live. It was mentioned. I live in Monacito. 01:30:00.000 --> 01:30:15.000 I actually have an Hope Ranch, which is on the opposite side of Santa Barbara, and Monte Cristo, but there's a club in Montecito called the Billionaire Wise Club, and they all get together and talk about how difficult it is to be the wife of 01:30:15.000 --> 01:30:16.000 Hmm. 01:30:16.000 --> 01:30:19.000 billionaire. But the point is, most of these people have never found their purpose to keep acquiring more and more, things, and are not having. 01:30:19.000 --> 01:30:26.000 And so we see that all over the world so it's not just a book for people that are already they're looking for their purpose or committed. 01:30:26.000 --> 01:30:36.000 But also think about the people you know that are suffering from anxiety, from depression, from lack of meaning, like a fulfillment this is a perfect gift for them and that's a lot of people. 01:30:36.000 --> 01:30:40.000 So I'll be buying number of copies to give to my friends for sure 01:30:40.000 --> 01:30:42.000 Oh, thank you, Jack. 01:30:42.000 --> 01:30:46.000 Excellent, and this and this call, that we've been on is recorded as well. 01:30:46.000 --> 01:30:58.000 So. I know people have been asking in the chat and I don't think it would be too difficult to be married to a billionaire cause. 01:30:58.000 --> 01:30:59.000 Are you available? 01:30:59.000 --> 01:31:00.000 I could teach him his purpose. So I'll I'll continue continue on that back now, available 01:31:00.000 --> 01:31:01.000 Let me. Let me let me let me let me share a really, I know we're over time, but I'll show really quick. 01:31:01.000 --> 01:31:07.000 Sorry. So I mentioned Ken bearing we're listening to him. 01:31:07.000 --> 01:31:13.000 Talk about his wheelchair foundation and he's finding his purpose, and my wife started to cry. 01:31:13.000 --> 01:31:17.000 And I, I she's sitting next to me and and I said, What! Why are you crying? 01:31:17.000 --> 01:31:18.000 Should I think I found my purpose? I said, what giving wheelchairs to kids and Third World countries? She said. 01:31:18.000 --> 01:31:26.000 No helping billionaires find their purpose. Do you know what that would do for the world? 01:31:26.000 --> 01:31:27.000 So when you say that Sarah, it's absolutely true. 01:31:27.000 --> 01:31:30.000 What's needed 01:31:30.000 --> 01:31:31.000 Absolutely. 01:31:31.000 --> 01:31:35.000 Got Lynn Lynn I'm leaving. I have a new commitment and a purpose of a new committed life. 01:31:35.000 --> 01:31:36.000 Yeah, oh, we we could do that through the soul of Money Institute. 01:31:36.000 --> 01:31:41.000 Oh, my God, thank you! 01:31:41.000 --> 01:31:42.000 You can just stay right where you are 01:31:42.000 --> 01:31:48.000 Exactly exactly no, I'm kidding. No, absolutely. And someone asks, is it they didn't find on it's definitely there I've worked with it on audible. 01:31:48.000 --> 01:31:54.000 We can help you with that. Come to our website. And thank you. 01:31:54.000 --> 01:31:59.000 Everyone and what we love to dance it out at the Solomon Institute. 01:31:59.000 --> 01:32:03.000 I know we're over time, but we're going to dance it out anyway. 01:32:03.000 --> 01:32:11.000 Put on some music, celebrate the launching of living, a committed life 01:32:11.000 --> 01:32:30.000 Alright. Move your share back and dance. 01:32:30.000 --> 01:32:43.000 When they precise tomorrow love is changing, smile, chasing. 01:32:43.000 --> 01:32:53.000 I'll bring it in the key. That 01:32:53.000 --> 01:33:23.000 The stars won't be die 01:33:42.000 --> 01:33:48.000 Thank you. Everybody love you. Thank you. Jack. 01:33:48.000 --> 01:33:49.000 Welcome. Thank you. 01:33:49.000 --> 01:33:51.000 Oh, best! 01:33:51.000 --> 01:34:21.000 Thanks. Everybody