Sarah Blakely, the billionaire entrepreneur and founder of Spanx. Blakely is one of the most successful female entrepreneurs of our time, known for her innovative spirit and unwavering determination to succeed.
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Well, Hey everybody, Jonathan Doyle with you.
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Speaker:It is starting to get cold here where I live.
Speaker:Didn't have much of a summer, to be honest, it was a bit sneaky.
Speaker:It kind of came and went and.
Speaker:It's been getting cold.
Speaker:And I've always been the kind of person that gets up and just gets after it,
Speaker:but I'm starting to go, you know, what.
Speaker:The Bahamas are looking good about now.
Speaker:So.
Speaker:Cause we're all.
Speaker:If it gets to like minus eight,
Speaker:In the middle of winter.
Speaker:So I'm not excited.
Speaker:I like parts of it.
Speaker:I like looking at winter.
Speaker:I have friends that love skiing and snow.
Speaker:I just, I just never really got into it.
Speaker:I always explain to people.
Speaker:I like looking at snow.
Speaker:I like being in a nice hotel, looking out the window, staring
Speaker:at the snow, but being in it.
Speaker:It's wet.
Speaker:It's cold.
Speaker:And you and you go skiing and you break your leg and it's
Speaker:just, I never understood it.
Speaker:So not looking forward to this winter friends, but we'll make the best of it.
Speaker:We're going to find a way to, uh, to extract.
Speaker:Some good things out of winter.
Speaker:All right.
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Speaker:I want to give you a simple insight from a really interesting
Speaker:human called Sarah Blakely.
Speaker:She's a fascinating lady.
Speaker:She actually was the first self-made.
Speaker:Billionaire.
Speaker:In us history.
Speaker:So there's plenty of trust fund babies that have got their paws on a billion, but
Speaker:a Sarah Blake Lexi made it from scratch.
Speaker:She started the, uh, the Spanx brand.
Speaker:And I was watching an interview with her the other day.
Speaker:Which was quite fascinating.
Speaker:She's very down to earth, a very genuine person to listen to.
Speaker:And she was describing her journey, how she had this idea.
Speaker:And, and for seven years before, even beginning her business, she had
Speaker:been doing sales in fax machines.
Speaker:Now.
Speaker:Large numbers of my listeners will say, what is the fax machine?
Speaker:Friends, you can find them in museums of ancient history.
Speaker:There are, they're pretty fascinating machines that used to be used in
Speaker:business to send communication.
Speaker:Some of my listeners are going.
Speaker:Jonathan, we know what.
Speaker:You know, facts he's I know, but lots of people don't.
Speaker:So seven years as a fax machine sales person, and she was describing kind of.
Speaker:How soul destroying it'd become.
Speaker:And then she used this phrase that really struck with me.
Speaker:She said, I suddenly realized I'm in the wrong movie.
Speaker:It was a very interesting filter, a great metaphor.
Speaker:She felt that, uh, she was living a life.
Speaker:That was not what she had envisaged or what she had wanted.
Speaker:That the movie she was appearing in the movie of her life was not the
Speaker:movie that she wanted to continue in.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:A couple of episodes ago, talking about these remarkable human faculties.
Speaker:We have these, this.
Speaker:There's ability we have for desire.
Speaker:The, we are in many ways, restless beings.
Speaker:Aren't we like, we have times of peace in times of rest.
Speaker:And.
Speaker:People can come along and tell us that we should be peaceful and restful,
Speaker:and it's all within us to find that.
Speaker:I don't know about you, but I struggle.
Speaker:I often quote, I got to work really hard to, to settle and
Speaker:find peaceful nervousness.
Speaker:You know, I, uh, I'm somebody who's always trying to look for the
Speaker:next thing and looking forward to tomorrow and trying to move forward.
Speaker:But I love this line where she says I was in the wrong movie.
Speaker:I was in the wrong movie.
Speaker:So she began this process of steps.
Speaker:Was she slowly began to pivot and to go after what she really
Speaker:believed she was passionate about and what really mattered to her.
Speaker:Now, of course, that doesn't mean life ends up perfect.
Speaker:Does it?
Speaker:There's this sort of concept that if you find your dream and you find exactly what
Speaker:you're supposed to be doing, then life will just roll on into bliss forever.
Speaker:No, on this human journey.
Speaker:Uh, somebody else called it recently earth school, or we're here at earth school.
Speaker:It's never going to be perfection.
Speaker:It's never going to fulfill every single dream and expectation.
Speaker:That's what heavens for.
Speaker:But we do have this ability to look at our lives, look at the movie of our
Speaker:lives and say, am I in the right movie?
Speaker:You know, have I been cast in the right role?
Speaker:Am I enjoying how this narrative is playing out.
Speaker:And then to begin to look at that and make changes as necessary
Speaker:depending on each listener today, those changes could be minor.
Speaker:It could be a little script changed, just a few tweaks to the lighting of
Speaker:the movie, or maybe to the scenes.
Speaker:But for some of us, it could be walking out of that movie.
Speaker:I'm making radical change in our lives.
Speaker:Career change, you know, significant.
Speaker:Uh, changes in our friendships and our health and wellbeing.
Speaker:I'm not advocating anybody.
Speaker:You know, I listened to this podcast and I'm going to change everything in
Speaker:my life, you know, but you get my point.
Speaker:That you can look into it and say what needs to change.
Speaker:What, what has been on your heart to make different?
Speaker:What is something that you go, you know, what.
Speaker:This part of the movie is a part that needs to change.
Speaker:And as I've been saying in recent episodes, what we do is we begin
Speaker:to identify what needs to change.
Speaker:We start taking slow steps towards it.
Speaker:So friends, if Sara Blakely can recognize she's in the wrong movie
Speaker:and go on to create a remarkable level of success, that I'm pretty sure
Speaker:most of us can do something similar.
Speaker:It doesn't mean that you're going to start a billion dollar clothing label,
Speaker:but it just might mean that you take up a new habit or a new pastime or a new
Speaker:career, or you stop putting off that change that, you know, you need to make.
Speaker:So let's get ourselves in the right movies.
Speaker:Let's get ourselves in movies, congruent with the gifts and
Speaker:talents that God's given us.
Speaker:Some of us have these amazing abilities, but we're in the wrong place.
Speaker:You know, some of us are in places where we just not able to use the
Speaker:gifts and talents that we've got.
Speaker:So we need to get out of that movie.
Speaker:And get in, get custody where we need to be costed.
Speaker:Okay, so we're going to use this metaphor.
Speaker:We're going to use this filter to help us make new choices.
Speaker:All right friends.
Speaker:Hope that's useful.
Speaker:That's got you thinking or movie you in, is it the right movie?
Speaker:Is that the kind of movie you like?
Speaker:Is it the one that you'd pay to see?
Speaker:You know, somebody had to watch the movie of your life at some point,
Speaker:would they find the movie interesting, compelling, exciting, motivational.
Speaker:Would it be a tragedy?
Speaker:I was an action.
Speaker:Adventure is a tragedy.
Speaker:I hope it's not comedy, but you get the point.
Speaker:We do get to choose.
Speaker:What sort of movie and tapestry and history we create with our lives.
Speaker:And I want to be honest and say, look.
Speaker:This isn't about self-indulgence because the movies of our lives are intertwined
Speaker:with the movies of other people's lives.
Speaker:Of course they are.
Speaker:You know, I've got I've.
Speaker:I'm married.
Speaker:I have children.
Speaker:So.
Speaker:I'm not talking about going, oh, I don't like this movie anymore.
Speaker:I'm going to go start a new one.
Speaker:That's not what I mean.
Speaker:I mean, it's, it's about.
Speaker:Looking at our individual skills.
Speaker:Looking at our individual capacities and the things that
Speaker:light us up and move us forward.
Speaker:And just asking ourselves, are we in environments, careers, and relationships?
Speaker:That allow us to bring out all of that capacity and goodness
Speaker:and beauty that's inside us.
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