I'm on this journey with me each week when you join me we are going to chase down our goals.

Overcome adversity and set you up for a better tomorrow.

That's your new secret. I'm ready for my close time.

Hi and welcome back. I'm so glad you're back with me today.

Okay so I have a few different stories to share with you that have occurred in the last week

that I feel like when I'm hit with a message is my job to share with you that somebody

listening needs to hear it. So I've got a couple different messages, a couple different stories.

I don't know that they necessarily tie together but I'm hoping that you get something out of them.

It was sort of a couple of these situations where eye openers for me so I hope they help you.

All right first of all I was in a meeting the other day and someone on my team lost their

cool. This very rarely happens, right? I mean how often are you in a meeting and someone starts

kind of bullying and raising their voice and basically throwing a temper tantrum?

Not often if you're in a healthy environment, right? So this was very out of character for

the person. I was shocked. I mean I had no poker face. I was making the weirdest face. I was

in shock and it hit me as so strange for a few different reasons. One I used to be in a very toxic

environment when I was back in corporate America as you know with a woman who hated me who was

always trying to sabotage me but she was very sneaky. She was very quiet. She would never

bang on the tables but she would do things behind your back in a real sneaky fashion.

I literally trained myself back then not to react. I trained myself never to throw a tantrum,

never to raise my voice, never to stomp my fist. Even though I'm outgoing, extroverted,

loud person, I really trained myself not to react but to be very thoughtful and respond tactfully.

And it was so interesting for me because it was a man that was the one who really just lost his

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