People say follow your passion. I think follow your passion is the world's worst advice. In fact, I'd like to say on stage that it's the spoken word illegitimate sister of the live love laugh tattoo. And I just know that at some point someone's going to come up to me afterwards and like yell at me and show me their live love laugh tattoo. But it really is. I mean, it's like an Instagram meme. So like don't follow your passion. Do the thing where you would fail for sure, but still want to do it because that's investing in your passion. You're learning and you're growing and you're challenging yourself and you're on that edge of incompetence. So if you don't just follow your passion, but if you invest in it, you're going to be much more successful. Because this idea of, I'm going to follow my passion and find bliss tells us that the minute something goes wrong, the minute you fail, oh, that must not be your passion. Go find something else, right? But I know you've had people on your show like Jesse Itzler and Sarah Blakely and Gary Vaynerchuk and even Kendra Hall and think about them. Their stories are not great stories because they're only successful. Their stories are great stories because they are passionate about what they do because they failed over and over and over again. And that's how

they figured out how to get better. So they didn't just find their passion and follow their passion.

They invested in their passion. Come 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.

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I have absolutely had the craziest week. Not all good. I will tell you that.

And it wouldn't be me if I didn't share with you what's really going on. So I've got to tell

you an unbelievable story that happened this week and what I learned from it and what I want to

share with you about it, hopefully that you can take away as well. So Monday, I woke up to an email from one of my

advertisers on the podcast. He was trying to work out a long-term deal for 2020 on my show,

and he had gotten an email sent to him by the sales rep on my team that said, oh, we're not caring Heather's show in 2020.

So he flipped the email to me and said, Heather, what the heck is going on?

Now, when I saw this, don't forget, I'm on the East Coast primarily.

My headquarters and office is in L.A.

The team is in L.A. so there is a time change there.

I took a deep breath, and I had known and I had noticed that a number of shows had been let go recently.

They weren't being picked up for the next year.

I had noticed that.

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