Listener Favorites: Philip McKernan | Finding the Courage to Speak Your Truth
The Unmistakable Creative Podcast
Srinivas Rao
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 30 July 2021
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Philip Mckernan talks about taking ownership of your struggles and of your suffering, what it means to speak your truth and how that frees you up to be the person you are destined to be, which ultimately allows us to love and be loved by others. Philip also shares how he went about writing a book with dyslexia, some of his insight into using our gifts to make an impact and much more.
Philip McKernan is a speaker, film-maker, coach as well as author of his latest book One Last Talk
To find out more about the book, visit OneLastTalk.com, and to find out more about Philip and his work, simply visit PhilipMcKernan.com
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| 0:00.0 | She lived in Vancouver and she had divorced a number of years before that and she found herself |
| 0:06.5 | going on a blind date, which she never imagined she'd ever do and she's at home and she found herself |
| 0:12.3 | getting into a dress and putting makeup on even though she hadn't worn makeup for probably the |
| 0:16.7 | previous eight or nine months and going to this restaurant and then meeting this guy. |
| 0:23.2 | And I don't know how they figured this out. I mean, I'm in admiration of this in some respects. |
| 0:26.9 | They found out within the first 10 minutes and they named it within each other, between each |
| 0:30.8 | other. Hey, listen, there's no chemistry. There's nothing else going on here and that's fine, |
| 0:35.5 | but let's just enjoy the rest of the dinner. And it wasn't until they named that, |
| 0:39.2 | did they get into who they are as individuals? And she just turned around. He said, |
| 0:44.2 | I'm like, I prefer women who don't wear makeup, for example, and she goes, oh my god, you're |
| 0:47.7 | kidding me. She said, I just put on makeup because I thought that's the thing I should do. And I hate |
| 0:52.1 | wear makeup and I have more makeup for eight or nine months or whatever it was and don't want to wear |
| 0:56.1 | for the next eight or nine months. And it was almost they had dressed up, got into their armor to |
| 1:01.2 | go and do battle or to go and impress. And it turns out that neither of them, they were both |
| 1:06.4 | post-trade. And they think we are so consumed is the world I would use, consumed by what people |
| 1:15.3 | think. And I with respect to anybody who's listening to says, no, I used to be like that. I've left |
| 1:20.5 | that completely go. I would with respect challenge you deeply on that. |
| 1:28.4 | I'm Strenie Rao and this is the unmistakable creative podcast where you get a window into the |
| 1:33.1 | stories and insights of the most innovative and creative minds who started movements, |
| 1:37.3 | built driving businesses, written best selling books and created an insanely interesting art. |
| 1:41.9 | For more, check out our 500 episode archive at unmistakablecreative.com. |
| 1:50.4 | Doing creative work can be kind of lonely and that's why we built the unmistakable listener tribe. |
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