Shelley Paxton: Become The Chief Soul Officer of Your Life

The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

Srinivas Rao

Society & Culture

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Shelley Paxton spent 26 years building a wildly successful career in the corporate world as a marketing executive, working for some of the worlds iconic brands like Harley-Davidson & McDonald’s. In 2016, Shelley walked away from the corporate world. She felt it was time for her to stop living business and get into the business of living. Listen to her incredibly real story that lead her to becoming the Chief Soul Officer of her life.

Visit Shelley’s website at www.Soulbbatical.com where you can find out more about her, her book, Soulbbatical, and more.

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0:00.0	I was sitting in my parents backyard down in Naples with my dad.
0:03.8	He was just starting to get his command of language back.
0:08.6	And he was trying to articulate, he had a really lucid day, know some days you couldn't understand him he was gibberish and then other days it was like you know he was almost like you know 80% of his former self with that vault of vocabulary and he said he was he was like you know I
0:27.3	made the choice to live I was like what come, like what are you talking about? So here I'm thinking my dad doesn't even remember what happened to him and he starts to describe to me the experience of coming out of the impact of the second stroke.
0:45.0	And the second stroke was in a quieter part of his brain, but it completely robbed him of his personality, his spirit, and his will to live.
0:52.0	And he remembered that. his spirit and his will to live.
0:53.0	And he remembered that moment,
0:55.0	and he started describing to me
0:58.0	this choice he made.
1:01.0	And at first, the choice was, I've done everything I was put on this earth to do
1:06.4	I'm okay I raised a beautiful family I've had an incredible career my family's well taken care of I'm ready to go and a couple
1:17.8	days later as he recalls it he was like no you know you know what? I'm not. I still have work to do in this lifetime and this time it's different work. It's not corporate work.
1:32.0	And by that time I had goosebumps, I had tears just streaming down my face and I was holding his hand and I said,
1:39.0	Oh my God, Dad, I get it now.
1:42.0	You and I have both been living business, and now we're shifting to the business of living. I'm Srenny Rao and this is the unmistakable Creative Podcast where you get a window
1:57.2	into the stories and insights of the most innovative and creative minds who started
2:01.2	movements, built thriving businesses, written best-selling books, and created
2:05.0	insanely interesting art.
2:06.5	For more, check out our 500 episode archive at unmistakable creative.com. of dot com. You can now book your train on Uber and get 10% back in credits to spend on Uber Eats
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