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.

After no sleep, I'm ready for my close time.

Hi and welcome back. I'm so glad you're back here with me this week.

Okay, so if you've been with me week in and week out, you know that last week,

I had an incredible opportunity to go to a special private

Maxwell leadership, John Maxwell event with 17 other people.

And I had no idea what to expect. It was funny so much as who we surround ourselves with.

So pause for a minute and think about, obviously the person you're married to or in a relationship

with is the most important because that person has the most influence on you day in and day out.

And then besides that person, the people you work with that you spend a lot of time with

or your closest friends, right? Those people impact the way you think, the opportunities

that are presented to you, the doors that open or are not open and so much else.

It reminds me so much my book Overcome Your Villains. The key and most important thing is to get

negative people out of your life, get people who are trying to hold you back out of your life and

get around the rooms and the people that are ahead of you that want to stretch you, that want to

encourage you that want to pour into you and want to love on you. And if you haven't met those

people yet, I want you to know the best is yet to come. There are better days ahead and the minute

you start removing the negative people, you make space for those positive people to show up.

So that journey for me started five years ago when I was fired and I had been surrounded by some

really negative people that wanted to hold me back, wanted me to play small and did everything they

could to try to make that happen. What a blessing and gift it was to be fired and get thrust into

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