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Kendra say what's up to fire nation and share something that you believe about becoming successful that most people disagree with.

I would say something I believe about becoming successful that maybe isn't the most popular opinion and I think it's important to start with the fact that becoming successful is an ongoing process if there is the definition of.

You know it's about the journey not the destination successes it there is no destination when it comes to success.

But I would think that say the thing I disagree with is the pain that has to be involved with it I for a long time was a subscriber of the the hustle the hard work the.

I you probably remember that old will clip will Smith clip where he said you know while you're sleeping i'm working while you're eating i'm working and I was like yes yes yes.

Until I realized that all of that I was starting to measure my success by pain and if I wasn't in pain if I wasn't burning the candle at both ends if I wasn't missing my family are having to say no to things I wanted to do because I needed to be successful.

I was not being successful and I know of course we hear about you know balances a fallacy but I think that we don't even take that seriously it's it's the pain doesn't always have to be there the pain is not what defines your success or what will make you successful so go ahead take a month off take take take a year off if that's what you need.

I fully believe in that yeah I personally take five to six days off a week I'm really working hard one day a week and then I'm giving myself space to to not work hard the other days of the week but mind you that was on the back of working really hard for a long time to build a business to where it's at now and that's not to say that consistency and and putting in the hours and embracing is some of you know embracing that hustle is is a really important part if you're in that launching phase if you're trying to do it.

If you're in that launching phase if you're trying to get things off the ground but again with becoming successful there is a phase where I'm sure like I was holding on to that I'm I'm 10 years in and I feel guilty when I when I take my dog for a walk I'm like I should be working I should be listening to a podcast you're thinking of well Smith out working you and I wonder if they

read that clip with the add the part of him be slapping Chris rock on stage just to kind of add the emphasis I'm curious isn't that crazy I was thinking about that I'm like we now look at look at

will Smith but I mean this is the thing I think we're really saying fire nation is there needs to be seasons of your life like for me there was a season for a couple years of a really working hard and building the business from nothing

to where I needed to get to the make a then higher teams and take some time off and and do in as some more balance and then you know I'm

Krillin the season right now where I'm really not working that hard I'm working five six maybe seven days a month total and taking a lot of time to focus on other

things travel family you know just health wellness all those different things and then guess what there may be a season in my future when that next thing comes across my

story I'm really excited about that I go all in on again but I I know it's going to be a season it's going to be a spread of something to be all the

things but listen we have a lot to talk about kind of it's all about the power of storytelling today and this is a powerful powerful

conversation I always love to say when you think about history break up those two words it's his story I always love to

add her story that's what it's all about it's history his story her story that's what was passed along over the

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