Speaker 1: Everybody is still Courtney from an army in normal folks.
Speaker 1: Welcome into the.
Speaker 2: Shop, really making it artistic here, aren't you?
Speaker 3: Bill? Hey, Alex, welcome to the shop.
Speaker 2: Welcome in Bill, No, it's my shop.
Speaker 3: Welcome to you.
Speaker 2: How are you at our shop? We're not co founders
Speaker 2: of this thing, not of the shop, the shop, the shops.
Speaker 3: Me I am you were entering my domain in the shop.
Speaker 2: Very true. How are you? I'm doing well?
Speaker 1: How's George?
Speaker 4: Actually, so he went on the bed delivery. I was
Speaker 4: telling you about last night. Maybe i'll just share this
Speaker 4: story quickly.
Speaker 3: George did.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he hung out with the little boy the whole time,
Speaker 4: which is really cute. So this is the Oxford so
Speaker 4: our Oxford Service Club an F. Oxford also started the
Speaker 4: Sleeping Emily Peace chapter, which set started a chapters. Real cool,
Speaker 4: so we'd have a great act TV to do. Was
Speaker 4: kind of my theory, which is which is proven to
Speaker 4: be true. Like, because you know I also started the
Speaker 4: sleephn Li Peace chapter. We completely control it so we
Speaker 4: can kind of do whatever you know, we want with it.
Speaker 4: So today we built and delivered thirty five beds. We've
Speaker 4: raised thirty three thousand dollars We've probably got in one
Speaker 4: hundred different people in Oxford involved in it.
Speaker 1: How many people? What's the population of Oxford twenty.
Speaker 4: Thousand, Yeah, like twenty five and then not including students.
Speaker 4: So yeah, the number is like sleepn lip says three
Speaker 4: to four percent of kids in America are bedless, So
Speaker 4: that would be two hundred eighty two kids in Mafaya County.
Speaker 4: And we've already got in like seventy six requests in
Speaker 4: a couple of months. That's incredible. Yeah, So I mean
Speaker 4: it's definitely there's something there. And the one we just
Speaker 4: did yesterday, Child Protective Services called me because they've someone
Speaker 4: introduced me to them recently and said, hey, we need
Speaker 4: beds for these kids, for three kids, and if these
Speaker 4: kids don't get beds, they go into the foster care system.
Speaker 4: So that's like the most meaningful type of you know
Speaker 4: work we can do, you know with this.
Speaker 1: So you guys made beds and got them to the
Speaker 1: kids in toime, so that Child Protective Services didn't pull
Speaker 1: these kids out of their face.
Speaker 4: I'd actually asked them on the phone, like, Hey, what's
Speaker 4: your deadline this like like if you can get it
Speaker 4: before the fourth of July holiday that would be good.
Speaker 1: And so then you got the service club together and said,
Speaker 1: we really need to build these beds for these kids
Speaker 1: or else they're going in foster care.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I can't think of a more meaningful service club event
Speaker 1: than that.
Speaker 2: It was kind of cool, like another layer on it.
Speaker 4: We've we were out of our current bed supply, so
Speaker 4: we actually built ten beds on Friday for this purpose
Speaker 4: and in general, and it was with a service camp
Speaker 4: that my church does with little kids. So it's like
Speaker 4: ten to thirteen year old kids, right, the ten beds
Speaker 4: on Friday. That then we're used on Sunday to help
Speaker 4: other kids not go in the system.
Speaker 2: And George was hanging out. I love that.
Speaker 1: I really do love that.
Speaker 4: We're all just people, right, It's just like they just
Speaker 4: meet in that moment and become friends.
Speaker 1: Can you believe this?
Speaker 3: Talk?
Speaker 1: Number one one one.
Speaker 2: And our guest today runs the one one one projects?
Speaker 2: Is that weird? Is that so weird?
Speaker 4: Listeners won't get the reference until you hear the episode
Speaker 4: with the one on one projects?
Speaker 1: The one one one project, Yeah, it's coming.
Speaker 2: Up, it's coming up, but it's funny though.
Speaker 1: Well by this time this airs, maybe no, this will
Speaker 1: air before this.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the shop talk will air before the episode, right,
Speaker 4: so people.
Speaker 1: Have reviewing the one one one? All right, what happened
Speaker 1: one hundred and eleven years ago.
Speaker 4: So nineteen fifteen. I think we kind of talked the
Speaker 4: first one a little bit last time. Their Armenian genocide began.
Speaker 4: That estimated eight hundred thousand and one and a half
Speaker 4: million Armenians died.
Speaker 2: The sinking of the Lusitania.
Speaker 1: Oh whoa, The sinking of the Lusitania was one hundred
Speaker 1: and eleven years ago.
Speaker 4: Yeah, killing one thousand and ninety eight people, including one
Speaker 4: hundred and twenty eight Americans. Einstein completed General Relativity, and
Speaker 4: this one's weird. The Birth of a Nation premiered research. Yeah,
Speaker 4: the resurgence of the k Gap.
Speaker 1: I think we could do without that one.
Speaker 2: Well, history's history, we got histories.
Speaker 1: Histories, we got yeah, the birth of a nation that.
Speaker 1: Have you ever studied any of that much?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: I did. I took a dive into it some years ago,
Speaker 1: and it's man, it'll put it'll bake, the hair stand
Speaker 1: up on your back. I mean, it's getting very close
Speaker 1: to kind of a Hitler Nazi approach to Jews. It's
Speaker 1: really it almost.
Speaker 5: Which we hear some of that language today unfortunately too.
Speaker 5: Yeah it's true. But but the thing is what it
Speaker 5: does is it seeks to almost somehow twist and pervert
Speaker 5: consciousness to normalize ridding yourselves of human beings. And you
Speaker 5: can see how people who don't question a lot, or
Speaker 5: are impressionable or young might fall into Oh well, this
Speaker 5: is how things are supposed to be. I mean, it's
Speaker 5: really scary.
Speaker 1: Stuff, have some kind of grievance. Yeah, that's right, it's horrible,
Speaker 1: all right. So the Hero's Journey and why ours starts
Speaker 1: with normal folks. That's what we're going to talk about.
Speaker 1: Really interesting stuff here. We actually did this once already
Speaker 1: and never produced it because Alex's screwed something out tech
Speaker 1: stuff didn't handle it well, right, Yeah, well.
Speaker 2: The listeners didn't need to know that, but thanks Bill.
Speaker 1: Well, no, I mean it's the shop, so we talked
Speaker 1: shopping here, all right. So the Hero's Journey and why
Speaker 1: ours starts with normal folks. Right after these brief messages
Speaker 1: from our general sponsors.
Speaker 3: Hey, everybody, welcome back to the shop.
Speaker 1: Shok talk number one one one, which is a premonition
Speaker 1: of a guest we're having that does some one one
Speaker 1: one stuff. But you can listen to that in a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks when it comes out. Just remember that
Speaker 1: this is about the hero's journey and why hours starts
Speaker 1: with normal folks. If you've ever watched Star Wars, Toy
Speaker 1: Story Finding, Nemo, Rocky the Matrix, or just about any
Speaker 1: Pixar movie, you've already experienced the hero's journey, even if
Speaker 1: you've never really heard the term. That's because the hero's
Speaker 1: journey isn't a theory dreamed up by Hollywood. Hollywood actually
Speaker 1: borrowed it, and the reason Hollywood borrowed it is because
Speaker 1: it works. Here's what the hero's journey is. The hero's
Speaker 1: journey was popularized by Joseph Campbell, a scholar who spent
Speaker 1: his life studying myths and stories across cultures and centuries.
Speaker 1: What he noticed was striking across civilization that never met
Speaker 1: each other. People kept telling the same basic story, different characters,
Speaker 1: different settings, but same pattern. Hence the title of his book,
Speaker 1: The Hero with a Thousand Faces at his Core. The
Speaker 1: hero's journey goes something like this. A normal person, an
Speaker 1: ordinary person, is living an ordinary life. They fill a call,
Speaker 1: a call to adventure. They resisted at first. Then they
Speaker 1: step across a line and take action. Then they face obstacles, struggle, learn, fail, grow.
Speaker 1: They don't just change the world, they're changed. They return
Speaker 1: home not as a superhero, but as someone who can
Speaker 1: now help others. Campbell's big insight wasn't that heroes are special.
Speaker 1: It was that ordinary people become heroes by answering a call.
Speaker 1: Thus the hero's journey. Why does Hollywood love it? George
Speaker 1: Lucas has openly said he built Star Wars using Campbell's work.
Speaker 1: Pixar famously trains its writers on the hero's journey. Why
Speaker 1: because it mirrors real life transformation. Luke sky Walker starts
Speaker 1: as a board farm kid, Woody starts as an insecure toy.
Speaker 1: Rocky starts as a nobody from Philly. They don't begin confident,
Speaker 1: they don't begin powerful. They begin unsure, reluctant, and imperfect.
Speaker 1: Does that sound at all familiar to who you see
Speaker 1: in the mirror? The lie we've been sold. Somewhere along
Speaker 1: the way, we started telling ourselves a very dangerous lie.
Speaker 1: The people who change the world are just different from me.
Speaker 1: They're smarter, they're braver, they're more researched, they're more confident.
Speaker 1: But the Hero's Journey says the opposite. It says you
Speaker 1: don't start ready, you become ready by moving. Action precedes clarity.
Speaker 1: Most importantly, the hero is not the one with the spotlight.
Speaker 1: Very important to understand. The hero is not the one
Speaker 1: with the spotlight. The hero is the one who says, yes,
Speaker 1: someone told us we should launch the Hero's Journey for service,
Speaker 1: and so we are. It's called the ten Level Challenge,
Speaker 1: and it offers a service journey that normal folks you,
Speaker 1: all of you listening, can go on with clear, actionable steps,
Speaker 1: which is the ten levels to deepen your service over time,
Speaker 1: help your community, and transform yourself in the process. Here's
Speaker 1: the ten levels. Join the army at Normalfolks dot org
Speaker 1: and one of our local service clubs if we have
Speaker 1: one in your community. You can see the full list
Speaker 1: on our website. Number two Get inspired. Follow us on
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Speaker 1: for inspiring stories of normal folks serving their communities and
Speaker 1: ideas for serving your own. Three The Good Neighbor Challenge.
Speaker 1: You can't love your neighbor if you don't know them.
Speaker 1: Write the names of eight of your closest neighbors down
Speaker 1: on paper. Four Take action once, just one time, and
Speaker 1: see if it doesn't get a little contagious. Number five
Speaker 1: Bring your friends on the journey, share the army and
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Speaker 1: just one small action every week. Examples include mentoring someone
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Speaker 3: Eight.
Speaker 1: Become a social entrepreneur by starting something like an Army
Speaker 1: of normal folk, service club, a blood drive at your
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Speaker 1: or another one you just happen to like, a brand
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Speaker 1: you do, we'll call to congratulate you and potentially share
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Speaker 1: others can benefit from it. We'll consider featuring your journey
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Speaker 1: first one thousand people, that's a lot. For the first
Speaker 1: thousand of you to complete the ten Level Challenge will
Speaker 1: know you a free T shirt that identifies you as
Speaker 1: someone who crushed it. You can sign up to take
Speaker 1: the ten Level Challenge today at ten Level challenge dot org.
Speaker 1: And if you do this, you just might find some
Speaker 1: happiness or fulfillment in your life that you really don't
Speaker 1: feel right now. It's amazing that everybody I've ever interviewed
Speaker 1: will always say at the end of the interview that
Speaker 1: they got far more out of it than what they
Speaker 1: put into it. And we think for each of you,
Speaker 1: the ten Level Challenge would do the same. We think, Alex,
Speaker 1: I think it's awesome. Bill, What do you think? I
Speaker 1: think it's awesome, Alex, what do you think?
Speaker 2: I mean?
Speaker 4: Honestly, I mean I came up with it, So it's
Speaker 4: like an unfair question. No, Actually, somebody that had come
Speaker 4: up with the idea of you should do the Hero's
Speaker 4: Journey for service. Someone else there was their idea and
Speaker 4: I've helped shaped it from there.
Speaker 1: Well, what I love about it is for and we're
Speaker 1: all this way. This is not a guilt trip. But
Speaker 1: we all sit around and think, you know, gosh, what
Speaker 1: can I do? I'm out of time I'd write this.
Speaker 1: I forgot that. But if you're one of the sixty
Speaker 1: six percent of the people in the United States that
Speaker 1: readily admit that they would like to get more involved
Speaker 1: in society and don't know how. If you're one of those,
Speaker 1: this is a ten step personal challenge you can do
Speaker 1: to yourself that will help you engage. And no, I
Speaker 1: think it's cool. I think it's just another another layer
Speaker 1: that we've added in an army in normal folks to
Speaker 1: try to inspire people to have the courage and the
Speaker 1: willingness to get involved.
Speaker 4: And people love challenges as part of the idea too,
Speaker 4: Like there's a lot of people do fitness challenges or
Speaker 4: health challenges.
Speaker 1: It's the year or whatever it is, called.
Speaker 4: Out the crazy one that you did, Max telling me
Speaker 4: you guys, pour I don't know, well, like you the
Speaker 4: whole dumb trunk of water on you or something.
Speaker 1: And we used to we used a telehand or extender
Speaker 1: and had like six hundred gallons of water way above
Speaker 1: my head and it dumped on me. I don't did
Speaker 1: it hurt.
Speaker 2: That's a lot of water.
Speaker 1: It was hurt. I mean it was I was you know,
Speaker 1: it was stupid.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Somebody around here said we should do it, and I
Speaker 1: said do it. And I went out front and they
Speaker 1: had the water up there and I stood there and
Speaker 1: they don't water on me.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm sure some people will race through this and
Speaker 4: complete it fast. But also what I like about this
Speaker 4: is you can also take your time with it, Like
Speaker 4: you don't have to finish this in a week a month.
Speaker 4: I mean, you could take up to a year or longer.
Speaker 4: You know doing this too. You're just completing these these
Speaker 4: ten levels as you're able to.
Speaker 1: It's true, and it's basically back to the title, it's
Speaker 1: going on your own heroes journey. It's it's going on
Speaker 1: a journey that clearly works. That you know, if if
Speaker 1: you think about Hollywood and you think about the fact
Speaker 1: that the hero's journey is a comprehensive term for the
Speaker 1: way storytelling has happened over centuries across human existence from
Speaker 1: all cultures and walks of life. The hero's journey works,
Speaker 1: and so this is your own hero's journey if you'll
Speaker 1: take the challenge.
Speaker 2: Amen.
Speaker 1: Amen, all right, So that's that. If you enjoyed this episode,
Speaker 1: please share friends and on social subscribe to the podcast,
Speaker 1: rate it, review it, showing the Army at normal folks
Speaker 1: dot org. Join and start one of our local service clubs.
Speaker 1: Take the ten level challenge. Like we've just said by
Speaker 1: our merch My gosh, if there's I mean, the outros
Speaker 1: to our episodes are going to be too long if
Speaker 1: we keep adding ways for people to do so it's incredible.
Speaker 4: I got one more thing to add. Actually July tenth,
Speaker 4: this is going to come out Before then. We are
Speaker 4: doing a live interview in Memphis. You may forget this.
Speaker 4: It's with the CEO of F three. We're doing it
Speaker 4: across town and then listening Lab. We're doing one of
Speaker 4: our lunch and listens there.
Speaker 2: I'll be there. You will be there because it's on
Speaker 2: your calendar. Okay.
Speaker 4: So F three, for those who aren't familiar with that
Speaker 4: stands for a Fitness Fellowship and Faith. But it's I
Speaker 4: think I've told you I've been doing this. They're five
Speaker 4: thirty am workouts outdoors. Rain or shine with a group
Speaker 4: of guys year round, like give it in winter, we
Speaker 4: do it during the summer.
Speaker 2: It's a blast.
Speaker 4: But there's sixteen thousand guys across the country doing this
Speaker 4: in six hundred.
Speaker 2: Locations Fitness Ship in Faith.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and there's like ten or fifteen locations in Memphis
Speaker 4: you know, doing it too.
Speaker 2: So the CEO is coming in and we're doing a
Speaker 2: live interview with them.
Speaker 4: I'm leaving for DC Talk anyway, So it's F three
Speaker 4: Memphis dot event.
Speaker 2: Bright dot com. Okay, say it again.
Speaker 4: F three Memphis dot event bright dot com.
Speaker 1: I am leaving for DC tomorrow. I'm back and then
Speaker 1: I'm crazy. This fits right down the alley of the
Speaker 1: Scott Morris world with Church Health. Would you please send
Speaker 1: him like a special email that says, hey, I want
Speaker 1: to let you know. I bet he would get people
Speaker 1: from church hell to come to that for sure. That's
Speaker 1: it's all about fitness too, and faith and faith obviously. Okay,
Speaker 1: I think that's it right. All right, that's chap Talk
Speaker 1: number one one one. Thanks for joining us. We'll see
Speaker 1: you next week.