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Speaker 2: Yeah, welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell Show podcast. I

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Speaker 2: want to talk about something after a phone call with

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Speaker 2: he had yesterday. It's an amazing phone call which are

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Speaker 2: going to replay in a minute. But before that, the

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Speaker 2: reason why I keep thinking about it is right now

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Speaker 2: with my two teenage daughters, the teenagers seventeen almost eighteen

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Speaker 2: And at the moment, the number one thing they're talking about,

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Speaker 2: thinking about and going over and over again is like

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Speaker 2: what are they going to do for a job in

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Speaker 2: their life?

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Speaker 3: Right?

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Speaker 2: And it's almost it's actually almost two biggod questions, so

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Speaker 2: overwhelming because they think there's one decision and once you

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Speaker 2: get it right, and the pressure to get it right.

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Speaker 2: And also years ago we didn't have Instagram where especially

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Speaker 2: if it's anything like my feed where it's every other

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Speaker 2: video about meaning purpose, take my course, unlock meaning purpose

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Speaker 2: ten x meaning productivity. Purpose was like meaning purpose and

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Speaker 2: so going is this my meaning? Am I purpose? And

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Speaker 2: so for then it's overwhelming because everyone on their social

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Speaker 2: And yesterday we get a phone call from John. So

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Speaker 2: we were doing the phone in what are the odds? Were?

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Speaker 2: We love every week ask you the question what are

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Speaker 2: the odds? And well look for those stories about coincidence

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Speaker 2: question for us today with you guys.

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Speaker 1: Twenty ten, myself with two other people assisted the gentleman

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Speaker 2: Wow, John, as she give me goosebumps. You always wonder

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Speaker 2: whether that young kid, you know, there's something that sometimes

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Speaker 3: Day even now.

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Speaker 1: When I talk about it now, I cheer up a bit.

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Speaker 1: It's it's pretty visual.

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Speaker 2: I couldn't stop thinking about John's story and all the

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Speaker 2: send that to my two daughters because I think it's

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Speaker 2: a lovely question. That's what you really want to know today,

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Speaker 2: is is the job that you're doing right now? Because

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Speaker 2: there was a moment in your life, like the young

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Speaker 2: I'd love to know what is your why? Why do

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Speaker 2: you do what you do? If you really really love it,

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Speaker 2: to know why you love doing what you're doing. Well

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Speaker 2: Christian Connell's Show podcast. So this morning the show thanks

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Speaker 2: to the amazing story yesterday from John. We want to

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Speaker 2: what is it you do? So I'm a nurse and

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Speaker 2: Amazing world, I'm honoring that as well. Is that incredible

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you guys work so hard, so much pressure, and

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Speaker 2: also you're not paid nowhere near enough.

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Speaker 3: Oh I know, don't get me started with what's going

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Speaker 2: Actually talk about meaning and purpose, caring for somebody else

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Speaker 2: And about Natasha. You can still remember those those nurses

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Speaker 2: Well, you're still paying back your thanks to her for

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Speaker 3: Oh, thank you much, love to you all.

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Speaker 2: What do you do?

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Speaker 4: I am a secondary school teacher. And I am a

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Speaker 2: like Natasha, you got lit up at quite a young age.

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Speaker 4: She worked at CLC and Alsham and what's her name?

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Speaker 2: Awesome, Miss Well. The same with Natasha as well. You

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Speaker 4: And when you see those kids, you know they get

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Speaker 1: This is what I want.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I know my daughter at moment in the year

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Speaker 2: those have all been chosen, not by mum or dad

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Speaker 2: trying to influence it. It's because of the teachers. She's

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Speaker 2: lovely story.

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Speaker 4: Good on you, thank you, thank you, babe.

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