#100: Pivoting And Materializing Ideas Into Existence with Jacquie Jordan

Thank you so much, Adam, for having me on. Thank you. I really appreciate it.

I have not launched a podcast that way before. I'm more the real touchy-feely guy. Get everybody breathing. Get in your heart space. Being gratitude.

I love the authenticity also of just being real and frustrating. I think that we're communicators. That's what I do for a living. I'm a professional communicator. I create narratives for a living in different mediums. And we are definitely seeing a shift in how people are communicating or not communicating. And I think the fight for people's attentions and for people's lack of attention sovereignty is severely contributing to the bandwidth that people have available to complete communications and professionally, it is a little crazy-making. So I appreciated your realness.

Thank you.

Starting the show that way.

Very cool.

I don't know if you directed that at me.

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Great first question. That's like probably the best first interview question ever. What's not in the bio, probably my upcoming pivot, if I'm going to be specific, is what I do for a living is I help promote people, businesses, narratives into Mostly, I'm known for mainstream media through TV Gaspard and TV on-camera training and our guest— our publishing company, TV Gaspard Publishing. What I really feel like I am is an alchemist. Like, I take the ideas that have not materialized and I help businesses, people, situations materialize their ideas. So, one of my favorite keynotes that I have the privilege of doing is called Grounding the Spiritual in the Material. But, I've been playing around with the idea. Someone, I had, backing up, earlier this morning, I was speaking with a client, and she said to me, oh, based on your presentation, Jackie, I didn't know you were spiritual. And, it kind of, like, thudded me, because I feel like that's the primary principle of which I exist, as a spiritual being having a human experience. And, my outgrowth of that is helping other people with their expression in the material world of that. Through the structures of business, and finances, and storytelling. So, that's— so, when she said that to me, I was like, oh my God, thud! But, I've also been playing with this idea of what it means to be spiritual. And, because I promote experts, primarily, I'm known for promoting experts in the media, and helping them build their media platforms, and their media businesses, which I love doing. But, I'm seeing a big pivot. In the collective, that the guru is going away. So, we're not going to be following people.

Thank goodness. I'm sorry, did I say that out loud?

Yes, yes.

The false prophets that exist so frequently around us.

Yes, yes, yes.

Oh, what a shame that'll be to see that disappear.

Exactly. And—

Sorry, I don't normally interrupt that way, but you—

No, you and I are on the same page. This is the pivot. This is the pivot. So to answer the question of what's not in my bio is now my responsibility to my client base, to my future clients. And I want to stay away from calling it spiritual because the spiritual elitism can be just as distorted. So I've just been calling it humanitarian.

Right. It can be just as hypocritical, people that cloak something under the umbrella of spirituality or

Who's done

more work on

themselves than somebody

else. Right. You

know, who's got more information, yeah. The pivot is bringing my clients, and this is what you do with your podcast and your work, is that whole authenticity piece. So, it's now, it's like, it's about not being a guru, not, but still being, but we need to be out in the world. We need, if people don't know about us, we can't help more people. So, it's about bringing the humanitarian expert, the wealth of knowledge and wisdom that a person has brought to themselves and then bringing them out into the storytelling of mediums. And I think the other pivot that's going on that at least professionally I'm experiencing, but professionally it's happening across the board, is that the media are changing. So I've come from syndicated broadcast television. We're moving into short form, what I've been calling micro content. So now we're telling micro content because Those very same people have attention spans and bandwidths now like this, not like it used to be where you could sit down and watch a long-form program. We're like, we're just getting our information in tids and bits. But it also is why we can be so manipulatable also to information because we're just—

Because there's very little context that you get. So it's more soundbite and therefore room for—

You don't have to substantiate it. If you just pop it out there loud enough, You can walk away believing that coconut oil is actually bad for your health.

Or even is potentially worse that we share that information as though it's authoritative, right? There was— yes.

Yes. And as a result—

There's a whole group of people around here that don't inoculate their kids. I'm taking a risk when I say this now because there'll be people who will listen to this and go, you're out of your mind. You don't know what you're talking about. It's like, do the research and know that the studies that were quoted were inaccurate. And the conclusions about inoculations of children were largely not accurate. And yet now there are whole groups of people who will not inoculate their babies because they believe that it causes autism or other things. And those have patently been proven to be false.

Just do your research. Do your research.

Do your research.

Do your research. The coconut oil study from the American Heart Association was paid for by the corn syrup industries or the corn industry. So it had a different agenda. And so it's a rabbit hole of information, and he who controls the narrative controls mostly the consciousness, and then we're complicit in the consent of consciousness. And so that's the big picture.

And so what does this mean to little old you?

Yeah, exactly right. So here I am with this little old me. Yeah, it's Silicon Beach TV guest star, and we raise the profile of experts in the media. We help them get their messages out to the media. And I, to me, I feel like what we do is we raise all of our clients are like balloons and we just lift them up and out there to hit the right audience, to get the right storytelling down, to get the right messaging, but to understand also the system that we're participating in and also how it is truly, how it is really used as opposed to what we'd like to think it is. So that's my multidimensional pivot. That's So there's where we go with that. But I think that, yeah, I'm trying to move away from that whole spiritual piece and just really what is a humanitarian and how are we making a difference? Like, what is our contribution? What is our knowledge base of information that we have as experts and how can it serve larger groups of people?

Sure, sure. Take us back beyond where we've been at the—

We came in with so much energy. We're combustible. We came on combustible. Anybody who's listening is like, what did I walk in? I walked in the middle of a conversation. Combustible energy is what that was.

These are catalytic times and that is what the combustion or combustibility is all about.

I welcome it. I personally, Jacky, I welcome it. We need disruption. We need change. We need people to pay attention. We need to wake up. We need to take action different ways.

I'll seed and self-promote ahead, well ahead of the publication of the book that we're writing, but Embrace is the title and it's the path to resilience in business and in life. So, it's a connection between the ever-present change that exists and how it is that we handle it. Are we in resistance to that change or do we embrace that change? And how is it that we create alchemy out of these new opportunities, this unknown and this uncertainty that normally produces fear in many people? There are other people who embrace that, who have learned that alchemist's formula, if you will, for embracing change. Yeah. And turning change or the unknown into something spectacular that is breathtaking. So, let's take a journey backward in time. It could be last year if you want, it could be birth or pre-birth, but I would love to know about a significant pivot. I know it's something that our audience, our community loves to hear the stories of people who've pivoted, whether it's, again, business, personal, health, or otherwise, and not only what was going on and the vulnerability piece that was triggered in that, whatever that situation might have been, but also what did you learn? What's the wisdom that you came away with? Because this show is called The Conscious Pivot. That's what we're all about is making conscious, better choices. And we do that when we're more conscious and we can't always do that ahead of having some tough experiences in life.

Yeah. I love the questioning. It's so funny when you have pivots, sometimes when you're going through it, you kind of can't tell it's a pivot. All you know is it's a dismantling.

It's a complete annihilation of the structure of my life in this moment.

Yes, exactly, exactly. And there's that pivot, but there's also the conscious pivot. It's the one you know you're going through. Yes, uncomfortable, and you're systematically taking it down as opposed to it just being taken down for you.

It's like you're building a house. You would design a house or you Or do you simply have them show up on the job site with a bunch of wood and a bunch of nails and hammers? One is a design way of looking at construction of something, and the other is by default. Something will be built by default. And I think a lot of us leading lives often by default and in default mode. So yes, please take us to that.

I think I've had a couple. I've had my own versions of it. The one that feels very significant, and because I mentor a lot of business owners here in the Los Angeles area in their businesses outside of just my own business. women who are starting their companies. But I was a showrunner, so I worked in television talk shows. My Emmy nominations are from Donny and Marie, but I produced for Maury Povich and Geraldo and Montel Williams and CNBC and Wall Street Journal Television. And then I moved to Los Angeles from New York City to launch a lot of startup talk shows as well as we did a lot of pilots. And so, and I really enjoyed it. I was a showrunner for 2 TV shows. And around the 2004-2006 period, one was from— for TV Guide Channel, the other one was for AMC. I was the showrunner and the one show was called Sunday Morning Shootout. And some of our guests at that time in 2006 included Harvey Weinstein, Brett Ratner, Kevin Spacey.

Holy smokes.

Let me see who else was in that. Oh, Jeremy Piven.

Oh, no way.

This is one of those pivots that happens. to you.

Interesting.

So I was in the process of— I had just gotten my first book published by Sourcebooks out of Naperville, Chicago, Get on TV: Pitching to Producers and Promoting Yourself. I was just on the COVID of Women's World magazine. The show had gotten to the 100th episode. We did have Steven Spielberg on, who is not— doesn't have the same— not— it doesn't resonate with the same list. But, um, and there was a congrats in Variety, and I just bought my house First house, and my biggest fear was that I would lose my job after my first house. And they gave me—

Are you feeling that right now? Is that what just came up?

Well, yeah, I did. Did you see that?

I did. I saw the emotion come. This is available on YouTube as well as when we are podcasting. So it's great. That's beautiful that you let yourself feel that. Yeah.

So they gave me the, we're going to go in another direction lecture after the 100th episode, which was a huge deal.

Mm-hmm.

And here I have this brand new house in West Los Angeles, and I'm not going to make my first mortgage payment with the paychecks that I've been receiving.

So your fear was materialized.

Like that. I'm a great manifester.

Wow.

So I am very conscious about what I focus on. So that's what happened. But as a result of it, this— I've been in the house 12 years, and I'm going through a remodel right now, speaking of another pivot. Like symbolically and externally. I made a payment, my whole time I made my mortgage payment was off the business. So that business supported me, TV guest work, TV guest work publishing, TV on camera training. So fear was never realized the way I expected it to be in a self-destructive way.

Mm-hmm.

And also, I later get, you know, you just watch also what happened through the industry, the wave, the crescendo, hashtag last year, hashtag Me Too. All of that, it's just like I got moved out of the way of something was not ultimately in my best interest. But sometimes when you're going through those moments and times, 'cause it was a very fun show to produce, we went to the Cannes Film Festival, we were at Sundance, it was such a fabulous time in my career. That was a pivot. That was definitely a pivot that I wouldn't say I was choosing, it happened to me.

Mm-hmm.

But I did pivot and got my entrepreneurial swim legs on really fast and I've never looked back.

Yeah, that's interesting. I even wrote down, describing pivots, there's the with-you pivot and the to-you pivot, and that's sort of design and defaults. I appreciate that, that languaging of it. It's so interesting, and how many people are out there that also have gotten their entrepreneurial swim fins on and have had to do that.

And that's been my giveback because I think when you're running a TV show anyway, you kind of run it like an entrepreneur. I mean, you're given budgets. I had the architecture to run a business. If you don't have the architecture to structure a business, it can go a lot of different ways. With the work we do here at TV Gaspard and when promoting, you know, using PR and media to promote people's business, I'm also very specific of how that translates to the growth of their business. Like what is the actual ROI of it? Sometimes it's just the exposure and that's enough because it is the credibility. Sometimes it's clients. Sometimes it's selling books. Sometimes it's a setup for the next narrative that you're going to be creating. So I pay attention to those having had that experience and, you

know,

I love flying.

Yeah. I mean, you spoke reality into existence on some level. How often we do that, I just don't know that everybody's conscious of the fact that they have that degree of power. And I'll typically discuss that or it doesn't come up often on this show because I don't know why. I mean, it's one of those things that is sort of in the book of what's true. When we speak things, just like in the Bible— I'm not a religion guy, but I certainly really think there's great wisdom in the Bible, and certainly there's even greater wisdom in the interpretation of those stories and everything that's there to witness. And even the first, in the beginning there is light, and it's God that says, let there be light. It's speaking something into existence. At least that's one way to interpret it. And so how often we are speaking things into our existence. We say, let there be light, or let there be darkness, all the time, don't we?

So, I was not going here at all, because you gave me a great lead into something that you actually don't know about, because you're speaking into existence the story I'm going to tell. The book that I'm working on personally for myself is actually the limitation of language, and how our language is the limitation of our consciousness, because we are confined definitions, by words, and our ability to communicate. And I think it's always so funny, and just as a biblical reference, that I think light language, what you two just said, was the first language— light and sound, you know. And then it got, for us where we are now, it got very truncated. And I was in Scotland a couple years ago, and I've been through Ireland and Scotland, and really enjoyed hearing, like, hearing the Gaelic language. But you can see our language is a dropdown from the lightness of that language. So anyway, it's an interesting— language itself is an interesting construct is where I'm going with that. But I'm writing that out in a future book of mine as well. So.

Wow. The pace of change over the last couple of years has been rapid. And if you're a leader, a business owner, an entrepreneur, you know exactly what I'm talking about. Every day it's something different and something new. But the one thing that I've learned in performing at the height of all of those roles has been that we must be resilient. In fact, it's the unsung hero in every success story that you will ever hear about. And it's the reason why my team and I created the resilience assessment that more than 5,000 business leaders across the globe have taken. And all you have to do to get your own free resilient leader assessment is is go to resiliencerank.com. It takes less than 3 minutes, and it's our gift to you for being the leader that you already are. Other free resources and tools will accompany your score instantly. So go to resiliencerank.com and find out just how resilient you are.

You brought it up. You called it into speaking. You were making the original point about my biggest fear.

Yes. All

the time. And yeah, so I get that. It's funny as—

Where has fear played a role in your life other than in that particular situation? Because that's another one of those topics that I think people, they sort of wear it internally. They don't walk around going, hey, by the way, I'm really scared right now and here's what I'm really scared about. Like, who does that? Nobody.

I would definitely not say I'm immune to fear. Would never claim that. I think that if you— I would probably be a beam of light and not be necessary to be on the planet anymore if that were true. But I have made significant peace with fear in my life.

Mm-hmm.

Like, I have a separate relationship with fear. Fear is no longer me. I believe that I lived in so much fear and terror that it was the anxiety, and I spent my whole life running a little bit ahead of it, and that was the world I was creating. Now that it's not something that is— I don't feel like It is me. It has its own— I'm like, oh, there we are, fear. Oh, we're having a fear moment. Oh, look at that. I have a lot healthier relationship to fear with fear. So it's funny because I, as I pivot now, I feel you said, I love what you said, pivot to me or pivot by me.

With you pivot or to you pivot? Yes.

So now I feel that I have the consciousness to have a much better pivot Mm-hmm. By me, as opposed to one that's done to me. So, instead of being, you know, having the universe throw a dismantlement upon me for me to move through the lessons, I'm able to understand that I'm going to go through an internal change that's going to reflect an externalized reconstruction of my reality, of my existence. And, I always say, in terms of fear or discomfort, My practice is getting comfortable with the discomfort. I'm like, but that discomfort's not going anywhere, so now my internal work is to become very comfortable with my discomfort. And, I do that with fear. I'm like, okay, I'm going to have to be very comfortable with this fear right now. And, I like fear in a weird way, because it's activating, and nothing will move you out of your comfort zone sometimes like fear will.

That's true. So, that's—

Sometimes, fear will keep you in your comfort zone too, but—

So, the dialogue that you're describing, this is very much your inner dialogue. Like, you're not just— this is not you explaining it for the purposes of our audience. This is you actually having a dialogue with yourself, right?

Yeah, exactly. I talk like this on every podcast I ever do.

But, I mean, with you and you. Yeah, totally.

That's exactly it. I'm like, okay, here I got some fear. I could feel it. Where is it in the body?

Yes.

What's it really on, or what am I trying to place it on? I love, I love the displacement. Sometimes I pretend it's over here, but it's really right here. I don't want to deal with right here.

Right up in your grill.

Throw it over here and do a little bait and switch to myself or bait and switch to somebody else. You know, like, yeah.

So I would love to know your thoughts on resilience. What do you think about the word? How would you define it? What's the importance of it in your life, business or personal life or both? Yeah.

So you know what? Because I'm— we're just talking about a book that I I'm working on about language. So I see re-silence in the word resilience.

Interesting.

Yeah,

re-silence. Okay.

So immediately what I think of when I see re-silence is going back in, pulling it back in, and getting real quiet. And if I were to tune into where my own strength or resilience comes from, It would come from that place of tuning back into myself and pulling myself back into me and fortifying my own strength again, as necessary, because life happens on life's terms. But one thing about the laws of attraction conversation or the manifestation conversation, which I sometimes offensively say is also spiritual kindergarten, is that we're also not in control of a lot of things. No matter how much we wish it, really, well, it's so— think it's so precise. I

didn't know. I haven't noticed that actually.

Right?

It'd

be a very different place, right?

Oh yeah, for sure.

So with some— so resilience is something that, because yeah, we're in a lot of moving dynamics that we can't control, resilience is a really important place within the self, at least for me, that I need to be in touch with so that I can fortify.

How important is it to you, do you think, in your evolution, in the evolutionary process for you personally, that concept of refortifying or going in and becoming quiet to get to gain some insight?

Oh yeah. I'm professionally, I'm like this. Personally, I'm a hermit. I put it out. I put it all out. I put it out for everybody else. I push forward. And then I have to come right back in. I'm like, literally like the ocean. I'm a big wave and then I recede back in. Yeah. So that would be my rhythm.

Interesting. Interesting. Yeah. So the path that you're on right now, has this been the path you've been on for a very long time or did you deviate from that at some point in the past?

You know, I was 6 years old. I think I was 6. Yeah. 1976, 1977. And, I was schooled in a particular religion, but I saw Star Wars, and I was like, the Force! Somebody else other than me gets it. So, I kind of, like, had that inside all along, but unlike people who go out to seek it, I wasn't in a situation where it was reflected back to me. So, the structures, the society, the family, not to anybody's fault, just that wasn't reflected back to me. I always questioned it. I always questioned that sensibility about myself. And it's taken me this long in my life now to be really solid about it. So that would be my resilience. And it's been a fortifying piece of certainty about who I am and what I know. So yes, the answer to the question, it's been there a long time.

And it's not endurance. I mean, when you're talking about resilience, it's not endurance. By itself, right? It's not just about perseverance, is it? Is it about only determination or is it more holistic in nature than that?

So resilience to me is, it reminds me of, remember that blow-up doll that gets knocked down and then comes up again and it can—

Yeah.

Yeah, because I feel like with resilience, resilience is that inner part of ourselves that will hold us up even through circumstances of maybe of our own doing or undoing. but also life on life's terms. And I think that we really need resilience when we're dealing with life on life's terms. Like, I think that's a really beautiful quality about resilience, but it is an endurance. And I don't think endurance sometimes can be a sister to tolerance.

And

I don't know necessarily if tolerance is always in our best interests.

Almost like acceptance, you know? So the Serenity Prayer is really, is really one of these things people love. I love it. It's great. And I certainly want to be wise enough to know the things, the battles that I should fight and the ones that I should just simply not fight or accept. But there's a difference between when dealing with change, what you were talking about earlier about fear and change. Anything that's unknown brings fear to the forefront. And to be able to use that, utilize it to create an alchemy, which is the word used earlier as well, around that change, we have to do more than just accept it. Acceptance is almost like resignation or tolerance, the way you just described it. And to me, embracing that change, making— as I think Ram Dass said, making friends with change. I would say making change your best friend. Because in this world we're living in, the fact that change is so prolific, it's with us all the time, it's exponentially more so every day, to simply tolerate it or to accept it Or endure it. Yes. Oh,

grudgingly. The word endure is like torture already. Endure.

It does sound like that. I'm just thinking in terms of where even where companies are. So we've got a lot of people in this community who are entrepreneurs or running small companies or have started them up on the side, etc. How important is that for companies, do you think, to be— to have that resilience be one of their core qualities, the core value even?

So this is a smart question because for the company that we have, we've been in business 12 years, we're solvent, I love that. We've been through so many disruptions already, industry disruptions that are out of our hands. When we started TV Guestpert, there was no Facebook, there was no social media, and TV Guestpert was this idea of creating a community of experts for television producers, was in its simplicity. Facebook, we're actually upstairs from Facebook and we share a floor with Instagram ironically. happen that way, but that's where we're at in Playa Vista. And, but they did not exist when I started TVGasper. I was just trying to do some sort of online Match.com for my producing colleagues, for my media consulting clients that I had. It was really what that started at. And so I have had to pivot my company many times in the culture of the entertainment industry because that has changed. I just met with a filmmaker this past week who has done some projects. I think we're going to be able to bring some financing into an upcoming project that he needs to do. But even the culture of studio systems has changed fast. Social media to me is still the wild, wild west. Our company just started offering these, what we're calling 365 days of social media campaigns where we pre-shoot, pre-produce your lineup of content so we can do a multi-layer narrative over a course of a year and you're not just putting stuff up every day so that we're actually creating a story. But that to me, the social media game of becoming famous and having followers and how does that really translate to money in your pocket or your business, a lot of those things are still to be determined. So for us, the resilience of us as a company is that we had to stay really true to our core business, let go of the services or the applications within our business that are already timed out and step forward, but all while holding on to our core business. So we've had to navigate— I'm always amazed because we've had to stay technologically competitive because of where we are and what we do and where we compete, where we also prosper. So we've had a lot of shifts to navigate in a very tight 12 years. It's been amazing. But yeah, resilience would be definitely it. And I'm, you know, I'm looking at all the cannabis businesses that are proliferating. It's a whole nother disruption of businesses and a whole new industry that's taking on. So there's a lot of room for opportunity. And I think the old paradigm is definitely dying out. I don't feel that the new paradigm is completely defined in its structure, which is awesome in a really entrepreneurial spirit way. But at the same time, it's a little like you're too ahead of your time. You're literally too ahead of your time.

Yeah. Interesting. I would love to get in the couple of minutes we've got left, share a little bit about that old paradigm that you feel is dying out. Because I know you and I kind of had a little laugh about that earlier, but I'd love to dive, dive below the surface just a little bit.

I think the old paradigm was definitely self-serving. I think we're getting way more involved in community, collaboration, cooperation as principles. You know, everybody's listening to this podcast is already in alignment with that, but those structures are just not going to hold. Even in the entertainment industry where a big studio buys an entire market share for $150 million to make a movie successful. Mm-hmm. You know, I feel like what we're doing as entrepreneurs is we're literally pulling the bricks out from the bottom of it. Even if we're not the main disruptor, we're pulling the bricks out, you know, and it's just gonna— the stack of houses is just gonna fall, might collapse down. And it's needed to be. The old structures are profit, single decision-makers, not, you know, team leaders. The one thing the millennials really are bringing to the table in the workforce, in my opinion, is they're really bringing that whole team collaboration. Like, they definitely don't hold the old paradigm structure. Not to say that their structure is perfect either, but the older structure of that dictatorial patriarchal—

Hierarchical. Yeah.

And it's going to go away with also with the way we— people earn their money, and it's really going to shift out.

Yeah. Is that related to the guru thing when you said kind of the guru-dom is going out?

Yeah.

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And then why that's a big deal to me, because I'm in the business of promoting, and one could— I know that we're sometimes perceived as making gurus.

Hmm.

What I hope that we are really good at doing is helping people express their professional wisdom to a larger audience that can benefit from it. That's where we like to intend from. But I do think that that whole guru thing is good because people— here's the other thing I know from my business— people are tired of being told what to do. If you're going to tell them what to do, they want to see how you do it.

Yes.

They want to know that you've gone through it, which is what your books are about. I experienced it. Now I'm going to listen to you because you had the experience. That's where the credibility comes in, is that you're going to be— we're going to be following people because they actually have— they walk their talk. They just don't tell us. We're done with that, like, watch what I do, but don't do what I do, but watch.

What's that old expression? I have great advice that I'm not using. Would you like it?

Yeah, that one too. That's exactly it.

All right. Well, I'd love to find out in terms of how it is that we are constantly pivoting and pivoting, the ability to successfully pivot or consciously pivot helps you to become more resilient. Part of what came through in this conversation. What are the things that you do on a ritualistic basis? The things you're consciously doing that are sort of a step beyond a habit. I think of habits as being very much unconscious things we do, but those conscious habits or rituals that support you in evolving and being able to pivot as things change around you.

Yeah, they say if you do a good deed and you tell someone about it, it doesn't count. So this morning I dropped off like 10 bags of ice at the West Los Angeles Dog Shelter because it's been really hot here. Just a simple thing like that, wasn't a big deal, wasn't a lot of money, just dropped off a couple. Like, that keeps me tuned up into service for others. Mm-hmm. I'm big on like sacred quiet space. I take a lot of input during the day and a lot of communication during the day. My bedroom life doesn't have a lot of technology. It has no technology. You know, I like the silence. I love silence. When I get silence, I'm like, I could marinate. I'm really about silence. I drink tons of water. It's water with my mint leaves, like, right? Yep, exactly. I'm always with the hydration. It doesn't have to be complicated, and it doesn't have to, you know, be enlightenment on a mountain. And I love what— it's Buddha, right? Buddha says, what happens when you reach enlightenment? You chop wood, fetch water. Like, That's it. I try to make healthy food choices. I try to sleep well. I try to be kind to others, you know, make sure I'm in alignment with my actions, words, thoughts, deeds on a daily basis. You know, so I think it doesn't have to be that complicated. Did I answer that question?

You did. I'm marinating in your answers. So I really appreciate that greatly. I appreciate you so much, Jackie.

Thank you so much.

You've been a wonderful person to have on the show. I hope all of you have As I have enjoyed this time, enjoyed listening to what I feel is great wisdom that comes from somebody that's been in the business space, seen a lot of disruption, and not just managed it or survived it, but is really thriving in it. I think that's a daily practice. The things that you do contribute to that.

Yeah, I hope so.

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