Podcast appearances and mentions of meyer briggs

The dicks share their big five. Who's neurotic, extroverted, or aborting things in Texas? Tune in to find out! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jesse403/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jesse403/support

Have you heard of the INFJ, one of the rarest Meyer Briggs personality? In today's episode, we will talk about what it's like to date an INFJ; the pros and cons. Send me a voice message so I can feature it on my next episode - https://anchor.fm/sisadvice/message. New episodes every Monday and Friday. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sisadvice/message

What is it like to be an INFJ, ENTJ, and ENTP? In today's episode, we will continue discussing the mysteries behind the three Meyer Briggs' personalities. Please send voice memos so I can feature them to the next episode - https://anchor.fm/sisadvice/message! New episodes every Monday and Friday. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sisadvice/message

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Oh, don't be shy...we know you're guilty of taking Buzzfeed quizzes for hours on end! We definitely are as well, and sometimes Meyer Briggs just isn't entertaining enough. So, we decided to have a little fun. Join us as we walk through a personality Buzzfeed quiz and each of us receives our "worst best personality trait" based on our answers to some pretty hilarious pop culture questions. 

In this episode I talk about some of the basics of the Meyer-Briggs typology, what each letter means and some common traits of INFJs. All those are colored with personal examples too. Have fun! Instagram: Vala_r.m

Marcus and Angel take the Meyer Briggs personality assessment and breakdown the ways in which the assessment is accurate and inaccurate. Check Out Our Sponsors: Usual Wines (http://www.usualwines.com)    Promo Code: ARGUE Story Worth (http://www.storyworth.com/argue)    Promo Code: ARGUE Magic Spoon (http://www.magicspoon.com/argue)   Promo Code: ARGUE Join Our Patreon for only $5 (http://www.patreon.com/thatchickangel) Websites we used during this podcast: enneagraminstitute.com quora.com russellrowe.com enneagramatwork.com truity.com verywellmind.com

The Girls dig into their results from the trendiest personality test today: The Enneagram!

Carmen discusses her results from the Meyer Briggs personality test. She's an ISFJ-T and has a few things to say about that. She also talks about what it's like being a Sagitarrius when she has none of the qualities. Also, why is everyone's birthday in December?Send questions or suggestions if you want to see anything specific in the future episodes of the pod! Make sure to send messages to receive advice on during the podcast. All personal information will remain confidential, but Carmen will give you some teen advice in a future episode. Please send these messages to thegirlygirlpodcast@gmail.com or @thegirlygirlpodcast on Instagram.Special Mentions⭐️ Wild Til' 9 Episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lC6jxjCG3G4 ⭐️ Meyer Briggs Personality Test: https://www.16personalities.com/free-personality-test⭐️ Milk and Honey Book: https://rupikaur.com/books/milk-and-honey/⭐️ The Sun and Her Flowers Book: https://rupikaur.com/books/the-sun-and-her-flowers/Don't forget to check out:⭐️ Blog: http://caraacarmen.com/⭐️ Website: https://thegirlygirlpodcast.wixsite.com/thegirlygirlpodcast⭐️ Newsletter: https://caraacarmen.com/newsletter/⭐️ Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/caraacarmenblog/⭐️Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thegirlygirlpodcast/⭐️ All platforms: https://linktr.ee/thegirlygirlpodcast⭐️ Email: thegirlygirlpodcast@gmail.com--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-girly-girl-podcast/message

Carmen discusses her results from the Meyer Briggs personality test. She's an ISFJ-T and has a few things to say about that. She also talks about what it's like being a Sagitarrius when she has none of the qualities. Also, why is everyone's birthday in December? Send questions or suggestions if you want to see anything specific in the future episodes of the pod! Make sure to send messages to receive advice on during the podcast. All personal information will remain confidential, but Carmen will give you some teen advice in a future episode. Please send these messages to thegirlygirlpodcast@gmail.com or @thegirlygirlpodcast on Instagram. Special Mentions ⭐️ Wild Til' 9 Episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lC6jxjCG3G4 ⭐️ Meyer Briggs Personality Test: https://www.16personalities.com/free-personality-test ⭐️ Milk and Honey Book: https://rupikaur.com/books/milk-and-honey/ ⭐️ The Sun and Her Flowers Book: https://rupikaur.com/books/the-sun-and-her-flowers/ Don't forget to check out: ⭐️ Blog: https://caraacarmen.wordpress.com/ ⭐️ Website: https://thegirlygirlpodcast.wixsite.com/thegirlygirlpodcast ⭐️ Newsletter: https://www.subscribepage.com/insiderscoop ⭐️ Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/caraacarmenblog/ ⭐️Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thegirlygirlpodcast/ ⭐️ All platforms: https://linktr.ee/thegirlygirlpodcast ⭐️ Email: thegirlygirlpodcast@gmail.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-girly-girl-podcast/message

Carmen discusses her results from the Meyer Briggs personality test. She's an ISFJ-T and has a few things to say about that. She also talks about what it's like being a Sagitarrius when she has none of the qualities. Also, why is everyone's birthday in December?Send questions or suggestions if you want to see anything specific in the future episodes of the pod! Make sure to send messages to receive advice on during the podcast. All personal information will remain confidential, but Carmen will give you some teen advice in a future episode. Please send these messages to thegirlygirlpodcast@gmail.com or @thegirlygirlpodcast on Instagram.Special Mentions⭐️ Wild Til' 9 Episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lC6jxjCG3G4 ⭐️ Meyer Briggs Personality Test: https://www.16personalities.com/free-personality-test⭐️ Milk and Honey Book: https://rupikaur.com/books/milk-and-honey/⭐️ The Sun and Her Flowers Book: https://rupikaur.com/books/the-sun-and-her-flowers/Don't forget to check out:⭐️ Blog: http://caraacarmen.com/⭐️ Website: https://thegirlygirlpodcast.wixsite.com/thegirlygirlpodcast⭐️ Newsletter: https://caraacarmen.com/newsletter/⭐️ Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/caraacarmenblog/⭐️Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thegirlygirlpodcast/⭐️ All platforms: https://linktr.ee/thegirlygirlpodcast⭐️ Email: thegirlygirlpodcast@gmail.com--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-girly-girl-podcast/message

Intro Welp. We are gathered here today to bear witness to my undying self esteem complex. My name is Tia and I do things. “Do” being more of a relative action. I think about things. I am recently learning how to talk about them. I am a chronic Googler that should not have the untethered internet access I do. If I ever claim to have invented something, please believe I didn't. I'm pretty full of useless facts and the biggest lines of bull my brain connections have agreed upon. As my good friend Felix, from Netflix's In the Dark, once said; “I'm actually not that smart, I just work very hard. It's my deepest, darkest secret.” I love words, what they mean, where they came from, how they've been used through time, across languages, the like. Learning old words, new words and especially words for things that mean other things. The bigger the better. I hope to give you new meaning to words and encourage you to use it or lose it! I am also cognizant of my overuse of the word “also”. I make dated left field references so enjoy keeping up! I'm a huge fan of anecdotes and metaphors. I'm also naively oblivious and technologically challenged. So. There's that. I'm also a listomaniac. Which to me means I love lists but to Google means I love facts? Tomato tomato. I invented this writing prompt where I wrote the letters of the alphabet then picked a topic starting with that letter. Some things that matter to me personally, some that came from a random topic generator. We're going to barrel through those 26 hot tamales for Season 1. Then it's your turn! Send any and all things to tiadoesemail@gmail.com. I'm a nut for organization so here's some slight suggestions for getting me to use your ideas. In the subject of your email type the letter of the thing you want - dash - the thing you want. So your email subject would be “A - Apples” then write me a love note or what have you and I'll google something interesting about apples and mention your name and there we have it. OR you can send me a specific thing or link to check out; subject “J - Jail Systems” then write “How the American bail system extorts innocent civilians” or “Are we really overcrowded”. Bingo bango. Through a recent Meyer Briggs personality test I discovered I am an INTP - Logician. Makes sense to me; I love humans but I'm not always a fan of people. I use my imagination and dream big. I don't pursue those dreams if the facts don't add up. Then I cash my chips and off to the next. If you have genius ideas you need to share them with the world. Id Ego Superego. With all that being said, I have flaws. I'm a millennial, white, female. Cynical but underestimated. I'm here to learn. As a logician I want to see all sides. “Above all else, there are simply other ways of being.” I love people's perspective. Again, email tiadoesemail@gmail.com any. thing. Let me know in your message if I'm allowed to share and I will. Time is my gift to you and you are my investment. I wish to 1. Speak life into you and 2. Leave you saying “well that's fucking weird, thanks” One thing I will NOT tolerate is hate speech or bullying. If I'm covering a sensitive topic, it'll be from both sides and it'll be objective. Love yourself enough to be eloquently steadfast. Know when to walk away. Always remember that before the age of 18 1 in 9 girls and 1 in 53 boys will be a victim of sexual assault. If you see something, say something. It's that simple. Join my Patreon www.patreon.com/tiadoes to support the future of fun. You'll get access to behind the scenes videos like bloopers and dash cam confessionals. You'll also get early access to new content. Once I figure out who/what an instagram “close friend” is we'll try that on as well. Oh and Facebook shenanigans. The like. I have a website kind of...anyway. Goodbye. Surprise. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tiadoespodcast/support

The Brew Crew drink (surprise surprise) another IPA from the Sloop Brewery and take the Meyer Briggs personality quiz to get to know each other and ourselves better, but realize we actually hate personality quizzes. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Part Two- Listen as Belinda and Andrea talk through the last part of their personalities according to the Meyer-Briggs personality test. They leave the best for last. It is all about relationships. Sometimes you have to be self aware to grow.

Do you ever feel like you are sabotaging yourself from reaching your goals? Or that you place the blame for not achieving things on your personality? If so, then this episode is for you! Erin and Rachel discuss why they think most people self-sabotage. They believe that most people allow it to happen because they are in the moment or it's what their internal thermostat will allow. Erin also talks about how she believes people will use their personality (i.e. Ennegram, Meyer-Briggs) to justify why and how they sabotage themselves. Where instead we should be asking ourselves why do we do what we do? If we understand our weaknesses than we know how to improve upon them. The girls agree that sometimes having time freedom can actually be more harm than good. It can make us less productive because we don't have the push to get things done. Having good time management is crucial to achieving goals. Erin and Rachel say overall we need to look at what we need to reach our goals and to have awareness in order to achieve them! Let's dive in! Resources: Erin's Instagram: @erin_travelsforlife Rachel's Instagram: @iamrachelbrooks The Confident Woman Podcast Instagram: @theconfidentwomanpodcast --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/theconfidentwoman/message

Merve Emre är biträdande professor i engelska vid universitetet i Oxford, och har nyligen kommit ut med boken Vilken typ är du? Varför du inte kan lita på personlighetstester som handlar om just personlighetstest, framförallt det mycket populära Meyer-Briggs-testet. Men vad är egentligen Meyer-Briggs-testet, och vilka är de två kvinnorna som skapade detta världsberömda personlighetstest? Lyssna till Emre berätta om sin resa genom personlighetstesternas kultliknande världar.

Tracy talks about ADHD and intuition in this podcast. She starts by sharing an experience that happened to her in college that made her start to really trust her intuition. She shares how and why her intuition has gotten her into trouble and what she does differently today. Learn what Dr. Lara Honos Webb said that convinced Tracy that her symptoms were the result of ADHD. Discover what intuition looks and feels like and why we often don’t pay attention to what people are saying because our brains focus on the connections and relationships between things more than on specific bits of information. Have you ever felt like you know people better than they know themself? Learn: what therapists and women with ADHD have in common. the definition of intuition and that intuition may come from subconscious experiences that you may not be holding consciously that there’s nothing psychic or woo woo about intuition what it means to be a scanner Tracy talks about intuition as a non-conscious level of thinking that is related to attention. It is always also based on knowledge or expertise that you have. Learn about the danger of not listening to our intuition and how important it is that we pay attention to that little voice inside of ourselves. Tracy mentions an ADHD women who shared her story and said that her anxiety gets worse when she doesn’t trust her intuition. Not trusting her intuition may be responsible for her anxiety. She also shared that she sometimes confuses anxiety with her intuition and how she’s learned to distinguish the two. Learn the definition of interpersonal intuition. Do you have high emotional intelligence? If so, you won’t want to miss this. Blocking extraneous stimuli is great if you’re sitting in a classroom trying to memorize facts but if you’re trying to figure out what makes someone tick and/or who they are, it may be better to take in extraneous stimuli. Discover how interpersonal intuition and connection are interrelated despite the fact that interpersonal intuition can wreak havoc with connection and why Tracy loves being around other ADHD women especially if they’re also entrepreneurs. Tracy shares what a non-fiction book group she started years ago with non-ADHD women taught her about social hierachies, connection and authenticity and what her rule for relationships is today. You’ll be surprised to learn why you blurt out insights and how that can prevent you from connecting with others. Tracy then talks about the Meyer-Briggs personality test and what she discovered about ADHD, intuition and a correlation between certain Meyer-Briggs types.

In our 3rd episode on Personality, we dive into the Four "Ancient" Temperaments first introduced by Galen of Pergamon, a Greek physician and surgeon. We talk our own individual reflections on the aforementioned identities, the utilization of these in popular media and how Keirsey realigned them to work alongside the Meyer-Briggs theory on personality. All of this and more, to ultimately learn how to make sense of your identity while also living in peace with those around you. Dr. David Keirsey was an American psychologist, a professor emeritus at California State University, Fullerton, and the author of several books. With a focus on conflict management and cooperation, Keirsey specialized in family and partnership counseling and the coaching of children and adults. Episodes 25-29 of Desire Line Podcast- Attachment Theory Sermon On The Mount: Judging  Romans 1 & 2: Sexuality  Stage II: the stage at which a person has blind faith in authority figures and sees the world as divided simply into good and evil, right and wrong, us and them. Once children learn to obey their parents and other authority figures, often out of fear or shame, they reach Stage II. Many so-called religious people are essentially Stage II people, in the sense that they have blind faith in God, and do not question His existence. With blind faith comes humility and a willingness to obey and serve. The majority of good, law-abiding citizens never move out of Stage II. Matthew 22:21 Jesus said "Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's; and to God the things that are God's." ... For there is no authority except from God and those which exist are established by God." If the law of the land is that everyone must pay war taxesthen that is what we must do. It is the law!   Ezekiel 36:26 I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh  

…and how I’m going to dominate 2019 On today’s episode Russell explains what his five biggest takeaways from 2018 were and why. Here is a list of the five takeaways he talks about in this episode: Food as fuel The power of challenge funnels Transitioning from all-star to coach Understanding the difference between strategic thinkers, managers, and doers. And creating different front ends for your company that aren’t you. Listen here to find out why these are Russell’s biggest takeaways from 2018. ---Transcript--- Hey, what’s up everybody? This is Russell Brunson, welcome to the Marketing Secrets podcast. I’m so excited to have you here, in fact, today I’m going to be going over all the biggest lessons I learned during 2018, as I’m getting prepared for world domination in 2019. Hey everyone, I’ve been wanting to do this podcast for a while. In fact, I think my brother, who edits these podcasts, is about to kill me because I keep telling him I’m going to record this, I’m going to record it, I’m going to record it, and I haven’t and I haven’t. I was going to record it during Christmas break and then during New Year’s and now New Year’s is over and tomorrow I’m going on the Two Comma Club X cruise and I still haven’t recorded it. I was like, okay, I’m doing this. And I think the reason why is because I don’t, there’s so many amazing things. This year was insane. It’s still hard for me to fathom everything that happened over the last 12 months. Last year we ended the year really, really good. We went from, let me think about it, Clickfunnels year one we did….well, first year was like 3 months so whatever, a million bucks or whatever it was. But the first full year was 10 million, the second one was 30 million. The third year was 70 something million and this year we passed over a hundred million, which is crazy. It’s insane I didn’t think that was even possible. But it did and there’s so many things you learn at scale when things get bigger. The positive things at scale are way better, and the negative things are way worse. There’s just so much stuff and so many things I want to cover and talk about and I was like, how do I break this into a bunch of things? So I kind of broke them down into 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 different things. They weren’t the full, you know, everything I learned from the year, but I think some really powerful things that were good that I want to share that I think will help you guys. So that is kind of the goal and the game plan. Some of these things are personal, some are business, some are management, some are long term strategic thinking, and there’s a bunch of different things in between. So with that said I’m going to jump right into this. So number one, the first thing that I think was really, really big this year was shifting a lot of how, what’s the best way to say it, it has to do with health but it’s not being healthy. It wasn’t like I was eating different to get a six pack, some day I still want one, but that wasn’t the reason why, it wasn’t eating healthy to look good. It was like eating healthy because I needed to put better fuel in my body. I realized that I’m competing against entrepreneurs at all different levels. I’m competing against companies that get hundreds of millions of dollars in funding and I’m competing against people who have a team of 2000 employees working with them. I’m competing against people that have 30 different people with MBA’s working for…That’s what I’m competing against. So it’s like how do I compete against these people? I can’t do it based on more schooling or more money, I have to do it based on more energy. The output that I’m able to put into the work that I’m doing, and my team and everything, I had a big realization that I needed to change the fuel that I’m putting into my body. It’s interesting now, I’m going to share this with you guys, and some of you guys are going to think that I’m completely ridiculous, and I probably am because I want to put perspective because I know a lot of times people say, “I can’t eat healthy because it’s too expensive.” And I think that’s, for most of you guys, it’s one of those things like eating healthier, will actually in most situations, if you’re an entrepreneur and you’re building a business, it should make you more money. And it should be one of the number one focuses. So I started shifting the way I ate and what I was eating. It kind of started because I was listening to a podcast with Tony Robbins and Tim Ferris I believe, and Tim was asking Tony, “What’s your morning routine? What do you eat?” And it was so funny because Tony was like, “For breakfast I have salmon. For lunch I have salmon. For dinner I have salmon.” And he’s like, “You have salmon 3 meals a day.” And Tony’s like, “Yeah, it’s not food for me, it’s fuel.” And the negative side of that is Tony ended up getting mercury poisoning from too much salmon, so that’s not necessarily the right thing. But the statement he made, “It’s just fuel for me, it’s not food, it’s just fuel. I’m just eating to have the fuel for the energy I need to be able to produce what I gotta produce today.” And that had an impact on me. I heard that and I was like, oh my gosh. Look at some of this crap I eat. It’s not good for me. And I still don’t eat amazing all the time. That’s why I don’t have my six pack yet. That’s why I still got my love handles. We’re going on the Two Comma Club X cruise tomorrow and I’m like, dangit, I was going to have a six pack by now but I don’t. Not even close. But I realize that I’m using food for fuel, so the way I eat is different now. In the mornings I wake up and it’s like, what’s the fuel I need right now? So for me it’s a lot of water. Alex Charfen drilled that in my head. I drink a ton of water, I hyper hydrate in the morning. And then I look at the supplements I take. I’m a big believer in ketones. And not that I’m on a ketogenic diet, but I think there’s fuel in ketones. So I always do Prove It supplements every single morning, and every single night. I love their ketones supplements and not because I’m biased. They built a company, I had a little piece in it, but Brian Underwood and the team over there, they built an amazing company. They became the category king in ketosis, so their supplements are second to none. They, I know behind the scenes of the science and what they’ve been doing. And they’re on I think the fourth version of the ketone salts. Everyone else, if you’re buying this stuff, ketone salts on the market, they’re using salts from generation one or generation two, and these guys are already to number four. What they have is so much superior and it’s good. So even if you’re not on a ketosis diet, taking ketones is good. It’s fuel for your brain, it makes you feel good, and it tastes like candy, so that helps. And number two, I found this other ketone drink it’s called HVMN and it’s expensive, they’re $30 bucks a shot. In fact, I’m about to take one when I get off this podcast. They’re $30 a shot and you take this thing and I feel, it’s fuel, it dumps into your body and it’s amazing. It’s ketone esters, but it’s $30 per shot. The Prove It things are like $5 a shot, so between just those two things, I’m at $35 in fuel first thing in the morning along with my water. And then the next thing I have, I’ve been lifting heavy as well, so because of that I need more proteins than I normally do in my life. So I’m trying to get more proteins in, and I’m allergic to whey protein, so if I put whey protein fuel into my body I literally swell up. I get tired, it does all sorts of bad things for me. So what I do is I do a bag of bone broth with it. And the bone broth is not cheap either, it’s $30 a bag for this bone broth that I drink. So it’s like by lunch time I’m at 30,60, $65 just between the ketones and the bone broth, but that’s fuel I’m putting into my body. And then with the supplements, I’m probably close to a hundred bucks a day in fuel supplements I’m putting into my body. And it has meant the world of difference, my energy level, my excitement, my ability to produce is better when I have better fuel in my body. So that was kind of the first thing. And I know most of you guys are not going to be able to spend $100 a day on fuel for your body like I am. But I would recommend this year to start thinking about that. Food is fuel. And there’s time that food’s not fuel. There’s times when I go out with my wife and food I’m eating is not for fuel, it’s for a social thing. And I know that hey, we’re going out for sushi, this is not fuel, this is social hour so I’m going to have whatever I want, as much as I want, I’m just going to pig out, because I don’t need to be on right now, I just need to socially eat, and that’s what I’m doing and I’m going to enjoy the process. So I’m not the hardcore weight loss guy who’s like, I’m never going to eat healthy. It’s like I know when to be healthy. And if I do want to eat junk, I eat it at night before I go to bed, that way I can pass out and let my body figure out how to digest all that crap and get it out of me so I have energy again for the next day. But during the day I’m eating healthy all the time to make sure I’ve got the energy to be able to accomplish all I’m doing. So that was kind of the first thing this year, that big aha from Tony Robbins, which was this is just my fuel. This is not food, this is my fuel. And looking at it from that lens shifted how I started looking at stuff, and shifted how I was investing. If I was, I think Charfen said, if you had a million dollar race horse, what would you feed it? You wouldn’t feed it McDonalds and fast food, you’d feed it the best food you can. It’s like you are the race horse for your company, you should be doing the same thing. And when Tony said, “Food is fuel.” I was like, okay that’s it. What am I fueling my body with? So throughout the day I fuel it good. And I wish I was perfect, because again, I wouldn’t eat garbage at night or on weekends or whatever, but I’m not there yet. Maybe this year will be the year that that happens. And then next Two Comma Club X cruise I’ll have a six pack. But until then, I’m looking at food as fuel. So there’s number one. Alright number two, we’ve done a lot of funnels. Tons of funnels. Millions of funnels. Not really millions, but you may know that I’m slightly obsessed with them. And every time I see a new funnel type I try it out, we test it, we try a bunch of stuff. And I think I have a new favorite type of funnel and we re-launched it yesterday. So if you go to onefunnelaway.com you’ll see our one funnel away challenge. I am obsessed with challenges. Earlier this year, Natasha Hazlett who is going to be speaking at Funnel Hacking Live, she wrote a book and she started selling it through a traditional book funnel and it did okay, but it didn’t really crush it. And so she decided to change that from a book funnel into this challenge funnel. She kind of made it up and said, “Oh I’m going to have my book and it’s going to go with the challenge. People pay $47 for the challenge they get the book for free, and I take them through this live challenge experience.” And she did it and the first one crushed it. She did over six figures in sales. And she messaged me, she’s like, “Russell, I cracked the code. We’ve never had something hit like this before.” And she ended up doing 4 or 5 more challenges throughout the year, and she just barely passed Two Comma Club, and it was amazing. So she’s speaking at Funnel Hacking Live about challenges, but then she did challenges with some of her clients, her students, and other people and showed a bunch of other people. And everyone who’s doing these challenges is killing it. Then I saw Garrett White pops up with his challenge. And if you go to thekingskid.com you see his challenge, and it was like a four week challenge as well. So I funnel hacked him, bought his challenge, went through the process. And I called Garret up, I was like, “Dude, give me all your info, give me the intell.” And I picked his brain on how he’s doing his, and what he saw, and the pro’s and the con’s. And then I talked to Natasha, I talked to other people and I was like, this is the future. It’s forced consumption content. The biggest problem most of us have with our clients is not that the stuff we’re teaching isn’t good. The biggest problem is they don’t ever actually go through the stuff. How many of you guys have bought a course and then it sits on a shelf and you never read it or you never go through. Or you bought the member’s area and “Someday I’m going to login.” But you never do. Or you bought the book and it’s sitting there, right. The challenges force you to consume this stuff. So we launched our very first challenge, and it was a thirty day challenge, and we had 7500 people sign up for this challenge. And what’s amazing is that every single day it’s like, they would get a video from me, talking about strategy, videos from Julie walking through tactics of how to apply that strategy, and then Steven Larsen would get on live and motivate them and push them and yell at them and get them to do the thing. And it happened every single day. And after 30 days all the content disappeared and it was gone forever. And you either took advantage of it or you didn’t and that was it. And what was amazing is because everyone knew it was disappearing, because it was going away, because it’s like, if you don’t use it, you lose. It forced people to wake up and actually do the task and do the things. And holy crap, the weirdest thing happens. When somebody actually does what you say, they actually have success. So the challenge is the best way to get the result for your end customer. I think every business should have a challenge. So if you look at me over the next 12 months, you will notice that we have onefunnelaway.com as the front end challenge, but then it will also become the backend of every front end funnel we have. All our books, all our things, everything goes, leads into the one funnel away challenge. And they go through this challenge, we have a chance to actually affect them, actually give them the result they want. When they have the result, then they stick and they do more and more with you. Natasha was telling me on hers, the last day of her challenge she does a webinar where she sells her course and 80% of the people who complete the challenge buy the course. I think it’s like 25% of all people who sign up for the challenge buy the course. 80% of those who complete the course, 80% of the people who are taking action every single day end up buying the thing at the end. Garret White sells a $500 a month continuity at the end of his challenge and he was getting like 25% of the men who signed up to join the $500 a month continuity. It’s one of the best ascension vehicles in the world. So like I said, I think challenges are huge. I think it’s the future, I think every business should be having one. I know for us, that was kind of, of all the funnels we rolled out last year, that was the one that was the most shockingly surprising to me, and I was like, oh man, this is something we’ve got to focus on. Which is why, January 2nd, the one funnel away challenge launched officially again, and day one we had like 900 people sign up. And I think we got 2, I think it’s a little less than 2 weeks before the challenge actually starts and we’ll probably end up with another 5 or 6 thousand people who signed up. And we’re going to run it every other month throughout the whole year, and it’ll be the fuel that changes people’s live and gives them the fuel to want to ascend with us as a company. So challenges are number two. So number one thing from the year was food is fuel and focusing on the fuel I put in my body, and number two is running contests. Alright, number three. I did a whole podcast episode on this a little while ago, but it was the big aha I had after going on this retreat with a bunch of really smart dudes. And the big aha I had was that, I had been an all star in business and I had been writing copy and designing funnels and doing all these things, and I’d been trying to build this team. But the problem was, as an all star, I wasn’t a good team player. I was like, my team would try to do something and I’d be like, “Ah, you messed up.” And I’d rip it out of their hands and I’d just go dunk the ball myself and try to get all the credit about how great it was, right. And it was realizing that if I wanted to grow, I can’t go from a hundred million to a billion by me being a better all star. I don’t care how good you are. Michael Jordan, there’s only one Michael Jordan and you can’t get better, you stop growing at a certain point. And the only way to continue to grow is to shift from being an all star to being a coach. And that has been a really interesting transition for me. It hasn’t been as easy as I thought. But it’s been really rewarding, really fulfilling. In fact, just our internal agency when they had, in the last quarter of the year they had two funnels do over a million dollars, so we gave all the people on our team a two comma club award because they were the ones that executed on it. I gave some initial vision and strategy but they went in and actually did it. And I think for, you know one of the biggest things this year for us was just really focusing more on building our team and training our team and less of me doing the thing, and me stepping back and not doing the thing, but coaching the people who are doing it. And it’s hard, it’s different, it’s definitely a different skill set, but super, super important. I think for all of you guys, because you grow from yourself to a team, to wherever. If you’re a start up and you want to grow to a million, from a million to ten, ten to a hundred, it really has to come back to you learning how to become a coach. You being an all star, you can’t get past a certain level. And I got pretty dang far, we got, who knows-70-80 million dollars a year in sales with me trying to be the all star. But as we shifted to this concept of coaching our team and having them all be all stars, that’s when the growth started hitting again. And I’m looking at that right now inside the development team with Todd and Ryan, they’ve done such a good job of not just coding everything, they’ve built this team, and these processes in place, and they’ve become amazing coaches for these people. And now things move faster than they used to because of that. So the transitioning from all star to coach was another big one for me this year. So number one, the fuel we put in our body. Number two, the contest funnels. Number three, transition from all star to coach. Alright, number four. As I was doing this whole process of coaching people, and it’s funny because I have become mildly obsessed with personality profiling. The test I love, 16 personalities, which is a version of Meyer Briggs, I love. I love all these different things and I’ve been obsessed with them and learning them all. But this one, maybe this is a test, I don’t know. But it was kind of a realization I had as I was working with people on my team. And now that I understand it I’m like, oh my gosh. I look at things through a different lens. But I realized there’s like 3 tiers of how people work. There’s nothing bad about any of them, they’re just different. And I think before I thought things were bad because I thought one way and someone else thought a different way. I was like, ugh, they’re bad. They’re not doing a good job. But that’s not the case, there’s just a different skill set. So the three levels, and I’ll kind of map these out for you, the first one is there are people who strategically figure stuff out. They sit down, here’s the strategy of how it works and you can see this vision of how these things work and how they connect. They see the patterns and like, here’s the strategy behind how something works. So that’s one type of person. The second type of person is someone who’s a manager right. They are able to take this strategic vision and they can plug people in and they can manage those people to go and do the actual thing, they’re really good at the management of the process, the management of the people and the kind of plugging in the systems and doing that kind of stuff. And then the third tier is the people who actually do the work, the doers who actually go out there and they go and implement the thing. And again, I think for a long time in my life I was like, oh well strategic thinkers are the most important part. Or, the managers are the most. Or maybe the doers. Or whatever, it’s like all of them are so vitally important. And if you’re struggling right now in your business, my guess is that you’re probably missing one of those. You may be a great strategic person, you have this vision of where you want to go, but you suck at managing people and you’re not a doer, so you’re floundering. Or you’re a doer and you’re like, if someone gives me a task, I will do it. I will crush any task. But it’s like, it’s just me doing it, and it’s not a whole bunch of people because I’m not good at managing, and I don’t really know what to do unless someone tells me what to do, and visa versa. So it’s understanding, for a team to be effective you have to have all those. You know, we spent a lot of time this year working on org charts. And it was interesting, as we built org charts, there’s this flow. It looks like a big pyramid scheme. Here’s CEO and then it moves down to this level and this level. I used to always, I don’t, I always kind of hated it. What’s the guy on the bottom going to think, they’re clear down here, this branch of this tree? And it’s like, oh no. It doesn’t matter what part of the tree you are, the whole org chart is essential for the success of the company. There’s got to be people at the top of this thing who are strategic thinkers and a lot of times they make more money. Not all the time, but there’s a lot of value in strategic thinking right. And then underneath the strategic thinkers, then you have this layer of managers that are managing people, and then down below there’s these doers that are doing the actual work. And what’s interesting, I see a lot of times where we would have someone in our team who is a really good doer, they’re an amazing programmer, or amazing whatever. And we’re like, “Oh man, this guy is so amazing let’s move them up the org chart. Let’s make them a manager.” And all the sudden we put this person who’s like a rock star doer and we make them a manager and it’s like, they were so successful as a doer, but they suck as a manager, they don’t have management skills. Or we bring them up and say, “Hey, what do you think about this, strategically thinking?” And they’re like, “I don’t know.” And all the sudden they fail because we put them in a role where they’re supposed to be strategically thinking. And it’s like, no, you’re not supposed to be strategically thinking. You’re a doer and you’re supposed to go out there and actually do the thing.  And I think, I look at our org chart now and there’s people who are doers who make more than the people who are managing them right. And that’s okay, because sometimes there’s a doer who’s insanely good at this thing and they should make more than their manager. I think in my head I always had this org chart where as you go down everyone gets paid less and less, and it’s not necessarily that way. It’s understanding the value of the role, what they’re doing is what they should be paid, but a doer can get paid more than a strategic thinker, it’s just a different level. I think for me, really understanding that, it’s like okay, there’s strategic people and there’s management people and there’s doer people. Understand those are the three different personality types and skill sets and all are essential to you being successful. So what I would encourage all of you to do today is sit back and be like, okay which one of those am I? Am I a strategic thinker? Can I sit down in front of a white board and map out a vision of this is what we’re going to do, and this is what it’s going to look like? And if you’re not, that’s okay. Don’t feel bad, but you need to get a strategic thinker on your team. You need to partner with somebody who is going to be that strategic thinker. The next question is okay, am I a manager? Do I love managing people and processes and plugging things in place and making sure everything is working together? Because if not, I’m not super…I’ve become adapted, I’m able to do that, but I don’t love that, it’s not my favorite thing. I should not be spending my time there. I need to find people who are really good at management. There’s this process I was trying to manage over the last 3 or 4 months and I just, it never got done because I’m not that good at management. And I just handed it off to somebody and it’ll probably be done in like an hour now, because that person, that’s their skill set. They’re amazing at managing and then doing. As my role in the company, in my dream job I’d just be a funnel builder. I’d be doing it all day long, that’s my favorite part of it. Unfortunately for me and the company, I’m more valuable as a strategic thinker, but I love doing it too, right. So there’s people on my team that just do it all day long. They write copy or they get to build funnels, or they get to do the design. I always tell them how jealous, I wish I could just be a doer, just doing the thing that you’re amazing at. That’s the thing for me, that I would love to do. In fact, my second, after, someday if we ever sell Clickfunnels, I’m going to come back and work for Clickfunnels and just be a funnel builder. That would be my dream. None of this stress of owning a company, and all the fun of just building the funnels. That’d be amazing. So just to understand that, there’s strategic thinkers, there’s managers, and there’s doers, and being okay with, first off figuring out who you are and second off, surrounding yourself with the other types of people because they are all essential for you to be successful. That was another big aha I had as I was going through this coaching phase and building the teams out. People I was super frustrated with until I realized, oh, they’re not a strategic thinker. Why do I keep giving this person strategic thinking opportunities, they’re an amazing manager. Let me get someone strategic to figure this out, build out the strategic vision, hand it to the manager and then they will run with it and make it amazing. But being upset at the manager because they’re not strategic thinking is wrong. I was in the wrong there, right. Or visa versa, you get the strategic thinker who is dreaming up all the ideas and we’re like, “Okay, go manage that, make it happen.” And they’re like, “I don’t know how to manage.” And then we’re angry at them. Like no, that’s what they are. It’s a super power, each of these are super powers. Understand that and coordinate people in the right spot and get your strategic thinkers to cast the vision, the managers to set up the processes, and then the doers to go and execute on the work. And when all three are working in synergy, that’s when you get magic happening. So number one, we talked about food as fuel. Number two, contest funnels. Number three, transition from all start to coach. Number four, understanding the difference between strategic thinkers, managers, and doers and how they all fit in your organization. And then the number five thing that was my last biggest takeaway for this year is, as we’re growing Clickfunnels, I feel bad, how many of you guys when you open up Facebook or Instagram all you see is my face 8000 times a day? I’m so sorry for that. But for a long time I’ve been the attractive character of Clickfunnels, therefore my face is out there, all those things. So it’s like, that’s what’s out there. It’s like eventually it gets so saturated that you can’t keep going with your one face, your one brand, your one thing. A million dollars is easy to keep pushing and getting your face out there. At a hundred million it’s like, man, we’re spending millions of dollars a month on my face, there’s only so many people in this world, it gets insane. So I was like, how do I do this? And also, let’s say we did want to sell Clickfunnels someday, or let’s say I wanted to retire or whatever, if my face is on the front of everything, it’s not a very good asset for somebody else to buy. So this year we started having this idea like, what are the other front ends we can create for Clickfunnels that aren’t Russell Brunson’s face? So that was the question, that was kind of the concept. And you will notice over the next 12 months inside our company, all the new things that are happening. We tested a couple, like one of them we had Kaelin Poulin, who just had her baby yesterday, by the way, she did a webinar, she did kind of my funnel hacks webinar but she did her version of it. And that’s done amazingly well, it’s sold great. It’s like people are hearing Kaelin’s story and they come to Clickfunnels and they don’t even know who I am, which is fantastic. So that’s one example. Some of them I can’t, I can’t tell details about them yet. But we are in the process right now, we signed letters of intent of acquiring a really large company, and the sole reason why we’re doing that is it gives me the ability to create dozens and dozens of front ends that aren’t Russell. They aren’t my face. They will lead people to Clickfunnels , but they aren’t my face, which is essential. So you guys will find out probably the end of quarter one, maybe early quarter two about that acquisition as long as it goes through. It should, and I’ll talk more about it and the strategy behind it because it’s so exciting. But I just, it’s like, we have a letter of intent signed but the deal’s not inked, so I gotta wait on that one. Another partnership I’m doing, again all the deals and partners and things I’m doing right now are all about like how can this be a front end that doesn’t require Russell Brunson’s face? So for you, I want you trying to think of the same thing. What are other front ends you can create for your business that aren’t always you focused. Are they a success story? Most of our ads that we’re developing now, we’re capturing success stories of our users. Our users are becoming the face of Clickfunnels. Our users are becoming the front ends. It’s not just Russell, not just his books, not just his things. The users are the ads. And we’re getting influencers making funny videos with influencers as the ads. We’re creating new software programs that aren’t just built into Clickfunnels because we’re building these tools externally where we can sell to bring people on the back end of Clickfunnels. So we’re building all the funnels and front end things that aren’t me, because if you see 22 Russell ads in a row, you’re likelihood of buying goes down with every single ad, because either you bought or you’re really annoyed with me. But if you see an ad from me, and then you see an ad from Tony Robbins and you see an ad from these other things that aren’t related, but they all push back to the same core thing, there’s magic there. So you’ll see this next year will be the year of a lot of funnels for our team. We’re building our agency, really, really large, but we’re doing it with a goal and a focus of it’s not Russell funnels. Actually I will give you a couple of examples to get the wheels in your head spinning. For example, Grant Cardone, we went and built a book funnel for him with the first 10x book. We flew on his plane and filmed the whole funnel there. So if you look at that book funnel, if you go and you buy the book through it, on the thank you page, basically it pushes people to Clickfunnels. So now we can target Grant and his audience, his people. He pays the ad dollars to sell his book, and the thank you page sells Clickfunnels and then we send a percentage of the affiliate commissions back to him. So it’s win/win where we’re able to help him drive traffic and sell a lot of books, which then in turn sells Clickfunnels. We’re trying to do the same deal with Robert Kiyosaki and potentially other people as well. Where it’s like, we’re helping them on the front end funnels and then in exchange we get customers on the back end. How many deals are there like that? That you can create where it’s like, I’m not necessarily the front, I’m able to leverage all these other people. So now in your newsfeed you’ll see Russell’s face selling my book, but you’ll see Tony Robbins book, you’ll see Grant Cardone’s book, you’ll see who elses book, you’ll see those things and you’ll buy them and it’s like on the backend, you’re introduced to Clickfunnels. Now it’s like, I can acquire a lot more customers, a lot of different type of customers through that process. Anyway, there’s kind of a vague way to explain it. You will see, that is my strategic vision for the year, and you’ll see it coming true over the next 12 months. And next year, when we’re doing the same podcast you’ll be like, ‘Oh, that’s what he’s talking about. So cool. I see how it all fits together.” Alright so those are the five biggest things, as I was going through my list today, just thinking of the biggest takeaways from the year, I think it’ll help you guys. So number one is I’m looking at food as fuel. How are you fueling your body, and knowing that right now Russell spends $100 a day on supplements to fuel his body, what can you do different. Maybe you don’t eat cereal for breakfast, maybe you eat cereal for dinner when you’re ready to go to bed, but man, you eat eggs for breakfast, or you eat ketones for breakfast, or you skip breakfast all together to keep your energy high. So fuel is number one. Number two is the power of challenge funnels and contest funnels. If you want to see ours in action go to onefunnelaway.com, but this is now the core front end to all our businesses. All of our books and everything will lead to this and this leads and sends people up our value ladder. Number three, my personal role of transitioning from the all star on my team to transitioning to a coach. I think for all you guys, the faster you can make that transition from all star to coach, the faster you can grow and start scaling your companies. Number four is understanding the different types of thinkers. There’s the strategic thinkers, the managers and the doers. And understanding that all three of these roles are essential for success in your company. And you gotta figure out who you are and surround yourself with the others. And then number five, creating different front ends for your company that aren’t just you. So there you go. There’s five big things for my year. My guess is most of you guys listening to this, only one or two of those things will actually resonate with you right now. That’s totally cool. Some of you guys aren’t in the spot where you have one front end working, let alone a whole bunch of front ends. So don’t even worry about that now. But some of you guys, you’re tired and you try to get stuff done and you can’t focus and it’s like man, the fuel you’re putting in your body is destroying your ability to compete. So it’s like fixing your fuel as your biggest thing. Or maybe it’s like, maybe I have a funnel but it’s not going that way, maybe I make a contest funnel in the front end. Each of the other guys, I hope there’s something you can pick from it that will benefit you specifically. And then maybe check out this podcast again in a year from now and then some of the other ones will pop out for you. But anyway, hopefully that helps you guys. Appreciate you all, thanks for listening. And with that said, I will talk to you guys again very, very soon. Bye everybody.

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We're back after a nice holiday and some ridiculous technical difficulties (including a coughing grandchild.) This week it's Galileo 7! We talk about Blacklisting in Hollywood, why a fellow scientist can't deal with Spock, whether Ferris is right or just an A-hole, why you shouldn't enter a mist, it's a bad idea, Ken Discusses some more Meyer-Briggs cause this episode is full of it, Spock's inability to take into account the emotional tribal nature of the Ape-Men, even more Meyer-Meyers-Briggs plus much much more!

SHOW NOTES:  Summary: At FDSA, Andrea Harrison teaches classes for the human half of the competitive team. She's an educator who is passionate about all species including dogs and humans. Having lived with dogs her whole life, Andrea was an early convert to positive training. She has taken this message to the media many times including appearances on many TV shows and news programs as well as in print and on the radio. She has explored the science of brain research and worked with people of all ages on being successful and reducing anxiety and stress using her training and counseling, personality typing, and her own experiences.   When it comes to dog sports her competitive addiction is agility. Andrea and her dogs have many titles between them with placements in regional and national competitions. Andrea has experienced animal wrangling for television and more recently has begun to explore scent work. Links mentioned: www.andrea-agilityaddict.blogspot.com/ (Andrea's site) Next Episode:  To be released 6/23/2017, featuring Amanda Nelson.  TRANSCRIPTION: Melissa Breau: This is Melissa Breau and you're listening to the Fenzi Dog Sports Podcast, brought to you by the Fenzi Dog Sports Academy, an online school dedicated to providing high quality instruction for competitive dog sports using only the most current and progressive training methods. Today we'll be talking to Andrea Harrison. At FDSA Andrea teaches classes for the human half of the competitive team. She's an educator who is passionate about all species including dogs and humans. Having lived with dogs her whole life, Andrea was an early convert to positive training. She has taken this message to the media many times including appearances on many TV shows and news programs as well as in print and on the radio. She has explored the science of brain research and worked with people of all ages on being successful and reducing anxiety and stress using her training and counseling, personality typing, and her own experiences. When it comes to dog sports her competitive addiction is agility. Andrea and her dogs have many titles between them with placements in regional and national competitions. Andrea has experienced animal wrangling for television and more recently has begun to explore scent work. Hi, Andrea. Welcome to the podcast. Andrea Harrison: Thank you so much, Melissa. It's lovely to be here. Melissa Breau: I'm excited to chat. To start us out, do you want to just give us a little about your current fur crew? Andrea Harrison: Sure. We could take up the whole podcast talking about them so I won't do that, but we're currently living with too many dogs including my dad's dog, Franny, who is a lovely older cocker spaniel, and then we have Brody who is 17 almost and he's what I refer to as my heartbeat at my feet. He's my Shih Tzu mix and he really taught me that gurus even in dog sports don't necessarily have all the answers for every dog. Then we have Theo who is a 14-year-old Chihuahua, Sally who is an 11-year-old border collie mix who has really taught me to appreciate joy in everything. She was supposed to be palliative foster, she came to us when she was about six months old and was given less than six months to live, and she's about to turn eleven. So she's a good daily reminder. Yeah. She's a really good daily reminder that life is good and life is worth living. Then we have Sam who is my husband's golden retriever and I do very, very little with him. He just turned eight, and he came to us as a palliative foster as well. He was five months old with terminal kidney disease, so he's doing pretty well. We've got a crazy, crazy little terrier named Dora who is five years old, and then we have a toy American Eskimo, Yen, who just turned four, and she is certainly my daily reminder that every dog you have to do things your own way. So yeah, we have a bunch of different breeds and different types represented in the house right now, and as I say, too many dogs, but I also joke that on a per acre basis we have less dogs than most people do because we live on a fairly large farm in the middle of nowhere in Lake Ontario. So per acre we're well under any limit anybody could set. Melissa Breau: That certainly helps. I mean, having space is a big benefit when you have dogs. Andrea Harrison: Yes. For sure. And it's nice because I can train down at the front with them, a little agility field set up at the front, so I can take a pair down and work them down there, but every day a part of our routine is to go for a one to two, well, sometimes even three kilometers once the weather is nice, but we're out doing a good hike off-leash with all five of the dogs who are at a stage in their development where that's something they enjoy, right? So their fitness, their brain, their recalls, all of that stuff just gets worked on as part of life, you know? They hang out with me, they want to hang out with me. It makes when they come to town much easier, right, because they're constantly being reinforced for doing sort of the right thing to my husband's and my eyes. Melissa Breau: So which of the dogs are you currently competing with? Andrea Harrison: I don't actually. Since I've been down here we've been busy setting up the farm, but Sally, the border collie mix, finished doing a major film fairly recently and has been going out doing some publicity work around that. So her training stayed pretty current. Yeah. She was a lead role in a feature film that was about the character dog, Dinah, in the movie. So she is Dinah. So that's been kind of neat with being down to the…Toronto has an international film festival and we've been in the main theater for that. She was the first dog ever in that theater and stuff. So we had to make sure she was really, really perfect. They were, “A dog? You can't have a dog in the theater.” We're like, “Well, she's the star of the film.” And they were like, “Oh, yeah, okay, well, if she's the star of the film I guess it's okay.” So she's been doing stuff. Ad I'm hoping to get Dora, the two young dogs, Dora and Yen, going in competitive agility one of these days. But my problem is because everything is two or three hours of driving for me, and with my 17-year-old guy, I don't like to leave him very long, right? He's very much my heartbeat at my feet, he's happiest lying on my feet, and I hate to leave him and make him stress out when I'm gone. But unfortunately I don't think he'll be with us all that much longer. And then Dora and Yen can get their day of, their 15 minutes of fame, right, the Andy Warhol thing, they can get out there and get their fame and glory or embarrass me, whichever way they choose to go out. They do agility at home and they're great. They're ready to go. I just have to get off the farm. Melissa Breau: Fair enough. How long have you guys had the farm now? Andrea Harrison: Well, we've had the land for about ten years and we've been living here, we've been living here and building our house. We had a house just around the corner, we've been building our house for just about five years, we've been permanently at the farm for three. Melissa Breau: Wow. That's awesome. Andrea Harrison: Yeah. Yeah. It's been pretty neat. It added a dimension to my life that I really didn't know how much I was missing until I had it. Melissa Breau: So how did you originally get started with dog sports and the film stuff? I mean, where did all that start? Andrea Harrison: So when I was little I apparently was pretty opinionated, I hear this quite regularly, and I didn't like school and I didn't think I like learning. Turns out I love learning but I was just not being taught the stuff I liked to learn, right? So my dad and mom realized that if they could connect anything to animals I'd buy into it. So they taught me history at the dining room table by using the names of dogs and cats and horses, whatever kind of animal they could find that was connected to an event. I learned about the Civil War in the States because of the horse Traveller, for example, right? Ancient Greek history, they connected it to Bucephalus, Alexander the Great's horse. Rin Tin Tin for the war stuff, right? All of those kinds of things. And then they realized that if they brought home books that had animals in them I would read, and it turns out I'm a voracious reader, but they connected it through animals. And one of the kinds of books I started reading were books about people, there was a real trend for books about guide dogs, service dogs, seeing eye dogs and those kinds of things, and I read a book, and I was trying to think of the name of it. I think it's called like, Guided by the Light or something, or Candle in the Light or something, and I read the book and it just amazed me, the gorgeous German shepherd, and I had this clear picture in my head, it was an amazing dog. I looked at our Irish setter at the time and I said, “You and I are going to do stuff.” And I was 12 and there were no classes available for kids, kids just were not available to take classes. So I made my mom go to the dog sport classes and is at on the sidelines and I watched everything she did and I went home and I did it with our Irish setter in the backyard. By the end of our time doing that class our Irish setter would actually walk down a main street of Toronto off-leash with squirrels and other dogs going by me. She was your pretty typical Irish setter, she was a busy girl, and I was so proud of that. The lift that gave me as a very introverted, not super academic kind of person really built my confidence. So then just every dog we had from there, I put one leg of an obedience title on a golden retriever. We had foster Sheltie for about eight months, I did some show handling with her. So I just slowly got a little bit more into it. I never found my passion, right? Then one day, twenty years ago almost exactly I think, I saw agility, just in a field at a local university. Somebody set up a class and I literally stopped dead and went, “That's amazing.” And I started thinking about agility. I had two older big dogs at the time who couldn't do it, but I started learning about it and watching it and thinking about it. Then I was hooked. That was it. I mean, my blog is called Agility Addict. I was just absolutely, and I am just nuts about agility. Melissa Breau: What's the URL for your blog? Andrea Harrison: Andrea Agility Addict Blog Spot I think. I don't know. It comes up, as soon as you type any of that in it flies right up. Melissa Breau: I will look it up and I will include the link in the show notes. So what do, what you teach at FDSA is a little bit different, kind of, than what any of the other instructors do. You definitely have your own niche. I mean, how do you explain what it is you do at FDSA? How would you kind of summarize it  Andrea Harrison: Yeah. It's such a good question. I think what I'd say and what I do say all the time is that I focus on the handler side, right? Because it doesn't matter if you're an agility addict or you're into nose work or you're into obedience. I'm so grateful I'm learning so much about all these amazing different sports, Rally-FrEe, and all this stuff, it's just so super what I do because I get to learn and I love learning, right?  So I really focus on the handler side of it. My experiences through all the different things that I have done have reminded me all the time that my mental state, my beliefs, my hang-ups, right, really are going to affect what happens at the end of the leash. When I was filming Zoboomafoo and I needed 15 puppies to run across the floor towards me, if 13 of them ran towards me and two of them went another way it didn't help to get mad about it, right? I had to just think it through, figure it out, and redo it, right? Or when my little dog was on the stage at the Elgin Theater in Toronto, one of our big theaters doing a thing of Annie, I had to just to let it go. And it's hard for me to let it go. I'm your typical Fenzi instructor, you know, type A, cares a lot, wants everything to be right, right? We're a passionate group of people, right? I mean, that's wonderful, but it can be hard to remember that we can't control everything, right? No matter how much we want success we can't always make success in the moment that we want it. So as I was looking at what I could bring to the FDSA table it was like, there's a piece of stuff that I'm doing all the time, I'm getting asked to do it all the time, people are asking me questions in my face classes all the time about this, people respond to any blog I write about it. So I taught a little tiny course just for people locally online, and ended up telling Denise about it, and she was like, “That's really cool. Do you want to try bringing that here? I don't know if it'll work.” She was really honest, right? She's like, I don't know if it'll work. I'm not sure there's a thing. But that's where the first course, All in Your Head, came from, this tiny little genesis of a course I ran one summer through a Facebook group, and then it just developed from there. Students are amazing, they ask amazing questions, and they've given so much back to sort of my funny little niche program, like you said, but they've built it. I'm along for the ride. I've got tons of different resources I can plug into and pull out and experiences, but the students of FDSA have really driven what's happened in my little circle. Melissa Breau: So to give listeners kind of a sense of the type of issues that your classes can help with, do you mind just talking a little bit about some of the problems you've helped handlers address within the classes? Andrea Harrison: Yeah. Sure. I mean, it really ranges, right? So All in Your Head looks at sort of who you are, right, and how who you are is going to affect the training choices and things that you do, and starts to address the nerves side of it a little bit, because nerves are a big, big thing that come up. Disappointment, worry, anxiety. People don't want to let down their dog, right? They get frustrated by their dog, they aren't sure they're doing the right sport, they maybe aren't sure they have the right dog for the right sport, right? How can they make all of these things work, right? Like, I personally hate coming in second. For me that's a huge source of frustration, right? So if I was always coming in second I would want to work through a whole bunch of the stuff that I do in a class to make sure that I was dealing with being second. I'd rather be last than second, right? Give me first or don't place me at all. I mean, I'd like to cue, thank you very much, but in terms of placement type stuff, right? So the problems really range. I mean, I've had people look at relationship issues, grief. The two sort of really specialized courses, Infinite Possibilities and the new one I'm running now, Unleash Personal Potential, people pick their own thing, right? So the range of things we're seeing in there is amazing. Then of course with Handle This and No More Excuses people are largely looking at setting plans, setting goals, learning about goals, figuring out how to implement plans, right? We all make these great plans, I'm going to train every day, and then life gets in the way because life always gets in the way, right? It always does. So what do you do when life gets in the way? How can you not say, “Oh my God, I'm the worst trainer in the world ever,” and crawl under a rock and not train for three weeks? And there are times when a three week break is what you need, but sometimes you need to say, you know what? This was a throwaway day. It was okay, I didn't make my plan, it's okay, tomorrow is a new day and I can start over, right? So the range of problems is just, I mean, you know, you could almost open up a dictionary and look for any adjective and there it comes, right? Melissa Breau: So let's dig into a couple of those specifically just a little bit more, because I know there are a couple that we talked about a little bit before the podcast and whatnot as being particularly important. So I wanted to dig into this idea of kind of ring nerves and people experiencing nerves before a competition, things that really impact their handling. I was hoping you could talk a little more about that, maybe include a tip or two listeners can use when it comes to ring nerves and tackling it themselves. Andrea Harrison: Yes. For sure. One of the things I really encourage people to do is test those tools. So people go off to a trial and they're really, really, really nervous, but they don't know whether those nerves are physical, right, or in their head, or if they're affecting the dog at all, right? Because they've never really thought about it. All they know is that they're really, really, really nervous. They feel sick but they don't know is it in their tummy, is it in their head, is it their respiration, is it sweat glands, is it all of them, right? They haven't thought about it, they know it makes them feel sick so they push it aside, they don't work on it between trials, they go back to a trial and they're like, oh my God, I was nervous again. Well, of course you were nervous again. You didn't try working on anything, right? So like everything else it's almost like a training exercise. You have to think about what is making you nervous, how are you manifesting those nerves, and how can you break them down? It's just the same, right, just the same as positive dog training. Break it down into these tiny little pieces that you can then find a tool to address. So for example, if your mouth gets really, really dry and that distracts you and you start sort of chewing cud, as it were, as a cow, you're like, trying to get the water back in your mouth and it makes you nervous. Well, once you figure that out you take peppermints with you in the car, you suck on a peppermint before you go in the ring, and that's gone away. Right? And that's gone away so you can concentrate on the thing you need to concentrate on, right? You want to always build to those results slowly. When you look at the nerves, I can't say to you, here's my magic want, I'm going to wave it over you and all your nerves will be gone. But you get that sick, sick feeling in the pit of your stomach, why is that? Are you remembering to eat the day before a trial? Are you eating too much the day before a trial? Are you remembering to go to the bathroom? Because when you're nervous you have to go to the bathroom, so make sure you make time to go to the bathroom because then there's less to cramp in your tummy, right?  So step by step by step, you know, you make a plan, you look at the plan. What kind of music should you listen to on the way to the show? Should you listen to a podcast that's inspirational to you? Should you put together an inspirational play tack? Do you know exactly where the show is? If you're anxious and worried and always run late, for Lord's sake, please drive to the trail ahead of time or Google Map it really carefully and build yourself in 15 minutes extra, because being late to that trial is not going to help your nerves. You're going to be stressed. So where is that stress coming from? How are those nerves manifesting themselves, right? So the music that you listen to on the way, having the mint if your breath is dry, remembering to go to the bathroom, thinking about what I call Andrea's Rule of Five. So rule of five is really simple. Is it going to matter in five minutes? Five hours? Five days? Five years? Right? So if something is stressing you out you can actually stop, ground yourself which I'll get into in a sec, but ground yourself and think, rule of five. And the vast majority of the time, yeah, it might matter in five minutes because your run will just be over and it was not successful and you're embarrassed, maybe, or maybe it was great, and like, super. But very, very few of us are going to remember a run in even five months, let alone five years. I mean, you might remember in general, but your anxiety is not going to still be there, right? I mean, a great run you can remember. I can probably still tell you the details of some of Brody's agility runs or Sally's amazing work, right? Like, I can describe going from the A-frame around to the tunnel and picking him up and staying connected and it was beautiful. I can remember the errors of enthusiasm, right, like when he took an off-course tunnel, and he's never done that in his life, and I was like, oh my God, he took an off-course tunnel. That's amazing. That's so cool, and we celebrated. So just loved that he was that happy about it. But do I remember those very first, early trials where…do I remember the courses where I stood thinking I'm never going to get my agility dog to Canada? No. I don't really remember. I remember being sad that he was three seconds over the time and _____ (18:35), and that was kind of sucky, but it was okay, right? Like, now with all this perspective it's fine.  So you have to rehearse for success, let those nerves…think of something that gives you just a little bit less nerves and go and do it, right? Where you get that slight flutter and figure out how to tame the slight flutter. Don't expect to say, oh my God, I'm so nervous at a trial, I don't want to be nervous anymore. That won't work. You need to figure out, right, what tools are going to work for you, right? What makes you nervous, what tools will reduce that element of anxiety, and work on it one element at a time. I have students where I say to them, I don't care that you're not really ready to run, right, in a trial. If you were so nervous about it that's making you sick, find a match that's going to make you half sick. Go to a trial and know that you're not going to be successful. Go and do one lap of the ring. I don't care. Walk in there and do six things and leave if it's accessible in your venue. And practice getting over that nervousness so that you can give yourself and your dog the best things that you need to do to be successful. Set yourself up for success, if I had to reduce it to just a couple of words. Melissa Breau: Right. The same way you set your dog up for success. Andrea Harrison: Exactly. Exactly. We're as important part of the team, right? Without us there would be no dog sport. So we spend so much time, right, working on our dogs, and it's great that we do, and I love it too, but you have to remember to work on yourself too. You know? Unless you're by nature perfectly calm, perfectly extroverted, never have a thing to worry about at home which I still have yet to meet anybody who can say all of that, right? Melissa Breau: You and me both. I wanted to dive a little more into the motivation and planning aspect of things too. I know one of the lines in your class description for No More Excuses is it's for the students who have a library full of classes and haven't done them, or they have goals and aspirations that they simply aren't meeting. I think a lot of people who read that, that kind of strikes home, right? So I wanted to ask, what is so hard about just doing it? Andrea Harrison: Such a good question. And you think, like, we all blame ourselves when we can't just do it, right? And I think many of us hope that if we fill our libraries up enough that something is going to resonate, something is going to suddenly, magically make us do it. And you know, we all want that magic solution. I mean, self-help sections of libraries and book stores are full, like, shelves and shelves and shelves of books because we all want there to be a magic bullet answer, right? And there isn't. I mean, in a nutshell motivation often comes down to people being confused about whether it's outcome or process that they want, right? Whether it's learning or performance, right? Four different sort of models to look at motivation. Outcome goals are like, I want to be an Olympic gold medalist, and a process goal is I want to build the skills to be able to be an Olympic gold medalist. Many of us want to go straight to an outcome, goal, right? We want to be able to get the cue without sort of remembering that we have to build that process in. And once people understand that everything we do, we have to break it into a process, that can help them with their own motivation. So training, and this sounds awful, because different things bore different people, but there's always some element of training that bores most people, right? So I'll hear people say, “I hate working on stays, they're so boring.” Or, “I'd rather be playing on Facebook than training,” right? And that's okay, that's legitimate. But if you can start off even just with two or three minutes of whatever you don't like, particularly working on it, as you start to meet success it becomes more rewarding so you can do more and more. So if you can break down your process, again, similar principle to earlier, if you can break your process down into little tiny chunks and build on those little tiny chunks, as you attain success you're going to be moving closer to doing the outcome stuff, right? I mean, in true motivational speak the issues with motivation usually fall into either direction, can you get up off the couch and actually go and train or are you going to get up off the couch and head towards the ice cream in the freezer, right? Which direction are you going to go in? The intensity of what you do, so are you like, oh, yeah, this is great as long as I don't have to work too hard each step, right? It's good, I got to the gym, I chatted to the girl at the desk, I did my thing or went to dog school, and it was great, but I really didn't put any time into training, I was really busy chatting to my friends and watching other people train, right? That's the intensity piece of it. And then the final piece is persistence, which is do you go back, right? Will you go to training once and you do a great job or will you go to training five times and do as good a job as you can each of those times? So direction, intensity, and persistence are sort of the hallmarks of real motivational stuff, and they break down really nicely for dog training too, right? Like, where is your gap? So in No More Excuses we help people figure out which priority they want to work on of those three, and then how to do that. And then the last thing that you want to think about when you're doing motivation issues is are you in a learning phase or a performance phase of training, trial, and showing, whatever? If you're in a learning phase you might still be trialing, right? Because you learn when you trial. Every trial I've ever gone to you learn tons, right? But if you're in that learning phase you don't want to be having tons of outcome based goals or else what happens is you get frustrated and turned off and you stop. I think what happens to a lot of people is they don't understand the distinctions between outcome and process goals, learning and performance outcomes, right, the goal, and then that intensity, persistence, and direction piece, and if you can sort of marry all of those pieces and figure it out then you've got a real head up on making some motivation work for you, right? So it comes to down to sort of planning, right? Figure out what you need to do and then plan for it.   And remember that all those self-help books, right, that are in the library, all the gurus, all the people who say there's only one way to do things or this is the right way, they have a whole lot invested in making you buy in to what it is they are promoting. They believe it. I'm not saying it's charlatans at all, but they believe that their way is the right way, and if it doesn't work for you it tends to make you feel kind of rotten, right? You're thinking, so-and-so could do this and it's amazing, and my friend did it and it was amazing, and it doesn't really work for me. What's wrong with me? Right? And it's not that there's anything wrong with you, you just have a different approach to learning or the message or the method than the person does. So I think sometimes all the self-help can kind of be negative, you know, which is too bad.  Melissa Breau: Yeah. Yeah. Despite my comment about just doing it I do know that you're a big fan of self-care and gratitude, and I'm sure a lot of students in the alumni group on Facebook have seen your Joy Day Care posts. So I wanted to ask you a little bit about that and have you kind of tell us what's the story there, how did that get started? Andrea Harrison: Yeah. It's such a neat thing. So again, you know, my whole thing earlier my students are always teaching me, the first time we ran Infinite Possibilities back in August of 2013, I think, I had an amazing student, she's still a great student at FDSA, I know she listens to the podcast so she'll be like, “Hey, that's me she's talking about.” She said, “You know, this gratitude thing, I work on it all the time and it's really hard for me. I want to get better at being happy.” And there's tons of great research that says that gratitude is a really good path to being a happier person, right? How can I be happy? It's a big question I deal with in all of my life. So we started a gratitude challenge in the class, right, on the discussion thread there was a gratitude challenge that I posted, and then at the end of the class people said, “You can't stop this. This isn't right. You just can't stop this. We need your prompts. We need your help.” I said, “All right. Well, why don't we take it over to the alumni list and see if people like it?” And people really like it. It's funny, if I forget to post, if I forget it's the first day after class officially ends, any of those things for sure somebody will message me, and often it's somebody who has never worked with me. “Hey, don't you normally do Joy Day Care now?” So it started off, we called it just a gratitude challenge, and then it slowly worked towards being a Joy Day Care, the name just evolved over time. It was Joy Day Dare for a long time and then somebody, I mistyped, I think, and it came out as care, and I'm like, yeah, that's even more perfect for us, do you think? Because one of the things I love about it is how much everybody cares about everybody, right?  And it just helps people remember that happiness is a conscious choice, you know? I had somebody ask me just yesterday, what can I do to be a happier person? I said it sounds so trite, it sounds so dumb, I hate to even tell you this, but you really do have to choose happiness. You know? Life is tough, life is hard. There's a lot going on in life that gives us good cause to be angry or upset or frustrated or sad, and I mean, obviously if you're facing some really big thing you're going to need more than just to go, oh, today I'm going to be happy.   But a gratitude practice where you pick some time of the day to think about one thing you can be grateful for has a measureable impact on people who are suffering from depression, who have schizophrenia. There are tons and tons and tons of studies that show that a very, very short, ten second daily gratitude practice can make a difference to your state of happiness. Like, that's pretty powerful, right? And it's so easy for me to do, right? It's such an easy thing for me to remind people of sort of in the lull between classes. It's fun. I enjoy it. I actually quite miss it when it's done even though sometimes I have to get kind of creative with the prompts because we've done it now for a long time. So I'm like, have I done this in the last three sessions? I don't think so. Melissa Breau: Well, you could certainly…it certainly can't hurt to recycle some of those prompts and just think about…absolutely people can think about different things they're grateful for off the same prompt, and I mean, just… Andrea Harrison: Sure. Sure. Melissa Breau: Yeah. Yeah. No. That's great. Andrea Harrison: Yeah. So in fact I did a little workbook too for people because they wanted something in between classes. So there's a little workbook called Love the One You Are With, it's just a little workbook that has a bunch, I don't know, 140 other prompts and pretty pages people can fill in and stuff too. So people seem to be liking that as well. Melissa Breau: Where can they find that? Andrea Harrison: It's called Love the One You Are With, and there's a Facebook page for it. Melissa Breau: Cool. Excellent  Andrea Harrison: Yeah. Very cool. Melissa Breau: So I wanted to kind of end out the podcast, even though we spend a lot of time talking about the handler half of the team, the same way I do for everybody else, because I thought it'd be interesting to talk…I know if the beginning we talked a little bit about you and your dogs, and I wanted to make sure we kind of close it out that way too and talk a little bit about the dogs again. So what is the dog-related accomplishment that you are proudest of? Andrea Harrison: You know, it's interesting, and I wrack my brain because obviously if you listen to the podcast you know this question is going to be coming up. I mean, I have lots of things, I have been lucky enough, fortunate enough to do some really, really cool things with my dogs, right? They're superstars and rock stars all in their own right. But I think if I had to pick the one thing I would have to say it's probably the hundreds of foster dogs that my husband and I have rehabbed, worked with, trained. We've had many, many foster dogs that have been with us more than six months and as long as three years before they've been able to go into their own homes, and I think if I had to pick one thing it's probably doing that, right? Giving back in such a sort of hands on way. Yeah. It's been pretty amazing. We've met some really amazing dogs and by being able to be strong enough to give them up, and sometimes it's really hard to do that, you know, it lets us take in the next one. So it's been pretty precious. Melissa Breau: Right. And that's always the hardest part, right, in some ways, of fostering or helping with that process. Andrea Harrison: Oh, I mean, it's grief. Yeah. It's absolutely grief in its own way. You miss them. You give a little piece of your heart. I had one of my vet tech friends say to me, “Andrea, you've got the biggest chameleon heart of anybody I know.” She calls me Lizard Heart now. I said, “What do you mean, Lizard Heart?” She goes, “Well, if you cut off a little piece of a chameleon's heart apparently it grows back.” I don't know how they even do that, I didn't ask, I didn't check it or anything. But she calls me Lizard Heart because she says, “You've given so much of your heart to other animals, your heart is so patchy and big, right, from all the repairs.” So I'm like, that's so sweet. Right? Yeah. So I would say that's probably my proudest accomplishment. Melissa Breau: And then what is the best piece of training advice, and for you you can do handler or the dog, that you've ever heard? Andrea Harrison: So there's two, because, you know, why would any of us do what you ask and give one? Melissa Breau: That's perfectly okay. Andrea Harrison: I think the one that really made me think the most and really work on understanding what it meant and figuring out how to apply it to handler side stuff and dog side stuff, actually, is somebody said to me a long, long time ago when they were mad at me in my counseling gig that's outside of dogs, they said to me, “Andrea, you have to understand, it's really not personal.” I was like, “But you're mad at me.” And they're like, “I'm just mad. I'm not mad at you. It's not personal.” And I thought, it's not personal. It really isn't, is it? And so much of what we get ourselves so worked up about, right, is because we take things personally that aren't meant personally. So if your dog has a lousy day and blows you off, your dog poops in the ring, your dog isn't do that to destruct you. Your dog is being what my husband calls his dog self, right? We talk about that all the time here at the farm. Oh, he's just being his doggy self. They come in and they've rolled in something disgusting, and you know, oh my God, I have to go out for dinner in half an hour and I don't have time to clean you. My stress level goes through the roof and Tom's like, “They're being their doggy self.” And I'm like, yeah it's not personal. We bathe the dog and we're ten minutes late and we're good, right? So it's not personal applies, like when that group of women, often, sadly, are standing at the side of the ring watching your run and you think, oh my God, they're watching me, they're judging me, the pressure is great, and then you leave the ring and you think, wait a minute, I was the first, second, or third dog in the ring, and they were actually just watching to see how the judge works, or where the judge stands, or what pattern the judge is looking for, whatever, right? So it's often, even though we take it very personally it's not personal there. Even when somebody is making a comment to you, right? They're saying, “Oh, well, if it had been me I would have done it this way.” So what if they would have done it that way? It's about them, that's not about you. It's not personal. So I think it's not personal is a really big one that has worked for me to really try to remember both in my dog sports and my just surviving life piece, right? Whatever the issue is it's much more often about the person who is doing the whatever that's causing you stress or distress, and it's often just the dogs being their doggy self. So that's the first piece of advice I think to get into. Then the other one came a long, long time ago, and this is sort of for handlers to remember with their dog, and that's just to stop nagging. I guess that actually could be seen as a life skill too. I work pretty hard not to nag my husband too, but the sort of persistent drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, it can be really irritating, right? Like, if you're getting nagged it's irritating, and if you're nagging your dog it's irritating too. You're much better off to break off if things aren't going right, break off and do something, and have fun with it, and then come back to it, right? Rather than nag, nag, nag, nag, nagging. If I have a dog that I'm trying to get to sit perfectly on its flat form, and you have a dog that you're trying to get to sit perfectly on its platform, and I drill, drill, drill, drill, drill that skill for my dog, and you try it three times and say, oh, you know what? You need a break, you need to let off some of that stream, I'm going to go play with you for a minute and come back to it. My guess is a whole lot of the time you're going to end up with a much nicer sit that's much more solid in more situations than I will for nagging. Right?  And that came to me from my horse sport stuff early on in life where I was riding a rotten little pony and I had a crop, somebody hands me a crop and I was doing the thwack, thwack, thwack on the shoulder but never hurt enough to make a difference, and like, my coach, Martha Griggs, said to me, “Andrea, if you're going to use that crop take it and use it once and be done with it. Stop nagging that poor pony.” And I thought, oh, but I don't want to hit the pony, right? Who wanted to hit a pony? Even back then I was sort of like, there's got to be a nice way to do it. But I realized that if I could figure out a way to be clear and consistent with my message and stop the drip, drip, drip, drip, dripping nagging of it it was going to work much better, and the pony and I went on to do pretty well in the show we were headed for. So you know, that worked in that moment and that in itself of course became reinforcement.   So it's something I really look for in my face time students, right? Are you nagging the dog? Because if you're nagging the dog if I can help you stop nagging the dog you're going to end up with much more success. Yeah. So I'm grateful to the horse instructor for pointing that out so many years ago. Melissa Breau: I mean, sometimes it's really interesting the lessons that carry over from other sports and other things in our lives into the dog world, and how much carryover they really have. Andrea Harrison: Well, it's absolutely right. One of the things that people always say, how do you know…what made you come up with the fact that getting a good night's sleep before a show is important? And I'm like, because in my work as an educator and as a counselor I've discovered that if I'm doing a session with somebody and they had a good night's sleep the night before we're going to get a lot farther than if they've had an awful night's sleep. Doing sort of a counseling session, if I'm talking to someone and they've had a terrible night's sleep I'll be like, you know what? Today is not a good day to dig into the heavy stuff. Let's find something light and fluffy to deal with because we're not going to get nearly as far, right? Here, let's talk about how to sleep better, you go home and sleep better, and next week make sure you do those strategies, and then we can get into the heavy stuff. So yeah, absolutely. What you learn in one place has tons and tons of crossover. And again, I think we forget that, right? We get so hung up on there's got to be the perfect way to do it that we forget to pull these different skill sets that we have from different places. In the All in Your Head course somebody in the first or second session said to me, “Oh my God, I did this at work, the Meyer Briggs temperament inventory.” He said, “I did this at work. It never occurred to me to think about how what I know about myself at work might influence myself as a dog trainer. It really does make a difference.” I was like, yeah, of course it does. But so many people, we compartmentalize, right? It's part of being human, we keep things in their little compartments and we forget to open the door between them. Melissa Breau: So for our last important question, so someone else in the dog world that you look up to, who would you recommend? Andrea Harrison: There are so many ways to answer this question. I mean, I've said it before in this already, the FDSA instructors are just amazing people and so many of the people, like I can throw out a ton of big name agility trainers, American, Canadian, European, but I think if I was going to say who I look up to regularly, and this sounds kind of, I don't know what the word is I'm looking for so I'll just say it, it has to be the people who struggle with their dog, right? They're the inspiration for me. They've got this dog that maybe isn't the perfect match for them, they're in a sport that isn't maybe the perfect match for them, and they persist. They want to figure it out, right? And that might mean changing dog sports, that might mean retiring a dog, that might mean taking a long break. There's so many different things it can mean, but they're the people that I really look up to because…and lots of the instructors, right, have had their own challenges too. The very fact that they come back to it, right, the resilience of the human, right? So I guess I would have to say that it's the resilience that really makes me feel inspired to keep going, right? That if I were looking for a reason to get up in the morning and to log on to see what's going on with my students, the people who are working with the deaf dog or the blind dog or the dog that, as somebody said, I would divorce if I could, but I can't divorce him because he's living with me now so I'm going to figure out how to do that, you know? It's all those people that really create this inspiration, and I'm sure you would have loved it if I'd grabbed one name, but really when I thought about the question that's really what gives me my get up and go, is those people. Melissa Breau: Hey, I'll take it. It's a different answer so it works for me. Well, thank you so much for coming on the podcast, Andrea. It was so much fun to chat. Andrea Harrison: Well, such a pleasure, honestly. Just delightful. You do a great job with it. Melissa Breau: Well, thank you. Thanks. 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