Pursuing and Finding Your Passion in Life & Business

When you think about passion, what do you think of?

Very often, we start forgetting what we need or really want out of life or business and simply go through the motions of making things happen (or not).  But how do we start getting what we want and making our dreams and passions a reality?

That’s where my guest comes in and we dive into what is it that we really want, how can we make it happen and start living and being better.

About my guest: H Jackson Calame teaches visionary entrepreneurs how to unlock sustainable revenue growth and expand their legacy by becoming a Power Brand in their market. 96% of businesses fail within the first 10 years. Jackson teaches businesses, not only how to avoid failure, but how to win, by becoming a true leader in their market.

Connect with Jackson on Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, and on the web at https://www.firstclassbusiness.io

Transcript (auto-generated; may contain errors):

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Jennifer Glass: Hi! And welcome to another episode of MOJO: The Meaning of Life and Business.

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Jennifer Glass: A lot of people start thinking about business, and they start thinking about passion.

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Jennifer Glass: or maybe not. They may think it’s only business

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Jennifer Glass: or only passion.

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Jennifer Glass: There’s a lot of things that we really need to be paying attention to when it we are trying to figure out what it is that we’re doing, and really paying attention to the passion of what it is that we really want to be doing

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Jennifer Glass: again. The show is called the meaning of life and business. It’s not just one or the other. It is a combination of the 2.

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Jennifer Glass: And so, when we think about business and we think about passion, we really need to be paying close attention to what that means.

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Jennifer Glass: And so I have a really great guest on the show with us today. Who’s going to really help us know more in terms of what it means with passion, and where we want to go from there. But before I bring him on, let me tell you a little bit about Jackson.

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Jennifer Glass: H. Jackson. Calum is the founder of passion closed.org, and believes that stay at home. Parents are critical contributors to society that should be valued, and honor not look down upon as a single father, for he has fun helping others find their purpose in Spanish and in English.

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Jennifer Glass: Jackson. Thank you so much for being here, and welcome to the show.

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Jackson Calame: It’s my honor. Thanks for having me, Jennifer.

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Jennifer Glass: Absolutely. Thank you. So, Jackson, let me ask you, before we kind of jump into things, tell us more about passion pros. And what made you start doing that?

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Jackson Calame: That’s a great question. So passion pros a program to help people find their purpose and more fulfillment in life. It starts with a challenge that leads into an assessment, and one of the reasons why I designed it was to help teenagers move on from understanding that

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Jackson Calame: you know, a lot of teenagers think that their passion is pizza and video games, and there’s nothing wrong with that. Okay, Pizza is. I like pizza, and I like video games like to have fun, right. And

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Jackson Calame: when

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Jackson Calame: you find yourself living for that day after day, life can feel very monotonous, so helping them shift and understand that they might want to be remembered for more than that.

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Jackson Calame: That’s a conversation that gets a lot of teenagers to open up. Well, I found that same conversation to be very true with adults.

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Jackson Calame: So over time I turn that into an assessment that’s managed to change the lives of a lot of individuals allow people to be inspired to to launch their businesses, and, as I mentioned in the and in regards to my mission

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Jackson Calame: stay at home. Parents are also at the heart of that. Most of them are looked down upon, for you know most people in society look down upon them, and say they don’t contribute enough. I don’t think that’s there. I think that they have a very valuable contribution, if that’s their passion, that’s where they know they need to be. Then I think it’s very important to

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Jackson Calame: very validate them as a society, and say, hey, you know what this is. This is amazing. This is awesome. Pursue that. So that’s that’s really where it all begins is outside of the entrepreneur scope, and then, of course, we’ll tie it full circle to entrepreneurs. And just a little bit

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Jennifer Glass: I and yeah.

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Jennifer Glass: it’s funny pizza and video games.

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Jennifer Glass: Every teenager can certainly relate to that.

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Jennifer Glass: And some adults that are young at heart, too, which is

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Jennifer Glass: interesting.

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Jackson Calame: So

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Jennifer Glass: let’s talk about

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Jennifer Glass: to where we go from here, though right there’s so many parents thinking right? What can I do

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Jennifer Glass: right for a lot of kids, too? It’s really looking at what the world is going to be like.

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Jennifer Glass: And we’ve all got our dreams as kids.

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Jennifer Glass: Some of us want to be astronauts.

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Jennifer Glass: Some of us want to be present in the United States.

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Jennifer Glass: or serve in government in some form. Some of us want to be sports players.

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Jennifer Glass: and that leads to a lot of passion

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Jennifer Glass: projects that we take on to.

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Jennifer Glass: and a lot of things that we might really be going at?

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Jennifer Glass: How do we, though, start figuring out? What is it that we’re trying to do?

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Jennifer Glass: What is realistic? What is something that’s a dream.

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Jennifer Glass: Where do we go from there?

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Jackson Calame: Yeah, what? I’m gonna go back, You know. You said so many of them are thinking. I I hope that this opens a lot of people’s eyes while it’s probably gonna offend a few.

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Jackson Calame: Are they thinking?

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Jackson Calame: I think a lot of them are Googling.

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Jackson Calame: I think a lot of them are are asking friends and family.

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Jackson Calame: but I think a lot of people are ignoring the thought process.

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Jackson Calame: and they’re ignoring their feelings right whether we’re diving into Netflix to escape the feelings, or diving into alcohol or drugs, or some of their form to get out of our feelings and thoughts. I think that’s the key. We got to get back into the feelings and the thoughts. There’s plenty of people who come across the Passions assessment.

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Jackson Calame: and they don’t want to put their feelings in the table or their thoughts on the table. They don’t want to take the time to drive that self awareness, and sometimes it’s because that hurts.

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Jackson Calame: I get that. But it’s super important that if you, if you want to unlock a new level of life, if you want to find a new level of purpose.

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Jackson Calame: That also usually requires a bit of pain.

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Jackson Calame: So it’s very important that you’re willing to dive in and look at. Okay, what what are my weaknesses?

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Jackson Calame: You know what what am I good at?

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Jackson Calame: And if I don’t think i’m good at something? Who can I turn to? Who will lift me up and help me see what i’m good at. But so many of us hide from those elements of of self awareness that that cause pain, and we don’t give ourselves the opportunity to really explore who we are, what it is that we want.

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Jackson Calame: and then start developing that.

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Jennifer Glass: So if we’re talking about these assessments?

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Jennifer Glass: Are we talking like the disc assessments? Are we talking? And for those of you that Aren’t aware there’s a whole lot of different types of assessments that are out there. One of them that was mentioned the D. If, C.

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Jennifer Glass: Disc assessments

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Jennifer Glass: is a great way to really know. Are you more of the Alpha type.

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Jennifer Glass: Are you not the Alpha type? Are you really outgoing? Are you more of an introvert? There’s a couple of different things that that shares. But what are we talking about on the assessments? Just that we’re clear what that means.

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Jackson Calame: I’m glad you asked Passions per passion pro has its own assessment.

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Jackson Calame: It’s on assessments proprietary to us. This is Harvard instant. No, it’s not I. I didn’t go to Harvard. I didn’t go to Stanford. I went to the school of Hard knocks life. Okay, this is completely built by my experience, one helping people for 2 years in year. Why

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Jackson Calame: figure out how to improve their lives when I was a 19 year old, kid, and learning to do so in a in a language I didn’t speak, and whether you’re getting screamed at and and told to go home and get out of our country, or you didn’t spin on, or you’re running from a group of 16 to 18. Your kids want to be you up. There’s a lot of things that go on

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Jackson Calame: visit a foreign country on a mission like that. So, going to that process, I had the opportunity to think all right. How do I? How do I love these people? How do I help these people? How do I get in their hearts and their heads, and transition more of those kind that wasn’t my everyday life. But that was something we did have to be aware of

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Jackson Calame: on an everyday basis, and we did face at least once a month, usually with somebody who is going to react like that.

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Jackson Calame: Well, as we were teaching those individuals and helping them find their own purpose and passions. I started to learn certain types of questions that could unlock people

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Jackson Calame: at a new level. I got home, and I continued to practice that in my college experience, where I got a point 7 7 gpa. I didn’t do very well in school that wasn’t for me, but I did have a very strong capability and helping individuals see life in a new way and progress to a new level. So I started to create this assessment based on that. And it’s just been amazing to see the transformations people have taken. Such is actually actually went from making $12 an hour as well.

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Jackson Calame: A copywriter living in in Mexico with her husband to launching her business, launching a nonprofit, and she said, right there right if she got out of the out of the passions. That’s just Jackson.

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Jackson Calame: I know exactly what I want to do. I want to watch this. I want to launch this, and I want to move in, you know, Fast forward years now, and she’s launched those ventures, and she’s had her writers retreat since she’s published her books, so it has an extreme power, and I don’t want to discredit disc or strengths. Find her 2 point o or Myers Briggs. Those are all phenomenal

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Jackson Calame: I feel like the more you take the time to listen to your heart and mind, on which assessments you should take, and you dedicate yourself to understanding yourself

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Jackson Calame: the better, and you’ll become.

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Jackson Calame: and the better you’ll feel about your life process, knowing that you’re pursuing a path that brings more abundance to your life

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Jennifer Glass: interesting, and our school of hard knocks is definitely one that teaches us many lessons in life.

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Jennifer Glass: Many of us have gone through it at different points in our lives as entrepreneurs as parents.

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Jennifer Glass: as people.

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Jennifer Glass: We’ve gone through many different

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Jennifer Glass: experiences that help shape the way that we see things.

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Jennifer Glass: and how we react to

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Jennifer Glass: So let’s segue into looking at it from an entrepreneurs perspective.

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Jennifer Glass: An entrepreneur comes in

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Jennifer Glass: we want to start a business.

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Jennifer Glass: We know that there’s something out there.

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Jennifer Glass: Sometimes it is a passion project that we lead with. Sometimes it’s. I got laid off, and I need to do something, and I can’t find anything else. I may as well just go into business for myself.

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Jennifer Glass: There’s a lot of different reasons why someone may

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Jennifer Glass: start their own business. Let’s talk about, though how the passion piece of it

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Jennifer Glass: ultimately impacts what it is that we’re doing as entrepreneurs, and how we go from there.

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Jackson Calame: Absolutely one. I’m a I’m. A big fan of Tony Robbins.

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Jackson Calame: and the limitless beliefs aspect of like you can do anything that you set your mind to, and and you really can. And it’s very important that if you’re at that early stage and you still have your ability to look

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Jackson Calame: learning to unlock that limiting, but your limiting beliefs, and get away from those and say, you know what I am an artist, and you know what my art can be as valuable as Picasso. Art, like You’re the only person who can unlock that.

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Jackson Calame: No, nobody else can give that to you. Certain people can guide you on that better than others. We can teach you how to get past some of those elements, but at the end of the day it’s you who has to accept your own value in that regard. Now let’s shift years. Then there’s the individual who, you know launches a business like like vape shops. They’re going up everywhere right now.

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Jackson Calame: Why? Because somebody opened a vape shop and said it was successful, and somebody else says it’s successful. Now you’re seeing on Google. And and so all these people are kind of jumping on this bandwagon, saying, You know what there’s people who will buy this, and I can take advantage of that market. Well, good luck.

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Jackson Calame: Number one.

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Jackson Calame: Your Karma’s a b***h. I’m going to be super straight about that. That that’s why you opened. It is to take advantage of a market like, you know you’re it’s gonna come full circle, and it’s not going to be a good experience, but whether that’s the extreme. But if you get into, you know, like owning a car dealership, but you don’t like cars

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Jackson Calame: right? That’s not. It’s also not going to be very in alignment with who you are. Now you can

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Jackson Calame: learn to have a passion for the business that you have. I also believe people are adaptable for that right, If you’re especially if you’re launching a service that is good for the market, you’re actually helping people. You can still find passionate purpose along the way I think it’s imperative to do, especially as a marketer. And here’s why the reason why I do not work with business owners who are not passionate about what they do.

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Jackson Calame: because if they’re not passionate about what they do here’s what they’re when I ask them about their business, and why they do it. Here’s how they sound. And here’s what they basically portray to the market.

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Jackson Calame: I want a bigger house.

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Jackson Calame: I want my kids.

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Jackson Calame: I I want a boat I want. I want, I want, I want I will. I can’t market that.

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Jackson Calame: Who could?

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Jackson Calame: How do you market.

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Jackson Calame: Yeah, how do you tell your market that this person wants to be successful because they only care about themselves? Right You You can’t market that. You can’t help somebody win who’s super self centered.

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Jackson Calame: So if you’re if you’re not doing something for the sake of helping and serving others, you’re more than likely going to fail in statistics show that 96% of business owners fail within 10 years. So how do you reverse that

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Jackson Calame: I think one? You have to find a passion for what it is that you do? But you also have to evaluate. Is this a business model that I should get out of?

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Jackson Calame: And how can I find a guide who can help me get out of this the right way?

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Jennifer Glass: And it’s really interesting. How you say that I mean from our perspective or mind. Specifically, what I do is because I love seeing the impact

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Jennifer Glass: my clients have, or the work that we do.

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Jennifer Glass: Once my clients have graduated

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Jennifer Glass: They tend to hire people because they’re taking on more work

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Jennifer Glass: that results in more people having a paycheck.

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Jennifer Glass: It results in them, having extra income that all of the community organizations that rely on the main street. Small businesses tend to get because everybody needs these donations, and so they’re giving more to these organizations.

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Jennifer Glass: and they’re also giving more to the overall community, not just the local community. But whatever their community is right, I mean, if it’s

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Jennifer Glass: breast cancer, research, or whatever it is that they’re interested in, they’re doing whatever it is that they’re doing. And so there’s so much that is out there, and I love seeing that happen when I work with my clients on the growth that

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Jennifer Glass: comes from there, and that’s my Why.

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Jennifer Glass: as a you know, the famous thing is, Start with your Why.

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Jennifer Glass: right or no, you’re why

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Jennifer Glass: important. What is it that you’re doing? How do you get there? And where do you go from there? So, Jackson, let me ask you one where.

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Jennifer Glass: looking forward, though

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Jennifer Glass: people are in business.

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Jennifer Glass: they’re dealing with a lot in business.

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Jennifer Glass: Sometimes life is going to follow you. Lemons or curve falls.

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Jennifer Glass: How do you keep that passion now.

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Jennifer Glass: and what it is that you’re doing, because at some point, when you’re going through hard knocks.

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Jennifer Glass: it’s difficult to keep up with the passion when everything is coming against you in a negative way. So how do you

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Jennifer Glass: find or keep that passion to keep going through the

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Jennifer Glass: for the long run.

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Jackson Calame: There’s so many ways there’s so many we we have to be very careful to do so. Right? I’ve been very fortunate to maintain my passion, and and, you know, overcome the the constant lemons that are throwing your way like you talk about it. I’ve been there a lot I’ve I’ve got a mentors for one

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Jackson Calame: people that I turn to for support and help. That’s very important, you know whether it’s paid coaches, you know I have those, and then I also have my life mentors, and those who don’t have a bias in the situation. That’s that’s important to have genuine authentic friends who can lift you up.

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Jackson Calame: making sure that you take time to drink water.

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Jackson Calame: making sure that you take time to get some sunshine on your face, to walk, to take care of your health. Those elements are also important. Taylor Welch. He mentions Pot the clean energy and making sure you have. That. That means, you know, serving others like that could be

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Jackson Calame: walking up to some random person on the street and giving them $5 and walking away. That’s going to give you positive energy that could be making sure that you go down. I commit yourself. I’m going to do 10. Push ups right now, get down to 10, push ups so that you can commit to yourself and complete those commitments.

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Jackson Calame: There’s a lot of things that have to be done. There’s there’s tokens that you can implement physical reminders. For instance, it’s very much a process to strike, to try to escape the negativity of the world. How do you do that?

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Jackson Calame: You filter that out? You build positivity around your life

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Jackson Calame: so that you have that that constant feeling of support and and a reminder, perhaps a gratitude journal, another big aspect. It’s super important that we remain grateful for what it is we have, whether it’s the fact that we have a couple of ring lights that allow us to look nicer on our podcast, or the fact that I can open these blinds, you know, and see green grass in front of me. It seems silly, and it seems small to some people.

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Jackson Calame: But unfortunately, if you’re not, if you’re not able to see the beauty and those things.

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Jackson Calame: and you’re waiting to appreciate the beauty of the big things in life. You’re depriving yourself

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Jackson Calame: of light. You’re depriving yourself of an opportunity to recognize that there’s more good in this world, and Sometimes we’re willing to admit.

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Jackson Calame: because of how much society likes to complain, and we find ourselves in that same boat. So it’s it’s a it’s a mind game very much.

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Jennifer Glass: you know that’s not what your country you ask at, what you can do for your country and for those of the world. That’s not what America can do for you ask how you can be better for the world something along those lines. And so it’s really. How can we be that shining light?

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Jackson Calame: Yes, like it does touch my heart. Yes, it does like I. There’s times like I’m looking at the project. I’m like, oh, yeah, it’s like when they’re doing like they go through like that. That’s there. But i’m not sheltering myself from the problems that exists in the world.

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Jackson Calame: Right? So I love what you’re saying about. You know you’re You’re there in politics, and you’re filtering out the noise, looking to be a solution. It it it was a problem solver

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Jackson Calame: in a problem-driven environment. That’s a superpower so I I thank you for that. That’s that’s not why most people listen. Most people listen because you know they’re scared, and they’re worried about what’s gonna happen and don’t get me wrong. They’ll use it for their vote, and there’s nothing wrong with your votes valuable and important.

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Jennifer Glass: Anyone that knows me knows. I sit on way too many boards and commissions and everything along those lines already. I need some time for my business, too, and that’s why I turn down Rotary’s invitation. But it’s because of that desire to be of help

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Jennifer Glass: Passion cannot be a boundary list or borderless project. It has to be something that we look at. We know what we can do. We know where that goes, and we know what we’re striving toward. But not that, like you, said we’re seeing

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Jennifer Glass: jump right back in. We mentioned the Gratitude Journal. We mentioned things on those lines. And, by the way, there’s a scientific evidence that says, If we are in a position of gratitude. We cannot be depressed.

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Jackson Calame: 4 feet around us, if you will. That’s going to make a difference.

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Jackson Calame: you know, when you mentioned this gratitude study. For instance, I can keep depression at bay. There’s some context on that, a lot of context on that right. So let’s say that I am grateful for the chocolate that I have in my house, and I stay focused on being grateful, and I only chocolate for the rest of my life, and I try super hard to stay grateful for that, and for what I have, Why, i’m i’m hurting myself

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Jackson Calame: We have other elements. So now true gratitude in essence is going to also allow you to assess what’s good for your health, right? What is what is good for me. And again transferring, transitioning into that feeling is not easy for people to do. We know whether it’s trauma that they’re trying to escape ptsd from or

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Jackson Calame: Look at this, for example. That’s me taking a superior mode. I’m telling you to look at something that people do this on stage all the time. Okay, and you can go in and out of any one of these postures as an influencer yourself.

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Jackson Calame: But it’s also important as a receiver to recognize when people are doing it. So if I say, Jennifer, you’re spending way too much time at work, you need to be doing this instead. I’m jumping into superior mode and basically saying, hey, i’m God for your life.

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Jackson Calame: That’s normal coaching. That’s what most people do is they? We tell each other what to do. That does not make us a great coach or somebody worth following. Also, great coaches can make that mistake sometime. Now let’s move into equal posturing. When somebody comes up to you and says, hey, Jennifer, you’re you’re great, friend. I’m automatically putting you on a same same level as myself. You know I might do

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Jackson Calame: what you did in this circumstance myself again. I’m. I’m receiving you at an equal level.

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Jackson Calame: Now if I come out on stage, and I and i’m in front of a 1,000 people, and I say, hey, i’m so honored to be here. I’m, humbled I, and I can’t believe I was given this opportunity.

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Jackson Calame: You know they’re saying, hey? I’m, i’m no better than anybody else. In fact, one of you guys should probably be on the stage instead of me, and i’ll I’ll make the most of this try to help all of you right. That is, that is moving into the inferior mode. There’s there’s many, many areas as virtuous ways to do that. There’s self deprecating ways to do that that are not virtuous. Where we say, you know, i’m really not very good at this thing, but i’m going to give him my best and try to help you guys like what like. What did you just do?

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Jackson Calame: So these postures watch out for those. If you’re trying to become self-aware, and you’re trying to understand how to move your passion to the next level. It’s super important i’d invite you. That’s equal, not telling you what to do right, I would invite you as a friend, as a human, to human being.

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Jennifer Glass: Beautifully, said Jackson. Thank you

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Jennifer Glass: Let me ask you when you look out.

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Jackson Calame: Honestly, I don’t look out 3 to 5 years anymore.

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Jackson Calame: That’s my honest answer. I I used to. I remember just, you know, similar to your ambitions as a as a child. I I remember seeing

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Jackson Calame: what I look at, I I look at today. I try really hard not to dive too far into the future. We forecast for our business responsibly. 6 months to 12 months we plan our customer journey mapping for our clients, so that we can have a really good path of fulfilling over the next 5 to 10 years. But when it comes to where I want to be. Personally.

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Jackson Calame: That’s my main focus is if I can be my best self today, and hon in on who I’m. Supposed to be in these moments that I have then, and I do that every day for the next 3 to 5 years.

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Jackson Calame: and I focus on the seeds where they’re at and what they need. The law of the harvest will will reap the reward for me and the the storm that I cannot control will no longer have a power over me where i’m i’m over obsessing over things that are outside of my control. So there’s there’s certain types of hopes, perhaps, that exist there.

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Jackson Calame: you know. If we we were to dream on it, maybe you know, I might. I might think like you know what i’m 35. I’ve got time for for making the 40 under 40 list, but it’s that fast. It’s gone. It’s all right. You know what that’s that doesn’t matter. What matters is. Am I showing up to serve today?

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Jennifer Glass: Thank you.

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Jennifer Glass: So, Jackson, let me ask you when you’re

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Jennifer Glass: and there’s a lot that they’ve been getting out of listening.

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Jennifer Glass: and they want to know more about you.

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Jennifer Glass: so i’d like to invite you to tell our listeners how they can find out more about You

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Jackson Calame: absolutely feel free to connect with me. I mean, that’s the the best way to get to know somebody. You can connect to me on Linkedin.

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Jackson Calame: You can connect with me on Facebook. My name is a little bit hard to spell, so thank goodness, it’s gonna be in the show notes. You can look at it. There you go to first class business, I/O, and see you know what are what we’re building as a company. I think one of the best ways to to get to know an individual

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Jackson Calame: is to get to know who they hang out with. Get to know their team members. Right? So call first class business, you know, and and see, how do they treat you? How do they act? Ask them what’s Jackson like As a As a leader, you know. Give Give them the opportunity

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Jackson Calame: to to share with you what what our experience is like. Look up our clients, how some of our clients feel free to do that, too. There’s a lot of ways we can do due diligence and research. Who it is that we build our relationships with, and I’m. I’m all for that. I think it’s a fantastic. I do it When I get to know a new provider I usually call, and I have at least one of my team Members call 5 of their clients and and ask them what their relationship is like. And it makes sure that we’re getting. We’re getting our lives aligned

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Jennifer Glass: Thank you. And your information is definitely going to be in the description and show notes for this

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Jennifer Glass: episode. So if you want to reach out to Jackson definitely, look him up. Jackson gave you Linkedin Facebook information to, and that will again be in this episode. So you can connect with Jackson

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Jennifer Glass: when you’re thinking about what it is that you need to be doing, moving forward from here. There is so much that is involved.

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Jennifer Glass: Remember, passion is what really can drive you. What is it that you’re looking to do. Where are you looking to go? And why do you want to be doing it?

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Jennifer Glass: I want to send my kids. I want to do this. I want to do that because all of those I want us is not going to be the reason that somebody is going to say they want to work with you, for when you are doing what it is that you are doing.

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Jennifer Glass: And so you really need to be paying very close attention

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Jennifer Glass: to where you go from there, and what it is that you’re trying to do to be making that difference. So, Jackson once again. Thank you so much for being my guest on the show today.

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Jennifer Glass: and everyone definitely connect with Jackson and make sure that you reach out and say you heard them

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Jennifer Glass: on the Mojo meeting of life and business show today. So thanks again, Jackson.

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Jackson Calame: Thank you, Jennifer, You’re amazing. Keep it up and good luck with Presidency. I look forward to being involved in that vote, and hearing all about what your stances are going to be

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Jennifer Glass: very much appreciated. Thank you, and so on that note, this has been another episode of MOJO: The Meaning of Life and Business, and until next time here’s to your success.