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A (0:00)
Commit to do the work, but also commit to that. Next me said, when are you going to take time out to put time on the calendar to invest in Self? And so if you're not having a check in with self, like a one on one with your manager or your financial advisor, you know, or even your kids, you know, if you're asking your kids how you're doing as a mom or dad, then you don't know if you're failing. So I don't know where this quote comes from, but I love it. And it's, you don't have to set yourself on fire to keep others warm.
B (0:32)
The Great Meset Terry Broussard 4 hacks on how you can actually acknowledge where you're at and look to make a change.
A (0:40)
Go have that me set and come back and be the leader that you want to be.
B (0:45)
How can a concussion lead to a massive change in your life? Terry Broussard's great me set is gonna show you how. All right, Terry. So change. Some people get forced to change. Some people make a change proactively. You had. Well, I'll let you tell the story of the injury so that we can actually take it from there and work out how did you navigate that change?
A (1:10)
Yes. So the last time we chatted was in 2019. And so much has changed since then. 2019, I was at the height of my lobbying career and was in Washington, D.C. lobbying. And at a reception out of nowhere, this man starts moving furniture at a lot of political receptions. There's a VIP section with, you know, nice love seats and chairs so you can rest. And I see him moving what is kind of like a love seat or a chair because he thought his cell phone was underneath. And I later learned this. And the next thing I know, the chair hit the back of my head. And I find myself in a hospital with a doctor telling me I had a major concussion. And he could tell that I was type A. And he knew my type. He challenged me to truly lean into putting my phone down, leaving all screens behind and resting, because if not, it would have a major, major implication on my life. And he was right. I ended up being out of work for several weeks and months. But to go back to where you started, you say some people, you know, proactively change, others are forced to change. I put myself in that latter category about six weeks before my accident. I kept hearing crashes, you know, and I remember telling my mom that I was hearing crashes. My baby brother was driving about an hour to work at the time, and I told my mom to tell him to slow down, because I was convinced, like, he was going to get an accident. And she's like, you need to slow down. You were talking to me on the phone while you're driving, and I didn't need to slow down. I was working on a master's degree at an Ivy League program. I was zigzagging the country, lobbying in all 50 states, and I think I was on, like, nine or 12 nonprofit boards. It was ridiculous. And so I told her, I was like, you know, I made a deal with God. I will slow down. After graduation. It was September, and that was going to be in May, and my mom just blabbed, and, you know, it's the story you all hear. She's like, not on your timetable, on his. And so I found myself, you know, at home on my sofa for weeks, trying to find the center of my life. And you could either think of it, I got a head start on Covid, or it was this rebirth of the beginning of my new way of living.