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Dr. Shelly Hipsky
She had this incredible story and it really touched my heart. It touched my heart so much. And I started typing like a maniac on my laptop. She's telling me this story. Tears are coming down my face. And I was like, oh, my God, I need to have this story. And I said, you know, are there other people out there that have stories like you have? She said, yes, and you should be the one to tell them.
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Narrator
Dr. Shelly Hipske is a visionary, empowering, and purpose driven CEO, award winning author, and the founder of Inspiring Lives International, where she leads a global movement dedicated to uplifting women through media, education and coaching. Through. Through her work, she equips women to discover their purpose, build confidence, and create meaningful lives, leaving a legacy of leadership and empowerment around the world.
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Dr. Shelly Hipsky
You have to be able to see what the possibilities are. I just needed to look at these three words and figure out what the heck was going on there. And I was like, it's a trilogy.
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Jason
Where was the pivot that came into all of these different branching businesses that you have?
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Dr. Shelly Hipsky
There was a moment.
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Podcast Host
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Jason
All right. And we are back with another episode of the Living youg Legacy podcast. I am joined today by Dr. Shelly Hipsky of many different businesses. All right. And you're actually in two separate episodes on our platform.
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Dr. Shelly Hipsky
I'm excited about this.
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Jason
You're in next level CEO, I believe. And women in power.
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Dr. Shelly Hipsky
Yes.
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Jason
A powerful CEO, a powerful woman is joining us here in the studio. So give me a little bit of background on you. How do I get from the point A of a young Shelly to Point B, the Dr. Shelly Hipsky that's sitting with me today?
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Podcast Host
Whew.
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Dr. Shelly Hipsky
That's a loaded big old question, isn't it?
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Jason
Feel free to give me your story at length.
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Dr. Shelly Hipsky
At length, ad nauseam. Okay. I can give you being little Shelley. I'm not gonna take it all the way back there, but I am gonna take it to being the teacher, Shelli. Because I was a tenured education for a decade, and I absolutely adored that. While I was a teacher, as. As a professor, I had my undergraduates and master's degree students were Future teachers. My PhD students were all going on to lead businesses or school districts. So while doing that, I was meeting incredible people, I was meeting interesting people and I was writing because it was like Publisher Parish in the, the, the professor world meeting these people going on media, starting to talk to people, starting to collect their stories. And there was a moment where I did a radio show. Okay, I did this radio show before
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Jason
the land of podcasting was a thing we used to do radio.
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Dr. Shelly Hipsky
All right, exactly. So I'm doing a radio show. And they came back to me and they said, you know, Dr. Shelley, you need to re. Retape this. Because it didn't go well the first time. Apparently there was a glitch in the tech. He said to me, he said, you know what? I want you to meet somebody before we do this. And that person, when I called her on the phone, I called her up, she had a business called mind your business and good name. Yeah, it is a good name, isn't it? So she. But she had this incredible story and it really touched my heart. It touched my heart so much that, that I, you know, I'm talking on the cell phone and I was like, hold on. I put her on hold. I put, I put her on speaker and I started typing like a maniac on my laptop. So I'm like, I'm getting her story. She's telling me this story. Tears are coming down my face. And I was like, oh my God, I need to have this story. I need to. And I said, you know, are there other people out there that have stories like you have clarel? And she said, yes, and you should be the one to tell them. And I said, okay. So we go back, I go back to re record this interview with this on this radio show in Michigan. And they're doing the countdown. They're doing three, two, one. And before they got to one, I said, you're interviewing all these cool people with amazing stories, aren't you? Inspiring stories. And he said, yes. And I said, has anybody written a book about it? And he said, no. And I said, well, then I should be the author. And we're on. And then a week later, I get in my email, I get this little link, and it's a YouTube link. This is back in the day when you didn't even care if you clicked on some random YouTube link.
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Jason
Now you gotta be really careful with that.
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Dr. Shelly Hipsky
Yeah, so I click on it and here's this, this radio guy out of Michigan on national television saying, looking into the camera and saying, Dr. Shelley Hibbski of Robert Morris university is going to write the book Ordinary People, Extraordinary Planet. And I was like, well, crap, I gotta get to work. Because then I knew that there were these stories. I was gonna take these, I was gonna take the transcriptions and I was gonna take the stories and I was gonna take those to the next level. And that's wherein those stories started coming my way. And from there it went from that to the book series. So I've got 15 books out to the television show Inspiring Lives with Dr. Shelley and we filmed in the NBC studios for that. And it. Amazing things happen with those connections. And then, then I went through a divorce with a three year old and a five year old kiddo at home. And I was a, you know, tenured professor and I, I was doing this incredible TV show and it was picking up steam and, and momentum, but I had to juggle these two things and I said, okay, I'm going to turn this into a radio show slash podcast. So then that went to Empowering Women Radio. So that from there all went and made some magic.
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Jason
There's a, there's a thread here that I don't want to, I don't want this to be lost on the audience, but there's a thread here of taking inspiration and turning it into action. Right. Like, I have like that inspirational moment of hearing that story and like, I have to, I have to act on this. And definitely, like a main lesson that we talk about a lot on this podcast is just for anybody out there, the more you can compress the time between inspiration and action, the more successful you will be like, I promise you. That is the story of so many people that come through this show. But I just, I noticed that in your story and I was like, I have to.
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Dr. Shelly Hipsky
Absolutely.
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Jason
I have to just stick a pin here.
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Dr. Shelly Hipsky
And you said two things that like, hit my heart. Because when I was writing the book based on these, all these incredible people that, that I was connecting with, I ended up calling it the Common Threads trilogy. So the threads, and then my sign off on all the television shows that I've done and television radio, podcast has always been inspiration is just a story away. So you, like, we're, we're here, we're here.
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Jason
We're up here, we're up here.
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Dr. Shelly Hipsky
Absolutely, absolutely.
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Jason
So, all right, walk me through now. You're an accomplished entrepreneur, right. You've got several businesses under your belt. Yes. What got you from becoming this author, going through this, you know, these different book series? Obviously becoming an author is an entrepreneurship journey in and of itself. But where was the pivot that came into all of these different branching businesses that you have.
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Dr. Shelly Hipsky
Great question. There was a moment where the media started to become so important to what I was and the lives that I was able to touch. One of my radio shows, Empowering Women Radio was being picked up, you know, by 120 radio stations around the world. And a woman contacted me from Pakistan. She had listened to one of the interviews I had done with a woman in South Africa. And she talked to me through, through, we'll say Zoom. So she.
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Jason
Before Zoom, it was aol. Instant Messy Zoo, ladies and gentlemen. Yes. I just dated myself.
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Dr. Shelly Hipsky
So she, she contacted me and she, she looked at me through the screen and she said, I need help. I need someone to tell my story. And I know that you are the one that should tell my story and you should be the journalist to do that. And I didn't think of myself as a journalist then. So I, I was like, okay. And then I started taking those stories and connecting up.
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Jason
You didn't think of yourself as a journalist? I didn't think of myself in reality.
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Dr. Shelly Hipsky
In reality. But you know what, that's the thing, Jason. Like you can switch it up. You don't have to just think of yourself as a teacher or a mother or a professor or a journalist. And then now I, you know, I'm, I'm multi hyphenate CEO, super big on titles. Right.
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Jason
Because your title is whatever you contextualize your skill set.
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Dr. Shelly Hipsky
Absolutely.
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Jason
Because you can have skills in all these different areas and just. My title is whatever I'm doing in the moment.
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Dr. Shelly Hipsky
Like, absolutely.
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Jason
Some days I'm a director, some days I'm a producer, some days I am bedrotting. Yeah. So it just depends. It just depends. And I don't like just slapping one title on a person and say like my dad, he worked up to get his PhD and he's, you know, an IOC representative for Jamaica. So he's like the sports psychologist for the Jamaican Olympic Association.
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Dr. Shelly Hipsky
Okay.
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Jason
Very proud of that title. He refuses to let anyone forget it. I'm a doctor. Make sure you say the doctor before you say my name. Oh, yeah, that's, that's just how my dad has always been. And I guess because obviously, you know, growing up with a psych, I just tend to stray away from that.
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Dr. Shelly Hipsky
Right.
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Jason
But I want to get your take on. You're a storyteller, right?
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Dr. Shelly Hipsky
Yes, absolutely.
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Jason
I'm a filmmaker. I'm a storyteller as well.
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Dr. Shelly Hipsky
It's awesome. It's the best way to communicate.
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Jason
What are some of those common threads that you See in the stories that you're able to, you know, tell for people, what are some common threads that you see in either a story of struggle to success? Like in filmmaking, we say, you know, you. You have. You only have. You only make, like, five different films. There's the hero's journey, there's a tragedy. There's only these few different ways to tell a story, and then you just add your tweaks. But what are some common threads that you see between those stories?
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Dr. Shelly Hipsky
I have to go back to it becoming a trilogy. And it was because there was a night when I was wrestling with, what is this going to be? How am I gonna take all of these common threads, all these common themes, and put it together? And I actually took. I had this moment, and I took a sheet, a sheet from a bed, and I took my daughter's, because she was a little girl. Then took her paints, and in three different scrolling fonts, with my hand, I painted on it. I did inspiration, empowerment, and balance. And I took that and I put it up on a curtain rod in my room. So it's got. I was a single mom then, so nobody cared what's going on.
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Jason
We don't care about the decor.
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Dr. Shelly Hipsky
I don't give a shit. I just needed to look at these three words and figure out what the heck was going on there. And I was like, it's a trilogy. You need all three of these things. And all of them were hitting those different points. But each of the stories, you could definitely see that there was those, the specific themes, because especially with women, that inspiration, empowerment, and balance, those are things that we're all seeking inside. So those would have been the common threads.
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Jason
There's. There's these invisible threads that I believe connect us all.
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Dr. Shelly Hipsky
Yes.
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Jason
No matter what, when you're getting to know a new person, like, anytime you get to know a new person, you'll find commonality with them on something.
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Dr. Shelly Hipsky
Yes.
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Jason
I don't care what it is. We could disagree on a thousand. I promise you, there's one thing that we agree on. Absolutely. Somewhere in there, the more we get to know each other. I want to just take a second here, because you're a very rare case for us here at Inside Success. You're not on one show, but you're on two.
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Dr. Shelly Hipsky
Yes.
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Jason
You're going to be on Next Level CEO, and you're going to be on Women in Power. And for those of you who are watching this podcast episode, I want to just make sure you guys tune into both of those episodes because they're both Going to tell her story in two unique ways.
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Dr. Shelly Hipsky
Right.
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Jason
We want to talk about Dr. Shelley, the entrepreneur, but we also want to talk about. About Dr. Shelley, the woman in power.
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Dr. Shelly Hipsky
Yes.
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Jason
You mentioned earlier that empowerment was a very important key thread there. How important to you is women's empowerment?
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Dr. Shelly Hipsky
It's everything to me as a mother, as a leader, as someone who has traveled the world helping women to find their voice, helping women to rise above the obstacles that have happened to them. I'm the executive director and founder of the Global Sisterhood, and we've helped millions of women around the world. Pakistan, Africa. I mean, my stories from Africa just, like, warm my heart. We were there last year, and we were in the orphanages, and we were going and speaking to young women that have been through horrific scenarios and situations to be able to look inside yourself and see what gifts you bring to the world. I was in a homeless shelter at one point, helping out the homeless shelter. And there was a woman that was. We had just done a transformational makeover. We go and we do this in homeless shelters. We just did it in Apopka, Florida, with a tented encampment. So these people have lived in tents for years and years, but we give them back so they can reclaim who they could be. Everything from the makeup or the hair, getting their haircuts for the guys that put on a suit.
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Jason
Let the outside reflect the.
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Dr. Shelly Hipsky
Yes. And I remember very specifically that I was in a homeless shelter, and I was sitting with this woman. She had her makeup all done. She had her hair all done. She had a big pregnant belly, though, and she had a little toddler running around her. And, you know, we're in a homeless shelter, and there was this moment where I looked at her and I said, you know, honey, you look so beautiful. You look beautiful. And what she said to me, with tears welling up in her beautiful eyes, was, but I'm damaged. And it, like, my heart, like, I was like, oh, my gosh.
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Jason
I felt it a little bit.
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Dr. Shelly Hipsky
Yeah, yeah, exactly. Like, I still get, like, the chills when I. When I tell that story, because I. I was able to then talk her through that and show her on my phone. I was like, look, honey, you know, like, this is you. You are beautiful. You. You could be so much. You could do so much. After that moment, after I learned that she had escaped domestic violence and wound up homeless, and she had. Her ex was a stalker, and she had to move far, far away from all that she knew and loved. But it was that moment when she could actually see herself and we took a photograph of her, too. We do family photographs of them in the shelters and things. Of them dressed up, of their babies feeling good and running around and getting these new toys and just feeling joy and alive and not those labels. Not like, oh, she's homeless, or, oh, she's a victim of domestic violence. They're a beautiful soul.
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Jason
They're a human being.
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Dr. Shelly Hipsky
They're a human being.
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Jason
Before any of that.
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Dr. Shelly Hipsky
Absolutely.
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Jason
Before any of that came through.
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Dr. Shelly Hipsky
Absolutely. But she, she ended up becoming a great success story. She. She went on to. To have a lovely apartment and she got a. And she, she lived her. Her best life after that. But you have to be able to see what the possibilities are.
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Jason
You gotta be able to see past those labels.
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Dr. Shelly Hipsky
Yes. Right.
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Jason
You gotta be able to see down at the core of who a person is.
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Dr. Shelly Hipsky
Absolutely.
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Jason
You're just a human being that might have been hurt, but at the end of the day, you're a person just like anyone. Any. Anybody else.
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Dr. Shelly Hipsky
Definitely.
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Jason
As we're kind of wrapping up here, I want to give an opportunity here. If you could look directly to this camera here and give a message to all of our viewers, one message that every single one of our viewers is going to hear. What would that message be?
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Dr. Shelly Hipsky
Vision. It. Figure out how you can see what that big dream can and should be. You can be whoever you want to be. You can do whatever you want to do. You are enough. You are worthy. You have everything inside you, all the gifts to bring to the world. Now it's just up to you to bring that vision to the world. And you can do it. You. You've got this. I'm proud of you.
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Jason
That. No, that's. That's an incredibly poignant lesson. And guys, if you're still here at this point in the podcast, I want to make sure that you guys go ahead and follow Dr. Shelley. Where can people find you out on the wide, wide web?
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Dr. Shelly Hipsky
Shelleyhipski.com would be a place. But my Instagram's been blowing up lately, so I'd love to, love to see you there at Dr. Shelley.
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Jason
Dr. Shelley. And you guys heard it here first. Make sure that you guys stay tuned for her episodes of not only women in Power, but also next level CEO. Those episodes will be dropping shortly after this podcast airs, so make sure you guys check those out. This has been another episode of the Living your legacy podcast. I will catch you guys in the next one.