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Toni Reece: Lisa, thank you so very, very much for joining us on the Project today, and before we begin, can you please introduce yourself?

Lisa Cunningham: I’m Lisa Cunningham.  I’m a freelance writer and editor living in Florida; Tampa, to be specific.

Toni: Well fantastic.  So Lisa, when you think about that word inspiration, who do you think you inspire and how do you do that?

Lisa: I try to inspire everybody close to me — my sisters, my brother, my friends — mostly by living a Christian life and, you know, having the values that I grew up with — honesty, integrity, and treating people fairly, being tolerant.  I aspire to that; don’t always make it, but you know, just try setting an example.  I’m the oldest of five kids, so it kind of comes with the territory.

Toni: You’re the youngest of five children?

Lisa: No, the oldest.

Toni: Oh, the oldest, okay.

Lisa: So I had to be the role model.  I had to forge the way, so to speak.

Toni: Oh, I can imagine.  So Lisa, when you are setting the example, you know, to your friends and your family, how do you think that you might help others to explore their own potential?

Lisa: Well, I like mentoring.  I like teaching people new things and networking, hooking people up with each other so they can learn.  The lady I’m writing my biography about her forever, and she was very much into that before it was really a big thing.  She mentored students at the University of South Florida.  She put her sister through college.  She herself benefited from an aunt who put her through college, and she had a Master’s degree back in the 50s when not many women went that far in education.  So her thing is always to tell people “Don’t thank me, just do it for another woman.”

Toni: And is that what you do, Lisa?

Lisa: I try, yeah.

Toni: Can you give us an example of some of the work that you do or how you’ve touched other people in that way?

Lisa: Well, one of my friends is over in South Korea right now, but she lives here in Tampa.  She’s about 28, and she’s 20 years younger than me almost, but she was working on a book about her travels.  She’s like a Christian missionary and she does documentaries.  So it’s really interesting; she was working on like a memoir and she didn’t know a whole lot about writing, so I helped her put that together and kind of organize it and, you know, just have her thoughts make more sense.  She paid me a little bit for that work, and it was very rewarding.

Toni: And so … go ahead, I’m sorry.

Lisa: She obviously repaid me by writing a testimonial on my website.  She’s always trying to find me work as well, so you know, the more people you help, the more it helps you in the long run.

Toni: Absolutely.  Now let me ask you, Lisa, what do you need to be inspired?

Lisa: I like to read a lot.

Toni: What types of books do you read?

Lisa: Oh my goodness … I read biographies, I read mysteries, some history, even some humor.  I like a lot of different books.  Of course I read the Bible just about every day, so that inspires me, too.  What inspires me?  Just my relationship with God, my relationship with other people.  I try to focus on having good relationships and being friendly with my family and everybody, and that inspires me; just being positive.

Toni: Have you always been positive?

Lisa: No.  I grew up in a family that is the other way, so for a lot of years it was hard to be positive every day.

Toni: So, the people that are listening to you in this interview or reading your interview now, they’re going say “Well then how did you … if you grew up in a family that wasn’t that positive, how did you …?”  Because you sound through this interview very positive and very matter of fact about you just love this life and you know, that you treat people fairly and living that Christian life, so was it an evolution for you to come into being a positive person or was there a moment in time when you said “Nope, you know what?  I’m no longer going to be negative?”

Lisa: It was an evolution.  I tried to put positive people around me.  And I’m still like that, you know?  Like somebody most recently said “Let’s go out to lunch with these two people” and they’re like – to me — they’re a downer, you know?

I didn’t want to be rude to my friend, you know, but I’m not going to seek out those kind of people either, you know, because they do … I mean, I don’t know if Oprah says it or what, but depressed people do kind of wear you down and they kind of affect your attitude.  So I’m always telling my sisters and everybody, you know, just try to … your best friends should be people who have the attitude you want to have.

Toni: Is that how you became more of a positive person than you were?

Lisa: Yes, that and my faith in God, working at it every day.

Toni: Do you think your writing helped you?

Lisa: My writing, yes, because I like to interview people who have had a happy outcome, other cancer survivors.  And after going through cancer myself, I’m kind of … I’m still not very tolerant of people who have colds.

Toni: You’re not tolerant of people with colds?

Lisa: No.  I’m like “Okay, that’s like a problem for a couple of weeks – try having cancer for a year,” you know?

Toni: Oh, gosh.  Well congratulations for being a cancer … for surviving cancer yourself.

Lisa: Oh well, to me it was not that hard, because I was young and I was very healthy, so to me it’s  harder when you’re about 70 and you have go through … my dad right now has colon cancer.  He’s in Stage IV, and he’s going through the chemo, and you know, he’s 81 years old.   It’s not easy to get up every morning and go do what you gotta do.  And he was depressed anyway, so you know … he’s getting through it though with humor, so I really believe in humor.   If you’re not a God person or whatever, then humor is always a good tool.

Toni: Well gosh, I would imagine going through cancer at a young age would also change a mindset from being negative to positive.

Lisa: Yes.  It makes you appreciate every day more, but then that sort of wears off after about 10 years or so and you don’t have cancer, you know?  You kind of go back to, you know … some people do go back to how they thought before, and that can be a slippery slope.

Toni: Yes.  Do you find yourself helping other people that are in a similar situation?

Lisa: Yes.  Not as much as I would like to, because I have to make a living.  My goal … if I could ever retire, my goal would be to help people, other cancer survivors, and that’s something the lady I’m writing about did, too.  She would go to the hospital.  She didn’t shirk from going to the hospital and sitting on the bed and talking to them for an hour or two, whatever they needed.

Toni: So let me ask you, Lisa, how do you explore your potential going forward?  What do you do to keep honing your craft and staying positive and exploring your present potential and your future potential?

Lisa: I just love to read.  Any time I have a question, I go online and I seek it out.  I love doing research.  I don’t know if you can over-research, but you can get bound up in that and getting worse then … so you always have to keep reminding yourself of your priorities, I guess.

The old to-do list and all that kind of thing, that really works for me.  And, you know, obviously at New Year’s you evaluate your work and see what you want to do this year and what’s your top priority.  Right now I’m trying to get an agent, so that’s proving to be an interesting experience.

And the thing is, look at all your experiences as a learning process, you know?  Don’t beat yourself up for making a mistake.  Just learn from it and don’t make it again, you know?  I think people spend too much time ripping themselves apart or being their own worst critic, you know?

Toni: Oh, I can imagine that that’s very difficult to hear when people continuously rip themselves apart.

Lisa: Yeah.  I mean, I know a lot of people outside of writing, they have no clue what it’s like to sit there and write, and so because they have no clue or they’re kind of scared of it, they just totally misunderstand and they sort of like look at you like you’re a freak, you know?  I mean really, you know?  They’re like “Why don’t you go do something else?  Why don’t you be a teacher?  Why don’t you be this or …?”  You don’t understand; this is what I was born to do.  God gave me these gifts, and I have to use them, you know?

Toni: Right, right.

Lisa: And they’ll be like … they’re in sales and they’re making all this money.  I’m like “That’s not what I’m about is making a whole lot of money.  What I’m about is sharing this gift with other people, you know, and helping other people.”  That’s what God cares about.  God doesn’t care how much stuff you’ve accumulated.

Toni: I think that is … you said a lot of really important things in this interview, but I think you just kind of summarized it very, very well, didn’t you?  I really appreciate, Lisa, how honest you were in this interview and for just kind of sharing your story so that other people who might be stumbling with their own writing or their own goals can listen to you and say “Yeah, you know what?  It isn’t about making that money and having all those … it’s doing what you love to do” and that’s what you’re saying.

Lisa: Definitely.  This is what I tell my nephews, too.  They’re all like in their teens and, you know, they’re not really sure what they want to do.  And I’m like Do what you love; the money will follow.”

Toni: Yeah, yeah.

Lisa: That saying is so true, you know?

Toni: Well, Lisa, thank you so very, very much for being part of the Project.

Lisa: Oh, you’re welcome.

Toni: We will include a link to how people can get a hold of you at the end.

Lisa: I’ll send you my link.

Toni: Okay, fantastic.  I really appreciate meeting you and thank you for all that you’ve told us today.

Lisa: Oh, well thank you, Toni.  It’s nice to talk to you.

Toni: You’re quite welcome.  Take care, Lisa.  Good luck to you.

Lisa: Thanks.  You keep up the good work now.

Toni: Well thank you.

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Toni Reece: Thank you so much, Steve, for joining us today, and before we begin, can you introduce yourself?

Steve Eanes: Hi Toni.  My name is Steve Eanes, and I’m blessed to be the owner of Changing Matters, which is a training and development company focused on change management.

Toni: Okay, well thank you.  Steve, when you think about inspiration and particularly, I would imagine, the field that you’re in, when you think about inspiring others, who do you inspire and how do you do that?

Steve: Well, I guess when first hearing that question, you have a tendency to think that it could easily become an ego question.  But after thinking about it for a few minutes, I think I’ve come up with an answer.  The people that I feel like I inspire the most — and it’s based on a lot of my own experiences — are people that feel like they have insurmountable obstacles.

One of the things that I’ve experienced in my life — and I’m not saying this to bring anything to me credit wise, I’m just blessed — but in 2000 I was diagnosed with Stage III malignant melanoma, so I was given a five-year survival rate of 30%.  My wife’s a stay at home mom, my son is 22 months old and, at that time, I was very successful as an account manager in the telecommunications field.

It was my wake up call to really say “What am I going to do with my life?” and also “How do I want to be remembered?”  I remember sitting at the doctor’s office after being given the news — the 30% survival rate and experimental treatment is the remedy that we can try — and I remember sitting there thinking to myself “How am I going to react to this?”

The doctor told me a couple years later after I had gone through the treatments and was still doing follow-ups, which I still do today, he told me … he said “One of the things I remember about you, being your cancer specialist, is that when I told you three out of 10 survive, you looked at me and said ‘I’m going to be one of those three.’”  I feel like my experiences can be a blessing to others, and I can use my testimony to help others believe in themselves and also believe that they can overcome anything in their own life.

Toni: Well, based on your experience, I would imagine that you have lots of experience to bring to the table to help someone to overcome their obstacles.  Steve, when you are working with people to do this, can I just ask you to describe briefly what you might take them through?

Steve: Well, one of the things that I do, I have a tool that I use in my business called the Change Grid, and I use that to basically hone in on what are some of the areas of greatest concern that they have.  How engaged are they in things going on in their life, whether it’s work or business related?  And truth be told, most of the time it’s work related.  Listening and also listening for key words and trying to understand exactly where someone’s coming from, because their experience is their experience.  Their perception is their reality.  And so, if there are areas that they feel like they’re maybe not achieving as much as they would like to, then I can work with them to help them accomplish whatever goals or get to wherever they want to be.

Toni: Well, that’s a great lead-in to the next question, which is what do you do to help explore the potential in others?  And you’ve spoken to using a tool, the Change Grid, to do that.  What other things happen that you might do to help explore the potential in others?

Steve: Okay.  Well, one of the things is that I find is that people have a lot of limiting beliefs about how they can accomplish or not accomplish certain mission-critical things in their life; and again, it could be personal or business.  And so, in listening and then maybe sharing some of my own personal experiences or experiences of people that I know … there’s strength in numbers.  So people, if they’re in stress about something, knowing that there are other people that have been in similar circumstances and have been able to overcome, you know, that helps them.

Then you have people on the other extreme where they feel like everything is perfectly fine, and they’re definitely in control of the situation, but they’re really not.  In those people, it’s asking questions to just see if they’ll realize it.  And of course, if they don’t realize it, then there’s nothing that I can do anyway to help them.

All I can do is ask the questions, listen to them tell me what they want to tell me about whatever’s going on, and then, based on where they want to be, help them devise that plan to get there.  I’m not really emotionally involved in the particular situation that they’re involved in, so I’m an objective third party to be able to give them a good sounding board.

Toni: Okay.  I wrote down a phrase that you used in this.  You said mission-critical.  What does that mean, mission-critical?

Steve: Well, mission critical can mean different … the actual activity could be something different to each person.  For some people, mission critical might mean making a certain amount of money every month.  It might mean making a certain amount of cold calls per month.  It might mean going on a date with my spouse or significant other every week.  Mission critical is if you did not accomplish that activity, it’s not going to be a good result.  It could be a short-term or long-term.

Toni: Right.  Thank you for clarifying.  I think that that’s incredibly important.  Let me ask you, Steve, what do you need to be inspired?

Steve: Well, one of the things that I do is every morning I start off each morning with what I call first fruits devotion.  This is a minimum of 30 minutes where I go upstairs, and I’m in a room by myself.  And spiritually, I’m very involved in my church and other activities, civic activities.  And what I do is I just spend time following The Lord’s Prayer model and then also a men’s study Bible doing a devotion, so that I start off each day on the right track.

One of the things that I want to do is to have God directing all areas of my life, and I believe that nothing happens, good or bad, without his approval.  And so I spend time getting my focus off myself and really trying to focus on serving God and serving others.

One of the things that I do every day — and I got this idea from a book that I read on servanthood — is I pray that God will help me to be his miracle delivery person that day.  I want God to have me come across the paths of people that maybe need an encouraging word.  Maybe they need something to eat.  Just whatever they need in their life, that God can help me to cross their path and recognize the opportunity and act upon it, because it’s not about me.

It’s about serving God and serving others so that when it’s all said and done — and I didn’t mean to get off on a tirade, a religious tirade here, but it’s important, it’s my core belief is … when it’s all said and done, I want people to say that they remember me as being someone that helped them feel better every time they encountered me.

Toni: And that’s what inspires you.  Are there tools or other things that you reach for when you know, “I’m feeling a little low in the inspiration area, I need to be lifted back up?”  Are there other tools that you use as well, and in addition to your spirituality tools?

Steve: Well, I also use the Change Grid tool as a self-management tool.  So I will make my own list of activities of mission-critical things in my life, and I will take the tool and then use it as self-management to become aware of some things where I might be letting things slip.

I also read a lot of books from many different authors, business, inspirational type books, even religious type books in order to be able to glean things that can help me be a better person.  It’s not about building my own kingdom, it’s about becoming the best that I can be to help others.

I’ll mention this.  Two organizations that I’m involved with — and these are international organizations — are Rotary, which is “service above self,” and Toastmasters, which is an organization that can help you improve your own communication and leadership skills so you can be of better service to others.

Toni: Thank you for mentioning those, because people can reach out to those organizations as well if they’d like to, listening to you.  Steve, did you always show up this way?  Were you always in this position and in this mindset that this is what you wanted to do, that you wanted to be in a place where you could always help people and always be there?  Was that something that happened to you along the way as part of your own journey, or were you always that way?

Steve: Well, honestly, it’s always something that I’ve wanted to do, but until I had the cancer experience in 2000, it was something that was on the back burner.  When I had that epiphany in 2000 of realizing I might not have that much time left, then that’s when my journey really kicked into high gear to say “If I’m going to do something, I need to go ahead and start acting on it versus talking about it and never doing anything.”  It’s always been ingrained in me, but it never came to the surface until a little over nine-and-a-half years ago.

Toni: Boy, it would really be something — as I’m listening to you and as others are going to read and listen to you — that we don’t need to wait for a catastrophic event in order to leave that legacy that we know we want to leave, and live the legacy that we know we want to leave.

How do you explore your own potential?  What do you do in order to stay in this place so that you can continue to inspire others and help people through their own obstacles?  What do you do to explore your own potential?

Steve: Well, it sort of alludes back to the first fruits devotion time.  Basically, if I keep myself out of the picture — and I’m talking in a sense of believing that I am some big time person that’s arrived and knows everything and things like that — if I can keep my own self in check, then I can be of best service to others.

Toni: And how do you do that?

Steve: The way that I do it is by reading my Bible and praying every day, because when I look at … I’ve heard someone say “You need to have a lot of self esteem.  You can’t do anything without self esteem.”  That’s something that’s very predominant in the world today.  I heard a gentleman speaking at a Rotary luncheon and he said “People need to have self-esteem.”

But when you put yourself next to God, you realize that you’re really nothing, and so you’re able to be of benefit to others because you’re going in with a servant’s attitude versus going in acting like you know everything and you’re just going to share your knowledge with them.

I find that people appreciate that approach better anyway as far as coming in and saying “Hey, you know what?  We all have things in our life that are challenges.  Let’s work together so that we can help each other overcome whatever challenges we have.”

If you’re working with a client, of course, your job is to help them overcome their challenges.  But at the same time, if you’re coming in with that attitude of servanthood, you’re of a whole lot more benefit, I believe, than if you’re coming in with an attitude of arrogance.

Toni: Right, right.  Wow.  Thank you so very much , Steve.  You’ve given a lot of information, not only just with what you do in your life, but what you’ve been through in your life, and it’s very powerful.  It just never ceases to amaze me how powerful people are, and what you’ve said today in just this short amount of time is amazing.  So for coming to the Get Inspired! Project and agreeing to be interviewed, we thank you so very much .

Steve: I really appreciate the opportunity, and it’s an honor to be interviewed for this Project.

Toni: Thank you, Steve.

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Toni Reece: Thank you so much, Maggie, for agreeing to do the interview today; and before we begin with the questions, can you please introduce yourself?

Maggie Lancy: Great, Toni, thanks for having me.  My name is Maggie Lancy, and I’m what you call a veteran network marketer.  I have researched this industry over 20 years, been with my primary for 15, and quite frankly, it’s like I plopped down a million dollars for a personal development course.  It’s absolutely been an unbelievable journey building my business.  I live in Saint George, Utah, and just recently moved from California; married 27 years to my soul mate; and I live life with passion each and every day.

Toni: Fantastic!  What a great lead-in to the first question, which is, when you think of your life or professional experiences, who do you inspire, Maggie, and how do you do that?

Maggie: Wow.  I love that question, Toni, I absolutely do.  Who I inspire.  I have not only a primary business, but I have a system along with it, so what goes with that is developing a team.  And of course I have a very strong team with my primary business, and then I’m developing a team over the last year with my system.

When I talk to people, the way I inspire people is what I do, because I walk my talk.  People will pattern themselves after me.  “Why are you so successful, Maggie?”

Why I am so successful is because I dig my teeth into a project, and I do not stop until it comes to fruition.  I’ll do whatever it takes, and there are no obstacles.  There are only bridges to get over.

So when people talk to me, I tell them “Look in the mirror, and nine times out of 10 you are in your own way.”  So I try to inspire them to dig deep within, because everyone has huge potential; they just need to tap into it, and they need to commit to what they want to do in their life and run with it and not let anything stop them.  They are more than capable of going to the top.

They always call me and say, “Maggie, can I have five minutes, because you are so inspirational”, and that is true.  There is nothing that would get in my way of anything I want to accomplish, and that’s what I share with people.  You can have whatever you want in this life.

Toni: Maggie, with you being as inspiring with your words as you are and working with people regarding this, how does that then help you to explore their potential?

Maggie: Okay.  How that helps me explore their potential is … what it comes down to is I just know if I can do it, they can do it.  It’s so interesting, Toni, it truly is, because there are people who are in their comfort zone and they won’t get out of the box.  They won’t get out of that comfort zone.  The reason why is they feel they are going to fail.

I tell people there is no such thing as failure, because all it is defined to be is one step closer to success.  That’s how you look at it.  It’s learning experiences.  I really believe if people would just go for life 10,000 or 100,000 percent, step out of their comfort zone and seize what they want to do, they can be a leader that soars, and they can go down a path of entrepreneurship, for example, versus the traditional route.

I call it going down a freeway, Toni.  When you go to work, you go down a freeway.  You always know the exits, wherever you get off.  If you go down the entrepreneurial path, you don’t know the exits.  There will be things in your way as you go down the path, but it’s such a great path to go down because of the experiences you have.  And it’s unpredictable, but that’s okay; that’s where the growth comes in.

Toni: Maggie, have you always had that sense of “I can do anything” and that you’re not going to stop until you get what you’re working towards?  Have you always come to the table that way?

Maggie: You know, Toni, to be honest with you, I have lived my life that way.  I stick my teeth into a project and I run with it.  I’ve been that way, and I think what developed me to be even more so that way is a few things; that is, building a network marketing business throughout the years.

Again, my goodness, I could tell you stories beyond belief of things I encountered.  I could feel sorry for myself, and I could just throw in the towel and say “I quit and I’m over it”, but I didn’t.  I went forward, and I just know that it would have evened itself out.  Things would have worked out.

I also beat cancer twice, and that’s made me an unbelievable survivor — that I can rise above.  It is really all your attitude, because who you are is what you think.  And so as long as your mind is set and you have that absolute certainty that you can do, accomplish the task at hand and what your goals are, if you have the absolute certainty in your brain, you’ll accomplish them.

Toni: I can only imagine that that messaging and framing and thinking played such a part in your survival.

Maggie: Absolutely, absolutely.  To be honest with you, when I was going through my treatment, there were a lot of people in that waiting room that were feeling sorry for themselves.  Sure, I understand, we were all going through a situation of going through chemotherapy and things that we had to face.  But what I did is I got up in the middle of the waiting room and I said, “I just want to talk to you all.  I want you to put a smile on your face, and I want you to tell yourself, you’re still alive.  I want you to rise above this and have that attitude in your brain that you will live a long time, and you will live life to the fullest.”

They went up to the receptionist and said, “Do you think my next appointment I can have when she’s coming?”

Toni: Oh my gosh!  Maggie, when you look for inspiration and you need inspiration, where do you go?  What do you need to be and to stay inspired?

Maggie: Well, I have a very strong philosophy, Toni.  Maybe it’s because I’m getting older.  Maybe because of all of the personal development and the journey I’ve gone down in my life and the experiences that I’ve had in my life — and there have been many — I have absolutely vowed I only want to really hang around with positive people.

I know that’s huge to some — an insurmountable pass with the variety of people we have in this world — but if somebody does not have a positive attitude or make lemonade out of lemons, I just choose not to surround myself with them.

I feel maybe if they’re having a bad day they can come to me and talk to me, but if you’re going to complain about things, and you’re not going to make things better, and you look at all what isn’t rather than what the possibilities are, I only want to surround myself with positive thinkers and doers, and “I can do anything, I can rise above.”

I love hanging around those types of people that are positive, and that’s what inspires me.  That’s what gives me a thrill.  I can get up in the morning and feel enthusiastic and a zest toward life.  That is when I can get on the phone, and I can to talk to people that are charged up, that want to seize the day and absolutely go for life to the fullest.

Toni: When you are talking to those people, or the way you just so eloquently put that that you need to be around those types of people, positive people, are there tools  or resources that you also might look for when you need, “You know what, hey, it’s my time. I need to fill up a bit?”  Are there other things that you reach for as well?

Maggie: Well, you know, that’s a good question.   I like that because I have a whole library of books.  I love tapes, I love positive tapes.  I will listen to a variety of people, speakers that really fill my soul.  I’ll talk to people that are positive and that also fill me up, which is great.  And then another thing I’ll do is — I don’t know everyone’s spiritual higher being — but what really fills me up is when I pray to the Lord and that really fills my soul.

Golf.  I love golf.  I see the beauty surrounding around me, and I really get into my game, and then that gives me a lot of lift.

Hanging out with my husband because I love him so much; that gives me joy and laughter.

Whatever I need to get filled up — whether it’s people, tapes, my soul mate or friends — I tap into it.

Toni: How does all of that work for you in order to explore your own potential?

Maggie: Wow.  Well, the thing is, I was thinking about that question and thinking about that question, and I guess I want to leave a mark, Toni, in my life.  When I finally close my eyes on the pillow and leave this earth, and I want people to say “I knew Maggie and she impacted me.”

I go through life each and every day … I want to embrace people, I want to lift people up, I want to help people.  I do want to inspire and motivate people but, of course, it does start with the person within.  But I want to be part of that journey with them hand-in-hand so we all can go to the top.

I really want to leave my mark.  I really want to leave my mark here on this earth and say that I’ve impacted somebody in a small way, medium way, or a large way.  That to me just gives me so much lift for going ahead and experiencing my potential and what I have the capabilities to do in my life.

Toni: When you are thinking in that way — to leave that mark, to leave that legacy, to touch people — what do you do in order to stay fresh or to learn or to stay aware, Maggie?  What do you reach for in that exploration process?

Maggie: Well, if I’m hearing you right, it’s more what do … I try to do to stay up, is that what you mean?

Toni: Well, that’s part of it, but in staying inspired, people have ways that they are continuously trying to explore their own potential and go down the next road, and “What is next for me so that I can help others.”  What road do you go on?  What tools do you reach for so that you can continue to explore your own potential so that you can keep moving forward and impacting these people that you are?

Maggie: My day-to-day … this is how I was born and this is how I am.  When I get up in the morning … I have a real busy life.  As a matter of fact, I’ve been backing off since I’ve been in Saint George, because I want to spend more time with my husband.  But when I get up in the morning, there’s so many people that are reaching out to me and that gives me joy.  And so what I do is between my Skype calls and between my emails and building — supporting my team members and building my business — I don’t even have to build my business really anymore at this point because people are reaching out to me, for example, in social networks to be their friend.

They see I have that wisdom and that knowledge.  What I did, Toni, to be honest with you … how I explore my potential is two years ago I knew … Denis Waitley says, “If you’re not online, you’re in the bread line”, and so a lot of people are afraid of that.  If you’re not in the trenches, if you’re not in that forefront in the battlefield of life so to speak, street smart – and you can learn from reading, you can learn from tools like you’re talking about, like listening to tapes and reading.  But you know what?  The best way you can have your knowledge is to get in there and do it.

I went in the trenches, and I just said “I’m going online.  I’m going to make a blog.  I’m going to connect on social networks now and building a global business and leverage where people are bringing their expertise to the table.”  I’m learning from those experts, and I’m bringing things to the table, and they’re learning from me.

This has been powerful.  Powerful, Toni, because we all together want to accomplish a common goal and it is happening.  Now I have people coming to me and asking from the online presence and my wisdom and my knowledge all through the years that I’ve gained, and now I can share that with people and help people.  So it really is getting into that ring and mixing it up, and that’s the best way to learn, the best education.

Toni: Maggie, you have been absolutely terrific, and just your take on who you inspire but how you do that with walking the talk and staying positive and setting that example for people that if you can do it, they can do it; not just from the professional perspective but  the personal perspective.  And then what you seek for inspiration and your potential of leaving the mark on people which, my goodness, haven’t you already, and you will to those who listen and read this interview as well.  We here at the Get Inspired! Project cannot thank you enough for what you have given us today.  It’s been an absolute pleasure to meet you.

Maggie: Thank you so much, Toni.  I really, really appreciate it.  Everyone, just seize every day and live it with passion!

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