THE ESSANCE OF BEAUTY With Cari Kenzie

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Hello, it's Howard Brown. It's the Shining Brightly

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Show. I got another good one I seem to every week. Isn't that

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strange? So I have to tell you that I love athletes. And I love

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people that want to make real impact for themselves, for

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others and in their communities. And I want to welcome Cari

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Kenzi, Cari, welcome to the shining, brightly show. Hey,

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thanks, Howard. You are smiling up a storm and I love it. I got

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to tell people about you because we just recently got introduced

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I say you got a pop on my show. I had to have her. I had to do

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it. We just We bonded we clicked it's happened and and that's how

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it works is that we find people and I want to I want them to

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share their voice just so wide and shine their light as shining

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brightly tells you to do. Alright, Cari Kenzie is not just

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a coach. She is a life changer. You're going to learn how she is

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a survivor of the Boston Marathon bombing. Now listen,

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I'm a kid from Boston. All right, I can say it correctly. I

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packed my car. She was there in 2013 a decade ago. We're going

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to hear about it. It's the deets. Her stories of incredible

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resilience and yielding strength. This experience okay

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with many others that were there that day is life changing. And

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combined with her success as an entrepreneur. She built and sold

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multimillion dollar Marketing Empire businesses and makes it

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she's a force to be reckoned with in speaking in the coaching

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world as well but learn about that. Kara brings a dynamic

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energy she transforms audiences with a blend of raw honesty,

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insightful strategies. She doesn't just speak she ignites

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change. That's what I love. She has been featured in

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Entrepreneur Magazine Runner's World, she is a go to expert on

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overcoming adversity, sparking creativity and driving success.

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Her sessions are powerful and practical wisdom. They're

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infused with an edge that cut straight to the heart of your

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challenges. No messing around with this girl. In the coaching

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arena. She is a quantum healer, intuitive business strategist.

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She doesn't just guide she revolutionises. Her approaches

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direct, personalised and ruthless and effective helping

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you conquer your limitations and sees your potential. Oh my god,

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I can't wait to dig in on this one. So very welcome. We just

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read the bio, but tell us something that, you know, give

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me a fill in some more detail there. Tell me something you

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might not know about? Yeah. Oh my

Cari Kenzie: 00:02:27

gosh. Well, I absolutely love coffee. And

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first when you asked me this question, I was like, You know

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what? Not everybody knows that. I sat in a birthday cake when I

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was four years old. How fun is that? You

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wait, wait, we back backstory. You're at a

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birthday party.

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So I'm at a birthday party. I don't even

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remember whose birthday party it was. It was not even my cake. It

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is somebody else's cake. I'm at a birthday party. I'm playing

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with my aunt uncle's dog who I absolutely adored, who I swear

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was probably taller than me at this time. And freaked me out

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for some reason. And all of a sudden, I take off running

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because now the dogs chasing me playing I think I'm going to be

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eaten. So I run over to everybody and I climb up on the

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picnic table and they turn around and they sit down real

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quick. And then I realise I've just sat number thinking bottom

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in the cake at age four

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So right so So either they were laughing their

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butt off at you or they're yelling at you. It

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was a lot of laughter the dog thought it was

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a great. Oh,

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I'm sure but everyone eats much cake or they

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went to the cupcakes as backup or cookies. I wanted coffee. My

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passion. I love it. So just quickly. Do you slow drip? Do

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you use a carrot cup? What you do for you grind your own beans?

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Yes,

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I am a like gotta grind my own beans. I'm a pour

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over coffee type of girl. Yep. And I will either do it black or

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I will do it bulletproof style, which means I'm gonna add a

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little butter, little MCT oil, maybe a little stevia. And it's

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like a perfect little latte with all the fuel I need for the day.

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Awesome. Well, I make iced coffee. So I actually

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take the grounds that I make up and I pour that with water in a

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pickle jar. And then someone from Babson College invented

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this called brew BRUW, he sold the company to snarky tea, but

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it's the best little venture is to pickle jars in a filter. You

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let it sit for 24 hours in the fridge, you can't get out and

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then you filter it and it takes all the grounds out of it and

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you get pure coffee and another pickle jar. And I do that always

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the night before. And I wake up and I have my own cold brew.

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It's just the coolest thing. Now like if you want to add cream or

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stevia or whatever, you can do that too. Yeah, but also I grind

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up the different types of beans and stuff like that. So it's

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cool but I love my coffee. It's that's our we're aligned as they

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say in so many ways. So you know I have to tell you when we were

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introduced by we're going to shout out to Rachel Rose right

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yes, Maggie Cook Big shout Yes, absolutely love them. Is that I

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just your energy I mean, you're just a force to be reckoned

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with. I was so taken when I watched your videos and your

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presentation. I just love it. We're very similar. We give, we

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just pour in, we pour in. And so give me some backstory here.

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Take Take me back a little ways before we get to the Boston

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Marathon. Tell me a little bit more about, you know, get

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getting getting there before that.

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Okay. Well, Midwestern girl, I say I'm a

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Midwestern girl with a big city spirit. Nobody can ever imagine

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that I live in Iowa. But small town girl moved to the big city

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of Des Moines grew up and kind of followed in the footsteps of

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my dad went into sales. And from there got the opportunity to

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purchase the company that I was working for. So I bought a

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company when I was 30 years old, I was pregnant with my second

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child at the time. And I ran that company grew it from being

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one employee and under, like $100,000 in sales up to a

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multimillion dollar marketing agency. 18 To 20 employees at

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one time, it was a lot of fun. I just I so enjoyed it, I got to

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travel, I really got to do the thing that I love people that

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asked me I was so good in sales, they go, Gosh, how do you do?

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I'm like, You know what? I would say, I was tapping sales, and I

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never sold anything. I never did. Because I'm a relationship

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girl. Like I really want to understand and know who you are.

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And I want to understand and know what it is that your desire

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is and like, let's figure that out. So that took me up until

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gosh, I ended up selling that business in January of 2019.

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Three kids and two dogs and still living in the Midwest for

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the next a short little period of time before I move on, but

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that's just a little bit about me.

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Yeah, no, but but you're also a runner. Oh, yeah,

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I picked up running so crazy. I picked up running in

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2009 because I'd had my third child and I wanted to lose the

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baby weight. I mean, I'd run races before I'd done short

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little races around town a little 5k here. Nothing ever

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serious. And I called some girlfriends up because I was

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training for I want to maybe it was like a 10 miler. And I knew

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they ran longer. He said, Hey, can I come out and join you

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guys? Sunday morning? They're like, yeah, absolutely. So I

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joined them for a run. And within a couple of weeks, I kept

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going back because now it's community. I got somebody to run

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with. After a couple of weeks, we were like, You know what, I

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really think that we ought to run a marathon this fall. And I

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was like, Okay, I had no idea what I was getting into. I

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probably at that point, didn't even know a marathon was 26 foot

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two miles. But I liked hanging with the girls. And so that's

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how I ended up running marathons.

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So, alright, so so then you you, I think you said

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2010 you qualified so you had to run another marathon before

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that. Right?

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So 2009 was my first marathon. Then we decide

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oh, we're gonna keep going now let's go to Minnesota Twin

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Cities Marathon. Let's go run that one. Okay, perfect. So end

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up in Twin Cities running the it is the most gorgeous city to me

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to run a marathon in all the trees are changing colours. It's

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happening in the fall. That weather is super crisp. So it's

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perfect for running and you are running through these absolutely

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gorgeous, old stately homes. So I am just absorbing all of the

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beauty I'm running. I'm paying attention to nothing. I've got a

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girlfriend I'm running where she ends up dropping off at some

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point. I just kept going. And I ended up finishing crossing the

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finish line. And as I came to the end, the one of the gals

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that I ran with her husband, we call them our waterboy because

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he went with us. Every training, Ron always had the water. So he

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was everywhere. He meets me at the gate, and he comes walking

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through and he goes, You did it. And I went what? And he goes you

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did it. And I said I did what? And he goes you qualified for

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Boston? What? Wow. I had I had no idea. I didn't even know that

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probably the time that I needed to get I wasn't trying. Yeah,

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you're just running. Just happened? Yeah.

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Wow. So in Minneapolis, you qualified and then you said I'm

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gonna do it. Right. You said you have to

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I mean, when you qualify for Boston, you have to

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do it. Yeah. I mean, it's it's the I say it's the pinnacle of a

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marathon runners dream, right to qualify and then to actually run

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Boston. Oh, absolutely.

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So I have to tell you something you don't know

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about me is that I grew up in Framingham, Massachusetts. You

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ran through Framingham when you ran Boston. So it's it starts in

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Hopkinton and then goes to Ashland, then Framingham. Then

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it goes to Natick and then Wellesley, I know the course

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I've been there as a little kid at the, at the starting line.

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And then as a college student in Wellesley, I went to Babson

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College, it runs right by Wellesley College. So and I've

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been at the finish as well. I mean, this is just part of

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Boston, if you're from Boston, and you know, it's just part of

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what we grew up with. I mean, the marathon is it's huge.

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It's a it's a big deal. It is a very big deal. And

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you don't you don't have to go to school

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because it's patriots today so you don't have to go to school

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that day. Like the

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entire incident. big celebration. Everything's

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got the game going on. I mean, it is the

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restaurants, the Red Sox play in the afternoon

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and it's a big party. I can turn the faucet on and off. Exactly.

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Alright, so we'd be up to take me to Boston down to Boston. No.

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All

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right. So we're in Boston and started to

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alone are we with people?

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So I was with my husband at the time and my mom,

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they both went with me. So I have the bus. I go up to

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Hopkinton. I start the race, everything's going amazing. I've

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got my name printed down the sides so people can cheer you

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on, you know. And everything is going absolutely beautifully. I

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make it until Wednesday, it was about heartbreak bill or

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Heartbreak Hill, not surprising at all. And my pay starts to

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slow. And I was like, okay, and then my legs start to cramp and

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like, oh crap, this isn't going to be good. And I'd have to stop

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and stretch. And then I'd run a little bit more. And I'd have to

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stop and stretch. I been through this cadence before. So this

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wasn't new to me. I had learned how to negotiate with myself, I

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am really good at putting plate carrots out in front of myself

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in order to keep me going, which meant I went to the expo before

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the Boston Marathon. Like they always have the Expos for the

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race. And I bought the finishers jacket. Because see, here's the

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key with me, you can buy the finishers jacket, but you can't

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wear it if you don't finish the race, right? Like it's just a

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runner thing. So the whole time I'm having to stop things are

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getting worse bodies completely cramping, and telling myself,

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you have to finish or you can't wear that jacket. Like that's a

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waste, you have to finish so I keep going and then okay, I will

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go to the medical tent. As soon as I'm done, I will go

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six miles out. And then mentally you're being

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challenged physically, you're being physically but also the

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crowds cheering everybody on. It's a it's an event, it

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is huge. I mean, people are coming up to it, can we get

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you anything? Do you need anything, I mean, is the most

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supportive community ever. So I keep going and end up crossing

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the finish line and under four hours, which is still freaking

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huge. And I kind of collapse over one of the rails volunteer

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comes picks me up takes me into the medical time. Okay, cool. So

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I go in, they are checking me out. I don't know, I want to say

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it was about 20 minutes from the time I went in there to them

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checking me out to getting up for them to get up and go get

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whatever it was I needed. Some setting on the edge of a cot.

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All of a sudden I hear this boom. And I went I did not know

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that's how they celebrated Patriots Day I didn't want I

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didn't know they let cannons off. As soon as this thought

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goes through my mind, the next one hits but it hits in a way

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that I the entire universe shook the ground, shook that tent

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shook the car. I mean, it felt like the ground was going to

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come out from underneath me. And you instantaneously knew what

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happened. I looked up, I caught the eyes of a volunteer. And you

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knew the bumps had been sent off. So I very quickly then get

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up thinking, okay, not injured. I have no idea where my family's

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at, I gotta get out of here. So I look around like I am fine.

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I'm leaving there are now starting to bring in what I call

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a casualty of limb and those who have been directly impacted at

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the finish line. So they're starting to come in, I leave I

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come out, I look to my right down finishers alley, it is like

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sunshine, blue skies, but completely empty. I look to my

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left, I see chaos and smoke and people everywhere and all of a

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sudden, a line of yellow jackets, the volunteers start

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chasing me down the street screaming run as fast as you

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can. So I take off running. I don't know how far I don't know

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how fast but i direction

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what direction were you go?

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I have like go the opposite direction of the finish

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line. Like this is everybody's now running away from the finish

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line. I go the opposite direction. I eventually end up

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finding my family. The kicker of this whole thing. I mean, it's

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this is an experience. As you can imagine, I end up going back

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to the hotel room, you collapse you're exhausted not only have I

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run a marathon now I've gone through this entire experience.

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I have no idea how to grapple or to grab hold of anything just

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happened. But the next day we go back down I've got to pick my

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goods up because they were left at the finish. And I'm standing

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at the end of Boylston Street got that finishers jacket on

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proudly wearing it. Reporter comes up says hey, can I ask you

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some questions? Where were you? What was your experience? Can

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you share voice in my head said it's not your story to tell. And

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it turned out I walked away and that then became the experience

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of me post Boston was not as a participant but was as a

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spectator because I completely dismissed my experience as

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somebody who had it worse.

Howard Brown: 00:14:46

So you kept that held within? Oh,

Cari Kenzie: 00:14:48

yeah. I mean you do it plus I own a business. I've

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got young kids at home, I come home I own a business. My role

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has been shaken. I feel like I am have been dumped on the

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ground. I'm completely cracked. I'm holding myself together with

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duct tape because I tell you what, if anybody else sees that

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I'm cracked in any way, if anybody else sees that I'm have

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been hurt or I'm going through some I'm going to lose

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everything. And this is typically what high achievers

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do. Like, we'll go through something. And then you package

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that thing up real quick so that nobody else can see any kind of

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vulnerability and reclaim weakness. Because when that rug

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gets taken out, you don't know what else is gonna crumble.

Cari Kenzie: 00:15:26

Yeah, yeah.

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That's just I mean, it's incredible. So you're

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holding this in, and you're and it's just building. And so you

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just did you just resume life. You you. Basically, you wore the

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jacket, and

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I went, I went home, I flew home, I went back

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to work. The next day, I watched the news with the rest of my

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staff. I ran in tribute, and I began training, I immediately

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started training because I thought, I'm going to be there

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next year, I'm going back to Boston. That's not how my

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experience is going to, you know, I want to celebrate, they

Cari Kenzie: 00:15:58

can't take that away. Well, I started training, and then about

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three, four months later, I went from running marathons to not

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being able to walk up a flight of stairs, assists without

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assistance. I became debilitating ly ill and nobody

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could tell me what was going on. I was having seizures standing

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up, I have insomnia and migraines and my muscles are

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cramping so bad, I can't sign checks. I mean, everything then

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physically just started to deteriorate and fall apart. And

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that would go on for a number of years. I mean, I would chase

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after diagnoses, I would finally, because I would listen

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to my intuition. After a time period, I'd finally come to

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understand what labels I could place on those physical

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ailments, which were chronic Lyme and Hashimotos, and Epstein

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Barr and multiple autoimmune conditions. But but the labels

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were simply labels, it wasn't actually the issue in 2016.

Cari Kenzie: 00:16:56

Going into 17, I finally figured out what the issue was. And the

Cari Kenzie: 00:17:00

issue was all of the packaged emotions, all the invalidation

Cari Kenzie: 00:17:04

of myself and my experiences, not just from Boston, but over

Cari Kenzie: 00:17:07

the course of a lifetime. Everything that had been

Cari Kenzie: 00:17:10

packaged up needed to be unpacked, and it had to be

Cari Kenzie: 00:17:13

readdressed. Because it was simply manifesting itself

Cari Kenzie: 00:17:16

physically within me. When I did that, when I took that essence

Cari Kenzie: 00:17:20

of bravery that got me through Boston and turn it around to

Cari Kenzie: 00:17:23

look at Boston. That's when healing completely happened. And

Cari Kenzie: 00:17:27

I overcame all the illnesses and the insomnia was gone overnight.

Howard Brown: 00:17:32

That's incredible. Because meanwhile, you're

Howard Brown: 00:17:34

training and doing handling marathons with, you know, a

Howard Brown: 00:17:37

tiredness syndrome Hashimotos and which affects autoimmune and

Howard Brown: 00:17:41

Lyme disease, which, I mean, I know people that have this, and

Howard Brown: 00:17:43

it's just, they're always exhausted,

Cari Kenzie: 00:17:46

always, always, always, but I tell you what I

Cari Kenzie: 00:17:49

showed up to work every day, I went to the ER on Friday, and I

Cari Kenzie: 00:17:53

got out on Sunday, and I went back to work on the day, and

Cari Kenzie: 00:17:56

this became my thing.

Howard Brown: 00:17:59

Okay, so now all of a sudden, you're able to

Howard Brown: 00:18:03

unpack your, your, you're going back through all this, that

Howard Brown: 00:18:06

you've been bottled up, take me through to the next step here.

Howard Brown: 00:18:10

And then be sure to let's talk about manifesting your mind to

Howard Brown: 00:18:13

be your Creator, as well as move into that. Yeah,

Cari Kenzie: 00:18:16

well, and that's really what it became. So what I

Cari Kenzie: 00:18:19

understood after, after I started to figure out that I

Cari Kenzie: 00:18:23

needed to, and I had been kind of shown that I needed to go

Cari Kenzie: 00:18:25

back and unpack and really understand who I was, and the

Cari Kenzie: 00:18:29

experience of all of these things. That's where I really

Cari Kenzie: 00:18:32

started to understand that you know, what we actually create

Cari Kenzie: 00:18:34

the realities that we have, we create the experiences that we

Cari Kenzie: 00:18:38

have. And we do that unknowingly, sometimes

Cari Kenzie: 00:18:41

unconsciously, but it is always for a beautiful reason. So for

Cari Kenzie: 00:18:45

those who kind of know a little bit about Boston, you can I

Cari Kenzie: 00:18:50

qualified in 2010, you only have two years to run that race.

Cari Kenzie: 00:18:55

Otherwise, you have to re qualify again, well, 2011, I

Cari Kenzie: 00:18:57

decided kids too young, I'm going to opt out of 11 and go

Cari Kenzie: 00:19:01

back for 12. So I do all of the paperwork, I booked the flight

Cari Kenzie: 00:19:06

to get the hotel I'm I'm in to run in 2012. And I broke my hip

Cari Kenzie: 00:19:12

in January of 2012. Right? And it has taken a lot of unpacking

Cari Kenzie: 00:19:17

of that experience for me to now see this and go, Oh, I created

Cari Kenzie: 00:19:22

being there in 2013 People go why in the heck would you do

Cari Kenzie: 00:19:27

that? Well, for me, it's actually were my divine path in

Cari Kenzie: 00:19:30

my life, or my life path and my divine purpose collided. Like I

Cari Kenzie: 00:19:34

can see that now it was this huge awakening moment for me.

Cari Kenzie: 00:19:38

But was I going to embrace that or was I not going to embrace

Cari Kenzie: 00:19:41

that? Well, this is the part where we have to get curious and

Cari Kenzie: 00:19:44

really like I say, take that bravery that got you through the

Cari Kenzie: 00:19:47

experience to go back and look at it. So now I understand the

Cari Kenzie: 00:19:50

lessons within it and I can change and shift and become a

Cari Kenzie: 00:19:54

more compassionate and more loving individual. But I can

Cari Kenzie: 00:19:57

also break the patterns of the past that took me there to begin

Cari Kenzie: 00:20:02

with. I mean, could there have been another path that didn't

Cari Kenzie: 00:20:04

include Boston to wake me up? Absolutely. However, my pattern

Cari Kenzie: 00:20:08

of invalidation and tucking myself away and not honouring

Cari Kenzie: 00:20:12

and understanding and knowing who I was. That's what placed me

Cari Kenzie: 00:20:15

in Boston. Yeah. So this when I go to this, like manifest mind,

Cari Kenzie: 00:20:19

which is fun, we were talking about just before, you know,

Cari Kenzie: 00:20:22

people think about I, I manifest and I create, right, so you get

Cari Kenzie: 00:20:27

that job, you're like, Oh, I did that. Totally created that. Or,

Cari Kenzie: 00:20:32

I won the game, or I finished the race, or I qualified for

Cari Kenzie: 00:20:35

Boston, right? I created all of that, because I tried really

Cari Kenzie: 00:20:38

hard, and I put it on my list, and I had it on my vision board.

Cari Kenzie: 00:20:42

I go, okay. One. If you create all the good, then you also

Cari Kenzie: 00:20:49

create all the things that aren't on the board, and aren't

Cari Kenzie: 00:20:52

the things that you truly desire. Okay, how do we end up

Cari Kenzie: 00:20:56

creating those things? Because those are the ones that get in

Cari Kenzie: 00:21:00

the way of everything that you write down. It's the limitations

Cari Kenzie: 00:21:03

that we have. And so my idea is yes, we can manifest and I can

Cari Kenzie: 00:21:07

write things down, and I could have something on my list for

Cari Kenzie: 00:21:10

four or five years. And it's not happening. And why is it not

Cari Kenzie: 00:21:14

happening? Well, it's not happening. Because I don't have

Cari Kenzie: 00:21:17

a mind, I don't have the beliefs, I don't have the

Cari Kenzie: 00:21:19

subconscious power to attract that into my life. Because my

Cari Kenzie: 00:21:24

subconscious is creating this negative thing over here. I just

Cari Kenzie: 00:21:28

got to figure out why it's doing that. Now when I can figure that

Cari Kenzie: 00:21:31

out. And I can shift that subconscious limitation, all of

Cari Kenzie: 00:21:35

a sudden, I can attract the thing that I truly want, but I

Cari Kenzie: 00:21:40

can attract it now. So if it's on your board, if it's on your

Cari Kenzie: 00:21:44

list, and it's not currently in your life, there's something

Cari Kenzie: 00:21:46

that's getting in the way of it now we get to get curious and

Cari Kenzie: 00:21:48

figure out what it is. And truly, that's how I navigate my

Cari Kenzie: 00:21:51

life on a daily basis. And you teach others, and I teach others

Cari Kenzie: 00:21:55

and this is what I do for clients, right? They come in,

Cari Kenzie: 00:21:58

hey, I'm working on this, or I've got this going on, or I had

Cari Kenzie: 00:22:01

this experience, I had this trauma. How do I get to the

Cari Kenzie: 00:22:04

other side of that, like, Okay, so now we get to ask the

Cari Kenzie: 00:22:07

questions and get really super curious and dive into that

Cari Kenzie: 00:22:10

subconscious mind, which I can connect you with, and figure out

Cari Kenzie: 00:22:13

why have you been playing in that sandbox, because clearly

Cari Kenzie: 00:22:16

you don't want to be there anymore.

Howard Brown: 00:22:18

Powerful, really, really, really powerful. I have

Howard Brown: 00:22:22

to tell you that, you know, just just the mental toughness and

Howard Brown: 00:22:27

that physical training, to be able to run a marathon I've not

Howard Brown: 00:22:31

done that. You know, I've been faced with, you know, stage four

Howard Brown: 00:22:34

cancer, but I play basketball and all that, but I've not done

Howard Brown: 00:22:37

a marathon. It's not even on my bucket list. You know, I don't

Howard Brown: 00:22:40

want to climb Mount Everest either. But I still I'm still in

Howard Brown: 00:22:43

awe of people that able to do that. And in the last chapter of

Howard Brown: 00:22:47

my book, my college roommate ran the Boston Marathon for the

Howard Brown: 00:22:51

leukaemia and Lymphoma Society, which is a beautiful team in

Howard Brown: 00:22:54

training. He wrote it for his high school friend that died of

Howard Brown: 00:22:57

leukaemia and memory of him and in honour of me, and I include

Howard Brown: 00:23:02

that. And someone else read an Ironman for me and I include

Howard Brown: 00:23:05

their their ribbon in the last chapter of my book. So I'm just

Howard Brown: 00:23:10

that's just the amount of love that people shared for me that

Howard Brown: 00:23:13

to be able to inmemory run Ironman and run the Boston

Howard Brown: 00:23:17

Marathon, you know, in my honour. I'm just so grateful for

Howard Brown: 00:23:20

that in fact that you completed so I have a question for you and

Howard Brown: 00:23:23

then we're going to do the shining brightly spotlight. Oh

Howard Brown: 00:23:25

yeah. Do you wear the Boston jacket? Do you wear the marathon

Howard Brown: 00:23:29

finishing jacket? No.

Cari Kenzie: 00:23:30

I do not wear the Boston jacket. Now. Actually. It

Cari Kenzie: 00:23:32

took me I packed it away for a while I brought it back out a

Cari Kenzie: 00:23:36

couple of years ago. I actually take that back I did wear it

Cari Kenzie: 00:23:41

last year because I did run. I attempted to qualify for Boston

Cari Kenzie: 00:23:45

again last year. In Illinois. It's called The Last Chance BQ

Cari Kenzie: 00:23:50

Boston qualifier. It was its own experience. I did not qualify at

Cari Kenzie: 00:23:55

that race but beautiful. lot of life lessons in that one. So I

Cari Kenzie: 00:23:59

did wear it for that.

Howard Brown: 00:24:01

So the reason is is because you said you bought

Howard Brown: 00:24:03

that to put that carrot in front of you so I was just curious to

Howard Brown: 00:24:06

see if you are do that. This is a beautiful show. I just I have

Howard Brown: 00:24:10

so much more to unpack I'm gonna have to have you back because we

Howard Brown: 00:24:12

got to you know we'll go deeper. But I love the energy and this

Howard Brown: 00:24:15

is a great little tease for my audience here for you know a

Howard Brown: 00:24:18

quick 30 minutes but I'm going to put on my glasses. If you if

Howard Brown: 00:24:21

you have some Put your glasses on as well. Okay, oh you got the

Howard Brown: 00:24:25

Hollywood games on there. All right, so it's perfect. So we're

Howard Brown: 00:24:28

going to shine the spotlight on you. I'd like you to tell people

Howard Brown: 00:24:31

how best to get in touch with you. If you have anything that

Howard Brown: 00:24:34

you want to give away or and then also leave me with some

Howard Brown: 00:24:38

inspiration and kick the show back to me.

Cari Kenzie: 00:24:39

Now Oh my gosh. Okay, so I am at Cari Kenzie C A

Cari Kenzie: 00:24:42

R I K E N Z I a pretty much anywhere you go Instagram,

Cari Kenzie: 00:24:46

Facebook, LinkedIn. But my website you will find a lot of

Cari Kenzie: 00:24:50

information there on my website. I offer out actually a 15 minute

Cari Kenzie: 00:24:54

a free 15 minute call with me It just I know, people are always

Cari Kenzie: 00:24:58

curious, you know, what is the thing that's getting in my way?

Cari Kenzie: 00:25:02

Is there something that's getting in my way, and I love to

Cari Kenzie: 00:25:06

share my intuitive powers and kind of help to shine a little

Cari Kenzie: 00:25:10

light on that for them. And then, you know, I would say, and

Cari Kenzie: 00:25:14

I don't have the quote, just right in front of me, but

Cari Kenzie: 00:25:17

probably the one of the most powerful things that I now know

Cari Kenzie: 00:25:21

that Maya Angelou said is, there's no heavier burden to

Cari Kenzie: 00:25:25

carry than that of an untold story. And so just to understand

Cari Kenzie: 00:25:29

and to know, that you're worthy of the experience you had, no

Cari Kenzie: 00:25:33

matter what that experience is, that you are valid in your

Cari Kenzie: 00:25:37

emotions and that you have and you are worthy of navigating

Cari Kenzie: 00:25:41

through that to find the power that lies within. Wow,

Howard Brown: 00:25:45

powerful, you are worthy. Oh, thank you for that.

Howard Brown: 00:25:48

Just an incredible show. All of the contact information will be

Howard Brown: 00:25:52

in the show notes and it'll be on all the socials. Please

Howard Brown: 00:25:55

contact Carrie. I mean, I think that you'll, you'll, you'll one

Howard Brown: 00:25:58

find the experience incredible, her energy is just amazing. And

Howard Brown: 00:26:02

she'll get you unstuck and that's that's it you got it got

Howard Brown: 00:26:05

his kind of moved by either baby steps forward or big giant

Howard Brown: 00:26:08

steps, and she'll help get you there. So you've been listening

Howard Brown: 00:26:11

to and watching the shining brightly show. You can find me

Howard Brown: 00:26:14

at shining brightly.com The my book is there. It's selling

Howard Brown: 00:26:17

well, it's it's impacting lives, which makes me feel good. But

Howard Brown: 00:26:21

I'm speaking I'm speaking on a cruise coming up soon. And

Howard Brown: 00:26:25

always trying to lift up others to help them lift, lift up

Howard Brown: 00:26:29

themselves as well. And then you will also find this podcast the

Howard Brown: 00:26:34

speaking stuff and my advocacy. So you know, I'm big on

Howard Brown: 00:26:37

entrepreneurship, big on mentorship and leadership as

Howard Brown: 00:26:39

well as interfaith relations. So and cancer and the cancer world.

Howard Brown: 00:26:42

So go get screened, go to the doctor, please, you're not your

Howard Brown: 00:26:45

optimal cells. And we all know that if you can shine brightly

Howard Brown: 00:26:49

just for a little bit each day, for yourself, for others in your

Howard Brown: 00:26:54

communities, the world will be a better place. Thank you, Carrie.

Howard Brown: 00:26:58

Love to having you great guests. Thanks. Great show. Thank you