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helping people change their story how can someone take a negative experience
and turn it into a positive
what can be done according to one man teeth done it for himself
I welcome tom paxton Angela this year both at the bruno
box group to talk about this thank you both for joining me this afternoon
time let's start with you is it possible he can you really
take something negative and turn it into something positive you ken
on the challenges the perspective within every negative there is a positive
because as a lesson
in everything when you start to examine why native things happen
you start to understand the lessons that you learned from it in we're very big
upon is about to be worshipped in its very to in that space as well
when something happens is not necessarily a native it's a lesson
and as long as you can learn a lesson from it capitalize on it and use it as
your forward momentum
you can change your life you can change your entire story but it's really depend
upon
the purse do you feel that some people the energy that they put into
looking at the negative side could be channeled into looking at the positive
side
as well too and people kinda Aaron channeling the negativity as opposed to
the positivity
I could have chewed a hole through to China with my negativity
that's just how much more Medina gave me but by changing their perspective in
doing
different things with it I was able to do much more like right now I'm
currently the chairman of the board of directors for Junior Achievement of
western Massachusetts
I serve in the Financial Stability Board for the United Way
I'll attend other committees are the governor's board for financial literacy
in some other aspects but that
really came by being people like Angela and others that
understood the challenges dad sometimes people have been a live to negativity
and kinda
having harness had no understanding that know if you find like-minded people he
finds
set go to put your tribe be really is transformative because now
instead being surrounded by these negative factors in member pushing your
energies in a certain way at these other folks enter
well-intentioned in a single you have all these good attributes what happens
if we finally here
in actually where the magic happens and welcome back to your story a
where you came from but Angela wanted it kinda hit you that
have this make sense like this at this is something that really
resonated with you I'm well I worked in an hour ten or twelve different job
since college where I felt like
I was doing a great job and I was working really hard but I was surrounded
by people that
and in really I don't fully understand my point of view they understand why
work so hard
about like I was doing something wrong until I started to
and connect with people who have the same kinda viewpoint I'm
and businesslike can be exciting and it can be a lot of fun and once you
surround yourself with people
who have the same plan view a lot more good things happen
yes and that kind have would you say
what changed your life weighing
you came from a very negative dark place
to where you are and at now yes out of it are
mentorship it showed up at someone making an investment in mean saying you
know there's something inside you you don't see it
but I do so let me help you get it there and then from there
you start to connect with other people that are again like minded and you start
to see
you know you well you you you are
take the rust rough edges of I
because a new level I was rough ebony could you come from a different
perspective the text
but once you start to get on track with that and you keep that momentum going
arm the more the people are getting from you just that much better that you can
do for not just for yourself but for all the people around you
when people reach out and say hey when here sorry *** tell
I'm pretty open about it now I years ago is I was
before started my the gonna *** ship I work for an organization so it really
kinda difficult to get out there and
talk about the personal aspects of things because you know it's it's not
but people on here in corporate America things like that
but now that my life is my own so to speak to underpin shipper
I had no problem sharing can some those challenges
now but like domination day when is that
welded this at the one-day revolution for women who want to get on stock
plainly that and we finally come across a lot of people who
have big dreams they have aspirations they know that there's a lot that they
could be doing
but there's something stopping them there some small thing in their life as
making them feel stuck and we thought we could put together a one day event that
helps them addressed a lot a different pieces of what keeps people stock
hopefully by the end at eight hours to leave their feeling like
I know what it is that no stopping me and now I can move forward
and so it's really it's a really powerful day we have five different
speakers
one person talk about how to change her story first thing in the morning is like
a test or even tying yourself
that's not true let's create a new story today and it's like
the whole rest the day just revolutionary do you think that many
women
look at situations like differently
I think it depends on the person really we decided to target women for this
event because we wanted to talk
one language talking more about like the family bed abounding family and work
and and thus our town is that women have but I've done a lot of career counseling
over the years with men and women I find that they have a lot of the same
challenges
it's just each person has their own different background what advice would
you give
20 min if she's maybe dealing with that struggle between juggling
work getting like and family home
I think you have to really know what your priorities are if you're trying to
make
everything a priority been nothing as a priority so being able to lift out
what's the number one most important thing in your life
if you number one most important thing is your family when the job has to be
second
couldn't bother them can be first so first figure out what's important to you
and then you can can create each day around that and making sure that you're
putting your priorities
first and that if if your family is number one well then you may share
making time for that and if you're not a nap injure yourself
and in the process yeah and I'm sure you'll agree that that as well
process from becoming stuck to and stack
98 in you know part of the reason I really enjoyed the
like domination and get involved in is you know what my background
you know a las 10 used my life to being a drug addict I was
a homeless I was probably the worst first year we could meet in your life
and everything is a port
specifically from the the women in my life mean because
they didn't have an infrastructure for that support never kinda like left out
there on their own and
and then a program like this in working with these individuals
helps them to find that center so we're able to come to take those
those challenges in we all need more kids left behind we don't need these
people going to these very adverse situation alive
especially when these you support networks out there so by creating life
domination day
I was an opportunity really purposeful quality individuals
a coaches in the area put together something impactful and we had when we
had our first one in January just walking out there with
the room which is the Bison every with the fam Value Inn it was really
really a worthwhile very me so much time back financial issue from there
burner box group thank you thanks