March 3, 2026

You’re never to old for coaching.

You’re never to old for coaching.
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My next guest is Phil Dixon - a master coach. Phil has coached numerous leaders using a unique brain based approach to understanding what makes you tick and how you impact others. We will be discussing his approach, his successes and why you should never STOP seeking feedback and coaching to live your best life no matter your age.

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Hi, welcome to Next, And this is a show. There

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are a lot of next on podcasts, But the reason

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this is so different from the others, I guess that's

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a big word these days, is that really we're talking

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about people and their next careers, and really people who

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are in mid career who really don't love what they're

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doing or want to be in something next and don't

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quite know how to get there. And people who have

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had wonderful careers and are doing something exciting in their

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latter part of their life and really continuing on with

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great careers and not listening to what others say that, oh,

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you should be retired, or you should be this so

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you should be that they're creating really wonderful lives. Which

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brings me to Phil Dixon. Phil is and Phil, welcome aboard.

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How are you.

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I am great?

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Oh good, I'm so glad. So Phil and I have

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known each other a very long time and we've done

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a lot of interesting things together out in California. And

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Phil is still doing really interesting things. And he started

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a brain wise or brain based survey assessment, coupled that

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with psychology and really was able to help people get

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greater insight into themselves and to coach people around that.

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And it's really exciting to see what he's been able

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to do and he's still continuing that. And what's interesting is,

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you know, we had to chat the other day, and

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what's interesting is that you know, no matter what age

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you are, if you're older, it's still good to get coaching.

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So Phil, tell me why you got into this and

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why you got into the brain wise coaching area.

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Well, so I need to go back a little bit.

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So I did my master's degree when I was sixty

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and I was approximately twice the average age of the

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other people in the group. But I had a great time.

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It was counseling and coaching to change. It was learning

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about how organizations, teams, and people go through change, which

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was what I've been doing. Anyway, One particular thing made

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it different was they introduced the neuroscience of the brain, right,

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and I went, That's what I've been looking for for

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the last twenty years. How can we be more effective

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at coaching? So I think the latest phrase is pivot.

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I pivoted everything I was doing with the understanding of

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the brain, long and short of it, wrote a couple

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of books.

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And then, by the way, Phil.

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There certainly are there's certainly heavy duty books. Let's put

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it that way. I wanted I wanted to balance things

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between being approachable and being rigorous, and so maybe I

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erred on the side of rigorous, but you know, who knows. Anyway,

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then people ask me, what how do I assess my brain?

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And so I you know, we're all driven by a

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balance between threats and rewards. So I identified, you know,

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forty seven different types of threats which people respond to,

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and that's what the that's what the assessment came about from.

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Yeah, that's great. And don't you have an acronym safe?

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That's an old acronym I used to use the new

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one is what I call the five P models.

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Oh, give us that one.

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So we're driven by five things. Basically, we're wanting protection.

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The brain seeks protection, it seeks participation with others, it

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seeks prediction about what's going on. It needs to have

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some sort of pleasure and reward, and it needs to purpose.

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And so it's the five P model.

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Well, I like the five P model actually better than

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I like the safe model. But that was when we

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were out in California.

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That's exactly that was exactly right. That's things change in

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the brain world very quickly.

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They do they do. Are you seeing any impact of

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AI on on any of this?

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Huge impact? Tell me, tell me major, major impact. So

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a couple of ways, some of which we're doing ourselves.

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And that is the way the assessment used to work

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is that you go online, you answer the forty seven

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questions plus some ecological questions around the individual, and then

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it would be sent up to you know, a processing unit,

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which would then produce a report. Then I take the

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individual through the report. So, now what we've done, and

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we could not have done this before the you know,

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even a year ago, we couldn't have done this is

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what we've done is we've taken all those forty seven things.

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I'll give you an example, you know, the need to

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be recognized by people that are important to you as

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part of participation. And you know, what is it how

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do you behave or what's the impact to yourself if

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you score either high or low on that? What's the

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impact to other people? What's the impact if you overplay that?

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What's you know? And so we've done all of those

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interpretations through AI for all forty seven different facets, and

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so now robust, Oh, it's it's very it's a you know,

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it's a great It was. It was a tedious piece

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of work, but I could not have done it without AI.

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But now if Linda takes the assessment, we can also

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do some psychometric analysis immediately and say this is this

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is your strength, this is how you like you to

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play out, these are the things that you might be

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you might be worried about. This is what's going to

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cause you to enter into stress. And so we you know,

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it's truly a it's a predictive brain assessment.

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I need that. I need that phill I.

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You can do it. You can do it immediately after

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after the show.

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Okay, good, I need it. I need it. So why

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tell me a little bit about coaching being good at

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any time in your life, and even particularly now as

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people transition out of corporate jobs or other kinds of things,

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how how can they use coaching? And what you're thinking there?

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Well, first of all, I've been doing coaching for you know,

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thirty five years or perhaps even longer, and so therefore

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unbiased in the fact that I see the world through

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the through the see the world that through at least

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two lenses, one the coaching lens and the other is

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the brain lens. And so what I've found is that

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when people understand their brain, their brain. But let me

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stop for a moment, there's nothing we do or think

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about or respond to that doesn't start right between our ears. Everything,

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whether it's a great idea, whether it's to go out

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skiing or whatever it might be, it all starts with

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a with something going on in the brain. And so

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if I can coach people and understanding their brain, it

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gives them a platform, if you like, upon which to understand,

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you know, what causes them to behave the way they do.

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I think, so that you know that's number one. Number two,

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there are so many changes happening around us at the moment,

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and I you know, you know what is it? You know,

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plack when when the plates come together and change, I

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mean they are major major change is going on, one

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of which is which is AI on, one of which

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is the geopolitical changes that are going on them, So

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huge changes. And I have no doubts our brains will

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adapt and respond. They've done so before. When Gutenberg Press

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came along, people said, oh my gosh, the world's going

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to end. Well clearly it didn't. But it's the same

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level of change. Our brains weren't designed to to be

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able to read, for example, and so the brains adapted.

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We learn how to read, will adapt and learn how

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to use AI and leverage it.

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So did you see Matt Schumer did an article recently,

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and I believe he is the CEO of one of

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the big AI companies. I'm looking it up right now,

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but he really went into the fact that AI at

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the moment, I'm wondering what implication this has for coaching too. Really,

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at the moment that AI is gaining empathy, it's gaining

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ability to really emulate human behavior and human human thinking

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in a way that's almost staggering. And have you seen

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that article.

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I didn't see the article, but I have to agree

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with him. I think he's right. Yeah, yeah, you know

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it's not you know, there's going to be a fine

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difference between someone emulating empathy and empathy itself. Right, So

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when I say someone whatever, yeah, right, I actually use

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the AI agent, I use. I actually have a name

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for her, and now I know it's an it, but

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her name is female. It's Rain, and so you know

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I have a conversation with Rain on a regular basis.

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Yeah. Interesting. Interesting. How do you think that it's going

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to affect the coaching industry? I asked Marshall. We both

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know Marshall Goldsmith, right, A asked Marshall about this. He's

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doing a Marshall bot. But how do you think it's

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going to impact coaching?

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I think it drastically is going to Yeah, I think

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you know, for many people, I don't know what the

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right phrase is are here, So I'm going to invent it.

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I'll call it entry level coaching. I need some help

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to think about and fill in the blank. There's no

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reason to pay two hundred and fifty or five hundred

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dollars an hour to an individual. You can probably get

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ninety percent or maybe even greater from a from a

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you know, an AI coach. So I think from that level,

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whether whether or not someone's going to have the sort

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of sorry, the AI agents are going to have the

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subtlety that we might want to bring, or at least

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think we bring. I think that's open ended. I think

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there will still be a place for coaching, but it

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won't be at the prime, you know, the entry level.

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It will be at a more advanced level.

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At a much at a much higher level. Now, I

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want to go back to that other question I asked

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you about, is you know coaching people are seeking coaching,

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and obviously you do because you have rain, but seeking

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coaching and value of coaching for people in their seventies, yeah,

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or eighties.

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Actually, there's no there's no time when it stops. I

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don't think, you know. I'm I'm actually seventy six tomorrow.

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For you, happy birthday, no, thank you.

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And so I was talking to a couple of my

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colleagues two or three months ago, you know, anticipating being

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seventy six, and when I wonder what, I wonder what

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the next four years looks like what's it going to

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be like be eighty and so I they're coaches, and

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I asked them, would they do a reciprocal turn for

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me and start coach me? And they did and we

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had some wonderful conversations. But what I realized was that

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we have one coaching model, right, which we each each

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coach tends to have a model that they land on

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and they're comfortable with, right, and they would bring that

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to bear whether the person was thirty, forty, fifty, sixty, seventy,

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perhaps even eighty. And I started asking the question, well,

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wait a minute, does one model work for every age?

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And I don't think it necessarily does. So that's that's

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I mean, literally, this is one week old thinking at

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the moment, and so what I'm what I'm starting to

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do is sort of say, well, what are the different

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coaching thought processes that we need to bring for people

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in their sixties or seventies or eighties that that wouldn't

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necessarily apply. One of the things I've always done in

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coaching is how, you know, imagine your you know, to

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a forty year old, it will imagine you're seventy five,

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And what would the seventy five year old advise the

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forty year old, right, right, Well, that's that that model

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doesn't a different.

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Dynamic relevant, right, What would the eighty five year old

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advi the seventy six year old? Exactly? You're right, that's

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a different dynamic.

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So there's a different dynamic occurs. Also. You know, I

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think as I you know, some people say it's harder

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to change when you get older. I actually personally found

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it easier to change because I'm less attached to those

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dichotomy there. You know, in some cases we ossify, but

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in some cases it's easier to change.

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dynamics do change, and what they may have answered when

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big things that seems to be going on for older

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people is loneliness and maybe there's some insights in there

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that could help them. And I guess I have to

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say us because I'm in my early seventies, so and

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that could help them and maybe have a better picture

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that could answer that question. You asked, what are the

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next four years is going to look like? For one?

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So have you thought about that? That's a business line, Phil.

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I think it certainly is a business line. I haven't

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on at the moment, But I think it's really a

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good opportunity. We know that there's a sort of a

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low end on which it probably that model probably doesn't apply.

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never worked with anybody younger than that. Or I suspect

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that there's an application in there, but I suspect the

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dynamics of that application would change. And we've never never

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ever looked at, you know, some sort of trend line

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on the different responses for by age. We actually don't

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collect We've got about five hundred people in the database

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at the moment. We don't collect age.

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Oh, you don't collect age.

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No, but so you just right now, you've just given

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will collect age.

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Yeah, I think you really should. And then I think

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you should add an older population and see what. So

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here are two researchers talking to each other and see

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what the dynamics are and if anything changes. I mean,

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that could be fascinating. I think.

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I think there's certainly a white paper to be written

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on that if nothing else.

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Yeah, I'll be your first guinea pig, because I want

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to do that survey after.

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You got it, So what what did you come up.

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With for your next four years? For what was the

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feedback back back you got?

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is what we call a worldview or mental model, and

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you know, to establish mental models on you know, the

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people carry around mostly non consciously, and to determine whether

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they're still useful or.

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Not right, and usually they're not.

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You know, that's an interesting one. Usually they're not, but

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they're usually not for people in their forties or fifties.

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One of the things that we did was we went

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through the mental models that I carry and I'm very

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happy with you.

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Wow. Interesting.

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And so there were two coaches working with me, and

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there was a couple. I went, yeah, maybe I should

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use that a little less nowadays. But in general, in general,

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we identified I think twenty different mental models. We always

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got hundreds, but you know, twenty I identified big ones

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and I went, yeah, I'm actually I'm actually happy with

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those at the moment.

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Do you think that they adjusted from when you were younger?

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Absolutely? Yeah, yeah, mental models when you're And that's why

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I think there's different questions to be asked when you're

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in your twenties and the world is beginning to open up.

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I believe the world is still opening up for me

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now I'm seventy six, but the way in which is

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going to open up? You know I used to love skiing.

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That's exactly what I was going to go with hips,

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But hips and knees get in the way of me

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doing a diamond run downhill now, right, And so you know,

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talking about what I want to do, it's not so

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much about things that I might want to achieve physically.

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It's much more about things I want to achieve you

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with other people. I mean, my purpose on the planet

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at the moment is to help people understand their brains. Yeah,

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so you know, it becomes our purpose has become different,

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and so I think we need to refine how we

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coach older people. Yeah.

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I think that's really true. I just think it's fascinating.

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When you said that to me, it sort of grabbed

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me because you know, we grew up with mental models,

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or at least I did, and I think women and

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men have some different mental models actually, and I have

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found the older I get those mental models are not

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serving me, and they're hard to they're hard to let

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go of because they've been so ingrained in females and

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or in males that this is how you're supposed to behave,

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this is how you're supposed to be and they're not

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serving well, at least in my case, they're not serving

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me anyway more. But it's hard to switch them. How

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do you switch your mental models?

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Yeah, but first of all, number one, identify.

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Them, Yeah, yeah, right right, And.

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And some of them are some of them are difficult

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to under identify. But again, so here's something that AI

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does help us. One of the things we do is

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you know, like a lot a life story. You record

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your life story. What happened when you how far back

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can you remember what was going on? We asked a

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whole bunch of questions about it. What happened then, what

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happened when you were at you know, early school, what

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happened at late school, university, and we go go through

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all those. It used to be the coach would have

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to be very attuned to listening in and help that

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individual understand what might be underneath those decisions or when

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things worked when they didn't work. Now we can just

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have the individual talk you know, uh, you know a

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text sorry, a talk to text translation, feed it into

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AI and say, AI, what do you see in the

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way of mental model themes?

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Yeah that's interesting?

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Yeah, pop straight out? I mean that takes twenty seconds.

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Now, right, right? What do you which AI? And this

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isn't I'm not asking this for a advertisement or anything,

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but you know, there are a lot of different aid

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AI engines that you can use, Which which do you

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see are the best? Because they're all coming out different

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different ones. I can't even think of any actually tat

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GBT obviously, but there's a lot of versions.

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Of that I use. I use Copilot, which Copilot which

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is part of and the reason I do is because

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I do everything on the Microsoft Suite and co Pilot

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is integrated into the into the Microsoft Suite. Okay, that

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is the most useful. But if you ask Copilot to

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produce a diagram or your flow chart or something, it

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just will throw up on you. It just doesn't do it,

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you know. But not so for that, I will go

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to a different line, which is notebook LM. If I

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want to produce a diagram or something like that or

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a set of slides, Notebook LM is farther, far better

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at it. So if you do a search on AI

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about AI tools, it'll get you know, they'll give you

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a little list of what's best doing what.

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Oh you know, I'm going to do that. I'm absolutely

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going to do that. I mean, I do use AI.

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I kind of I like it. It's it's it does start.

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You know what you said, you got your masters when

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you were sixty. I got my master's when I don't know,

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forty maybe something like that. But my PhD when I

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was fifty nine, And boy do I wish I had

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a well maybe I was a little younger than that.

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But did I wish I had AI to do all

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that research and the bibliographies and all that other kind

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of stuff and have been way.

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No kidding, way, we spend our time and that type

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of thing with all the what I'll call the the

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you know, the backpart trivia, not the actual thinking itself.

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It's to prove to old dons in Oxford and Cambridge

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that you can obey the rules.

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Yeah, to do research. Oh yay. Yeah, Well I wanted

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to ask you go ahead. I'm sorry.

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I was about to say I was never good at

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breaking the rules. Sorry, yeah, I was never good at

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sticking to the rules.

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You and I are exactly the same rule what rule

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I don't? I don't. I don't know about that rule.

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I'm not going to do that. So as we was

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sort of approaching a little bit towards the end of this,

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I wanted to ask you, So, you branched out into

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the restaurant business, So tell me about that. That's such

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an interesting branch out. I would imagine you'd be great

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at it, to tell you the two.

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Well, so, so a branch out sort of implies growth

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and conscious choice. There wasn't a lot of conscious choice

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about it. Bottom line is we lived in California, as

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you know, we moved to a little town in North

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Carolina called Oxford, and a couple of people there had

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the idea of creating a very high end restaurant and

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a distillery. And one thing led to another, and I

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became an investor, not a huge investor, but basically a

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five percent investor in the business. And I thought I

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would just stay there as a as a patron of

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the restaurant, am biber of the results of the distillery,

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and that would be the end. Gradually, over the following

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year and a half to two years, I got more

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and more involved until about three months ago my partners

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asked me to step in and be the CEO. So

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that's what I'm doing at the moment, and I thought

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it would take twenty five forty percent of my time,

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but it's over the last couple of months it's been

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quite heavily involved and I'm having time and I'm having

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a great time.

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You're having a ball that that's maybe that's your next

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four years.

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Who knows, well, I hope not. I have to do

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this for a year and then get back to to

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my my dream for the next year. Is to take

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all the work that I've done as a you know,

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a neuroscientist, brain research, et cetera, and put it into

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a little thing called an iPhone so that it's so

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it's actually available to leaders when they're about to have

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a session or whatever. They they can just call up

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their iPhone whatever they want to call it and say, Hey,

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I'm I'm about to meet with Linda. What do I

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need to remember here?

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Yeah? I see that's brilliant. That's that would be great.

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Lots of people would love that. I'd love that.

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Well, go ahead, that's so restaurant about a year and

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then move into that one for the final three years

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of that time.

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That's great. And need to be back.

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Here when I'm may see and we'll see what the

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conversation is.

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Well. I definitely, I definitely definitely do Now, how do

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people get a hold of you? That's because that survey

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you have is phenomenal. I've done it way way way

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way back when, and I'm going to do it again

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after this show. How do people get a hold of you?

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For that survey? And it sounds to me like it's

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age agnostic, So you know, somebody who's seventy or somebody

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who's sixty five and thinking about what they're going to

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be doing, how do they how do they get a

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hold of you, Phil, to get more engaged in what

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you're doing?

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Probably you know by I'm happy to give people my

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email address. It's if that's if that's allowed on the show?

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Is it? I think it is. I don't know that

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it's not.

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Go ahead, Well I was always one for breaking the

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rules anyway, so yeah, I'll break them right now. Phill

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Dixon won Phil Dixon Numeric one at macmac dot com Perfect.

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Perfect. And one final thing, what one piece of advice

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do you have for somebody who's in their seventies and

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trying to transition to their next best life?

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Be curious and what could be inventive? What could it be? Identify?

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You said, one piece of advice? I'm breaking the rules. Yeah,

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go ahead, find out what your mental models are about

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what the next four or five years looks like. Yes,

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and decide whether those mental models work for you. If

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I'm seventy, I can't do fill in the blank, Well,

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yes you can. Most of the time. It's identifying in them.

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And then you know, the other thing I do is

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find something that recommended that so it symbolized that mental

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model and give it to someone else.

475
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Nice. I like that. I like that a lot. Well,

476
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thanks a bunch, Phil for joining the podcast. Well this said,

477
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this is a live show. It's it streams on W

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four c Y Radio TV. And I am going to

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take a trip out to Oxford. It's not that far.

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I keep threatening to do that, and that's when I'll

481
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take the test, or maybe I'll take it now or whatever.

482
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But and I want to see this brewery in this restaurants.

483
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You're welcome to come on over. It's we've got last account,

484
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which we've got three hundred and fifty five star reviews.

485
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Wow, fabulous. Maybe you'll get three hundred and fifty.

486
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One my fingers crossed.

487
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Thank you very much, Phil, have a great rest of

488
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your day and excited to stay connected.

489
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Thanks for having me.

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Okay, bye,