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Time for exciting news! This is my first week at Fortune as a Sales Account Director. Sharing with you why I choose this incredible opportunity. Thank you, Lindsey Kintner who will be my manager for the opportunity. Thank you to Lisa Cline and Alison Fried for sharing your vision and allowing me to be one of the earliest team members growing the Fortune Connect business. Shout out to Michael Wong for sharing with me how incredible of a manager she is, and big thanks to the LinkedIn product for showing me who is connected to whom always a big help during the interview process. Here are some of the reasons why I choose Fortune and why the Fortune Connect product. I got to experience meeting Arvind Krishna who the CEO and Chairman of IBM, who shared his insights into the incredible opportunities ahead of us, and met one of my favorite authors Keith Ferrazzi who wrote the playbook on how to add value to your network. His book Never Eat Alone made a big difference in my life. Fortune has had 93 years of history of cultivating and grooming the most impactful executives in the world and has brought together many extraordinary leaders. To be able to continue to grow that and build the legacy is truly a privilege. There are so many takeaways from completing the Building Stakeholder Capitalism course. I've also learned a lot from the Purpose-Driven Leadership learning sprints. This role combines my love for mentoring, executive coaching, and community-building. I'm grateful for the opportunity to make a difference and cultivate the next generation of C-suite executives within the Fortune 500, the top most prominent organizations in the world. https://youtu.be/ii4bKZCG3Jg #FortuneConnect #fortune500companies…

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Episode 107: Be Kind to Yourself 1:58

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This is a reminder for anyone who is being Too Hard on Themselves. @Ian Koniak, I had a coaching call with Ian yesterday and realized that I was holding on to the past things that happened ten years ago. I am certainly not the same man as I was back then. This is a reminder to be kind to yourself. Would you treat your friend the same way? How many times have we had self-talk which is totally disempowering? The power of #Coaching. #SelfCompassion #Healing Journey Recently, I've had people I know pass away. I called my dad for the first time in a while and was able to hear him out. Life is too short, and it's better to live life with no regrets. Love the LinkedIn community for being so supportive as I'm evaluating opportunities in my life.…

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Episode 106: Sales Success Summit 2022 3:49

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I just got back from the Sales Success Summit in Austin, TX. I love traveling, and I realize that there is going to be my last solo travel in a while. In this next stage of my life, I'm going to involve and be in partnership with my wife more often. Stay tuned for more adventures! Thanks for following me. Excited to share with you what's next in this chapter in my life.…

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Episode 105: Davidson Hang Reflections on a Life Worth Living:Takeaways from the Summit of Greatness 10:35

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Sharing with you my takeaways from the Summit of Greatness hosted by Lewis Howes The speakers were 1. Gabby Bernstein-Author, Motivational Speaker, Podcast Host 2. Dr. Michael Beckwith- Author, Peace Activist, Spiritual Leader 3. Dr. Mariel Buque- Psychologist, Author, Trauma Expert 4. Erwin McManus - Global Expert on Human Genius and Personal Transformation 5. Rory Vaden- NYT Best Selling Author, Keynote Speaker & Personal Brand Strategist 6. Dr. Caroline Leaf-Author, Communication Pathologist, Cognitive Neuroscientist 7. Dr. Trisha Smith- Coach, Speaker, Clinician- We did a meditation with her. 8. Maria & Calvin Wagner- Soundbath Facilitators 9. Chris Lee- Lewis Howe's Coach - We did a workshop on Relationships 10. The Man Lewis Howes himself!…

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Episode 104: Davidson Hang Reflections:Reflecting on what I’ve learned so far at Udemy 2:52

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Trust the Process Good things take time There is no substitute for hard work Having a growth mindset- it never truly ends Partnership and staying focused

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Episode 103: Landmark Wisdom Unlimited Course Review 10:27

3 years ago10:27

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I wanted to share with you some of the takeaways I've gotten from taking the Landmark Wisdom Unlimited Course. Here is the link to the website if you are interested, you can always reach out, and I will be more than glad to help you answer any questions regarding it. Wisdom Unlimited explores the possibilities of untold joy available for the living of your whole life and that maybe anything else is just a mistake, an oversight, that’s easily corrected. In this investigation over five weekends, we bring together the dimensions of vision, commitment, and play for a great life. A life that contributes to all of humanity. https://www.landmarkwisdomcourses.com/wisdom-unlimited-course/…

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Episode 103: Davidson Hang Reflection’s The Most Transformational 3 Days of my life and Why 21:50

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I wanted to share with you all my takeaways from the Landmark Forum and why it was the most transformational three days of my life. Here are the logistics https://www.landmarkworldwide.com/the-landmark-forum/syllabus Day 1 Already Always Listening The Hidden Power of Context The Vicious Circle Rackets: Payoff and the Cost Day 2 The Illusion of Someday: Rethinking Possibility The Myth of Is, Because, and I Distinguishing: Opening New Worlds Freedom from Anxiety How Identities Get Constructed Day 3 Pervasive Influence of the Past Change vs. Transformation Language as an Access to Power The Nature of Choice For context, I did it a number of years ago and this is me sharing how it's still impacted me even 5 years later and What led me to do the Landmark Forum…

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Episode 102: Davidson Hang Reflections on a Life Worth Living: Review of Tony Robbin’s Ultimate Mastery Package 10:33

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https://youtu.be/iGXPpPyDjWA Here is a review after completing Tony Robbins Ultimate Mastery Package: It includes 7 different events/Masterminds that you get to be a part of. 1. Unleash the Power from Within 2. Business Mastery 3. Date with Destiny 4. Business Mastery Mastermind 5. Personal Mastery Mastermind 6. Life Mastery 7. Wealth Mastery, I share with you my takeaways from each of the events. My favorite was Date with Destiny in terms of the quality of the content, and of course, being I got to be in beautiful Fiji for Wealth and Life Mastery was unforgettable, and I absolutely enjoyed the quality of people that I met at that event especially after working virtually for so long it was nice being with that many people again. For context, Tony Robbins is a self development guru who is famous for many things. He started off doing those late night informercials and then he has a Netflix Documentary called I'm not your Guru. There are presidents, famous athletes, and movie stars who pay him millions of dollars to coach them. He's incredibly talented and is probably the best story teller you will ever come across. His net worth at this point is over $500million and donates a ton of money to helping feeding people all over the world. I share with you how I got started with Tony Robbins and my takeaways from each of the events. The reason why I got into it is because I started reading a lot of his books. Money Master the game was probably one of the most influential books I've read that helped on this journey of self worth self healing. For context to share how its been able to help me, prior to starting the Tony Robbins Programs my earning potentials has almost doubled in the course of less than 2 years. He has personally helped me a lot. If you are skeptical start by reading any of his books. All of them have many nuggets and pearls of wisdom that you can take away and implement in real life.…

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Episode 101: Davidson Hang Reflections: On a Life Worth Living. Can’t Ever Take Life for Granted 2:30

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One of our fraternity brothers Sadath Ahmed passed away this weekend, and I wanted to take a moment to reflect and say we can't always take life for granted. You will be remembered, brother! Appreciate your energy, and the fun memories we had together, and you left us too soon man... If you have a bucket list or you haven't created one. We only get this one life so let's make the most of it! If anyone can make it. Anyone who is in the NYC area, please feel free to stop by and pay your respects tomorrow, Monday August 8th, 2022 @ 1:00PM at the Jamaica Muslim Center, followed by burial service at Washington Memorial Cemetery in Long Island.…

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Episode 100 of The Davidson Hang Reflections on A life Worth a Living -Being Ram Dass Top Ten Quotes 6:28

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I love reading biographies you can get the whole world of someone's life from reading their biographies and there are always so many juicy takeaways. "Maharaj-ji told me to be like Gandhi. Now I realized that meant fully participating in the human condition. But what did that look like? Others were better trained to alleviate suffering, like nurses, doctors, and political activists. They manifested compassion or fought injustice in their own ways. As I pondered Maharaj-ji’s instructions, I realized my ability is to serve as a spiritual friend to help others see what lies at the root of suffering and help them to awaken. I could help people get free to serve others." "Hold on to nothing." MAHARAJ-JI "Contentment is a practice. It’s not a feeling of accomplishment from doing something. Contentment is just being complete in the moment. In the moment, there is just presence, no future or past, just happy to be here in the moment. Contentment is an attitude of the soul." "Gandhi said, “When you surrender completely to God as the only Truth worth having, you find yourself in the service of all that exists. It becomes your joy and recreation. You never tire of serving others.” Billions of acts create suffering in the world—acts of ignorance, greed, violence. But in the same way, each act of caring—the billion tiny ways that we offer compassion, wisdom, and joy to one another—serves to preserve and heal our world. When I help someone change their perspective on their individual problems, I also change society. Meher Baba said, “Love is like a disease. Those who don’t have it catch it from those who do.” Love is transmitted from Maharaj-ji’s heart to my heart to your heart and to the next heart, one to another." "Love the best you can at any moment. Don’t harsh yourself—it can be tricky for everyone having this dual citizenship, of the biographical and the divine. You’re not alone; we are in this together, connected, all one." "As a teenager, I used to hide on the stairs to listen when Dad led Brandeis board meetings in our living room. I would overhear how they went about hiring and firing professors. I understood then that academia was clearly about who you knew, not what you knew. The power is wielded by money and big names, professors who get grants and have written the most books or papers. I didn’t have the books or brilliant research at Harvard, but I did know the power of connections. I was well-spoken and charismatic, and I was good at dropping a Freudian reference or two to impress my colleagues." It's interesting to see how Western society sees success especially working and interacting with so many business people and you notice there are tons who seem happy and those who have the money and you can tell they aren't as happy or content with life. It certainly makes you think and reflect a bit. "We stayed in pilgrim rest houses called dharmsalas, some put up by the government, with concrete rooms and wooden beds. At first it was an adventure, and the spartan conditions didn’t bother me. But it was very hot, and as the days went by, I needed to distract myself from the blisters and bad food. I tried to entertain myself narrating my past exploits to Bhagavan Das. I thought he would be amused, but he was completely uninterested. When I told stories, he replied, “ Just be here now.” I was thrown back into myself. Just be. Here. Now ." "Suddenly, sitting there, it occurs to me that if Maharaj-ji knows my thoughts about my mother, then he knows all my other thoughts too—including all the things I’m most ashamed of. My bisexual double life. My intellectual pretense. My anger at my mother. I can’t bear that he knows all this. These are things I keep carefully hidden. I’m convinced that if people were to know them, they wouldn’t love me. I’m sitting on the grass looking down, thinking about all these things I’m so ashamed of that I don’t want anyone to know. He’s sitting just above me, on his plank bed. I know he knows every one of these thoughts. He’s talking to other people as if nothing out of the ordinary is going on. Finally, I summon the courage to look up at him. He’s looking back down at me from only a few inches away—and all I see in his face is total love. I know he knows all these things I’m so ashamed of. He knows, but instead of criticism, all I feel is great love coming from him. He’s not judging me or mocking me or laughing at me. He’s just talking to people. I look up at him, and he looks down at me, and I realize he’s just loving me with pure unconditional love." "In the West the idea of surrendering to a guru carries negative connotations. It implies giving up power to another human being. But that internal surrender is really about letting go of the things that keep you separate, your own fetters. You surrender to something greater than yourself, to a love beyond form." "Maharaj-ji kept giving me these experiences with power until I saw it was love, not power, that matters."…

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Episode 99: A Life Worth Living: A Conversation about Mental Health Awareness Month 3:24

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Wanted to share why I am passionate about Mental Health Awareness Month.

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Episode 98: Reflections on a life worth living -Asian Pacific American Heritage Month 3:25

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May is Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month I want to acknowledge all of the Asian Leaders I've been privileged to learn from Jia Hyun, Linda Lin, Lily Youn Jaroszewski, Julie Tran, Michael Wong, Paul Park, Brian Lo, Ken Fung, and my incredible mother! Thank you for all of the sacrifices you all make for the greater good and for the community! Growing up my mother took on a lot of responsibilities being a single parent for 18+ years. She opened up two nail salons and works tirelessly to provide for us to have a better life than she would was living in Vietnam. We are blessed to have a life of many luxuries she never dreamed possible. I'm grateful that my grandma is still relatively healthy and we get to spend quality time with family. I wanted to spend this time to reflect my gratitude for your ancestors and think about how much they worked to provide for you to have a life better than they did.…

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Episode 97 of a Life Worth Living on Quotes from Thanks A Thousand A Gratitude Journal 6:28

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These were my favorite passages from a book about gratitude. I really enjoyed this book. “Gratitude has a lot to do with holding on to a moment as strongly as possible,” Scott told me. “It’s closely related to mindfulness and savoring. Gratitude can shift our perception of time and slow it down. It can make our life’s petty annoyances dissolve away, at least for a moment.” "The point is, it’s hard to be grateful if we’re speeding through life, focusing on what’s next, as I tend to do. We need to be aware of what’s in front of us. We need to stop and smell the roses, along with the graham crackers and soil and leather. So today, while sipping coffee with Ed, I tried to practice what psychologists call savoring meditation. I let the coffee sit on my tongue for twenty seconds, which may not sound like a long time, but I don’t want to keep Ed waiting. (And twenty seconds can be powerful if you really make each second count. Quality over quantity, right?) I focused on the viscosity of the liquid, the acidity, the bitterness . . . Was that apricot? I still couldn’t taste the distinct flavors, but I could see a way to unraveling the threads." "In our society, we fetishize the lead singers. And not just in music. The front people in every field—art, engineering, sports, food—get way too much attention. The cult of celebrity has spread into every corner. We overemphasize individual achievement when, in fact, almost everything good in the world is the result of teamwork. Consider the polio vaccine, which qualifies as a very good thing. According to the book Give and Take, by psychologist Adam Grant, Jonas Salk took all the glory for inventing the polio vaccine. He was on the cover of Time; he became the household name. But the truth of the vaccine’s invention is more nuanced. Salk was part of a team at the University of Pittsburgh." "But its long-term consequences might be even worse. By elevating individual achievement over cooperation, we’re creating a glut of wannabe superstars who don’t have time for collaboration." "Yes, I missed the train today, but what about all the times I got to the subway platform just as the doors were opening, allowing me to slip into the car while suppressing a smug smile? The reality is, I’m not unlucky with subways—it just seems that way because the enraging experiences are the ones that stick in my memory. It’s the same distorted way that I process feedback. If I get one hundred compliments and one insult, what do I remember? The insult." "I recently read an article about the poet Robert Bly, who said that when he was a kid and skinned his knee, his mother would say, “Just be thankful that you didn’t break your leg.” He found it annoying at the time, which is understandable. But he now sees its perverse wisdom." "In short, I learn that, as with almost everything I take for granted, humans have put an astounding amount of thought and care into creating this unassuming piece of plastic." “It’s been a wild ride,” Colleen says. She tells me about the time she was watching TV and saw a car commercial and, to her surprise, the driver was using a Java Jacket. It was their first national exposure. “You know that feeling you get when you have a crush on someone, that little giddy feeling? That’s what I felt.” A few years later, the Java Jacket got an even bigger honor. It was featured in a Museum of Modern Art exhibit called “Humble Masterpieces,” where it was displayed alongside an aspirin tablet and LEGO bricks. Colleen calls the experience surreal. “I remember going to New York and it was kind of overwhelming,” says Colleen. “I went to MoMA—the actual MoMA!—and there was our Java Jacket in a glass case. I remember I didn’t stay in the room long, because I wanted to see the Picassos and Monets.” Before I hang up, I ask Colleen to be honest. “Are you grateful I called, or was it more of a pain in your neck?” “No, I’m happy you called. It reminded me how lucky I am. I really feel I won the lottery. I mean, I wouldn’t want everyone who uses the Java Jacket to call, since I might not get any work done. But I’m happy you called.” "When I ponder the number of gratitude recipients involved, I start to get dizzy. There are the folks at the paper factory where the cardboard is made. The lumberjacks who cut down the trees for the wood pulp to make the cardboard. The metalworkers who manufacture the chainsaws the lumberjacks use. The miners who dig up the iron that is turned into the steel for the chainsaws." "Over dinner with Julie and the kids, I tell them I’m feeling snowed under. “I seriously think I might have to thank every single human on earth,” I say. Julie looks skeptical. She points to the People magazine lying nearby on the radiator. “What about her? How did Beyoncé help make your coffee?” I pause for a minute, and then I come up with an answer. With enough research, I explain, I could probably get to Beyoncé. Maybe one of the engineers who made the plastic lining for my coffee cup listened to Beyoncé songs to motivate her while studying for her chemistry final. Maybe the guy who drove the warehouse truck blasted Beyoncé to stay alert. “That’s kind of a stretch, don’t you think?” Julie says. “Yes and no,” I say. We are all so interconnected; it’s hard to know where to draw the line." "On the bad side, • Coffee can wreak havoc on the environment. A group called ClimatePath estimates that one pound of coffee—growing, packaging, shipping, etc.—creates five pounds of carbon dioxide. And that’s not to mention the billions of discarded plastic coffee lids floating in the Pacific. Or how coffee plantations are wiping out forests in Central America. • Coffee is the stimulant of choice by employers who want to overwork their laborers for an unhealthy number of hours. • Coffee farming has led to vast wealth imbalances, with a lucky handful making fortunes as millions remain mired in poverty. Again, to quote Uncommon Grounds, coffee has “led to the oppression and land dispossession of indigenous peoples, the abandoning of subsistence agriculture in favor of exports [and] overreliance on foreign markets.” "So where to import the water from? The Catskills seemed the perfect solution: The region had lots of rain, the altitude was high enough that gravity could help with delivery, and the residents didn’t have the political power to oppose such a project. And just as important, the water was “soft,” meaning it was low in calcium, the troublesome mineral that clogs up pipes. Its low calcium is also why New York water tastes clean, not metallic. “It’s one of the reasons why New York bagels and New York pizza taste so good,” says Adam." "This is a huge theme I need to remember as part of Project Gratitude: My comfort often comes at the expense of others. I benefit daily from the disruption to this community. I need to be more grateful for these sacrifices." “I love New York water,” Kirsten says. “I went to Philadelphia, and I couldn’t drink the water there. It tasted like cucumber to me.” "But one strategy I’ve found useful is the memento mori, the reminder of death." "My thoughts on this crystallized a few days ago when my friend sent me an essay called “I, Pencil,” which was written in 1957 by a libertarian scholar named Leonard E. Read. When I started to read the essay, I was alarmed by how similar it was to my coffee project—minus the gratitude and caffeine. Written in the first person from the point of view of the pencil, the essay details the work of the many people and raw materials that go into making a pencil. The cedar trees for the wood. The rubber for the eraser. “Think of all the thousands and thousands of skills . . . the mining of ore, the making of steel and its refinement into saws, axes, motors; the logging camps with their beds and mess halls.” "The threat of carbon monoxide is always on their minds. “Every morning,” Pat says, “you have to pay attention to where the wind is blowing, so you know where to go if there’s a leak.” I notice that the two PR people in the room have smiles that are looking increasingly strained. Almost like they’ve gotten a whiff of sulfur themselves. Later, the PR folks will stress to me that they take every precaution that they can. It’s a fair point. Steel is much less dangerous than it used to be decades ago, when mangled body parts and fatal injuries were common (Larry’s grandfather died from getting caught in some steel machinery). Injuries at the plant have declined 94 percent in the last thirty years. Better training and omnipresent signs have probably helped. Everywhere you look you see warnings: HIGH VOLTAGE. TIPOVER HAZARD. STOP, LOOK AND LISTEN. TAKE 2, THINK IT THROUGH. There’s even a crumpled red van left by the railroad tracks as a cautionary reminder; the van was totaled by an oncoming train. I ask Shannon, Joe, and Pat what they like best about their job. “I’m not sorry I stayed here,” says Joe, who had considered leaving to work in the aircraft industry. “It paid for two kids to go through college, and a house and a car and everything else.” "Next, Ed and I board a cozy, knees-to-the-chin propeller plane and land in a small city called Neiva. We climb into a van for a four-hour ride to an even smaller town called Pitalito. It’s a town, Ed tells me, that is known for two stimulant crops. Coffee is the legal one. After which we get in the back of a pickup truck for a ninety-minute drive up a mountain to the coffee farm. We’re joined by a woman named Lorena, who lives in Colombia and works for the import company. It’s a beautiful ride . . . and highly uncomfortable. We jounce along the rock-strewn road, occasionally letting out involuntary “oofs.” We grab the side of the truck as it hugs tight curves overlooking cliffs. I spot the driver doing something with his right hand that I really wish I hadn’t seen: the sign of the cross." "Let me pause here for a moment to state the obvious: I am lucky. That was the thought going through my mind as I took the bucket’s strap off my shoulders. I’d just picked coffee beans for ten minutes as research for a book. I didn’t pick coffee beans because I had no other job options and needed to earn money to feed my family, which is the situation of thousands of migrant workers. I picked coffee by choice, not necessity. And how did I arrive at the luxury of having this choice? Well, mostly luck." "The real world is no doubt a combination of luck and skill, but I lean strongly toward Ecclesiastes. If I had to put numbers to it, 20 percent of my fate has been determined by hard work and persistence, and 80 percent has been cosmic Powerball." "Luck determined that I was born in the developed world. Luck determined that I was the son of parents who could afford to send me to an expensive college. Luck determined my genetic makeup. And my career? It’s been filled with random breaks. At age twenty-three, I was getting ready to give up on writing and apply to psychology grad school when I sent off a Hail Mary letter addressed only to “Agent at ICM.” It somehow got out of the slush pile and landed on the desk of an Elvis-loving literary agent. He thought my idea for an Elvis-themed book might work. If he’d been a Springsteen fan instead, I might be teaching psychology at a small college." "I’m not dismissing the need for effort and persistence. Those who worked their way up from the bottom, who didn’t have the advantages I had, need effort and persistence even more than I did. I also acknowledge that, to a certain extent, you make your own luck and create your own opportunities. But only to a certain extent. You also need pure luck. As Barack Obama said in a postpresidential interview with David Letterman, “I worked hard and I’ve got some talent, but there are a lot of hardworking, talented people out there. There was an element of chance to it, this element of serendipity.” I agree with our former president. There are millions of hardworking, persistent people around the world living below the poverty line. I believe there are thousands of could-have-been Meryl Streeps working as waitresses because they didn’t get the lucky breaks. There are thousands of alternative-universe Steve Jobs working on assembly lines in factories. Here’s why I’m a fan of thanking our lucky stars every day: it helps with forgiving yourself your failures; it cuts down on celebrity worship and boosts humility; and, perhaps most important, it makes us more compassionate." "By thanking Chung’s parents, I’ve broken a thousand thanks . . . more or less. Could be 987, could be 1,015, but I’m counting it as the thousandth, since it seems tidy. Chung texts back a series of emojis and exclamation points. “Please tell Zane thank you. And thank you to you both for making me think more about all that I should be grateful for in my life.” She says she’s thankful for the sacrifices her parents made as immigrants. She says that after our talk, she’s realized gratitude is a discipline that needs to be practiced. It doesn’t always come naturally, even to glass-half-full types like her."…

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Episode 96: Davidson Hang Reflections Transformation can Occur in a moment 2:34

3 years ago2:34

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It's been a wild ride! Wow, this year has been full of ups and downs and self-discovery. Transformation can occur in a moment with a choice. A decision.

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Episode 95 of Davidson Hang Reflections Podcast: A Life Worth Living: The Power Of Yes 5:20

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