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Welcome back to the fuel your legacy podcast. Each week we expose the faulty foundational mindsets of the past and rebuild a newer, stronger foundation essential in creating your meaningful legacy. We've got a lot of work to do. So let's get started.
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As much as you like this podcast, I'm certain that you're going to love the book that I just released on Amazon, fuel your legacy, the nine pillars to build a meaningful legacy. I wrote this to share with you the experiences that I had while I was identifying my identity, how I began to create my meaningful legacy and how you can create yours. You're gonna find this book on Kindle, Amazon and as always on my website, Sam Knickerbocker calm.
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Welcome back to fuel your legacy this week. We have another guest from England man I just love We are criss crossing the globe with our guests here but Julie Barbara, she is the CEO and founder of spark
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consulting. She's a specialist in preparing startup investment companies
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really to go get investors really to get started. And that's one of the main concerns a lot of entrepreneurs is how do we fund our dreams? How do we fund this thing we believe is going to be the next big thing. And so in that tune, she authored her first book. Are you investor ready, and it's going to be coming out in the spring of 2020. Depending on the month, it may already be out here, which is exciting. I don't know exactly. When your books coming out. Maybe you don't either. Well, I had to have
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I released the book and so I know how that happens. Sometimes you think, Oh, it's gonna come out this month, and then it's the next month and then the next month, so I totally get it. I'm sure my listeners have been like, oh, when Sam's book coming out again. When's it coming out again? Well, what's gonna be Christmas? I don't think we're gonna have it ready by Christmas.
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And so yes, it's always an interesting thing. But that's how authorship goes making sure it's ready for the public. So go ahead and
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Julian let us know kind of where you came from why you You're so passionate about helping other people get their dreams out to the world and and make those dreams become a reality show. Um, so my, my career has really been
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20 years in large corporate financial services, working across consultancy regulators, banks,
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and doing a mix of
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strategy work and
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delivering big change across big organizations, and also working in innovation. So helping those organizations to change how they act and the way that they do things for the better hopefully.
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And that
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I guess I've been an organizer since I was kid
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I've always been a list maker and an organizer. And I've always loved
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change, positive change. Since I was a since I was a child as well. So my favorite books even when I was
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reading the children's classics when I was six, and seven and eight were things like the children of the New Forest, which was all about children who had transplanted from the life that they knew and dropped down somewhere else where they had to make a new, a new life for themselves and, and that always captured my attention, that kind of newness and that possibility for for change. And so through my whole career,
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that's kind of always been something that's, that's present in in all the roles that I've had.
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And then kind of towards the end of that 20 years in large court
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I'd got married, I'd had my son who's now four and a half. And I really started to hit the point where
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the standard corporate life wasn't feeling like it fitted anymore. And when with the lifestyle that we wanted, I wanted the...