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The Growth Mindset Every Teen Needs Right Now | The Positively Healthy Mom with Chip Baker
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What if one mindset shift could change how teens handle pressure, comparison, and setbacks for the rest of their lives?
In this episode of The Positively Healthy Mom Podcast, host Laura Olander, teen and parent wellbeing coach and founder of Positively Healthy Coaching, sits down with Chip Baker, a fourth-generation educator, bestselling author, and transformational speaker, to talk about growth, self-awareness, and building resilience in today’s teens.
Chip shares how his life experiences, systems-driven approach, and deep commitment to service shaped his journey as an educator and author of over 30 books. Together, Laura and Chip explore:
- Why a growth mindset matters more now than ever for teens
- How self-awareness and “noise cancellation” help teens block out comparison and outside pressure
- The role gratitude plays in mental and emotional wellbeing
- How parents can support confidence without feeding perfectionism
- Why real growth comes from challenges, not comfort
This conversation is full of real-life wisdom, encouragement, and practical perspective for moms who want to help their teens grow into confident, grounded adults.
👤 About Our Guest
Chip Baker is a fourth-generation educator with over 26 years of experience as a teacher and coach. He is a multiple-time bestselling author (30+ books), podcaster, YouTuber, and transformational speaker. Chip is the creator and host of “Chip Baker – The Success Chronicles,” where he shares stories of inspiration, leadership, and service. His mission is simple: Live. Learn. Serve. Inspire.
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Transcript
Why do teens wear masks on social media?
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Being a people people pleaser um is something that I focus on and I know that kids resonate with that a lot because when I give this talk and I talk about different masks that people wear, it's like a protective mechanism.
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And one of them is people pleaser. You are enough. Because they see the highlights on social media, right? They see all of the highlights. We didn't get to see all of it. We saw regular stuff at social media where get the dressed up version, but they don't know behind the scenes everybody's dealing with something. Like we're all broken.
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Like none of us are perfect. We're all doing the best we can with what we have. And so I think the first thing is to realize that in whatever situation you're in, you are enough. is to watch them grow. Like, I love that's the word that you're using a lot. so I want to focus on that, like grow and realize that someday they are, they have, I have a couple different ones. So that's I'm thinking of a couple different people who have said they want to help people like themselves. And that's when my little pride in my heart grows so big for my clients because I'm like, yes, I love it.
Introduction to Positively Healthy Mom Podcast
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Welcome to the Positively Healthy Mom Podcast, where positive parenting meets well-being.
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Hello and welcome to the Positively Healthy Mom podcast. I'm your host, Laura Olinger, teen and parent well-being coach and founder of Positively Healthy Coaching. And I'm very excited to introduce you to my guest today. Chip Baker is a fourth generation educator.
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has been a teacher and coach for over 26 years and has been a multiple time bestselling author with over 30 books, which just blows my brain. yeah um I don't know how that's possible, but we're
Chip Baker's Journey to Bestseller
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going to find out. and He's a YouTuber, a podcaster and a transformational speaker, which is actually how he and I met through a group of speakers. So, Chip, welcome to the podcast.
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Yes, thank you so much for having me. I've been excited about this opportunity. Let's let's go get it. Yeah, let's get it today. We're going to do this. So beginning of the year, fresh start. We're ready to record.
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So Chip, that's where I really want to start. Like all these books, that's a lot of books. And not only are they books, but like they've been bestsellers. So tell me, what is this story about how did you become such an amazing author? And how is it that these books have just blown up and done so well? People are obviously interested in what you have to say. So tell us a little bit about that.
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Yeah, I think first off, want to say thank you so much for having me on your platform. I consider it honor and a privilege when people would take the time to want to talk to me. so yeah So first, I just want to say thanks so much for that. But then the next thing is, yeah, it's it's been ah a true blessing for me. It's really far surpassed anything I ever thought it would be. You know, like where I'm from, where I grew up, grew with a single parent mother. And I know you talked, you know, you talked about mom stuff. And so I i can go that we can go there a little bit, too. I love to do that. But but um and I grew up with a single parent mom in a small hometown. And so I didn't grow up around people that wrote books, you know. And so for me to have one book is is awesome to me. But but then ah more than one. Wow. Yeah.
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But yet just like anything.
Managing Multiple Projects Efficiently
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um I'm a systems person, right? So like like growing up, I played four sports for four years in high school. um ah My family, they, you know, service people. My mom was a minister of music in our church. So, you know, we were always involved in church stuff, church functions, church activities, ah community things.
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so So I've lived a life from a kid of doing lots, right? And so, you know, my mom was like, well, if you're going to do something, you You give your all to it or you go, you'd be great at it. Right. And so like was expected to have great grades, you know, and sports. If I'm going to do it, you give your all and you work at it. Right. Everything you do. And so really fast forward.
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ah Well, let me go back. I didn't know that in my life at that time I was learning transferable skills. It was going to help me for the rest of my life. All right. And so now in my life,
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I mean, I've always juggled lots. I've always had done lots of things. And so that's what has allowed me to do multiple books. You know, I've put systems in place. You know, there's things that I do when I write, um how I write, you know, in my notes, when I do things, when things come to me, when I see stuff, or there's systems in place that I have. And that's allowed me to be efficient um with not just book writing, but in my life.
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Yeah, yeah. So I love that systems and being kind of having ah a method to your madness. So that way it's not madness. There's a method behind it. So what is the inspiration like you're saying, like behind what the content is in your book, like you're saying it comes from your life. Like, is that where all your ideas come from? Or is there ah another source of that?
Authenticity in Content Creation
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Oh, that's a good question. I love that. I think for me, ah I'm a I'm a and you'll get to know we haven't really done much, but you'll get to know that like I'm really in just a genuine ah person, man. Like like what you see with Chip Baker is what you're going get. ands you know And I'm all you know, my goal is to to always strive for consistency. Right. I want people to know what they're going to get from Chip Baker.
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I want them to know that they can depend on me. I want them to know that I'm going to always have a great attitude. i want them to know that I'm going to give my all oh to every opportunity that I have. You know, like I said, you know, just this opportunity I'm grateful for. Like, I want to give you my all and make it great. Yeah, because of that. And so um I don't feel i feel that it's not genuine and not authentic if we can't come from a place of our experiences. Right. I can't speak on or write on anything that I haven't experienced. I don't want to give you I'm not going to give you fluff.
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Yeah. like I want to give you the real I want to tell you like, hey, like, you know, ah i I did this and it was bad for me. Don't do that. Let me help you out.
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ah Yeah. and So yeah that's where it comes from for me. um But then also, I want to say, too. um I'm really just an introverted person and people, you know, would be like, man, you speak, you do books, you podcasts. I don't understand that. But really, like my passion allows me to come alive.
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Just knowing that the big man has truly blessed me with some skills, with some talents, blessed me to have some great experiences, blessed me to have some great relationships and be around some amazing people um that I've learned from. And um I just can't keep that to myself. I have to share that with others.
Processing Life Experiences into Lessons
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Yeah. So what I'm really like getting from this so far is like this, you must have an off the charts level of self-awareness because most people, well, I hate to generalize, but it's not every person that can just have a life of experiences and then be able to write 30 books, right? Yeah. Like there's something you're saying, you're kind of an introvert. So to me, what i piece together with that, and you tell me if how right or wrong or whatever, steer me in the wrong direction if you want, or different direction, and is that you're really processing kind of your experiences and then you're able to not just process it internally, but then put that on paper and
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And that level of self-awareness that that takes to be able to create like a lesson, like a learning lesson for youth. I know you said you speak with all ages, literally kids through teenagers, through young adults, through adults, right? And so be able to teach a lesson that's valuable, that people are able to take off this paper and then put it into their own lives, put it into practice. Like that's a pretty awesome talent. So how did you...
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I mean, I feel like that's just something that you can't even learn. Like you just know, like how, how do you feel like you've gotten that talent? Man, that's, that's so good that you asked me that. Like, I love, um, I love that you have the awareness to ask me about awareness.
The Value of Diverse Perspectives
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yeah We're so aware today. We're so aware. so no I think it's, I think it's really cool because you're right.
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Um,
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I don't know, I guess my my and training, I guess, I don't know. I guess the big man is giving me a gift, if you will. I don't know, but but i but I have it and I'm aware that I have it, right? There we go with our awareness again. know But I just think um like from a young age,
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like I never have really wanted to talk much, you know, like I've just, like, like I just check things out. Like I'm, I'm curious about checking things out and like, I love music. So hearing, ah seeing things, um, and I've done that, you know, all my life. And so, um,
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As I've gotten older, you know, and going to college and getting degrees and having jobs, you know, I've always been aware of, man, it that person brings this to the table. That's pretty cool. you know, this person is from there. Like college is really when it's really neat because of people from everywhere. Like, wait, you're from Nigeria? Like, what's it like in Nigeria? You know, like, like you're from Miami. I'm I've never been. I wonder what it's like in Miami, you know? Well, you're from California. mean, that's cool. what What do y'all do in California? You know, like like those kind of things. ah And it's always been like that. And so I've just come to the realization that I love learning. I love checking out the scenes ah to see.
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um and appreciate others and the value that others bring. um And then, you know, i strive to add value in every situation that I am. I want to be the glue, you know, like, like at work, you know, if there's situations when the coaching environment, there's something that's wrong. Well, I don't want to take time complaining about it or look for somebody else to do it.
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I can go do it, you know, like, yeah like go, go figure it out, you know? And so, ah I agree with you on the awareness piece.
What does noise-canceling metaphor teach us?
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um And I think too, oh, this is good right here. You said you like stories, right? So yeah so a a few years ago, they um started making these headphones, right? They were big, right? You put them on, oh, I had a pair of them here. Oh yeah, I have someone some somewhere, yeah. and and you And you put them on your you put them on your ear and and when you put them on your ear, like you hear nothing else on the outside. You hear everything, like the good music, the the words, the all of the instruments, the the quality, you know, all of that, you hear really good noise cancellation headphones, right?
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Well, in our life, it's important that we have noise cancel cancellation as well, right? And it allows us to be able to hear and see the things that we need to do that will give us maximum growth in our life. Right. And so um when we do that, it allows us to do more of the things we enjoy. It allows us to learn and have the awareness about ourselves.
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Oh, I don't like that. Oh, that and it brings that makes me happy. I like to be of service. You know, I love exhibiting gratitude, like different things you learn about yourself when you have the noise cancellation and and and you get on a path of heightened growth, if you will. Okay. Right. Yeah. Like, like accelerated heightened growth, um, because you're hyper-focused on what's important to you, right? You've prioritized and you've focused on what's important to you and all that, all that other stuff don't matter. Right. Right. It don't like you, you're focused in on what's important to you. And before you know it, man, you're at 30 bucks.
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Okay, so that's the secret. That's one of the the one of the secrets because the other piece that I picked up in there was your curiosity. So when you said, oh my gosh, I want to know about Miami. I want to know about Nigeria. i want to know about LA, right? Like your curiosity of people and just like you're saying situations, you're observing. And then you have this extra layer of kind of canceling out the unnecessary noise and information, all that.
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So that's really, for me, building a clearer picture about who Chip Baker is and why, how you got to this point.
Overcoming Social Comparison
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And so i feel like that piece right there, I would love to focus on a little bit longer because the moms of my, my listeners are moms of teenagers. And one of the things that I focus on, on a regular basis for my audience is just helping your teenager be more confident,
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reduce anxiety um one of the big things that i talk about in my transformational speech that i give to teenagers in high schools and middle schools one of the pieces of that is blocking out some of that and so many um i don't want to stereotype too much that it's mostly it's more girls than boys i don't have statistics on it but the idea of being a people people pleaser um is something that I focus on. And I know the kids resonate with that a lot because when I give this talk and I talk about different masks that people wear, it's like a protective mechanism. and one of them is people pleaser. There's other matt masks that we wear that teens wear specifically.
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yeah And so how, as you, Chip Baker, would you address the moms and or the teens directly the the idea of like blocking out other people's opinions, other people like that social comparison. Like I love the metaphor of that, those noise canceling headphones, but like, well, how would you teach that to, you know, in your way?
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Well, first off, let me let me, if you don't mind, let me, let me go back and and you didn't know this about me. So I want to make sure that I i say this here. Um, Like I said, I said earlier, like I was raised by single parent mom. Yeah. But what most people don't know, and I'd say this is that.
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I believe that I was raised by a superhero in my house. Right. So to me, my mother was a superhero. Right. Like she and the things that she did to take care of us, what she instilled in us. um She did an amazing job, you know working multiple jobs to you know ensure my sister and I were taken care of, had our needs met. didn't miss any of our games and activities. You know, I'm playing college football and she's there and I know we don't have the money for her to be able to do that. You know, like, yeah, just, just things like that. so, so my mother was amazing. so
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Oh, it's amazing. And so yeah it's really, it's really make, she really made, no, really, she made me. So I need to interview her. can How can I get her on here? Well, she's passed. She passed about five years ago. I'm sorry to hear that.
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Yeah, thank you. But but she I wanted to make sure that I set the tone with that, with with with talking about my superhero mom. You know, she was a, like i said, I'm a fourth generation educator. So she was an educator. um you know was on the city council in our in our town uh first af first black lady on the city council in our town i mean yeah she's done uh music in our churches so much education so so she she taught us she was the she was the visual of what what what superhero should be that gave me chills right there yeah i know you love what
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I'm feeling it. Like I'm feeling that that yeah I'm feeling the amazing strength that she had, like the amazing example, like she's doing, she's doing some awesome stuff as for you to witness as a child. Oh man.
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And I, and I, and I know like the struggle, right? Like, you know, those that can resonate with like single parent, you know, financial problems, you know, having to move different places. You don't know, like all of those things that come along with the struggle, right? Yeah. Some things yeah and I still don't really talk about today because they were just tough. Right. um But um she instilled so
Lessons from a Superhero Mom
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much in us. And just to go to your question, I think there were a couple of things that
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she instilled in me that has really helped me. And I think first of those is um
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you are enough. o Yes. you know and and And I think you know you and I growing up, it wasn't,
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it wasn't as, i mean, it was still some of that, like the comparison, all of that, but like it's way, like it's ah on a whole other level now. yeah i'm an I'm an educator, you know, I'm a parent. So I know like it's a, because they see the highlights on social media, right? They see all of the highlights. All right, well, we didn't get to see all of We saw regular stuff. right just The people we looked up to were like coach so-and-so that I see or Mrs. So-and-so that that i I actually see them every day.
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And now they they look up to the people that are on social media where they get the dressed up version, but they don't know behind the scenes. Everybody's dealing with something like we're all broken, like none of us are perfect. We're all doing the best we can with what we have. And so I think the first thing is to realize that in whatever situation you're in, you are enough.
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Right. The big man made you how he wants you to be. So just live in that and be grateful for that. I think the second the second thing is um it's OK to be an independent thinker.
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Mm Yeah. I love that. Yeah. And so like, she if, if, if, all if everybody's going to jump off a bridge, would you jump off that bridge? Yeah. yeah Like, you know, just because everybody else is doing something, it don't mean you have to do it. Right. You have to do what's best for you. Right. And just, just prime example is, you know, coach Laura, you know, you have things going on in your life with your family. that are your priorities and they are most important to you, right? I have certain things going on with myself and my family and they are most important to me, right? And so when you look at that, like there's some things that's important to you that's not important to me. Or something that's important to me that's not important to you. yeah right yeah And so we have to learn to prioritize ah what's important to us and really go hard on working on that
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And not worrying about what anybody else thinks about It yeah don't matter what anybody else think about what I'm doing. Like, yeah. Like, are you okay with it? Is it important to you?
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Well, do you? Don't worry about anybody else. I don't care. I guess that's the athlete in me, I guess. Like, people are going always judge. People are going always, hit the head coach in me too, right? People are going to always have an opinion about something, right?
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um But none of that, here, I'm going to go coach again. None of that crap matters. None of that crap matters. Yeah, there we go. Yeah, now we're bringing the heat. Yeah, that's what I'm looking for. None of that. yeah None of that matters. What matters is what's important to you.
Growth Through Challenges
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Are they in alignment with your priorities? And what happens is, you know, going back to the noise cancellation, and when you allow yourself to really focus in on what's important to you, that's where you have the the real self-development, self-growth.
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Mm hmm. And then it gets really good when you can see that you live a life where you have continued growth and you can take those experiences. You can take those experiences and those things that you've been blessed and fortunate to learn and use that to help others.
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That's, that's when it gets good right there. That's where I am in my life. m That's huge. That's huge. And i I actually have been experiencing that firsthand with some of my clients who have had some struggles. And what's really cool is to watch them grow. Like, I love that the word that you're using a lot. So I want to focus on that, like grow and realize that someday they are, they have, I have a couple different ones. So that's i'm thinking of a couple different people who have said they want to help people like themselves. And that's when my little pride in my heart grows so big for my clients. Yes, I love it. I love it. I love it. I do feel amazing when they realize that they have that inside themselves and that they always had. Right. It's just like Dorothy finding her way home. Like it was always in you. It was always in your heart. Yeah. Yeah. So it's just amazing. So I love to, I love that you're using the word growth a lot because I think that's not something that, um,
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kind of the average person walking around thinks about or talks about like kind of we, you and I live in this world of personal development and personal growth and self-development. And so for us, it's like, this is like our normal language, but I love to hear you just kind of speak it so that everybody is thinking about it, right? Like that's when you have, struggles in your life and like the question is how are you gonna grow what are you gonna learn and it seems like you're literally the walking embodiment of that example for people yeah yeah yeah i love how you said that to um you know the people like that i've been around my son and you know athletes students um you know like i and again a system process you know none of us are immune from growing through tough challenges don't let me say that again Yeah, I
How does mindset affect mental health?
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know. That was good. thought that not None of us are immune from growing through tough challenges. i don't care who you are. Right. We all are going to face some some obstacles, some challenges in our life. But what we have to do is make sure that we grow through it and and not just go through it. Right. Grow through it so that when we get on the other side of that. We're better ah for having experienced it. But then again, like we've talked about already, we we can give that to others because other people, there's going to be some people that you come across in your life that are going to experience the same thing. You can say, oh, hey, let me help you out with this. And so.
00:23:31
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and so Couple of things on that. I believe oh our maximum growth is on the other side of our toughest challenges.
00:23:45
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That's huge. I mean, you think about working out, right? Any of y'all that's ever done like power cleans or squats? yeah It hurts.
00:24:00
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It's really it it takes a lot out of you to do that. Right. Yeah. I mean, I'm so we're just from doing yoga the other day. Man. Yeah. Yeah. But but but when you do that, it's probably's the best lifts for you because it's complete total body things that will help you. And on the other side of that, you're more explosive. You have more power. you more You're faster. right You have more confidence. right All of the things that come along with the growth.
00:24:26
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oh But you had to experience those tough challenges. So in life, it's like that as well. right And it's just about our perspective. You know, how we view what we do oh determines and affects how we do what we do.
00:24:40
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All right. And so we have to have the proper perspective when we're attacking those challenges. Yeah. You know, I love, you know, my podcasts are very unscripted and and I love that you are so amazing at going with the flow here because um the definition I use of mental health is one that I was taught by my mentor because um he talked about how So many people don't really know what that means. Like, it's like, we all say the words mental health a lot. We hear them a lot, but what does that really mean? And if you Google it, there's going to be a million definitions.
00:25:19
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And so the one i use is very simple and it's the mental, our mental health is the quality of our thoughts about ourselves, others, and the world around us consciously and unconsciously.
00:25:37
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And so what you said earlier is like exactly my definition, right? You said, um actually now I lost your words, but it was kind of like what you think, like what your thoughts are, what your focus is on, like what are you making of a situation?
00:25:54
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And so that's how, when I even talk to kids, I make it so simple because when I say the quality of, it sounds complicated, but it really isn't. It's either kind of a positive quality or a negative quality.
00:26:05
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Like this is amazing or this sucks or some like variation on that spectrum. And so it's like, if we can, even in a tough situation, find some way to get the, and it doesn't mean we can't feel sad or angry or mad or resentful, right? It's not that we can't feel the feelings.
00:26:24
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But if we can then get through that situation by looking at what our thoughts are about that situation and how we can back to you and the word growth, how can we grow? What can we learn? And so that's when that for me, that's when the transformation happens is kind of like in that moment when we can redefine a situation, an experience, whatever it was. So what what are your thoughts about my thoughts?
00:26:52
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My thoughts about your thoughts are deep. i think I think the first thing I want to share with you is, bam, this right here.
The Power of Gratitude
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Okay.
00:27:04
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I love it. but The path for coaches. Emotional intelligence. Oh my gosh. Amazing. And so hi chit baker this is one of my most recent books. And these are the authors, the collaborative authors that are in this book. Oh, sweet.
00:27:18
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Okay. we did, we, I have, this is my book series that I'm doing now. We're working on volume three now, which is self-awareness that you talked about. There we go. We're on the same wavelength. Yeah. Yeah. But, but this emotional intelligence, you know, it really talks about what, what you hit on. Yeah.
00:27:35
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Earlier and I agree with that. I think it's um It's really a mindset shift, if you will. And I think the way we, um just like anything, we have to exercise it. We have to work it out, right? Like we don't just show up and are great at something, right? Like I just don't show up and walk into a weight room and I'm strong, right? Or don't show up or like put a book to my head or something and be smart, right? I just, you have to put the work yeah you have to put the work in for anything to be better at it and so it's a mindset shift of being intentional about growing ah with your mindset if you will and so um i think how i do that in my life is by practicing gratitude and it's i think that gra practicing gratitude is a simple way
00:28:31
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to kind of jumpstart your steps to working on your intentional awareness, your intention, your intentional appreciation um and really go back to awareness, because when you say, OK, well.
00:28:47
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All right, so I'm in this situation and. um Man, maybe maybe there's people around me to have better shoes than I do. Yeah. Yeah. Right.
00:28:59
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um and and I wish I maybe could have better shoes, but I have shoes. a There's some people that don't even have shoes or don't have feet.
00:29:13
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That's true. Yeah. Yeah. How can you argue with that? Right. right So, so I mean, like, yeah i'm i I'm grateful for the shoes that I have then right ah yeah you know Growing up, you know the the house that we lived in, you know it may not have been a great house.
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It may have been some things that it was built by family and was so it was older. There were some things that the modern houses didn't have right growing up. But we had shelter, right? I had ah had some place to sleep. When it was cold, I had some place to be warm.
00:29:53
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It wasn't a two-story house or central air and heat or, you know, all of those amenities and things. that But there's some people that sleeping on the cold on the cold sidewalk.
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Yeah.
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I can like, I'm imagining a teenager. Well, you know, I have four teenagers in my house, so it's not too hard to imagine, but I imagine just a teenager hearing you say that and them buying into that, agreeing with that. Like, yes, like, oh, you're right. Like maybe I haven't had the gratitude because every teenager I know always wants a different pair of shoes or they want this, they want that, you know, and adults too, you know, we all do it too. But, um,
00:30:40
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they, um I think teenagers would really benefit from that perspective. And I love that idea of gratitude. And because it's like, you're saying you could have it worse. And um again, that goes back to that feeds right into my definition of mental health, because that's the quality of your thoughts when you're having gratitude. That's a positive quality thought versus I don't have this. I wish I had that. I without that's and kind of a negative quality thought. So ah Man, I just feel like we have so much to learn from you. I feel like everybody really does. um And I could go on. i know we could go on for hours in here. But how can people find you if they want to know more about you and learn from you and follow you?
Supporting Mothers and Sharing Positivity
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Yeah. Well, let me say this first, Coach Laura. ah This doesn't have to be a one time thing. Like I'm open for being of service for you anytime you need me. So i feel free to connect. and And I'll just tell you, too, like um I have a passion for and like when I saw your stuff about moms, like I have a passion for giving back to mothers oh because I'm telling you, I'm a product of.
00:31:51
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of a superhero mom. And so she instilled great things into me. And I strive to help people as much as I can to give back just based off of my experiences and in hope to help. Right.
00:32:06
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And so anytime um you need me to do anything to help with that, you got me. So I want to say that. And it you got you recording. I will. So I will hold you to that. Yes. You got to hold me to it. Hey, Chip, for remember when you said that? Hey, y'all remember Chip's head? Yeah.
00:32:25
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No, I, um but my social media is at Chip Baker TSC, as in the success chronicles. All of my social media is that except for X and X is at Chip Baker 19. I'd love for you to go on and check out some of the positive inspiration and motivation. And, you like, I would like everybody like, follow, subscribe, leave them. That's fine too. But really, if you see something on there that you like, I'd ask that you would, um you know, and it resonates with your assets that you just share with someone that you love and care about.
00:32:57
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Yeah. Yeah. I love it That's like how, to make a positive impact, right? Like everybody can play a role in having a positive impact. Like you could have a completely different occupation. You could be a mom and you could be sharing Chip's message too. And just kind of like helping spread this, your ideas today about gratitude, about self-awareness, about emotional intelligence, about just having a good mindset and how that can benefit you and your growth. So, um, thank you Well, thank you. I am certainly going to be taking you up on your offer. And and I'm so glad that we had the pleasure to talk today in my first, um you know, conversation of the new year, like legit conversation. So it's been a pleasure spending time with you. And i know we will see be seeing more of each other soon.
00:33:47
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Thanks for having me, Coach Laura. Go get it. All right. I will do. Sounds great.