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Welcome to Lee Asher's World Podcast! 🎙️ I’m so excited to have you here as we kick off this brand-new journey together. In this very first episode, I want to give you a taste of what’s to come. The show is all about exploring the incredible world around us, sharing inspiring stories, diving into meaningful conversations, and learning from unique perspectives.
In future episodes, we’ll talk about a variety of topics—from personal growth and well-being to adventure and creativity. I’ll be bringing on guests from all walks of life to dive deep into their experiences, challenges, and triumphs. Whether it's life lessons, exciting adventures, or fresh insights, this podcast will be your go-to place for inspiration, connection and wellness.
So sit back, relax, and get ready for an exciting journey ahead. I can’t wait to share more with you! Let’s explore Lee Asher’s World together.
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Introduction to Lee Asher's World
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Hey everyone, i hope you're having a beautiful day. Welcome to the first episode of the Lee Asher's World podcast. This is my personal podcast.
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I'm starting this podcast for so many reasons, but a question that I know without a doubt we're going to get is why why is this not called the Asher House
The Asher House: More Than Lee's Platform
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podcast? And the reason is, is because The Asher House is not mine.
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The Asher House, I can't just ah say whatever I want on it and do whatever I want on it.
Growth and Mission of The Asher House
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It has been so incredibly beautiful to grow the Asher House to where it is today.
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Over 75 employees, of six board members, just a whole team of people to make sure that the Asher House is successful and doing everything we can to save as many and as many animals as possible.
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But
Personal Growth and Leadership Journey
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we have to remember that, you know, It wasn't always this way. It started off with just me, Lee Asher, in an RV and a cell phone saying whatever I want, doing whatever I wanted.
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and And now it's much bigger. And it's it's it's a it's quite the,
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it's it's um
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It's not something that I would want to ah want to put at risk. you know I want to be able to talk about anything that i that comes to mind. I want to be talk about things that are very personal to me, my darkest moments, my deepest struggles.
Separating Identity from The Asher House
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ah you know The Asher House was built was built off me being really vulnerable and open, and I can still be vulnerable and open on the Asher House, but given the level that it has gone to,
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it obviously can't be focused on me, right? and ah and And that's okay. I got to be honest. it's a little bit It's a little bit hard for me. It's a little bit hard for me. The Asher house is my baby and it always will be, and I'm not going anywhere.
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But I have realized that it's become my identity and I don't think it's very healthy to have something be your identity that technically doesn't even belong to you.
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And what I mean by that is just because i founded the nonprofit, it's still not mine. I recently learned a couple of years ago that, hey Tommy, you're falling here.
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Sorry, I've got, if you're if you're not watching and you're listening, I've got Tommy Tom Toms on my lap here.
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He just ate lunch and I could taste it. I could taste your lunch. I could taste your lunch. I recently learned that, you know, ah if you, you can't own a nonprofit, nobody owns a nonprofit. A nonprofit ah belongs to the public.
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It belongs to the public.
Purpose of Lee Asher's World Podcast
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And, Learning that, learning that and figuring that out, uh, was very weird for me. And that out of ego, it just, now that we have, you know, when I first started, there was no board of directors.
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When I first started the Asher house, it was a for-profit business. It wasn't even a nonprofit. I never really figured out what a nonprofit was till later. so ah The long story short, Lee Asher's world is me. It's mine. It's going back to my roots. It's going back to being able to say whatever I want and bringing any guests that I want on. and You know, it's a it's my new baby. It's my second child. The Asher house is my firstborn, my eldest.
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And Lee Asher's world is ah is my second child who who I'm going to love just as much. Do I love that child just as much right now? Not yet.
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you know, I'm still i'm still learning how to have something in my life other than
Balancing Identity and Passion
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Asher house. i don't know if that makes sense. You wanna go down or you want kisses? I'm gonna put you down. And then he's gonna try to jump right back up on my lap. Tommy never knows what he wants.
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So I'm really excited to start this new, I'm really excited to start this new chapter with you, this new journey with you. I'm not nervous. There is that part of me that, ah doesn't want to. There's that part of me that i i I've worked so hard to build the community of the Asher House to make the Asher House what it is today, which is just a massively successful organization.
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um And I am, and I always will be the founder of the Asher House. And I'm so grateful for that. So there's that part of me that's like, man, now you have to do it all over again with Lee Asher's world.
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But instead I realized we don't have to do anything. I don't have to do it all over again. I'm choosing to, I want to, I want to be able to grow an additional community as a beautiful as the Asher house, not even better, but just as beautiful.
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um Because to me, truthfully, and I'm not just saying this because you know, ah because of what the Asher house means to me, I don't think it gets better than the Asher house. I would never try to compete with the Asher house.
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I mean, think about not just the amount of animals that the Asher house has saved, but think about the amount of people that the Asher house has inspired to have better days and even to even influence to adopt and to treat animals with kindness and just be better overall people. you know So in no way do i want to grow to grow Lee Asher's world above the Asher house.
Gratitude and Differentiation of New Podcast
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I want Lee Asher's world. It's not about numbers to me.
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I just want it to impact people the way I've impacted people ah that are a part of the Asher house community, if that makes sense. And We'll be talking about health and wellness, my relationships with both people, with dogs, all the things that I've learned from working with and the Asher House and growing with the Asher House over the past 10 years and and so much.
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so much, you know, and and I'm saying this to myself, not just to you, you know, I really need to learn that I'm capable of more. I'm capable of more.
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And ah sometimes i i spend so much time at the Asher House Sanctuary. I'm there all the time. And i'm and you'll hear dogs barking in the back, you know,
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I'm constantly surrounded by dogs and by staff, by people. i i in in some ways In some ways, I feel like I'm losing a little bit of my, not necessarily losing my identity, but not knowing not remembering all I have to offer, that I'm not just the dog guy. I'm not just the the guy who rescues animals. you know I've always had such a large passion, such a big passion for helping people and wanting to be a better man and be a better person and such a passion for
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personal development and growth. And i would love for you all to be on that journey with me. I'm sure that I have many patrons that are are listening to this podcast, ah the Patreon community. i will never let a day go by if I have the opportunity to tell you how much I love you and how much I appreciate you, every single one of you.
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I will always, always take advantage of that moment. So to the Patreon community, if you're wondering what would be different about Lee
Rediscovering Self Beyond The Asher House
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Asher's world and being a patron, well, of course, you don't have to pay ah to listen to Lee Asher's world, the Lee Asher's world podcast.
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Clint, can you let Tommy out, please? um Thanks, man. But, you know, we're in i don't i don't see it getting as personal as what we all have together. i don't want you to at all be worried ah about that.
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But to the patrons, ah some of you have been a patron for five years. this This part is for you, you know. um um'm read um'm I'm rediscovering myself right now, guys. you know I have learned so much about myself in the past year, so much about the people that I surround myself with.
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And ah I realized that you know, one of the things that I've learned really is that the Asher house, although I know that there will never be a separation, I'm not going anywhere, i do feel, and hopefully this changes, but there is no the Asher house without me.
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And the problem is, is that I feel the insecurity that I have is that there's no me without the asher house and i don't want to feel like there's no me without anything there should be nobody or no business no organization that is your one and only identity and i am more than that i do public speaking right i i i do i i do so many things that i think should be enough reassurance for me that says, look, you're so much more than just the Asher house, but I still haven't convinced myself that.
Funding Decisions and Nonprofit Stability
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And I think that this podcast and this community would be a huge step forward and showing me that I can build something other than the Asher house, if that makes sense.
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Although I have done a lot, I don't feel like I have, I don't feel like I've built a lot. Um, And I know that I have a lot of ah lot left in the tank, as they say, and I have a lot more to give.
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And I always feel my best when I'm giving. um i think that could be to a fault because I'm not very good at you know receiving love, receiving kindness, but I am a giver and I am a pleaser to a fault, which is something that I'm also ah working on myself this year. And I say this um I express this because I want to go through this with you and I want to be understood by you and I know you probably, for those of you who are used to watching the old school Asher House videos, when I talk about mental health and I talk about my struggles, um I don't feel like it's a safe place for me to to do that anymore. you know it's just It's over 12 million people and everyone is looking for me to make a mistake.
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And I know when people listen to this and watch this, I know that everyone is just, not everyone, that is so not true. Like we're talking about, i I think 99.9% of people are so supportive and and looking for me to you know to to say something good and to be happy for me.
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But it does feel like a lot of people are are waiting for me to say something wrong or waiting for me to make a mistake. And I feel more confident making mistakes when it has nothing to do with the Asher house, when it doesn't when they can't jeopardize anything or anybody else other
Podcast Intentions and First Guest Announcement
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than me.
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For example, what do I mean by that? well When I purchased the Asher House Sanctuary back in 2022, I purchased that with my own money.
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Now, when I say my own money, i didn't have millions and millions of dollars saved. I had to get three separate loans, one of them being a private loan of 12% interest um in order to purchase that property.
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I could have used nonprofit funds, but I didn't want to put the nonprofit at risk. You see? So this is me wanting to be able to be vulnerable, to be me without putting anybody or anything at risk.
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and um Does that mean that whatever I say here cannot and will not affect you know the Asher house? of course Of course not. I don't know. But at least I don't feel like i'm that I have to keep my mouth shut.
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This gives me a place where where at least I feel a little bit safer to be able to be completely transparent and vulnerable and really speak of any about anything that...
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I can, a legally, and of course, anything that I want to. um We're going to have guests. I'm very excited for our upcoming guests. Our very first guest next week is with one of my doctors. Her name is Dr. Mac Tui out of San Diego, and she's an amazing doctor.
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And I just think you're going to adore her. I absolutely love her. She's one of the most amazing inspirational people I've ever met. She owns her own business. She just started her own business and is just an incredible person she just became a mom and uh i'm just so happy for her and so proud of her i'm i'm in love with her dog although i never met him she has this beautiful rescued akita he's a really big akita and he's just gorgeous so um you'll get to meet her and um i'm looking forward to that and you know it's not just gonna be
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Obviously, if my doctor's coming on here, then it's not just going to be about dogs and animals. Of course, we're going to talk about dogs and animals, but we're going to talk about everything, and all things that I'm passionate about.
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We'll even talk about things that I'm not passionate about in hopes that maybe I can be more educated about something or, of course, become some, you know, become passionate about something that I never was, which is a beautiful
Emotional Journey and Personal Insights
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gift of life. If we can every day bring in more passion and get, get passionate about more and more things, that would really be amazing.
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Um, I will say my moods, uh, shift. I, uh, but My emotions, I have really extreme highs and really extreme lows. I'm not always on, but I'm never going to let you down. I'm not going to miss a podcast unless it's an emergency.
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And I say that to you because if I do a podcast and my mood seems a little bit off, I'll let you know. I don't like people to try to figure out if I'm in a good mood or not. That's something that I had to do a lot growing up with my parents.
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And it was really hard for me and made me really insecure. Like, is he in a bad mood today? Are they upset about something? Are you mad at me? That's not what it's going to be like here. If I'm having a bad day, I'm going to start the conversation off with this is I'm really in my head today, et cetera.
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And then you'll probably see that my mood will shift shortly after that. Hopefully, you know, on those days I'm mature enough and professional to to ah you know, give it at least 30 minutes to an hour, a full, full time of a podcast so that we can, uh, go through it together or that you could hear how i go through it.
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Um, but yeah, there's just so many things that I'm excited to learn about with you to talk about with you. And overall, I'm just really excited to grow with you. I really hope that, um,
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we can grow this community. I really hope we get this to one of those places that I look back on, that we all look back on, like we've done with the Asher House, like we've done with Patreon, where we look back and be like, I can't believe this is where we are now and and all the good that it's doing.
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This is something good. We will only focus on goodness. We will only focus on positivity. Will we talk about things that are negative? Yes, but you will see that we will always turn those negative things into a positive.
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And that's the point. you know It's not all about motivation and rah-rah. It's about going through the shit, dealing with the shit, but turning it into sugar and and and doing that
Building a Positive Community
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together.
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And I am beyond grateful for the opportunity to do that with you. I think that this will be a really good time together. The sound quality might not always be great. There's times where I'm not going to have a microphone or a setup like this.
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Sometimes we'll have to be outside on a pack walk. There'll be background noise. I might be traveling. i have my speaking tour coming up, leeasherevents.com to see those dates.
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But ah I'll always deliver. I'm always going to give you what I can, just like I always have. That I can promise. So I hope you're on board. Please sign up for the notifications and all that good stuff.
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Let's do this. Let's grow this community. And um i have no doubt whatsoever. Like I like always, this will help people have better days. And that's what it's all about. I just want to help people have better days, even if it's a little bit, but hopefully it's a lot of it.
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I love you all so much. Thank you. And I cannot wait for you all to see what's in store for next week. Have a beautiful day. I'll talk to you soon. Thanks for joining. This is Lee Asher's World Podcast, Episode 1.
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