July 10, 2026

Stop Telling Your Past. Start Sharing Your Becoming

Stop Telling Your Past. Start Sharing Your Becoming
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Most people think their story is a timeline.

Or a list of painful events.

Or a collection of everything they've survived.

But that's not your story.

In this episode, Kellan reveals the difference between simply recounting your past and understanding the transformational story that gives your life meaning.

Your authority doesn't come from your certifications.

It doesn't come from information.

It doesn't come from your résumé.

It comes from who you've become.

In a world where AI has made information almost free, your lived experience has never been more valuable.

If you've ever wondered whether your story matters, this conversation may completely change the way you see yourself—and the impact you're capable of creating.

Key Takeaways:

  • Why your story is not your chronology
  • The difference between autobiography and transformation
  • Why trauma alone isn't a compelling story
  • How identity is shaped through choice
  • The real source of authority
  • Why AI makes lived experience even more valuable
  • The difference between borrowed wisdom and earned wisdom
  • Becoming a beacon of light through your experiences
  • Why most people underestimate the value of their own story
  • Turning transformation into meaningful impact
  • Why story creates trust
  • Developing authority through lived experience
  • Organizing your story into service
  • The relationship between story, purpose, prosperity and joy

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Transcript
Kellan Fluckiger

If somebody asks you to tell your story, do you even really know what they're asking? Most people don't, but let's find out. Welcome to the show. Tired of the hype about living a dream? It's time for truth.This is the place for tools, power and real talk, so you can create the life you dream and deserve your ultimate life. Subscribe, share, create. You have infinite power.Hey, welcome to your ultimate life podcast, where what we talk about is have that life, how to live that life of purpose, prosperity and joy. When I use the word ultimate life, people have all kinds of reactions. You know what it is?Most of the time, Most of the time people are reacting to pressure that they're feeling in life right now. And so if I say, what is your ultimate life to you? If they're feeling like they've got too much to do, they say freedom.If they're feeling like the money situation's up to their nose, it's like, oh, if I just had more money. It's usually a reaction to that. But I want you to think for a minute about what really is the ultimate life.I've spent a lot of time over the last 20 years thinking about that. Nearly 20, 19 years thinking a lot about that.And the reason is because I had a reason to make a dramatic change like, you know, 19 years ago in August of 2007, radically shift who I was being, what was going on in life and all that stuff. And so. And since then I've been an author and a coach and all the rest and a podcaster and a television personality and a bunch of other things.Well, but what I've discovered is that that ultimate life has a lot less to do with immediate circumstance and a lot more to do with long term joy. It has a lot to do with purpose. And that's why when I talk about ultimate life, I define it as purpose, prosperity and joy.Because when the immediate pressures drop away, you know, like the water gets out from under your nose, you start thinking about larger things. So let's talk about that a little bit. I want to talk about what story is and why it matters.Right now we're in the middle of playing the World Cup 2026. Now, I don't know when you're going to hear this, but The World Cup 2026 is on. And you know what it reminds me of?I remember during sort of the last parts of COVID in 2022, when we had the World cup in Qatar and how interesting that was. And it's hard for me to Believe four years have gone by since then, but they have. Wow. Zing. Four years.So the stories that are being told in the World cup right now are amazing. There's one country, and I've forgotten which one it was, right this second, first ever international goal.There's been all kinds of draws in these first sets of games in all the groups. And this is the first World cup they've had at 48 teams. And, you know, some people were saying, wow, that's too many, et cetera, et cetera.I don't know. What I've discovered is I like it. I hope maybe they expanded in 20, 30 to 64 teams. It's fun to have a lot. I don't.A lot of more teams playing, a lot more story, a lot more drama, and it makes it more fun, at least for me. And I'm certainly not a seasoned World cup person.I didn't even really know much about soccer other than what it was, soccer in the US Football everywhere else.I didn't know much about it until Joy and I got married 20 years ago, 19 years ago, and I started to learn about it and names and players and places and rules and people and how exciting it was. And since then, my. My interest has gone up gradually every year. And now after 19 years, I'm pretty, pretty interested, and I love it.But the stories that are coming out of that, they're not chronology. So let's talk about what story is and what it isn't. Sometimes when people talk about their story. What's your story?People think of chronology like an autobiography. I was born in San Francisco in 1955, and I grew up in the San Francisco Bay area.You know, we sort of tell a chronology that has a place, but it's not where the power of your story comes from. Right? That's not what's interesting. Sometimes people think of it as a trauma dump.So when they think about story, they think of all the hard things that have happened and as if those hard things happening was what defined their story in their life. That's not true either. So there is a place for a chronology.There is a therapist's office for a trauma dump, and there's a, you know, a place for all those things. But the story that's connected to your ultimate life purpose, prosperity and joy, is a completely different story.So let's talk about what it is, because most folks have no idea what it actually means, right? Autobiography, trauma dump, list of events dragging the listener through everything that happened. It's not very interesting. Your story.So let's use this definition to start with. It's not everything that happened to you. It's what you became because of what happened. So think about that.The story that matters is what we become because of what happens.I want you to think about something in our world right now where we're so obsessed with money and there's a big movement now, at least among some tiny fraction of the world, that says all billionaires and trillionaires ought to be banned and they didn't earn it. They're evil. They need to go to jail or be stripped of whatever. Right. And I think that's on the heels of, you know, a societal movement.But also I think Elon Musk has become the world's first trillionaire with. I think he is with the relief with the public IPO of SpaceX, because that went far better than was predicted by some.And so his ownership puts him, at least on paper, in the trillionaire category. Wow.So there's that movement going on and there's an obsession with glamour and cars and mansions and travel and places and things and all that is like a big deal. But you know what? None of that actually matters at all. And I just say that boldly. It doesn't matter a hoot and hell.And the reason it doesn't is you can't take it with you. You might have pomp and circumstance running out your ears all during your life.Red carpets and bank accounts and houses and travel and everything else. And that's for 15 microseconds in the length of the universe, in the length of eternity, in the length of your own life.You existed before now, and you're going somewhere after you know that. So this micro dot decorated with all that pump and, you know, stuff that's just for show, I guess, doesn't really mean anything.And in your heart you know that. And it's a scary thing because then it brings to the question of what really matters.That because none of that you're taking with you, nobody's going to ask you later, what were you the CEO of? What did you fail at? Everything that we take with us is who we are. And that's where it gets to this story part.Because the story that matters is not what happened, but what you became because of what happened. So let's talk about more about two or three different ways to say that your story. So what is your story? Your story is not your timeline.It is your transformation. Your story. The events are not the story. What you became is the story. Right. The story is not what happened.It's what happened inside of you that's the real story. So when you think about your own story, I want you to think about it in those terms. What has happened inside of you.Now, for some people, they go through a set of difficulties and they remain shriveled and bitter. You and I have both met people like that. They're angry, they're frustrated, they're mad at the world.Mad at God, the economy, whoever's leader of their country, president, prime minister, whatever. They're mad at them. They did it. Or the unfairness of the world did it. Or the billionaires did it, or whatever it is, right?We have a story about how we've been hard done by. So that's just a list of wounds. And what that says is, okay, all this bad stuff. Bad is in quotes, right? Who says it's bad?All this stuff happened to me. I decided that it was bad. It left me helpless, with an addiction to mediocrity and living in a state of learned helplessness.And so it becomes an excuse for who I am. It becomes a therapy session in public. It becomes the reason. It's just the way I am. You'd be like this too if all this happened to you.No, that's not true. You would only be like that too if all this happened to you. Whatever this is. If you reacted the same. You know that's true. Let's do a silly example.It's raining. One person goes outside and dances in the rain. Loves it. Another person says, you wrecked my picnic. Rain on my parade.Same rain, same day, same sky, same temperature. One person has having a good experience and the other one a bad one. So the.The idea that if the same set of things happen to two people and one reacts angrily and with blame and fiercely res. Resentful and negative and that kind of thing, that angel, anybody who went through all this would be the same, is flat, not true, end of story.Never. Unless person B chose to react the same way. And that's the key about story, right?If two people go into battle and one gives up and lays down and gets crushed and the other one rises up in courage, the story is the one who rose up in courage. Not because people don't lay down and die, because they do.And we feel bad for that and so forth, but the peace that we are drawn to is inspiration and growth and possibility and opportunity. And there's no question that people have different abilities. You know, you may have way more ability than me.You and I may get in a situation and you you may immediately see a way out and a possibility there. And I might be throwing up my hands saying, ah, I'm finished. I can't do this. That is easily, you know, possibly the case. No question.But we always get to choose. And developing that. Choice is what's important. All right, so another piece about story is.A lot of people confuse confession or disclosure of some kind. They confuse that with story. Again, that's just saying what happened. Bad things happen to me. So I tell a story and I blame everybody else.And that's a story. No, it's nothing. It's really a story about who I am. I've chosen to be a victim. I've chosen to blame everybody.And I've chosen to view myself as helpless, hopeless, and lost forever. If I, you know, if I react that way, that's the real story, not the events that happened.So disclosure says, okay, here's what happened, here's what I went through, and here's how it hurt me. A real story that matters says, okay, here's what happened, here's what it meant, here's what I chose, here's what I learned, here's who I became.Okay, and here's what I can now offer because of that.And I don't necessarily mean offer in terms of business, although helping people write their books, write their stories, and turn it into products and services is something I love to do. And this dream build, write it here on the screen is evidence of that. Go there and see if you want to do that. But the point isn't just that.It is we choose how we walk through the world. Something that I've learned to choose that I didn't used to do is I'm optimistic. I'm absolutely optimistic. There has got to be a way.I never quit, I never lay down. I never say I give up. I don't live there, but that's a choice.Like you, I've had, you know, pile of setbacks and discouragements, and, you know, the list is long, maybe yours is longer, but we've all had them. So the story, like I said, it's like, how do you choose who you become? That's what the real story is.So when I talk to people, and I had a chance to talk to a couple folks yesterday, brand new folks, and I do several a week, sometimes eight, 10, sometimes more. And I set up my life that way on purpose because I love people. I love you. I love meeting people. I love getting to know, guess what?Their story not okay, this and this and this happened, but okay, Cool. That happened. Now what?I was just following a thread in one of the groups that I belong to on WhatsApp or Signal or something, and there was a touching and powerful story and the story wasn't. And it was real and it was one of the people about an illness that was serious and real problems.But the story is how some members of the group rallied, found some help, found a practitioner that could do really cool stuff, connected them, got them together and did a beautiful thing. And I don't know all the details, but the thing that moved me in the, in the thread wasn't the illness.That's sad, but everybody's got them, some more than others.Not downplaying, but the choice that people made to help and the choice that the person who was struggling ill made to go get the help and lean in and love. And so that is the story. So when I talk about story, which I do all, all the time, that's what I'm talking about.Now here's what I want you to, in that context with describing what story is, here's what I want you to hear again that I've said before, your story, the story of your development becoming the choices you made. That is the most important gift you have to offer the world. And I say that repeatedly and I say it boldly and without hesitation.And here's why I say that I can learn to be a physicist. I learned to be an electricity market designer.I have learned to be a recording engineer and a mixing engineer and a musician and a composer and a vocalist. You know, and you have learned, like as I said that I'm hoping you're thinking of all the things you've learned to do.Those may be useful and helpful and it may bring pleasure to people because they build a building or sing a song. But the truth of sharing our humanness comes when we share the. The story that we have. How did we get here?The musician who struggles through this, that and the other. The artist who lives alone and you know, or in poverty and this and that.And then finally, that's the thing and the reason the finally even happens is because somebody didn't give up. Because somebody that gave up their story goes to. I was overwhelmed. The struggles were too great. I quit and I disappeared.That is the story of their development. The opportunity that we have is our story is this happened. I chose to be resilient. I chose to look inside. I chose to turn to the divine.I chose to get the help I needed. And I became resilient, capable. And then I became A source of help for that person who's given up.I became a source of light, a beacon of light, vessel of love and conduit of power for that person or persons. And that's the outcome of identifying and sharing our stories. Because you do become a beacon of light, a vessel of love and a conduit of power.Because I have so many guests on this show and on LA talk radio, I cannot even count the number of people who are that very thing. They have a story, they became resilient, they overcame this, that and the other, their own difficulties.Then they adopted a cause absolutely and no doubt related exactly to the story of their overcoming. And now they have become a beacon of light, a source of help and a lifting and blessing force in the world.Now, peripheral piece to that is how you turn it into a business, monetize it, make money. And sometimes people get confused about that, like it's somehow evil.And you contaminate the story of growth and redemption if you turn it into a business. No you don't.If you have a story of redemption, of growth, of overcoming, of resilience, of not giving up, you are free to be an accountant or an engineer and then share that story of redemption in circumstances that make sense to you in the limited time you have. That is one way to do that.A more effective way, a more powerful, a more far reaching way, is to identify the story of resilience that you have lived, which is your own lived experience, and then figure out how to reach a lot of people and turn it into a business. Not from greed, but from sustainability. Not from self aggrandizement, but from reach.We can reach a lot more people and do a lot more good if we create a lot of cash in the process. So that's why I talk about story the way I do. And I thought, you know, I really need to talk about what it is and what it isn't.Okay, so, so here is a list and I've got a little list here. I'm going to share it with you. What? Your story of becoming. I call that the story of your becoming. And I say it's the most powerful thing you've got.And here's why, once again, I say that. Because I don't care what you learn to do.Rocket science, engineering, accounting, art, art, music, whatever it is, social work, you know, I don't care what you learned to do, because as long as it's something you do, it's that thing over there. The minute it becomes part of who you are, because it is Integrated into your own growth, resilience, recovery, sharing, love and service.It gets way more power. You know that because you can hear someone tell a story, and if they're not involved in it, they tell a story and it has a certain amount of impact.If it's their own story and they're telling it with truth and power, the impact goes crazy. It's just like someone winning an Oscar for Best actor or Actress when they are convincing in the truth. When they become. It's like method acting.When they become that character and live the truth of the story, we get blown away and we give them awards for doing so good and touching us so deeply. All right, so instead of just events and chronology and blame, here's what's really in the story.The original world that you lived in, the assumptions that maybe you inherited from circumstances, society, parents, church, school, whatever the wound and problem and obstacle or hunger that you felt, the things that affected you deeply. The next thing is the moment that life interrupted you slapped you upside the head and said, you know, you don't have to live like this.You don't have to stay defeated, small, giving up. You don't have to do that. There's another way. It includes failures that shape you or me and lessons that cost us something.The lessons that cost us the most are the most important. It includes the identity you outgrew. You know, one of the things I see from my own life now, it's almost 71, is I've outgrown several identities.So have you. That story of growth is worth millions, Millions of people and millions of dollars. Millions of pounds of influence. However you measure that.Lives changed, hearts lifted, blessings bestowed. The story includes the truth.Maybe you finally accepted that you might have heard a thousand times and either rejected or didn't understand or couldn't believe. The story also especially includes the person you have become and the wisdom that you now have to give.And this is where I want to draw a gigantic distinction. I'm a coach.The world right now and in the last 20 years has been full of coaches, 95% of which have, haven't been very effective or very good, which is why most of them have not and cannot make a living. The reason that is true is because the wisdom they are giving, sharing is not their own. It is borrowed wisdom.I read a book, I took a class, I got a certification. I learned how to do a thing, which is. I always point, because it's like that thing over there. It's not in here.The wisdom you share that comes from your own story that's clouded in light and sung with the voice of angels. I don't know why, but there's a piece of power that comes with that.Now, I want to go back for a minute to the World cup, which is, like I said last night, there was a game where somebody got their leg broken, and the crack was so loud that the teammates on the sidelines heard it. And the minute it happened, it came running out. And, you know, the team, the other team lost.They had gotten one red card already and were a man short. And that infraction produced a second red card, which meant they were two people short. So they got obliterated on the field.The score was 6 to nothing, and it was Canada's team who won.And I, you know, I'm living in Canada, and Joy and I are both US And Canadian citizens, so we're rooting for both teams in two of the three host countries. I haven't got Mexican citizenship, although I have a client who's getting dual citizenship with the US And Mexico.But anyway, that is part of the story of this World cup, the story of teams who rise and fall. Like I said earlier, there's been so many draws.Like Brazil had a match where they, one to one, a team that you would have thought, you know, they're going to obliterate. Nope.And so the growth of the tournament to 48 teams and all the draws in this first round, and we're nearly done with the first round as I record this. But I know there's going to be more and more stories. But the stories aren't the chronology. They're the emotional events that unfolded.Like the broken leg, which is, you know, a travesty for that guy, but who knows what that's going to become, right, for the Canadian team. All right, so I.The story of events, like, we just had the Olympics in February this year, which is five minutes ago from my clock, and it's now almost July. There was story there, legend and story and performances, and it wasn't a little bit of chronology.So here's what I want to invite you to think about. Your story is worth a million dollars. That doesn't mean that if you go vomit on my desk, I give you a million dollars.Or if you go vomit in a movie studio, they say, wow, let's make a movie. Here's a million dollars. Here's how it is worth a million dollars.If you go through your life, look at your developmental story, the way that we've defined it, figure out what the events have caused you to become what you now know, the wisdom you have accumulated that you now can share. If you look at that, you have a package of information, wisdom and truth. Now, information is free.And the rise of AI has underlined and made an exclamation point after that statement. So information is worth jack today. You can find out anything in two seconds. I'm exaggerating 22 seconds, right?Chatty's on your phone or Claude or whatever you use. Ask it questions and it tells you what you wanted and 50 other things. And yeah, it hallucinates occasionally, but it's right most of the time.So information isn't what's valuable anymore. And info marketers, info products were the staple of the Internet industry for, you know, who knows? You know what is valuable?Lived experience, because that turns the information into truth bombs. It turns it into truth capsules, light beacon of light, vessel of love, conduit of power is what I like to say.So it isn't the events, the cancer, the bankruptcy or the addiction or the divorce or the abuse or the collapse. It. It's really not that those are the precipitating events and they matter. Maybe it's smaller than that. It's not a none of.None of those big old honking things, but it's maybe quiet discontent or a spiritual hunger or underused gifts.I'll bet you right now $100 you have several underused gifts that would make you happy to use them that you'd love to share and that you can get paid well for. Other things that look smaller could be leadership, pressure, a marriage that is, you know, struggling, that is now forcing some honesty.Maybe a business that really is exposing your identity. Maybe it's years of pretending that finally has become unbearable.Those are different kinds of things, but they're just as powerful, if not more powerful. You don't need a Hollywood tragedy to. To have a transformational story. So often when I talk to people about their own stories, here's what I hear.Well, I got nothing. I didn't grow up in a grumpy place. I wasn't abused. I didn't have this. I didn't have this. I didn't have that. I got nothing.That is the furthest thing from the truth. You have everything.You have all the events and circumstances that turned you into the person who is yearning to add good to the world and doing what you can to make that happen. That is already enough. So the question isn't, do you have a story? The question is, are you willing to do the work to use it simple.Are you willing to figure out what matters in the story if it isn't the events, but the things underneath the events and what happened to you, with you, for you, because of it? Are you willing to do that? Because that is where the juice is, that's where the influence is, that's where the power is.But most people don't want to do that work. And here's the subtle sadness underneath that. It's not that you don't want to share what you have and know.It's that you're afraid it's not big enough. Nobody would listen. Who cares what I have to say? It's already been said, so what good am I to say it again?Those are the most tragic words I can imagine. It's not true. Not true, not true and not true.Every time your story was perfect for you, it has developed you into the genius, loving, loved, beautiful being you are today that has a yearning to do good and add good to the world. The story of becoming is where pain, choice, truth and identity meet in a powerful nexus. And it doesn't have to be out of tragedy.Yeah, they write, you know, movie or make movies and write books out of heroic and tragedy thing, tragic things. And most people never have those. And so we get the idea that we got nothing. And that's not true. And you know what?If you sit quietly, you know that in your heart. So I invite you to hear my invitation.Dream BuildWriteIt.com is the official place where I will share all kinds of stuff with you about how to do something with it. Your life has been teaching you all the way along and the question is always whether or not we've been listening.And the next question is, are we willing to share? Are we willing to get past the feeling of not enoughness?Are we willing to get past the feeling of who am I to say X, who am I to write this book or create this program or stand as a beacon for this principle of truth that I have walked through the fire to learn?So a lot of people that I talk to and work with are coaches, mission driven entrepreneurs that may not be coaches, teachers, consultants, and whatever business you have if, if it is founded on the idea that you're doing it to add good to the world, not just to make a living.If you're doing it to raise the consciousness of the planet, if you're doing it to alleviate suffering and lift and bless, if you're doing it because you're, you feel driven to and you can't not, this is your call to organize your story more powerfully than you ever have, to figure out what it really is. Because the story that you have in your heart, it is the source of your authority. And the reason is quite simple.I don't care what you've learned to do. The true authority, the kind that comes from just being in presence with someone, comes from lived experience and from nothing else.Lived experience is the key, the catalyst, the glue, the magnet, the thing that creates both relationships, and it creates business, cash, a following, and all the rest. And any attempt to fake that falls apart eventually, sometimes immediately, because our BS meters go off.And sometimes people that are really good at it fool people and lie and cheat. And I'm not talking to or about any of that stuff.Your real developmental story that we've talked about today, who you have become because of these events, that's where your authority comes from. It's where your compassion comes from. That. That yearning in your heart. You have to add good to the world and bless people's lives. It comes.It's where your pattern recognition comes from. You know, you. You have. You develop the ability to see immediately what's going on.I hear people who are consultants or coaches of some kind business say, you know, I just have this ability to go in and right away see what's wrong and see what to do. And this, this, this, this, and. And then they have a story about why they can't sell it.And that all has to do with what you believe about yourself and nothing to do with your story. It has to do with what you believe it's worth. Right? You can say, I can do that, and then two funny things happen.Then they follow up and say, but I can't do that for myself. I can't see what's wrong with my own business, my own life, my own marketing, my own whatever. There's a deficiency, a defugality there.I know you know that. All right, so it is the source of your language. When you're talking about your own lived experience, you don't stumble for words.You know exactly what to say.If you're talking to someone, either written or in a podcast or in a recording or in a video or face to face, who has gone through the same or similar experience, you know exactly the kind of words to use, exactly what they're thinking and feeling. Why? Because you've wandered through the same minefield. Your story is the source of your language and your conviction.It is also the source of the method that you have, even if you haven't organized it and named it. Your story is the source of your method.I was talking to a fellow who was a guest on podcast here a few weeks ago and I asked him about his work and he told me some stuff and I said, oh, well, that's your method. You do this? This. The. I don't have a method. No, no, no. Rejected it, but it was just not true. It was clear as the sunshine.The method was 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. And I named them 1, 2, 3, 4th, 5, 6. And you know, I wasn't trying to convince him, but it was really clear.So you have a method for teaching the truths that you have learned in your story.Organizing that method is up to you, but it will extend your reach, help you make more, not only more money, but have more impact and become more effective in what you're trying to do. Your story is also the source of your fire. Like it's really easy to get fired up about things that you have in your heart.I got a guy that was a guest a while ago on podcast.He lives in Australia and his daughter died from, you know, an eating disorder and he had a crusade about that and got a law passed in Australia and a bunch of stuff. You think there was fire there? Yeah, from the experience. So your fire comes from the experience. Your authority comes from your experience.Your method comes from your experience, your love, your life. Everything comes from your developmental story. So we've talked today about what it is, what your story actually is and what it isn't.Now I'm not pretending that skills don't matter. Of course they matter.You know, mastering the skill, the ability to listen deeply, mastering the skill of recognizing cues and non verbal communication. Study matters. Studying the works and lives and processes of other greats who are doing similar work to you. Training matters.And so when I talk about story, I'm not trying to say all that stuff's replaced just story and you're good. Story is your invincible, unassailable starting point. And it's where most people stay. They don't organize it.They don't go through the training to express it well, either as a speaker or as an author or a product creator or a seminar leader or a coach. They just got the story and then wing it. You can do that. It won't be very effective and you won't affect a lot of people.Okay, it might be very, very effective for a small group in a small number of situations.But if you really want to change the world like you keep talking about, then the training, the study, the coaching, the skills, all Those things matter. And I saved saying that for the end because I wanted to get so clear, the piece that people miss.Because what we do is we go get skills, we get certifications, we study and we become all these things, and then we think we're good and we've left out the engine, which is the truth and story of your own becoming again. Because you believe it doesn't matter. It's not big enough. Who cares? And you know, who am I? And all the rest of the. The ways we downplay those things.All right? What you know may be useful. Who you have become is almighty, powerful. Your tools matter. Your being changes everything about what they mean.Your being carries the weight. People do not need your information that's free. They need the truth that it has taken your life to learn.That's what people need, and that's your story. So here's a few questions I want you to think about. And I'm going to just say these to take them in your heart and think about them.What keeps repeating in your life? What themes, what things have you had to learn the hard way? What have you survived that changed dramatically how you see things?What big burden has become a gift for you? Okay. What wound has become wisdom? What truth do you now carry that cost you a lot to learn?When did your life blow open but reveal something sacred and powerful? Those are questions that I want you to just sit with, because that's the genesis of the truths of your story, has nothing to do with the events.Again. So this is just the beginning of mining your story. We're not talking about writing anything or creating anything.Because if you can't answer those questions, you don't yet know your story. Ah, you know your events. So this is an invitation to know your story. I wrote a book about that because I write books about everything.About how to do this, about. There's a tool in there to. To mine your story.So before you go out and coach or teach or lead seminars or whatever, make them a hundred times more powerful by mining your story. You do not invent your story. You excavated. You dig in and find the gold. Your story is already there.It's probably buried under the familiarity that we all have. It's so familiar to us that we discount it.That is the thing that has driven me to create, you know, dream it, build it, write it, and the other things that I do to help people mine and discover their story. If you want. If this conversation has made you want to do that, reach out to me. YourUltimate LifePodcast.com. There's a contact form there.Or go to DreamBuildrite.com and sign up for the next book challenge, which is all about exactly how to do this. You might be saying, I know I have a story, but I don't know how to find the thread. I know there's something in me.I know I'm supposed to do this, but I can't find it. Well, the processes that I have because I've developed them for me first.The story arc was a process I developed for me, and I only wrote the book after people start asking me how. I wrote so many books. So I want you to know that you're valuable. You're powerful. Your story matters.I don't care what you have or haven't been through. I don't care who's told you what. The story of your becoming, your developmental story is powerful.It is the shaping of your life, not necessarily the events that did the shaping. I absolutely know you can have anything you want if you want to go create it.But the creation of impact and income and products, services, writing a book, you know that isn't going to do itself. But it is within your reach. And I can tell you that I, for one, can't wait to read your story, your life, your love, your passion.Because I know that when you do that, you'll be moving forward quickly to create your ultimate life. Open your heart. And this time around, right here, right now, your opportunity for massive growth is right in front of you.Every episode gives you practical tips and practices that will change everything. If you want to know more, go to kellenflukermedia.com if you want more free tools, go here. Your ultimate life. Subscribe Share.