 500 events and raised $300,000 for charity. Would you please massive round of applause for our guest speaker artist Sarah Rowan? Oh, yeah, how y'all doing today? Wow, you don't often get alcohol when you first walk into an event and have that kind of a smile. How y'all doing today? Yeah All right, come on sign guys help me out with some tunes Gracious trying to get some I make sure I've never tried it before so I'm scared shitless every time I flip it over to see if it actually worked and Then I spend the rest of the keynote Kind of fixing up Almost there almost there Now we need wisdom and what we do right we need some wisdom just like Tell me you can tell what that is back there Can you because sometimes when you write up on something you can't see what it looks like and then you step back? You're like, oh When you write up on your problems kind of need to take a step back, right? Does it look like an owl? Let me scare you for a minute. All right. I Come from a hollerback church. Okay. I'm from South Carolina Now if you don't know what that means that means I do better if you're laughing at me or with me I don't care. Just some feedback and I am all in right awesome now. I Am no Einstein But I have noticed that there are some trends happening in the world today And one of those trends is everyone's really fucking tired. I Like being an artist because I can say whatever I want on stage Now raise your hand if you're tired Tired Try saying it like a southern tired You don't just leave it's kind of like really lazy, Australian. You just kind of like tired. I'm tired Your cup is empty. I Know right profound art right here. I Want it to be doable. I want you to feel like you can do it too be like yeah, I can do that That's what I want. I'm not here to impress you at all. I'm here to inspire you now when I was about 18 One of my mentors you had lots of them being in the south they all wanted to get you on the straight and narrow, right? One of them came up to me and said Sarah. There are deep wells within you So you're gonna have to know how to refill them So you can nourish the people that come to you for help And when you're 18, that's like a really deep statement, right? But over the past 30 years almost Okay, I barely passed math. I'm 42 just work it out It's like oh my god when people come to me if I have not refilled my cup and I'm tired What do they get? They don't get the best of me. They get cranky ornery Sarah or momma or whatever I am whatever hat I'm wearing to that person And I've discovered over the past year and a half how to keep that cup full You you want to know what that secret is? Yeah Yeah, cuz we don't want to just be tired. You want to live your best most awesome life So I I read about this metaphor It okay to be honest I heard about it in a podcast and pretend I read the book I'm a little bit ADHD there anybody else like that I bought the book and then it took me about nine months to get to page 26 Where that metaphor is mentioned but get this this metaphor could change your life And if you've got friends or family you want to share it with write it down This is brilliant your brain can only retain about three pieces of information today So when you're about the sixth speaker you're screwed So write this down When you're born you're born a castle With a thousand rooms and in each and every one of those rooms. There's a gift waiting just for you You're not scared There's no judgment. There's no shame. You're like two years older running through your castle going. Oh my god Look at this and you're just opening all these doors. You're like joy. Wow, that's cool Curiosity creativity Anger you open all these doors like wow, this is awesome And then your parents come up to you go. Oh, we don't really use that room over here and you go, oh really and close it shut and Then your friends go that room's really silly you should shut that door and with shame go Close it lock it up. Don't look at it again and then your aunts and your uncles and your grandparents and Society spiritual leaders whatever it is. They come up to you that I Shut the door shut shut shut shut shut shut shut shut shut and by the time We reach adulthood We believe we are nothing more than a mere two bedroom apartment that needs work Anybody else can relate to that and if you don't raise in your hand you are a liar We do we do it. We shut the doors because we're full of shame. I shut doors I Shut them till the point it almost killed me. I was raised in the buckle of the Bible belt This I came to Australia to go to Bible school. I survived 20 years of conversion therapy I did the thing what I was told to do marry the man that you will be attracted to just believe believe believe It almost killed me and I've only been living free and happy for two years It's awesome and Now that my cup is full. I'm no longer standing on stage feeling like a fraud I Used to stand on stage trying to inspire people while being a complete fake And as you if you've probably heard the quote probably not Simon Sinek If you're one person at home and another at work one place of those are a liar I was a liar and I found a way to refill my cup was by opening those bloody doors They're just waiting there and I used to think it was gonna be really hard You know, you got to either get a bottle of tequila or some sage I don't know what you just got to go through and you got to open them up or maybe $20,000 of psychotherapy or Magic mushrooms. I don't know whatever is floats your boat open those doors because your life will be richer and fuller from it And if you want to think about this way, here's another picture for you that I came up with on myself All right, ready actually it's better if I do it with some Here we go ready, okay if you're Monday Looks like you're Tuesday Looks like you're Wednesday, you know, you put your clothes on with the exact same leg first Do you know that by the age of 35 that we are all zombies? That's what the medical science people say, okay They say that we are all living in our subconscious 95% of our life is in the subconscious you brush the teeth the same way you do everything the same way and you wonder why you're so bored and angry Wednesday, let me guess how you sign your email kind regards. I Try to spice it up a little bit and be like have a creative day I Just like trying to make sure I didn't write my girlfriend right before otherwise. It's like xx. Sorry Thursday Friday, you're getting the picture right now if you were to walk into a hospital And you see this line across the screen. Is that a good sign or a bad sign? It means it's over but What are we living? We are literally Monday through Friday and usually our weekends to Dragon our coffin Because every day is the same day. You only remember the days that are unique like today When you checked Sarah Rowan on your forum, of course with Marty You remember the days that are different the days that are fun. It doesn't have to be expensive It doesn't have to be crazy. It doesn't have to be bungee jumping or skydiving I've done both and guess what skydiving is less scary. You can make it fun. You can make it interesting Now one of the ways you can make it interesting is actually just trying thing that I mentioned earlier putting on your pants with your Opposite leg first be curious. Do not sue me when you almost fall over. I'm not kidding. It's actually kind of hard There are so much parts of our life that we actually just think are mundane and boring I have a friend that when she sends her receipts to her accountant to take care of it is like the most boring part of her job So you know what she does? She does funky selfies with it She takes photos with the dog or the dog shit with the receipt because it's interesting It's different and then guess what the accountant that that's normally the boring part of their day. They're like The dog have its fiber today like it's great. It kept it all interesting. They kept it alive. So refill your cup. I Have to keep mine full. I know how they keep it full. I do my garden and I get massages They're so bloody expensive both of those things. I've spent like five hundred dollars in the past two weeks Just so my beautiful garden, but God it's really pretty Until my cat decided it was her new litter box and then five hours yesterday I spent putting a net around it, but I got there So if you remember anything that I've said today, I want you to remember that you are a castle I want you to write down a door that you want to open when you get home whether it's with sage or tequila your choice For every follower on Instagram. I give a dollar to charity and if you don't have Instagram, it's okay. You're just old I Appreciate your time. I'd really love to inspire Any and every event possible My heart is to raise a million dollars for charity and I really really am grateful for this opportunity. Thank you Michael and Marty Round of applause for the lovely Sarah Rowan ladies and gentlemen