Stop Hiding: A Near-Death Wake-Up Call for Leaders | Daniel Paulin
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What health scare prompted a conversation about life choices?
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When we look back at the failures of who we are and the mistakes that we made, the biggest regrets that we really hold on are the failures that happened within ourselves. So when you look back at your life's biggest regrets and the things that you're failing on, it won't be because you didn't do enough podcasts or get on enough stages. It was because you weren't present in the moment to somebody you loved. I failed everybody that I've loved. And those are my biggest regrets.
you ever get that feeling where it just, it's like, you can't catch up. You just feel like you can't catch up, you know, no matter how much you do, no matter how much you prioritize, you know, say no to the things that don't matter, prioritize the things that, you know, all this kind of stuff. And it's just, it just always feels like every day when you log in, you're just starting from behind the eight ball. Do you know why? I've kind of been in that place lately.
Yeah, because you're doing good things and success comes in. I don't want to steer this right into faith, but God gives you all the success you can handle. Distraction is the devil's work. So when you're doing the right things and you're building the right process and you're impacting other people, that's when you have days like that. It's because, you know, the devil gives you distraction. And I want that to be impactful to you because I mean that sincerely. My life journey has taken me on many, many different ways. And I can say to you that the days that I feel like there's not enough minutes or not enough hours, the days that I have all of these things with family and friends and all of those things are the days that I'm chasing the most success, the most opportunities in front of me.
Because if we're put in a situation where we don't believe in ourselves or don't believe in our journey, then the devil wins.
I completely agree with you. It's funny.
How does the concept of 'hiding' affect leaders?
I've had a bit – like recently I've probably been dealing with more existential ideas than I normally do on a day-to-day basis, not maybe ever in my life, but certainly recently because I've hit an inflection point in my career where in the not-too-distant future I'm going to have to make a decision. And that decision is, do I continue doing what I am the most easily paid for and enjoy, but maybe doesn't tune me up? But it's not that I don't enjoy it, okay? I do. Or do I go down the path of what I enjoy doing the most, but I probably have the most uncertainty and when improperly channeled anxiety, which would be fully focusing on this podcast and and what I enjoy more than anything outside of my own creation, which is helping people bring their message to the world.
I think we talked a little bit on the last podcast that we did together about how I've always struggled in my career because – struggle is the wrong word. I've always played with, toyed with, never gotten my hands all the way around the fact that I get very little – I'm going to use the word joy. I get very little joy. Certainly I get happiness, but not necessarily joy from my own success. I just don't accolades those kinds of things. It just, it's essentially meaningless. But when I, like the other day I had a phone call with a potential client and a doctor, he's got this very obscure kind of disease that he has really grabbed onto in the second half of his career. That's not talked about enough and you know, whatever.
And you know, we're mapping out how we're going to help this guy essentially and Turn this disease that impacts more than 8 million people every year, which has almost no real veins of content around helping people understand it, etc.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What health scare prompted a conversation about life choices?
0:00–2:27
2
How does the concept of 'hiding' affect leaders?
2:27–5:18
3
What role does faith play in leadership and personal alignment?
5:18–6:59
4
How can leaders balance ambition and personal fulfillment?
6:59–8:45
5
What are the biggest regrets leaders experience?
8:45–10:34
6
How does Daniel Paulin define success beyond financial metrics?
10:34–12:45
7
What lessons can be learned from the Mexican fisherman parable?
12:45–14:44
8
How can leaders ensure they are living authentically?
14:44–1:10:21
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