Episode 66 | Macoupin County CEO Program with Macie Wright

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Welcome to Lead with Hope, the
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transformation.
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how you can lead with hope.
Hey, everybody.

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Welcome back to the Lead with
Hope podcast.

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I'm your host, Brandy Kelly, and
today I have a special guest,

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Macy Wright.
Macy is a 2025 graduate from

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Gillespie High School and she
was in the CEO program as a

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senior in high school.
She is currently attending

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Millikan University and she's
studying art therapy.

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Macy, welcome to the show.
Thank you.

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Thanks for having me.
It's great to have you on, and

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I'm anxious to hear a little bit
more about your story.

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What led you to join the CEO
program?

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Tell us about yourself.
So I'm from Gillespie, like you

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said.
What led me to join the CEO

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program?
It was mainly my parents like

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starting out my freshman year of
high school.

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They're very driven in the
career in business 'cause

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they're both business
backgrounds, my mom's part time

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paralegal and my dad's ACEO of
his own business or something

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like that.
And so they've really showed me

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what all can happen with that.
And it just really intrigued me.

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And then like throughout my high
school, I kind of got the name

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and kind of looked into more of
it and it started to become a

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lot more of an option for me.
And then I was nervous like

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every, some, like every student
coming in would be.

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But it was, it was a really good
decision, I think.

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And I mean, we'll talk more
about it, but it, it was really

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exciting here and it's led me to
so many more things.

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So one of the things I'm on the
board for Macoupin County CEO

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program and one of the things
we've been talking about as

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board members, how do students
hear about the CEO program?

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So you kind of brought that up
and I'm curious, what was your

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experience?
How did you first hear about the

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CEO program in your school?
So the first time I heard about

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it was, again, with my parents,
but also my old school counselor

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was talking about it just like,
OK, this is a class you could

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take your senior year, just a
heads up.

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That's how I heard about it.
And then like when I got more

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interested, we had the past alum
start talking about it in class.

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And I've talked to them about
it.

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And we also for CEO, we go
around the eight schools in our

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county and we do with the
juniors, we tell them what's it

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about.
But yeah.

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Yeah, you guys do a great job
doing that.

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And I think it's nice for the
juniors to hear from the people

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that are in the program how you
know everything has happened for

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you the the badge business that
you do.

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And then I know you have done
other things and taken it

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further than that.
But before we get into all of

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that, I'm curious as you, for
you as a person, Macy, what

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brings you joy?
What kinds of things do you

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really enjoy about life
Leadership overall?

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So what I like and I have find
joy in definitely retail therapy

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like we've talked before, but I
also, especially at school, like

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college, you have to find what
really you can give your free

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time to.
In that case, it's my friends or

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working on more coloring books.
I know that sounds crazy, but

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it's it's therapeutic for some
people.

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Or going to our art studio just
drawing some things, but stuff

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like that.
Always a good coffee is good as

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well.
But yes.

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And then occasionally going home
and seeing my family is always

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good spending time with.
Them What's your favorite

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coffee, Macy?
I like an iced, iced coffee.

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I don't know, like like latte
kind of probably, yeah.

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It depends on my mood.
Yeah, iced or hot latte, that's

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my go to.
Yes, I love it.

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A good Scooter's coffee.
That's my favorite.

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We have 7 brew up here.
I don't know if you've heard of

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it, but it's pretty good.
A lot of college students go

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yeah, yeah, it has like they
have coffee and energy and all,

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all of them between.
Yeah.

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One of the reasons I ask you
about what brings you joy, what

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kind of fuels your passion is
because right now with the CEO

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group, and you probably remember
this last year we're doing a lot

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of self-awareness assessments.
We're doing the disk and we're

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doing the Enneagram.
And this year we're doing a

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values assessment.
And I think it's so important to

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know who you are, what your
fears, your blind spots, what

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motivate you in order to be the
best version of yourself.

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So do you remember that
experience?

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I do.
It was being the year Carrie was

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going through everything and I
actually went into this year's

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class and we were talking about
all the colors and everything.

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Normally a bunch of Blues, you
know, people listening, you, you

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know what it is.
And they only had one blue this

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year.
So it's definitely an

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interesting outcome for them.
But I'm excited to see what they

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do this year.
Yeah, they're they're doing

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great work.
Today we talked about their

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vision board.
We did a vision board together

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and their biography.
So it's really interesting to

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see as they develop and they get
to know who they are and and

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what they want to do with their
life.

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Those stories are just so
incredibly powerful.

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But our stories are shaped by
our lived experiences.

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So for you, who are the people
that support you as you're going

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through life?
So I mean, obviously my biggest

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1 is my parents.
Like I mentioned the CEO,

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they've been there not for just
that my dad has been my softball

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coach for the all of my life and
my mom has been there every

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single game to support.
And I have two siblings, younger

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siblings and they still managed
to be there every game that they

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can.
And it's just amazing to me,

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like with the coloring book
business, I did not do it all

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myself.
Like it was all three of us

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working together, finding the
connections.

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Networking is huge with CEO, but
then just with your family, even

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you can have so many
connections.

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So they really helped me with
that.

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But yeah, they're really good.
But they're always there for me,

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no matter.
What that's awesome and cause

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not everybody has that.
And I do think that that

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definitely gives you, you know,
a foundation to build on, a very

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strong and sturdy foundation to
build on.

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But when you think past that
relationship with your parents

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and your family, they say that
the five people that you spend

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the most time with, show me them
and I'll show you your future.

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Do you?
Do you believe that's true in

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your life?
I think so.

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I've definitely been a firm
believer in the people you

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surround yourself with or it
represents you as well.

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So I mean, if you represent with
bad people, that's represented

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in you.
But most definitely, yes, I do

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agree with that.
Yeah, I think it's a powerful

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statement and something to to
consider as you're going through

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life and making decisions
because one choice can make a

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huge impact on your future.
And one of those choices, I I

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believe you had mentioned that
in your class business, in the

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CEO program, you guys made the
choice to pivot when things went

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wrong.
We're doing that that business.

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What lessons did you learn?
What choice did you make and

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what lessons did you learn from
that experience, Macy?

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So I was the leader of that
group, as I let you know, and it

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was very challenging for me to
pivot.

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It wasn't me.
I was set and organized in that.

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It was very hard for me that day
to pivot.

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But I was like, you know what,
we can get through this.

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Changes are good.
Sometimes they have outcomes.

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You don't know what's going to
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A lot more planned.
That's good.

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With that.
It was Krispy Kremes on the

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Carlyville parking lot or Square
and Tommy and Dylan out there.

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And it's CEO history, that's for
sure.

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But it's really helped me like
understand it's OK if there's

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change, it's OK and you'll make
it through it.

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And sometimes it's better and
you just didn't realize it.

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So I'm not sure I heard that
story before it, Tommy and

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Dylan.
Anytime I hear Tommy's name I am

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intrigued.
So can you tell us a little bit

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more about that story?
What happened exactly?

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So the original plan, we're
gonna have a 5K and Oh my

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goodness, raise awareness for
the animal shelters.

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Well, nobody really showed up.
We didn't advertise the best

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marketing didn't.
But it's all right.

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We have 300 dozen Krispy Kremes
that need sold.

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And Tommy and Dylan, it was in
the fall.

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So they're like, oh, we'll dress
up.

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So I believe somebody was in a
hot dog costume and somebody was

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in the bulldog costume.
Oh, that's great.

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And.
Those two together, they were

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out dancing around in the
square, on the square, and

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everybody is laughing, buying
Donuts.

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It was a good time, though.
Yeah, definitely, definitely

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interesting.
But hey, it's, I mean, you just

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have to pivot and sometimes it's
better you do.

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You do.
And the biggest take away there

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for me is, Oh my goodness,
that's a memory that you guys

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are going to have for the rest
of your life.

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We think about it, I mean with
our end of the year, like we

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just go back and look through
the year and what we all

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accomplished.
And that was definitely the

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highlight.
Everybody knows Tommy and Dylan

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because that's him.
But now, now every year, there's

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a Tommy and Dylan in the.
Yeah, that's great.

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I love that.
I love that.

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So based on your experience in
the CEO program, you know,

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thinking about those students
that are looking at this for

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their schedule maybe for next
year, what advice would you give

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them in terms of picking CEO
program over so many of the

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other things that they are able
to choose from?

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I think definitely I was
interested in other programs.

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I will be honest, what made me
ultimately decide is getting

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connected with the students that
were already in your class or in

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your school beforehand to really
understand what it's all about

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and everybody's worried about,
oh, it starts at 7:00.

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It's not bad at all.
You wake up and if you're there

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5 minutes late, OK, you move on.
It's live and you learn.

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I will definitely say CEO has
made you mean network a lot

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better.
Even at college right now, I

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have potential to make coloring
books here.

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And I I talked to the president
and he knows what CEO is.

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And without CEOI wouldn't have
made a connection as easily,

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easily and also going and
willing to have a conversation

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with everybody and being
comfortable.

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And but some of my friends are
like, oh, no, I won't do it.

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I won't do it.
And here I am like, OK, it's

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nothing, but I think it's
easier.

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It's it's a good experience.
It's not, it doesn't even feel

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like a class really.
Like I want to go everyday and

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some of my other classes I'm
like, no, I don't want to go.

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But this is really enjoying.
You make a family.

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It's not just a class, not just
your team.

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You drive everywhere together.
It's it's really fun.

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Yeah, Yeah.
It's a great program, It really

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is.
And an offshoot of that program,

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you've talked a little bit about
your coloring books.

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You got started while you were
in the CEO program with your

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coloring business.
So talk to us about how you got

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started with that and kind of
what has happened since you

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started your coloring book
business and went to college.

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OK.
So with my business, I was in

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between a lot of things.
I really didn't know what I was

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going to do really as a major in
college.

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So I started looking around and
I'm like, OK, coloring books

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seem like a good idea baseline,
but what what makes it special?

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Like do I go out and sell it on
Amazon?

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What can I do?
And then I working in

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Carlinville part time.
I did, and I just knew the

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community there a lot better and
they're very strong together.

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But so many people come through
for Route 66 and the history

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behind Mccoopen is just amazing.
And I was like, OK, coloring

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book of the county.
And that's just how it became

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about.
And my parents were there to

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support me and help me.
And yeah, it was just I it was

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not a freak accident, but a good
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And with that going on, I sold
them all across the county and I

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got into contact with one of the
executive leaders for Route 66

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in Illinois and she wants me to
do one.

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I'm currently making one for
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So it's very exciting and.
Then potentially at Milliken

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University, you'll be good, OK.
And then a few a few more on the

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works.
But yeah, it's very exciting.

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That is extremely exciting.
So with that, when you think

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about dreams for the future, how
has the CEO program impacted

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your dreams for the future?
And maybe talk to us a little

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bit about your what you're
planning for your future.

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OK, so with CEO beforehand, like
I never had too many big dreams,

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but now that I can realize
what's all capable, I do hope to

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make this a career.
I'm actually considering

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changing my major into some type
something in the business world

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because it's just I I find so
much joy with it and I would

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rather do that than not have joy
and it's just really exciting.

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I hope.
And I have actually in front of

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me.
I have my goals for my coloring

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book.
Yeah, I've made goals that I

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have up here.
A huge goal I put was meet the

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president Hannah Mccoloring book
of this anybody don't know what

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I know that's.
That's no, that's amazing.

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And I love that you said that,
Macy, because sometimes we play

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small.
We have very small goals for

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ourselves because we know we can
accomplish it, but we need

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stretch goals.
We need to stretch ourselves

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and, you know, aim high.
And that is a great goal to

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hand.
A coloring book to the president

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of the United States.
Very nice, yes?

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And yeah, I just have a couple
that are like more out there,

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but also I the worst.
My mom always tells me the worst

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thing they can say is no, and
it's nothing farther from the

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truth.
So I really think that has made

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me widen my horizon on goals,
really.

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Mothers are so wise, aren't
they, Macy?

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I OK, yeah, on that.
I I have my mom always tells me

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or my and my parents like you're
gonna look back and say, you

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know what, you guys, you were
right.

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And I have said that a couple
times and.

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That is, that is the sweetest
words to a parent's ears, so I'm

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glad you said that and now
you're recorded for all time

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your parents are going to be
able to say, Macy said.

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Macy didn't say.
Yes.

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So as we are sharing this
podcast with our, our, our

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audience and encouraging people
to consider encouraging

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students, parents, counselors,
principals to consider promoting

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this program, What what advice
can you closing advice and words

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of wisdom can you give those
students that are considering

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this as an option?
So I definitely think reaching

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out would be amazing.
And to anybody I know, Scott

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Richmond myself would be able to
reach out just to explain really

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more if you're interested.
There's no, like I said, they

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all they can say is no, but
we're not going to say no at

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CEO.
So it's just I think the best

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thing you do if you're in the
slightest bit bit interested, go

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online, Look who's all in it and
it's good.

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I think I don't, yeah.
Completely agree with you.

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Now, how would people get in
touch with you if they wanted to

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talk with you about the CEO
program?

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So they can e-mail me.
Macy's e-mail address in the

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show notes, and if you're
interested in getting in contact

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with her, you can reach out via
e-mail.

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And Macy, I really appreciate
you coming on the show.

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Your experience, your wisdom,
just everything that you bring

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because of your foundation with
your parents and your family,

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your education, your experience
with the CEO program, it's so

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wonderful.
So thank you for sharing today

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and thank you for coming on the
show.

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Yes.
Thank you so much for having me.

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I appreciate it.
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