Dying With Your Best Work Inside You: Philip McKernan on Success, Meaning, and Regret

I I think in the end of the day if I could ask people to reflect upon one thing and one thing only is the relationship with themselves that you know we spend a lot of time building our businesses a lot of time focusing on strategies and AI and software and marketing and sales and all these

different channels and then when what's left we tend to focus on those relationships at home and a lot of us negate this one relationship this most important relationship I think in the world leaving God aside and religion whatever you believe in is our relationship with ourselves a lot of entrepreneurs don't really like who they

are. A lot of entrepreneurs give themselves a really hard time.

[music] >> Philip Mccernan, thank you very much for joining me. >> Yeah, thanks for having me. >> Um, so I have a sense of what you do, right? But >> good preparation, you know. I have done some preparation but um uh I'd like to hear just in your own words if you kind of

meet someone who you've never met before and they they ask you you know what what do you do Philip what do you say to them? >> Oh it's it's it's difficult to put that into words. I mean I could call myself a coach. I could call myself a professional speaker. I could call myself a dad, a husband, a

human. I can I can go whatever way uh you want with it. Professionally, I think I'm a guide. I'm a mirror. Um, and I create space everywhere in my life, whether it's professionally or personally for people to just I suppose show up as themselves. But I suppose professionally the easiest one is just