Transcriber: Thanh Tâm Trần
Reviewer: Angel Y
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Good morning everyone.
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I want you all to turn to your right.
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Tell that person you look amazing today.
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Now turn to your left.
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Say to that person.
Today you will change your life.
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Fantastic. Are you now ready to listen?
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Okay. Come. Follow me.
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I want you all to extend your hand.
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Now close it. Look at it with intent.
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that was how small my daughter was.
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Her head was as small as a golf ball.
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I waited for her for 22 years.
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And the doctor told me
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she has 24 hours to live.
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My world crushed. But
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I have to fight for her life.
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So I did the best that I could.
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my child. Live, fight and succeed.
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Seeing her with tubes all
over her body in the ICU.
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The odds were very high of losing her.
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The babies were dying left and right.
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But I told her,
and I prayed. You can do it.
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Today. That child is here.
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She is nine years old.
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A world champion in taekwondo,
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a valedictorian, and now
aiming to be an Olympian someday.
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She fought the odds
every single day of her life.
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We received so many no's, it's impossible
for her to Hard to survive, you know.
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She taught me the true
meaning of resilience.
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It's not just bouncing back,
but fighting forward
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with grace and hope.
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Levi is a reflection of her generation.
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They're called now the Gen Alpha.
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Did you know today
there are 22.5 billion Gen Alpha?
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Imagine that. Now it is our role
as adults, as parents,
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as mentors to invest in their resilience
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because we have
invested in our businesses.
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We are change makers in our communities.
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We invested in making apps AI.
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Why not today? Invest in one child,
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especially in the AI age.
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You see, during our journey
of hopelessness,
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one person helped us and believe
that she can survive.
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Because of that,
it gave us a spark of hope.
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So we want to pay it forward.
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We want to make sure
we give that to the kids.
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I’ve been an educator
as I paid forward
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for the last 25 years, but believe me,
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who wants to become
a teacher in this generation?
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But why not mentor a child today
with your stories of resilience?
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If you don't do it now.
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When after ten years you saw the video
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the pros and cons of AI
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Now this time I want to challenge you.
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Do you have a phone? Take it out.
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Come on, take it out.
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Now. The challenge. Drop it.
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Nobody wants to drop it.
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My daughter said don't do that.
It will break, mama.
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we have screen protectors.
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That's the new kind of resilience.
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Kids now are like smartphones.
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They are super smart,
very, very fast and super connected.
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Not sometimes in the real world,
but a different world.
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However, Were. They're all so fragile.
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With one post, with one unfollow.
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Their world will collapse,
so they need you more than ever.
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I challenge you now not to be a fobo.
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It's a new term. Fear of being obsolete.
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right now, some of you
didn't even take the phone out.
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That's a nonchalant leader.
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Some took the phone but did not
let go like a helicopter parent.
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Some took the challenge,
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but have a safety net and I'll be sure
I need to watch out everything.
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But some of you. You knew you
had a screen protector and let go.
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Just like raising a child.
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When the foundation is very strong
in building their resilience,
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you can let go and let them fly.
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In the Gen Alpha world,
they have a new language.
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They have a different meaning
for resilience.
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Number one rises to the next person.
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Riz is charisma confidence
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that I have a big goal and even if I fail,
I'm going to bounce back fast.
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Next, they have the shift mindset.
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If something does not go right,
I can shift instantly.
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That's the gift of the Gen Alpha
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and the last is link.
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They link with the rest of the world,
but sometimes not with the parent.
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So the challenge now How
do you build the resilience
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in the 25 2025 study
in Harvard on how to build resilience?
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With children at age,
you know, the number one thing connection,
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positive connection with one adult.
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It may be a parent, a Tito,
a caregiver, a mentor, a teacher, a coach,
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at least one in their lifetime
who will believe in themselves.
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I call this the AI kid formula AI.
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There's a shift,
a authentic be real, be you.
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I you must be intentional
with what you do with them.
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And please remember at least one letter
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for the word kid K kick start
their dream with microlearning
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at least. three apps.
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Three minutes and master it
for three days.
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That's my challenge for you.
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But you know, for every choice,
there's a price and a consequence.
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Parents and adults.
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Leaders. It's your sacrifice.
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Sacrifice of time
to be consistently being there.
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Remember, Levi, she has a new dream.
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She wanted to become an Olympian.
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But to become an Olympian,
she has to be 16 years old.
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So right now we have started
doing gymnastics,
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but we trained seven days a week,
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3 to 4 hours a day.
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We have to give up convenience,
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but we're willing to go all
the way Because dreams start
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when somebody really believes
in you, when you don't.
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are you the one who will ignite
their greatness to goodness?
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Skills are not enough.
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Without character, greatness is nothing.
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When goodness is empty,
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know the story of my student, Eli.
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When she was young,
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all the field trips,
all the activities in school.
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They have activities in the church
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and they are very supportive of her.
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she graduated magna cum laude in Harvard?
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But there is a difference.
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Eli did not just focus on herself.
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That's very rare in the Philippines.
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What she did in her Cup,
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she promoted a lost cause
honoring the World War Two veterans.
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And it went viral. How can a kid promote
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Because she believes the next
leader starts from the youth.
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She started the Kalasag movement.
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Kalasag means protection.
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She goes all around the country
using social media to teach the kids
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to love their country through service.
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Isn't that amazing? And the last story.
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They do epic things. Be an OG original.
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I want to tell you
about a different story.
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She was single. She's not a the parent.
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Then she saw someone selling Sampaguita
in the streets of Makati.
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That kid was very good in math.
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But she was not studying.
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But she was very poor.
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And she said, okay, let me help you.
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I want you to study. She gave
her one lifeline the gift of education.
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She gave her scholarships
from grade school up to college.
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that one child became
our salutatorian at Eton?
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She was the first recipient
of our scholarship grant.
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Our mission became to make
international education accessible to all.
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And that child lifted her family.
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At 22, she was able to give
a house and lot to her family.
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That is Mentorship.
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three stories, one formula.
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Resilience. What is the benefit?
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Number one, you live a life
of significance.
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You did not waste your life.
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Some call it happiness,
but some call it their calling or peace.
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So as we end in this world,
put your hand like this.
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It's full of pressure.
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Ten times stronger because of AI.
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Now I want you
to play with it like a ball.
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It relaxes you. Use pressure.
Turn you to play?
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Sure. Let learning be fun with the kids.
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Make it games. Use AI positively.
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And lastly, if ever they fall.
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Remind them they are never alone.
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From pleasure. Do the pleasure.
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Remember your phone.
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You now have the power.
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With one swipe. With one post.
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You can lift a life with positivity.
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Or tear down people with one click.
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Build resilience instead.
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Because remember, I want you now
to think of one person in your life
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when you are so down,
one person believed in you.
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And it changed your life forever.
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Every billion start up started with
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one person supporting a dream.
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one action with courage
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and every word leader
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with one resilient child.
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think of one person?
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Maybe reach out to one lonely child,
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a rebellious youth, just one?
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Or turn to your right again,
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a hurting adult. Turn to your left.
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Someone who has a big dream.
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Who thinks it's too late.
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It's never too late
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to empower and build somebody.
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calling is irrevocable.
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Your gifts, your talents
can be multiplied 10,000 fold.
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Just start with one share right now.
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Your stories of resilience
because we all have our pain points
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and success points.
They will learn from you.
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Imagine one person can reach a thousand.
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I'm sure you have more
than 1000 friends, right?
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If that 1000 friends reach out,
they can reach 10,000.
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Some of them have million followers.
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Imagine together we can reach
that 22.5 billion kids.
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Because with God, nothing is impossible.
Thank you.
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