Ep. 102 - David Finlayson - Networking, Faith, and Leadership in Halifax

Some careers look linear on paper. Dave’s path isn’t one of them—and that’s exactly where the wisdom lives. From getting fired at 25 in the UK’s soccer industry to running a pizza franchise, managing a global outdoor brand, helping launch a pro soccer club, and now serving with Build Nova Scotia, Dave shows how setbacks, networks, and faith can work together to create a life that actually matters.

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Welcome And Global Community

SPEAKER_00 0:08

Welcome to the Leader Impact Podcast. We are a community of leaders with a network in over 350 cities around the world dedicated to optimizing our personal, professional, and spiritual lives to have impact. This show is where we have a chance to listen and engage with leaders who are living this out. We love talking with leaders, so if you have any questions, comments, or suggestions to make this show even better, please let us know. The best way to stay connected in Canada is through our newsletter at leaderimpact.ca or on social at LeaderImpact. And if you're listening from outside of Canada, check out our website at leaderimpact.com. I'm your host today.

Meet David Finlayson

SPEAKER_00 0:40

I'm your host, Lisa Peters, and our guest today is David Finlayson. Dave works for the Nova Scotia provincial government with Build Nova Scotia and has a small sponsorship development company that supports professional sports and events. Over his career, he has owned a pizza shop, the king of Donair, has been a product manager for Heli Hansen and worked for a professional soccer team, the Halifax Wanderers. Dave was the chair of the Nova Scotia Leadership Prayer Breakfast that draws over 400 people to a yearly event to hear God's word and is now leading a leader impact group that is endeavoring to bring 600 people together in May to change your heart, change your mind, change your world. Dave calls Halifax home where he lives with his wife, Jen and sons, Alec and Darren. Welcome to the show, David.

SPEAKER_01 1:26

Thank you so much for having me. I've been looking forward to it for a long time.

SPEAKER_00 1:31

I am super excited because today I just heard you are the MC of this big event coming up in May in Halifax.

SPEAKER_01 1:40

Yeah, there is uh there's a couple people in this world outside of my family that I can't say no to. Uh and my good friends Jeff and Tibby uh are on that short list. So congratulations, guys. You got an MC.

SPEAKER_00 1:54

Yeah, I I have the same. And he's it's Jeff, Tibby, and um Bobby. Like I guess. Bobby, okay. I'm like sure, because he's he's my Saskatchewan guy. Uh I'm excited to meet you. I have met a few, if anyone is um, if anyone's listened to Leader Impact podcasts, we met Jonathan Lewis, we met Jennifer Amiro, and Jay Joe uh De Pencha. And I think they're all from Halifax. Are they still all there?

SPEAKER_01 2:19

Yeah, so uh Joe is back and forth to California these days. So he has moved back to the sun um for with his wife and daughter. Uh, but he's still up here every couple months. He has a lot of clients up here. Uh Jonathan Lewis, uh financial advisor to the stars. So again, he's splitting his time between Halifax and North Carolina, South Carolina, Charleston. Uh and Jennifer is actually in my leader impact group and has been on the show before. And uh so uh all amazing, both faith and business leaders.

SPEAKER_00 2:54

Yeah, some of my favorite podcasts, honestly. Like I can say I I clearly remember those. So if anyone's listening, uh I hope you they can listen to those. So I'm excited to get to know you, and then ultimately I get to meet. So that is just a highlight of that, and that's why I love Leader Impact, is just meeting leaders around the world. So I'm excited. But here I want to hear a little bit about a little bit more about your journey, your professional journey. So how you got to where you are today? Because you've had a pretty like from pizza shops to sports teams to like wow. Um and maybe a pivotal if you have any pivotal moments.

SPEAKER_01 3:28

Yeah, there's been a lot, as you can imagine, with the bumping around.

Career Beginnings And UK Setback

SPEAKER_01 3:33

Um, so my dad was a mil in the military, doctor in the military um in the UK. And so he met my mom, who was a flight attendant with a great uh uh airline called Dan Air that flew all over the place. So occasionally she'll still regale us with stories. Uh, we came over when I was two to Winnipeg. Uh, then he was posted to Ottawa, and then he was posted to Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. And then when he got out of uh the military, he uh stayed working in Halifax, and we made all made Halifax our home. So basically, we've been here essentially since 1985. Um minus uh a year that I went overseas to do my MBA in soccer management from the University of Liverpool. Uh, there was a dual, uh, a dual reason I wanted to do that. Number one is my passion for the sport, uh, and I'd been looking to do an MBA program uh after finishing my commerce program at Dell. And uh a bunch of my families over there all on my mom's side. Okay. So I got to watch a lot of soccer. I got to investigate the nightlife of Liverpool, which is quite similar to Halifax. It's it's pretty fun. Um, and then when I came back, um my mom was recovering from cancer, so that was part of the reason that I came back. Um the other reason is because it was the only job I ever got fired from uh working in the UK. Um and it was so devastating for me. I was working with a um a company which at the time, now this is 2001, uh, was dealing with uh directly with soccer players online sales. Like that was not a thing uh back then. They just really started getting online. Um and because I hadn't um I tried to do everything myself, uh, I tried to find all my own solutions, and as a young 25-year-old, probably wasn't the best idea because sometimes the best ideas are just sitting right in front of you, and someone that's experienced could just go, Why didn't you just do this? Uh and I had no answer for that. And uh that uh ended my short career in the UK. Uh but it was a great time to come back, and I've carried that lesson along with me for a long, long time. Um so that that was interesting. Um then I just I worked three or four different jobs, uh generally all with entrepreneurs, uh, where I'd come in as like their number two or be their sales uh person, business development person. And then the opportunity came up because I was looking to do my own thing. And King of Donair, which is this is 2004, they were looking to expand across the country. Uh they were very excited to get going. They'd hired these um groups that were in charge of franchise development. Um, and unfortunately, it just didn't last. Uh it wasn't a great fit for me. Uh, I was working a hundred hours plus a week, um, soon to be getting married. And so I proved to myself I can work a hundred hours a week. Um but even that, as I look back on that experience and what it uh could have done to my potential family life, as I'm looking back now after like almost, well, 18 years of marriage, close to, um,

Entrepreneurship And Hard Lessons

SPEAKER_01 6:32

uh it would have been probably devastating for my family life and that. So learned I could do it, got a great out uh to move to Heli Hansen. So that is where I spent a lot of time just thinking about my network. Um, so I was traveling all over North America, even into Oslo to uh to see our friends at the head office there. And so I just I built up my network through my fraternity, through my university, uh, through being just known as a I don't know, person of interest or Hallie famous, I guess they could almost say in Halifax, um to continue to build my network. So, like whether that was in church, uh, whether that was uh in business, in sports, whatever it was. And so I just just got to be known as like that guy around town. If he needed a contact at a certain level, um people would reach out to me and I just introduce them and and help them along. So it just really got me refocused on my network. Um, and then my my last one before I joined the government was um I'd heard a rumor of a professional soccer league coming to Canada, the Canadian Premier League. And so I knew the guy that had been mentioned. Uh we hadn't worked together, but we talked about different things over the years, and so I went and uh nailed him down for a beer at our one of our local establishments, and we talked about a bunch of different things. Um I didn't think it was gonna come to pass, and then uh a couple months before the league started, I got a call. He's like, hey, if you can come in and do this, then I got a job for you. And again, that had been a network I'd built up over time, and um, so another just key learning lesson, and basically worked with a startup soccer league that's obviously still going today in year eight, and uh still have a lot of time for those guys on the on the soccer side.

SPEAKER_00 8:15

That's great. One thing that grabbed me, wait, well, definitely I when I look at your journey and I I and you mentioned the network. Sometimes we feel like something is a failure, but we don't look, we shouldn't look at it like that, right? Like you've you made a network, you and you're moving it to where you are today. So that is a an a great journey. I want to ask you, you mentioned the word, right? I think you're about 24 years old and you got fired in the UK. You mentioned the word devastating. What what at 24? You know, how devastating is that? So what what did what was that?

SPEAKER_01 8:46

Yeah, um, so I'd got the job uh because uh this gentleman who is very well known in the UK as like basically the guru of soccer marketing. Like when there was no real soccer marketing, like it's not what we know today, um, had come in and spoke to our class, and I cornered him after the class and said, I want to come do an internship with you, and then we'll see where it goes. And so I got that and got the job. Um, so I was literally working, going to see professional footballers all over um the UK. I was going from photo shoots, I was doing retail development, I was researching soccer players that we should uh buy the rights to. Like, uh, and it was a really cool open concept office before that was a thing, and there was always cold play. Yellow would just come out playing in the background, uh, and very social. So, you know, Friday lunches at the pub, soccer team, soccer games, uh, random England soccer captains showing up in her lunchroom in the evening. Like it was just it was amazing. And uh anyway, so that's why it was so hard for me, is like I thought I'd found it. Um the one piece that I didn't have while I was over there, I didn't really have any spiritual grounding when I was there. Uh I'd gone away from my faith

Building A Network That Opens Doors

SPEAKER_01 9:59

for for a couple years at that point, and there was just nothing like holding me there, grounding me. So it just um it was very difficult.

SPEAKER_00 10:07

Yeah. Um I've been in a similar position where it's just the job is awesome. And I and I I actually left mine, but I couldn't believe I'd left. Like I felt sick. I knew that it was time to leave before you know something happened, but um, I know that just devastation, but now I look back, it's easy to look back. Hindsight, yeah, it was meant to happen. But um the devastation you felt at the time, I can understand that. Thank you for sharing that. Oh, it's um so we we love talking about prints best principles of success if you have one and a story to share about that.

SPEAKER_01 10:39

Yeah, so and it's funny because it kind of ties in with um some of uh some of the scriptures that I've been kind of thinking about recently. Um, and the biggest one that I've been focusing on right now, and one that we've been talking about in our leader group, is just giving all the decisions to God. Um, and I've heard it recently on some other podcasts that I've been listening to, um, like Sports Spectrum, where they're talking like how it affects their athletes, um, how they've given every game, every play to God. Um, and that's something that I've been really working quite hard to do. And I never used to ask him for his permission or is this a good idea? And I still feel like I'm a newbie. I still feel like I'm like I'm kind of asking him, um, but maybe not being as patient as I should be, or just praying enough. And so that's really been a focus for me, is just kind of amping that up as I go. So that's that's really one of my big ones right now.

SPEAKER_00 11:37

Yeah, that is not the easiest thing to do. I uh I'm currently doing um kind of a class hearing God, and we're talking about obedience. And it's really easy to be obedient when it's you know something like, oh, I hope and I pray, but when it's those little things, we forget to to pray or to ask. Like we sh like you said, just in every decision.

SPEAKER_01 12:00

Yeah, and and I'll tell you who's really like who I'm giving well, besides God, who I'm giving the uh um uh the love to on that one is my leader impact group. Um, because as you know, like we're supposed to be a mixture of uh like let's say the hard-driving Catholics, the people going to church, and then people that are interested, right? And we just ended up with a group that has veered more towards the very strong Christians, and so you get called out like in that small group, and it's okay. Like we've built that trust, and that's amazing for all of us. Um, but Vince and Jeremy and Jen and Chad, and they're sometimes they don't even have to say it, it's just by their actions that they show me what they're doing, and I'm like, why are they oh yeah, because I'm supposed to ask Jesus. And they're just they just do it like they do it, and I'm sure they have their own struggles as well. Um but the the it's it's in them now and it's it's routine and it's habit, and I think it's building those habits like you would in sports or training or food or

Faith, Failure, And Asking Better Questions

SPEAKER_01 13:06

whatever you're doing. And so it's just it's taken me a long time to get to there, and I feel like that part of my faith is really starting to grab much better hold in my life. So it's great.

SPEAKER_00 13:16

Yeah. Oh, that's great. Um, then I'm excited for the next question about failures and mistakes because I think I mean just listening to you, we learn more from our failures than our uh successes. So if you could share something uh that you have maybe failed at or are failing, and that uh you're really learning from a story.

SPEAKER_01 13:35

Yeah, yeah. I mean, really, it's it's kind of the flip side that I look back on like my career and all the times I never asked, like, was it actually a good decision to go run a pizza shop at a hundred hours a week with no experience in retail, uh B2C marketing? Like, I knew I could work hard, I knew I could I had the personality to like engage with people, do corporate sales, do all that kind of stuff, but like the day-to-day grind of like uh hiring and firing, uh just dealing with people as you get to the door, dealing with angry customers, like I I didn't know if I could do all that. And so just a lot of time I've just been thinking about that of like would this have gone the same direction if I'd asked those questions? Right? And probably he was just guiding my steps anyway. But at some point it's just like a few years ago, it's just like you're gonna listen now? Like, are you gonna take this all on and go? So I think that is is the mistake is not coming around to that enough early enough because I think that just could have given me such a better base of uh where to make my decisions from.

SPEAKER_00 14:43

That's uh so I I always think when I hear something, because I'm I'm raising, we're we're both raising children. And uh my daughter, we were just talking about this the other day about mistakes, and I'm like, don't look at it a mistake, look at it as part of your journey and go, okay. And and the thing, my words were we win or we learn. We don't lose. Like we win or we learn, Ellie. So if you're listening to me, and I I have to believe that because I don't want to look back and regret and be angry and go, I shouldn't have done that or why. Just go, you know what? I learned that I, you know, I couldn't do it with a family in a hundred hours a week, and yay for me.

SPEAKER_01 15:17

Well, and I think I heard that, uh, I might have heard that on your podcast with our Olympian uh friend. Um, and you guys were talking. I just listened to that the other day, and I was like, yep, that's you know, that's coming from a real place, right? Um that win or go home. So win or learn. It's perfect.

SPEAKER_00 15:34

Yep.

unknown 15:35

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 15:36

See, now there's two of us that believe that if Ellie's listening, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 15:38

There you go.

SPEAKER_00 15:39

All right. Uh so I'm excited that you, um, Halifax, is getting more involved in leader impact because I think that's only within the last couple years. So um obviously, you know, we want groups uh to grow. We want them to grow in our personal, professional, and spiritual lives for increasing impact. So I'm wondering if you're willing to share an example of how the spiritual makes a practical difference in your life as a leader.

SPEAKER_01 16:03

Yeah, I um I was thinking about this when you sent it over. Um, so our group's been really interesting. So um, Vince Savard, who I am sure it will be on the show at some point, has um his love for the Lord is is uh amazingly strong and comes through the screen right at you. Like we have a 745 tomorrow morning

Spiritual Habits And Group Accountability

SPEAKER_01 16:24

uh Zoom call that I have to mentally prepare myself for um the level of intensity that's gonna be at when we're talking about Jesus, which is not not a norm for me. Um but we just he asked me, he'd met Tibby. Um he'd asked me if is this something we want to get involved with? Like, would you consider uh joining these groups? And then Jonathan Lewis at the same time had started his conference, which is Spark. So the first Spark conference we did three years ago now, two years ago, three years ago, uh, in Moncton that drew a hundred people, and Jonathan was able to bring an amazing group of speakers together. Now, the reason they both asked me at different times was because I was the chair of the Nova Scotia Leadership Prayer Breakfast, which was just a yearly event, and this yearly event, like when I took it over from uh Bruce Havill, who's one of my great spiritual mentors, um, they we were drawing 300 people. Um by the time Borissa and I had redone our group, we were up to 480, came to the last breakfast that we had. Um, and it was a ma and the speakers like it was with music, but we were trying to get politicians there. So it was people of faith, people not of faith. Um, and the reason we started to shut that down besides COVID was uh part of the reason that I got into Leader Impact is that I felt good about the seeds we were putting out, but there was never any follow-up. We didn't really know, like, were people then going to church, were people then taking some of these ideas and bringing them into their work or their family? We just we didn't know. We get a couple nice emails saying, Yeah, great event, love the speaker, great work, I'll be there next year. Um, but I was looking for something with more longer-term impact. And so when Jonathan started talking to me about it, and the speakers he brought up were just unbelievable. And and Tibby, Jeff, and Dorothy were all there helping along with the event, and I think they were pretty blown away with the level of speakers he was able to bring up from all over the place. And now he's got his next event, which is Spark in Calgary, coming up uh at the end of May. Uh, and we have our uh uh next leaders of impact. We kind of co-opted the name a little bit because we wanted everyone to come out of there being leaders. Last year, we were able to bring 380 people together um and hear a range of stories, speeches. We had Braden Douglas as our keynote speaker. He gave three sessions, and as you know, he's unbelievable. Yeah, and still consider him a friend. Like he's just I love watching him on LinkedIn. I'm in his algorithm, so I just I feel like I keep that constant contact with him. Um this year we moved the venue and we're trying to get to 600 people to come out and have a whole day, um, a day of training, a day of faith. We're being a little more overt on the face side this year, versus last year we were really trying to get a wide audience. Um this year

Events With Lasting Impact In Halifax

SPEAKER_01 19:20

we're narrowing it down because we want people that have at least a little bit of knowledge to come in and and really push them a little bit harder. Um we're seeing this at all the churches, it's like we feel like we gotta start asking some of these harder questions now. Like, can't just be in the pews for an hour a week, right? Or an hour and a half at my church, but we need them to go out and make an impact in their community. So, all of that to say, there's like some amazing uh events coming up through May. So we've got the May 1st weekend in Halifax with Leader Impact Global. Uh, then May 23rd, we'll have our Leaders of Impact in Halifax, and then Jonathan's is the next weekend in Calgary. So just a lot going on for Leader Impact, and hopefully May will be an absolutely amazing month.

SPEAKER_00 20:07

Yeah. I have to ask you, just listening to this journey of of the events, do you think that you were ready to do a Leader Impact um lead where you are today year, you know, a few years ago? Were you because sometimes I sometimes I don't know why they asked me to do the things they asked me to do because I don't think I'm ready, they think I'm ready. So I just show up and go, okay. But how have you changed in your faith over the last because I I think you sort of went away when you were younger?

SPEAKER_01 20:38

I did the traditional, uh left after high school, came back at early 30s, right? And um, it was my mom that offered me to come back. We wanted to go find a new church. We found a really inspiring pastor. We had gone to Roman Catholic churches um with with um some gentlemen that are very strongly involved with alpha uh globally, and uh then divine renovation, which is uh ministry committed to helping churches like do everything better, essentially. And it's just awesome. So now I'm at the St. Benedict Church, uh, which has great leadership. We have over 2,300 people come through that church um over the course of a weekend, and the leader support that they give, so they actually go out of their way to train the leaders within that parish. Um, I don't think I would have been ready to do anything other than just the events. Like I can definitely run the events. That's like kind of bread and butter to my career. But being able to weave those faith discussions into it and be able to have like those deeper conversations, that couldn't have happened for me until I got involved with like Jonathan, Vince, Bruce, and the then the Leader Impact gang has really um amped it up for me because the type of work we're doing in those groups gets so deep so quickly. Um so even if you're doing like a John Maxwell book, then all of a sudden you're like, How does this time? Into my faith, how does this tie into my business? Uh it's just it's so amazing to actually watch the development. Go now I can actually have a conversation about how this part of my faith ties into the business and ties into like things we could be doing in business. And then um I would say I consider myself like theologically a little bit behind of where those guys are in their faith journey. Like um, I have a hard time like reciting scriptures, um, but I kind of know the intent. So that is like an area I'm trying to get better. But then when you're being pushed by guys like Jonathan and Vince and Jen, like it's just amazing to watch the uh the curve go upwards. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 22:40

Oh, I I love every part of that. Um, I was probably 17 when I when I went away from the church and came back after I was 30. Like I think it was, you know, 31 or something. So I and now I'm on the curve up, and just and leader impact has been a huge part of that. So thank you for sharing that. And I I feel better. I feel kindred, yeah. Um so leader impact is dedicated to having leaders having a lasting impact. And as you continue through your own journey, just wondering um what you want your faith legacy to be when you leave this world.

SPEAKER_01 23:14

So this is like this is a tough one for me because it's uh I still feel like I'm in the beginning part of building it. Like I again, like we're if we are on the bottom of that curve and it's starting to go more towards at least diagonal,

Growing Into Leadership And Theology

SPEAKER_01 23:28

um as opposed to flat line. Uh there's so much there. I the thing that I've thought about a lot with regards to all these different events um and the leader impact group is I just want to see other people that have come out to that um have their lives affected throughout through their whole lives. So whether that's their family life, their work, their community, um, or their faith, like I just want to see that development. And so when you one of the best things that happened for for myself and Vince with our group over the last couple years is we randomly ran into a wife at Costco of uh one of our members who said, uh my husband's like a new man now. And that was from just you know, sharing in our group for a year and a half. And like, how can you beat that? Right? Like that guy is now on a like he was on a good faith journey, but now he's woven that into his family. He was able to have discussions with us that he couldn't have with any other members of his family just because um the uh cultural hierarchy within that community didn't allow him to do it. So he had to find another way uh to be able to be that strong leader within his family. And so it just makes me so excited when I hear that, and I want to hear that from my kids. Uh, I want to hear that from other people within my family, and I want people to know that, like, hey, they can come talk to Dave at any point, and I'm probably not gonna have the greatest spiritual answer for them, but I can point them to the right people that can give it to them.

SPEAKER_00 25:04

I just think, yeah, I I'm 100%. Um I I I love everything about that. You're I mean, listening to you, you're living it every day uh in everything you do, and I think that's really important. Um, and listening when other people tell you, that's just uh thank you. Yeah, it just you know adds to your I'm gonna be I'm gonna get better tomorrow. I'm gonna get I'm gonna you know be better every day.

SPEAKER_01 25:27

Well Lisa, not to interrupt you, but like, you know, I've been listening to your podcast for a long time. And so you do underestimate how many people carry some of those little things. Like it might have been one thing, one question you asked, or one piece of feedback that they gave, and you're like, man, I'm still thinking about that with the Olympian, like a few days later. So why am I why am I holding on to that piece? Uh and so it's just it like when I heard like I knew Joe, I knew Jonathan, but then a couple things in their stories I hadn't heard before that you brought out. So like it has deepened our relationship as well for me to understand those pieces. So I just think like everyone can do like one small little part. Like I work in government, I don't go around it's a bit tough to flaunt things, um, but I do wear my cross and I do have like we have like one of these little signboards by our desk. So I have like, come on, you wanderers, like spelled out. Um, and then down the side it just says pray. So like I've had several conversations with people at my office that they come to me, I don't go to them, but if we can all be thinking about like what we want our legacies to look like, why we're on this earth, right? Like it like we really got started from reading uh Rick Warren's book, Purpose Driven Life. That was part of like I guess my reawakening or awakening maybe for the first time to like a deeper relationship with God. Um but just being able to like recommend those resources to people that you can see or starting to have questions or things aren't great in their lives because they've never asked them, or they didn't know who to talk to, or they didn't have that person, or they're just like they're like now, like religion isn't for me. Well,

Legacy, Family, And Quiet Influence

SPEAKER_01 27:06

yeah, Jesus is. So just have to find a nice way to put it for them. So thank you for your work.

SPEAKER_00 27:12

Oh thank you. Um, sometimes I I show up every day because I learn. So if if if I can help one person or or if some comment takes uh you know, if moves someone. So thank you for saying that. Uh as I was thinking about books, I was thinking have you read The 360 Leader by John Maxwell?

SPEAKER_01 27:30

I have read the 360 Leader. That was a while ago for me.

SPEAKER_00 27:32

Yep. Yeah. We finished that, I believe, a couple months ago, and they're still talking about it. It was a game changer for many women who are still like, so I I'll probably read it again. It's it's in the library behind me. Like I will. My final question for you is what brings you the greatest joy?

SPEAKER_01 27:50

I I had all these notes. Like, I was like, do I go with the do I go with like the faith one? Um, do I go with like actually watching a great soccer game and like seeing that goal go in? Um and and I don't like to be honest, I just my life is so good right now. Um, like everything's great with my family, my kids, my wife, my parents, like everyone's still doing very well. So one of the things that I've been uh doing, and it's even recently, like it's literally like on the next page of my notes from for this call was my financial blessings. And I've got like, I don't know, you can see like this gigantic list. It's like like I'm just like, I'm just like, holy cow, like there's no way that all this stuff should happen to like what did I deserve that? So uh right now, a lot of my joy outside of my family, uh, and the kids that are eating shrimp right now, uh, is just thinking about all the blessings that I'm getting all the time and all the incredible people that I'm getting to meet through uh Leader Impact Church and and work, and then just thinking about how I might be able to help them affect them just a little bit to maybe ask one question.

SPEAKER_00 29:00

Yeah. Oh man, life is good, Dave. I I can't it's I'm listening to you and I think, oh, he's he got such a great attitude, and I'm sure when something crappy happens, you're like, oh, so let go, let god. Like just you know, and you but I I think that's like I feel like you've written all this down. It's like your list of gratitude. Like you are. I'm I'm so happy for this. I'm so happy. Like, do you do you do uh um a gratitude list?

SPEAKER_01 29:25

So it has been on my to-do list, and it doesn't end up becoming a daily routine for me. Like I'm trying, but I just yeah, it's hard to just sit down and write all this stuff, like but I find I'm thinking about it a lot more.

SPEAKER_00 29:40

Yeah, me too. I have I have a my phone just goes off my uh a note and it says, Hey, what are your what are you grateful for today? But it has to go off every six o'clock in the morning, so I actually remember to do it. And I don't write it down. I'm like, you know what? I'm happy for this. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 29:54

So well, and and the problem, the problem we're gonna face now is that now it's been proven to have a uh like scientific impact on your life if you have this gratitude. So are people gonna have it because of the gratitude or because they're actually giving that thing to the Lord? So that's uh that's very interesting to think about as well.

SPEAKER_00 30:11

Yeah. Well, we'll start small, Dave. Yeah, just one page of notes. One page

Gratitude, Joy, And Daily Practices

SPEAKER_00 30:16

of notes. Yeah. Um well, I am super excited to meet you at the Leader Impact Summit coming up May 1st to 3rd. And uh and I just want to say like all you have to be is a member of Leader Impact. And oh, by the way, that's free.

SPEAKER_01 30:29

Yep.

SPEAKER_00 30:30

So we'd love to have you. Um if anyone wants to connect with you, they've just loved this last uh half hour. How can they find you or what is the best way?

SPEAKER_01 30:38

Yeah, I'm uh I'm a LinkedIn junkie. So just David Finlison on LinkedIn. I work with Build Nova Scotia. Um you might be able to cross-check me with soccer stuff. Um I tend to post, if you're out here, I tend to post pretty much every job posting I see in the area uh to help people out uh that are looking for work. Um and then you also see like anything that is for the good of Nova Scotia or that ties in with Leader Impact come across my feet. So there you go.

SPEAKER_00 31:04

You're the guy. You're the connector.

SPEAKER_01 31:07

That's what I like to do.

SPEAKER_00 31:08

All right. Well, Dave, thank you for joining us, and I look forward to meeting you in May.

SPEAKER_01 31:12

Thank you so much, Lisa.

SPEAKER_00 31:13

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SPEAKER_00 31:38

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