Caleb Jakes Speaker Reel
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[00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:11.660] I refuse to keep living like I didn't matter. Let me say that again. It was because I refused to keep living like I didn't matter.
[00:00:11.660 --> 00:00:24.180] And maybe that's where transformation really begins. Not when everything changes, but when you finally believe you can.
[00:00:24.180 --> 00:00:35.130] So, when I look back over everything, everything that I went through, the health scares, the family struggles, the silent battles in my mind, something that changed my life.
[00:00:35.130 --> 00:00:46.130] That pain wasn't just something I had to get through. It was something I had to learn from, because pain sometimes doesn't come to just destroy you, but it comes to develop you.
[00:00:46.130 --> 00:00:57.130] And so, I want to leave you with something that I care about the most, and something that helped me acknowledge and understand pain to a greater level, and an acronym that I created for it.
[00:00:57.130 --> 00:01:10.130] So, the P in P.A.I.N. is for Purpose, right? Your pain isn't pointless, it may not feel fair, it may not be easy, but inside every painful moment is a deeper reason and a bigger why.
[00:01:10.130 --> 00:01:17.130] And to know that you're not here by accident, and that your story is speaking even when you haven't found the words to tell it there.
[00:01:18.130 --> 00:01:27.130] The A is for Access. When you've been through a lot of things, it gives you a level of understanding that most people will never have.
[00:01:27.130 --> 00:01:38.130] It opens your heart to others, it gives you a level of empathy that you didn't even think you had. It gives you access to a compassion that can't be taught, but only earned.
[00:01:38.130 --> 00:01:54.130] And that's what makes you a leader. The I is for Invitation. That pain is not punishment, it's an invitation to grow, to change, to rise, to stop running from yourself and start becoming the version of you that you haven't even met yet.
[00:01:54.130 --> 00:02:06.740] Pain always brings with it a choice. Will you let it define you, or will you let it develop you?
[00:02:07.740 --> 00:02:18.740] Because if you let it develop you, it will teach you, it will grow you, it will stretch you, and on the other side of that is newness, a new way of seeing, a new way of believing, a new way of living.
[00:02:18.740 --> 00:02:47.690] So if you're sitting here today with questions, if you're carrying just silent battles that no one knows about, please hear me. Your pain is not your ending, it's the birthplace of your recovery.
[00:02:47.690 --> 00:02:56.690] I started studying language, media, communication, business at the University of Rochester. I've spoken on stages, I've sat in rooms that I only used to dream about.
[00:02:56.690 --> 00:03:06.690] I run my own LLC, it's called Joyionaire Enterprises, and I help young people and adults rediscover their joy even in the midst of their most hardest seasons.
[00:03:06.690 --> 00:03:12.690] And if you're wondering, what is the word Joyionaire? Well, I'll tell you, it's a word that I created in trademark.
[00:03:12.690 --> 00:03:19.690] It's not the word millionaire, it's a play off of joy. A Joyionaire is a person who finds their inner wealth through the amount of joy they have.