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Need a little bell, ding, ding, ding. All right, I am very excited to welcome Lizzie Williamson to the stage. Lizzie's going to really talk to us, take us through ways and strategies to keep our energy levels up through and keep our fast-paced, high-performing culture through the busy times. So, welcome Lizzie. Thank you, Lizzie. All righty. Here I am. So, I used to be a professional showgirl dancer and I danced around the world doing the can-can at casinos and Moulin Rouge-style routines in one of those on cruise ships. So, what I thought that we would do today to make it quite fun and energetic is by the end of this session, I'm going to have taught you all this Moulin Rouge-style routine and we're going to bring out some of these cruise ships to put on your head.
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Does that sound good? Great. Oh, wow. Okay, we got some yeses. I am just kidding, but you know, we could totally arrange that if you wanted to. So, yeah, this is me dancing on a cruise ship. Somehow we ended up dancing with cruise ships on our head, so we are not going to be learning the Moulin Rouge-style dance. Sorry, in the back row over there. But what we are going to be doing is running this session a bit differently from maybe the normal session you might have had in the past at other conferences because, of course, last year you had the amazing Chelsea here. And so, what we're going to be doing is I'm going to ask you to do things that I've been asking audiences to do around the world for the last 10 years. Doesn't matter whether it's an audience of 10 people or 10,000 people. When I let everyone know that we are going to get up and move, this is what I hear. Oh, I don't move, want to move, I hate moving. So, this is you. I'm going to give you some really good reasons today why those groans are going to turn to thank yous.
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So, there is some studies that show that if you sit and listen to a talk, you retain about 5 to 10% and you implement about that as well. Has anyone ever been to a talk and they're like, oh yeah, I've got to do that, I've got to do that. And then they get home, a day goes by, a week goes by, they haven't done anything. I've certainly done that. If you write things down, that goes up to about 40, 50%. But if you are physically engaged, that goes from your 5% to 75%. So, before we begin, I'd like you all, if you wouldn't mind, to pop up your hands like this. Yep, that's it. And then on a scale of 0 to 10, if you could let me know where your energy is at, at the moment. How are you feeling? What have we got? Yep, so we've got some, yeah, some 7, 6, yeah, 9, yeah, we've got, yeah, I've got a 10, watch out up there. So, I think we've got an average, quite a high average in this room of about 7 out of 10.
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So, just remember that one, okay. So, now we're going to do the thing. There's always people out there that does the groaning for this. So, what I'm going to get you to do, on the count of three, you're going to let out your biggest groans. And if you're excited about getting up and moving, you're going to let out your biggest groans for all the groaners in the audience, alright? So, on the count of three, are you ready? Alright, we're going to hit the music, please. And I'm going to get you to stand on up, off your chairs. We're going to push the chairs in. And we're going to pump up that music. Thank you, Patrick. And you're going to start with a walk on the spot. Walking on the spot. That's it. Oh, yeah, we've already got some dancers in the room. Alrighty. That's it. Woo! Can we now go clockwise around your table? Clockwise. Think what clockwise is and go clockwise around the table. When you see somebody, you are going to give them a high five. High five or a fist bump there.
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High five everybody around you there. Woo! You're doing a great job. Give them some high fives. Hey, doing great. Who can you see there? High five. Oh, yeah, there's some people going, oh, I hate high fives. Here we are. High five. High five to the people you see. Make sure you all give me a high five there. Beautiful. Hello. Everybody, anticlockwise. Anticlockwise. You've got this team. Anticlockwise around the table. And we've got some high fives here. Woo! Oh, yeah. I'm getting some looks going, I hate the moving. I hate the high five. But others are totally into it. So thank you for that. Woo! Alrighty. High five it out there. Everyone's doing a great job. Yay! We're going to head back to your chairs now, everybody. Head back to your chairs. Give yourself a round of applause. That wasn't so bad, was it? Not so bad at all. It was good.
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Could everyone please put their hands on up like this again? And we're going to cut the music. Hands on up. Where are you at now with your energy numbers? Let's see. Alright. Okay, let's do some jazz hands while we're here, people. There we go. Look around the room. Who here felt that shift in their own energy? Yeah? Who here felt the shift in the energy in the room? And who here now is absolutely exhausted? Okay, I'm going to keep an eye on you up the back there. There's a study by Stanford University that shows that compared to sitting, walking increases creative output by 60%. Six zero. And those creative juices continue to flow after you've sat back down. I'm always telling my teenage girls if they want to be an advantage before an exam, to take a walk. And now they're getting all their friends to do it as well. It also boosts your mood and, as you can see, it lifts your energy.
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So now I've got you here. Let's begin with this cruise ship story and what this has got anything to do with your work days. So it looks very glamorous but, in fact, it's kind of quite the opposite. I want you to imagine, and we've got one over there, it's quite a huge one. But down the bottom there, it's quite a confined space. So I've been on this cruise ship for months and months and months. And I am here backstage. I've got my fellow dancers, singers, magicians, contortionists. We've all been together for a long time. I have got chaos around me. There's gold sequins and feathers flying everywhere. Lots of costumes lined up for quick costume changes. And this is about my third show of the night. So I don't really know how I am going to bring it and step out onto that stage and perform at my best. I'm feeling pretty over it and pretty exhausted, actually. The other thing is, is that I'm feeling a bit uncertain because it's all good when those cruise ships are there like that. But, see, they go out on the high seas.
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So I never know, when I get on that stage, if it's going to be smooth sailing or it's going to be a rocking ship. And I am dancing on the high seas in high heels. So I'm there. And if I do a pirouette or a high kick, if I'm going to land on my feet or my face, because the boat is rocking. And my audience that awaits me, well, they have very high expectations. They have paid a lot of money to be on this cruise. And, however, they have had one too many pina coladas. So what has this got to do with your work day? Because your backstage, which is the times in your work day that not many people see, probably no gold feathers or sequins unless something happens on a Friday here that I don't know about. And you're probably having those some days that you don't feel like stepping out onto your stage, onto your work day. You don't quite know how you're going to get out there and perform at your best. Now, your stage, your work day, not on a rocking ship, but I imagine that you have days that can feel pretty rocky, wobbly, am I right?
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You're navigating a whole lot of constant change, market shifts, juggling that work life and home life. And your audience, that's your customers, your colleagues, your clients, hopefully not intoxicated. But I imagine that they can be a bit demanding sometimes, a bit frustrating. Am I right to think that they would have high expectations of you? Here's what you learn as a dancer. Night after night performing. You cannot control the waves that are coming in and the rocking ship. And the same thing goes with you. I mean, you can't control when things are changing and things are being thrown at you and all this stuff's happening. But what we can do something about is the energy that we bring to our stage, to our work day. And the thing that you learn night after night as a performer is that energy, it's infectious.
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And if we in our backstage can shift our energy from that exhausted to a bit more energized, to distracted, to focused, to not so stressed out and a bit calmer, to overwhelmed, to grounded, we can shift everybody around us. When we shift our energy, we shift our results. And we shift how we show up on our stage and we shift and lift everybody around us. So how do we do this? I want you to imagine that in your work day, you've got this room in your office. And you can head into this room and it looks a bit like this. On the shelves, there's a whole full, there's pills, there's potions, there's things that you can take when you're feeling a bit stressed out or you've hit that 3pm slump or you just cannot find your focus. And you head in here and there's something that you can take to help you shift that. It's all free.
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No side effects. Can anyone think of a situation in their day that they might head in there and get something? Yeah. Now the thing is, we have this pharmacy and it's an inner pharmacy. And we have the ability to be able to shift our energy. You probably know the things you can be doing. Exercise, meditation, mindfulness. We all know it. But the thing is, there's so many days that so many of us don't do it. Because our days are rocky. There's a whole lot of stuff going on. Certainly for me, many years ago, I had postnatal depression. And I felt so stuck and so dark and overwhelmed and I knew that there were things that I could be doing to help me feel better. I had been a dancer. I knew it. I just couldn't get myself to do it.
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And this is the knowing and doing gap. And in this gap are all of these roadblocks. So today, we're going to close that gap. And we are going to do it by looking at the roadblocks that are getting in your way. Discovering a mindset that helps bust through these roadblocks. And then we're going to start to build a toolkit of moments that you can use these science fact strategies to make it all so much easier to show up and perform at your best each day. So to start off for you, it might not be something like postnatal depression like it was for me. There might be days for you when there's no time. You feel like there's too much work going on. You just can't be bothered. You can't find the motivation. If you think about what gets in your way in those days of doing the things that you know to help you show up as your best self, to help you feel the way you want to feel, what is it?
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I'm going to ask you now to go some pairs on the table and share with the person next to you who's now your new best friend what is that thing? Is it time? Is it energy? Share with each other and we'll do this for a couple of minutes. Ready? Let's go. What are we sharing again? Sharing what gets in your way. If you feel, I can't exercise today because for example, if I want to exercise, I don't have the whatever it is time. Brilliant. Time. Yep. Alright. Alrighty. Let's come on back and share some of those roadblocks.
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Alrighty. Who has got something that they feel is getting in their way? Their roadblock in their day? Who's the first person to speak? Time. Okay. Big round of applause for our first speaker here. That's for you. Time. Who else had time? Yeah. Lots of time. Okay. What else did we have? You can just yell them on out. Energy. Thank you so much. Can I get a Barocca? What's that? Can I get a Barocca? A Barocca. Yeah, sure. You won't need a Barocca in a minute. Don't worry about that. What else? Motivation. Thank you so much. Say that again. Sorry? Diversity. Thank you. Anyone have work? Did anyone have guilt?
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Yeah. Tax department. Tax department. Oh, yeah, right. Tax. It's fun. No one said the weather but usually if I'm in Melbourne a lot of people would say weather. Anybody else got something they said to their best friend? Yeah. My boss. The boss. Yeah. A lot of people say kids. Normally I also have, there's always usually someone that says husbands. We haven't had that here today. So, when we look at these things, I want to share with you a mindset that really helped me and I had this mindset shift actually back then when I had postnatal depression all those years ago and I finally went and saw my doctor which took me a really long time because I felt so much shame, the fact that I wasn't coping. But there was something about finally seeing her that helped lift that shame and gave space to taking some action. And when I got home from seeing her, I thought, what can this action be? Everything felt so big and so hard but because I had been a dancer, is there anyone here in the room who has done ballet before?
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Yes. You know that we spend hours and hours each day on our ballet bar which is a long circle piece of wood. And so I got to my kitchen bench and I was standing there and I thought, okay. I put my hands on my kitchen bench like I was back at my ballet bar. I certainly could not do hours but I got myself to do one of the moves that you do in ballet and that was a plie. And I cannot believe now telling you this how hard it was to get myself to do these simple small little things but I did another plie and another plie. And all I could get myself to do was this small amount of time and my head said to me, well, that's not going to do, it's not enough. But I felt this very faint shift inside me. It was this shift from feeling so hopeless to a little bit hopeful.
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And so that was enough to bring me back the next day and the next and the next. And what I started to realise was that I was waiting for these big things to be able to do something. This might sound familiar to you, this mindset. Take something like exercise. If it can't be this hour, how exercise has to be. If it can't be at this certain location. If I don't have my fancy active wear on or my sneakers or I don't have the energy to get the results that I want to get, well, I can't do anything today. I just have to do it tomorrow, the next day and the next. Is that familiar to anybody? This mindset is this all or nothing mindset that I was so stuck in and so many of us are stuck in. We want to turn this all or nothing into all or can anyone guess? Something. Something is so much better than nothing. Can anyone think of a reason why something would be so much better than nothing? Why taking a little bit of action is better than not taking any action at all?
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Maybe there's a time in your life where you've done a small thing and you're like, oh, that's gotten you started. Any ideas of what the reason is why something is so much better than nothing? Anybody? Momentum. Thank you so much. Momentum. What happens is that we often wait for that motivation to take action but what happens is action actually precedes motivation. We take a little bit of action, we feel a bit more motivated. You've probably done that before. Say you had to do your tax and you're just looking and going, oh, I can't do it. I just can't find the motivation. Then you take a little bit of action and then you feel a bit more motivated. Okay, let's just do it and that's what you've built is momentum. Thank you. Any other ideas why something is so much better than nothing? Say that again. It gives you a purpose. Thank you very much. Yeah. That's so true, you know, that idea of having some kind of purpose.
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That moment at my ballet bar, my kitchen bench, it really did become my lifeline because here was something that I could do. But none of those things, time, energy, motivation, kids, guilt, work, could really get in my way of. So turn that all or nothing into all or something. So here's what we're going to do. The next time that you hear that voice in your head saying I just don't have the time, I've got too much to do today, I've got all this work, the boss is saying this, I can't do it, I feel too guilty, I've got the kids, I don't have the energy. I've been dubbed by the US media as the excuse buster from down under. And I'm going to bestow that title now onto you all. It sounds so much better when you say it in an American accent. So on the count of three, if you could all just say that in your best American accents for me. One, two, three, the excuse buster from down under. That's right. So what you're going to do when that voice is in your head, you are going to get yourself in your imagination or you can get a real one of these and wear it around the office if you want to. This is your excuse buster cape and you are going to put it on and say back to that voice, just do two minutes.
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That's all you have to do. So whatever that reason that you gave your best friend next to you on the table, if you could turn back to them, the person with the longest hair is going to be the excuse buster first. So you're going to say the reason, why, I don't know, the time, whatever, to exercise, to meditate, all the things you tell yourself and then your friend next to you is going to say back to you whatever they want to say in the excuse buster but they want to say just do two minutes. Are you ready? Let's go. Alrighty.
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Looking around. Okay, who had a really good excuse buster with them? Who had a great excuse buster? Anybody? Anybody? You know, I reckon over here though I reckon we'd have a good excuse buster. Would you stand up and with your friend, who was your friend? I have many friends. Yes, who was your friend, who was your excuse buster? Okay, Chris, stand on up for me, thank you. If you could both come out here for a moment, give them a round of applause everybody. Okay, so you were the excuse buster? I was. Okay, and you're going to give the best, with all the reasons. If you could just stand and face everybody there. Okay, hold on a minute, I've just got to put that on you there. What was your name? Jane. Jane, thank you, Jane. Okay, so you're going to say whatever your obstacle was, excuse was, and then you're going to say back. Just do two minutes, sounds good? Yeah, okay. Are you ready? I don't have enough time, Jane. Just do two minutes, Chris, two minutes. There we go, yes, thank you very much.
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Because I'm a Kiwi, just do six minutes. Thank you. Big round of applause, thank you both, that's brilliant. Thank you. How much easier does two minutes sound to 30 minutes or 60 minutes? So much more. And we just heard all those great reasons why something is so much better than nothing, why two minutes is so much better than no minutes. And what happens is there, when you take a couple of minutes, you've already felt it before. You feel this shift of our energy, and when we shift our energy, we shift our results. In fact, one company, the research shows, saw when they did micro moves like we're going to be doing in a moment, they saw an increase in sales, not 5%, not 10%, but 20%. It's taking these micro breaks throughout their day. What would that dollar figure look like?
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20% more sales, or the time that you would have back. Now, we're not talking about doing workouts at work or anything like that, I promise you. And if this word exercise, you're thinking no, no, no, there's no way that I'm going to be able to exercise at work, here's what I want you to do. This word exercise can just be associated with, oh, you've got to sweat, you've got to get to a different location, you need a certain amount of time, I cannot do that at work. I want you to take out two letters, swap them around, and what do you think it's going to become? Anyone? Energize, thank you. Exercise, how am I going to exercise at work? How am I going to energize at work? Sound a bit different? Alright, so you might be wondering what these exercises, what these energizers are going to look like. So I'm going to show you what you can do in just two minutes, how you can reset, how you can recharge, and how you can reconnect, and how you can use that to your advantage in your work day. So the first thing we're going to do is we're going to have a recharge. Now this is a moment, super simple shift that you can do anytime, anywhere.
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We're going to hit the music when you're ready, thanks, and I want you just to imagine a moment in your day that you could do with some more confidence. Maybe it's like you're having to head into a presentation, give a talk like this one, and I want you to slouch your shoulders, cross your arms, put a frown on your face and go, oh my gosh, like that sort of look. Have a look around you, slouch your shoulders around, there you go, slouching shoulders, oh everything's contracting down. Okay. And now, drop your arms, roll your shoulders back, put a smile on your face, and now look around. This shift like this, a study by Harvard University shows increases your confidence by 33%. Alright, anyone here on back-to-back meetings in their day? Back-to-back meetings, anybody? Lots of times typing on the computer? Alright, we want to get our body out of that same stuck position it gets in, and a study shows that you do little stretches like this throughout your day, you decrease musculoskeletal pain and injury by 72%.
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So, you're going to, on your chair, turn around and look around behind you, and then turn around and look the other way. You're just going to have a twist on your chair there. Catch someone in the eye if you like, saying, what is she making us do? Twisting around, moving that spine, that's it, and now bring your shoulders up, and roll them on back, and again, shrug them up and roll them back. Now, you're going to imagine that you dropped a pen on the floor to your left, left everybody, left, left, left, left, left. And now come up, drop the pen on the right. Okay, I'm looking out for the most coordinated table. Let's go. To one side, stand the other side. You've got this. Let's see. Up the back here. Side to side. You're going to pick up those pens. Little chair dance here. Very good. Yeah. Okay, this table up the back here, you are the winner of the moving on your chair competition. Very good. Love that. Okey-dokey. Can you all just raise one arm, stretch it up, and then stretch the other one up, and just alternate between that stretch each side. If you remember one stretch from today, remember this one. We spent so much of our day contracting down.
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We want to lengthen the side of our body, and get moving there. Beautiful. You're going to bring one knee up, and then the other knee up, if you can. Yep, that's it. And that's our chair dance for today. Round of applause, everyone. And back table up here. That was some amazing coordination here. So yeah, the intermittent stretching throughout your day, don't know if you heard that stat before, but it decreases your pain and injury in your body by 72%. Anybody get to the end of their work week, and they've tightened their shoulders, neck, achy backs. This is not how we want to be to be able to show up on our stage and perform at our best. Now, the next one that we're going to do is when we need to have a reset. So, can anyone think of a situation that could cause them to be kind of quite frustrated, quite annoyed, a bit stressed out? Anybody got one?
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What have we got? Somebody? Yell it out if you've got one. Yes? Okay, thank you so much. So, someone calls you and they say to you, I cannot deliver it on time. All right. Think about that scenario in your head, or maybe there's another one that really gets you annoyed. This is where we want to move into our inner pharmacy and grab some endocannabinoids. And they do exactly what they say. They're our body's chill pill. And we release endocannabinoids when we get our body moving. So, we're going to hit the music again. I want you to think about that situation that really you feel all that stress and tension in your body. And before we eat, I'm going to get you to stand on up for a moment. It's all there, stuck in your body. Yeah. All righty. I'm looking out for somebody who's obviously got some frustration, some stress in them.
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Hands up everybody. Please watch that person in front of you. And we're going to start to have a box out. That's it. Yes. Beautiful. All righty. Oh, nice. Boxing there. That's it. So, we're going to let out that stress. We want to release those endocannabinoids, people. That's it. Love it. All right. We've got some other boxing moves down here. Show us that move. Oh! There we go. Let's hook everybody. Hook it up. Watch out. Don't punch yourself in the face, whatever you do. Yeah. Anyone else got another boxing move? You look like you'd have one, sir. You got another boxing move? What about a hook? Hook there. I told you. Hook it out, everybody. And hook. All right. All that stress and tension's in your body. Now you are going to kick somewhere. Not the chair or not the person next to you. Kick it out there. Let it go. Have a little shake out there. Yes. Oh, we've got some angry people in this room. Let's box it out. Punch it out as fast as you can. Go. Punch.
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Yes. Punch it low and fast. Let it go. Back to the middle there. Punch. Oh, no. Here comes lunch. And punch it down. Beautiful. Thank you, everybody. Big round of applause. Beautiful. Thank you to my amazing boxers here. That's for you, sir. There we go. Thank you. All right. Another great way that we can reset in those moments where maybe starting to feel ah, you know, just everything's a bit too hard. Maybe sometimes feeling a bit hopeless. Everything's kind of coming down on your shoulders. It's incredible the thing that happens when our muscles contract. We release what scientists have dubbed hope molecules. They're myokines. And they're released when our muscles contract, and we can do that in all sorts of ways. One of my favorite ways to do this is with some push-ups.
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If in these moments in your day that you're feeling that bit flat, head over to your wall. Would you like to come up for a moment and demonstrate some push-ups? Big round of applause for our demonstrator. All right. Hands on the wall. Are you going to do push-ups like that? Did you want to get down and do some push-ups? Want to have push-ups? There we go. So you can do some push-ups at your wall. You can do push-ups at your desk. You can flick the switch on the kettle and do some push-ups at your kitchen bench there. You do 20 push-ups. At the end of the week, you have done 100 push-ups. But I've got to say one of my favorite ways to work strength in my day is this. Can I get another volunteer? Why don't you come up with me for a moment? All right. If you could just stand here, I'm going to show you a really great way that you can release those hope molecules. Stay there for one second. I don't actually have any dumbbells. I'm sorry. So we're going to use these instead. There we go. No photos. All righty. So you're going to put them out here and you're going to go like this.
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So before you open those bottles of wine, can you think of some other moves you can do? What about in and out here? Yeah. Round of applause for our wine bottle workout. Thank you so much. It's brilliant. There we go. And lastly, with our strength, when tonight you pull out your toothbrush, here's what I want you to do. Some squats as you're brushing your teeth. Yes, we're supposed to brush our teeth for two minutes, the Australian Dental Association says. Those two minutes you do those each night, they're going to start to add up to make a difference. Our last one that we're going to do here together is a moment where you can reconnect. This is a moment where you might be starting to think of all the negative stuff that's going on, everything that you have to do. Maybe it's a moment where you want to bring yourself back to the present. Thoughts are spiralling. I'm going to get you to take inspiration from my 17-year-old daughter, Ruby.
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And I walked past her bedroom the other day and there's all these post-it notes on the door of her bedroom. And I was like, Ruby, what's all this? Some cats, friends, and she said, Mum, that's my new gratitude wall. Anytime you want to, you can grab a post-it note and put on something that you are grateful for. And what happens in that moment? Rather than going for the phone and the scrolling which we tend to go for to get our dopamine hit, she walks into her door and she gets that hit of dopamine from seeing that moment of gratitude. You'll find on your tables there some post-it notes and a pen. If you could share those around and write down on that post-it note one thing that you are grateful for. Write it down. Take a moment to think about it. So share out the post-it notes. Share out the pens there. Thinking about that one thing that you're grateful for. All you need is one post-it note there. So just take one off, pass it around.
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. One thing that you are grateful for. Yeah. Something big, something small. I'm just going to borrow your pen for a moment. Thank you. Pen there. Everyone got theirs? Once you've written your gratitude note can you just take it off so you've got a single one and pop it on up in front of you like this. Lift it up. Yes. Beautiful. Now we don't have a wall really that we can stick these on. So what I'm going to get you to do is stick it on your forehead. Julia, you guessed it. Stick it on your forehead and then look around the table and have a look. There. Beautiful.
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Do you think you would mind sharing what you are grateful for? No. Alright. Everybody over here. Thank you. Alright. We're going to share over here what you are grateful for. The people in my life. I think whether you're in a work event like this where you get to reconnect with friends or the people in my social life and family life, I'm very grateful for everyone that makes life so amazing. Thank you so much. Think of those moments that you can take a moment of gratitude. Maybe you could even put one down and give it to somebody else. Have a wall somewhere at this moment of gratitude. Because when you take this shift to feel a bit more reconnected with yourself maybe to recharge, to reset, then you meet somebody and you talk to someone or you get on the phone to somebody and that shift that you've had then ripples out to them.
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And it can make a ripple effect that you might not even imagine on them and on you. I, all those years ago, back then when I had personal depression and I did that plie at my kitchen bench and then I started to get more professional help and started to see a psychologist and talk to friends and share all these moves that I was doing there and my toddler Stella this day said to me, will you dance mum? Dance with me. And up to that point I had just been saying, oh no, I can't do it or making up some excuse. I just felt so, like I couldn't do it. And this day I said, yeah, let's dance. And so I had my baby Ruby on one hip and my toddler Stella on the other and we started dancing together.
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And I'll never ever forget that I looked at Ruby and then I looked at Stella and it was like the first time that I had really seen them for what felt like so long. That small moment that seemed so insignificant had led me to that moment with them it led me to the work I now do and it led me here in front of you. And if I can do that you can all do it too. Because all you need is how long? Two minutes. Everybody here in this room can do two minutes, right? So I'm not going to ask you to do the Moulin Rouge. I'm not going to ask you to put the cruise ships on your head. But I am going to ask you a question. That we can do this together for two minutes or less. I'm going to ask you the same question that Stella asked me all those years ago.
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And the question is, will you dance with me? Yes? Can we hit the music please? I know we're in the middle of eating, but we're going to just spend 60 seconds standing up, a few minutes of dancing and then you can come back and you'll be digesting your food even better. We've got this team. Are you ready? Imagine that you've got two heavy shopping bags and you're going to lift up those shopping bags there. Yes, beautiful. I want you to make sure you look around the room and think, I didn't know I was going to be doing this today. All righty. Now you're going to stir a big pot. Stir the pot in front of you. Oh, we've got some good dancers in the room here, people. That's it, stir it up. Other direction, yes. Make sure you are looking around the room and seeing everybody's amazing smooth here. All right, what else have we got? Yes, at the back. Sprinkler. Thank you. Let's put out those fires, people. Fires out.
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Have we got another move here? Lawnmower. Thank you so much. There we go. Shout out that lawnmower, people. Lawnmower up and other side. That's it. Brilliant. Let's go around and send some high fives to finish off around the room. Look around you. High five it out. High five. There we go. Thank you all very, very much. Good work on the dancing. Enjoy your lunch. See you soon. Music Music Music Music Music Music Music Music Music Music Music Music Music Music Music Music Music Music Music Music Music Music Music Music Music