What Are You Known For When You Leave the Room?

Jason Hewlett unpacks the title story of Episode 33: the ninety seconds after the door closes that decide your whole career. 

This is about the sentence the room actually says when you are gone — and why the person the room can describe wins the gig every time.

In this episode, we cover...
Freedom of Speech: "The Signature Move" 

Full Story:"What Are You Known For When You Leave the Room?" 

From the Newsfeed:"AI Made Everyone Sound the Same. Now What?"

Faith & Hope: "God Signed His Work" 

Father Time: "The Move My Kids Would Say Is Mine"

Funny Factory:"Signature Moves Nobody Asked For" 

Fitness Minute:"Your Body Has a Signature Move Too" 

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There is a sentence being said about you right now in a room you're already walked out of, and somebody's just closed the meeting, somebody just ended the call. Let's say somebody just watched you leave the dinner, and in the 90 seconds after the door shut, they said one sentence about you to the person sitting next to them. Yeah, that sentence is your reputation, not your website, it's not your logo, it's not your bio, it's the sentence. Most of us have never sat still long enough to ask what that sentence actually is. You know, we spend so much energy inside the room trying to be smart, trying to be polished, trying to look ready, that we never audit the only thing that matters. What gets said the moment you're not there to defend yourself. And tonight, I want to argue something that might reframe your whole year. Being unforgettable is not about being more polished, it's about being more identifiable. And the difference between the two is what I like to call a signature move. Yeah, you've heard me talk about signature moves. We're going to talk about that today, and you're about to hear the case for why the people who get remembered, hired, referred, and rebooked are not the loudest. They're the ones the room can finish the sentence for. But coming up on the show today in the freedom of speech segment, we'll talk about signature moves and why the room forgets polished people and remembers the identifiable ones. And the full story segment. What are you known for when you leave the room? The title question of this episode and the 90 seconds after the door closes that decides your whole career. And from the news feed, we're going to talk about AI and how AI made everyone sound the same. Now what? The 2026 Pangram study of a million posts and what happens to your differentiation when 41% of professional writing is machine generated? Come on, man. I want to read what you think. In Faith and Hope, we're going to talk about how God signed his work from Psalm 139 and the argument that refusing a signature move is refusing the signature already put on you. In Father Time, I'll talk about what I think my kids would say and my wife would say are my signature moves as a dad. Funny factory, we're going to talk about signature moves nobody asked for. The ones middle-aged dads like myself develop by accident and refuse to give up. And in fitness mini minute, your body has a signature move. Hey, you knocked over the mic, but your body has a signature move, the morning move that changes your day, and the cardiomerical connection. Of course, we're holding that upside down the wrong way. Let's try it again. There it is. Cardio Miracle. We're sponsored by the world's finest nitric oxide and vitamin D3 supplement. So we appreciate Cardio Miracle. Stay with me. I appreciate you being here. This one is about the sentence they say when you leave the room. Stay is the promise underneath every other promise we've ever talked about in this show. Because if you don't stay, you can't keep any of them. The man in your house who says, I'm fine the very most is often the one you need to sit next to the longest. That's a cool graphic, huh? And freedom of speech. We're going to be talking about the signature move. And I appreciate that Paul has already also said he loves cardio miracle. That's awesome. Thank you. So do I. It's amazing. It'd help you with uh so many things in your life. And uh hopefully today you can think about how you can truly become the best version of yourself, and that's the main reason we do this show. But you know, polished is not the same as identifiable. We got sold a lie about being a professional, and here's the lie the lie is that if you're polished enough, if the deck is clean enough, if the answer is smooth enough, the room will remember you. They won't. They just won't. Polished people are forgettable. I mean, yeah, they can be impressive for a minute. There are a thousand polished people though. The industry manufactures them by the semester. Polished is the price of admission, not the reason you get chosen. You do not get chosen for being smooth, you get chosen for being identifiable. Let me tell you about when I get hired as an MC, I'm a very sloppy MC in the sense of I don't read perfectly what they've written. I mess things up. I've even tried to be an auctioneer. It's hilarious, it's a it's a train wreck. They didn't bring me in for the polish, they brought me in to be unique. And there's a difference between a professional the room respects and a professional the room can describe. You know, one gets thanked, the other gets rebooked. So the sentence after the door closes, you know, here's the question I want you to sit with for a second. When you leave the room, let's say the client or the meeting, the stage, the sales call, the zoom or the dinner, what sentence does the room say about you the moment you're gone? Not what you hoped they'd say, not what your website says, not what your LinkedIn headline says, what does the room actually say? Because that sentence is your reputation. Your reputation is the only asset that keeps working when you're not in the room. Have you thought about that? Most professionals have never sat still long enough to write down what that sentence probably is. We assume it is good because nobody has said it is bad to our face, and that's not the same as knowing. And so a signature move is the one thing that makes the sentence obvious. A signature move is the sentence. And I'm not talking about a slogan, I'm not talking about a color palette or a font on your website. I'm talking about a specific repeatable, unmistakable thing that you do that becomes shorthand for you in the room. So let's talk about one of my favorite examples of this. Michael Jackson had the moonwalk. I've talked about this for decades. If he did a concert, you went to it in 1988, and he's going, Because I'm bad, I'm bad, shaman, bed, and then you're right. Imagine if he's dancing and he skipped the moonwalk. You would be so disappointed. You would leave confused, you'd feel like you got you got the rug pulled out from under you, like Michael Jackson just sang for two or three hours and danced, and he didn't do the moonwalk. What the heck? That's his signature move, right? That's what it's always been. That's what they still do even after he's passed. It's not a gimmick, it was a promise. He delivered that in every presentation. And you have one too. You maybe even have two, or maybe you have ten. I mean, you just have to not uh you've just maybe been told not to look for them, and so it's time to look for them and consider them. I've built the whole process for finding them, and I call it the ICM process. Identify, clarify, magnify. I've taught it to leaders around the world. I in fact, I get to speak about it this week in different environments. I'm so excited about it at events that are having me. That's another reason we're doing this show today on third on Tuesday instead of the normal Thursday. Because I'm booked every Thursday this month. And so, you know, but that's not what today's about. Today's about the argument underneath the process that your signature move is not optional in 2026, it's the whole game. So remember this: the room is louder than it's ever been. And here's why this matters right now more than it ever has, and why we're dedicating a whole show to it. The room you're trying to be remembered in is louder than it's ever been, and every professional you compete with has the same tools you do. Have you noticed this? It's harder to land the gig. Every deck sounds the same, every LinkedIn post sounds the same, every keynote sounds like the last keynote. Let's be honest. There are so many keynoters out there, there are so many people saying almost the same things. I'll show you the numbers in a few minutes. They're and they're worse than you might think. But when the room is that flat, the person with the signature move does not just win the gig. They're the only person the room can even remember by Monday. Signature moves are not ego, they're service. I know what you're thinking, and maybe you're hearing. This sounds like personal branding. This sounds like showboating. Well, okay, to some extent it's branding, to some extent it's identifying what makes us unique, but this sounds like the guy who talks about himself too much. No, it's the opposite of that. Refusing to have or a signature move and share it is the ego move. It's saying, Yeah, I'd rather blend in, be safe, than let anyone actually see what I bring. The signature move is the humble move. It's saying, I know what I do that helps people, and I'm gonna do it on purpose, out loud, every time, so the people who need it can find it and use it. I've written this for years, and I'll say it again. When you do not share your signature moves, you're cheating the world. You're breaking the promise of that which only you can bring. The world does not need another polished professional. Yes, be a pro. Yeah, put some polish on it when you can, but the world needs the one and only version of you doing the one thing only you can do again and again, till the room can finish your sentence for you. And the move is the message. So here's the reframe I want to leave you with. Uh, stop trying to be more polished. Polished is a floor, not a ceiling. Start trying to be more identifiable, find the move, do it on purpose, do it in every room. Do it until the sentence the room says after you leave writes itself. That's not marketing, that is character finally getting to show up on time. So let's ask some, I don't know, rhetorical questions per se. What sentence does the room actually say about me the moment I leave? Do the people who work with me every day agree on what I'm known for? Or would I get like five different answers? Am I trying to be more polished when I should be trying to be more identifiable? And what is one signature move I already have that I've never named out loud? If I skip my moon walk in the office or the next meeting, would anyone even notice? From the newsfeed, right after this. Then we'll go back to the full story. But from the newsfeed, you know, this one I thought we should talk about quickly because the number that broke my feed, you know the feeling, you're scrolling LinkedIn, every post reads like the same person wrote it. The same three-part structure, the same confident opener, the same here's what nobody tells you line, the same shallow paragraph that resolves to nothing. You're not imagining that. In July 2026, an AI detection company called Pangram Labs published a study of more than a million real social media posts scanned by their browser extension as ordinary people scrolled their fees. This was not a lab test. These are real posts, real timelines. You know what you're seeing in your feed? This is it. They found that 41% of long form LinkedIn posts. I don't know if you've noticed, a lot of people are writing more than 250 words these days. Well, they're fully AI generated, not AI assisted, they're not AI edited, they're fully machine written. 41% of the long form. The register reported the same number the day it came out, adding this only 55.2% of long form LinkedIn posts are actually written by humans anymore. What? Don't let your posts, your content, your ideas be swallowed up by AI. I mean, let me just read it again on the platform that it's supposed to be the home of professional expertise. LinkedIn. Almost half of what you're reading was not written by a person? No, thank you. It's a trap inside a trap. Here's what makes it even worse. When Pangram broke down where the AI generated content was coming from, they found that LinkedIn made up only about a third of the posts they scanned, but accounted for 62% of all AI flag content across every platform. So LinkedIn is not just AI heavy. LinkedIn is the AI capital of the internet. And the machine can't help itself, it converges. I mean, you point a thousand people at the same tools with the same prompts, and you get a thousand posts that share the same cadence, the same three-part rhythm, the same template. You know this template. It's a trap. The tools that were supposed to help you sound smarter are quietly making you sound like everyone else. You know, the algorithm is already punishing sameness. Platforms figured it out before most of the humans did. Independent reporting cited by media analysts found that AI-generated posts on LinkedIn are already receiving roughly 45% less engagement than human-authored ones. 45% less engagement. Think about what posts you're putting out there. The room already knows. Like I can spot the AI from a mile away. I mean, it cannot always articulate what it's reacting to, but it can feel the difference between a real voice and a manufactured one. And it scrolls past the manufactured one every time. Watch your algorithm, that's what's going on. So, why this is actually good news for you, and here's why I'm telling this to you on the show today, is if you thought differentiation was hard three years ago, differentiation is not hard anymore. It is available. I've been talking about differentiation through utilizing our signature moves for two decades. And it's finally at the forefront that it matters and everyone wants it. This is awesome. Because when 41% of the room is machine written and another chunk is machine assisted, the person who shows up with an actual voice, you, an actual specific story, an actual signature move, does not have to be that clever to stand out. They just have to be real and specific on purpose. And the bar has gotten so low that the humble move is the winning move. Your signature move is not something you compete on. Remember, it is something you cannot be beat on because it is the one thing only you can do. And the numbers are finally on the side of the person willing to sound like themselves. I hope that's helpful to you, and I hope that you think about it for yourself as to how that happens and why AI is important, sure, but don't let it take over your feed. Let's jump into the full story next. Alright, and the full story. You know, the title of this episode is not a metaphor, it's a scene you've already lived. Somewhere in the last 30 days you walked out of a room. Could have had a client. Could have been a could have been a stage, could have been a Zoom call that ended with a little red button. It could have been a dinner where you were the guest, you said your goodbyes, you closed the door, you walked out, and the second the door closed shut, the people behind you said one sentence about you. The sentence is the whole game. Not what you thought the meeting was about, not what you wanted them to take away, not the deck, not the pitch, not the punchline, but the sentence. So because the sentence is the only thing that survives the room, it's the only thing that gets carried into the hallway, into the elevator, into the text they send, the best their business partner, into the answer they give when someone asks a week later, hey, what did you think of that person? So here's the hard truth. If the sentence is generic, you are replaceable. But if the sentence is specific, you're unforgettable. That's it. That's the whole difference. Most professionals never sit with that question because the answer is uncomfortable. And we would rather assume the sentence is flattering than actually go find out. So we keep polishing the deck, cleaning up the intro, refining the follow-up email, never realizing that the sentence has already been written and none of that polish is what wrote it. I'm going to tell you what actually writes the sentence. Your signature moves, write the sentence. Okay? The specific, repeatable, unmistakable thing you did in that room that gave the people you were with a handle to describe you by. Something they could hold on to after you were gone. Something they could point at when they needed to explain you to someone who was not there. If you don't give them a handle, they'll make one up. And the one they make up will be the flattest possible version of you. Yeah, it's a nice person. Or hey, they seem prepared, or yeah, he knows his stuff. Yeah, she's really professional. Oh man, every one of those sentences is a soft eulogy for your career. Because nice person doesn't get referred, seemed prepared doesn't get rebooked, and really professional doesn't get the gate over the other three people who are already really professional, too. The sentence you want is a sentence that names something. Yeah, she's the one who does that thing where she draws the whole customer journey on the whiteboard in three minutes and it makes everything obvious. Or hey, he's the guy who ends every meeting with the one question that changes what we do next week. Or how about this one? She's the one who tells the story about her dad, and I can't stop thinking about it for two days. That's a signature move doing its job. That's a sentence you did not write and could not have written. The room wrote it for you because you gave them something specific enough to write about. And here's the part that'll sting, and I'll say it with love. If the room is not writing a specific sentence about you, it's because you have not given them anything specific to write about. You've been polished, you've been prepared, you've been professional, you've not been identifiable. I I've showed this for years that this is kind of my signature, one of my main leading signature moves. You know that I can do that with my face. And if you're listening to this podcast on the broadcast afterwards, then maybe you want to check this out. Here we are at minute 20. Okay, so I can do this thing with my lips. Now, some people would not share that in a professional setting, probably most. And yet, I share it. Why? Identifiable, weird, different, bizarre, unforgettable, right? Like you might you might even say to yourself, okay, I don't remember the guy's name, but he did this thing with his face that was so crazy, I have to share it, right? That that's how I've gotten a lot of work through the years. That's just one of the signature moves I use that's made me an identifiable person. In fact, I had a client reach out to me yesterday and said, Hey, you know what? You need to make sure if you when you come back, because we're gonna hire you back, they said, We need we need you to make sure to do the raptor. And I said, Oh, like and they go, Yeah, do the raptor. And I said, For all of your professionals, they said, Yeah, we saw you seven years ago. You're the first speaker we've ever brought back. We've had all of the big names in between, and everyone wants you back because they want to see the raptor. I was like, that's what you want me to do? Okay, they said, Yeah, but we still want leadership and all the stuff you do, but do the raptor. That's an identifiable piece. So I hope that this makes sense as I'm reflecting on my own variation of doing the signature moves. Each of us have our thing, and whatever it is, is we just have to embrace it. And the good news is that the room is willing to write a better sentence tomorrow, and and you just have to give it something to write about. So find your signature move. The one you have already been doing or never named, or the one you've been hiding because you were afraid it was too much. You perhaps, or the one your family and co works have been trying to tell you is yours, and you keep waving off. Name it. Do it on purpose. Own it. Own this. Right? Do it in every room. Do it until the sentence the room says after you leave writes itself, and the door clicks shut and Instead of a soft eulogy, yeah, they were a nice person. The person on the other side of the table turns to their partner and says, the one specific thing that only you could have made them say. That is what you're known for when you leave the room. And Empress Creation says, My signature moves having multiple hobbies. Hey, that's cool. Yeah, you're known for the many cool things that you do. I love that. That's that's a total signature move. And I'm not saying you only have one, there might be many. But what do you lean into? It is the only asset you own that keeps working when you're not there. Faith and hope, right after this. Alright, and faith and hope. The fingerprint argument we're gonna talk about. I'm gonna start with something we all know but almost never really think about. Every human fingerprint is unique. Every snowflake is unique, every voice print is unique, every iris, every gait, every laugh. In fact, I've noticed I can pretty much go anywhere and nobody recognizes me until I start speaking. If I ask a question, this happened the other day. I'm walking out of a concert with all these people, and I said to this lady, I said, Did you have a good time? And she goes, I did, Jason. And I was like, There's 30,000 people there to watch uh Jack Johnson. And she goes, I did Jason, and I go, Oh, who are you? And she goes, Oh, I follow you online. I was like, How did you recognize me? She goes, I didn't until you said something. Our voices are unique, aren't they? It's not a design accident, it's a signature. And when God designed this world, he was not interested in generic. There's no factory setting on a person. Everyone is signed. You already agree with this when you look at your kids. You don't think they're interchangeable. You think each one is a specific human being with a specific soul, and you would know them in a crowd of a thousand children with your eyes closed. In fact, the other night I was driving home and we're about a half a mile from our house. I'm with my son, and I saw somebody in the darkness walking on the sidewalk. I said, That looks like Ella. And my son goes, It does. And I said, Roll down the window, and we rolled it down, and it was her. I could tell from hundreds of feet away, that's the gate of my daughter walking in the dark. It was 11 at night. She was just getting her steps in for the day. You know, that's every everybody, every child is different. You could recognize them with your eyes closed, like I say. You could see them from a distance and know it's them. That's because they're signed, and you can feel the signature. It's also the divinity within, every single soul. The hard thing is applying the same argument to yourself. In Psalm 139 in the Bible, in the Old Testament, um, this was not a compliment, it was a fact. The psalmist wrote this line thousands of years ago. It says, I praise you. I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works, my soul knows it very well. Psalm 139, 14. We hear that verse so often that it lands like a compliment. It's not a compliment, it's a statement of a fact. Fearfully and wonderfully made is not saying you're cute, it's saying you're deliberate, divine, extraordinary, made in the image of God. Do you believe it? I hope you do, because I know it. Every part of you was made on purpose, not off an assembly line, not from a template, but on purpose. Which means the specific way you laugh, or the way you tell a story, or the specific way you handle a hard moment, the the way you notice what nobody else in the room notices, that's not an accident. That is the signature he, God, put on you as his son and daughter, which you are. So let's talk about refusing the signature. Here's the part I want you to sit with. If God signed his work and sent you here to this earth, then refusing to have a signature move is not humility. It is the opposite of humility. Humility is receiving the gift and using it. Refusing to name your gift or using it or lean into what you were built for, refusing to show up as the specific person you were designed to be. That is not modesty. That is telling the designer his signature was not good enough. I don't think most of us mean it that way. Most of us are just afraid. Uh, we're afraid the signature is too much. We're afraid it'll look like ego, or afraid people will think we're self-promoting or something. But there's a difference between promoting yourself and keeping the promise of the signature. Promoting yourself is asking the room to look at you. Keeping the promise of the signature is offering the room the one specific thing only you were built to give. One is ego, the other is stewardship. I saw this last night. We celebrated the induction of the into the Utah Sports Hall of Fame of my friend Ben Kerr. Ben's last name is spelled KJ A R. Ben Kerr. He just had a movie about his life come out called Stand Out, and it it is all based around the fact that this man, who's now a very successful speaker, one of the top in the world, and he's uh he's he's won gold medals, he's a he's been a wrestler, he's done all these things in high school and in college, and he's like a legend in all aspects. He stood up last night and shared a bit of his story. He was born with Crouson syndrome, which is where the the there's some facial differences. And what's so fascinating about this is as he grew up as a kid and his parents they had they went to doctors and did surgery on his head to make it so that everything in his his head and face would you know hopefully be comfortable and fit better. He had a different look than everybody else. And he was made fun of by people, and he was made fun of by adults as a little kid. One day he's looking to try to figure out if he can cut his face off, and his mom caught him in the bathroom and said, Son, you know, most people do spend their whole life trying to figure out how to get people to look at them, to notice them. Well, everybody notices you. Everybody sees you. You were born to stand out. Whoa. That's a divine motherhood right there. You were born to stand out. That's what Ben Kerr talks about. I hope you'll check out Ben Kerr and uh and know how an extraordinary he truly is. But the movie Stand Out is an incredible one. And uh yeah, Ben Kerr, B-E-N-K-J-A-R. That's his name, Ben Kerr. Hope you'll check him out. I wish I had a photo or something today prepared, but I'll talk more about him in the future. But he's the ultimate example of this. It's not ego, it's stewardship. And the humble version is this here's the faith frame for you today. You are not manufactured, you were signed. God sent Ben Kerr to the earth to stand out. He sent Jason Hewlett, me, to the earth to stand out. He sent you to this earth to stand out. The signature move you've been hiding is not a marketing asset. It's a gift you have been asked to steward. Naming it is not arrogance, refusing to name it is. So, stand out. The people around you cannot receive from a signature you're hiding. They can only receive from a signature you've decided to offer them. The move is not for you, the move is for everyone else. It's for the room. That's what makes it holy. Father Time, right after this. Remember, we talked about polish? Yeah. I'm uh I'm a very sloppy show guy, but luckily I have a great team, and it's uh it's a beautiful day. So, what we're gonna talk about in father time, you know, this the stage knows my moves, um, my signature moves at least, the eyebrow, the lip, the impressions, the songs, the the bits. Twenty-five years of audiences can describe me in one sentence, let's say. So, but today the question is different. So let's say someone stopped Ella in Juneau a few weeks ago when she was working in Alaska, and she they asked, Hey, what's your dad's signature move? What would she say? You know, what what would what would I want her to say? Um, versus what would she actually say? I think she would probably say that her dad is uh a motivational dad, somebody who motivates and encourages her. So probably an encourager is what I would think, or at least cheerleader. That's what I would hope she might say. I would imagine that my younger son Royal, who might be at school and somebody says, Hey, what's the thing your dad does? Uh what would his answer be? I don't know. I I mean he might say he's uh always asking me about my grades. I'm not sure what I would say, but I would uh I would hope that he would say, My dad is is there for me, right? That's what you want your kid to believe and think about you. I know they'd say that about their mom. So if someone asks the mom, Tammy, my beautiful wife, and their mother, what is Jason's signature move at home? Her answer was she, I mean, I know what she says. She says Jason's thoughtful. That's to her, and obviously she says I'm funny, but he's thoughtful. That's what people don't people don't understand about a funny person. Generally, most funny people are extremely thoughtful because we're always thinking about how to do do good in the world, and so that's that's father time today. You know, the stage knows my moves. Uh, my family says different words. I would say that I'm leaning into making it so that they know my signature moves are good. And the Empress Creation says, My dad always opens his mouth whenever we take pictures with food. He's a funny guy, even at work. That's awesome. So I hope that when that happens, that uh you get a kick out of it. And you know, that's the kind of thing you're gonna talk about when they move on from this life, right? And that's what's fun about a signature move. So lean into what makes you unique at home, at work, at play. Maybe it's the same thing at every one of them. But you know, I would ask you to consider for yourself how would your family say your signature moves improve their lives in their home? In the funny factory, we're going right after this. All right. Well, let's talk about the signature move nobody asked for. The sit-down noise, for example. Let's just start with that. I mean, not every signature move is one you'd put on your website, some something that just happened. And you know, somewhere around 42, a noise starts coming out of you, and you sit down on a couch. You didn't choose the noise, you didn't audition for it. Maybe it's the noise you make when you stand up from the couch or sit down, but it's right, it's been coming out ever since. Your kids, they do impressions of it. Your wife has stopped acknowledging it. I remember when I first started doing it, I'd lay down, ah, you know, my wife was like, Do you have to do all that sound? Then I'd get up, trying to stand up, making sound. It's now legally my signature move. Congratulations, it's probably yours too. How about the one story? Every dad has the one story, you know the story. The one you told the first time at a dinner party in 2011, and and it killed. So now you tell it at every dinner party for the rest of your life. Your wife has heard it 400 times. She now mouths the words along with you like a Bon Jovi concert. And your children started warning your dinner guests before you arrive. Just so you know, uh, dad's gonna tell the story, just nod and smile. Telling the same story over and over again. You'll not stop telling it because it worked once, and that, my friend, is a signature move. Yeah. How about the menu response? You go to a restaurant, menu opens, wife looks over it. She says, Hey, what looks good? Every dad has the same answer every single time. I don't know. What are you gonna get? All right. Twenty five years of marriage, same answer every meal. She has stopped asking, and yet you've not stopped answering. I say it all the time. Well, I don't know, what are you gonna get? All right, you're answering a question she's no longer answering or even asking. This is called the signature move backfire. How about the weather report? You know, finally, the the one every dad does. You walk outside in the morning just to check, look outside. You come back in the house and you announce the weather to the family just like you cracked the Enigma code. Well, it's pretty cool out there. Hope everyone runs the jacket. Thanks, Dad. National Weather Service missed one. My kids are always like, Why are you reminding me to wear my jacket? I'm like, because it's freezing out there. They're like, We run hot, Dad. I'm like, no, you're gonna need a jacket. And then they call me to bring them a jacket. How about the countdown? Yeah, I mean, apparently this one's become mine, as the last year especially. Uh we've had a lot going on. When Redford, our oldest son, was on his way out the door to serve a two-year mission in Argentina. All I could do is remind everyone of the countdown. I'd be like, Well, this is the fifth to last Saturday together. What are we gonna do for fun? Or, okay, take advantage of this time. It's the last time we're driving on this road for a while together. Now it's becoming a running joke in the house. And I get it. To be honest, it's really put things in perspective and is good, but it's also annoying to everyone. Uh, in fact, we sat down to dinner with Romney the other night when it was his last dinner with us before he headed off to the MTC CCM in Mexico and then off to Guatemala for his mission. And I I sat there and I said, You guys know what this is, right? And they all looked at me and said, Romney's last dinner. I was like, Yeah, you got it. The countdown, Dad. The how about the point? I mean, the the this whole bit is silly, right? But the observation is real. You already have signature moves. You probably have a pile of them. Your family could list 10 of yours in three minutes. Some of them are the ones you were built for, some of them are the ones you got stuck with, some of the ones you just happened to start doing, and the gift today is deciding which ones to lean into on purpose, which ones to gently quietly retire, and which ones to make louder. I'm getting up, honey. Alright, I'm gonna actually start. I'm gonna start slowing down on the countdown dad stuff. I don't know. Ella leaves to Peru on her mission next month, so probably not, but I'll start after that. Fitness Minute. Right after this. Well, the move that starts the day. Yeah, let's talk about it. Your body has a signature move too. It's the first thing you do in the morning. That move sets the tone for everything after it. First for some people, and I I I know I'm guilty of this in my own way, it's the alarm plus scroll. Have you caught yourself doing that? You wake up, you reach for the phone, you spend the first 11 minutes of your life every day marinating in other people's news or texts or emails that you probably need. You know, it's the to-do list of everyone else for you. Well, your your nervous system was manufactured by a stranger's algorithm before your feet touch the ground. This is a brutal way to start the day. That's a signature move too, just not one that helps you. So maybe you can make a promise to make it a better morning and better signature move each day. So the better move is boring. And I totally advocate it and I'm fine with it. The the better move is feet on the floor, drink some water. Light on the eyeballs. Yeah, turn on the light. Wake up. Maybe a minute of stillness, maybe open the door, look outside. Um, Empress Creation says Funny Factory's hilarious, laughing out loud. Thanks so much. Hey, you know, figure out a way to laugh right when you wake up. That'd be amazing. But whatever you have decided is the one thing you always drink in the morning to give your cardiovascular system a fighting chance. I hope that you'll commit to that as a new signature move. And for me, and and for our family that's been building this for over a decade, that is what we call cardiomerical. Now, uh cardiomerical signature move is this. I mean, my dad has been working on this product for many years now, and it ignites nitric oxide in your body, the molecule of nitric oxide that your body needs to keep blood flowing and energy up and the whole system running the way it was designed to run. My dad built cardiomerical around it and paired it with vitamin D3 because the two of those do what neither one does alone. And what happens when you drink enough cardiomerical? If it stays in your body long enough, it does ignite the vitamin D3, but immediately once it hits your bloodstream, it ignites nitric oxide. It's a special thing. Now, this is my dad's signature move, is cardiomerical. And it's not a slogan, but it's a formulation. And you can get your cardiomerical at cardiomiracle.com. You can also scan this code if you're watching this. Scan the code and get a cool deal. Um, just try it out. If you don't like it, just keep it and we'll refund your money after. I mean, try for 60 days. I mean, we'll we're willing to give it a shot for you because we've seen so many people see so many differences in their lives, the benefits of their their actually their happiness, their feeling better, their their ability to think quicker and and write better, and even have the ability to get some activities done, things that can't get finished. It's a very interesting thing that happens when blood flow goes into our body, and nitric oxide ignites some wonderful things. So we believe it's the world's best nitric oxide and vitamin D3 supplement. And every single morning, take it. Same move, same promise, same result. It might sound boring, but I drink it because it works. And because it's my family, too. I mean, you can drink it because it works. So the link is in the show notes. You can scan the code, or you can just hear me talk about it. And there have been plenty of people that uh can tell you how great it is for them. But your body already has a signature move. Make sure it's one that is keeping the promise, not breaking it. That could very well be. Just having a delicious serving or two of Cardio Miracle per day. I recommend two at least. That's a good way to start your morning. It's a good signature move. Maybe better than this. Hey. All right, let's bring it home. Well, thanks for joining me today. And here's the whole show in one sentence. There's a sentence being said about you in the moment you leave the room. It's your signature move. It's what makes that sentence specific enough to be worth asking. So you don't have to be more polished. The room is drowning and polished. Even shows like this are drowning and polished. And we don't we don't need to have those every single time, right? I mean, if I was working on being so polished, I probably would never record this show because I'd be like, oh, it's not good enough yet. Right? I mean, starting is better than perfect. And the room is drowning already in AI-generated, template-driven, three-part structured sameness. So the person willing to be identifiable on purpose, even if it's a little sloppy, even if it's out loud, even if they're clear in their throat in between transitions, you can hear it, it doesn't matter. Press the button, do the thing. Start, stand out every time. You don't have to be the smartest person in the room. You just have to be the one the room can describe. The signature move is not ego. The signature move is stewardship. If you are finally offering the world the one specific thing only you were designed to give, you're gonna bless so many lives with what only you can give. And if you want the process for finding yours, I built the how to discover your signature moves process. That's called the ICM process. Identify, clarify, magnify. You can go check it out at jasonhewlett.com. That's not the point of today. Point of today is the question you now cannot unask. What are you known for when you leave the room? Is it this? Because that's mine. So what's yours? Write the sentence you want the room to say. Then go build the move that earns it. I'm Jason Hewlett. This has been the Jason Hewlett Show. Thanks for joining me. I'll see you next Tuesday. Until then, keep the promise.