Come meet a POSITIVE SOCIAL CHANGE AGENT!

In Episode 41 of the Shining Brightly Podcast Show, meet Buddy Thornton who is a Renaissance Man. A proud Vietnam Veteran (thank for your dedicated service), 27-year professional bowler, mediator, author of lots of books including the Slippery Slope, speaker, writer and very importantly a book editor for many including a collaborative co-authored series called The Art of Connection – 365 Days of Gratitude (volume IV coming out in January 2024). Get STARTED TODAY – “write from your heart and soul with passion”! Authors need to be speaker and speakers need to become authors. Please listen, watch, download, share and review this fun episode about story telling to share your own stories, messages and life experiences.

Mentioned Resources

Amazon Author - https://tinyurl.com/BuddyThorntonBooks

(The Slippery Slope and The Art of Connection)

Linked - linkedin.com/in/buddypscapro-gcudoc1955

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/buddy.thornton.395

Website - bctmediationsplus.com (Mediation Company)

Email - buddypscapro@gmail.com

About the guest – Buddy Thornton and spouse, Sharon, plus their large extended four-generation family have lived in Arizona since the late 1980s. Buddy is a Vietnam-era veteran, earned his BS in Allied Health Sciences (UW-Milwaukee 1984), his MA in Human Services Counseling and Executive Leadership (Liberty University 2014), and is a doctoral candidate pursuing his Human Services doctorate. Buddy has numerous certifications and actively serves on multiple boards in an advisory capacity. Buddy is the creative mind behind the Slippery Slope series and the author of Book I, Contemporary Society Through the Lens of Applied Ethics, and Book II, Contemporary Society Through the Lens of Applied Morals. Book III, The Optimal Journey to Oneself-Teen and Young Adult Edition, and Book IV, The Optimal Journey to Oneself-Parent-Teacher-Caregiver Edition continue the series. Buddy brands as "The Positive Social Change Agent Pro" and has been invited to be a Keynote Speaker and Program Presenter (Conflict Management, Parenting Dynamics, Cross-Cultural Topics), with one notable global invitation to Da Nang Vietnam in November 2017 and invited to speak on cultural topics at the IIRP World Conference in Bethlehem, PA-October 2019. Buddy is a featured regular participant on the Impact of Educational Leadership podcast hosted by Isaiah Drone III.

About the Host:

Howard Brown is a best-selling author, award-winning international speaker, Silicon Valley entrepreneur, interfaith peacemaker, and a two-time stage IV cancer survivor. He is also a sought-after speaker and consultant for corporate businesses, nonprofits, congregations, and community groups. Howard has co-founded two social networks that were the first to connect religious communities around the world. He is a nationally known patient advocate and “cancer whisperer” to many families. Howard, his wife Lisa, and daughter Emily currently reside in Michigan, and his happy place is on the basketball court.

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Hola, it's Howard brown. It's shining brightly. Oh

my goodness. You're maestro, the mic is back. Oh, you're gonna

love this guest. I've got Buddy Thornton here today. And this

guy is so interesting. He is a book editor, a book author, a

ghost writer, and so much more. He's a renaissance man, buddy.

How are you?

I'm doing great, Howard. And I really appreciate

you inviting me on your show.

I appreciate it. I'd love for you to just share,

give us a quick background a little bio on yourself for for

my listening audience.

Okay, well, I have a doctoral education from

Grand Canyon University, obviously. I mean, I have a

master's in a bachelor's. I'm a great grandfather, I have 10

grandchildren and 12 great grandchildren. And, you know, I

have been married almost 50 years. And my lovely wife, you

know, supports everything I do. She's been retired for about 17

years. She just wants to be the loving, great grandma. And I

give her the opportunity to do that. And so I Oh, I also have

to work I go. And that's why I'm here. And, you know, it is what

it is.

Did you did you have any other types of careers

moving, you know, moving around as far as in your life and

things like that?

Well, I am a Vietnam veteran. A lot of people

do know that though, because I put that in most of my writing.

And certainly on my bio page. What a lot of people do not know

is that I was a professional bowler for 27 years. And, you

know, because of that I almost virtually have never had a job

job. I've always worked for myself. But you know, 27 years

on tour, and I'm almost 70. So, you know, and a lot of people

would never realise I'm almost 70. But I think the PBA and the

fact that I still love and enjoy what I'm doing, I plan to keep

on doing it. As long as I enjoy it. That's my key.

That's an awesome share that you're a pro bowler

and thank you for your service as a Vietnam vet. I have to tell

you, I grew up in Boston, and we had candle pins. And you got

three three balls, or a little straight candle bends and and

that was a birthday party back. But you know, before the digital

age, that was an amazing birthday party to go bowling and

pizza.

Well, let me give you another little hint I

spent in Boston while I was in the Navy. Okay, and I not only

played piano pins, but then when I went south of Washington DC, I

also played duck fins. Yeah. So I've tried all three different

types of traditional bowling and I'll stick with the big ball if

you don't mind.

Yeah. So where did you develop this passion for for

writing and books and editing? Where did that come from?

Well, you know, luckily, my mother was very

insistent on me being educated. And back when I was going

through schooling in the 60s, they had a thing called the SRE

reading programme. And I went through the SRE reading

programme, and I got to where I could read 1300 words a minute.

And so even when I was in the Navy, when I all throughout my

entire marriage, I've just always been a consumer of books.

And I can love to get on stage, I love to tell stories. That's

one of my passions. And so people were like, you know, you

should be writing, as well as speaking. And I just didn't

really gravitate to that real quickly. But then I went to

speak with another gentleman from the East Coast. And he

asked me if I would look over one of his books. And he's

written 12 books. And I got to the point where it's like, oh,

yeah, let me look at your book. And then I started doing a

little editing for him. And then it turned into a full blown,

hey, I'm sending you my book nine, can you edit it and send

it back to and, you know, he never changed anything after I

edited it. So I decided, You know what, I am going to write

my first book, I wrote my first book on ethics. And it took me a

long time to write it because I was trying to be a

perfectionist. And I sent it off to be edited. And it took the

editors over seven weeks to get it back to me. And in that seven

week time, they only found seven errors to offer to correct. And

so I asked them, I said, seven weeks to find seven years. They

said, Yeah, we thought something was wrong with our software. We

were looking at something wrong, we were missing something. So we

kept going over it and over and over. And I'm like, I just wrote

it. And you know, and they said, Well, you obviously know how to

write. So when I wrote my second book, I did the same thing, but

they can get it back to me much quicker. And that book was

105,000 words, and they found 12 errors. So I was like, Well, you

know what, maybe I should be editing myself. Maybe that's

another revenue stream. And I talked to Natalie about it. And

she said, Yeah, you should do that. So I edited some short

pieces for her. And then I edited a book a full book. And I

was getting these books back to these people in less than a

week. Which means they were like, it's just just incredible

that You wouldn't be able to do that? Well, I'm gonna tell you a

secret, I do use an AI tool to identify really glaring

problems. But I don't use an AI tool that does the work for me,

I use an AI tool that allows me to pick and choose what's right

and what's wrong. And when I have a question, I go right back

to exactly the way I did back in the 60s and 70s, I open up the

stinking dictionary or the whatever I need to do, and I go,

what's the what's the correct way to do it, I'm not gonna let

a machine tell me what to do. Well, but and we didn't have

aI right before then. So now this, that's a

current development, you didn't have that you had to rely on

your own words in the dictionary and all that sort of stuff as

well.

Now, I'm actually editing for three

different publishing houses. And I've done a steady stream of

business in that on that side. But my gift 1300 words

submitted, and I can edit and create incredibly fast as well,

as well as be very competent. Well, I

have to tell you, being a first time author, and

learning this now, since last October, and going from cancer

to COVID, and actually being a published author, and I'm

learning. So I'm learning from folks like you, as well. And I

love the shout out to Natalie McQueen and to Robert and Renee

Jones. That's how that we've been connected and that

intrapreneur group and, and Natalie, with her publishing

house and things like that, what, what would you say to

someone that because during COVID, people had a lot of

little more time on their hands, what would you say for a first

time author, which was some some advice that you'd give to them?

I have one piece of advice, I want to hear what you as the

expert has to say?

Well, it's easy for me. Yeah, right from your

heart, right with passion, let your soul and your heart do your

staking for you. If you get muddled up in your brain, like

most humans, were very imperfect. And we probably

wouldn't even write the same sentence exactly the same way a

month apart. So you gotta write everything from your heart and

soul and just get it on paper. If even if you're not getting a

paper, you know, get on the zoom by yourself and record it and

then take the transcript and use the transcript. And you'd be

surprised when you come from the heart and soul and you just do a

brain dump, you just get it out there. There are going to be

tidbits that you never would have put in if you had written

it purposefully. Now there are some people who say

intentionality is important. And I do I do focus on your topic,

don't get way off in a rabbit hole or you know, don't do

things crazy. But you have to write from your heart and soul.

And if you need to edit something out, it is out. But

make sure it's all in there first.

I think that's great advice. And my advice is

just get started. Because take that positive step forward,

because I call myself the least likely author. And I did it non

traditionally by zoom. And those transcripts did become drafts,

the drafts did become chapters and the chapters then became a

manuscript now, but you can't really publish a book too well

without a manuscript. So you need some of the basics there to

be able to do that. The other lesson that I'm learning is that

when the book is complete, and a book cover matters, and

authenticity matters. And vulnerability matters. Once you

actually press that go button, and it's available on

amazon.com. That's when the woodwork starts, buddy. That's

when the marketing starts. That's when your brand actually

needs to be on display. And that's where you said something

back in the greenroom a second ago is that that's where an

author learns to become a speaker, and has to learn how to

become a speaker, tell it tell it tell us about that.

Authors or speakers and speakers or

authors, or it could be a speaker who doesn't have a book

is like a purse, a business person without a website or a

business card. You know, you really need to put yourself out

there in a way that shows not only competency in one spot the

competency over time, when you get to speak, you get to speak

to an audience, it could be an audience of five, it could be an

audience of 5000. When you train somebody or you put a course out

there, the limitation is the people who sign up for the

course are the people who get together. But when you write a

book, it's like taking what you could do on stage. And it's

putting out there it's a timeless thing that will exist

forever. So you have to a pinpoint the foreverness of a

publication. And then you have to back it up by saying okay, I

did one. Why can't I do more than one? When I was a

professional bowler and I threw my first 300 game on tour. One

of the guys came up to me and he said, You know what your job is

now? And I said, Yeah, he said, Yeah, throw another one. You

have to, you never can rest on your laurels. You have to

understand that one book is a super accomplishment. Only 2% of

people who want to write books ever finish a book. But only 4%

of the people who write a book ever write a second book. When

you're like me where you've already written more than a

dozen and you've got five individual self full books, and

you've got a plan for 24 in two series. It's about out

publishing 1234 a year, because it's what have I done for myself

lately? And then how do I project to the world? Marketing?

For a stagnant one book is difficult. You've already even

said that yourself. That's what if you have a series of books

every time you get to bring another book out, guess what? On

that backdrop, there's your other books, and everyone goes,

Oh, I really love this book. But what about that book, and all of

a sudden, the marketing takes on a life of its own. But if you

don't do the work to get it out there and then continually push

it in people's faces. You're nobody, there's 8 billion people

on this planet, you are what do the numbers on that that's an

infinitesimal amount, you have to fight upstream every day to

get your books out there.

Yeah. And again, speaking about Natalie McQueen,

she she really gave me some good learning because she said,

Howard, you know, you can't really fake it on on Amazon, you

are an author, you're not an author, you're either listed and

you have a book by your side. And she said that a book, this

took three years for me, I hope the next one doesn't. But she

said, there's lots of incremental space that you can

do that. So I, my high school coach wrote a chapter for the

3030 days with America's high school coaches. And we talked

about how coaching in your formative years how it's such a

noble profession, and like being a teacher, and then I got to

write about my coach. And then I wrote a little 200 word essay

essay, I'd love for you to talk about this book, here, I'm

holding it up for the people that are just listening, the art

of connection, this is a collaborative book, and everyone

gets to write a page. And I actually now there's two reasons

why I love this book is one, it wasn't like yours to write it.

And also the ability to I look at it every day. I opened it

every day. And I read I read the inspiration from it. And I have

to tell you, the Kindle has been the most amazing thing, because

it's become a search engine of this amazing community that you

all have built, that people are helping each other. They're

joint venturing together, they're being podcast guests.

It's really kind of cool. And so I'd love for you to talk about

the the Arctic connection, and 365 days and the new book on

gratitude coming out.

Well, number one, you know, compilation books

are really a a gift from a group as opposed to a gift from an

individual, I try to paint it that way. And beyond the Arctic

connection, we'll get to that. But they're accomplishing books

where people write, like, there'll be 12 authors, or

there'll be 24 authors with two of mine. There's some that deal

with 52 authors. So this you have one a week. And then of

course, you've got your big compilation books that just it's

a simple ask, Can you write one page? Can you keep it within

this framework? And can you use that as your Forever Business

card and get get yourself published? It goes into the

Library of Congress. You know, this is an international best

selling book. It's an award winning book, it was the best

best it was the number one business compilation book that

2023. So you know, it's very important that you understand

the framework of a compilation book. Where else in society, can

you coattail on 364 other people and be considered part of the

fish in that fishbowl? I mean, there are some incredible people

in this book. Now. Yeah, in Book Three, I wrote seven pages, and

I edited the entire book. In book four, I'll be editing the

entire book, and I will have any work from three to probably

seven or eight pages. But the bottom line is, for me, it's a

gift of love to the other people in the book. I want them to

learn from me as much as I learned from them. And I'm like

you I have my Kindle and I literally read a page a day I

stay on the calendar. I like to do that. I wasn't in book one.

But I have Book One, Book Two, book three and I will obviously

have before. It is an inspiration to hear the voice of

other people who are your peers who may even if they're not in

your field, they're still your peers. They're an author of the

book with you. Come on. And if you're a consumer of that book,

what a business catalogue. Do you have you remember rolodexes

Howard. Yes, sir. Hey, guess what? AOC is a modern Rolodex,

it has got some of the brightest, most imaginative,

creative people in the world writing these compilation books.

And AOC is special because it focuses on a very direct line

before gratitude. I teach everybody when I'm doing my

coaching that you get up in the morning with gratitude and you

go to bed with gratitude. Why wouldn't you want to participate

in a gratitude book? I mean, we live for gratitude, don't we? I

mean, 85% of our thoughts in a drought or day are either

negative or very flat. When you get that nugget that becomes

gratitude. Isn't it special? So yes, we need to have gratitude

and being in a compilation book It is such a simple, easy way to

do it. I don't understand why anybody wouldn't invest a very

low amount of money to become an international best selling

author and be able to say, I am, hey, I'm in the same room with

ours. I'm in the same room with Robert Jones. I'm in the same

room with Natalie McQueen. I mean, yes, I work with these

people. But guess what, it's a it is an honour to be on the

pedestal with them.

I have to tell you, I've realised that now. And

it was just such a great awakening for me for the art of

connection because I didn't exactly know what I was doing. I

came in late for Book Three, and Natalie and I've just reaped the

benefits of being part of this collaborative now, on so many

ways. And, and I went on Roberts radio show, and I just, every

time I see Natalie, I thank her. And I, I've already written my

gratitude, because I look in the mirror, being a two time stage

four, cancer survivor, and patient and advocate. I'm

blessed. I'm grateful. And I'm really lucky every single day.

And now it allowed me to express that in my brand. And I

especially love the Kindle, because one click and people are

getting in touch with me. And that's that's actually again, it

helped define my brand and who I am and the shining brightly

movement to make the world a better place. So just so many

benefits for that. And then I just, I now get to thank you for

probably only finding one or two areas in my, my posting. So I

appreciate that very much that you gotta go. Go ahead.

Yeah, the the main thing I really focused on

and I think people need to do right from the heart. If you

struggle, getting it in the framework, you know what I'm

available for extremely minimal cost, I can help you complete

your page. The other thing is, when you're doing those tags at

the bottom of the page, when you're identifying your

profession, and what you have a passion for be very accurate. We

only allow five tags per author. And the reason we do that is

because we want you to focus on your your passions, we don't

want you to say, oh, obviously I was an architect, I was a

builder. I was, we want you to say, this is what I am. I'm an

author, I'm a speaker, I'm a writer, I'm an editor and I'm a

conflict management professional. Those are my five

tags. And I won't deviate from those because that's me. When

you talk to me, that's what you get. That's that's how I present

myself. I'm not going to change that message now, five years

from now, or 10 years from now doesn't matter.

No, I love that advice. Now, for those that

aren't video, you'll see that. But he actually has two books

that he's displayed over his right and left shoulder, you

want to tell us a little bit about the slippery slope, and

then the black and white baseball?

Yes, well, the slippery slope is my series, you

can find it on Amazon, there will end up being 12 books in

that series. And then there'll be a second series that will

follow that which I'll start when I I'll advertise that when

I get started on it. The black and white of baseball and

overcoming bias in baseball in life was written by George

Reiser. He's a coach who actually spent years in China

coaching Chinese baseball players. He said in his early

60s, he's a black author. He's got a grandson who is struggling

with a lot of prejudice and bias in the baseball sphere. And so

he came to me and said, Could you please help me tell my

story? He had a gorgeous manuscript. It just needed a

little nudge over the top. And so I spent about a week working

on it. And I sent it back to him. And what was surprising is

he thought it was going to take two or three months. And when I

got it back to him in a week, he was like, Are you kidding me?

And he read it. And he gave it to his wife to read. And they

both said, we did not believe that Georgia story could sound

like that and could be like that. I didn't take anything out

of Georgia story. I just made it to where it would cross every

racial barrier, every cultural barrier. And it wouldn't reach

into the heart of people and say, This is wrong, why can't we

make it right? And so, you know, immediately became an

international best selling book. I love that all my books are

international best selling books. You have to write at a

certain level to make that happen. You cannot just get that

out of thin air. But at the end of the day, George wasn't a

writer. He was a coach. He was a coach, but he was very well. He

was articulate. He was well spoken. He could write very

well, what he couldn't do as he couldn't put it into the right

place in the perfect framework. So did I do a little bit of work

on the book? Yeah. And I also wrote the foreword because I

love George. He's a great friend of mine now. And I would never

have met him if he hadn't came to me to help me write this

book. And I just, I just believe that's the gift that we give.

The money we make is very minimal compared to the gift we

get of interacting with people that we care about.

And that book has a lesson and it's teaching. I

have to tell you now buddy, the reason I was excited to have you

on the show Is that I have now gone through this process, a

full three year process of, you know, basically doing the Zoom

interviews, looking at the transcripts, looking at the jet,

the chapters, we cut out so much in order, you know, this, my

first book is 300 pages and 62 pictures. And I have such an

appreciation of the editorial, because without my wife and my

editor, David Crum, French publishing, and read the spirit

magazine, my book probably isn't readable. And I think that's the

gift. The gift is that of an editor is that the book is

readable. If it is a struggle to get through a book and I've been

through, you know, I've read some that are been a struggle,

even on article, I might stop right there and not and put the

book down and never pick it back up again. And I love the fact

that the feedback that I'm getting is that it's a page

turner, and then I can't put your book down, right, because

that's what you want as an author. And the editorial makes

all the difference in the world. So I want to actually just tell

you that you have a magic to you that, that I don't have, and I

appreciate for people like you that do because if it's not

readable, it makes it a chore. And you don't want the book to

be a chore. And there's some books out there. And I'm sure

you've seen them, they're a real chore to get through. And

especially looking at my you know, the textbook days and and

some of that stuff. I was like, you know, you're trying to teach

kids. And boy, is that really a chore some of those textbooks

just to get through so we won't get into there as well. Can I

ask you? What are you reading now who's your favourite author

and why?

You know, I write nonfiction. So I you know,

and because I'm a researcher, I read a lot of nonfiction. And in

the nonfiction space, I tend to stay in the sciences. So like

Dr. Least Elliot with her book, what's going on in there about

from conception to five years old with children is definitely

one of my favourite books. From a religious standpoint, I

absolutely would recommend Ken Sandy's the peacemaker, it is

one of the best conflict management books that has ever

been written. And it follows the Scripture, but it doesn't adhere

to this, you have to do this. It is we want you to believe in the

story and the and your own ability to decide what's

acceptable versus unacceptable. And then, of course, for this

fiction space, I really do like to read stuff that I know will

never come to be. In other words, I read it strictly for

pleasure. Strictly using escapes, I read like Stephen R.

Donaldson with his unbeliever series. You know, I've read all

of the different variations of the Star Wars, people that have

come out. That's, you know, it's when they say, a farfara away

long time ago, far, far away. You know what? We don't even

imagine some of the things they could do being possible now. So

how could that be right? I like that, because it gives me an

escape, it allows my brain to just turn off and just enjoy

pleasure. And then when I come back to right, I'm completely

refreshed. I'm ready to go. I'm ready to rock. I mean, that one

tidbit nobody will ever know. But I had COVID, three times.

And when I came out of the hospital after having COVID The

first time I was going to be at home for 30 days. Yeah. Now I

had outlined my second book before I went into the hospital.

I had 30 days, and I completed the entire book 105,000 words in

30 days. I wrote the book in 30 days, I gave it to my committee

chair from Grand Canyon University, who wrote the

foreword to look at it. He came back with a couple of

suggestions for chapter five. And I made a few changes. And we

published it. So it was written in 30 days. It was reviewed for

about 40 days. And then it was published. It was written in

September, and it was published by December. And you know,

that's the way you create a book. But you have to know the

topic, you have to believe in the topic, you have to have

passion about the topic. And you have to believe in the people

who give you feedback. Yeah,

I also got to, I have to tell you that the lesson

learned it was cathartic for me because going from cancer to

COVID. I was healing and the ability of what is my memoir, so

it's 125,000 words. And I had never done this before. So it

was an all new journey. It was healing for me, because I

actually in chapter one talked about the lesson that my great

grandmother, we call her Bobby bhootish, Bertha from Lithuania,

she came and struggled to get to this country had nothing right.

And she taught us as five year olds to live a life of kindness

we can choose to do that live a life of giving, we can choose to

do that and to heal yourself and then go heal others and on your

communities. And God I remember that today that she's talking to

me right now. And for me to actually take that lesson and

put that in chapter one, right is so special to be able to do

that. How many times you know, at least in my memoir walked

back my entire life. And we're going through photos and we're

going through stories and we're talking about family customs. We

actually In one chapter, we fight about whose grandmother's

brisket is better and which recipe is better. So it's just

cool. And so I love that expressionism of that. And then

I got to pick, you know who I wanted to write the foreword,

you talked about that. And there's a book from Dr. Robert

wicks called bounce. He's probably published 29 books. His

book said, I read his book, and I said, He's talking about me

bounces about resilience, right? And I said, He's talking about

me. And then I do a lot of interfaith work. And the

actually, Rabbi David Rosen in Israel, I've known him from the

American Jewish Committee, we do a lot of diplomacy, and a lot of

interfaith relations. And I live here in Michigan, where we have,

you know, Muslims, Christian, Jews, Hindus, and we all in the

same melting pot, and we seem to be able to get along most of the

time. And so Rabbi Rosen wrote an afterword about my book about

welcoming people into your tent, know your neighbours, and

understand the richness of their history and their culture and

their foods and their diversity. And I think we're lacking a

little bit in these days, I hope we can recapture that. But boy,

was that fun to be able to choose the actual people and the

honour that they accepted, to be able to be part of my book, and

everyone who endorsed my book, too, it was an ask a personal

asked that they would actually put their name in or on my book.

And so what a great thing for me and I, you've now got me all

excited to get to book too. And to see what I'm gonna do, and I,

I've already got booked to you, they are they always say if

you're an author, what's your next book, and you got to have

that so I do. And so I wanted to actually transition a little bit

here to the shining, brightly spotlight I'm putting on for

those that are listening, these magnetic white glasses that you

know, I do each week, and I'm putting the shining bright the

spotlight on you, buddy, I want people to know how to find you.

And then I want you to actually finish up the show with a little

bit of inspiration and kick it back over to me.

I can do that. Well, if you look at my logo,

buddy psca Pro, and you want to get a hold of me, all you have

to do is put in buddy psca pro@gmail.com. It's very simple.

It comes right out of my logo. I was it was a gifted brand, from

one of my peers about five, six years ago, because of all the

pro social work that I do. And I'm telling you right now, I

wouldn't be doing anything writing, editing or anything if

I didn't believe it was going to be a gift to other people. My

gift to the world is I'm a positive social change agent. I

want to change your perspective, I want to change your life. I

want to change your future. I want to change your family tree

by teaching you how to just be you in an optimal, best way. And

if I can do that for your people, Howard, and they can get

a gift out of your book shining brightly, which is a great book

and I can get gifts from people like me. How much better will

the world be? It's all up to you.

Oh, I love that. Oh, my goodness. And I will

definitely have in the links in the show notes. The art of

connection and the gratitude book is there's still room for

more authors and all that way you get a hold of me is shining

brightly.com my speaking the podcast, the book, my advocacy,

what I care about there is lifting, lifting up yourself and

lifting up others in our communities. If we do shine

brightly, just a little bit each day for ourselves, for others in

our communities, the world will be a better place. And Buddy,

what a terrific episode. What a great guest what a great message

you have. And I just I'm very glad to call you my new friend

and in share this time together. Thank you.