In this episode...

I sit down with Chad Witmeyer, author of Confessions of a Wondering Generality, to explore his powerful journey of redemption, forgiveness, and discovering God’s love. After years of chasing worldly success and living up to others’ expectations, Chad’s world came crashing down. Stripped of everything, he reached out to God—and found that He had been there all along, just waiting for him to ask. Chad shares how his life experiences, from military service to executive leadership to faith-driven service, have shaped his perspective on purpose and the abundant life available to all of us. If you’ve ever felt lost, stuck, or unsure of your path, this conversation will show you—it’s never too late to find your true calling.

Welcome to the Power

of Authority Spotlight.

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I'm your host, Michelle Prince, founder

and CEO of Performance Publishing Group,

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We'll be shining the light on successful

founders, entrepreneurs, business

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owners, and leaders that are getting

results and making a difference.

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We'll talk about how they built

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of authority in their own right.

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and we'll reveal how you

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Hey, everybody, and welcome to the Power

of Authority Spotlight, where we shine the

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light on entrepreneurs, leaders, founders,

people that are doing amazing things, and

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they're making a difference along the way.

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And my guest today is someone

I've known for many, many years.

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Let me introduce you now to my, my special

guest, , Chad Whitmire, who I have known

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since I was, my goodness, in my twenties,

, but he, his career is very vast.

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It includes military veteran,

entrepreneur, senior executive,

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COO in the personal development

and corporate training field.

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Antique importer and restorer, business

consultant, retail management, and

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now is heavily involved with his

church, nonprofits, and ministries.

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In addition to every sporting event

for his grandson, which is very many.

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Chad lives in McKinney, Texas,

near his daughter, Catherine, her

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family, and near to his daughter,

Elizabeth special needs community.

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Chad, I'm so excited to

have you on the show.

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Thank you for joining us.

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Well, I'm excited to be here.

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Thank you.

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I know.

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My gosh.

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Well, first we have to start with,

we have known each other for a very,

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very long time, but in different ways.

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I first met you in,

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When I cold called on the Zig

Ziglar Corporation, trying to

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sell copiers, I remember, yes,

because you were CEO at the time.

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Yep.

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And I remember you because you

were obviously in leadership.

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I was in my twenties.

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I looked up to you, , physically

and literally like, you know,

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just, , because you were.

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One of the main leaders in the company.

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And I knew you, but from a very different

place then than I, how I know you today.

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So it's been really great reconnecting

with you all these years later.

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Oh, great.

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Yeah.

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It brings back lots of memories.

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Yeah.

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Well, so let's, let's start with,

we, we have a lot to talk about today

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because you do have a new book out

and there's so many great things

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that are happening around that book.

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And I do want to get to that, but first

give us a little bit of background as to.

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I read your bio, but you

have a very vast background.

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So kind of walk us through where you

got started and I'll, you know, up to

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where you're, what you're doing today.

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Well, , let's see, we moved

a lot as a growing up.

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My dad was in the corporate insurance

business, having had a, like a

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35 year career in the military.

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And, , so I was always, I

went to four high schools.

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Which meant I was always the new kid.

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So at that time I had trouble

assimilating and, , I was very shy.

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I went to college.

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, I didn't want to go to college until

dad pulled me out of bed at 6 AM one

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morning and, , went out on the back

porch and we were stood there waiting.

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I didn't know what for, but then the

garbage truck came by and there's

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two guys on the back in those days,

throwing metal cans into the back of

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the garbage truck and after it pulled

away, he looked at me and said, no.

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Without a college education, boy,

that's about the best you can expect.

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So I said, okay, I'll go to college.

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And so I ended up, I

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kind of didn't want to go to

college again, but I did apply to an

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assistance center that gave me dozens

and hundreds, actually hundreds of

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colleges I could go to based on what

I filled out on the application.

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I came back from being a lifeguard

that summer and, , sitting there going

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through all this stuff, all this mail.

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It was a big pile on the floor.

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Dad's reading the, , New York Times,

which was pretty thick, you know,

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and, , I was talking out loud and

when I got to Oklahoma City, I said,

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Oklahoma City University, and Dad just

piped up and said, That's a good town.

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I've got an office there,

one of his offices.

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He ran a multinational, , insurance

company at the time and had been

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there, I guess, on business.

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So on Monday morning, I called up the

school and said, , have you got any room?

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They said, sure, I'll be there Thursday.

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So, you know, Thursday I show up on a

plane and I'm met by somebody right there.

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So it was.

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The people in Oklahoma are super friendly.

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If, if you think Texans are

friendly, Oklahomans are too.

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So, , that was four years

of, , college in Oklahoma City.

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Lots of great experiences,

but that's another book.

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Yep, I'm sure it is.

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If I dare to write that one.

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And then, , I kind of got tired

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and, , kind of told them I was

leaving, figure some things out.

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But I was only about 10

hours short of graduating.

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And, , I went to help my, my great

aunt up in the Adirondacks, her, , my

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great uncle had just passed and, , she

had a business to run and try to sell.

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So I helped her there for the

rest of the summer, got back.

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I got my draft notice.

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This is during Vietnam.

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So I got my draft notice and, , I

went running around to all the

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different recruiters to see what

kind of a deal they were offering.

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The only one that I had no idea

what they did, what their uniforms

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looked like, was the Air Force.

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So I joined the Air Force.

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And I spent four years doing

that, most of it overseas, in

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Europe, Germany to be specific.

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And that's when I started getting

entrepreneurial ideas about it, I just

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wanted to be in business for myself.

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I didn't want to be a

corporate employee of somebody.

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I guess this is because my dad

had been forced to move many times

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and I felt like the kids were

on the short end of the stick.

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So when I got back, I went back to

college to pick up some courses and

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two friends of mine were going to

Oklahoma, were going from Oklahoma City

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down to Dallas and they were going to

sell antiques because they had a guy

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that could buy antiques in Europe.

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For them and ship it to them.

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And I just said, Hey, can I go too?

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So I up and ended up in Dallas in 1975.

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, we learned from the ground up how to

be entrepreneurs, how to, how to sell

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antiques, how to put together antiques.

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And it was, everything came in pieces

and I learned how to restore them.

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I hired a, , Old gentleman from

Jamaica who was, turned out to

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be a master craftsman and taught

me how, how to do everything.

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He took all my tools away from me at first

and said, when, even though I was the

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boss, he said, when, when you learn how to

sharpen these, I'll give them back to you.

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That's the first thing.

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Put you in your place.

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That is a, that's a

analogous to life itself.

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You got to sharpen, sharpen your tools.

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Before you can do a good job in anything.

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So, , and then one of my partners went on

a date, he went home to North Carolina.

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And he came back with a

wife, kind of surprised us.

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And she went to work in a little

linen shop down near downtown,

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a boutique shop, high end.

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She met a girl there that she

thought would be perfect for me.

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I had burned out on the

dating scene in Dallas.

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, and so I've signed off.

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I'm not going out.

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I'm not looking for anything.

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Took them, took her and her husband,

Chris, four months to convince

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us to go out on a date together.

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So we did, and it was kind of magical.

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And that was it.

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And nine months later we got married.

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So, but then for the second date.

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First date was a success.

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Second date, I asked her out.

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She said, yes, but you

have to answer a question.

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Okay.

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She said, do you know who Zig Ziglar is?

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I said, What is that?

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I had no idea.

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It was an odd sounding name.

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And I said, No, I don't.

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I said, Okay, we can go out.

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It turns out later, I learned,

she told me, she said, I was

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just tired of people, salespeople

trying to date me to get to Zing.

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Because it was becoming very popular

at the time as a motivational

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speaker and sales trainer,

pretty famous in the sales world.

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So, but it was all going to be.

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I didn't think anybody had

to be motivated in life.

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I either woke up that way

or you did, you know, you.

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You walked that talk or you didn't.

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So, , about a year later, I've started,

I left the antique and restoration

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business and went to work with Zink.

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And we had, I think we had three or

four people in the office at the time.

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And when I was starting to travel

with them to, , sell the book at

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the back, at the back of the room.

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We had one book and one tape set.

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So when I wasn't traveling

with them, he said, go door

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to door, business to business.

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I'm gonna sell one book and one tape.

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And I said, how do I do that?

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He said, listen to the tape.

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And that was my sales training.

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But, , so as the company grew,

we, . We grew from there to about

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70 people by the time you walked

in the door to sell copiers to me.

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That's right.

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I built a fully automated distribution

center, high speed duplication for

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audio and video recording studio.

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I essentially did all

the packaging, all the.

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Books did all the contracts

for intellectual property,

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pretty much did everything.

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So, , you've seen a side of that

world that very few have seen.

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And, and what's really interesting,

you know, having worked at Ziggler

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too, I, people always ask him,

what was it like working for Zig?

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You worked for him, but you were also.

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Married in the, like, to his

daughter and in the family.

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So I'm sure you get that question a lot

too, but what was it like, you know,

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and basically being related to, well,

first of all, it was pretty much 24

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7 family vacations turned into board

meetings, family dinners turned into.

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Many, many conferences.

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And how about this new product?

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But Zig himself, people always

ask me, what was he like?

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Well, I tell him as soon as he steps

off the stage, he's an introvert.

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And he, but he was, what you

saw on stage is Zig Ziglar.

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Everything about him was, , Clear,

honest, transparent, and even as family

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things, the girls would have to go get

him because he'd be sitting in a chair

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thinking about either a speech coming

up or a new product, and they had to

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drag kind of drag him into the family.

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, activity, whatever it was after a while,

I got into it, but he was an introvert,

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but he was, it was, , it was interesting

just being part of the family is, , it'll

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figure out later when I had to, when I

came to write the book, but, , I pretty

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much had developed a mask that I wore

about, , what I thought other people

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would want to see me and as or act like.

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And, , so I was pretty good at it.

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Yeah, I think, you know, and I really

want to segue to the book, because I

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think this is so important because and.

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Having known you in a period of,

of that, you know, I, I, there was

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so much I didn't know about you,

but to your point, you wear a mask.

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I mean, I, I've worn a mask and so

many times in my life, and especially

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the, , when I was younger and, and

I think there's a lot of people

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listening that can relate to that

because we're all masking something.

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So let's talk about the book and

talk about, you know, first of all,

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it's confessions of a wondering

generality explain the title to us.

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Well, , it is a play on words.

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, I have always wondered

what my purpose was.

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Why am I alive?

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What am I, what is my role here?

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And what am I supposed to do?

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I was just seeing, seeing in the

world what was going on around me.

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Picking and grabbing things as that's

my purpose, or this is my purpose,

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or that's the point of it all.

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, even after I accepted Jesus as Lord and

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It's, , you don't make

this instant change.

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Many people don't.

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Some people do.

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But, , One of the cassette programs

we created, I recorded it, edited

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it, created the packaging for it,

and it was supposed to be a gold

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program, three audio cassettes, and

the subtitle was, don't be a wandering

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generality, be a meaningful specific.

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It was wandering with an A.

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After I'd sold 500 copies of it,

manufactured sold 500 copies, I

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realized I had misspelled wandering.

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With an O, made it wondering.

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But I told Zagan, he

didn't even think about it.

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He just spat.

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It's okay.

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It fit the message.

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Yes.

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So later on when I'm writing the book and

I'm trying to come up with a title, my

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first title was, what's the point, you

know, the point of life, but I figured

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it'd be kind of hard to grab that title.

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But then I came up with a wonder, I think

Flanagan even might have had something

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to do with it because I had a lot of them

written out and I was just passing them

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around to see what, what would be good

title on that one jumped out everybody.

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So I said.

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Good.

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Good enough for me.

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Let's do it.

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I love it.

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It is a great title and it is your,

your story and your journey, but

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kind of give us the, give us the high

level overview of what the reader

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can expect by reading this book.

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Well, , 2019.

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My , I remarried after Susan

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I remarried in 99 and that was a 20

year marriage but all along I think

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I'm still suffering from depression and

getting deeper, deeper, deeper into it.

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, I call it living in my head.

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In fact, , my second wife, Tracy said,

you're living in your head and we

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don't have a real relationship anymore.

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So, and I'd withdrawn from a lot of

friendships, , relationships, and

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I'm kind of just living day to day.

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So we separate and I'm sitting in

that dark apartment, , and I haven't

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lived in an apartment in 40 years

and wondering what's going on and

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what am I going to do with my life?

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, And then COVID came along, and so in

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awoken up at 5am in the morning, out

of a dead sleep, with in my head, I'm

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hearing, you're going to write a book.

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I had always told everybody.

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No, I'm not.

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I'll never read a book because they

always said, well, you, you hang

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around Zig Ziglar for all these years.

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You meet all these wonderful

people that he knew everybody.

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He knew I knew, , you've done all these

wonderful things, but you write a book.

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And I said, no, because I

didn't think I had it in me.

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I didn't.

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, So I jumped out of bed.

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And I ran to the computer and

started writing this book.

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And it evolved.

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This is my life story.

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I picked my life apart from age four on.

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Why did I think that?

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Why did I do this?

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They figured out all the, the,

, cultural things, all the familial

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things of why I did this and that.

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And.

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Getting to a point where, as I, as

I'm writing the book, I'm also seeing

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a Christian psychiatrist briefly,

and then a biblical counselor.

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So, the combination of writing everything

out, and seeing a biblical counselor

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like every week, we, we rewired my brain.

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I've started reading books, , probably

over the course of two years, read

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about 45 or 46 books, , spiritual books,

Christian books, , got involved at

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church where I'm studying the scripture.

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We have a class called Equip every Monday

night where we, and it takes two years to

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go through all the different courses, but

I just absorbed and everything, it meshed

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myself and everything up to my neck.

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And, , Plus, I retired from retail

work at that time, and so this became

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a full time, , more like an obsession

because I, I carry journals with me in my

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pocket, in my car, everywhere, so I can

write things down as I think about it.

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And the book started to take shape.

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And then, , my daughter, , Catherine

said, you ought to talk to Michelle,

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who, , she owns a publishing company now.

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I said, Oh, really?

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That's convenient.

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And then I found out you went to

church here with us in the same church.

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We have a big church.

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So you don't, you don't see

everybody every Sunday or even.

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Every year, so, , I contacted

Michelle and, , we, , devised a plan.

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So I started writing it and I

finished it in a year and a half,

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but it took me six months to

call you back and say, I'm ready.

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You're not alone.

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A little bit of fear there.

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So courage just go from the

writing to, okay, I'm actually

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going to put it out in the world.

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That, that.

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That's a big jump.

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, but I'm so grateful you did because

there's so much about your story.

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, obviously it is your story

and all the ways you have.

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wondered through life.

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But faith is a big part of this.

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And, you know, talk a little bit about

that and how you kind of already did

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where you started to immerse yourself and

that became such a big part of your life.

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How has that evolved even

since you started writing?

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Well, one of the key things I

identified in myself is that I

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accepted Jesus as Lord and Savior.

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Not fully knowing, I think anybody

does, but fully know what that means,

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but also I didn't never believed all

through my growing up years and later,

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, that Jesus and God really loved me, me

personally, and what that meant, , and

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I still didn't know the point of life.

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I just started picking up pieces,

studying them, understanding one

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thing after another, to where,

to the point it came around.

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And all the reading, and all

the studying, all the praying,

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I really came to a point where I

understood that God did love me.

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And that changes the way

you look at everything.

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Yeah.

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Then I, then I could understand Matthew

22, 37 to 40, where, love your God with

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all your heart, all your mind, all your

soul, love your neighbor as yourself.

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And that's really what it was.

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That's really the point of this

book is, that's the point of life.

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That's where it begins.

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And there's, of course, there's a lot more

behind that, but you got to start there.

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If you don't, you can't love

God if you don't love yourself.

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And your neighbor can't love your neighbor

unless you love God and yourself, and

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you can't love your neighbor unless

you love God and yourself, it all

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works together and figuring out that,

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, really brought me to the understanding

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where the book makes sense.

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I can show other people that doesn't

matter where you are, what you're doing.

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You've got, we've all gone

through the similar things.

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Why are we here on Earth?

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God, why did God create

us in the first place?

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It's led to a lot of other discoveries

and biblical realities and truths that

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really make every day a great day.

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I know it's so, I used to think

it was silly where anybody would

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ask Zing, how are you doing?

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And Zing's answer was always

super good, but I'll get better.

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And it makes, now it's total sense.

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I say that the other things that he said

that didn't make sense to me before.

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And I thought were kind of

silly, but now they're not.

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Now that makes sense.

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Every day is a super day.

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I remember, so we had many years in and

out and we, you and I would run into each

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other because we, we lived in the same

area, sort of any, , McKinney Frisco area.

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And I remember running into a few times

through the years at Home Depot or

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somewhere local, but 1 of my favorite

times that I ran into you, and this

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is before we talked about the book or

anything was, I think it was the 1st.

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I don't know if it was your 1st

day at the church, or it was your

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1st day in the rooted class that

I was, we went through it as well.

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My husband and I, , but I remember

you just, you were new to the

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church and not really sure yet.

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Right?

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Like, like, just trying to find your way

a little bit and then to see you today.

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And especially after seeing you

at your book signing, it's like.

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It's just this.

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, I don't know.

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It's just really amazing.

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And we talked about this a little bit

before we hit record is, you know, it

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is really who you become when you write

a book, it's something changes in you.

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And it's not, it's not about you though.

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It's, it's just this, this I'll speak

for myself, but this realization

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of like, wow, there is a, there

is a bigger purpose in life.

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And it's not about me.

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It's about sharing my good, my

bad, my ugly with someone else.

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Because when you do that, that's, That's

how you change other people's lives.

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That's how you inspire and give

them hope and give them a testimony.

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And I see you doing that and,

and it seems to me like it's been

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a short period of time to you.

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It might feel longer, but, , it's just a

really cool to, to have witnessed this.

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Well, it's, , you say it, , a short

period of time versus long at my age,

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which, , everything is going by a lot

faster and, , people are growing up.

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People are,

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, things are happening faster.

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, When I retired, I had one, one concept

of what retirement was going to be like.

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And that was totally different.

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It's like I have a fourth career

here is it's other people.

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That's my careers.

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, I'm on the board of a nonprofit

now and help them extensively.

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, a mentor in high school and, , got

about four different bench groups.

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I'm part of our we mentioned

rooted, which is really Played

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such a big part in my turnaround.

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If you think, how can you turn

around so quickly in 10 weeks?

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It's possible that the effect is

lingering and you're still turning

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after you leave that 10 week program.

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And I like, and I wrote something the

other day about, you know, if you think

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of a seagoing tanker, a huge, huge ship,

half a mile long, how long it takes

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for them to either stop or make a turn.

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And it.

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Is it did calculate?

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It's about a mile and a half or

two miles to make a full circle,

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but it doesn't happen overnight.

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Doesn't happen right away.

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And the effect keeps going on.

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It's like throwing a pebble in the

lake and seeing the ripples move out.

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You really don't know

where those ripples stop.

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They may stop at the edge of the pond,

which they usually do, but if you're

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at the ocean, those ripples may go on.

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Right.

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And it's the same thing.

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Changes, one person changes

something, and it'll ripple

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through time, as, as we all know.

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Yeah.

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That's why I love books so much and

it's not about the book itself, but

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it's, it's that it is, it will live on

long, long, long before or long past,

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you know, our lives, our own books.

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And so it is.

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You know, it is that it's a legacy

and you're leaving a legacy for your

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immediate family to for Catherine for

Elizabeth Hudson and everyone else.

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And, and it's just, it's a, it's

really, it's really pretty amazing.

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What is a couple of things I want to

make sure people who are listening,

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you get a copy of your book and they

can do that by going to your website.

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Correct?

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Chad Whitmire dot com.

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Yes.

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Okay.

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It's Chad Whitmire.

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Just in case, , just to be sure

y'all know how to spell it.

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It's W I T M E Y E R.

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Right.

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Amazon will send you down the wrong path.

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If you can spell it one time

and it won't auto, it auto

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corrects you over and over again.

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Crazy, right?

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Also on Amazon.

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Yes.

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Barnes and Noble online too.

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And if you happen to catch me running

around town, I got some in my trunk.

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As a good author, always should.

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That's right.

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Zig always did.

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Yeah, absolutely.

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Well, what is one thing from the book,

a story or what is, for those who are

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listening and you know, they're getting

a little bit of sense of your story, but

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what is one thing that was your greatest

lesson learned or the main thing you

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want someone to take away from this book?

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, for most of my life.

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I thought I was going

through life on my own.

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I had to figure out my own way.

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I grew up in a family that culturally

being, , Scandinavian, Northern European

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and, , descent Pennsylvania Dutch.

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, we, we take care of ourselves.

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, we make our own way.

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, We get over it and move on.

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And, , I always thought I

had to figure things out.

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If you remember Frank Sinatra's

song, I did it my way.

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That was his anthem.

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It became his theme song,

but I just thought I had to

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figure it out all on my own.

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We are part of a larger body.

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We are the body of Christ.

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If you're a believer, you're part of the

body of Christ and everyone has a gift and

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everyone works together with each other

to make God's plan for humans a reality.

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And without it, without

everybody contributing, it'll

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work for sure, but slower.

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Everybody contributes.

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Everybody helps each other.

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You know, depending on what kind of church

you go to, great churches are built like

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this where everybody's volunteering.

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Everybody's helping each other.

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And, , and you know, we support a lot

of Like over 68 or 70 groups around

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the world through our volunteers to our

giving and , but that's how we're meant

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to do things as a group as the body.

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That's like grapes on the line.

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Yeah.

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No, that's so good.

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Cause some, it is very easy.

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I can speak for myself

even, especially if you are.

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An entrepreneur or business

leader or something.

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It's easy to think you can just kind of

plow ahead and do things on your own.

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But the truth is we need each other

and and and sometimes we need to be

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a part of community, not for what we

get out of the community, but what we

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can give to someone else, even if it's

just a smile or a little bit of hope.

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For inspiration and you are so

involved and I just love it.

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And it's just it's so great to see.

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Well, it's it's Kim's full circle is

at first I joined all these groups

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because I knew they could help me.

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But then once I realized that I can

contribute as much or more to them.

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Yeah, it became that's part of my purpose.

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, it's like we do have a, , talk

about entrepreneurs and

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we have a group at church.

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We started, , faith driven entrepreneurs.

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There's a global organization called

that and that's wonderful group.

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And that's how I got introduced to it.

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Me and a couple of other guys

started it in the church and we're

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having a big meeting tomorrow.

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We're expecting up to 100 people

being there, but we also meet every

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Friday because we, we ask each other,

what, what problems are you facing?

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How can we help you solve a problem?

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And we are, we are helping each other

and they're all, everybody's in a

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different kind of business, but there's

some things if you're any business

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involves people, you all have common.

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That's common problems, problem,

interest and common solutions.

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So we can help each other that way.

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I love it.

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We're not meant to do it alone.

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We're not.

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No, we're not.

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And I definitely want to make sure

everyone knows to again, go to Chad

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Whitmire dot com to grab the book or go

to Amazon wherever is most convenient

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for you, but definitely read this book.

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There are stories in here and I won't

give away any of them, but stories that.

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You know, every bit that I know everyone

can relate to because we've all been

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through seasons and of our lives

that are up and we've been through

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seasons of our lives that go down.

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But in the end, you know,

what's the most important thing.

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And I love how you just pulled

that all together, Chad, that it

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is really, don't go at it alone.

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Do it with community and with God.

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And, , I'm just so excited for you.

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What my last question for

you is what is your next?

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Well, I kept writing.

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I can't stop writing.

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Once you start, you cannot stop.

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It's so true.

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I do need to give, , properly

promote this book and get that

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going to help more people.

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And I don't know what the next

one's going to be about, or I've

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just got so much material now.

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I probably have an

entire book ready to go.

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And once you start, you can't stop.

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It is fun.

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It really is fun.

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I love it.

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Well, Chad, you are awesome.

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Thank you so much for being on the show.

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And I, I, for one, can't wait to

see all the amazing things that

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are going to continue to happen.

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And I'm, I couldn't be more

honored that you allowed me to

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go down this journey with you.

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And, , I I'm here cheering you on and,

and I can't wait to see what comes next.

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Well, thank you very much too.

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Of course.

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Well, all right, everyone.

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That is it for the power of

authority spotlight again.

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Go to Chad Whitmire dot com.

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C h a d w i t m e y e r dot com.

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Grab the book.

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You definitely want to

read it and and take it.

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And remember, I think what I took out

of this or so many great Takeaways,

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but I think that last thing that Chad

said about just don't go at it alone.

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We need each other.

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We need community.

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We can do more, you know, the same

rising tides, raise all ships.

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So, let's all join together so we can go

out and make a difference in the world.

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We'll see you next time.

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Thanks everyone.

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