1:01

well so get the gun down and

1:01

show how are you doing today

1:05

and i'm doing

1:05

oh

1:06

good retief great to be here with you

1:08

it's good to have you round

1:09

i

1:10

last guy killed in so if i

1:10

was in the better i'll be you so

1:13

yeah

1:18

i

1:18

that is gold

1:20

impoisbosn like i like that

1:22

yeah

1:27

so i'm so glad to have in

1:27

because my first my first time in the

1:31

ministry i gave over the first day

1:31

i walked into my church and realized not

1:35

of i'm going to be a leader

1:35

in like well then teach in the seminary

1:39

so

1:40

yeah

1:40

the first thing i did was i

1:40

went to find the one the one person

1:44

i was doing leadership and i wasn't

1:44

at the thing at the time it was

1:48

when talking about it and it was

1:48

it was it was john maxwell and so

1:52

i came john maxwell student so i'm

1:52

so glad that we can talk about some

1:57

shipinkind of other things too and just

1:57

kind of bout him but i don't want

2:00

to give you a chance as in

2:00

this conversation to tell the last and best

2:05

advice you want to receive

2:09

and this

2:09

this

2:10

was a hard question when i first

2:10

saw it i'm like man but same thing

2:13

i told a friend of mine yesterday

2:13

asking folks this one question who do you

2:19

know that i should know who do

2:19

you know that

2:21

now

2:21

i should know because life moves at

2:21

the speed of your relationships and i've noticed

2:27

that through its past i can't believe

2:27

ten years since actually became integinal bout personal

2:33

development and john maxwell told us that

2:33

in a key note address

2:36

no

2:36

that he was giving and it was

2:36

like hey you're gonna change your life ask

2:40

folks that question when you're connecting with

2:40

other people and it's been a game changer

2:46

has been a game changer

2:47

i love that he should know that's

2:47

good i didn't think about that because it's

2:51

all about those connections because s you

2:51

never now how to make connection players and

2:55

gas leading so that's a great of

2:55

advice

2:59

oh yeah

3:00

yeah

3:00

it's great with all the ours as

3:00

tony the talk but so it's great advice

3:04

yes fovaciogoing up so i like to

3:14

the triple t himself baby too the

3:14

tiger

3:17

that's right that's right so you your

3:17

cheese to to introduce yourself to the onions

3:24

listen at home to something about yourself

3:24

that most people don't know

3:30

yes for the millions at home and

3:30

watching and listening around the world a fun

3:35

in fact the folks don't know about

3:35

me that much i have to say that

3:37

i've actually done tyke one do before

3:37

i got my blue bell never got like

3:42

b because

3:42

i

3:42

i switched over to kick boxing and

3:42

cross fit so that's probably a fact that

3:46

a lot of folks don't know about

3:46

me did take one do for a few

3:49

years about a good let's say six

3:51

yeah

3:52

years ain't

3:53

yeah

3:53

got to blue blue bell for switching

3:53

over to kick boxing

3:57

so that's that's a little mat of

3:57

fact and that's what we're running

4:03

yeah i got

4:05

oh

4:05

some long legs my colleagues class we

4:05

was like oh god i don't want to

4:09

spar and we could actually kick my

4:09

head off real like he's got the dog

4:12

reach yeah

4:13

that's right so real fact

4:16

yeah

4:17

um

4:17

yah

4:20

if you can at montreal

4:21

ah

4:21

regret it

4:25

disciplines involved too i don't plan on

4:25

sending people to hospital that's the good news

4:30

i won't play on it but i could

4:32

yeah

4:36

oh

4:38

it's like you got all these broken

4:38

ribs what happened was just covid that's all

4:42

that's where he was covid don't know

4:42

what i know where i came

4:44

oh

4:44

from oh

4:50

yeah

4:50

so i leaned i love learning about

4:50

people journey and your doing is really interesting

4:55

my role by first book i was

4:55

in my fifties

4:57

ah

4:57

so you impressed me by the fact

4:57

that your first book came to twenty three

5:01

tell us the journey of how you

5:01

got there and how you developed and worked

5:05

your first book

5:08

sure thing well about a good let's

5:08

say can't believe it's been almost ten

5:12

no

5:12

years ago now because back in twenty

5:12

twelve the year where folks

5:16

work

5:17

in america thought the world is going

5:17

but all that happens that we lost twenkesfour

5:19

moth is that that wonderful year had

5:19

a three prong attack i called a setback

5:24

sandwich because july thirty first father went

5:24

out for a drive and he got lost

5:29

and he ended up in a town

5:29

called service ber on about a good forty

5:32

miles outside of baltimore driving on the

5:32

wrong side of the road and interestingly enough

5:39

sadly like he actually got lost but

5:39

we were glad he got discovered because he

5:43

was lost but good thirty two hours

5:43

before we asked the police to help us

5:47

out and that night it was around

5:47

that sunday night when i got on my

5:51

news to pray at one a m

5:51

after playing some bit games to get my

5:54

mind off of things we get a

5:54

call about a good i'd say around i'm

5:59

about to be another two minutes into

5:59

praying and we get a call from a

6:03

hospital holy cross hospital were like hey

6:03

we found your husband he's he's here we

6:08

got him and i was like wow

6:08

like that it goes to show that prayer

6:12

were i was praying that he god

6:12

helped me find us found my dad hopefully

6:16

that his okay because he was up

6:16

there in age but we didn't know that

6:19

it was that bad so thank god

6:19

for finding him but he was discovered they

6:24

totally had all somers because he was

6:24

driving on the wrong side of the road

6:28

and that led to me doing more

6:28

stuff to help out around the home and

6:31

eventually becoming part time care giver on

6:31

top of being a part time employee local

6:37

library while being a full time college

6:37

student and a month later after that and

6:43

some change turned twenty one but on

6:43

the day of my birthday when i was

6:47

going to head over to it security

6:47

a's got into a wonderful car accident and

6:51

the reason why it's wonderful because i'm

6:51

still alive and it's a good story to

6:55

tell because i get to live the

6:55

toll tale about it

6:57

right

6:57

the not not so wonderful and is

6:57

that i was like oh crab the car

7:03

is crashed i'm like oh well durance

7:03

so didn't that wasn't able to drive my

7:07

ride for about a good two muffs

7:07

but i was still glad to be alive

7:11

but there was a lot of intern

7:11

struggle because a couple of weeks later

7:15

couple weeks later

7:16

it was showing up in my work

7:16

and my boss called me and was like

7:20

hey dum i got all these new

7:20

people coming in they're gonna be looking to

7:22

you as a leader and you keep

7:22

screwing up in these areas you got to

7:25

shape up here and for some reason

7:25

looking back over all these years that one

7:30

word stuck out to me later that

7:30

my boss told me it didn't hit me

7:34

at the time sometimes you got to

7:34

tell me something twice so i can really

7:37

understand it and some reason after that

7:37

a few weeks later found one of john

7:43

maxwell's books the five loves of leadership

7:43

looked up that book listened to it on

7:47

the audio changed my life gone to

7:47

personal development read a book the magic of

7:51

getting what you want by david swart

7:51

and in the book he had an activity

7:57

where you would write your own obituary

7:57

and in that obituary wrote that was going

8:01

to be a best selling author multiple

8:01

ok and then it just keeps going to

8:06

where a few weeks later the opportunity

8:06

shows itself net working at a toast masters

8:11

conference i was networking with people handing

8:11

out a reading list of people because i

8:15

loved reading book at that time i

8:15

still do as opposed to just handing out

8:19

business cards to people on hand out

8:19

reading lists by contact in because business cars

8:23

end up in a trash or forgotten

8:23

and when she looked at the list looked

8:27

at me it was like he swore

8:27

on the list i'm like oh yes right

8:29

there at the bottom you at the

8:29

fort like no we're not talking about that

8:32

to talk about you as an author

8:32

and i was twenty three at the time

8:37

and i'm like you got nothing to

8:37

write about twenty three like i want to

8:40

hear from mylenniyou know how bad millennia

8:40

get a bad rap these days even though

8:44

i'refreaking awesome like oh don't worry right

8:44

how about a year from today you write

8:48

your very own first book and i'm

8:48

like you know what that sounds cool not

8:52

doing it okay how about we both

8:52

become published authors a year from today we

8:56

both become published authors write our books

8:56

will do the journey together i'm like man

9:00

you are an impressive lady right here

9:00

you got this thing covered not doing it

9:05

so a couple of days later

9:07

yeah

9:08

went to a toast masters meeting a

9:08

ken session and during the session friend of

9:14

mine asked me hey don when you're

9:14

gonna wite your book and i'm like dude

9:17

that had nothing to do with the

9:17

presentation i just give just gave to the

9:20

other folks in the meeting so i

9:20

didn't want to look like a punk on

9:23

stage so i said a year from

9:23

today to write my very first book and

9:27

publish it scared out of god knows

9:27

what i was scared but ran home wrote

9:32

fourteen pages of rock content hybrnated for

9:32

two most picked it back up in early

9:37

twenty sixteen and october twenty six tying

9:37

the book was finally published going north tips

9:42

and techniques to advance yourself

9:45

wow that is an impressive story but

9:45

somebody saw something o that said you can

9:50

do this and i think that's so

9:50

important that when you pour into people's life

9:56

you never know we that will be

9:56

on the other side of that first for

10:00

saying and looking you go i see

10:00

something in you if you don't see in

10:05

yourself yet when i want to encourage

10:05

you and to me it's just a power

10:09

or testimony

10:11

it meant to that

10:12

yes

10:12

because leaders are dealers in hope and

10:12

they see the jewels that are within other

10:15

people that they don't see within themselves

10:15

yet and the right people around

10:18

it

10:19

you i guess it kind of goes

10:19

back to that wonderful advice like who do

10:22

you know that i should know ometimes

10:22

those people that you should know is sometimes

10:26

oh

10:26

yourself and you need those right people

10:26

help you realize that you have jewels within

10:30

yourself to share with the world and

10:30

gifts to share with the world

10:34

so from that interaction looks like you

10:34

have not interviewed over five hundred other authors

10:41

what are some of the lessons you

10:41

have learned life lessons you've learned from the

10:45

fact hundred people that ve interviewed

10:50

one of them one of the major

10:50

things i picked up was having a victory

10:54

log because a lot of

10:55

a

10:55

folks

10:55

lot

10:55

of sure folks who may be familiar

10:55

with the secret or in twenty twenty where

11:00

gratitude journals exploded over the a few

11:00

years like writing down things you're grateful for

11:05

that's amazing but there's some people out

11:05

there where they're like oh gratitude oh joy

11:10

i'm thankful right so instead of those

11:10

maybe a little negative about it a guest

11:16

of mine sam lebuwut's mentioned just off

11:16

the cup out and nowhere just say how

11:21

about you write a victory log and

11:21

do it for ninety days see how you

11:24

feel and that change my life because

11:24

instead of just writing things are grateful for

11:29

which is very powerful i enjoy that

11:29

piece but seeing them as victories as well

11:33

like waking up today that is a

11:33

victory lot of folks didn't get to wake

11:36

up today like bing but to start

11:36

your car and not having to shoot it

11:41

up because that's happened to a colleague

11:41

of mine where she had her car and

11:45

had battery issues an took to like

11:45

five different service shop folks and mechanics they're

11:49

like it's not a battery issue until

11:49

the hated lost today it's a battery issue

11:53

so just having no issues just those

11:53

small things those big victories that even being

11:59

only becoming bridge builders podcast like this

11:59

is a victory for me being able to

12:03

speak with you reverenkeeth like this is

12:03

a big victor an just tracking those victories

12:08

down and seeing him as wins and

12:08

that will boost your confidence because a lot

12:11

of folks may have low confidence a

12:11

day's because of still recovering from the pandemic

12:17

or still having a delayed pandemic so

12:17

it's just that one tip alone is one

12:23

of the major things i've learned from

12:23

iterviewing five hundred people just having that wonderful

12:28

mind set

12:29

that's great because i had another guy

12:29

on my my podcast talk about talk about

12:33

gratitude actually he said it was funny

12:33

he said think about how god uses what

12:39

we think of is maybe a day

12:39

and say what did god do in the

12:44

midst of that situation so it's kind

12:44

of talk about the idea of everything we

12:48

see in life may not be a

12:48

defeat or even a setback but it could

12:52

be how god bless me in that

12:52

situation and so i like the idea of

12:57

of looking at your life and going

12:57

what does god use that situation for that

13:01

i can take ran was with it

13:01

a car or one with your father you

13:06

know that could have turned out horribly

13:06

but the victory was he prayed that he

13:10

came home safely and he did and

13:10

you discover you know some other thin about

13:14

it from that situation so you never

13:14

know how guy is going to use those

13:18

events in life

13:21

you mentioned that you never know they

13:21

say he works mysterious ways he also sets

13:25

of humor too

13:27

it's i he does

13:31

oh

13:31

so something you said before kind of

13:31

stuck in my mind because i am old

13:35

enough where i have melinnials kids um

13:35

and

13:39

yeah

13:40

you talked about the fact that melinnias

13:40

are awesome in you always get a really

13:44

bad wrap in society so there's your

13:44

chance to speak to those awesome malines out

13:50

there what are three skills that those

13:50

molinos should put into practice and elope oh

13:58

probably one of my favorite questions to

13:58

answer because i kind of cheat with it

14:01

because the first skill i always name

14:01

is communication

14:05

oh

14:06

communication is a giant tree with a

14:06

whole bunch of branches of skills because when

14:12

you communicate with others the email that's

14:12

a whole different ball game mis communication

14:16

yes

14:17

can happen instantly because so many things

14:17

can go wrong text messages even through facebook

14:22

messenger then there's public speaking being able

14:22

to communicate to a group of people one

14:27

on one conversations with podcasthosts and podcast

14:27

guests like being able to sell being able

14:33

to persua at being able to master

14:33

communication specially at a written level because ben

14:38

franklin once noted that writing leads to

14:38

wealth and it is so true like we're

14:42

both published off cause we've gained a

14:42

form of wealth one way or another after

14:48

publishing our books and that wealth can

14:48

be just inspiring at least one of the

14:51

persons or writing a book of their

14:51

own or even getting through their day or

14:54

maybe avoiding that defeat is vic the

14:54

mind set so communication that's definitely the first

15:01

major skill the second one is being

15:01

able to network and build relationships with other

15:06

people especially those who may be of

15:06

quoting hive or value than the other person

15:12

because there's some folks who may have

15:12

a high level of influence compared to some

15:17

other folks who may have not gotten

15:17

to that point yet because i wonderful i

15:22

shared in the book with my first

15:22

book going north was with magic johnson when

15:26

he actually was in his rooky year

15:26

and he actually went over and took pitches

15:32

with a kid because one of his

15:32

team mates just basically brushed off this kid

15:36

who wanted an autograph and magic johnson

15:36

actually signed kid stuff and took a picture

15:42

with them and little did he know

15:42

that after b a career was over and

15:46

he was in his entreprenorial phase of

15:46

life looking to sign his first multi million

15:50

dollar venture with someone the first and

15:50

that he was going to negotiate with was

15:55

the father of that child that he

15:55

actually treated with respect and kindness in his

16:00

rooky year so just being able to

16:00

count those small victories making sure you're being

16:06

nice to people and build those wonderful

16:06

relationship with people so that way to pay

16:10

off in a long run and the

16:10

third major skill is financial literacy because that's

16:14

something that they don't really teach in

16:14

shoo is that something got to learn from

16:17

your own if you're not getting it

16:17

from home depending on who's raising you or

16:21

if you're being raised by some somebody

16:21

or whatever your situation is because a lot

16:27

of especially nowadays at it was actually

16:27

interesting specially early pandemic were a lot of

16:33

folks living to pay check to pay

16:33

check they were getting hit but also busy

16:36

since we're living paid check to paid

16:36

check as well because they had to pay

16:40

their staff and it was just an

16:40

eye openers like wow being able to consider

16:45

all those elements so the three things

16:45

just to go over again communication being able

16:50

to build relationship is one for folks

16:50

and the third thing is financial literacy

16:57

you have such an infectious personality just

16:57

come up and is this really positive person

17:03

how do you develop black kind of

17:03

an attitude because there's so much in the

17:06

world and i can draw us down

17:06

that can sap the joy out of us

17:11

how do you keep and maintain such

17:11

a positive mental attitude

17:17

yes it's actually an accronem form for

17:17

those who love acronems is for r a

17:22

v e that's raved so don't worry

17:22

i don't

17:24

war

17:24

got any glow sticks to pop up

17:24

on the video it's not that conde even

17:29

though it could be raves action accradim

17:29

for reading great material audio immersion listening to

17:37

great stuff like this podcast right here

17:37

visual stimulation making sure that you look at

17:43

a something that's going to benefit you

17:43

more than just plain entertainment making sure you

17:47

learn something and then the s for

17:47

encouragement encouraging yourself and other people because one

17:53

day i was writing chapter from my

17:53

book and thanks to the wonderful spirit of

17:58

god and capen i was able to

17:58

eccapsulate what i actually do to maintain a

18:05

post mental latitude that's rock solid and

18:05

it's with those four things of reading listening

18:10

to great audio watching great content and

18:10

encouraging other people specially myself because if someone's

18:16

living and breathing they need encouragement like

18:16

we all need it if somebody in even

18:22

a study by the author the late

18:22

massaro moto in his book the secrets hidden

18:28

secrets of water he did a study

18:28

where he would take this clear water and

18:33

would watch it for at thirty days

18:33

one container of water he would speak positive

18:38

words to it over and over again

18:38

and then one the other container wild peak

18:44

negative words to it and after the

18:44

few about a good thirty days after the

18:49

experiment was over the positive words like

18:49

hey year beautiful water your crystal you got

18:55

this all that good stuff it was

18:55

a shiny sharp crystal that developed after time

19:01

as opposed to the negative container where

19:01

all the negative words speaking the crystal still

19:07

formed but it wasn't as clear and

19:07

was a sharp so just that example alone

19:12

just shows that we too if water

19:12

can react to the positive words imagine how

19:18

us humans can react to positive words

19:18

so encouragement definitely important in all of our

19:23

oh

19:23

lives

19:24

that's powerful so you wrote a book

19:24

called going north and then you have a

19:29

podcast called going so tell us why

19:29

you started the podcast and how you started

19:34

podcast and me it comes out of

19:34

it oh

19:39

sure thing so after the book post

19:39

published going north twenty sixteen october about a

19:45

good i'd say five months later lost

19:45

my father after his long battle with the

19:51

darnel somers and it was definitely a

19:51

long battle but looking back especially after all

19:58

these years of going by it's been

19:58

about five and some change years changing since

20:02

that happened it was actually a good

20:02

way the way he passed on because i

20:08

wouldn't want it any other way for

20:08

and i'm pretty sure he would have been

20:12

enjoyed being able to leave without dealing

20:12

with any pain any more and just losing

20:20

track of marketing my book and starting

20:20

my business like there was no there was

20:24

no drips in the falsehood after a

20:24

while it was it was basically the books

20:28

wasn't weren't weren't selling was focusing more

20:28

on my day job at the time i

20:32

got promoted to a full time librarian

20:32

at that time and also was coming towards

20:37

the end of my term as a

20:37

division director overseeing seventeen clubs in maryland northern

20:43

maryland area and i was just basically

20:43

burned out but i realized wait a second

20:49

my dad was a hard worker so

20:49

this book is definitely going to take me

20:53

a lot further down the road if

20:53

i put some more work into it so

20:57

i decided how about start that podcast

20:57

to marketing and i was like wait a

21:02

second instead of me rambling every week

21:02

how about i just interview other people who

21:07

would talk about an interview oh yeah

21:07

other authors because other authors need publicity they

21:12

need platform to get their voices and

21:12

stories out there and to promote their work

21:16

especially newer authors who want some interviews

21:16

under their belt to get their feet wet

21:21

being interviewed and all that good stuff

21:21

so ah how about to start a podcast

21:24

interview other authors and had this great

21:24

idea fifty days of inspiration was around july

21:30

twenty seventeen where got the confidence got

21:30

a little moment one of my belt like

21:36

fifty different days share fifty different inspirational

21:36

quotes and then on day fifty the podcast

21:41

was going to launch didn't tell anybody

21:41

with a surprise is going to be while

21:44

i was doing fifty days of inspiration

21:44

well come day four to seven i forgot

21:48

i didn't make all the fifty images

21:48

correctly in time and day fifty there was

21:53

no podcast along even though i had

21:53

around a good five episodes accorded with guests

21:59

and there was a lot of delay

21:59

especially since i didn't know what the heck

22:02

was doing in terms of putting it

22:02

on to a podcast hosting platform to create

22:07

an our s s feed and i'm

22:07

like okay well i guess i'll just keep

22:12

polishing these episodes up and then launch

22:12

him later and i got an email from

22:17

one of the folks i interview and

22:17

she was like hey so you said it's

22:20

going to be up in august twenty

22:20

six it's like august or am i missing

22:23

something like oh yeah you're you're not

22:23

missing anything it's just me it's just me

22:28

it'll be up by september fourth safe

22:28

so september tea i basically put my nose

22:36

to the grindstone lits creek edited like

22:36

five different episodes had no sleep for thirty

22:42

two hours i actually had to give

22:42

a speech that same night as i was

22:47

doing everything else so i was basically

22:47

running on cafenannosleep and the podcast as able

22:53

to launch that day and then two

22:53

more weeks later when i figured out how

22:57

to get everything on the podcastingosti platform

22:57

lison at the time ten episodes are able

23:03

to launch you on i tunes and

23:03

that set me up for a great wonderful

23:08

cushion of episodes because with a lot

23:08

of podcasts they say usually three to six

23:14

episodes at launch date so folks have

23:14

multiple episodes to choose from because a lot

23:18

of folks listen to podcasts the bench

23:18

listened like the bench watched netflix and i

23:23

was able to have that great i

23:23

tunes head start and that set me up

23:26

for success down the road where i'm

23:26

still podcasting today with five under fifty one

23:31

official episodes on my way to interviewing

23:31

over a thousand different authors across the globe

23:37

well that's pretty good

23:39

ah yeah

23:43

but the lessons about

23:44

yes

23:44

park that is not

23:46

yeah

23:46

is not as easy as people think

23:46

it is ye

23:49

oh no i

23:50

oh

23:50

was a lot of people for the

23:50

first two years like oh yeah podcastit's lazy

23:53

man's radio state like no it's it's

23:53

not no

23:57

yeah yeah no you just you just

23:57

and all out of bed

24:01

yeah

24:01

with these questions oh

24:06

yeah

24:06

oh

24:06

exactly you're just talking to mike it's

24:06

easy there's like

24:09

ah

24:09

no trucks driving behind your sound at

24:09

all ruining your great one lot of your

24:13

guests dropped like it's it's easy

24:17

ah my favorite problem is

25:14

yeah

25:14

a training to pass about every day

25:14

about twelve o'clock so

25:17

exactly

25:21

like if you weren't training the background

25:21

that needs this noon in iowa oh

25:27

there you go that's a good side

25:27

to wake people up

25:31

that's right it's not

25:32

yeah

25:32

good morning vi now

25:34

yeah yeah

25:40

so as you go on this journey

25:40

that guys put you on where do you

25:44

hope people learn from your journey that

25:44

they can apply to their own personal lives

25:50

yeah i have to say it will

25:50

be three words success is tangible success is

25:55

tangible no matter where you come from

25:55

no matter what you're bringing is yes especially

26:00

for the s the millinated folks the

26:00

chocolate the carmen all the meloninfolks the black

26:04

folks like it's we're already

26:06

already

26:07

born especially in america from basically with

26:07

a setback but that shouldn't stop us from

26:15

moving forward yes there's going to be

26:15

times where folks are going to discriminate against

26:19

you but you just take that in

26:19

stride whenever possible and making sure that still

26:24

push ahead because never in a million

26:24

years i thought i'd be doing a podcast

26:29

interviewing folks with tons more followers

26:33

a

26:33

than me million dollar business has created

26:33

all this wonderful success and i'm based equally

26:38

having conversations with these people that can

26:38

share with the world that can help boost

26:43

their credibility boost mind and even learn

26:43

from them to better my life as an

26:48

example because even god himself like the

26:48

bible is full of underdog stories like david

26:54

himself he the apple of god's eye

26:54

and he was in his family he was

27:00

the one tending to the sheep busy

27:00

fighting bears like he was the one that

27:05

became king and when the other family

27:05

it's thought he that's just david is young

27:10

and he's just playing with the sheep

27:10

like no he's actually winning a bunch of

27:14

battles and becoming the king of god's

27:14

people like just classic underdogs store he's throughout

27:21

the whole book and under dogs are

27:21

really the successful people because they've may have

27:26

been set out to lose on paper

27:26

from those who may be on the outside

27:30

looking in but truth be told when

27:30

the story is all said and done success

27:34

is tangible for them because that's actually

27:34

their advantage

27:39

a right that is so cool so

27:39

i love to know what project we can

27:43

launch and tell people when they're working

27:43

on where you working on they might be

27:46

exciting to the audience

27:49

yes

27:50

yes

27:51

a big project is going to be

27:51

called podbook at the three phase the greatness

27:54

to write your book launch your podcast

27:54

and create a legacy wright now three

27:59

now

27:59

parts an be taken in three different

27:59

parts on it later right now working on

28:03

the podcasting piece a nice little tip

28:05

yes

28:05

book and guide for folks who want

28:05

to start and grow and manage a podcast

28:10

of their own and they go to

28:10

work into the book writing piece and then

28:13

combine both of them for the ultimate

28:13

book book and online course those who want

28:19

to become a content creator and create

28:19

some good inspiration

28:22

yes

28:23

of content to really set themselves apart

28:23

and survive in this wonderful air of pod

28:28

fading ware a lot of folks may

28:28

make a run for ward after episode ten

28:32

or even five but hey keith overhead

28:32

your plus episodes in so it is going

28:37

to be definitely great

28:39

that's great because i tell you won

28:39

you get past the episode of fifty or

28:42

like i was i got to keep

28:42

going now but you know get to fifty

28:46

yeah

28:46

oh so do as you think about your

28:50

life what do you want your legacy to

28:54

be

28:58

i want my legacy to be focused

28:58

on helping folks to basically become excited about

29:04

reading and reading as a way to

29:04

really develop yourself to the next level end

29:10

okay

29:12

it's just an honor because

29:13

no

29:13

the thing is i never thought in

29:13

a million years that success

29:17

yes

29:18

at my level could actually help other

29:18

people who are decades out of me my

29:22

first ever book going north people bought

29:22

and read that book and he saw how

29:27

thin it was and saw me promoting

29:27

it and they're like wait at this an

29:31

can publish this book at twenty three

29:31

and promote himself than me at fifty three

29:36

i can publish my work six other

29:36

folks became published authors after seeing me in

29:42

action and they had one of their

29:42

dreams of field or becoming a published author

29:45

because someone made that jump

29:47

yeah

29:47

and

29:48

ah

29:48

they too are going to be able

29:48

to reach people that i can

29:51

oh

29:51

reach and they're helping other folks be

29:51

encouraged to read books they may i'd read

29:55

at

29:56

a hundred books a year fifty books

29:56

a year but if they see a relative

29:59

and they like them and they read

29:59

their book then that's just one step closer

30:03

to creating more readers across the globe

30:03

definitely want to be known as a god

30:08

to help folks have a love for

30:08

reading or greater love for reading

30:12

that's great because i wasn't a bigger

30:12

leader as a matter of fact my philosophy

30:15

about waiting was if it's good to

30:15

make into a movie

30:19

oh

30:27

but by going back to school i

30:27

realize there's so much out there that you

30:32

get to you get to learn and

30:32

acknowledge what you read a lot of stuff

30:36

and a lot of content just make

30:36

your life wither um sometimes they make them

30:41

in the movies but the movies sometimes

30:41

lack what the book actually has it is

30:47

it's good like you said the dive

30:47

in there and just kind of let the

30:51

book take you on a venture you

30:51

may never get to so reading is a

30:55

huge huge part of that yes

30:59

yeah that's red indeed its super huge

30:59

that's right it's like five polar

31:02

oh

31:02

bears really huge yeah

31:06

there you go five polar bears black

31:06

eyes is huge and icy um

31:13

vanilla will be proud

31:14

i use would be proud to is

31:14

anything i have in ask that i should

31:19

have

31:22

uh yeah

31:22

oh

31:22

definitely

31:22

yeah

31:23

why libraries are filled with gold especially

31:23

in the twenty first century because during the

31:27

pandemic specially in the wonderful maryland baltimore

31:27

area we actually had to pivot to where

31:35

yeah

31:35

we actually even made the steps a

31:35

couple o years ahead of time because we

31:38

had over three hundred crone book

31:40

oh

31:40

lap tops folks had check out to

31:40

do their work and we started to get

31:44

fifty wifie

31:45

you

31:45

hot spots so folks can have internet

31:45

at home little do we know that a

31:49

darn pandemic would show up forcing

31:51

well

31:51

people to stay at home and having

31:51

to do a lot of their work at

31:54

home we even expanded our wifie to

31:54

reach

31:58

yeah

31:58

the whole entire park and losses what

31:58

if someone may not have gotten

32:01

now

32:02

lucky and got one of the hot spots they can still

32:04

okay

32:04

chilled our parking lot on a nice

32:04

sunny day and do some work because we

32:09

extended the wide fie to where it

32:09

reached the parking lot and we also became

32:13

a

32:13

oh

32:15

actual quite a few of us became

32:15

wonderful drop off spots for lunches though for

32:20

parents who wanted to feed their children

32:20

if they didn't have enough food for the

32:24

kids they can come and get free

32:24

meals

32:26

a

32:26

for

32:27

or

32:27

their kids and libraries nowadays especially public

32:27

ones are community centers

32:31

oh

32:32

for their communities and we are all

32:32

about helping

32:35

oh

32:35

people we got people cover from diver

32:35

to divers i sometimes

32:40

wow that's impressive so where can you

32:40

find your book your podcast and find you

32:45

in social media

32:48

sure thinks so wherever books are sold

32:48

you can find me on dom right man

32:52

dot com got three books out got

32:52

another few books in the works as well

32:57

as olin dom brightman dot com and

32:57

everything social media is at dom brightman s

33:02

d o m b r i g

33:02

h t o n on most social medias

33:07

the instagram is the face books the linked

33:08

oh

33:09

ins all there i'm not on tiktok

33:09

yet i think i'm enjoy missing that boat

33:15

not a fan of it i don't

33:15

feel like pointing at the

33:17

i was

33:18

air

33:18

i was waiting to see the darned

33:18

the stink like tick top

33:23

oh

33:27

oh so

33:31

oh

33:31

i have about to miss the particular

33:31

thing on tick tom

33:38

maybe one day not to day or

33:38

this year

33:44

when brown thinks so much or bit

33:44

show as better

33:47

yeah

33:47

please want

33:49

next i'd be robert keith yeah