Motivation Champs: Stories That Sell and Heal with Dominick Domasky

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on, you know, X Spaces. Hi, everyone, we're live

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with Dominic Damasky. I got to meet him in real

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life. I was walking through that hotel, the Intercontinental

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in Chicago. And I remember walking and then you

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have to go down the stairs, you go up the stairs.

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And then there, Dominic was kind of leaning over

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the railing like a movie star going, are you

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with the creative God? I'm like, it's me, Adrienne.

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And Dominic's like, I don't know who you are,

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but you seem silly. So Dominic, I got to meet

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you. Let's introduce you to everyone. Well, as

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soon as I saw you and you said silly, I knew

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we needed to be friends. So I've been a fan ever

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since. So I'm Dominic Damaski from Pittsburgh,

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Pennsylvania, proud of it. And I have a company

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called Motivation Champs, where I help people

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from all walks of life and all across the globe

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share stories that elevate humanity. I love that.

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And I actually have your website up to kind of

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show it. But can you share what got you in here?

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And I think you had a story of one of your parents

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or both of your parents. So what got me to this

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point? Well, I say. a lot of failure. I don't

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come here with a silver spoon or anything like

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that. I came from a dad that owned a landscape

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company, still does it, 83, still out landscaping,

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driving skid ladders around, digging trees, yelling

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at people. So I was taught hard work and the

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value of it from my father and also toughness.

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And then I had a mom that loved me to death.

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And even when I had a little belly, it looked

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like ET. teeth sticking out of my mouth. My mom

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told me, when everybody else thought I was not

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so smart, my mom told me I was brilliant and

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handsome and supported me every minute she could.

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And then she had a rough battle, I think we were

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referring to, she had a rough battle with Alzheimer's

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that lasted about a decade and I lost her during

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the pandemic. And that stunk, but I will try

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to. keep defending people like mom defended me

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so how's that? I love that and I for some reason

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I see your mom coming out with a glass of cold

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lemonade for her husband and then for the little

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kid that's hanging around Dominic did you bring

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out cold drinks to your to your husband when

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she could? Well she probably yelled at my dad

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for bringing dirt in the house So there was probably

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less, probably lemonade for me and coming out

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and yelling at him for working me too hard or

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not letting me have lemonade. Oh, but I love

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that your dad is still working. My parents worked

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too, well, until they went in the hospital and

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passed, in all honesty, because there's a love

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to the work, right? So have you interviewed your

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father, talked about what he's loved and also

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what I would love? to hear from your dad if you

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were thinking of writing a book, or if you have

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a book, is what he has seen with the changes

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and the challenges of his employees if he's hiring

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anyone. Well, one, we talk about that all the

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time, and I definitely get a lot of wisdom from

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Dad over the years. So both of those things are

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ever present in my life. Oh, I hope you write

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a book on the green grass or both sides of the

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green grass or something. I can really see that.

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Yeah, you know, they say like all the ideas are

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out in the world or they haven't been created

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yet and being with creative people like yourself.

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I'm thinking boom, boom, boom. Yeah, those are

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great ideas and it could be done. But yeah, that

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is he works hard. He's been a great influence

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to me. lucky to have him in my life, you know,

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to share, you know, the trials and tribulations.

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You're a business owner, I'm a business owner.

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Some days in business, for our friends listening

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today, some days in business, you think you have

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it all figured out, and then the next month,

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you know you don't. So it's nice to have a dad

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that we can talk about those things with. I love

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that. My dad would. My dad wanted a TV show so

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badly. I didn't even think of podcasts. He passed

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in 2019. They were a podcast around, never really

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thought about it. Did some videos with my dad,

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but they didn't come out like crisp clear like

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they do now. And a book was really important

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to him. And he did work with Caesar Bacchara,

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but it never got to fruition. And I think I had

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mentioned to you, I had, I called Caesar. Caesar,

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if you're listening, call me back. And my brothers,

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if you're listening, I think we should still

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do the book on that. So my call out live. But

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I think that it's so important. It's such a beautiful

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legacy to have that information and teaching.

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But let's talk about. Let's do something that

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I have been starting to do. And I love it. And

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you know what that is? That is sharing your website.

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Because it's so interesting to see. And we don't

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do this enough. So if you're in chatter, social,

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and watching, you could see. And if you are live,

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you should see this screen right now. So you

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see yourself right on the screen? So how about

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this? Yeah, I see myself there a couple of places.

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Yep. Okay. So let's talk about this because I

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want to know why motivation champs. What's the

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name from? Well, the it evolves over time. So

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at its roots, I believe that I want I want to

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share inspiration. I want to share positivity.

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I want to help people share smiles. So it isn't

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about me. I am not the motivation champ by any

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means. It's all the people out there doing the

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work, going to work every day. The standing up

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with a say standing up eight when you fall down

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seven. It's those people those are the champs

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So we build communities we build We try to lift

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up all the people out there doing the work sharing

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the stories and create a Place a safe place where

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hey you have a story. Let's help you share it

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and so motivation champs is kind of the platform

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or the The twine that holds it together and I'm

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just a small part of it And then really back

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back in the day when I hear I'll tell you about

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failure I had besides having a restaurant that

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went under when I was in my early 20s When the

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internet was just taking off like before social

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media. I had this idea It was called at the time.

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I created a website. It was called success trader

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dot org And it basically was the beginnings of

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Motivation Champs. And I wrote all these articles.

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It was before website templates. And I'd tell

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a story about Colonel Sanders trying to sell,

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making 5 ,000 sales calls before he sold a piece

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of chicken. But I had no idea what I was doing.

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It failed miserably. And so Motivation Champs,

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when social media came and a different world

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was beginning, That was, hey, well, let's create

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a community and build in a different way. So

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rather than me sharing all the stories, it was

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here. Let's help Adrienne share a story. Let's

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help this person. Let's help our friend Char

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Murphy who overcame cancer four times. Let's

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help her share a story. Let's help Brian Swift

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that we both know share a story. Let's help Sonia

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Chan share her story about neurodiversity and

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not in the story's work about me. A story of

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diversity can help somebody. A story of overcoming

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illness can help somebody. A story of overcoming

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great odds can help somebody. Business tips.

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So we try to share all those things. I love that

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so much. OK, so I'm on the page right now, right?

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So can you see? I am sharing. Let me make sure

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I am sharing the page with your... I see you

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checking out some of the authors. Those are the

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authors that send me bios and headshots, and

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we let them give as creative as they want to

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go. You'd see some people like Brad Hegge there

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who just, he's releasing a book right now. Brad

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Hegge and his friends, Carrie Bear and Bertie

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Cavaletti, I think it is, their dog, Ringo, got

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lost in a Florida hurricane. True story dog got

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lost for like 15 days. They wrote a children's

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book about it. I helped them take a piece of

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paper to published author and now and actually

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Ringo is a real dog and you can see and they

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just launched it the other day. So all so they

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on the website that you're looking at sometimes

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authors which are bios and we help them um directly

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to find the books and things like that just one

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more way to support them. Who's birdie? Birdie

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is her Birdie is one of the authors birdie and

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carry their birdie uses a pen name. So her pen

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name is birdie I love that. I love the like care

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caricature or kind of like Whatever this that

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was them they came they came up with this idea

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because one of the things I say when you're giving

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me an author photo a bio picture I want however,

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you want the audience to see so some people might

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want a headshot of them that They went to Olin

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Mills or something like that and got a hitch

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at the front. They might want a picture of them

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on stage. Good. They might want a picture of

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them with their grandkids. However, whatever,

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however they want the world to see them. That's

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what we want to share. That's our friend Lenis.

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Lenis was in a book, Power Up Super Women. She

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hosts events and everything all over California.

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She's on a great mission. And then through all

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this. Linus told me one time when we were on

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the phone, she said, hey Dominic, when Martin

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Luther King Jr. used to come over to our house,

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I said, Linus, how have I known you for three

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years and you never told me? I think she lived

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in Georgia or Atlanta down there when she was

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a little girl and Martin Luther King Jr. was

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a friend of her father's. Oh my gosh, that is

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absolutely crazy. She is gorgeous. I mean, honestly,

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I could just stare at her all day long. She's

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a really beautiful woman. Reading about her is

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amazing. And she builds communities too. And

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what you'll see is one of the things that I try

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to get across and want to get across, everybody

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has a story. Your story is going to impact people.

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It's going to make a difference. My story might

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not resonate with everybody's Adrian's might

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not resonate with everybody's and you find we

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help these people craft their story and then

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find Those people that need them that need that

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man their message will not I used to be in pharmaceutical

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cells And they used to say Right message right

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time right messenger And so you gotta have the

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right messenger to and I believe is like you're

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looking at Harry's fate very speed Harry Spade

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spoke on the stage of Creative Con two years

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in a row. He used to do mission work in the Dominican

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and then decided he wanted to take a different

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route. He was struggling to, even though he had

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that faith, he was struggling to pay the bills

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and everything like that. So he went to the highest

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levels of cells and is still going and teaches

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people how to sell with dignity, and that's his

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message. I love, love, love that. And I love

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that I got to meet Harry too, by the way. That's

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so cool. So I love this. So you really are giving

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them and motivational speakers. So you were meeting

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the authors and then how many of them have taken

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and are now motivational speakers? What is like,

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is that, cause I see motivational speaking and

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I'm thinking, so, okay, yeah. So share a little

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bit about what this means. What is this part

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of your service? What do you offer? Tell me explain

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to me so if you've ever wanted to speak on stages

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One you need to practice so let's get this out

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like you need to know what the heck you're gonna

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talk about How you're gonna do it so first get

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out there practice practice practice practice

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on podcast practice turning your phone around

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practice for free at the Rotary or the chamber

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or anybody else that will have you get out and

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work on your message? But once you begin speak

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and you start to craft that message and you can

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do an hour you can do 40 minutes You can do a

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workshop. You can do a weekend seminar that component

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of my business is helping speakers get bookings

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and So we step into the middle of it and take

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out the dirty work of asking somebody for to

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Pay you after you get off stage. So speakers,

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future speakers, you're going to get off stage

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at some point and you're going to have wowed

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the crowd and everybody's going to be cheering

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and you are still owed the balance of your money

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if you haven't got it yet and you're going to

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want that money because you don't want to get

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caught up in 60, 90 days. So stepping in and

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helping people get what they deserve and that

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is a component of our business. That's huge.

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getting heard is so important. You know what's

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funny is that I think that, and correct me if

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I'm wrong, but I think that for a lot of those

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that are thinking of having a book, how important

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is it to have a strong social media too? Like,

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how do you balance that? Because I notice sometimes

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when I'll get people to be a guest on a podcast,

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a lot of times they are the most amazing guests,

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but they have like not a lot of followers. This

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is this is where I think Motivation Champs really

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believes in it's now 2025. And I love I love

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the written word. I love the power of the written

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word that the journey you can take people on

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and I want my authors to be able to take readers

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on that journey to Something somebody's holding

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so close to their actually holding a book close

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to their heart while they're reading and you

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can take them on the journey So I believe every

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word every beat every paragraph it all matters

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it all matters. There is no AI in my Publishing

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a book say I don't I don't believe it. You know,

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I believe it's it's Passion it's hard. It's so

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so I can get sidetracked here I am sidetracked.

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So go on, Adrienne. Oh, no, I love what you're

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saying. So, but bringing it around again, if

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I have a book and do I need, if I'm coming to

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you and my book idea, you love it, but then I'm

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like, I don't, I haven't even thought of social

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media. I've been raising my four children and

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I don't even have a profile. As a matter of fact,

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if you Googled me, I pretty much not even exist

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in the internet world. Okay, that's where we

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get into it. Thank you for. Bringing me back

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in so in 2025 I bet everybody listening one.

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They're listening to a podcast They're watching

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streaming somewhere something like that Social

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is here. It's Interest -based media is here.

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It's it's not only here. It's it's a train going

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a thousand miles per hour 200 miles per hour

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and you've got to catch it at this point So sure

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you could write this brilliant book I speak of

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that I want you to write that brilliant book,

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but if You are not out there promoting it. If

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you don't have this media that people are consuming

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24 hours a day, how many times have you updated

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your phone today? How many times have you looked

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at your phone? So anybody listening? Well, you

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want to write the best book in the world or you

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wrote the best book, but you aren't where the

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people are. Billions of people are on those platforms.

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Billions of people there's people looking like

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I said earlier people looking for Your message

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what you do on those platforms. You're either

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there or you're not so with my authors with my

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community We believe 100 % and being on the tik

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-tok speed on YouTube being on websites being

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on podcasts I spend a lot of my week Doing great

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podcasts like this and interviews and things

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because I believe in it a hundred percent if

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you're not there How are people gonna find out?

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about your work. So I mean, they mate, but in

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today in today's world, it's going to be a heck

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of a lot easier to start creating that that platform.

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It's a free distribution model. You have to use

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it. I love that, I love that. So okay, so I love,

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and I love that as a publisher, you're offering

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another place where they can have their book

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and then your SEO is very strong. So you have,

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okay, how to write a book in 2020. Okay, those

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are a few of the ones that I personally wrote

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over the years, but we have hundreds on top of

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that. Yeah, I wanna look at these though. Wait,

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the journey of a grunt. Okay, go on. So we're

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talking about, see I always try to get people

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off the ones that I've written. So how to write

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a book in 2020, that was saying just like we're

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talking about right now, there's a new method.

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You could do things the old way and the old way

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isn't necessarily wrong, but there's new ways.

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So how to write a book in 2020 was let's look

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at these new, concepts and maybe you could use

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them in your own writing or publishing a book

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so then you got then you got a journey of a graph

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there that was a book I that was a book I wrote

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and it's about every job task or chore you ever

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had in what you can learn from it so everything

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you've done in life from digging out in the front

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yard with dad to maybe you were a waiter, a waitress,

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or maybe the job you have right now where your

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boss is giving you a hard time. Every one of

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those teaches you something and that's what definitely.

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Do you have the cartoons like in the book too?

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No, there's only a few pictures. Yeah, probably

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there's only the only pictures like that are

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on the front. That is really fun. Oh, and and

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I didn't know that you and I share a friend,

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Dr. Joey Fauset. I did his first two seasons

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for Work Positive. Dr. Joey Fawcett, he was one

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in that unofficial guide to fatherhood there

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and he's been a great supporter from day one.

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This was unofficial guide to fatherhood. It was

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many years ago. Dr. Joey Fawcett taught me a

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lot about selling books and speaking on stages

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and stuff like that. Great resource. He's amazing.

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I'm really happy that I had the opportunity and

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he's so sweet. I was going, I was having kidney

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stones removal and he sent me a lot of his books.

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Go ask your dad. Oh my God. I love this. So is

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this, is your dad reference in this book? Sure.

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But now this is a book. I think 21 fathers joined

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up with me. Same as the unofficial guide to fatherhood.

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We had recruited fathers from across the globe.

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to help share their story. And so in Go Ask Your

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Dad, it was, if you could, if you would, what

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message would you share, like that your dad shared

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with you or would you share with other fathers?

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So each chapter, somebody wrote in there, each

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guy, whether it was Dr. PJ Kelly talking about

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not having a father and the impact his mother

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made by stepping up and holding him accountable

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or Brian P. Swift, when he fell and broke his

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neck playing back there football, how his dad

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gave him tough love. So you'll learn all this.

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Wow. Look, you guys, I love this. You come in

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and buy the book, buy. Oh, I love, love this.

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Where is your book? I didn't even add it yet.

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That's how, see, that's how little I talk about.

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I have My Name is Sharon. That's the one about

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My Name is Sharon. Yeah. Oh, you haven't added

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that in here. Tell us about My Name is Sharon.

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My Name is Sharon is a book about my mother's

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battle with Alzheimer's. My mom's battle with

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Alzheimer's collided with the pandemic. And so

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it's a book trying to let people know that they're

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not alone. And if they're going through something

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like that to remember that No matter how hard

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it gets no matter who that person They're they're

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not maybe the same as you remember them or as

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they once were but love isn't forgotten deep

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down inside Deep down inside that's still mom.

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That's still dad. They love you. You love them.

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And so there was a lot of Lessons that I learned

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and sharing that that journey Are you going?

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I have many times and would love to do, so I'm

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always up for that. Yeah, I think that would

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be really, what is that noise? That's scary.

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I would be really, I think that's a good. And

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I'll tell you, Adrienne, so to go one step further,

00:22:08.319 --> 00:22:11.759
we actually adapted it to screenplay and I have

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the completed screenplay. ready and every once

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in a while gets pitched with other ideas. Sometimes

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I could be pitching a graphic novel to somebody

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in Hollywood and then another day I pitch, when

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they don't like that idea, I pitch them three

00:22:28.690 --> 00:22:32.750
other ideas that have come through. I love that.

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I want to go back too with what you were saying

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regarding the importance of getting out there.

00:22:39.220 --> 00:22:42.880
So I love being at CreativeCon and being on the

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big screen and I love MCing events. I love, love,

00:22:46.019 --> 00:22:48.319
love all of that. But part of like where I'm

00:22:48.319 --> 00:22:51.220
getting my confidence is being invited to be

00:22:51.220 --> 00:22:53.460
on Breakfast with Champions and having my hour

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on Thursday morning, 7 .30 to 8 .30. Which by

00:22:56.680 --> 00:22:58.619
the way, if you are on Clubhouse, Breakfast with

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Champions is an amazing group. Mary Lynn runs

00:23:00.980 --> 00:23:03.529
it with Glenn Lundy. And I just have to say,

00:23:03.630 --> 00:23:05.670
we're talking about blogging, because I am not

00:23:05.670 --> 00:23:08.609
an expert on blogging. So I'm talking blogging

00:23:08.609 --> 00:23:11.410
for the average Joe who has no clue. That's me.

00:23:11.730 --> 00:23:15.269
So anyways, that's tomorrow. But even we're live

00:23:15.269 --> 00:23:18.329
right now on podcasts. We're doing Facebook,

00:23:18.450 --> 00:23:20.630
LinkedIn, and Twitter. But we're also live on

00:23:20.630 --> 00:23:22.829
ChatterSocial, which is another one where you

00:23:22.829 --> 00:23:25.809
can go and host rooms. And I think all of that,

00:23:25.970 --> 00:23:28.569
Dominic, really has helped my being with Score

00:23:28.569 --> 00:23:32.619
and running workshops with Score. It's crazy

00:23:32.619 --> 00:23:36.440
how like all of that connected together can get

00:23:36.440 --> 00:23:38.420
you to where you need to be. And I can totally

00:23:38.420 --> 00:23:41.980
understand. It was, you know, meeting Sonia,

00:23:42.059 --> 00:23:45.450
first of all. was a privilege. I really felt

00:23:45.450 --> 00:23:48.769
like an honor to meet her and to be able to get

00:23:48.769 --> 00:23:50.950
a copy of her book and to get it signed. What

00:23:50.950 --> 00:23:54.170
an amazing gift. Then to have her on the stage

00:23:54.170 --> 00:23:57.869
sharing. And I think that combination is so important.

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So for everyone that meets Sonia and gets to

00:24:01.869 --> 00:24:04.690
see her in real life to get that experience,

00:24:04.809 --> 00:24:08.630
I don't know. And so is that the publisher's

00:24:08.630 --> 00:24:14.029
kind of role to also act as a PR for? Your clients?

00:24:15.430 --> 00:24:17.849
Absolutely. One of the best compliments I got

00:24:17.849 --> 00:24:24.529
one day is I have this book. It's called The

00:24:24.529 --> 00:24:29.650
Red Chair Experience by Chris Michelle. And I'm

00:24:29.650 --> 00:24:32.230
constantly promoting all my authors, right? Getting

00:24:32.230 --> 00:24:35.609
them on great shows like this one, introducing

00:24:35.609 --> 00:24:38.950
them to new people and promoting their books,

00:24:39.029 --> 00:24:40.910
links to their books. And somebody asked me one

00:24:40.910 --> 00:24:44.710
day, they said, Did you write the Red Chair Experience?

00:24:44.750 --> 00:24:45.910
And I didn't even know where they were coming

00:24:45.910 --> 00:24:48.910
from with the question. I said, well, what? No,

00:24:49.089 --> 00:24:51.589
it's Chris Michelle's book. Chris, great, 355

00:24:51.589 --> 00:24:55.069
Day Devotional. But because we promote them so

00:24:55.069 --> 00:24:57.369
much and connect everybody, somebody thought

00:24:57.369 --> 00:25:00.069
that it was my book that I had written. But no,

00:25:00.349 --> 00:25:03.690
it is, I just believe it's art. I had a publisher

00:25:03.690 --> 00:25:06.369
when I first, a lot of what I've learned over

00:25:06.369 --> 00:25:08.609
the years, like with the Journey of a Grunt is,

00:25:08.940 --> 00:25:12.240
When I had my first publisher long long ago where

00:25:12.240 --> 00:25:14.619
I wrote my first book Started writing my first

00:25:14.619 --> 00:25:18.299
book 20 years and I made every mistake along

00:25:18.299 --> 00:25:21.740
the way with that book underdeveloped under edited

00:25:21.740 --> 00:25:25.640
silly covers all kinds of things all kinds of

00:25:25.640 --> 00:25:30.559
silly nonsense even I sold my rights I Paid too

00:25:30.559 --> 00:25:33.359
much for books all that kind of stuff and I realized

00:25:33.359 --> 00:25:37.839
I'm not gonna do those same thing. I'll I'll

00:25:37.839 --> 00:25:42.259
do it completely differently. I'll support them

00:25:42.259 --> 00:25:45.359
till I can no longer, you know, so much over,

00:25:45.759 --> 00:25:48.140
you know, under promise, over deliver, I will

00:25:48.140 --> 00:25:51.039
give and give and give. And so that's how I've

00:25:51.039 --> 00:25:56.700
operated my business ever since. I love, love

00:25:56.700 --> 00:25:59.500
that. Wait, whoa, whoa, whoa. What is this? We've

00:25:59.500 --> 00:26:02.980
got a black glossy mug. We've got a camouflage

00:26:02.980 --> 00:26:06.140
trucker cap. I love that, of course, you know

00:26:06.140 --> 00:26:08.680
me in promo products, so I love logo merchandise.

00:26:09.119 --> 00:26:13.259
And I love that you have this store that you

00:26:13.259 --> 00:26:15.599
have. Looks like a nice little pop -up store

00:26:15.599 --> 00:26:20.359
where someone can get and... This would be fun

00:26:20.359 --> 00:26:22.940
a creative con if we all wore something one day

00:26:22.940 --> 00:26:25.500
you had us all pick something out and and wore

00:26:25.500 --> 00:26:29.119
it and then like or your or your authors go up

00:26:29.119 --> 00:26:30.819
there and they're all wearing the same thing

00:26:30.819 --> 00:26:33.940
and and I love it. I think that we love seeing

00:26:33.940 --> 00:26:40.180
people same with just like we mentioned uh screenwriting

00:26:40.180 --> 00:26:42.779
a little bit and now you got the merge there.

00:26:42.880 --> 00:26:47.069
I'm a big believer that people receive their

00:26:47.069 --> 00:26:49.210
inspiration differently. You know, it's like

00:26:49.210 --> 00:26:54.250
medicine. So some people are looking on social

00:26:54.250 --> 00:26:56.470
media. Some people want to wear that cap or that

00:26:56.470 --> 00:26:58.890
is a coffee mug there that says motivation champs.

00:26:58.890 --> 00:27:01.170
In the morning, drink your cup of coffee and

00:27:01.170 --> 00:27:04.910
drink your motivation in the morning. So there's

00:27:04.910 --> 00:27:08.349
a lot of different ways to, until I want to be,

00:27:08.690 --> 00:27:11.009
if somebody's looking for inspiration, if they're

00:27:11.009 --> 00:27:13.589
looking for positivity, if they're looking for

00:27:13.589 --> 00:27:17.220
smiles. I want us to be there in every aspect,

00:27:17.359 --> 00:27:22.759
from this podcast today to merch to maybe something

00:27:22.759 --> 00:27:26.380
on the big screen, YouTube shows, Creative Con,

00:27:26.680 --> 00:27:29.220
anything I'm a part of. At the end of the day,

00:27:29.240 --> 00:27:31.259
I want people to feel good about it and say,

00:27:32.099 --> 00:27:34.799
yeah, I'm better because of that. The world's

00:27:34.799 --> 00:27:37.720
better because of it. I love that. One last thing.

00:27:37.720 --> 00:27:40.279
I want to look at your posts. Let's look. So

00:27:40.279 --> 00:27:43.220
feature on CBS. I love how you know how to promote.

00:27:43.599 --> 00:27:47.000
And then you've got your posts and right here.

00:27:47.079 --> 00:27:50.539
So you're talking about sponsoring. Oh, oh, to

00:27:50.539 --> 00:27:53.460
sponsor CreativeCon. Is that for next year? Yeah,

00:27:53.500 --> 00:27:57.200
get in on it. Get it. We got a thousand person

00:27:57.200 --> 00:28:00.920
community. It's growing fast. Big event. Hundreds

00:28:00.920 --> 00:28:03.619
of people will be in Chicago. The media is finest.

00:28:04.079 --> 00:28:06.339
You'll probably see Adrian there with my partner,

00:28:06.519 --> 00:28:10.769
Julie Loken. She's the dreamer of the two. I'm

00:28:10.769 --> 00:28:14.890
pragmatic, and she's the dreamer of us. So we

00:28:14.890 --> 00:28:18.869
get together and try to create a community. The

00:28:18.869 --> 00:28:21.789
community is based on many of the same things

00:28:21.789 --> 00:28:24.329
as Motivation Champs. The Creative Con community

00:28:24.329 --> 00:28:29.890
is based on the fact that in 2025, if you own

00:28:29.890 --> 00:28:33.009
a business, you probably need to be on social

00:28:33.009 --> 00:28:36.289
media. You probably need to be... be on podcast,

00:28:36.470 --> 00:28:38.549
probably need to have a podcast, you probably

00:28:38.549 --> 00:28:43.750
need to be understand AI, you probably should

00:28:43.750 --> 00:28:46.910
understand video content. And so at CreativeCon,

00:28:47.369 --> 00:28:50.029
all these creative outlets are represented by

00:28:50.029 --> 00:28:53.170
experts. And we bring them all on stage, we bring

00:28:53.170 --> 00:28:55.670
them in breakout rooms, you can network with

00:28:55.670 --> 00:29:00.369
them. And it is a chance to meet all these people

00:29:00.369 --> 00:29:03.509
that from the highest levels of success to starting

00:29:03.509 --> 00:29:08.339
tomorrow. And you know, you can't like I mentioned

00:29:08.339 --> 00:29:10.680
earlier, all these ideas are out there. And when

00:29:10.680 --> 00:29:12.819
you get with these inspiring people, they're

00:29:12.819 --> 00:29:15.440
just pulled in. You can take your business or

00:29:15.440 --> 00:29:17.940
brand to the next level. That's what Creative

00:29:17.940 --> 00:29:22.019
Con is all about. I love it. There's me, favor,

00:29:22.200 --> 00:29:29.819
Portia, Maria. I think this is, oh my God. Oh

00:29:29.819 --> 00:29:35.799
my God. T -T -I -T -T. T -something, yeah. Oh,

00:29:35.799 --> 00:29:39.519
my gosh. No, he did the, he did the, oh, with,

00:29:39.519 --> 00:29:44.140
with Dr. Tanji. And, oh, my God, I'm sorry, sorry

00:29:44.140 --> 00:29:45.900
that your name is exceeding. Anyways, this was

00:29:45.900 --> 00:29:49.799
such a great, great time. I love it. I love Julie

00:29:49.799 --> 00:29:51.940
Loken. And you know what's amazing? Before we

00:29:51.940 --> 00:29:54.920
close, it really is amazing that the two of you,

00:29:55.079 --> 00:29:57.279
which some people will say, oh, you both overlap

00:29:57.279 --> 00:29:59.900
or you're both in publishing. You both do something

00:29:59.900 --> 00:30:03.559
similar, but yet how you work together And even

00:30:03.559 --> 00:30:06.980
with Portia is so interesting. So just share

00:30:06.980 --> 00:30:10.160
just share advice with people before we go that

00:30:10.160 --> 00:30:12.920
that collaboration is really the key. And it's

00:30:12.920 --> 00:30:16.180
not don't put yourself in a silo by yourself.

00:30:16.180 --> 00:30:20.500
Yeah, 100 % rising tides lift all boats. That

00:30:20.500 --> 00:30:24.920
is JFK. And so there is there doesn't have to

00:30:24.920 --> 00:30:28.019
only be one pie. We can make more pies. Let's

00:30:28.019 --> 00:30:31.099
let's let's create a factory where we produce

00:30:31.099 --> 00:30:36.059
all where we mass produce our pies. So I think

00:30:36.059 --> 00:30:40.240
to think that when I first started out, even

00:30:40.240 --> 00:30:42.880
with Motivation Champs, I was so worried about

00:30:42.880 --> 00:30:45.619
what everybody else was doing. 20 years ago,

00:30:46.000 --> 00:30:48.799
I admittedly was so worried about what everybody

00:30:48.799 --> 00:30:51.440
else was doing. If somebody else said the word

00:30:51.440 --> 00:30:55.460
motivation, I was scared. And then I realized

00:30:55.460 --> 00:30:57.599
over time, no, if I want to get to where I want

00:30:57.599 --> 00:31:01.069
to go, and if I'm true to my mission, Share inspiration,

00:31:01.410 --> 00:31:04.809
share positive, share smiles. Well, if I help

00:31:04.809 --> 00:31:08.049
other people do the same, I can help more people.

00:31:08.109 --> 00:31:10.789
I can really do what I'm talking about. So rather

00:31:10.789 --> 00:31:13.970
than it all being about me or thinking I need

00:31:13.970 --> 00:31:18.289
to be closed off in my own silo, as you said.

00:31:18.549 --> 00:31:21.269
No, no, no. That's a miss. Get out there and

00:31:21.269 --> 00:31:23.369
collaborate. No, make sure you choose the right

00:31:23.369 --> 00:31:24.970
people and if they're not the right person, get

00:31:24.970 --> 00:31:27.690
out. If they're not working hard, get out. If

00:31:27.690 --> 00:31:29.890
they're bringing you down, get out. But when

00:31:29.890 --> 00:31:32.609
you're with good people and they're lifting you

00:31:32.609 --> 00:31:35.150
and you're more creative and ideas are flowing,

00:31:36.349 --> 00:31:40.269
Godspeed. By the way, guys, Dominic is available

00:31:40.269 --> 00:31:42.670
as a speaker. You can see he's motivational.

00:31:42.730 --> 00:31:45.309
He's amazing. Dominic, thank you for your time.

00:31:45.349 --> 00:31:47.190
I'll have all the information for people. This

00:31:47.190 --> 00:31:50.369
will be turned into a podcast. And right now,

00:31:50.390 --> 00:31:52.970
let's say I run to a week. I'm like 11 episodes

00:31:52.970 --> 00:31:56.519
ahead of the game. I may go to a week, but in

00:31:56.519 --> 00:31:59.099
the meantime, you are fantastic and handsome

00:31:59.099 --> 00:32:02.019
as heck, right, guys? I mean, let's just work

00:32:02.019 --> 00:32:04.640
with Dominic because he's got the brain. He's

00:32:04.640 --> 00:32:07.299
got the brawn. He's got the heart and the soul.

00:32:07.440 --> 00:32:08.940
I love that you said that the heart and soul

00:32:08.940 --> 00:32:12.839
putting it into it. So no AI for Dominic, but.

00:32:12.960 --> 00:32:15.440
just the real heart, brain, and soul, and he

00:32:15.440 --> 00:32:17.440
will just drag it out of you. So you'll be writing

00:32:17.440 --> 00:32:20.700
from your mind. And I love that. Dominic, one

00:32:20.700 --> 00:32:22.779
last question, and I promise to go. Do people

00:32:22.779 --> 00:32:25.720
really need to have the most incredible scene?

00:32:26.039 --> 00:32:29.039
Like, do I need to be a mane in a little cottage

00:32:29.039 --> 00:32:31.720
overlooking the ocean with the little authors

00:32:31.720 --> 00:32:35.559
like Nook so I can write my book? No, you need

00:32:35.559 --> 00:32:38.819
to find a place that works for you. So it could

00:32:38.819 --> 00:32:42.740
be a really... highly focused on this lately.

00:32:43.420 --> 00:32:47.420
If you pick your daughter up every Thursday at

00:32:47.420 --> 00:32:50.079
six o 'clock from soccer and you're sitting there

00:32:50.079 --> 00:32:53.380
for a half hour and you know I sit there every

00:32:53.380 --> 00:32:56.660
Thursday for a half hour, perfect place to start

00:32:56.660 --> 00:32:59.119
writing your book. You just need to find the

00:32:59.119 --> 00:33:01.960
space, find the time, wherever ideas flow, wherever

00:33:01.960 --> 00:33:05.420
you have the time. It could be Sunday morning

00:33:05.420 --> 00:33:08.230
at seven o 'clock with a cup of coffee. But start

00:33:08.230 --> 00:33:11.410
to think, where is my space? Where am I not distracted?

00:33:11.910 --> 00:33:14.890
And then, where do I have the, I know there's

00:33:14.890 --> 00:33:16.690
distractions everywhere. Where do I have the

00:33:16.690 --> 00:33:19.410
least distractions? And even if you do 10 minutes,

00:33:19.990 --> 00:33:23.529
10 minutes, inch by inch, add in those blocks,

00:33:23.650 --> 00:33:27.069
10 minutes, six times an hour, 10, I could do

00:33:27.069 --> 00:33:29.750
all these multiplication tables, but just put

00:33:29.750 --> 00:33:32.789
in the times and stack those wins. Can I use

00:33:32.789 --> 00:33:37.059
my audio recording to do this? Oops. I forgot

00:33:37.059 --> 00:33:40.079
to turn off my phone. What a dummy. Can we, oh,

00:33:40.400 --> 00:33:44.119
I just lost you. Can we, sorry guys. Hold on,

00:33:44.240 --> 00:33:47.559
let me, really, who is calling me? Don't call

00:33:47.559 --> 00:33:50.779
me when I'm in the interview with Dominic. Oh

00:33:50.779 --> 00:33:53.420
wait, let me see. We've got, don't allow, we've

00:33:53.420 --> 00:33:56.339
got, oh, Momo is here. Thanks Momo for listening.

00:33:56.440 --> 00:33:58.799
I'll just bring you up. Okay. Oh, you should

00:33:58.799 --> 00:34:01.559
meet Momo. She's beautiful. What a voice she

00:34:01.559 --> 00:34:04.200
has. She's incredible. Come to the dark side.

00:34:04.400 --> 00:34:07.400
No kidding. But Dominic, I want to ask you a

00:34:07.400 --> 00:34:10.699
question regarding, and I just lost my train

00:34:10.699 --> 00:34:12.320
of thought. I think I know where you were going.

00:34:12.400 --> 00:34:16.360
You were talking about, can you dictate in your

00:34:16.360 --> 00:34:18.820
phone? Sure, you don't have to type at all. I

00:34:18.820 --> 00:34:22.219
would suggest going for a walk with a dear friend

00:34:22.219 --> 00:34:27.300
and telling them the story. Besides for just

00:34:27.480 --> 00:34:30.280
Yeah, sit in a room or you can do that in your

00:34:30.280 --> 00:34:34.199
car. I dictate all the time. I email it to myself.

00:34:34.599 --> 00:34:36.840
Then I put it in a file and then I start cleaning

00:34:36.840 --> 00:34:40.500
up the file from that point. So yes, you can

00:34:40.500 --> 00:34:43.630
do that. So nobody should have any excuses. And

00:34:43.630 --> 00:34:46.050
talk to Dominic so you can start off on the right

00:34:46.050 --> 00:34:48.110
foot, so you're not doing anything wrong. Because

00:34:48.110 --> 00:34:50.469
I can see where someone maybe, you know, you

00:34:50.469 --> 00:34:51.849
don't want to have to go back, right? It's easier

00:34:51.849 --> 00:34:55.090
to know what I need to do in the start. Dominic,

00:34:55.170 --> 00:34:58.389
I will just say, I have had this dream. When

00:34:58.389 --> 00:35:00.590
I did the five month road trip with my daughter,

00:35:01.130 --> 00:35:03.010
and we called it, my website is my daughter,

00:35:03.110 --> 00:35:06.090
my friend. And what I found is that a lot of

00:35:06.090 --> 00:35:09.739
other women were like, I got either, ew. You're

00:35:09.739 --> 00:35:12.699
with your daughter for like five months. Oh my

00:35:12.699 --> 00:35:14.260
god, my daughter and I we would kill each other

00:35:14.260 --> 00:35:16.360
like and they and they would say that I'm like

00:35:16.360 --> 00:35:19.340
No, like I can't wait to start the day and end

00:35:19.340 --> 00:35:21.980
the day with Alana. I love it but I will say

00:35:21.980 --> 00:35:23.639
that there were a lot of people like I don't

00:35:23.639 --> 00:35:25.900
think of my daughter as my friend or what year

00:35:25.900 --> 00:35:28.380
and then I really wanted to do a book called

00:35:28.380 --> 00:35:31.079
my daughter my friend and get people to like

00:35:31.079 --> 00:35:33.119
write their stories from the mother and daughter

00:35:33.119 --> 00:35:35.940
perspective but honestly I can't do it alone

00:35:35.940 --> 00:35:38.679
I'm like I'm like realizing so I have a website

00:35:38.679 --> 00:35:42.309
and so um You know, I so, you know, I have a

00:35:42.309 --> 00:35:44.070
little Google thing like be in the book, but

00:35:44.070 --> 00:35:46.789
that's not working for me. So I need to come

00:35:46.789 --> 00:35:49.349
to you. And I probably could do at the end of

00:35:49.349 --> 00:35:51.329
August to see about writing the book so it could

00:35:51.329 --> 00:35:54.230
be available Mother's Day, because when I Googled

00:35:54.230 --> 00:35:56.489
and did my research, I'm like, there's a lot

00:35:56.489 --> 00:35:58.429
of questions. Can I be, you know, should you

00:35:58.429 --> 00:36:01.329
be friends with your daughter? What age is a

00:36:01.329 --> 00:36:04.789
young age? Alana is 19. So this was three years

00:36:04.789 --> 00:36:08.409
ago. She was 16 on the road trip with me. And

00:36:08.409 --> 00:36:11.690
a lot of people thought that was weird. I absolutely

00:36:11.690 --> 00:36:15.010
now see her as my people. She's 19. And we have

00:36:15.010 --> 00:36:16.829
an amazing relationship still. So I don't know,

00:36:16.829 --> 00:36:20.090
I'd like to like explore that. So is that something

00:36:20.090 --> 00:36:24.090
that you would be able to - Love to do compilation

00:36:24.090 --> 00:36:26.909
books all the time, help people through the ins

00:36:26.909 --> 00:36:32.110
and outs, the positives, the negatives, and that

00:36:32.110 --> 00:36:35.630
Linus that we saw a picture of who - She was

00:36:35.630 --> 00:36:37.809
in one of our compilation books go ask your dad

00:36:37.809 --> 00:36:40.550
was a compilation book book with dr Joey Foss

00:36:40.550 --> 00:36:43.510
It was a compilation book, but you have to understand

00:36:43.510 --> 00:36:46.309
how to do it how it works for everybody There's

00:36:46.309 --> 00:36:51.869
a lot of bad ones out there a lot of people Praying

00:36:51.869 --> 00:36:53.469
on people's hopes and dreams. That's not what

00:36:53.469 --> 00:36:57.989
we do. So There's got to be a understanding of

00:36:57.989 --> 00:37:02.010
why you're doing it Yeah, taking it seriously

00:37:02.010 --> 00:37:05.170
makes sense. And also, I could see how I can't

00:37:05.170 --> 00:37:07.170
do it. So at the end of the day, if I want it

00:37:07.170 --> 00:37:09.489
done, I'm not able to do it. I'm not able to

00:37:09.489 --> 00:37:12.849
pull it, and I need the resources, which is you.

00:37:13.349 --> 00:37:15.230
And then just for you to say, Adrienne, it's

00:37:15.230 --> 00:37:18.849
a good idea, or maybe not. So I'll talk to you

00:37:18.849 --> 00:37:20.769
about that. I'm just giving myself another month,

00:37:20.769 --> 00:37:23.849
because I want to get my money all set. So because

00:37:23.849 --> 00:37:26.429
I don't know. Hold on. Let me jump on that for

00:37:26.429 --> 00:37:29.389
a second, if you're just for anybody that. When

00:37:29.389 --> 00:37:34.190
you're writing a book, give yourself always great

00:37:34.190 --> 00:37:37.469
to put things on calendars and say, I'm giving

00:37:37.469 --> 00:37:40.449
myself this much time to get chapter one done.

00:37:40.530 --> 00:37:43.869
I'm giving myself this much time to get the first

00:37:43.869 --> 00:37:48.030
draft done. Only because I hate fictitious deadlines,

00:37:48.449 --> 00:37:50.710
but only to keep you moving and then you can

00:37:50.710 --> 00:37:55.150
look at one year, one month. Have I done what

00:37:55.150 --> 00:37:58.289
I said I was going to do? So all of a sudden

00:37:58.289 --> 00:38:00.409
I work on and on this for a certain period of

00:38:00.409 --> 00:38:03.230
time. First you give yourself the time and you

00:38:03.230 --> 00:38:06.369
owe yourself to go for it, to get as far as you

00:38:06.369 --> 00:38:10.570
can. And then once you do that and if you want

00:38:10.570 --> 00:38:13.090
to get as far as you take it as far as you can,

00:38:13.550 --> 00:38:16.769
and then you say, hmm, okay, now I'm looking

00:38:16.769 --> 00:38:18.409
at these dates. Maybe I need some more time,

00:38:18.769 --> 00:38:21.230
some more help. And that's when it's a good time

00:38:21.230 --> 00:38:25.630
to reach out to. a publisher or editors or whoever

00:38:25.630 --> 00:38:28.670
you determine is best fit for you. All right

00:38:28.670 --> 00:38:30.989
I'm going to reach out to you and see okay so

00:38:30.989 --> 00:38:33.989
that's another question do you have a calendar

00:38:33.989 --> 00:38:37.489
I'm on your website I don't see one how oh my

00:38:37.489 --> 00:38:41.309
gosh yeah there's one in there oh there is okay

00:38:44.719 --> 00:38:46.940
Contact, get in touch. Oh, here it is, guys.

00:38:47.239 --> 00:38:49.639
Hold on, let me just really, really quickly just,

00:38:49.739 --> 00:38:51.539
I just wanna show the screen. Adrian, schedule

00:38:51.539 --> 00:38:54.199
in a meeting, there you go. Okay, Motivational

00:38:54.199 --> 00:38:57.739
Champ, contact. There it is right here. Schedule

00:38:57.739 --> 00:38:59.800
the meeting. I am gonna do that. I'm gonna get

00:38:59.800 --> 00:39:01.880
off the phone right now. I'm gonna just see on

00:39:01.880 --> 00:39:05.739
chat if anyone had any questions. And then, Momo,

00:39:06.039 --> 00:39:08.360
thank you. Momo, thank you for being on. I love

00:39:08.360 --> 00:39:10.099
you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Dominic

00:39:10.099 --> 00:39:12.519
is great. And I hope you both can connect. But

00:39:12.519 --> 00:39:15.480
I really appreciate it. Love you, Momo. And I'm

00:39:15.480 --> 00:39:17.719
going to close the room. Let me end the room.

00:39:18.139 --> 00:39:21.199
And then I am going to thank you guys for being

00:39:21.199 --> 00:39:23.579
here. Dominic, you're amazing. Thank you for

00:39:23.579 --> 00:39:28.559
allowing me to do this on StreamYard. Linking

00:39:28.559 --> 00:39:31.519
to Facebook LinkedIn and X and then on chatter,

00:39:31.679 --> 00:39:34.199
too I will schedule my time right before like

00:39:34.199 --> 00:39:35.760
in two minutes once we end it Thank you. Thank

00:39:35.760 --> 00:39:38.159
you. Thank you. Thank you. I love you. I think

00:39:38.159 --> 00:39:41.199
you're an amazing man Thank you Sean. I appreciate

00:39:41.199 --> 00:39:44.619
you and we're in bubbles. No matter what Thank

00:39:44.619 --> 00:39:48.400
you for being babe bold and handsome and brilliant

00:39:48.400 --> 00:39:49.719
Thank you