ONE MOMENT IN TIME With Joey Lewis

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Hello, it's Howard Brown. It's another episode of

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The Shining Brightly Show. Oh, my goodness, you are going to be

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so psyched to hear from Joey Lewis. This is incredible. Joey,

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how are you doing?

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Doing great, man. Thank you for having me, Howard.

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I'm really excited. We've been part we'll

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give a shout out to Blanca and the laws of life. We met through

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there maybe six months ago. And we just got to know each other.

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And I'm so impressed. And I just became a client of Joey, I'll

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tell you all about that in a second. But this guy has been

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through so much. And he's coming out the other side. He's helping

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people all with the theme of shining brightly. And he has a

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cool talent. We're gonna hold that off. We're gonna tease you

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a little bit on that. Let me tell you who Joe is Joe Lewis.

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He's the founder of tough tough media and tough tones,

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entertainment. And he is a motivational speaker at Joy

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Lewis speaks. He's in the in the suburbs of Indiana outside of

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Andy. He's a super creative mind, really talented video

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editor, graphic designer, a music producer. And he uses AI.

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And I'm learning a tonne from him. And it's the coolest thing

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ever. Joey takes his diverse skills and his inspiration and

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he educates others. And he has a special skill. He was a

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presidential Dean, this guy. He's certified in digital

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marketing. And he's got this. He's worked for big dream media

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and things like that. He's got great experience. Now. This is

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what we're gonna get into. Joey's life just got changed in

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2005, and seven, he got into two severe car accidents. It left

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him with epilepsy. And it left him scarred that he had to heal

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from and it's still healing from a new perspective on life. So

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these experiences ignited his passion to become one of the

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world's top motivational speakers. He wants to change

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people's lives by sharing his story and promoting responsible

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decision making. And his greatest joy is motor and

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motivation is his daughter, Isabella rose. That's awesome.

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How old is Isabella?

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Isabella is 14.

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She's 14, just like my pride and joy Emily

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who's 22. So Joey's. He has lots of hobbies. But music, reading

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and DJing are his passion. Since he's 21. And music production

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and digital content is just his jam. He's just great. So he

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loves speaking at educational events in schools to young

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people. And he just wants to people understand that a single

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moment in time. And you know, can really change the direction

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in one person's life. And he wants to aspire others to learn

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from their mistakes, provide a better future for his daughter,

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and just reach audiences and touch their hearts. Joey, I'm so

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thrilled you're here today. But now that I've kind of set the

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table tell us something, how you shine brightly each day.

Joey Lewis: 00:02:57

Well, thank you very much for that introduction,

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Howard and how I shine bright each day as I remind myself that

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there's a statement. Or actually I say a quote that a guy gave me

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and it says today is today. And what we've done yesterday, we

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can't change but what we do today can change tomorrow. And I

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follow this 2020 20 routine where I spend 20 minutes getting

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up and moving, getting around walking, doing some exercise, 20

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minutes doing some kind of education, whether it be reading

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or listening to a TED talk. And then 20 minutes and some form of

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of metta meditation and then given thanks to God that I woke

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up today.

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That is shining, brightly, baby. Oh my god, that

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is awesome. That is really, really awesome. So take us

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through, you know, a little bit more of your background growing

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up a little bit and then into the car accidents and what

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happened?

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Yeah, well, I what I was in a bad car accident in

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2005. And to kind of speed it up is I grew up with some of the

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wrong people. And I didn't have a whole lot of I wasn't taught

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responsibility at a young age. So I wasn't taught to fear the

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consequences of bad acts and to be responsible and to make good

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choices and to do the right thing. So that kind of led me

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down a road that I've surrounded myself with bad people in high

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school. And it just so happened that one of those people was

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people that I was in an accident with in 2005. I was a passenger,

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he was driving and I did the wrong thing. I was uneducated, I

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mixed prescription medicine with alcohol. And it caused me to

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blackout. And I'm not sure if he didn't mix the medicine with

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alcohol or what but he was driving us home and I woke up in

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the hospital. All I remember is leaving his house waking up in

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the hospital. So on the way home at some point he either looked

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down fate, you know, blacked out or whatnot and hit a telephone

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pole on my side of the road. I woke up in the hospital two

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weeks later enough From an induced coma, and I remember the

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first thing I remember from waking up in the coma was I was

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I was typing on my stomach to see if I remembered the

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keyboard. And then I looked at the lady that was in the room

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and I said, what happened and she just started crying. She

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didn't, you know, she didn't, I didn't know I have no

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recollection of how I got in there. What happened? It was a

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complete blackout. So I, I just want to educate the kids and

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inform them that you know how important these decisions are.

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And I use something that I was taught by one of my mentors,

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it's called a cc test. And whenever you make a decision,

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you bring it up, the CC test is what you're doing going to

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contribute to your freedom or contaminate your freedom. And if

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I would have been taught that at a younger age, I felt like I

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would have grew up and kind of went down in a straighter road.

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But hey, we all learn, live and learn. But due to that accident

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in 2005, I was had brain surgery, I was cut here to hear

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I had reconstructive eye surgery. And then in 2007,

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actually, in 2006, the epilepsy came after the brain injury. And

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then I had another accident 2007 Where I rolled my car on the

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interstate, because I had a seizure when I was driving, it

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got through out of the vehicle, and was lifelines to Champaign,

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Illinois. But luckily, I don't know if you'd want to call it

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luck, or if you want to call it God, but I call it God. And I

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was the lady that pulled over on the side of the road. When I was

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laying there, dying, she taught CPR at home and was and that was

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her thing. And she taught CPR. So she helped me, you know, she

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cleaned the rocks out of my mouth and kept me alive

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basically, until the helicopter got there. So I'm just very

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blessed to be here and very blessed to be alive.

Howard Brown: 00:06:47

Well, I'd like to take a break there because I

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actually, first of all, I love the 2020 20 in the morning, how

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you open your day up every day that is shining brightly. But

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this CC test, boy, I mean, that that's something simple that you

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can just think about, is this going to help or hurt? Okay,

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there's the h h, right. But I wake up every day the same thing

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because you and I have lived, you know, some parallel stuff,

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right? I had a young man I got diagnosed with stage four T cell

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non Hodgkins lymphoma, and then at age 50, stage three, the

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metastatic stage four colon cancer. So we've seen kind of

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this darkness, right? We've lived this darkness, we've lived

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this hurt and this pain, and we're trying to just rebuild,

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and I always call myself Humpty Dumpty. Version Three, oh, now

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you're the same you're rebuilding, putting the pieces

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back together again. But thank God for that people. I thank God

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for my doctors and my nurses, right that care to me, my

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caregivers, the people that prayed for me, right, but you

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you had a woman there that actually pulled off the side of

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the road. And you know, you might not be here, you know,

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maybe not probably not going to be here for that as well. So

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those two car accidents. You know, you're still a young man,

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how did you rehab yourself? How did you get yourself back

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together?

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Well, it took a while I remember leaving the

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hospital in a back brace. I broke my back in that second

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accident. And it took a while to get back to where I was able to

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actually do physical work. And I had to learn a lot of digital

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skills because I was always a technical person. So I learned

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digital skills. And then when I when I was limited to drive in

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because I have now I have seizures. I can't drive. I had

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to you know, educate myself on what can I do from home to make

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money. And so I taught myself graphic design and I started a

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DJ business. And that was something my cousin came to me

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and he said, Hey, man, I've got this equipment, you've got the

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knowledge, you're good talker. Let's go out and let's DJ

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weddings. So we started DJing weddings that helped me get some

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income back in my pocket. And you know, it was just a matter

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of making the right choices after that, you know, taken

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taking the lessons of you know, Tomorrow is not promised and

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you've got to do what you got to do. And then it came to the

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point now I'm kind of fast forward into you know, i When my

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daughter came, I transitions down to Petersburg, Indiana,

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from Crawfordsville, Indiana and I got asked to work at an event

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centre, called the crazy man's hideaway. And I was we booked we

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did weddings out there. So I did that for about four years and I

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just was able to live on the property and you know, didn't

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have to travel I would just be the event manager and I was able

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to DJ the wedding so I would book the wedding DJ the wedding.

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I've been through my series of weddings but it's just a matter

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of surrounding yourself with better people. I truly believe a

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statement that ever you know a lot of people say that you are

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the average of the people you surround yourself with. And so I

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started surrounding myself with better people started making

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better decisions. I

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love it and that's important. And you know, the

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thing is, is that your pain is now your purpose and you now are

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taking kind of life threatening car accidents and still dealing

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with the epilepsy still you the surgeries, the trauma All right,

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and that trauma takes healing. And also, you know, I'm coming

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to realise we call it in the cancer world chemo brain or

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brain fog, it's PTSD. And you have it, and we have it. But we

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wake up every day, we're breathing, right? I shot two

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hours of basketball found my happy place, because that's

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where I feel a stress free zone. But I can't feel the ball.

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Right? So you lucky i It's so funny. You said you're feeling

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the keyboard on your tongue. Because you're looking at your

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magic, how you make magic with your fingers. It's really,

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really absolutely incredible. It taught me a little bit about

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becoming a dad.

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Yeah, well, it was. It was one of the greatest

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things because if I hadn't survived that accident, and if

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it hadn't, the series of events hadn't led me to where it did,

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you know, I wouldn't have you know, got led to the, to meet

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the mother of my, my daughter, Ashley. And, actually, the good,

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the good thing about one of the best things right now is my

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daughter's moving in with me this and starting school, this

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next fall down here with me. So I've had her, it's been really

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hard with what's growing up with having epilepsy not being able

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to drive up there, you know, so you know, and I only get her on

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the weekends. So that's like, now I've got the last, you know,

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like three years of her high school life to come live with

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me, and let me try and give her all the skills I can and the

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best information I can before she goes out into the world and

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does her own thing. You

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know, I gotta tell you, she's gonna get something

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that you didn't get, which was a lot of mentorship, a lot of

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guidance to make, make, make good choices, and she's gonna

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watch you help other people. And that's a legacy to leave with

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her. And that's the thing that I'm proudest about is that, you

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know, my volunteer service, with entrepreneurs and in mentorship,

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and in cancer, also an interface stuff. You know, I do that

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because when I want to, and I want to help people, but I know

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that my daughter has been watching. She's watching, we're

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role modelling. You know, these athletes, I don't want to be a

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role model. Well, you know, you are a role model. And being a

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dad is the greatest gift. And I tell you, I'm so happy for you

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that it's going to do that. Tell us alright, so I am going to

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reveal the big secret now. Alright, so I met Joey and Joey

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has this magical tool, he can actually take your input, okay,

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and make a custom song for you. Well, and again, you're offering

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this up for folks. Mother's Day is coming Sunday. So we maybe

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missed that window. But unbelievable. So I became a

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client at Joey's because I'm looking for a theme song for

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shining brightly. Right. And you know, within just a couple of

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days, he's sending me back samples to listen to. And you

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you do AI music. So I nicknamed him okay, he had heard here

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first, he is the AI music maestro. All right, that's who

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he is. He makes magic on the keyboard. And then beautiful

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music and lyrics come out. So tell people about that. Tell

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people about your service. Oh,

Joey Lewis: 00:12:58

thank you, Howard. Yes, so the AI music, it started

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as a hobby, you know, it's it all started, you know, well, the

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the DJ and the music has always been in my heart, I started

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making music back when I was in my 20s That kind of faded away.

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And then now I have the ability to make a song within minutes

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from my keyboard, you know, and from my, from my living room.

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And it's, it can be a hobby, it can be a career, because I mean,

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it's like anybody that just has a passion for technology, or I,

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what I think was gonna be really neat is teaching my I've taught

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my daughter how to do it, and she loves it. She's able to make

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her own songs. So I'm like, you know, it'd be so cool for these,

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you know, these kids to be able to say, I'm graduating and I've

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released four albums already. You know, I've already but um,

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so it's it can be a career, I'm trying to I'm trying to see what

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the what the abilities are, what their capabilities are, as far

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as being some friend Jeff Caldwell was my music coach and

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my AI music coach. And he started a platform called My AI

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team. And through there, there's a coaching group that I joined,

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and I learned how to start using the app called sumo AI. And

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through there, you can make songs within minutes. And it's

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there is a skill in engineering the song you know, like

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stitching it together and, and getting that fine tuning that

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sound that you really want. And I just we put out I think I've

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got like 30 songs out now. And like for my my daughters, I'm

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collaborating with two different lyricist that are from overseas.

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And so it's like she's it's changing the way she sees

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herself. She feels better about herself. She feels like she's

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doing more you know, like it's motivated her to want to keep

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writing songs and her daughter is now writing songs and it's

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just a way that people you know, some people just they want to

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sing but they just don't have a good voice. Now you can just

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take your words into AI and make a song Randy travels Randy

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Travis just put out an app pisode on CBS. And he's actually

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used AI to clone his voice because he can no longer speak

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well speak very well. So, so yeah, it's I'm trying to I'm

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giving it all I got right now to see if I can make money out of

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it and to see if there is potential there. And

Howard Brown: 00:15:19

that's, you see where it takes you because that

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was a motivational speaking and your design and all that stuff.

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So listen, I will tell you that I proudly say that my book and

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my memoir is AI free. Okay, that's all me it's 158

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interviews turned into transcripts into chapters turned

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into a manuscript, okay. But AI is here to stay. And I just was

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actually speaking at Babson College to some scholars,

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students, scholars, and the big question and there was two

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lessons there. One was, how does AI affect my personal life? And

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how does it affect me as a skill going forward in the jobs that

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I'm going to be able to do? And it's going to affect everybody?

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I think it's going to affect medicine first, particularly.

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But there's, you know, with anything good, anything bad,

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there could be bad things use for AI too, you can person aid,

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there's deep fakes, all that stuff is true. But AI is here,

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it's groundbreaking. It's changing. And it's great. So so

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at this conference that I spoke at, they learned about AI, we

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talked about it. And then I taught the soft skills. I taught

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mentorship as leadership, becoming a mentee, or also an

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opening yourself to being mentored and then being a mentor

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yourself. And that's what I call using your light to lift

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yourself up, and then being able to lift up than others. So I

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think this is cool. So I the ability, I'm looking for a theme

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song for shining brightly, there you go. Father's Day is coming

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up, you'll have a Father's Day Special, I'm sure birthdays to

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be able to give someone you know, a custom saw. It's cool.

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And it's not that expensive. I think it's $249. And then you

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offer a discount if they say shining brightly down a buck 99.

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So we'll talk about that at the end as well. But that's just

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outstanding. So

Joey Lewis: 00:17:04

music is one way I see it is it's just, it's an

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evolution of music, you can look at it that way. I've had people

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that's been completely against it. And then they've shifted

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their thoughts thinking like, Okay, well, I see, you know,

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like, it is an evolution of the way things are going with AI and

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they just now they're accepting it and but first off, you know,

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actual people, musicians that have been working their whole

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life to get where they're at. They were kind of against it,

Joey Lewis: 00:17:32

but they're coming around.

Howard Brown: 00:17:33

Listen, you're you did the theme song for Blanca

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and the laws of life, you did the theme song for Qisas event

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down in Miami happening right now, you know, this has so many

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cross uses, right? You know, it's just a cool thing. So I

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think birthdays and lifestyle events, weddings, you know, all

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that stuff is great. But it can be used in a lot of different

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places. So I'm really looking forward to watching you see how

Howard Brown: 00:17:56

far you go there as well. And so we're coming towards sort of

Howard Brown: 00:18:01

towards the end of the show, but I wanted to actually, you know,

Howard Brown: 00:18:04

talk about, you know, some some upcoming things you got going

Howard Brown: 00:18:08

on. So let's talk about your books. I know you got a couple

Howard Brown: 00:18:11

in progress here. Let's talk about your first book and what

Howard Brown: 00:18:13

its title what it's about. And, and I think it's coming soon. So

Howard Brown: 00:18:16

fill it fill us in on the details there.

Joey Lewis: 00:18:19

Yeah, the book is called high speed profit fast.

Joey Lewis: 00:18:22

And it's the small business owners guide to digital

Joey Lewis: 00:18:24

marketing. And I worked for a digital marketing agency for two

Joey Lewis: 00:18:29

years or so before I started my own. And I learned that there

Joey Lewis: 00:18:34

were so many things that business owners could do on

Joey Lewis: 00:18:38

their own, that they were paying outrageous amounts of money for,

Joey Lewis: 00:18:42

or you know, or paying someone to do a job and they didn't even

Joey Lewis: 00:18:45

know what they were really doing behind the scenes. So it was

Joey Lewis: 00:18:48

like, you know, okay, well I'm gonna put this this blueprint

Joey Lewis: 00:18:51

out there and all this information like this is what

Joey Lewis: 00:18:53

this is, what it consists of. This is what it is and if you're

Joey Lewis: 00:18:57

if you're gonna do it yourself, this is the information you need

Joey Lewis: 00:19:00

to know to you can go research more in depth to look more into

Joey Lewis: 00:19:03

these things. Or if you're already working with somebody,

Joey Lewis: 00:19:07

you can ask them are you guys doing these things? You know, I

Joey Lewis: 00:19:09

mean, like I've heard I'm paying you guys $10,000 A month are you

Joey Lewis: 00:19:13

guys doing back end you know, links are you guys doing? You

Joey Lewis: 00:19:16

know, like all the all the techie stuff? They it's not

Joey Lewis: 00:19:19

real, you know, it's not real. It's not super techie. It's just

Joey Lewis: 00:19:24

borderline you know, get to understand what what they need

Joey Lewis: 00:19:27

to do what they could be doing. And it's, it's really cool. It's

Joey Lewis: 00:19:33

um, I think every small business owner that is participating in

Joey Lewis: 00:19:37

digital marketing don't have any idea about digital marketing.

Joey Lewis: 00:19:40

should take a look at excellent

Howard Brown: 00:19:43

I listen, I will put the links in will promote

Howard Brown: 00:19:45

the book when it's out. You targeting what ended June ish

Howard Brown: 00:19:49

timeframe?

Joey Lewis: 00:19:50

Yes, the goal is to have it put out by mid mid to

Joey Lewis: 00:19:53

end June. Yes. Excellent.

Howard Brown: 00:19:55

So we'll be tracking you on that. Now. You

Howard Brown: 00:19:57

also have an inspirational goal of a second book What's that

Howard Brown: 00:20:00

second book gonna be? Oh, my

Joey Lewis: 00:20:02

second book. And it's going to be about it's, I'm

Joey Lewis: 00:20:05

not sure what the title is maybe the motion picture of my life or

Joey Lewis: 00:20:10

one moment in time, something like that. But I want to, I want

Joey Lewis: 00:20:13

to do something so good in my life with my life that I can

Joey Lewis: 00:20:17

make a movie, a documentary about the impact that we've made

Joey Lewis: 00:20:21

in difference in people's lives and the changes that we've made.

Joey Lewis: 00:20:24

And I just want to shine bright Howard, just like you, I want

Joey Lewis: 00:20:29

to, I want to, I want to be like you.

Howard Brown: 00:20:30

I appreciate you allowing me to mentor you and

Howard Brown: 00:20:33

you open up to be a mentee. And I take you under my wing and I'm

Howard Brown: 00:20:36

learning from YouTube. So it's a two way street. Alright, who

Howard Brown: 00:20:39

plays you in the movie of your life?

Joey Lewis: 00:20:43

Oh, man, I haven't even thought about yet. I might,

Joey Lewis: 00:20:46

I might. Well, I mean, eventually, I would like to get

Joey Lewis: 00:20:49

it to the point where I could play myself but early me I'm not

Joey Lewis: 00:20:53

sure.

Howard Brown: 00:20:54

No, no, no, you just got to be a movie star if

Howard Brown: 00:20:56

you think about it, so I'm going to share with you mine. All

Howard Brown: 00:20:58

right. So shining brightly. My goal is I went from book to

Howard Brown: 00:21:01

stage to podcast and I want to go to movie. I want Keanu Reeves

Howard Brown: 00:21:05

to actually play me in movie, my lead role. I'll tell you why.

Howard Brown: 00:21:09

Keanu Reeves is a role model because he lives a very humble

Howard Brown: 00:21:13

life. He gives to charity he gives proceeds to the crew he

Howard Brown: 00:21:17

gives to causes cancer causes and others and he lives very

Howard Brown: 00:21:20

humbly. And that's a role model for me. And that's that would be

Howard Brown: 00:21:24

the ideal lead for my picture. So Keanu, if you're out there,

Howard Brown: 00:21:28

play Howard Brown in shining brightly. The movie. So does

Howard Brown: 00:21:32

that give you an idea? You have anybody else?

Joey Lewis: 00:21:34

You know, I can't think of the guy's name. There's

Joey Lewis: 00:21:38

an old movie that actually inspired my business. This was a

Joey Lewis: 00:21:41

movie called tough turf. There's a movie called tough turf. And

Joey Lewis: 00:21:45

the guy who played it in that movie, he had a British accent.

Joey Lewis: 00:21:49

I'm not sure what his name was, but he was inspirational. He

Joey Lewis: 00:21:51

that was one of my favourite movies. But that's that's

Joey Lewis: 00:21:55

homework for me, Howard. I'm not really sure I can't get

Howard Brown: 00:21:57

I'll give you a suggestion. We'll give a shout

Howard Brown: 00:21:59

out to Adam Sandler. Because he's from Manchester. He's from

Howard Brown: 00:22:03

Manchester, New Hampshire. I'm from Framingham mass, we will

Howard Brown: 00:22:06

gotta get in touch with them. Because here's the deal. He

Howard Brown: 00:22:08

could play a serious role. Yeah, he could add a lot of comedy to

Howard Brown: 00:22:12

it and all that. So maybe I'll maybe we'll go out and sell it

Howard Brown: 00:22:15

for you for now, until you decide differently. So I love

Howard Brown: 00:22:17

playing that game. Thanks for playing.

Joey Lewis: 00:22:19

Adam Sandler. He's great. Jonah Hill. He's He's

Joey Lewis: 00:22:22

funny. But Adam Sandler, I think he's, he's, I like that guy.

Howard Brown: 00:22:26

Oh, we got it. We got to make phone calls to

Howard Brown: 00:22:28

Hollywood. So we'll do that. What I'm gonna do now is have

Howard Brown: 00:22:31

you put on your glasses, but on some sunglasses. All right, we

Howard Brown: 00:22:35

are going to shine brightly on you. This is the shining,

Howard Brown: 00:22:37

brightly spotlight. I want you to tell people how they should

Howard Brown: 00:22:41

best get in touch with you anything else you'd like to

Howard Brown: 00:22:43

finish up with? And then share some inspiration and then kick

Howard Brown: 00:22:46

the show back for me for close?

Joey Lewis: 00:22:49

Thank you. How are ya so you can get a hold of me

Joey Lewis: 00:22:51

on Joey Lewis speaks.com. And my quote of the day is, and it's

Joey Lewis: 00:22:57

something that I always like to remember I tell my daughter, I

Joey Lewis: 00:23:01

tell everyone has decisions made on emotions without deep thought

Joey Lewis: 00:23:05

can lead to disastrous outcomes. And that's where I that's,

Joey Lewis: 00:23:08

that's what guided me here today. My bad my bad decisions

Joey Lewis: 00:23:12

I'm turning into I'm looking at the bright side, I'm taking the

Joey Lewis: 00:23:15

bad and looking at the bright. So decisions made on emotions

Joey Lewis: 00:23:19

can cause disastrous outcomes. And if anybody that's listening,

Joey Lewis: 00:23:25

like Howard said, I do have a promotion going on. If you

Joey Lewis: 00:23:27

mentioned shining brightly, we buy one song, get the other one

Joey Lewis: 00:23:31

50% or $50 off the second song. And there'll be more

Joey Lewis: 00:23:34

information. I'll pass the Howard but thank you for thank

Joey Lewis: 00:23:36

you so much for having me today. Howard, I appreciate you so

Joey Lewis: 00:23:39

much. Oh,

Howard Brown: 00:23:39

great high energy show. Thank you. So I'll take my

Howard Brown: 00:23:42

glasses off shining brightly on you. And so this, this is the

Howard Brown: 00:23:45

shining brightly show, you can reach me at shining

Howard Brown: 00:23:48

brightly.com. So there's plenty of information about the book

Howard Brown: 00:23:51

and you can hire me to speak or to facilitate your event. I'll

Howard Brown: 00:23:55

make it shine, I promise. And then also, there's certainly

Howard Brown: 00:23:58

information about this podcast but more importantly, my

Howard Brown: 00:24:01

advocacy, how I lift up myself and lift up others. And I do

Howard Brown: 00:24:04

that through mentorship entrepreneurship leadership with

Howard Brown: 00:24:07

Babson College, and then also within the cancer world about

Howard Brown: 00:24:10

screening and people walking with them in treatment and

Howard Brown: 00:24:13

getting them well informed. And then lastly, memorialising,

Howard Brown: 00:24:16

those that passed because their cancer burden was too great and

Howard Brown: 00:24:19

interfaith work because knowing the other we live in a world

Howard Brown: 00:24:23

where they're all different people and you should get to

Howard Brown: 00:24:26

know your neighbour and understand your neighbour and

Howard Brown: 00:24:29

love that neighbour. And so those are my passions as well.

Howard Brown: 00:24:32

Let me give a quick shout out to the folks that make me look good

Howard Brown: 00:24:35

each week, my publishing house front edge publishing, read the

Howard Brown: 00:24:38

spirit.com where I blog and my podcast team which is

Howard Brown: 00:24:41

incredible. They amplify you network. So thank you for making

Howard Brown: 00:24:44

me look good. And if you're looking for sponsorships, you

Howard Brown: 00:24:48

can contact me for that as well. So just remember, as Joey and I

Howard Brown: 00:24:51

have shown today, if you choose to shine brightly, just a little

Howard Brown: 00:24:54

bit each day for yourself first. Okay, then go lift up others in

Howard Brown: 00:24:58

your neighbourhoods in your community. The world will be a

Howard Brown: 00:25:01

better place Joey it's been a pleasure and an honor thank you

Joey Lewis: 00:25:04

Thank you Howard