THE ART OF CONNECTION 365 DAYS OF GRATITUDE With Robert W Jones

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Hello, it's Howard Brown. It's the Shining Brightly

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Show. I have a great show today. It's really going to be

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energetic. I'm so excited to have Robert W. Jones. Robert,

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how are you? Welcome. Well, thank you for having me. How are

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you give me the gift of opportunity by being on your

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show and I'm gonna flash you the sign. W W.

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W is here. He's in the house. I love it. Let me just tell you,

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we got a great show because we got so much to cover today. And

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we're going to just spread so much inspiration. But Robert W.

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Jones is a multi time International Best Selling

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Author, radio show host and longtime entrepreneur and

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founder of the eye net entrepreneur network. He is a

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thought leader behind the legacy book series art of connection

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365. We're going to dig deep on that, as they're of both, and

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the eye net intrapreneur and contemporary women's magazines,

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known as the Robert V. Robert or just W. He's described as one of

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the most progressive innovative forward thinkers in the

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business. He goes beyond recognising trends. He is a

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trendsetter, creating ways for entrepreneurs to become Ultra

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printers. Robert is heart centred relationship focused

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builder of global communities. Today, he helps business owners

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and entrepreneurs get on stage into authorship, and do

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engagements that expand their brand awareness, personal

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credibility, worldwide influence through his suite of I net

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companies. And he's just a really good guy and a good

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friend of mine. Robert, I'm so excited to have you here. I got

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two immediate questions that we'll get into maybe your

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background a little bit. But how are you shining brightly today?

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You know, Howard, I love that question, because I've heard you

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asked that question before. And instead of just coming onto the

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show, and Breen something that I just come off the cuff because I

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love doing that I love Ab-lib love getting on stage and

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whatnot. I really thought about it. And I actually I actually

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got it into my journal and I started writing down. And there

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are three ways that I shine brightly. One, I, it's how I get

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up in the morning, how I get up each and every morning. And I

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have a ritual of drinking my lemon water, doing my meditation

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and doing my isometrics to keep me young and healthy. I know I

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look like I'm about 29 years old, but I'm actually 59. So the

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second thing is, is how do I show up? How do I show up in

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front of everyone I meet. And one of the best ways that I show

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up and shine brightly is with a smile. And I make sure that

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smile comes across the face because it means I'm open for

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business. But better yet, it means I'm open for the people

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that come across me and I them. But the last thing we don't

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normally think about too much is, you know, I shine brightly

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on how I end my day. Because everyone has days that are

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amazing, and sometimes days that really are trying. And my goal

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is is when I go to bed, I always think to myself, How can I shine

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brightly when I go to sleep? So my dreams come to me again. And

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wake me up with that charge of energy that says Here I am day.

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This is what's getting me up? Not what keeps me up at night.

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Wow. So powerful. I love it, how you get up, and how you show up

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with a smile and then how you end the day. That's beautiful

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man, I really appreciate that you took it real seriously. And

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you are shining brightly. And that's that's a great mantra to

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do that. And I do something very similar. And you know what?

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That's because you're my big brother. You're a year older.

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I'm 58. So all right. So something that we may not know

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about you that you want to share.

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Robert W. Jones: You know, so I want I'm keeping within the

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theme here. So I'm 59 years old, believe it or not, I'm waiting

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for my 59 and a half, right? No, I'm fine at 59. But here's

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something a lot of people used to go to a place called Sears

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and Roebuck and Sears and Roebuck actually, long, long

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time ago, when my family lived in Connecticut, they had a

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wonderful, amazing portrait studio. And so families would go

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there and then have you know, portraits of their pets

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portraits of their kids portraits of parents and family.

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And so believe it or not, Howard when I went to the portrait

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studio, they thought I was a cute baby. And what they did is

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they gave us a free photo shoot. And I actually became the last

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black and white portrait baby that Sears and Roebuck photo

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studios ever took. I was the last one because after I broke

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the camera of black and white and went to colour after that, I

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think that that's what really happened. But there you go. So

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I don't know if our younger audience remembers

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Sears and Roebuck but I got my pictures with my twin sister at

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Sears and Roebuck in the Boston suburbs too, but I was never

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picked Is the portrait baby. So that's an incredible share

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there. So thank you for that. What you know, I want you to

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share a little bit more of your background. Because you know

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what, when I met you, one of the most surprising things is that

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you did service to this country. And I want to thank you for

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that. So share a little bit more of your background and who

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became how Robert, you became who you are today, I'll be

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Robert W. Jones: But I'd like to say that I'm proud of my service

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helpful.

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of this country. And it hasn't always been that way. And I've

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had to really look back and say, you know, what was I serving?

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And then who was a serving with? And when I really figured out,

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it's about the who, and not the how, or even the why sometimes

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it's the people that I served with. That's what's made me most

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proud of my service, I served from 1983 to 1989. Oh, my gosh,

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that sounds like a lot ago. I don't want to say that. And, and

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so I joined when I was 17 years old, you know, with the goal of

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making that my lifelong pursuit. But as many of us know, what we

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think that we're going to set out to do in life is not

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actually what we, you know, end up doing. And so I served six

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years very, very proudly. But I remember going down to Panama

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and getting shot at and I thought, Well, I'm not sure I

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might have a very long life in this particular venture. And so

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I decided after my second three years, it was time for me to get

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out and try other things in life,

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which branch of the service,

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Robert W. Jones: I was in the United States Marine Corps. So

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once a Marine, always a Marine, and for the Marines out there,

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Uhura

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Served for 5 Yes, I love it. Well, thank you for

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sharing that as well. And so really, what I think that I'm so

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impressed, and I want to give a shout out to some people here,

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so your wife, Sean, and then Donna, and then also buddy,

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Thornton and Natalie because they just are incredible people

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that since I met Natalie first, and she introduced me to that

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have become really close business collaborators and

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friends of mine. How did this art of connection get started?

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Robert W. Jones: Yeah, it, you know it, it's a great story. And

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there's a long story in a short story, you helped me how much

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It's a great story for a couple takeaways here.

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you want me to put in this involvement here. But what

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happened was, is we had this thing, this little thing, this

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little interruption in March of 2020, called COVID. And COVID

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came into our lives. And in my company, we were an all in

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One, thank you, Troy, right. And also, he acknowledged something

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person networking organisation. And my belief was this, there's,

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you know, there should always be a place to go where

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entrepreneurs can grow. And but we did all in person. Then COVID

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came in, I just shut down 17 chapters that were going on

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across the country and wondering what I was going to do next. I

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that you actually do something, you had your gift back up your

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have a wife, I have three kids still in the home. I have a

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fourth that just left, what do I do? And I remember I was working

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and I was I had office space that a place called Regis and I

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loved my office space there. But but it kept getting shut down

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because there is these things called COVID cleanses. And so

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resilient moment, you bounce back after the real estate, you

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that meant that everyone with had locked the building that do

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a COVID cleanse, we couldn't go in guess what it happened three

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date three times in a row on the same day. And that happened to

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always be on my radio show day. And then, and then a fourth time

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it closed down and there was a fire on the roof. I went home

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recreated yourself, I want to just acknowledge that. And then

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and I and my wife, John's like what are you doing here? And I'm

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like, well, there was a fire on the roof. And she said, You know

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what, honey? Maybe it's the maybe there's a sign saying that

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you need to come back home. So I did. I came back home and I had

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a home office. But guess what, now I have kids and I got wife

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thank you, for your wife to actually giving you the

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and I have all these distractions that you have at

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home, right? So one day, my son Troy comes across and he looks

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at me, he goes, Dad, you old people got it all wrong. And I'm

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sitting there and I'm working. I lift my head up through my

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office door and Excuse me, what did you say Troy? It's like, you

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expansion idea of like, we don't always want to hear all the

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old people have it all wrong. But he piqued my interest,

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Howard, he piqued my interest. I'm like, Okay, I'll bite on

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this one. So why do us old people have it all run? He says,

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Well, when you old people talk about legacy. It seems like you

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always talk about stuff. And he goes, isn't knowledge more

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quotes from Robert, in the W, we want to hear from others. So

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important? Uhm, and it hit me. I was like, Oh, okay. And then

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then he really got me interested. Like, I go to Troy

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what, tell me more. And he's like, Look, Dad, I remember when

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when you got into real estate. You lost everything in 2009. He

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said, But you didn't have the knowledge to be able to rebuild,

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it's really great. So now, you've actually now done, you

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we wouldn't be in our house. Now. We wouldn't be able to

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drive in a car now. You wouldn't have your business now. He goes,

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it isn't it isn't about the stuff. He says it's about the

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knowledge because you have the knowledge to bring us back. And

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I remember thinking about that. And I thought to myself, that's

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know, volume four is out. But it's been an evolution right in

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what it's about. It's about being able to apply knowledge in

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our lives. And so then I came I had this idea I said, I always

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do with my entrepreneur group. And I was I was trained, I was a

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missionary as well. And so you'd take a passage from the Bible,

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you would you'd create a thought. And you ask a question

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building the books and building the community. Now I got to

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for reflection, I can say, I'm giving you the longer story now.

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And so I, so I did all that in. And so I did that for for the

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entrepreneurs. And so I went to a book publishing company. And I

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said, What do you think of this idea, and of course, they raved

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about it, they was there, it was great, but you're gonna have to

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enter into book three, and now book four. So I think I've been

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put $5,000 down, you know, to start this book venture, I put

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the $5,000 down, because I thought, Okay, I'm going to do

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great things, I come home, I tell my wife, and she goes, You

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did what? And when she said, who's gonna buy a book like

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that? I just was like, oh, you know, it's just the husband and

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in the community now, a little like a year and a half. But you

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wife thing. But Howard, she didn't mean it like that. She

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said, she said, I don't mean, who would buy a book like that?

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Because it's all your quote, she said, why don't you bring other

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people with you. So your collective community can share

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their quotes, their thoughts, and their wisdom with others in

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started to build this, and it's really taking off and I enjoy

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the world. And that's how the art of connection book came to

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being. It was to give hope, inspiration and support to other

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entrepreneurs, business owners and influencers in this world.

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Robert W. Jones: You know, I, in one of the things you brought

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it. So tell me about the latest book, okay, because I actually,

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the Book Three is actually a transformational quotes. It's

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inspirational. It's awesome. Let's now talk about gratitude.

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up, and it's so powerful, Howard, I have to back up just a

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little bit. And one of the things that I've learned in life

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is like, you know, you we learn from everywhere, and we can

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apply what we're learning from everywhere and give credit to

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others. And I feel like there's been so many powerful, wonderful

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people in my life. I mean, I can share the credit, I share it

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with you bringing me here, I share it with my son, who's 13

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years old, saying, I'm just the crazy old dude, I share it with

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my wife, who's like, Honey, who's gonna buy a book like

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that. But the thing is, as I've gotten older Howard, it's not

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been about ego. It's really been about how can I work with the

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best, most brilliant minds in the world, who actually had

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something even better than that? The largest hearts in the world.

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And that's what makes this book 365 days of gratitude, so

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powerful for me. Because I think in much of my life, I didn't

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really have what they call that attitude of gratitude, I kind of

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have the attitude of like, I'm going to do what I'm going to

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do. And it doesn't matter about others. But quite frankly, to

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succeed in this world. It's very lonely. And you can be very

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unsuccessful doing it all on your own.

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Yeah, this I have to tell you. So one of the

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quotes in the book three in the art of connection, that

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transformational quotes is that I look at it every day,

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actually. And I actually have it as the Kindle. And there's two

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kinds of sources, and we're gonna get into that. But the

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book itself, it just grounds me, it's right on my desk, I have it

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right here with me, if people are video, I actually holding up

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the book. And I just go to the day, but in the past, you

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mentioned smiling, that was Sanet Van Breda our famous

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diamond beauty from South Africa. And then my page in this

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book is means a lot to me, because it's the day that I was

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told I was cancer free September 20 2019. So it means a great

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deal to me in that and the attitude of gratitude in the

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next book. It's just amazing. There's some really, really,

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really intentional, authentic, talented people in these books

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that you've built into the network here. And that's what

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I'm learning there as well. And so this this Arctic connection,

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which is just, I mean, it got a lot of bestsellers and a lot of

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flags and a lot of awards, because we have that network

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that basically shares this, but also you told me something, two

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things one, this is a great corporate gift, what a stocking

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stuffer. This thing is because you're giving some real value

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here and it's not a huge lift. You can read one page a day, or

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you can just pick random quotes and things like that. But you

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told me that some schools now are looking at this as

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curriculum talk about that for a second.

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Robert W. Jones: Yeah, yeah, the the most exciting thing is, is

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that it's allowed a platform, a platform. So I'm able to get out

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there and showcase this book and actually share the pages with

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others into things that happen. There's the inside game in the

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outside game. The inside game is I have authors who are really

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slowing down their life in a moment. And they're gifting such

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wonderful knowledge to others, but it's in one page. It's it

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can consumable, like almost a soundbite. And so the outside

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game is, is our youth in high school and college. They're

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reading the pages there. I mean, some 380 pages of content now,

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Howard, but they're consuming it one page at a time. And so they

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go from page to page to page to page and what used to be a book,

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they wouldn't want to consume it. Now. They they're reading 20

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and 30 pages. And the teachers and the administration of both

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colleges and high schools are starting to take this on and

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saying, You know what, Robert, you have something here, your

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community is providing a place where these kids are starting to

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read again, they're coming off their phone, they're learning

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these awesome, amazing thought. And they're actually asking

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questions, and integrating themselves into the classroom

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based upon what we're writing. I mean, how cool was that? And I,

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and I had one, one kid from our local high school, he's 17 years

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old. And he called me up and he goes, and I asked him, I said,

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what makes this book so cool. And he said, he said, It's like

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social media, in a book. And I was, like, how, and that's where

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it all came. And I got goosebumps, I'm getting

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goosebumps just telling you right now, when he said it's

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like, it's like social media in a book. And that's where it came

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to me it where it's like, we're talking in the language of our

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youth. So we can still bridge the gap, we can still reach out

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to them, we can still create a compounding effect for all of

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them, because they're very wise. They just consume their

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information much differently than you and I do probably,

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yeah, but this book now it has real impact and

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real value. And I want to say that I being part of a

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collaborative authorship has been really fun. Because I

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mentioned that having the book is daily open up a page are

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random. But the actual the Kindle becomes a search engine,

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I learned this from you and I wanted the credibility, you

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can't fake being an author, Amazon does not let you do that

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once you actually have a best selling author page on Amazon,

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they can't take that away from you. And I think that's really

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prestigious. And one, it's a credibility that there's very

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few authorship is not easy. But but we've been able to do that

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and being part of a collaborative. So I actually use

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the kindle a little bit as a search engine, because I'm able

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to find joint venture collaborations podcast guests,

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guest to look about stages and other other projects,

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potentially. And I've delved into the network at all of I

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found our Greek humans. Really, I want to tell you as a tribute

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to the community, I want to talk about that. The How did you

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start to build the community, because that's one of the really

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impressive things being a part of the book is one thing, and it

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was awesome. But the continuing legacy and that continue thing

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of meeting on Mondays and Tuesdays, and you have local

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networks and building an account. That is actually been

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the crown hidden jewel that I learned is your network. Talk

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about that.

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Robert W. Jones: You know, that is a very astute insight. That's

Howard Brown: 00:18:41

a very astute question. And I'm going to give you my best answer

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on that. Absolutely. And the what what I have found Howard,

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it's never been about the book. The book is just a vessel. It's

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always been about the people, it will always be about the people.

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And it will always remain with the people. The book is just a

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binding agent that gathers all of it in the things

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psychometric. And so those who are heart centred those who want

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to give of themselves, those who want to create an impact that

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lasts now and into the future. They're a part of the book, and

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those who don't see it in a similar vein as you and I don't.

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And so what's happening here as the community is growing, and as

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the voice of this community grows, the people are coming in

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here and they're going like, you know, Angel Marie Monicelli,

Howard Brown: 00:19:40

Howard Brown, the Nick van Breda, Natalie McLean, and

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they're thinking they're thinking to themselves. I have a

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resource centre of people just like me, who care about people

Howard Brown: 00:19:56

more than profit, but we all profit together. And I think

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that that's been the most amazing thing. And in here's

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something we're not when I, when we had a we had a book signing

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just this past weekend on Saturday on Saturday, and it was

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amazing. We had about 40 people come in all from the Phoenix

Howard Brown: 00:20:14

area. And, and I remember I stood up and and I said to them,

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I said, this book only exists because of you. Yeah. And that's

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each and every person in there. And that's what the beauty. And

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that's kind of like what I've learned you and I both note, or

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have backgrounds in technology. And I'll tell you this, the day

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that I learned that touch, ology is more important than

Howard Brown: 00:20:45

technology was the day that my life my life was transformed.

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Because I knew who I was working for. I knew who I was working

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with. And I knew who really mattered.

Howard Brown: 00:21:00

Touch ology verse technology. Astute. I love it. I

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want to say that I invited about seven other people to come with

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me. And you know what they said to me, thank you. Thank you for

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the book. And thank you for the community. So I know we're doing

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something right there. And, and that leads me to listen, once

Howard Brown: 00:21:21

one book ends, Robert, you're now promoting this.

Unknown: 00:21:24

Next book begins. Oh, yeah, you want to

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share a teaser? On the next on on volume? Is volume

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five, right?

Unknown: 00:21:32

Volume five is

Howard Brown: 00:21:34

you want to share about that right now?

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Robert W. Jones: Absolutely. And it really, it really goes into

Howard Brown: 00:21:44

the book has actually had its own journey. And I believe that

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everything's in journey. I mean, it's not just a destination

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point. It's every step that takes you there. And if you can

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enjoy every step that takes you that journey. Oh, my goodness,

Howard Brown: 00:21:57

when you get there. It's like, are you not lit living a

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fulfilled life? The first one was the power of voice. The

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second book was inspiration. The third one was transformation.

Howard Brown: 00:22:07

The fourth is gratitude. And the fifth one is, is living your

Howard Brown: 00:22:12

life, abundantly. 365 days of abundant quote, by

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entrepreneurs, business owners and influencers?

Howard Brown: 00:22:22

Wow, oh, my goodness. So there's a big

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reveal.

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Days of living a life of abundance. Wow, that, God, I

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have to tell you that, since I will be part of it, I just got

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to think now, I got to sit down and think about abundance and

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how it applies to me and how I can share that out there. I'm

Howard Brown: 00:22:43

gonna have to I don't have an answer for you. But that's a big

Howard Brown: 00:22:45

deal. That's great. So I guess one book ends, you got to get

Howard Brown: 00:22:48

started on that. And you have a special co author who's that

Howard Brown: 00:22:53

who's joining you in the book I have?

Howard Brown: 00:22:56

Robert W. Jones: Well, we're going to do something, do

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something a little bit different on on this book. We could we

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could have a co author, his name is Ken, LeSean. Or we're doing

Howard Brown: 00:23:07

an Iron Chef. And so the Iron Chef is is is any co author who

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is a part of this book, and who brings in other authors. If they

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bring more authors than our Iron Chef, they get to co author on

Howard Brown: 00:23:21

the book. Ooh. So this is going to be a very interesting ride

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this time around. So I'm looking at the roller coaster up, but

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I'm looking at it down and I'm saying you know what, you know,

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my dad used to tell me, just because it hasn't been done

Howard Brown: 00:23:35

before doesn't mean it's not necessary or needed. And so I

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thought to myself, I'm going to do something just a little bit

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different and change it up a little bit on the abundance

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book.

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Well, I love it. I love a competition. So let's see

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the Iron Chef. And who brings most and can see can there. I

Howard Brown: 00:23:54

think that's very cool. And a little competition isn't a bad

Howard Brown: 00:23:58

thing at all between the network. So I love that as well.

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Robert W. Jones: And really, Howard, you know, this book

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really is is in a way a reveal for you too. And he may go like

Howard Brown: 00:24:08

no Robert, way more. What do you mean? What do you mean by that?

Howard Brown: 00:24:11

I'm like, Well, you look at the background and you see, you see

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an image that is representative like the sun, you know, shining

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brightly of inexhaustible energy. One Book number five

Howard Brown: 00:24:23

another reveal here, which I'm revealing on your show is, is

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the cover of the book has has representation of the sunflower.

Howard Brown: 00:24:32

Oh, I love it.

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Robert W. Jones: Amazing. Amazing. And, and here's

Howard Brown: 00:24:37

something that people don't know. The sunflower is one of

Howard Brown: 00:24:40

the few plants now in a lot of culture, it's all about abundant

Howard Brown: 00:24:44

energy and it's representative of the sun. It's its birth, and

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it's it's the end of life and it's what happens in between.

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And I found out what what that means what happens in between

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the sunflower is one of the few plants that actually follows the

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sun all the way across the horizon from beginning in the

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morning, to the evening. And not only that, in the evening, the

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sunflowers also in their energetic way at nighttime, all

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bend towards each other. In one last thing, and I think you'll

Howard Brown: 00:25:23

love this, a lot of people don't know that the sun flower, what

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we see at the sunflower is actually 1000s of flowers, all

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coming together to create one creation that we see. And that's

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what I love about the sunflower, because it's representative of

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the energy that we all create ate together.

Howard Brown: 00:25:45

Wow, what a reveal. So new book 365 days of

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living a life of abundance, and the sunflower cover. Thank you

Howard Brown: 00:25:53

for sharing that on my show. That's amazing. I appreciate

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that, as well. Listen, it's time. Okay, for the shining

Howard Brown: 00:25:59

brightly spotlights, I'm going to ask you to put on your

Howard Brown: 00:26:01

sunglasses, because we're going to shine brightly together. So

Howard Brown: 00:26:04

reading glasses or regular glasses off all the cool, those

Howard Brown: 00:26:08

are pretty hip sunglasses for those that listen. So I would

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love you to share how best you want people to get in touch with

Howard Brown: 00:26:15

you. And then any other final remarks about the book series

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that you want to share. And then also leave me with a shining

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brightly, quote, or a story or spotlight then hand the show

Howard Brown: 00:26:25

back to me.

Howard Brown: 00:26:26

Absolutely.

Howard Brown: 00:26:26

Robert W. Jones: Absolutely. The best way that people can get a

Howard Brown: 00:26:30

hold of me is my telephone number 602-228-0907, that's

Howard Brown: 00:26:36

602-228-0907 and just type your name. And when your number comes

Howard Brown: 00:26:43

in, I will call you back. Or if you'd like to see our book, go

Howard Brown: 00:26:48

to mybook.to that mybook.to/artofconnection4, the

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number four, and you can go to our current book page, which

Howard Brown: 00:26:56

also has my amazon.com author profile on it. And still, those

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are two great ways to get to see me and meet me very, very

Howard Brown: 00:27:07

quickly. I would also give away the I net ShopRunner network.com

Howard Brown: 00:27:12

site where our community is, but we probably should put those in

Howard Brown: 00:27:17

the show notes that someone can click on that because it's a

Howard Brown: 00:27:19

little hard to spell.

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It'll be in the show notes. There'll be on all

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the social media posts in the in the links and all that sort of

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stuff as well. So any final comments about the art of

Howard Brown: 00:27:28

connection? Or do you want to go right to a shining brightly,

Howard Brown: 00:27:30

quote, story or moment,

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Robert W. Jones: I just, I do want to have one comment. And I

Howard Brown: 00:27:35

appreciate you asking and give him that space. One of the

Howard Brown: 00:27:39

things that I say about entrepreneurs, whether they're a

Howard Brown: 00:27:42

coach of coaches or entrepreneurs to, you know,

Howard Brown: 00:27:45

whether they be a landscape owner, whether they be a

Howard Brown: 00:27:48

naturopathic doctor, in a way, we're all entrepreneurs, because

Howard Brown: 00:27:52

we're marketing our services. But one of the things that

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happens as entrepreneurs is, I believe we spend far too much

Howard Brown: 00:27:58

time working on what we do. And we need to create more space to

Howard Brown: 00:28:03

work on who we are. And the art of connection book is a perfect

Howard Brown: 00:28:08

place to take a little bit of time to work on who you are

Howard Brown: 00:28:12

component. I have never had anyone call me back and say, Oh,

Howard Brown: 00:28:16

my goodness, that was the worst thing I've ever done is to

Howard Brown: 00:28:18

create a page for the art of connection book. You know what

Howard Brown: 00:28:21

they say? They like? Oh, my God, Robert, I'm an international

Howard Brown: 00:28:24

best selling author. I'm in an award winning book. I'm in the

Howard Brown: 00:28:28

Library of Congress. I mean, all these great people, you know, so

Howard Brown: 00:28:32

don't think of it is just a page in a book. Think of it as a

Howard Brown: 00:28:37

place to stop, reflect, refined and give your gift of voice to

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the world.

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Thank you for that. That's that's yet shining

Howard Brown: 00:28:49

brightly right there. So all right,

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Robert W. Jones: I did have a page and I do you want to read

Howard Brown: 00:28:54

this and it's on Thanksgiving Day? All right. If I have time,

Howard Brown: 00:28:57

if I have to do you do that's okay. Yeah, I want to make sure

Howard Brown: 00:28:59

they get to it really quickly had my pen there. All right. And

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in this particular page is on is in our newest book, that come

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out with the gratitude quotes book. Not to be confused with

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our newer book. But this is on November 25. And it was written

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by me and I really thought about what quote to read, and I

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thought this was a good one.

Howard Brown: 00:29:22

When I hear the word challenge, I think, be grateful for the

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opportunity.

Howard Brown: 00:29:31

It says the word challenge is used to liberal liberally in

Howard Brown: 00:29:34

today's world. It is usually defined it's tempting one's

Howard Brown: 00:29:37

abilities for winning a competition or overcoming an

Howard Brown: 00:29:40

obstacle. But as great as the word challenge is we don't look

Howard Brown: 00:29:44

at the small things that add up. It's awesome that we tackle

Howard Brown: 00:29:47

monumental tasks, but let's examine the little things that

Howard Brown: 00:29:51

actually matter just as much. I remember a coach once telling me

Howard Brown: 00:29:55

that there's actually a beauty to small challenges. It is the

Howard Brown: 00:29:58

smaller things that add up, do those day to day opportunities

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that come to us and can turn them all into very big. Quickly.

Howard Brown: 00:30:07

He stated, when those day to day challenges in the life changing

Howard Brown: 00:30:11

challenges become much easier. In fact, 95% of the world's

Howard Brown: 00:30:16

challenges are small ones. Remember to embrace the

Howard Brown: 00:30:20

opportunity of your small challenges. It may not be

Howard Brown: 00:30:23

conquering that summit of Mount Everest or winning the Boston

Howard Brown: 00:30:27

Marathon, but they are continual opportunities of life that will

Howard Brown: 00:30:31

help you accomplish anything.

Howard Brown: 00:30:36

Wow, you are shining brightly. Robert W.

Howard Brown: 00:30:39

Jones. Thank you for that. Oh, my goodness. Well, this is this

Howard Brown: 00:30:43

has been an amazing show. Let me thank a few folks here. I want

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to thank some folks that have helped me every day which are

Howard Brown: 00:30:48

front edge publishing, the readthespirit.com magazine that

Howard Brown: 00:30:53

comes out on Mondays and my finishing house for podcasting

Howard Brown: 00:30:56

amplifyou network. They helped me they helped me get it done

Howard Brown: 00:31:00

every day. So I really appreciate them. As far as me,

Howard Brown: 00:31:03

you can reach Howard Brown, of course at shining brightly.com.

Howard Brown: 00:31:06

So if you want to book me to speak and make your next event

Howard Brown: 00:31:10

shine, you want to learn more about this podcast, you want to

Howard Brown: 00:31:13

learn about the book, and also my collaborative books, The Art

Howard Brown: 00:31:15

of connection series, there's two of them up there, and some

Howard Brown: 00:31:18

others as well. And the things that I'm interested in that make

Howard Brown: 00:31:22

me unique, which is the world of cancer and cancer prevention,

Howard Brown: 00:31:26

the world of entrepreneurship and Babson College and also the

Howard Brown: 00:31:29

world of interfaith of learning who those are not like us, come,

Howard Brown: 00:31:33

come, I'm interactive. Come find me at shining brightly.com. And

Howard Brown: 00:31:37

remember, if we choose to shine brightly for ourselves, and for

Howard Brown: 00:31:41

others in our communities and neighbourhoods, the world will

Howard Brown: 00:31:44

become a better place. Robert, amazing high energy show. You

Howard Brown: 00:31:49

are a really good friend. Thank you for being here. And we'll

Howard Brown: 00:31:51

keep shining together.

Howard Brown: 00:31:53

Robert W. Jones: Thank you, Howard. Thank you so much.