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The Villages: A Dream Come True

  For 26 years I have been told I should perform in very specific markets, as they would love my show: Las Vegas, NV Branson, MO Atlantic City, NJ Cruise ships worldwide Every Casino possible Corporate and Education events The Villages, FL   Having conquered the first 6, thankful for the chance to entertain audiences of all kinds, it was a question as to how and when I would ever have the time or opportunity to perform at The Villages near Orlando, Florida. Last weekend my moment finally arrived! If you don’t know what The Villages are, its one of the most fascinating community developments in the world, dedicated to those aged 55+ active adults who are committed to staying healthy, agile, and forever young. An estimated 75,000 homes dot the landscape, with over 100,000 residents.  Located an hour outside of Orlando, Florida, The Villages has endless town squares that look like Disneyland’s Main Street, more golf holes in one place than anywhere on the planet, and you can hear pickleball being played the entire day. The theater was intimate, brand new (3 months old), with around 160 seats available. My show was scheduled for 1 PM on a Friday where

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July 14, 2026 4 Comments
Cardio Miracle

200 Pounds Lost: The Legend of My Brother Josh Hewlett

Every now and then, you hear a story that doesn’t just inspire you—it stays with you. This is one of those stories. It’s about my brother, Josh Hewlett.  Josh was born in the mid 1980’s, my second brother, fourth of five kids, and was by far the largest baby in the family. “Big boned” was what Dad used to say. Mom delivered 5 of us little Hewlett’s, and Josh was going to easily outgrow all of us.      By middle school, even though he was 6 years my junior, he was already as tall and weighed more than me.      Josh played football, could pick up a fridge or couch, and was a literal strongman from his youngest years.  But through the years his big boned nature went to a new level of being overweight, and became a great concern for our entire family and all who knew him.      This is the kind of story you may have heard only on TV or in movies, but for us it’s real life, and it’s my brother, so I have to share this extraordinary story of transformation.  It’s a story about health. It’s about humility. And it’s about

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February 17, 2026 2 Comments
Business

How Are You Utilizing AI in Your Business?

Have you ever asked AI to create a custom song describing your holiday party performance? My man, Nick Sales, who shot this video, and edited it, after a very intimate private event last weekend in SLC, UT, just sent this to me. Hilarious! The words are amazing and bizarre. It feels like an 80’s TV show theme song. Love it. 😂 Oh, AI music creator, we have such a bright future together. 💯   ~ Question is: How are you utilizing AI in your business now and into the future?  In 2024 I spent ample amounts of time learning and using ChatGPT, as I was working on making 20 videos per month in one sitting over 8 hours of recording that required at least 10 minutes of unique content in each video, and I just didn’t have the time to come up with that much material. AI helped spark the subjects and ideas I could speak about with authority and even gave decent examples to use. It got to know me. It was incredible! It allowed my work to be doable, enjoyable, and consumable. Prior to Chat GPT, I labored for weeks creating such content, and often felt the final

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December 27, 2025 2 Comments
Announcements

When The Promise Changes

  This blog has been written, without a miss, for a decade, delivered every Sunday without fail. Truthfully, I am stunned I’ve done anything this long, and it’s now time for a new promise. Last week, between BLACK FRIDAY CYBER MONDAY GIVING TUESDAY WHATEVER WEDNESDAY …I received more emails of annoyance from companies, peers, and causes than I could keep up with. I was hitting the UNSUBSCRIBE button so fast, being sent to the outer reaches of “Manage my Profile to End your Subscription” and other daunting tasks placed upon me (“do you want to report this as SPAM?”) to release the grip of consumerism, that I nearly gave up! But I didn’t – and I rid myself of many needless distractions, sales I don’t want to be sold on, charities I’d never heard of but didn’t have any money left to give to (already supporting many others), and probably hurt the feelings of my friends whose email lists they stuck me on because we once emailed each other…and they probably check who drops more than I do. It’s too much information, and if I’m interested I’ll come knocking. What I can say to you, Dear Reader, is that I

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December 6, 2024 34 Comments
Cardio Miracle

The Dog’s Promise

  We walk in the door and every single time, no matter if we’ve been gone all day or 6 minutes, it is CELEBRATION TIME!!! The dog can’t help but lose her mind, she is so excited to see us, jumping, licking, barking, spinning. Sometimes a little pee comes out. She can’t help it, the excitement is too great. No greeting compares to the dog’s. Goldie is a Morkie. Goldie is legendary. Everybody loves Goldie.     Doesn’t matter if she’s having a bad day, scratchy or itchy, eating away at her bowl of dog turkey, chicken treats, attacking her toy Clifford, or gnawing on her own left foot, once someone arrives, she goes ballistic. She can’t help but keep The Promise she never realized she made, the automatic exuberance and personality bursting from her heart and soul every single day, her divinely appointed Signature Move, consistently, no question, she will deliver the ultimate showing of love to all. Inside her little head, if she could talk, she’d say, “This is the greatest moment of my life to see you again!”      No offense to cat lovers, as the feline is of course special, too, but let’s be honest:

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November 14, 2024 14 Comments
Cardio Miracle

Yearbook Photos Promise

  Do you remember yearbook photo day? I sure don’t. This past week I have tried with all my might to recall those times, with little success, as all that lives on are the final product, which for me was never the photo I’d hoped it would turn out to be, and so I’ve hidden those books and photos away. Rather than dig my yearbooks out of bins in the attic and prove to you that I look far better today as a silver fox than I did back then as a mix between Bert, Ernie, and Opie from The Andy Griffith Show, I instead share with you the funniest yearbook photos idea I’ve ever seen, compliments of my own sons. My boys have decided to make as many moments fun and memorable as possible, this is their Promise to themselves, and it equally enriches our lives as parents and family. I had no idea they did this until after they had posted a video capturing the experience (see below), with assistance from their friends, of cutting their hair, donning the old boy scout uniforms, and going full Napoleon Dynamite on the yearbook photos that will live in infamy of

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October 13, 2024 No Comments
Business

Drawn to New Heights

  A month ago I was leading a Speaker training & retreat with my colleague and master coach, Cheryl Knowlton. It was our final retreat and will always be a memory I’ll never forget to work with her and our students. I glanced over at the couch and was admiring the muscles bulging from my friend and fellow speaker Ernie Harker’s shirt. As I looked closer I realized he was drawing someone in the room. He is known for his ability to draw people on stage or in the audience, and gifts them to friends, to an always stunned reaction, since he’s masterful at this talent turned skill turned Signature Move and Promise. I was shocked to see that I was the subject of this drawing!     I have been all over the world and, for years, received perhaps some of the most offensive and bizarre quick drawn, paid for, portraits/caricatures someone can have drawn of them, often times in an attempt to embarrass the one being drawn. But as I looked over Ernie’s shoulder I was ecstatic to think it looked incredible, and was flattering to say the least! An artist must focus on the Signature Moves features

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October 4, 2024 6 Comments

The Final Retreat

For years, I had what was known in our home as Mentor Mondays. This was due to so many texts, emails, and phone calls from executives, hopeful speakers, and struggling entertainers to “pick my brain” over lunch. Eventually my brain had been picked, pecked, and prodded over enough soggy salads at lunches around Utah that we shifted things to say: Can you come to me and let’s talk? We funneled everyone to Mondays, into 2 hour time slots and a revolving door of mentoring that sometimes saw people from 8AM-8PM learning the craft of running a business, following their dreams, and keeping The Promise to their hopes in life. It was my best way of giving back, after I had the same experience to begin my career, where Chris Poulos had welcomed me into his home, free of charge, to sit on his couch and learn from the greatest philosopher and spiritual mentor I could have asked for outside of my own wonderful parents growing up.     For years, day and night, I came and went to the Poulos household in Orem, UT, with his lovely spouse Gail in the background doing genealogy work at the living room table,

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August 23, 2024 4 Comments
Business

Bond, James Bond

Can you imagine meeting THE James Bond as a 7 year old, and him bringing you into his world of espionage, not just meeting him once as a youth, but again as an adult? Roger Moore delights fan Mark Haynes with this story of how, as the author puts it, “I was working with James Bond now.” To me this is the ultimate example of Living The Promise for those we can serve in our unique capacity and Signature Moves. I read this story on Facebook recently, and it brings a smile to me every time – enjoy: LINK to original article There’s a wonderful true story about Roger Moore meeting a young fan in Nice airport in 1983. Mark Haynes was seven years old when he recognized Moore as James Bond while traveling with his grandfather and asked if it was okay to get an autograph. “As charming as you’d expect, Roger asks my name and duly signs the back of my plane ticket, a fulsome note full of best wishes,” remembers Mark. “I’m ecstatic, but as we head back to our seats, I glance down at the signature. It’s hard to decipher it but it definitely doesn’t say

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August 17, 2024 No Comments
Books

The Honor System

Just before my 2 week run of sold-out shows began at the Hale Centre Theatre I realized I didn’t have the personnel lined up to man our table and sell my book, “The Promise To The One”. My kids were all traveling, we wanted my wife to just attend and enjoy the shows, those on my team either had travels or health challenges, and I had few options left. I remembered driving through Maui a decade ago, on the beautiful Road to Hana, where my wife and I found multiple stops of fruit stands where the Honor System was employed. No one was there to make sure you were honest, it was expected. We often left more money than was suggested, since we appreciated the concept of honesty first. And so, we did the same for the sale of my books at my shows. We discounted them by half price, from $20 to $10, I signed every single one, and we printed a sheet that explained they could pay via Venmo.     We put up the table, set out 40 books, and had to let go of the possibility that someone might steal them and just be ok with

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August 10, 2024 No Comments

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