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Who’s The Sellout Now?

  20 years ago at this time I was being offered the opportunity of a lifetime in Las Vegas: to be managed, produced, and mentored by the people who brought my hero, Danny Gans, to Sin City and helped make him a star. Then I would have a residency at multiple locations throughout California and Nevada before perfecting my new show and headlining The Strip as the new star in town. They said I was the next Danny Gans, I was 25 years old. Due to what my show would have needed to morph into in order to keep the Vegas promise of a new brand they had just adopted, a slogan of “What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas,” I decided to do what seemed insane at the time by walking away from the biggest fast track any person could dream for, and even still to this day, makes me wonder what could have been…although I know I made the right choice for my life. 2 decades later I have a happy family life, my eldest daughter graduates from high school this very week, we have put roots down in my home state, are grateful for our community life,

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Family

Eighth Grader Drives the School Bus

  As the school year winds down here is a powerful story of leadership from the fast action of an eighth grader! His name is Acie Holland III. Riding the bus home from school, Acie noticed the driver missed a turn and was now accelerating, while slumped over and unconscious! I don’t know about you, but most adults in this situation would: Scream Panic Take out their phone and film what is happening, livestreaming on the Insta, while commentating and tagging the Kardashians! Acie jumped up, ran to the front, moved the driver’s foot off the gas, and got control of the bus headed into oncoming traffic, steadily slowing down to a stop on the side of the road. An EIGHTH Grader! Once stopped, as reported here, he called 911 and his Grandmother, who is a nurse assistant (always call Grandma first!). He then instructed the other 13-15 kids to call their families and remain calm. Leadership. Action. A Doer. This is all incredible to me, as a Dad, and I would hope my kids would be so savvy, showing such assertiveness in this type of situation. This is The Promise – to be aware, to solve a problem, to

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Business

I Am Who I Am That is That

  This past week I was reintroduced to this most powerful and uplifting song: “I Am Who I Am That is That”. It came on the heels of receiving another round of very hurtful comments, messages, and other difficult things people send me due to my writings, opinions on social media, and leadership roles across multiple organizations. I listened to this song while trying to consider how to respond to such attacks. I am coming to a new level of peace as I navigate this wonderful thing we call life. As the negativity hit me, and as my heart felt damaged, I had to consider if I could take anything back I had said and make peace between what had been expressed, and that’s where this song lands for me. I am who I am that is that. And within that, was able to also see those who send the tough words my way to be thankful they are who they are, and I’m thankful for that as well. I just hope for “Joy to the World. Peace on the Earth. God bless the children, how we love them.” Many thanks to those who support the work I do, and

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Family

Honoring Those Who Helped Us Get There – Shannon Sharpe

  I have spent 12 hours today working on outlines, examples, and stories for my next 20 YouTube videos. These 10+ minute each videos will be recorded this coming Friday, a marathon of challenging filming that stresses the body and mind, but the outlines are due a week prior, and may be the toughest work I do each month in preparation of the daunting filming date. Today I have been in search of examples to share for a video entitled: “How To Write A Tribute Speech”. I know how to write a heck of a tribute speech, but when you find a winner online, it is so good, I don’t know how I can’t NOT share it with you here as well, since I don’t want you to miss this. As my video won’t arrive on my channel (we just made it to 500 subscribers today as well!) for perhaps 2-3 months, if not more, I thought that this would make for a wonderful blog post, and hope you’ll take 8 minutes to fill your bucket with joy and watch this speech by Hall of Fame football player, Shannon Sharpe. I don’t know much about Mr. Sharpe, other than he

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Engagement

The Promise to Neigh at Every Horse Statue

Have you ever found yourself alone in a park, it’s freezing cold, the sun setting, and you stumble upon one of the world’s largest horse statues? How wonderful! A horse statue over 2 stories high, since I’m a statue nut, this was extremely special to see. I also fancy horses, and the sounds they make, as I have never heard a horse make the neigh whinny noise without having to do it back immediately at full voice, and then needing to run for my life as it thinks either I’m picking a fight or might be it’s new girlfriend… So, I was delighted that all of these factors came together for me to laugh my head off, alone in an outdoor statue park, as I filmed angle after angle, enjoying this special moment with the horse and my neigh whinny at full bore. Enjoy these ridiculous videos as perhaps, very likely, I am the only one who will find them funny.         What was even more delightful was reading the history of this statue, as I didn’t realize it was the idea and design of my artist hero, Leonardo da Vinci, which had never been able to

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Business

The Copyright Claim

  Monday I woke up, excited to have a great day, and head out the door to my speaking event. Quickly checking emails (famous last words), I was hit with the kind of message every small business owner dreads: Copyright Claim! Yes, an image on this very blog was copyright protected and I owed nearly $2,000, since it had been on my site for 6 months. This sent me into a tailspin of questions, research and mining details, as I have not had an issue like this for nearly a decade, and truly thought I was covered with all images we use across the board. Turns out, I am in the middle of small-business targeting, blog-semi-celebrity status (meaning: I have a blog), a variation of fear mongering extortion from a foreign company, and very unclear licensing usage of images from the company I purchase an annual subscription that covers me for many things, except – surprisingly – not every single image I’ve used on this web site. Gah! Of all things, it was a photo of a steel winch. Yes, you read that correctly…something I could have very easily taken a photo of myself, since I own a steel winch,

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Cardio Miracle

Your Favorite President

Who is your Favorite President of the United States? And why? I grew up in the eras of Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, and have raised children during eras of Bush, Obama, Trump, and Biden. It’s amazing to think there have been so few presidents in my lifetime, only 8 of them, as I’m a few years short of having been around half a century. Watching people lead through recessions, responding to terrorism, initiating war, navigating pandemics, social issues, and have the magnifying glass of criticism for every decision, makes you wonder how come anyone would want to become president. When I think of the ultimate and favorite leader of our Country, I would have to say, in my lifetime, it would be hard to consider any that I have listed above, although perhaps with time they could be in a top 5-10 list. My Favorite President seems to be the one most people name: Abraham Lincoln. In my office alone I have 2 paintings, one bronze bust, and one wooden statue of Lincoln, along with one of George Washington praying at Valley Forge as the only other president on my shelves. I often look at these images of Lincoln and

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Books

New Year Ahead – Thank You 2023

  Here are some of the many goals I failed to accomplish in 2023 – Lose 30 lbs and 5% fat Read the scriptures every day Take a cold shower every morning Rewrite and rename “The Promise To The One” so it is a more corporate friendly book for better sales Book 10% more gigs and make 25% more than last year Go on a one-on-one trip with each child For some of the above I was able to come close –  Lost 22 lbs and 3.5% fat Had multiple 100+ day streaks of reading scriptures Bought a cold plunge, replacing the cold showers Some of the goals were redirected –  The Book: We hired a coach to talk through the crisis I was having about my book sales in the corporate market. As it was #1 on Amazon in Self-Help>Spiritual category our sales have slumped at my business events. It was determined I should leave the book as is for the audience that has enjoyed, devoured, and live by it’s teachings, and instead write a different book in 2024, and self-publish. The Bookings: Instead of booking 10% more and making 25% more, we found that I am becoming extremely

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Coaching

72 Hours of Greatness: The Legend of Redford Hewlett

  For the past month we have hardly seen our 16-year old son, Redford. He is a straight-A student, leads our church congregation in music every Sunday, and seems to be asked to a girl’s choice dance at a different school every other evening. And yet he has gone missing for almost the entirety of December. Every morning at 6:40 AM he bolts out the door, always gets to school on time, and recently has even been gone before 6 AM. Each night we await his return, often past 11 PM.   What is happening with this boy?  He is an SBO, Student Body Officer, at his high school, and the month of December is dedicated to raising money for single parents in an effort termed Hearts of Gold.  Every SBO is expected to go door to door, business to business, looking to do service in exchange for a donation to raise funds for parents needing help with providing Christmas.     My son has kept the ultimate Promise by being completely absent from our home while serving every stranger he can find for an entire month. It’s hard to put into words how proud I am of this wonderful son,

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Engagement

The Ocean View & The Sand Dollar

  Recently we spent a week in beautiful Southern California, a place called Oceanside, which is becoming a tradition for our family. What a great place! I’m embarrassed to admit it, but I’m not a huge fan of the beach thing…sand everywhere, sunburns even when I put on sunscreen and hide in the shade, there’s a lot I don’t love about it. However, on this trip, I enjoyed it because my family loves it so much. One sight that caught me by surprise was the joy I felt watching the sunsets and ocean view, as the colors in the sky changed so vividly and powerfully. As I walked near the ocean’s break, enjoying the views up ahead, I stepped on a seashell and screamed out like a dad in the dark coming into his kid’s room and awkwardly stepping on a LEGO. OUCH! Looking down, it was apparent I had mostly dodged many seashells, sea urchins, and came face to face with a half sand dollar. That’s when I noticed my whole family out searching for sand dollars, as they seemed to be everywhere. Here’s a one minute video with my son Redford, and wife, Tami, sharing their treasures, while

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