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519. Building a Circular Future: Larry LaMotte on Sustainable Innovation and Responsible Influence · Daily Influence

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[SPEAKER_01]: Welcome to Daily Influence, I'm Greg Lino.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Today, we're joined by Larry Lamott, founder of Recapture it, an innovative leader in the growing world of building deconstruction, reuse, and circular economy solutions.
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[SPEAKER_01]: With decades of experience and a passion for responsible sustainability, Larry is pioneering new ways for businesses and communities to reimagine waste and resources.
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[SPEAKER_01]: His work with recapture demonstrates how positive and responsible influence can shape industries and create lasting impact.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Larry, welcome to Daily Influence.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Hi, Greg.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Thank you.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm really glad to be here.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Larry, can you share a bit about your background and what led you to where you are today with our listeners?
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[SPEAKER_02]: I can.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I have not had the straight path of, you know, it might wander.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I guess I determined how to work with a left brain brain kind of a thing and figured I would go to architecture school to get that creative side and sort of the mathematical engineering side figured out.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I got a degree and
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[SPEAKER_02]: entered into a fourteen percent unemployment recession era.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So as a butting young architect so that wasn't exactly a welcoming environment.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And then since since that time I have had quite a number of career inflection points.
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[SPEAKER_02]: where things didn't go or did go as did go well didn't go well and I've started up seven different businesses from scratch to which actually sustained for seventeen and eighteen years.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I've done architecture.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I've done construction.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I did remodeling.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I really wanted to know how to really how buildings were really built.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So I went into remodeling and then I thought that that's where I would get the most experience and that was.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I did mostly residential but some commercial toward things down, build them back up.
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[SPEAKER_02]: and figured out how to become a plumber and electricity, a framer, a roof or a cider, a concrete guy all in the process of that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So that was sort of the foundation of what dirty or forty years later became recaptured that whole process of
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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, working with buildings, doing facilities management, designing buildings, helping people to use and occupy them and along the way in that entrepreneurial bug kept biting me and I have a moment
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[SPEAKER_02]: several years ago, I decided, you know what, I really want to do something different.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I don't want to do something opportunistic.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I don't want to do something just because I could.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I want to do something of impact and importance.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And frankly, that would have global reach, something that was scary.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I found it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So the world of reuse of building materials and dealing with that is a well-intrenched ecosystem of many businesses and industries and organizations and then have been around for many decades.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And to think that I could be one that would help steer that in a different direction, seem to be arrogant.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But I figured what the heck, and the right mix of
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[SPEAKER_02]: experience and I knew it would be something I would have to grow into every day of my life and that has been true.
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[SPEAKER_01]: What inspired your personal mission around sustainability reuse and responsible influence?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, great.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's a good question.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I never really thought of it much in the working world of construction.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I built our own house and
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[SPEAKER_02]: In the process of it, I was putting things in that I'd extracted out of other projects for years, and the fellow that does some work on our house and lawn here.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He calls my basement the home home depot because it's organized shelves of materials and tools and so forth.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And we never have to go really to the hardware store to Home Depot, go down there.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And if we need to fix this sprinkler, we need to fix a gate.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We need to build something.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's pretty much there.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So I was the guy that was on all these sites going, where you going with that?
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[SPEAKER_02]: What are you doing with those?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Why are you throwing that away?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Look at that, my truck.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And that was just a thing for me.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I just thought it was stupid to throw all that valuable stuff away.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I was like, oh, I'm not in place to put it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm in place to store it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Gosh, too much money.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Like you're throwing that away, it's worse.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So that I did that for, I don't know, decades.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And so that mindset, I kind of put a name to it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's like, well, I'm kind of a sustainability guy.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm kind of a no waste guy.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I approach it with sort of a, I guess a neutrality.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's like, I think it's just good stewardship of resources and good for everybody.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And that, uh, why are we all a little more cognizant of what we're throwing away and, and, uh, a kind of a, a little phrase that you use a lot now is like, we throw away buildings in America like their paper plates at the picnic.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And it's true.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So I thought that was a well worth while projects to take on and tackle.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And it's been now about, you know, it's been nine years since I had the original idea of it in a couple of years of investigating what to do and and pulling myself out of other obligations and so forth.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And a rather bumpy ride through the time of COVID building a marketplace for all this.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So yeah, it's been a bumpy ride, but we're still here.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We're still alive and we've gotten new things on the burners and that's, that's it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: What a great story.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you for sharing that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You're welcome.
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[SPEAKER_01]: In the IN team series, we talk about positive and responsible influences being grounded in core personal values.
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[SPEAKER_01]: What personal values or beliefs have guided you in creating recapture and advocating for reuse in construction and deconstruction?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, obviously, the no waste thing has always been kind of ingrained in me.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I also brought a number of things to the business that we carry through as our business values.
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[SPEAKER_02]: One is craftsmanship.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Some people relate to that in terms of standards or excellence or whatever.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I tend to lean on the craft part of craftsmanship that it relates to the building world so well.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Another aspect that
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[SPEAKER_02]: I bring from many years of working around and around and in the restaurant business and that was hospitality.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And that's an odd one in some people's thinking, but in mind, it's the spirit of allowing everybody in and of taking good care of people and respecting people and thinking forward of what a person's experience is going to be.
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[SPEAKER_02]: and to thinking of being empathetic and thinking of like what how is that going to affect somebody?
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[SPEAKER_02]: How is that going to affect their visit?
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[SPEAKER_02]: How is that going to affect their life?
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[SPEAKER_02]: What is it?
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[SPEAKER_02]: If I modify a supply chain, for instance, what are the very farthest reaches of that supply chain going to have to do to respond to that?
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[SPEAKER_02]: And why are we not thinking about that more?
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[SPEAKER_02]: as a resultant of the state policies we put into place or the actions that we take.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's great.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you for sharing that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, we hear the ITEM series emphasize collaboration and collective impact.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Can you share how partnerships like the Brookline Massachusetts Project have demonstrated the power of collaboration to influence not just business practices, but entire communities?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Sure.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So Brookline is a beautiful community adjacent to Boston.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And my father reminded me, when I took that project on, he said, hey, you know what?
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[SPEAKER_02]: You lived in Brookline.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Like what?
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[SPEAKER_02]: He said, well, we left when you were about three.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So I got to go into Brookline in the project and tell them, you know, like, well, I was a resident here for
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[SPEAKER_02]: So anyway, that was kind of fun.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But back on what you asked me there, Greg, which is about collaboration.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And one of the, we offer consulting to cities and counties in America now, and one of the things that we start with, the thing that we start with always is what we call a regional assessment.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And we go in like a doctor goes in to do an exam of a patient before prescribing anything.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You got to know what you got to know the patient.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You got to know what's wrong.
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[SPEAKER_02]: What's right and
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[SPEAKER_02]: And so in our case, part of what's wrong and what's right and what's going on with the patient of a place is the participants.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So the stakeholders, the parties involved, the organizations, the businesses, the government, the residents, you know, and we go out and we talk to them.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We dialogue with them.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We have very thoughtful one-on-one conversations.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We do use surveys, but we also follow those surveys up with actual phone calls and conversations like this, you know, just to actually get people's real life take on things.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And that collaborative activity is really part of what we and recaptured are really all about.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We were a tiny little team, but we have quite a big team of associated partners, could contractors who work with us, and then a group of professionals who service, you know, some out of simply out of the goodness of their heart, because we're going to start doing something good for all of us.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And then we even have another layer beyond that of thirty two different companies organizations and individuals we call our affiliate network.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So we built kind of this ecosystem for our own company that is very collaborative.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And again, it's not something I really think about much.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Just do it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I think back to where that come from.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I know exactly where I came from.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Came from my mother.
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[SPEAKER_02]: My mother was a professional woman in the sixties and seventies when that wasn't really such a thing.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I was a last key kid when we didn't have a name for that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And that was okay because mom, you know, I great childhood, but mom was a networker extraordinaire.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And so I take, I give her credit for any networking skills and the ability to cope to collaborate to her because I am not naturally inclined to that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So that's the font from which that comes.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, she had definitely had a positive impact and influence on you because the people that introduced us only spoke grave reviews about you as a human.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Wow, I'm a bit of a sap.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So if I start leaking here, you know, you're the one.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Larry, can you tell us about a momentary experience where you thought you made a positive impact on someone's life?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Whether it be a team member, a partner, a community.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So one thing I started in in two thousand and seven was an alumni organization.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I graduate from the University of Oregon.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm a duck.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So, you Ohio State people out there, you know, come on.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Anyway, I met friend who graduated.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He wasn't a friend of the time.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We just met and we went to a restaurant.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We had lunch.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We were talking about the things going on in Seattle at the time.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And you know, we're all these people that we should know.
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[SPEAKER_02]: There's thousands of alumni up here.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Where are they all?
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[SPEAKER_02]: And why do they?
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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, why do we just get like fifty at a football game?
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[SPEAKER_02]: And then there's the annual alumni fundraiser.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But that's it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, and I looked at him and I said, well, hey, we're business guys.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Why don't we start something?
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[SPEAKER_02]: He goes, okay, what do you want to do?
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[SPEAKER_02]: I go, I don't know, we're starting to get together for lunch.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's a good business thing to do.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So we did, and we got six people together the following month, and we got four people together the following month after that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And then we over ran the occupancy of the room the month after that and we split it up and ended up being quite an organization.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We got it out to seven different cities.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We have hundreds and hundreds of people that actually met
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[SPEAKER_02]: and introduced themselves and got to know other alumni, and that was a really good thing.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And in the midst of all that, I ran the organization, so I had to learn how to network better, and I brought a tip every month for eleven years.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And that served the organization, it served the individuals, it helped people get jobs, but it helped me too.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Learning that as I went.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So I would say that within that environment, there were dozens of marvelous things that happened.
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[SPEAKER_02]: People I got married by meeting at our lunches.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They started partnerships and businesses.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They got jobs as a result.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And one time, a young man, he had a little snitely looking at his face and they kind of said, you know, okay, he goes, well, I just don't buy this networking thing.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's just whatever.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Like, huh, interesting, I go.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But it's probably, he goes, well, yeah, and it doesn't really work.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm like, hmm, okay.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, let's test that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And we had a group of about twelve people at the luncheon.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I said, who here's looking for a job?
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[SPEAKER_02]: I raised his hand and I said, oh, I said, what are you looking for?
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[SPEAKER_02]: He said, well, I'm looking for something in marketing.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm like, hmm, hmm, he goes, well, I go, two broad, two broad, narrowed down.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And he did, and he did, and I kept coaxing him, narrowed down, narrowed down.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Finally, he got to, well, I said, where do you want to work?
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[SPEAKER_02]: I know you've done this long, and I'm where do you want to work?
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[SPEAKER_02]: And he told me, and it was a manufacturing company in Bellevue, Washington.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I said, you know what, I know somebody there.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He goes, oh, so I go, let me get him on the phone.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So where did this lunch in a restaurant in Belgium, Washington?
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I called back guy up and I said, Andrew, I said, Larry here, I'm calling about the job that your company has listed.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And you know anything about that?
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[SPEAKER_02]: He goes, oh yeah, I'm a hiring manager for that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Oh my, that's good.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I go, I said, how many resumes you got in your desk?
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[SPEAKER_02]: He goes to a hundred and fifty.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I go, how many came in?
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[SPEAKER_02]: He goes over a thousand.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I go, ha, okay.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, I'm here with a young man that applied for that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, really?
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[SPEAKER_02]: He goes, have you worked with him?
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[SPEAKER_02]: And it does you work for him?
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm like, no, he doesn't work for me.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But he is actually on my board about the disorganization where we have here.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I said, so I can tell you that he has been responsible, accountable, he shows up, he does what he's supposed to do and so forth.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And then I'm like, okay, okay, he goes, guess what?
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[SPEAKER_02]: I go, what?
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[SPEAKER_02]: He goes, his resume just went to the top.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So the one with a slightly look on his face, the pessimist, he's kind of like, wow, this, this has gotta be, this is fake.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So the guy, the guy that needed the job.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He got the job.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The guy that was the pessimist got this real life moment that I could not have scripted.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, nobody would believe it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, it just happened.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And yet that is the power of me having built in that work.
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[SPEAKER_02]: that I knew enough people and that, you know, built this thing, which is not to just say, you know, yay me, but I mean, we built this organization.
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[SPEAKER_02]: These guys attended that guy questioned the verity of what we were doing.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And the mother guy had an eat and we saw that filled it right then and there and everybody watched.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's a fantastic example.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you for sharing that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: What a ripple.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You made it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yep.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Unbelievable.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That is a great story.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Many leaders struggle to influence change and industries resistant to new models.
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[SPEAKER_01]: What strategies have you used to practice responsible influence and help people ship their thinking towards reuse circular economies and sustainable business models?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, okay, that's a big one.
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[SPEAKER_02]: responsibly shifting the the giant ship that is construction demolition has been around for so many decades and is part of, you know, it's part of finance banking, real estate, et cetera, et cetera.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So I don't imagine that I will
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[SPEAKER_02]: be able to do that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But I and many others aligned can do that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And so I could kind of nerdy on some things and a vector is aligned with it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, it's basically an arrow.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And it's a thing that measures force in a direction.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I say, well, let's just get all the vectors of energy, positive energy, and influence going in the same direction.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And rather than, you know, this one going this way, and this one going that way, that one going the other way, it just dissipates all the energy when it's not concentrated and focused.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So my efforts in this past two years have been almost exclusively dedicated to bringing people in and focusing our energy toward one goal, which we call the new model of distribution of recaptured building materials, which is to say that there is an existing model of that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And we are saying, just leave it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: doing what it's doing and because it's doing good things, it's just not built for where we're going.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And so this is not an easy thing, it's not a fast thing, but we're making progress and we're making inroads and there are a lot of people around the world now that we're pulling into this, like from the UK, from Amsterdam, from all over the US, from Australia, from Canada.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We get to be sort of a central figure in that, but I tell our clients and prospects and so forth.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I say, you know, it's not really about media or even recaptured.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's about all these amazing people that we get to bring in and all these technologies and innovations that they are building.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I just get to be the one that gets to point all the arrows in the right direction.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's brilliant, Larry.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I love that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Thank you.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Hopefully this podcast can help spread that positivity and get more arrows going in the right direction that you're going in.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Larry, what message are words of encouragement?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Would you like to share with our listeners who aspire to make a positive difference in the world?
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[SPEAKER_02]: I kind of go back to my mother who just had this will of this I'm dying will of just keep giving it out just keep giving it out just keep giving it out just keep giving it out just keep giving it out and it will return and that you won't know when it will but then the serendipities kind of start popping like popcorn
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[SPEAKER_02]: And you just can't believe the things that people do in support of what you're doing.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I've heard you of the things that the efforts you've put out over a long period of time.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I told you, I get a little sappy, especially when I talk about my mom.
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[SPEAKER_02]: She died eleven years ago, but she lives on.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So anyway, I got beat up in great school of junior high school.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Even in high school for doing this, you know what?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Like, yeah, get a little closer.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So anyway, that's what I would say.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Just keep giving it out, giving it out, bring your best, give it out to others, help other people.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Do little things.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I call it bringing goodies.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's another mom is of bringing goodies.
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[SPEAKER_02]: She brought goodies with her everywhere.
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[SPEAKER_02]: She's always, she would bake and, you know, we have these glorious, different loaves of delicious bread out of the counter.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And we'd be like, wow, that looks awesome.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Oh no, no, no, no, no, no.
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[SPEAKER_02]: balance for the bakeries.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That was for the Jamesons.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That was for the, you know, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera
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[SPEAKER_02]: first floor and that entire first floor was just packed elbow to elbow with people they were out on the front deck they were out in the back yard people just came out of the woodwork the celebrator because of that spirit she in her last year
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[SPEAKER_02]: She would actually tell me at one point she had thirteen different doctors appointments in a sequence over a short period of time.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And she didn't want to, you know, bother anybody with helping her to go to those.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So she split it up into thirteen different friends who would take her to appointments.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm like, I can't think of
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[SPEAKER_02]: thirteen friends that would take me to doctor's appointments, but that was just an example of how many people she positively influenced.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So I'll carry on if you didn't want to stop me there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Wow, Larry, thank you for sharing that story.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Sounds like she was a beautiful woman and that's everyone's, you know, that should be everyone's goal is to keep having that positive influence long after we're no longer here.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Wow.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you for sharing.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You're welcome.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you so much, Larry, for sharing your insights and your experiences.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Your journey, you know, through your career and now with recapture it, there's a perfect example of responsible influence.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And using your personal values, collaboration, and vision to create positive lasting change, not only in your industry, but in the lives that you work with, is so impressive.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Larry, if our listeners want to get in touch with you, what is the best way to do so?
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[SPEAKER_02]: I spent a lot of time on LinkedIn.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm on LinkedIn.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So that would be the best place.
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[SPEAKER_02]: There really aren't that many Larry Lamass out there in the world.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So I think I'm connected to all of them on LinkedIn, which is like maybe three total.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So you can find me Larry Lamass.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's perfect.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We'll put that information in the show notes.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Thank you.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Larry, thank you so much for joining us today and sharing your stories in your advice and having a positive influence on so many.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm so grateful that you were here with us today.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I am so grateful that you do this and I thank you for having me here to as your guest today and I really appreciate that Greg and it's been fun and you are delightful and engaging host.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So thank you.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you, Larry.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I appreciate that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: For our listeners, let this conversation serve as a reminder that we all have the power to lead with purpose, make responsible choices, and influence others towards better outcomes.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you for spending a few moments of your day with us and daily influence.
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[SPEAKER_01]: If something you heard, move you, share it with someone who needs to hear it too.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Remember, the power to make a difference begins with you.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Your ideas, your choices, and your actions.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Until next time, keep having a positive response, full influence.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Bye-bye.