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Networking Unleashed: An Interview with Brendan Brown and Michael A Forman, Professional Speaker · Networking Unleashed: Building Profitable Connections

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  Welcome to Networking Unleashed, Building Profitable
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  Connections, the show where networking goes beyond
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  business cards and handshakes to explore the
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  relationships that shape our lives, our leadership,
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  and our legacy. I'm your host, Michael Foreman.
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  Today, we're talking about something that's often
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  missing from conversations about success, the
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  person behind the success. In a world where social
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  media highlights victories and AI can manufacture
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  polished perfection, it's easy to believe everyone
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  else has it figured out. But behind every entrepreneur,
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  creator, and leader is a journey that's usually
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  filled with setbacks, uncertainty, growth, and
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  moments that quietly redefine who they are. My
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  guest today is a young entrepreneur whose podcast
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  became much more than a platform. It became a
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  classroom for life. Through meaningful conversations,
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  personal adversity, and an honest look at mental
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  health, he's discovered that some of the most
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  valuable lessons don't come from success. They
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  come from the people we meet, the challenges
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  we face, and the courage to keep moving forward.
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  This isn't just a conversation about podcasting.
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  It's about resilience. It's about authenticity.
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  It's about relationships that carry us through
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  the hardest seasons. If you've ever questioned
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  your path, struggled in silence, or wondered
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  how your greatest challenges might become your
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  greatest source of purpose, this episode is for
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  you. I'd like to welcome to the podcast... Brendan
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  Brown, listen, he has done it all. You would
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  think at such a young age he's missing something,
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  but he really has gotten to the grassroots of
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  things. Brendan, first of all, welcome to the
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  podcast. Thank you. Why don't you give us a little,
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  let's say, cliff notes of how you got where you
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  are today. How I got where I am today is, first
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  of all, my faith. I am a believer of Christ.
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  And it starts from there, the foundation. And
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  as it went by, I've been through different events
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  when I was younger that kind of shaped me into
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  who I became. That was very, I would say, traumatic
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  in a way, verbal and emotional. And it let me
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  be resilient in what I'm doing. And by me watching
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  YouTube, educating myself, creating and self
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  -teaching myself with different skills, I evolved
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  to where I am today. And that's just how I got
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  to where I got to from a generalization standpoint.
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  But if you want to go more in depth, just let
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  me know. I got a couple of questions for you.
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  So sit back, relax, and just give me your best
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  answers. You've shared your journey very openly.
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  Looking back, how have your greatest struggles
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  changed the way you build relationships with
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  people? How my biggest struggles change the way
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  I have relationships with people. How you build
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  relationships with people. Being authentic and
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  sharing what you relate with them. Because recently
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  with a brother I was speaking to yesterday, and
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  this is on my faith. Like I said, not trying
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  to roll my faith to nobody, force anything. This
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  is me. I was talking to a brother in Christ yesterday,
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  and he was telling me about how he was dealing
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  with some fake people. And he was like, it's
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  just something how. There are so many people
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  in this world that can have this fake light to
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  say they love God. And then they don't really
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  show the compassion or acts of it. And I told
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  him I had that experience. And he said at the
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  end, as we talked, he thanked God that I talked
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  with him because he said, I really appreciate
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  this man. I really felt trusted by it. Not trusted.
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  respected by what you were saying you understand
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  me you feel me and i say it's because it's the
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  experience and i thank god because a lot of things
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  i've been through no young man should have been
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  through having to provide for a parent through
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  allowance money from other relatives having to
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  grow up with a father not really being there
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  the way he had to be there when as he got older
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  he got better but it still wasn't as good at
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  that time before he had changed what he did having
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  relatives that didn't understand my perspective
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  was a lot but I stayed rooted I stayed strong
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  in my faith and in my God and that's what connects
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  me with so much people is that they love the
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  fact that I'm just rooted in what I'm doing even
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  if they're not a believer of Christ they still
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  respect the fact that I have the attributes of
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  it and I'm not perfect but I continue to just
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  try my best to just show that love and authenticity
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  to people because the main thing is I have to
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  feel how they feel because think about like how
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  Earlier today, I was at the restaurant. I told
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  my grandmother, I said, we have to always remember
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  that people, if we step in their shoes, we'll
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  know how they feel. And we sometimes have to
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  reflect and just think about what they are. Because
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  even as simple as a waiter, a waiter coming by,
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  they're doing their job. But if you really take
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  time with them and talk with them, because some
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  of them are going to have a rough day. And you
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  talk with them, they'll say, wow, he took. or
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  she took time with me to talk. And I loved it.
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  How's your day been going? My days were going
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  great. Where are you from? I'm from XYZ. You
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  going to college? Are you at another job? Yeah.
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  And you build relationships. You build it. So
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  that's how I have my biggest struggles to relate
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  with people. By just knowing that whatever weakness
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  you're going through right now, I need to find
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  a way to either relate with it with you or see
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  where I lived. that could relate to you. Because
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  everyone's circumstance is different. But you
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  can at least relate, and we all can, with struggle.
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  That's true. My mother always said, everything
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  happens for a reason. And it's true that it does.
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  And you are placed in that situation for that
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  person. Right. You were there at the right time
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  at the right place. You gave him the answers
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  that he was kind of looking for. So I understand
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  that. And that's building the relationship with
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  the person. And you brought up having a waiter
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  because I'm a firm believer that you treat the
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  janitor as well as the CEO. Because you never
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  know. First of all, you never know who he is
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  or what he went through to get where he is today.
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  So you have to give respect to everyone. And
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  like you said, the phonies, the people who put
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  the facade on. And you can tell them in business
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  because they're always like, hey, how are you
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  doing? And that's that big smile. And when they
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  go away from you and when they get in the car
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  or go home, they're a completely different person.
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  And that's not the person you want to hang out
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  with. All right. But anyway, I digress. I can
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  go on this for all day. Yeah, likewise. Podcasting
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  introduced you to people from all walks of life.
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  What's one lesson about human connection that
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  surprised you the most? One thing that surprised
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  me about human connection the most is just how
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  people can really think creatively. How when
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  you go in this social network of the Internet.
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  podcasting whatever industry you're in it's interesting
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  to see how there's so much different gifted people
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  in whatever field you're going for the prime
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  example is you see in a basketball how one player
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  comes in you see another one with this personality
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  come in they do their part and for me personally
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  it's surprising just to see like i said once
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  again the creativity how vast a person's mind
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  is with podcasting and then as i went from podcasting
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  social media and etc It's so true. And I have,
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  I don't know, just under 200 podcasts published
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  already. And I see it from different countries,
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  Australia, Germany, Switzerland, Europe, all
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  these. But everybody has that same common, they
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  want to see you do better. And I want to see
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  them do better. And this whole podcast is about
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  how you network with people. and get to the root
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  of what their problems are so you can help them.
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  And I go into a networking event with what's
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  called a servant's heart. I go in expecting to
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  help people instead of what they can do for me.
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  So it's a very big difference. We often celebrate
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  success publicly, but struggle privately. How
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  has being honest about your mental health changed
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  the quality of your relationships? When I released
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  the memoir, because the warm -up was the podcast.
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  At that time, I was going through a lot, just
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  recovering from just so much chaos at that time
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  that the pandemic had happened. And I started
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  recording. And eventually, when relatives did
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  not understand my perspective, I just started
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  venting on it, venting about different things,
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  venting about what they may have done and how
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  it inspired me to be strong in what I do. And
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  I sometimes use those stories to inspire other
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  people. And they would look at it as an, OK,
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  it's inspiring me and not all about, OK, it's
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  gossiping. But of course, to my relatives, they
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  thought it was. And then when the memoir came
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  up, that was a big whole issue because everybody
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  was like, oh, wow. But the people outside my
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  relative space were like, that makes sense. That's
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  understandable. And as time went on, even right
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  now as it's recording, it's gotten better. They
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  understand where I'm coming from. They might
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  not understand fully my entrepreneurial drive,
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  but they do understand at least a concept of
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  what I'm doing. They understand that I'm a unique
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  person. I'm a one percenter in the mindset wise.
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  To hopefully answer your question, but to finally
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  put the nail on the coffin, this answer is that
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  it made it better and it made me more stronger
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  because it started out feeling hurtful, but it
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  ended up being stronger. Even now, if I do deal
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  with the hurt, the pain, I just continue to go
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  up no matter what happens. Take the practical
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  steps, discern and listen to what's right. Discern
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  and listen to what's wrong and kick that out.
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  And don't even let that come in. And that's it.
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  Okay. Do you think people are craving authenticity
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  more than expertise today? And if you do, why?
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  Okay. I believe people are loving more authenticity
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  than expertise today because of the fact that
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  people want real stories now. I was in the self
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  -improvement space because I started doing this
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  since 2021 with podcasting. A lot of people started
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  to stop watching it. After certain creators started
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  getting exposed for having these gurus and different
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  things in business, people started realizing,
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  a lot of young people my age, too, realized that
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  starting a business is hard. Starting this is
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  hard. Starting this is hard because of the fact
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  that, number one, it was oversaturated. Number
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  two, some people were not taking the initiative
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  to do it to start a business. But number three,
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  it just was too much going on. And there were
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  people who were just literally really scamming
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  people who really worked hard for what they did
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  or didn't work hard and they still took their
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  money. And now people just really want realism.
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  And especially now with AI, it boosted that because
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  there's so much AI slops because that's a whole
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  nother conversation, but I'm not going to get
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  into that. There's AI slop and there's real AI
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  work that I believe can be really creative. And
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  the people who are doing the bad, of course,
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  is covering all the good. And people want that
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  real authenticity. And so when we're having a
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  podcast like this, a real talk. This is becoming
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  more valuable because at one point it was oversaturated
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  too, because every celebrity was trying to do
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  podcasting before it was a small thing. But now
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  authenticity, people may want to hear a podcast
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  again, especially if it's a well -known person.
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  And that's just why I believe authenticity is
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  even more important than expertise. And I would
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  want to add into your question here. They can
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  combine too, but I know you didn't ask that.
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  Okay. Authenticity is a buzzword that has been
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  thrown around so much that it almost has lost
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  its meaning. But if you can substitute authenticity
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  with being yourself, being real, that is what
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  is lacking in today's, whether it's podcasting
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  or anything else, especially with AI. AI, it's
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  very easy to put prompt in. have a polished letter
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  come out, but it doesn't sound like you. AI doesn't
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  have the emotion that you and I have, right?
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  And when we put the emotion into our writing,
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  then all of a sudden it's, whoa, hey, this is
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  so much better than AI. But AI is a starting
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  point. If that's all, you have to put five, six,
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  seven prompts into AI before you get a true answer.
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  And you have to look at that. But I'm more into
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  the person -to -person networking meeting. Zoom
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  is great because wherever you're calling from,
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  wherever I'm calling from, all of a sudden we
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  came together, which is fabulous. But I also
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  believe the networking, the one -on -one, the
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  one, I walk into a networking event where there's
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  300 people, we're human beings. We need that
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  human touch. And we'll go so much further with
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  that. Okay. Many people see networking as collecting
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  contacts. Do you believe it's actually about
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  creating spaces where people feel enough to be
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  themselves? That's what it should be. Yeah, I
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  agree with that. It should be there. It absolutely
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  should be. We went beyond. collecting contact.
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  I use the pandemic as a line in the sand. Pre
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  -pandemic, we collect contacts and we build our
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  mailing list. Post -pandemic, we create relationships
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  and we collect relationships. And that's what
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  I see is the biggest difference. All right. As
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  someone in your 20s, what do you think your generation
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  understands about relationships that older generations
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  sometimes overlook? Be careful. I get your joke
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  there. I get your reference there. I was like,
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  what's the joke? And I'm like, I got it. But
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  what I think is one thing that we got that older
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  generations overlook is that we know how to come
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  together. I know that there's this saying that
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  the Gen Z doesn't come together or something
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  like that. I don't know. I hear from some people,
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  but I believe we really do come together because
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  we're the first generation you can really see.
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  that really looks out for each other. There are
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  still some negative people, of course, that's
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  always going to be worse because I believe our
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  generation is the strongest at being the worst
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  and the best. But I believe looking at the good
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  side of it, we can come together because if there
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  are two talented Gen Z people, they can do it.
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  There's been stories where you may have heard
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  on the internet or maybe in person, you might
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  know of young people in apartments saving money
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  just to live and they... Do that. Some of them
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  may pursue their passions together and succeed.
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  And that's where I believe it is, if I answer
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  your question. Don't want to get on a little
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  rant there. I was about to get on a rant. No,
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  that's all right. That's all right. City has
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  a way of revealing who really stands beside you.
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  How has hardship changed your definition of friendship,
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  community, and professional relationships? See
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  how the guy couldn't hear you. Adversity has
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  a way of revealing who really stands beside you.
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  How has hardship changed your definition of friendship,
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  community, and professional relationships? It's
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  shown me that you have to be strong. For me,
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  it showed me I have to be strong in what I'm
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  doing. I have to not let the best or the worst
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  get to me, but know that. It's the results is
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  what happens. It's what I believe what is best
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  because I don't contradict myself. It's what
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  I believe is best to let the best come through
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  me. Dealing with so much negative people, especially
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  last year that I dealt with personally, I just
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  came to the conclusion that I have zero tolerance
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  for anyone who doesn't want to see success. If
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  they don't want to see success, if they don't
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  want to see growth, I don't want to be bothered
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  with them. That doesn't mean that I... I'm just
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  going to be an idiot and not listen to nobody.
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  I'm still going to listen to what's needed if
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  I need criticism. But if you're a person that's
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  not wanting to develop or grow, or you're just
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  very doubtful, or you're just, in my opinion,
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  not following the right ways of how you should
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  go along with faith too, then there's no need
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  for me to be bothered with you. Because at the
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  end of the day, you're not trying to grow. You're
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  not trying to improve. And so why do I need to
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  be bothered? Recently, I talked to, and I'm going
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  to make this a story here so I can relate to
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  the audience here. Last year, I had this friend
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  who was, quote unquote, starting off with being
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  friends. And then eventually he started just
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  causing chaos, causing ruckus. We had a chat
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  we started where we all come together, talk about
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  different things. And then the chat got worse
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  and worse. And me and that guy wanted to start
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  a business together. This is a business podcast.
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  We're going to start a business together. And
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  we were going to do an AI app for a Bible app.
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  And he had just said that he wanted to do it
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  X, Y, Z. We had two other people come in. One
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  guy was just worrying about the money. The other
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  guy was just quiet and sneaky. And then the main
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  guy, Timo, who I met, he just didn't know what
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  was going on. And he just loved the fact that
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  it was chaotic. And when I gave structure, he
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  didn't like that. And I said that it's better
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  for us to come as a unit. and have our skills
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  come together creatively. Then for it to just
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  be two people working, one person at the bottom,
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  three people working, one person at the bottom,
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  it should be you come together and work. But
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  it's an experience I had to learn at a young
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  age, what to know. I thought it had potential,
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  but it didn't. Like I said, a boy who I had,
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  who we were collaborating with, he was worried
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  about the money too. So it was two of them that
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  was worried about money in a way. And eventually
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  I cut him off. When I cut the guy off, The idea
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  of me came to create that children's book. And
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  then a few months later, January, after October
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  2025, when the idea came, January 2026, I launched
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  this children's book. And so with AI, this was
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  the image, but the work, the writing, the story,
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  the soul of the characters were all me, all written
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  down. Even my children's YouTube channel I have
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  from that book, adapted from that book, is AI
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  videos, but it's all written by me, scripted.
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  Everything was all through me cooking my brain
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  to figure out what to do. Because the AI, I only
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  just want that to be what I'm visualizing. I
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  don't ever want it to direct or do nothing I'm
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  doing. Because it's my work. So people can see
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  it's my work through what I've done. And so when
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  you go through hardships, just know this one
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  thing. You see this individual that's not doing
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  right, leave them alone. Test them out first.
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  They're not doing right. Leave them alone. Go
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  to a new person. And see where you can learn
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  something from it. Because despite all that,
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  I learned something from it. And I learned about
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  discerning certain people. I learned about how
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  to do better in business relationships and how
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  to conduct. If a person's not really ready to
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  conduct, to go through, then there's no need
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  to be bothered with them. You know, there's an
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  old saying. And you take your closest five friends,
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  take them and see type of person they are, how
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  they act, how they react. And that's really what
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  you are, right? Because if they are your close
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  friends, you can't say, I will do that. I'm above
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  that, but I like them. Because sooner or later,
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  you're going to fall in with the five. So if
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  you have five friends that are successful and
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  you choose to be successful, you're always fighting
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  to get to that point. You'll be successful. If
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  you have five friends that are just sitting around
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  and not doing anything, you're going to lose
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  all your momentum and you're going to sit around
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  and not do anything. So my suggestion would be
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  to make sure that your friends are up there or
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  they want to be successful. So that's. The only
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  thing I want to say. Yes, sir. If someone quietly
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  is battling anxiety, depression, or self -doubt,
• 22:05
  what role can a community and meaningful relationship
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  play moving them forward? Well, like I always
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  say this, if somebody's dealing with anxiety
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  or something, if you need professional help,
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  go get it, because I would never tell no one
• 22:22
  don't get it. Go get it if you need it. But if
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  not... If you just need somebody to talk to,
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  call that trusted friend or that trusted adult.
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  If you're a minor, if you're an adult, call that
• 22:33
  trusted adult that you know. And as a teenager,
• 22:36
  I don't know, young adults who look and call
• 22:38
  that trusted friend as well and talk with them,
• 22:40
  vent with them if they're trustworthy and see
• 22:45
  where they can be to help you out. And if they've
• 22:47
  been helping you out lately and giving you the
• 22:49
  right advice on what to do, continue to follow
• 22:52
  that because that's the best thing. Last night,
• 22:55
  like I said, once again, that same guy I was
• 22:57
  talking about who I talked to and he was telling
• 22:59
  me about fake friends and things. I talked about
• 23:01
  that earlier in this podcast from the beginning.
• 23:03
  When he talked to me and called me, he called
• 23:05
  me late at night and he said, I'm sorry for calling
• 23:08
  you so late. I just wanted to call you because
• 23:11
  I know that you're very trustworthy. I really
• 23:13
  trust you and I know you're a person that won't
• 23:17
  take me the wrong way or go against me the wrong
• 23:20
  way. And it goes back to what I said earlier.
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  When you relate to somebody and you talk with
• 23:27
  them and you get to feel how they feel, they're
• 23:30
  going to want to trust you more because it's
• 23:31
  part of psychology. Even in business, we have
• 23:33
  to practice psychology. And it's not in a bad
• 23:36
  way, but in a great way because some people can
• 23:39
  use reverse psychology, the evil type, I guess
• 23:42
  I'll say. And some people can use the best psychology,
• 23:44
  the good one. And my dose, I guess I'm just using
• 23:47
  a pun intended, my dose is... I'm going to use
• 23:50
  the best psychology to help somebody out, to
• 23:52
  help them improve and be better than what they
• 23:54
  can be yesterday. And that's the best way on
• 23:57
  how a person should be if they're facing anxiety.
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  Talk to that trusted individual. I know it's
• 24:02
  basic, it's generalized, but just do that and
• 24:04
  know that they're trustworthy. But hopefully
• 24:05
  my experience maybe fleshed out something for
• 24:07
  that individual who is looking for that. On that
• 24:12
  same note, and let's bring this podcast full
• 24:14
  circle. So imagine someone listening today. feels
• 24:19
  disconnected, feels discouraged, or believes
• 24:23
  that they're facing life alone. What's one truth
• 24:27
  about relationships that you hope they never
• 24:31
  forget? Your legacy. I know that's a big one,
• 24:37
  but your legacy. Why? Because if you talk to
• 24:41
  somebody, and every time you leave a footprint
• 24:44
  in their heart, a positive one, they're going
• 24:48
  to come back. They're going to want more. Because
• 24:51
  just like when, hopefully I'm using an example,
• 24:54
  when you print something, pun intended, like
• 24:56
  when you print something, you got to reprint
• 24:58
  it again if it's losing its color. Or if it's
• 25:01
  something that you always use and you always
• 25:03
  put on something, you got to redo it. Hopefully
• 25:05
  I'm using the right analogy. And that's how it
• 25:07
  is when it comes to that individual. If you can
• 25:11
  put a footprint in their lives, in their heart,
• 25:13
  they'll come back. I hope that answers your question.
• 25:17
  It absolutely does. Brendan, this was an enlightening
• 25:21
  podcast. I think you're well beyond your years.
• 25:26
  You've written a book and everything else. Listen,
• 25:29
  if somebody wanted to get hold of you or learn
• 25:32
  from you, be mentored by you, or even just call
• 25:36
  you just to say hi, what's the best way for them
• 25:40
  to get hold of you? They can get hold of me just
• 25:42
  like this. You can follow me at BrownStay100.
• 25:45
  B -R -O -W -N -S -T -A -Y 100. That's at BrownStay100
• 25:50
  on all socials. If you have Facebook, TikTok,
• 25:53
  any social media you have, whether you're young
• 25:56
  or old, I'm on all of them. The main ones. Facebook,
• 26:00
  TikTok, Twitter, YouTube, etc. And my YouTube
• 26:04
  channel, of course, is at BrownStay100. That's
• 26:06
  my media company channel. And my... Email is
• 26:11
  at brownstone100 at gmail .com if you want to
• 26:14
  email me there. At brownstone100, no, brownstone100
• 26:17
  at gmail .com. And then I know you didn't mention
• 26:21
  this, but if you want to support my books and
• 26:23
  what I've done, I have a memoir out that came
• 26:25
  out last year called Trials and Tribulations
• 26:27
  and Trauma, A Story Built Through Adversity.
• 26:30
  That's on Amazon. You can just type my name.
• 26:32
  I'm Brennan M. Brown, B -R -E -N -D -A -N M.
• 26:35
  Brown. And it's on there. You'll find that book.
• 26:39
  And then, of course, I released my latest, if
• 26:42
  you're a parent, children's book right here called
• 26:44
  The Best They Had to Come, which is a story just
• 26:46
  talking about the little boy who was a man in
• 26:48
  this image, Matthew, and the little cub, which
• 26:50
  is a lion named Leo, who is there. Leo, the lion
• 26:54
  is there as support to help the boy become strong
• 26:57
  and encourage him what he needs to do in life.
• 26:58
  Because many of us as adults and for our kids
• 27:01
  who's looking at this, they can be inspired by
• 27:03
  this to know that, OK, I may be going through
• 27:05
  things, but I can do it. If Matthew can do it,
• 27:08
  I can do it. And it can inspire the kids and
• 27:10
  even the parents will kind of be like, wow, it's
• 27:12
  inspiring. And I adapted a show from it that's
• 27:15
  exclusively on YouTube as well. And it's there
• 27:18
  to help inspire the kids too. So if they don't
• 27:21
  want to read, they can watch the stories. And
• 27:23
  I do episodes weekly on there every Monday and
• 27:26
  Friday at 12 p .m. EST. And for those, like I
• 27:29
  said, the channel is called The Best Is Yet To
• 27:31
  Come YT channel. And if it's not that, it's Matthew
• 27:36
  and Leo. And if you can't find it, type both
• 27:38
  of them together, Matthew and Leo, and type in
• 27:40
  the Best Yet to Come YT channel on YouTube, and
• 27:43
  you'll find the YouTube for a TV show. And then
• 27:45
  for the book, it's called The Best Yet to Come.
• 27:47
  Once again, if you look under my name, Brendan
• 27:49
  Brown, you'll see all my books all together.
• 27:51
  It will show my memoir, my children's book, and
• 27:54
  my first two self -help books, which I'm not
• 27:56
  really mentioning that too much because now in
• 27:58
  a day and age, we live with AI. Most information
• 28:01
  is already out there. So it's best just to show
• 28:03
  you all stuff that hasn't been made yet, which
• 28:05
  is my IP, my memoir, my life story. That's something
• 28:08
  that AI cannot replicate or take. And you can
• 28:11
  be a part of that story to see where my life
• 28:13
  is and my work, of course, too, of what I'm doing.
• 28:17
  And for anyone who's looking at this, I'm actually
• 28:19
  also planning on... releasing a superhero as
• 28:22
  well soon too soon through books and adaption
• 28:25
  different things and now be launched very soon
• 28:27
  so just stay tuned and once again i mentioned
• 28:29
  everything you can rewind this episode if you
• 28:30
  need to listen again about where i'm at and everything
• 28:33
  and if you want to support please support thanks
• 28:36
  that's great and i tell all my listeners to listen
• 28:41
  to this very carefully to follow brendan because
• 28:45
  he has so many good ideas and i think it's very
• 28:48
  good for children So today's conversation is
• 28:52
  a reminder that networking has never been about
• 28:55
  collecting contacts. It's about finding the people
• 28:58
  who challenge you, encourage you, tell you the
• 29:02
  truth when you really need to hear it, and remind
• 29:05
  you that you don't have to carry life's burden
• 29:08
  alone. Success is meaningful, but significance
• 29:11
  comes from the lives we touch along the way.
• 29:14
  The strongest relationships aren't built because
• 29:17
  everything is going well. they're built when
• 29:20
  people show up for one another during the moments
• 29:23
  that matter most here's my challenge for you
• 29:26
  for the week reach out to someone not because
• 29:29
  you need something but because they might a simple
• 29:33
  conversation a sincere question or a genuine
• 29:37
  check -in could become the encouragement someone
• 29:41
  remembers for years If you found value in today's
• 29:45
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• 29:55
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• 29:58
  has encouraged you, share it with someone who
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  through meaningful conversations, visit michelaforman
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• 30:27
  connection may not be the person who opens the
• 30:30
  next door for your career. It may be the person
• 30:34
  who reminds you who you are when life gets hard.
• 30:39
  Build relationships with integrity. Lead with
• 30:42
  compassion. And never underestimate the impact
• 30:45
  of showing up for someone else. Brendan, thank
• 30:49
  you so much for coming on my podcast, and I hope
• 30:52
  to speak with you soon. Yes, sir. I appreciate
• 30:55
  everything. Thank you so much. All right, folks.
• 31:01
  A huge thank you to our guests for sharing such
• 31:04
  incredible insights today. And of course, a big
• 31:07
  shout out to you, our amazing listeners, for
• 31:11
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  Remember, networking isn't about being perfect.
• 31:27
  It's about being present. So take what you've
• 31:30
  learned today, get out there, and make some meaningful
• 31:33
  connections. If you've enjoyed this episode,
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• 31:41
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