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Author/Speaker/Podcast Host Damian Lewis talks CALL ME FIRST on Cyrus Webb Presents · Cyrus Webb's tracks

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  Speaker 1: Hello, everyone, and welcome back to Cyrus Web Presents. I'm
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  Speaker 1: your host, Cyrus Webb. Glad you all could join us
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  Speaker 1: on our simulcast on social media, we appreciate you guys
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  Speaker 1: being with us as well. And last but certainly not least,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to connect with our friends over on Amazon
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  Speaker 1: Live so they can be a part of our chat today.
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  Speaker 1: We have a very special guest that's joining us for
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  Speaker 1: the first time here on Cyrus Web Presents. He wrote
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  Speaker 1: a book I had a chance to read that I
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  Speaker 1: think you guys are going to really enjoy. This is
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  Speaker 1: a book that's great for men, but also a great
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  Speaker 1: discussion piece, I think, for families as well. So we're
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  Speaker 1: going to let you guys know how to stay connected
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  Speaker 1: with the author as well as his movement too. We're
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  Speaker 1: now live on the Amazon Live side of our broadcast
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  Speaker 1: with Cyrus Ware Presents. If you guys are new to
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  Speaker 1: us on Amazon, welcome. Make sure you guys do hit
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  Speaker 1: that follow button either here in this corner or down below.
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  Speaker 1: You also will see the book and the podcast by
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  Speaker 1: our next guest. We're excited to welcome Cyrus. Damian Lewis,
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  Speaker 1: to our broadcast today. He's the author of the book,
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  Speaker 1: Call Me First. Also, that's the title of his movement
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  Speaker 1: as well. I want to talk to Damian, not only
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  Speaker 1: about the writing of the book, but what it's been
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  Speaker 1: like for him to share his own personal story, but
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  Speaker 1: what he hopes he's able to do, not only for men,
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  Speaker 1: but also helping us all to be able to better
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  Speaker 1: coexist in the family as well.
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  Speaker 2: Damian, thank you again for stopping by, man. I really
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  Speaker 2: appreciate it.
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  Speaker 3: Cyrus, thank you for having me, man.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you for all the support that you have given
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  Speaker 4: me over the last couple months and how well you
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  Speaker 4: have went on ahead and pushed the movement for me
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  Speaker 4: and just showed me It's a tremendous amount of love.
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  Speaker 3: I appreciate it, man.
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  Speaker 2: Man, glad to do it.
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  Speaker 1: One thing about me, man, as a book nerd, Damien,
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  Speaker 1: is that when I discover a book that I enjoy,
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  Speaker 1: I love to be able to share it with our audience.
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  Speaker 1: Let's start there, Damien, because I think anyone who's taking
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  Speaker 1: the time to read, call me first. And again, for
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  Speaker 1: our audience joining us here on Amazon, you guys can
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  Speaker 1: be able to grab it for yourself. Those joining us
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  Speaker 1: on social, see the link. What has that been like
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  Speaker 1: for you to be able to share your own personal
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  Speaker 1: journey in this book and to see the way that
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  Speaker 1: so many people, Damien, are connecting with it?
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  Speaker 3: You know what, Cyrus?
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  Speaker 4: The reception that I got from the book, it was
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  Speaker 4: something that I never even thought was going to be possible.
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  Speaker 4: It was something that I never even imagined it would
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  Speaker 4: win as far as it did. Because when I wrote
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  Speaker 4: the book, I didn't write it thinking I was going
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  Speaker 4: to sell as many copies as I did.
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  Speaker 3: I wrote it pretty much as a blueprint memoir.
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  Speaker 4: In my brains, I'm writing it for my sons because
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  Speaker 4: I didn't have perfect leadership. I didn't even have a Uh,
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  Speaker 4: an example of what leadership really was in a home.
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  Speaker 3: And I wrote it for them in a way.
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  Speaker 4: And then I'm saying, if I'm writing it for them,
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  Speaker 4: maybe after maybe another man can get something from it,
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  Speaker 4: but it was just like, I'm putting literature out for
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  Speaker 4: my sons and it wound up being something that other
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  Speaker 4: men were able to gravitate to and learn something from.
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  Speaker 1: And I think that's the powerful thing I mentioned to
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  Speaker 1: you before we went live here, that there were some
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  Speaker 1: sections that I wanted to share.
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  Speaker 2: With their audience.
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  Speaker 1: And what I love about this book, Damon, is for
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  Speaker 1: one thing, the honesty, but also the practicality, right? Because
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  Speaker 1: the thing is, none of us do everything perfectly, especially
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to communicating, showing up.
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  Speaker 2: And you really acknowledge that in the book.
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  Speaker 1: And for those who have the print edition of the
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  Speaker 1: book on page 44, one of the things that you
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  Speaker 1: talk about is how we can lead our home better.
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  Speaker 1: And it's just small things that you give there. And
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  Speaker 1: this is what you say after you share five simple things.
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  Speaker 1: You say this, None of that costs money, but it
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  Speaker 1: builds threefold wealth, emotional, relational, and generational. If you don't
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  Speaker 1: make time for those things now, you'll be forced to
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  Speaker 1: make time for damage control later. And then you said this,
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  Speaker 1: and this is to me one of the most powerful
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  Speaker 1: parts of the book, Damien. You say, I used to
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  Speaker 1: think leadership was about fixing everything. Now I know it's
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  Speaker 1: about being someone that can count on when things aren't fixed.
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  Speaker 2: Talk to us about that and what that revelation was
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  Speaker 2: like for you.
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  Speaker 3: You know what?
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  Speaker 4: Once you realize, when you get a little bit of
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  Speaker 4: experience in life, you start realizing that you can give
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  Speaker 4: a lot.
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  Speaker 3: You can give, give, give, give. I'm talking about material,
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  Speaker 3: tangible things. You can give, give, give.
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  Speaker 4: But later on in life, sometimes people just want to know.
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  Speaker 4: People just want to know that they have someone in
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  Speaker 4: their corner. Someone that they can rely on. Someone that
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  Speaker 4: won't push them away. Someone that is there. So that is,
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  Speaker 4: that's the entire movement of what call me first is.
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  Speaker 4: Call me first. It means literally for a man to
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  Speaker 4: tell his family, call me first. I'm going to be
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  Speaker 4: there to support you emotionally. I'm going to be there
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  Speaker 4: to support you, whatever you need. If you, if you
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  Speaker 4: have something to celebrate, call me. If you're going through
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  Speaker 4: a tough time, call me. I'll be there for you.
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  Speaker 4: Even if I can't give you an answer, you don't
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  Speaker 4: want an answer. You just need someone to talk to.
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  Speaker 3: You want to vent. I'm dad. I'm husband. Call me.
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  Speaker 4: I'm here for you. Don't ever feel like you don't
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  Speaker 4: have anybody. That's what I'm here for. Call me first.
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  Speaker 1: And I think for you to be able to show up, Damien,
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  Speaker 1: and to be someone that people see that they can
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  Speaker 1: be able to rely on, because that's really what a
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  Speaker 1: lot of this book is.
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  Speaker 2: And that's why I'm.
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  Speaker 1: So glad that you wrote it, but also glad that
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  Speaker 1: you've been discussing it the way that you have. Because,
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  Speaker 1: you know, one thing as someone who reads hundreds of
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  Speaker 1: books a year, you know, I'm always surprised. And I
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  Speaker 1: will say there's been a shift now. And how many
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  Speaker 1: times we don't see.
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  Speaker 2: The good guys that are out there, the guys.
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  Speaker 1: Who are not perfect, but they're trying that they're, you know,
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  Speaker 1: they're not stereotypical. They really are doing the best they
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  Speaker 1: can and trying to be better. This is the kind
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  Speaker 1: of book for them. You know, the ones who people
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  Speaker 1: have given up on, who said what they can't be,
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  Speaker 1: who they want to judge by their past, but people
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  Speaker 1: will still trying to move forward. This book is for them.
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  Speaker 1: Did you know though, that you would connect with people
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  Speaker 1: that would actually embrace the message as you do in
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  Speaker 1: this book, that sometimes it's okay not to be okay with,
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  Speaker 1: and how even part of our strength is acknowledging that.
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  Speaker 4: Cyrus, it was a hope that it would connect with anybody.
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  Speaker 4: It was a hope that somebody would get value from it.
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  Speaker 4: And I had Kyle on my show the other day,
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  Speaker 4: and Kyle asked me, when you first put this out,
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  Speaker 4: how many books did you expect to sell? I was
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  Speaker 4: saying maybe 100. Over a lifetime, I would have been
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  Speaker 4: happy to sell 100 books. I'm saying, okay, 100 people
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  Speaker 4: may have gotten something of value. Maybe not all of them,
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  Speaker 4: but something of value. I was able to help someone.
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  Speaker 4: So that was the whole thing. It's like when I
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  Speaker 4: put this out, I was hoping to get somebody to have,
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  Speaker 4: even if it would have changed one person's life, Cyrus,
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  Speaker 4: that would have been good enough for me. And the
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  Speaker 4: thing about it now is I come to realize that
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  Speaker 4: there are so many of us that were written off
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  Speaker 4: in a way. And we do want to be better.
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  Speaker 4: We do want to try. We do want to expand
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  Speaker 4: on what we know. We do want to break the cycle.
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  Speaker 4: And sometimes we don't know exactly how. So the message
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  Speaker 4: inside of my book helps a guy get over that hump.
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  Speaker 4: And I'm glad I was able to, you know, deliver
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  Speaker 4: that amount of value to anybody, even if it was
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  Speaker 4: just one person.
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  Speaker 2: So true. I see you guys coming over there on YouTube, IGN,
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  Speaker 2: on Amazon.
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  Speaker 1: ESP presents on Amazon.
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  Speaker 2: Damien says, love it. I'm going to get the book.
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  Speaker 1: Women are saying that men are showing emotional that that's well,
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  Speaker 1: that they're not the only ones in a relationship that
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  Speaker 1: can do that. I'm going to get his book. I
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  Speaker 1: appreciate it. And that's the whole thing. I think knowing
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  Speaker 1: that we are human beings, I think that's the big thing.
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  Speaker 1: Daybreak197 on IG says, great insight. The cover of the
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  Speaker 1: book makes me automatically want to know what's inside.
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  Speaker 4: Cool.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate that. Visage, hello to you over there on
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  Speaker 1: IG as well. And that's the thing. So, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and that kind of comes to the whole thing of allies, right, Damien?
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's so funny. I've talked to, you know,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of women who write books. you know, trying
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  Speaker 1: to help women in situations, but then they have men
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  Speaker 1: as allies. What has it been like for you to
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  Speaker 1: have now girlfriends and wives wanting to be that ally
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  Speaker 1: for that man in their life that is trying to
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  Speaker 1: be that person they can call on?
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  Speaker 3: You know what it is, too, though?
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  Speaker 4: For a man to have that type of support from
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  Speaker 4: a woman, I don't think women understand this. Like when
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  Speaker 4: a man is down on his luck or things are
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  Speaker 4: rough for him, when you come and give him that support,
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  Speaker 4: that push in the back and you, what we call
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  Speaker 4: it from where I'm from, you put that battery in
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  Speaker 4: his back, you give him that boost of energy, the
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  Speaker 4: things that he will be able to do, knowing he
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  Speaker 4: has someone supporting him, especially if he never had it,
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  Speaker 4: you wouldn't, the things that he's going to do for you, like, man,
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  Speaker 4: like I always say, that man will run through a
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  Speaker 4: brick wall for you.
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  Speaker 3: He'll run through a brick wall for you. He'll go
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  Speaker 3: and bring you to the moon if he has to.
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  Speaker 3: He just needs that support.
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  Speaker 4: So just to know that, well, That conglomerate of people,
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  Speaker 4: husband and wife, boyfriend and girlfriend, whatever it is, that
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  Speaker 4: support that happens in that aspect, this is something that
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  Speaker 4: I totally live by and I promote a lot. I
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  Speaker 4: want that support from the woman. I want that support
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  Speaker 4: from the man for his woman. It's something that's been
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  Speaker 4: missing a lot. And then again, too, real quick, I
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  Speaker 4: don't want to hold off too much on this one.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, no, go ahead.
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  Speaker 4: What happens in a lot of situations is people don't
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  Speaker 4: speak their expectations, meaning that you're going with a set
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  Speaker 4: of expectations that nobody knows about. And if you were
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  Speaker 4: just to open your mouth and say, listen, I need
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  Speaker 4: this support from time to time. Or the flip side
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  Speaker 4: of that is, listen, I'm here for you. Whatever you need,
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  Speaker 4: tell me what you need me to do. And I'll
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  Speaker 4: get it done for you. These are the support factors
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  Speaker 4: that people are missing. People are afraid to ask for it.
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  Speaker 4: And then people are afraid to offer it. If you're
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  Speaker 4: with somebody, you love them, you want the best for it.
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  Speaker 4: There is no such thing as humility. Do what you
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  Speaker 4: have to do for the success of your relationship.
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  Speaker 3: Do it.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 3: That's what we're here for.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And I think that's the whole definition there of being
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  Speaker 1: in a partnership.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I think that that's the thing to know.
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  Speaker 1: That also leads to the second thing I wanted to mention.
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  Speaker 1: And you say this in Chapter 9 of the book.
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  Speaker 1: The chapter is protect your peace or lose everything you're building.
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  Speaker 1: I love this point because you say this about yourself.
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  Speaker 1: You say protecting your peace isn't selfish. It's actually one
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  Speaker 1: of the most selfless things you can do. Because when
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  Speaker 1: you protect your peace, you protect your ability to lead, love,
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  Speaker 1: and provide for those who depend on you. If you
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  Speaker 1: don't get this part right, nothing else in this book matters.
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  Speaker 1: I want to talk about that because sometimes we feel
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  Speaker 1: like we just have to to do everything, be everything
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  Speaker 1: and let people just kind of do whatever. And we're
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  Speaker 1: supposed to take it. You know, one thing I've definitely
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  Speaker 1: learned in my life is that, you know, you have
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  Speaker 1: to set those barriers down. You have to be able
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  Speaker 1: to do that so that you can show up for
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  Speaker 1: those who matter. What was it about that point that
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  Speaker 1: made you realize, Damien, that that is really the key,
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  Speaker 1: being able to protect your peace and to know how
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  Speaker 1: to set those boundaries?
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  Speaker 4: When you realize how much something outside of what you're
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  Speaker 4: actually supposed to be doing, when you realize how much
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  Speaker 4: those things can knock you off your pivot foot, they
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  Speaker 4: can knock you off your goal, they can You ever
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  Speaker 4: get into a disagreement with someone, maybe, I don't know,
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  Speaker 4: maybe at work or something.
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  Speaker 3: And then it sits with you all day that whatever
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  Speaker 3: that disagreement was.
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  Speaker 4: And to the point now you come home, now you're
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  Speaker 4: a bit distant from your family, a bit distant from
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  Speaker 4: your lady, a bit distant from your kids because something
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  Speaker 4: happened at work.
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  Speaker 3: And that what it did was it disturbed your peace.
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  Speaker 3: You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 4: So I started realizing that as certain arguments and certain discussions,
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  Speaker 4: I'm just not going to be a part of anymore.
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  Speaker 4: Because I'm experienced enough now to know what these type
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  Speaker 4: of arguments, these type of conversations, what they do to
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  Speaker 4: my mental sometimes. And I say, nah, I'm blocking that off.
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  Speaker 4: And it's a saying that I put in a book, too,
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  Speaker 4: maybe somewhere in that same chapter there, that says you
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  Speaker 4: don't have to show up to every argument that you're
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  Speaker 4: invited to.
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  Speaker 3: You don't. You don't. You can choose. I'm not. Nah,
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  Speaker 3: I'm not getting in that one.
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  Speaker 4: Nah.
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  Speaker 3: The same for me. You know what? Have a good day.
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  Speaker 4: I'm going this way. It is okay to do that.
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  Speaker 3: Do it. It's for you. It's for your family. And
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  Speaker 3: think about this too.
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  Speaker 4: We're all so trying to impress everybody, trying to be
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  Speaker 4: there for everybody. Listen, man, it comes a point now
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  Speaker 4: and you just be there for the people who are
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  Speaker 4: there for you. You can't fix everything. You can't be
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  Speaker 4: there for everyone. You will run dry. You will run
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  Speaker 4: thin and you won't be there for the people that
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  Speaker 4: are actually dependent on you. Right.
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  Speaker 2: And won't be there for yourself. I think that's the
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  Speaker 2: other thing, right? Because we end up losing ourselves. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: cool PJ.
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  Speaker 1: I'm good to see you, sis. And Daybreak197 says, peace
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  Speaker 1: is so important. I think that is so true. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: you're right. In that same chapter, Damian, you say this.
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  Speaker 1: And again, it's another big thing. You say, for me,
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  Speaker 1: protecting my peace is about guarding myself from the parts
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  Speaker 1: of life that try.
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  Speaker 2: To pull me back into old habits.
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  Speaker 1: The savage, the disrespectful attitude, the nasty way of speaking
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  Speaker 1: when I'm frustrated, the quick temper. The old me was
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  Speaker 1: always ready to go there, and it didn't serve me well.
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  Speaker 1: So now I don't entertain situations that make me that
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  Speaker 1: person again. That's part of protecting my peace. And I
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  Speaker 1: think that's the thing. We will sometimes allow people to
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  Speaker 1: kind of trigger those things and cause us to revert.
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  Speaker 2: And I think that's it.
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  Speaker 1: And that's why I love the fact you say, if
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  Speaker 1: they don't get this part, the rest of the book
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  Speaker 1: is not something they're going to really be able to
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  Speaker 1: connect with, right? For yourself, I mean, you said at
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  Speaker 1: the beginning of this conversation, Damian, that you weren't even
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  Speaker 1: planning on writing this book at least for the world,
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  Speaker 1: and this was something for you in a course that
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  Speaker 1: you could be able to use for your family. As
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  Speaker 1: you were reading it back, I'm curious, what was it
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  Speaker 1: like for you to think about your own transformation that
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  Speaker 1: you'd made?
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  Speaker 4: I go back to the time that it actually happened.
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  Speaker 4: The time that it actually happened, I wrote it. I
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  Speaker 4: got a new book that's coming out this month, late
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  Speaker 4: end of this month, and I wrote in that book.
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  Speaker 4: The time that that transformation from thinking back about it now,
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  Speaker 4: the time that transformation actually happened, I was alone.
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  Speaker 3: I was alone in, in, in my apartment alone in
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  Speaker 3: my apartment.
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  Speaker 4: I started looking back at my past and I'm looking
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  Speaker 4: back at everything that I can. I can, I can, uh,
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  Speaker 4: muster up to see where did I go wrong? Where
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  Speaker 4: did I fail? Where did I fall short? And I
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  Speaker 4: found all of it. I felt short in accountability. I
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  Speaker 4: felt short in communication. I felt short in intentionality. I
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  Speaker 4: felt short in discipline. I felt short in respect. So
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  Speaker 4: once I realized that that's, that's when the whole thought
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  Speaker 4: of like, I need to be a bit more intentional
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  Speaker 4: with every part of my life.
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  Speaker 3: Here moving forward. And here's a quick thing about being intentional, right?
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  Speaker 4: Um, after that time I did my wife, uh, I
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  Speaker 4: didn't know my wife at that time.
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  Speaker 3: Um, When her and I got.
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  Speaker 4: Together, we were introduced by a mutual friend. And when
• 15:01
  Speaker 4: her and I got together, it was probably maybe three
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  Speaker 4: weeks in, me and her just having conversations. And I
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  Speaker 4: said to her, I said, listen, I'm at the point
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  Speaker 4: in my life right now. I know exactly what I want.
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  Speaker 4: I know exactly what direction I'm going in. And I'm
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  Speaker 4: going to get there one way or another. If we
• 15:18
  Speaker 4: aren't planning on getting married, I think we should separate
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  Speaker 4: right now and go out and separate. Because I want
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  Speaker 4: to be married. This is my, this is the direction
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  Speaker 4: I'm going. This is what I want.
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  Speaker 3: I want a wife.
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  Speaker 4: I want my family. I want the white picket fence.
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  Speaker 4: I ain't got white picket fence yet, but this is
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  Speaker 4: what I want.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 4: And I made sure to tell her that I'm being
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  Speaker 4: intentional where I'm going right now. This is, I was
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  Speaker 4: 37 at the time. This is what I'm doing. This
• 15:42
  Speaker 4: is what I want. And the good thing about it
• 15:44
  Speaker 4: is this was the place she was at in her
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  Speaker 4: life too. And everything we did after that was intentional
• 15:49
  Speaker 4: towards marriage and I'm built on all five pillars. the communication,
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  Speaker 4: the accountability, the discipline, the respect, the intentionality. I built
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  Speaker 4: on all five of those pillars. In that meantime, don't
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  Speaker 4: get me wrong, I worked on it before, but I
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  Speaker 4: was able to.
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  Speaker 3: Fine-tune it during my process of getting married and being married,
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  Speaker 3: and I learned a lot here, being married.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: And I think that's it, and I think that's the
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  Speaker 1: whole thing, too, Damon, that it is a process. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to be seeing Terrence Leather over there on
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: IG and Ellen says on Amazon, we need more male
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  Speaker 1: writers not to fix things, but to be an ear
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: as this is, we know we're not going to fix everything,
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: but being true to be able to listen to each
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  Speaker 1: other and women, we have to stop making unrealistic lists.
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  Speaker 2: You know, but I think that goes for us both.
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: That leads to the last thing I want to mention
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  Speaker 2: in the book.
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  Speaker 1: And again, for those who have not gotten their copy
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: of call me first, now's the opportunity to get it.
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  Speaker 2: You can get it in print.
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: The Kindle edition is, Even the audio book is available
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: as well here on Amazon.
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  Speaker 2: So make sure you all take advantage of that.
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  Speaker 3: I actually read the audio book myself, guys. So that
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  Speaker 3: is my voice on the audio book.
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  Speaker 2: There you go. There you go.
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  Speaker 1: In Chapter 14, you talk about leadership. And I want
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: to read this because I thought this was really interesting.
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: You say leadership is heavy sometimes. It's lonely sometimes. But
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: it's also the most meaningful thing you'll ever do. Because
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  Speaker 1: when you lead with purpose, you don't just change your life.
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: but the lives of everyone connected to you. So what
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  Speaker 1: is your hope then, Damian, as people read this book,
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: they think about your own example, your own journey, where
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: you are today, and also reminding them what's possible for them.
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: What do you want them to know about not only
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: being that person, as you mentioned earlier, that people can
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: call on, but also being the person that can lead
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: as well?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you have the ability. Here's the thing about leadership.
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  Speaker 3: You have the.
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  Speaker 4: Ability to direct someone's life. And when I say direct,
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: I don't mean like you're going to tell them what
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: to do. If someone is looking up to you and
• 17:59
  Speaker 4: paying attention and following your examples, they're going to possibly
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: turn out to be someone like you. What example are
• 18:10
  Speaker 4: you setting for the people that are looking up to
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: you or following you or wanting to walk in your
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: direction because they might have some type of idolization to you.
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: And I don't really want to use that word too much,
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: but these are the people that are following you and
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: looking at your example, looking to you for leadership. They're
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: eventually probably going to take on some of your habits.
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: What do you want them to take on? What do
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: you want them to feel? What do you want them
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: to see? Do you have their best interest at heart?
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  Speaker 4: If you do, then you will do the right thing
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: to guide them in the right direction. And if you
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: don't know what that is, Go research a little bit.
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: Go find someone that is maybe a little bit more
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: advanced than you in the position that you're trying to
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: get to. Go see how this person moves. Go imitate
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  Speaker 4: some of the things that they do. And I'm not
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  Speaker 4: saying you want to be a follower, but if you
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: don't know what to do, go find someone that's already
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: doing it. And then model what they're doing and follow
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: that leadership. And then a lot of it is inside.
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  Speaker 3: Of this book. A lot of it.
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  Speaker 4: Exactly.
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  Speaker 2: I totally agree. I totally agree. I've read it twice myself. Damien.
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  Speaker 1: And I think the thing is, when I first was reading,
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: I was like, wow, that's a good point. Wow, that's
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: a good point. But I was also traveling. So so
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: I had to read to the kids so I could
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: actually be able to take notes, you know, and even,
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: you know, just the three points I mentioned here today.
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  Speaker 1: I think if men would really be able to really
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: think about that and think about how transparent you are
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: in here, Damien, but also how it really holds a
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: mirror up to all of us on how we don't
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: have to be the person we were. But also we
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: can be able to be better each and every day.
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: And I think that's one of the big things. I
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: can't let you go without asking more about the movement.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: So the book is called Call Me First. Your podcast
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: is called Call Me First. What has it been like
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: for you to see how this movement has grown?
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  Speaker 3: I am blown away by it.
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  Speaker 4: The good thing is when you're doing something different, when
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: you're doing something different, you will get support. When you're
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: doing something, especially something positive. And so This is not
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: something that people see all the time. That's one guy,
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: like a man comes out and speaks, speaks about leadership.
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: And I, like you said, I'm so transparent. There was,
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: of course there are parts of my life. I can't,
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: I can't expose, but there, but for the thing that
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: needs to be, I tell anybody anything, listen, I grew up, um,
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: pretty much just with mom, with mom taking care of me. Dad, dad,
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: dad was around, but dad was doing this thing.
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  Speaker 3: You know what I mean? So, uh, pretty much my
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: mom raising me.
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  Speaker 4: So I learned, uh, I had to learn a lot
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: of the leadership things on my own later on in life.
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: And I wish I got them earlier, but I had
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: to learn a lot of stuff in life. So to
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: even be where we are right now, it's like to
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: see that other men are just happy to have someone
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: that can relate to them, someone that knows their struggles,
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: someone that, yes, that's what I'm, I've been going through that. Yeah, yo,
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: that's what I'm, that's what I'm, that's what the same
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: thing for me. I've been there, I've done that. Yeah,
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: this guy understands. And now it's not just a part
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: of understanding. I tell you how to get out of
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: that jam that you're in. I tell you what I
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: did that worked for me. I tell you, listen, put
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: these two plays together. Once you run this play, go
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: around the corner here and you will.
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: Make the touchdown. This is what I do inside of
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: the book. So, listen, get me wrong.
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: The plays that I ran may not work for everybody,
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: but it worked for me.
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: And I'm giving you an idea of what can work.
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: So maybe that's what it is. Yeah.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: And it's just us being willing to do it. And
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: I think that's the big thing. The key word being work.
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: It is work.
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: It's not something that we can just think about. It's
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: something we have to make the decision to actually do.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: And Damien, it's very obvious you were able to do that.
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: And that's how you've been able to get to where
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: you are today and continue to move forward. As you mentioned,
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: you have a new book that's getting ready to come out.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: But I do want our audience to know, again, Call
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: Me First is available here on Amazon. For those of
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: you joining us on the Amazon platform, We do have
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: the print, the Kindle edition there, as well as the
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: audio book. For those of you joining us on social,
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: you'll find the link there to be able to get
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: it for yourself. Damien, though, how can our audience stay
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: connected with you and keep up with all the things
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: coming up, including the new book?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you can find me right on Amazon.
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  Speaker 4: Call Me First. Anything with Call Me First on there,
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: that'll be me. You can find me at callmefirstshop.com. If
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: you want to go by there, just hit the contact
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: button and send me a message. You can also find
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: me in all socials. Either call me for a shop
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: or call me for a blueprint. Like I said, a
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: new book is coming out later this month. It's called
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: Men Don't Get the Break. Men Don't Get the Break.
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: Look out for that book, too. It's coming out at
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: the end of this month. I went into a lot
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: in the Call Me First book, but in the Men
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: Don't Get the Break book, I went way farther than
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: I did inside of that book, and I gave a
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  Speaker 4: bunch more lessons and experiences on the five pillars, which
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: is accountability.
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  Speaker 3: Communication, intentionality, discipline, and respect.
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: I went and told real stories from my life and
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: how certain things played out for me and it worked
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  Speaker 4: out for the best. Love it.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we have to have you come back then, Damien,
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  Speaker 2: when the new book comes out.
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  Speaker 3: All right. I appreciate you. Thank you for having me, man.
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  Speaker 2: Man, it's our pleasure.
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: And we thank your audience for tuning in to another
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: great segment of Cyrus Web Presents. Until next time, y'all
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: make it a great one. We'll talk to you soon.
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  Speaker 2: Take care.