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- 0:06Welcome to Group of Porsche, the podcast that uncovers the hidden treasures within grief.
- 0:10I'm your host, Porsche the Producer, and I'm inviting you to join
- 0:14me on a transformative journey where we will exchange laughter, of course, the
- 0:17best medicine of them all, reflect on cherished memories, remember that time that
- 0:21the little boy grabbed my hand instead of his mother's at the amusement park yikes,
- 0:25And of course, discover gratitude while navigating one of the life's hardest challenges,
- 0:30loss. So get ready to grow with me, Porsche the Producer,
- 0:34let's dive in. Hey, everybody, welcome back to Group of Porsche.
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- 0:59the ladiest and greatest of all Group with Porsche. So today I have the
- 1:03honor to be joined by my brother from another mother, who is who I
- 1:07would call a semi reinvented individual who was on a mission to equip others with
- 1:11safety tools for any life circumstance. So welcome back to Group of Porsche.
- 1:18Co founder of Penton Pending Consulting Solutions LLC, mister Larry Penton himself. Hey,
- 1:23Larry, how are you doing today? We'll call you LP. As
- 1:26always, I'm doing great. You know how you know how to do it.
- 1:30Any day that I wake up on this side of the dirt, I'm
- 1:33still desting to do stuff. So let's go bring it, bring it on
- 1:38like Donkey Kong. So as always, you know, I'm grateful to have
- 1:42you again be a guest on Group of Porsche, especially because you're the first
- 1:46guy that I've had on to really have a deeper dive into what grief looks
- 1:52like in our lives. Right, So, LP first starters for our audience
- 1:57who's tuning in? Those who know you, They know that you are an
- 2:00entrepreneur just like me. Can you share LP with our audience and with me
- 2:06how you're navigating the grief that comes with being an entrepreneur? Right, Let's
- 2:13be realistic. We change communities when we become an entrepreneur. We're no longer
- 2:17surrounded by that plethora of co workers when we are in the corporate space or
- 2:23if we have to relocate for our entrepreneurial endeavor to flourish. We don't have
- 2:29that sense of community right off the bat, and then not all the time.
- 2:32We have the support even from the people in our network. So LP,
- 2:37can you share with our audience how you are navigating the grief that comes
- 2:42with entrepreneurship. Yes, a multifaceted team approach. Myself, my wife missus
- 2:51LP, as everybody calls her, the president of the company, the CFO.
- 2:57You know, she's the money and you know we just worked together just
- 3:01well. We have tons of conversations about everything from A to Z. She
- 3:08helped me start. She's the co founder of Penn and Pending Consultant Solutions LLC.
- 3:15I still have a day job, a number of them. I still
- 3:19work, you know, a nine to five. I still do stop the
- 3:22league trainings across the country. So we have a great network and great partners
- 3:30to help when you know there's not consistency in terms of residual income, that's
- 3:38a building process. We've been in business since twenty twenty one actually, and
- 3:45you know, these last two years have been phenomenal, more than I could
- 3:49ever dreamed. I remember going back to August nineteen or twenty nineteen, I
- 3:59was featuring the US News and World Reports in this article called Diversity Emergency,
- 4:03and it's still online. So if you go to usnews dot com or on
- 4:08that site you searched either my name or the name of the article diversity Emergency,
- 4:13you will see this article that they featured me in and we talked about
- 4:18some of the challenges that's lacking in emergency medicine. I never thought and I
- 4:27was active in the field at that time. I was doing fire in MS,
- 4:30and I never thought that five years later, not only would I be
- 4:35retired from EMS and fire, but I'd actually have my own consultant firm and
- 4:40I'd be actually traveling in the country teaching these things. You know, It's
- 4:45just a blessing and it keeps me from being down in those times where it's
- 4:50like, Okay, I gotta let me search for some more clients, let
- 4:54me schedule these classes and stuff, because we're doing them more consistently now.
- 4:59But it's it's been a hard struggle, and they can call some depression.
- 5:03That can cause some anxiety because it's like, man, am I making the
- 5:08right decision, that I do the right thing and retiring. I know I
- 5:13retired because of my wife's health issues doing the pandemic, because I was a
- 5:16COVID medtic. But when I think about grief, I think about the partnership
- 5:20that I have with missus LP, and there's always therapy about you know,
- 5:26seek help. My father and I'll talk me a very valuable lesson. He
- 5:30says, seek help whenever you need it, you know, LP. I'm
- 5:34glad that you reinforce that seeking help, right, because, let's be realistic,
- 5:39with you being in the healthcare field, there tends to be a running
- 5:45stigma that healthcare professionals are the ones that don't seek help when they're going through
- 5:51some type of trying time in their personal life or even in their work life.
- 5:57Because let's be realistic, right, as a responder, you're there on
- 6:01the scene when anything can break out, and even, let's be realistic,
- 6:06probably some of your traumas resurfaced during some of those moments when you have to
- 6:13be superman for somebody else. NLP. I want to ask you something I
- 6:18know during our last conversation, me and you kind of talked about where you
- 6:24had the experience of losing someone close to you within the last month or so,
- 6:30and I'm curious LP for you. Have you been navigating that grief journey
- 6:36of losing this close friend of yours and how has it also maybe resurfaced some
- 6:44of the unresolved grief that you have been dealing with in your own life.
- 6:51Wow. I just got a text message from a friend. Name was Tiffany
- 6:58Werner. She's a licensed mental health counselor in the state of Florida in the
- 7:03Tampa Bay Clearwater area. She died July sixteenth of this year from a massive
- 7:09heart attack and some complications that came from that. I got to text a
- 7:15message from her husband, her widow today. He was apologizing for not getting
- 7:19back in touch with me because I had similar message last week. And you
- 7:26know, I met this woman on this app called Clubhouse. I never met
- 7:30in person, but I met a last July, but excuse me last June.
- 7:34And we not only created a partnership as far as work wise. Since
- 7:39I've been on her show, which was called Moments of Clarity with Tiffany,
- 7:44we developed a friendship just like you and I have, you know, and
- 7:48just like you and I would talk off air, offline about anything, everything,
- 7:54all things. She and I had the same report along with her husband
- 8:00Old when I got the news, and it's still hard, you know.
- 8:03I mean, we're just we're all everybody that knows her and loves her,
- 8:07and I'm part of that inner circle that she had, which we're just devastated,
- 8:13and you know it, it's not an easy conversation to have. She
- 8:20was a person that said her model was ending the stigma on mental health,
- 8:26and she always says change can only come when we stand together. It's one
- 8:28I want to continue that. That's why I do the work that I do
- 8:33as even though I'm retired as a paramedic and a firefighter, ideal a lot
- 8:39with mental health related issues in the work that I do, and I tell
- 8:45people that as far as first responders go, I just did a podcast on
- 8:52my own podcast called Trigger one and Talk Podcasts. We had a conversation about
- 8:58how first sponders need help also dealing with post trauma situations. You know.
- 9:07We talked about crisis, critical incident stress debriefing, and critical incident stress management.
- 9:13This is the process where once you go through a hard call, like
- 9:18maybe a kid died in the fire or something like that, or somebody got
- 9:22ejected from a car, accident in a car triggering. I'm just flesh and
- 9:30blood at the end of the day. Forget the uniform and the badge and
- 9:33the certifications and the licenses and the training and the experience. At the end
- 9:37of the day, I'm just a person. I got feelings and emotions.
- 9:43Gender be damn innicity be damn all of that stuff. I gotta go home
- 9:48and Missus LP and she, you know, if I'm on a four day
- 9:50and hour fire shift and she's like, hey, how was your day,
- 9:52and I'm like, you know, I don't give you the blood and guts,
- 9:58but you know it was a it was a hard I'm from Saint Louis,
- 10:01Missouri, you know it was. It's considered the murder capital of the
- 10:05US, and it's always in the top three for decades. So I experienced
- 10:11a lot of trauma on the job. You know what I always told Missus
- 10:15LP, I want to go to work, healthy, happy and hole and
- 10:18I want to come back home the same way. And I would do everything
- 10:22in my power to do so. If I got to take a break,
- 10:26if I got to talk to somebody, including you or some professional, if
- 10:31I gotta network with my coworkers and get a team effort involved in terms of
- 10:37dealing with the grief that we deal with. Because we deal with grief all
- 10:41the time. I used to say I walked in blood every single day that
- 10:45I was gonna do. Literally, we all as first responders are not one
- 10:52selling me. But we're not sideboards, were not robots. We're living,
- 10:56breathing organisms, and we have to understand that probably about forty percent of your
- 11:03nine when one calls, have a mental health component to them. That's a
- 11:11lot of mental health stuff that we don't get a lot of mental health training
- 11:13more So, that's part of how I deal with grief is seeking help and
- 11:20getting training and getting more resources collectively and talking to other first responders to make
- 11:26sure that they are keeping themselves in check and if they're doing everything that they
- 11:31can do to deal with these traumatic casts that they get because they can cause
- 11:37grief. You know, a p I love what you mentioned, and you
- 11:41know, sending my love to Tiffany's family then of course to you. Me
- 11:46and Tiffany were Facebook friends and I never got a chance to talk to her
- 11:50in person. I kept telling myself to reach out to her, to reach
- 11:54out to her, but I never got a chance to, but I could
- 11:56tell and when I look through her kind, I'm like, oh my god,
- 12:00we have so much in common. And LP what I loved, And
- 12:03especially about Tiffany's model of ending the stigma around mental health, I'm curious,
- 12:09LP, what will that take to eliminate the stigma that we hold around grief,
- 12:16especially because grief has such a heavy negative connotation, especially when it's centered
- 12:22around somebody who makes their transition. We have to end the stigmas, the
- 12:28taboos, and the stereotypes when it comes to mental health. One of the
- 12:35things that I came up with is this quote. I say, mental health
- 12:39crisis is the world's oldest continuous pandemic. It's been around since the beginning of
- 12:43mankind, and folks, it ain't going nowhere until we deal with the stigmas,
- 12:48the taboos, the stereotypes that guilt, the shame, the drama of
- 12:52the pain, the judgment, the grief. We are going to continue to
- 12:56see grief in very is formats me being the first respondent, even though I'm
- 13:03retired, I deal a lot as a consultant. I deal with active shooter
- 13:07hostil events or violent critical incidents of coor should I get breaking news stories every
- 13:13day when these incidents happened. They're not all about guns, because there could
- 13:18be anything like what happened at the Montgomery, Alabama River brawl. I did
- 13:26a Facebook post about that the day that it came out, and I got
- 13:31the information probably a few minutes after it was posted online. I talked about
- 13:37the lack of humanity that we saw in that unfortunate incident. Whether it's what
- 13:45happened in Uvaldi, whether it's what happened is Standing Hook, whether it's what
- 13:48happened at the Travis Scott concert. We see these stories all the time,
- 13:54and it desensitizes us to it because we say, that's not going to happen
- 13:58here. Doesn't happen where I live, It doesn't happen in my community,
- 14:03it doesn't happen in my neighborhood. I have never experienced that. Personally.
- 14:07I say, well, every time you see these breaking news stories, if
- 14:11it does not affect you on some level, how is that possible? Because
- 14:16again, you're just a person. At the end of the day, this
- 14:20is not a video game. We're not looking at something like a game like
- 14:24Call of Duty. Word You're just killing aimlessly and all that stuff or whatever.
- 14:28And then you get a couple of more lives, or you can put
- 14:30in some codes and get infinite lives or something like that. We're talking about
- 14:35actual, living, breathing human beings. There's eight billion of us on this
- 14:39planet with a beat. If you live to be a million years old portion,
- 14:45you will never get a chance to meet every living human being on the
- 14:48planet. When it comes to grief, one of the things that I talk
- 14:52about all the time is you got to deal with your adverse childhood experience.
- 15:00You have to deal with your adult trumps. You have to deal with the
- 15:05desensities they desensitization. You have to deal as if you identify as a male,
- 15:11you have to deal with the emotional suppression that you were taught as a
- 15:15little kid. You know, I told you before, I had some older
- 15:20relatives that were males that would gut punch me and call me names and all
- 15:26that stuff. That they saw me crying, they taught me it was only
- 15:28five reasons that a guy should cry. You had to be falling off a
- 15:33multi story building, curse between a couple of cars. Somebody had to be
- 15:37dying, dead or dying. You have to have one of loss a major
- 15:39sporting event, or maybe you had a bad break up. You know,
- 15:46and if you or someone who heard that growing up and you heard that repeatedly
- 15:56and you got called sisty or you got called weak or different things like that,
- 16:00there was physical contact made because you were sharing, sharing your emotions or
- 16:03showing your emotions, that leads a lesson in impression on you. And what
- 16:10we're talking about grief. Even in griefing situations, I've seen guys refuse to
- 16:17cry, refuse to show emotion, refuse to let themselves be human because they
- 16:26feel like, oh, you know, I don't want to appear to be
- 16:30weak. I can go on and on and on. Suffices to say that
- 16:37it's all about making sure that you are doing what you needed to do to
- 16:42live a full life. And part of life, as we were trained,
- 16:48is you got to say the words. I can't be like, Hey,
- 16:52if I got a call that somebody went in the cardact arrest and I'm the
- 16:56leading medic in me and my squad show up and we're working on this page,
- 17:00you know, twenty forty sixty minutes and we can't resuscitate that person.
- 17:06I got to go to that family member, those loved ones, those caregivers
- 17:08and say not, Hey, your loved one just transcended to another dimension.
- 17:15No, I have to tell you, I am so sorry that we were
- 17:19not able to resuscitate your loved one. Your loved one has died. Here's
- 17:23what we believe happen, Here's what we do, what we've done. I
- 17:27will have everybody and their mama's sitting right there while we're doing the resuscitative efforts.
- 17:34I've had family members, Hey, you want to take two minutes to
- 17:37do some CPR because everybody needs a break two minutes if we rotate, you
- 17:44know, can you give me this, can you help help us do that
- 17:47or whatever? Because I want you to be part of the process. So
- 17:49when I have to call time of death, in that grieving moment, you
- 17:56know that we worked our butts off to do everything we could do to try
- 18:00to resuscitate this person. That's when the grieving process starts. You know,
- 18:06there's five stages of grief. You got denial, anger, bargaining, depression,
- 18:11and acceptance. Sometimes you're gonna fluctu the way between those. We gotta
- 18:17understand those five stages and what they really mean and how do you deal with
- 18:22those because at the end of the day. Grief will come when it comes.
- 18:26It ain't no time clock, there is no calendar date of it.
- 18:32You know, you can prepare as much as you can, you can be
- 18:34as hard as you want to be, you can have bosses to tissue by
- 18:38you, but you never are prepared until it happens too that part, LP,
- 18:47And I love how you reiterated that grief is not linear, right,
- 18:51Let's be realistic that. I think oftentimes we believe that we're all going to
- 18:56go through the same stages of grief because we saw someone else go through it,
- 19:02depending on the circumstance, right, whether it's we lose somebody suddenly,
- 19:07or even let's just say we get terminated from a place of employment, right,
- 19:11that brings on grief because it was so sudden, especially when you've spent
- 19:15so much time in this space, whatever it might be, whether you an
- 19:21IT person or an HR or even you know in the healthcare field, right,
- 19:26Like, we all go through some type of level of grief. And
- 19:30I think the beauty though in grief, LP, is that there's always that
- 19:34hidden gift, right, There's always that hidden gift that can spring up through
- 19:40our grief journey. And now people before we go on to the next part
- 19:42of the conversation. For our audience who's tuning in, if they're interested in
- 19:45connecting with you and learning more about you, is there a website or a
- 19:48social media handle you can share with us today? I can be contacted fear
- 19:55my website which is www dot Penson, Pending, pe N t O N
- 20:00p E N d I ng dot com. My IgMs are at LP fire
- 20:07medic also at Penting, Underscore, Pending, Underscore CSS and consulting Solutions excellent.
- 20:15So those of you who want to connect with LP, you definitely can
- 20:19LP. I want to go back to something that you mentioned about men grieving
- 20:23right, and I'm curious being a man get along, a man of color,
- 20:29how can toxic masculinity be beneficial and also hinder somebody's grief journey and processing.
- 20:42I'll start with him. So I love the analogy that my friend Will
- 20:52Baptist came over some years ago. He talked about He gave a few examples.
- 20:59I added one. He talked about Tyrese Gibson, Will Smith. I
- 21:03added Michael Jordan for context. Remember when Tyrese was on his IG live and
- 21:11he was talking about the issues he was having with his custody issues with the
- 21:15mother of his child, and he was on there and he was really emotional.
- 21:19What happened? They made a crime meme out of him. Same thing
- 21:22happened with Will Smith talking about pre slap incident when he was on the Red
- 21:27Table Talk talking about the entanglement issue. What happened They made a crime eame
- 21:33out of him? Michael Jeffrey Jordan. I mean, I'm in Charlotte,
- 21:37so you know, Michael Jordan the night that he was being enshrined into the
- 21:44NBA Hall of Fame, the greatest night of his professional NBA career. What
- 21:49happened? They made a crime name out of me? I said, Now,
- 21:56if these famous black men who are rich and wealthy can be made into
- 22:02crying names, what do you think they're gonna do with LP If I get
- 22:04on social media and I start talking about, you know, the loss of
- 22:08my friend Tiffany, or you know, the estrangement that I have in my
- 22:15family dynamic or whatever. I don't want to be the butt of somebody's jokes.
- 22:21I don't want to be made into a crime name. I don't want
- 22:23to be the laughing stock on food. Ever we think about that as guys
- 22:30every single time, especially in this social media environment. Toxic masculinity. You
- 22:37know what I say about that. I say anything that's toxic, it's toxic.
- 22:41It don't matter if it's masculinity. It don't matter if it's a drug
- 22:45or substance or whatever it is. Toxic is toxic. I mean, hey,
- 22:51do I need to put on a hass mass suit because I want to
- 22:53be where's it? Where's the toxicity? I want to be a one hundred
- 22:56and eighty degrees away from where it is. So it don't matter to me
- 23:00what the source is. I just need to recognize it is what it is.
- 23:06As far as positivity, you take those, it's not your fault if
- 23:11you don't know. My mom taught me when I was a little boy a
- 23:17lot of things, and one of the things that she said, as a
- 23:19single parent is everybody's ignorant. We don't know everything. Intentional ignorance is something
- 23:29else, because once you don't know something and you've you've been made aware that
- 23:34you don't know it, it's not your fault if you don't know. But
- 23:37once you've been made aware of that, it's your fault if you don't find
- 23:41out retaining it. You know, that's part of the conversation also, but
- 23:47it can be a separate part. You know. Doctor Martluther King said there's
- 23:51nothing more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity, and I added the intentional
- 23:59to that sincere ignorance. I say sincere intentional ignorance because we do some of
- 24:04these things all the time when we see them play out on social media,
- 24:08and all of these things for males, especially black males, because there's such
- 24:15a hatred for the melanin that we possess, there's such a vilification of black
- 24:25men. I still go out places and still get prejudice. I still get
- 24:32treated with systemic racism. And even when they find out that I'm a former
- 24:37first responder, sometimes that's not even good enough. So when we're talking about
- 24:42grief and toxicity in masculinity, I say, you have to be maintaining situational
- 24:52awareness all the time, not just for safety physically, but you're mental safety
- 24:59because us you can implode and do something to yourself, you can explode and
- 25:06do something other people and beg My friend causes so much more pain to grief,
- 25:15you know, LP what you're hinting on especially being self aware. Right,
- 25:19Let's be realistic as a man, especially a black man in a society
- 25:26that no matter what, whether you're doing something heroic or villainous, either way,
- 25:33the narrative is going to be twisted in some way. Right. And
- 25:38one of the things that you're hinting on is anger. Right. There tends
- 25:42to be a heavy negative connotation when it comes to anger. But I've learned
- 25:49that anger is love and passion combined. An LP for our audience who's tuning
- 25:56in whether they're a man and who's currently you know, whether a first responder,
- 26:02a professional like you, or a younger man, how can they use
- 26:07anger towards action to implement a positive change while they're going through grief. Anger
- 26:15is love and passion combined. I would say it can be controlled or uncontrolled
- 26:26love and passion combined. Let's deal with the uncontrolled part. This is where
- 26:33I get the nine one calls about. You know somebody who lost their job,
- 26:40somebody who lost a loved one, somebody who lost their relationship, somebody
- 26:48who got their All White Air Force one scuffed accidentally. You know somebody who
- 26:57did a rose rate road rage incident? Missus LP, she and I were
- 27:03in the car the other day and somebody cut in front of me real quick,
- 27:10and you know, I slowed down a little bit and you know,
- 27:15just let him go ahead. And she looked at me and because I was
- 27:18driving, and she said, she said this word called beats, like the
- 27:25vegetable. Because we have safe words. And I told her, if if
- 27:29I'm ever kiddnapped and somebody calls you and says that you know they got me
- 27:34and they want whatever, and I said, you need to do one approof
- 27:37of life too. You need to ask a number of questions to make sure
- 27:41it's me that they got me. And I said, when I was in
- 27:45EMS, I used to tell my partners, hey, if I say certain
- 27:48words that lets you know that it's going down something bad, it's going to
- 27:52happen. So one of my safe words was the word beats, because I
- 27:56don't like the vegetable or whatever. I said. If I say about if
- 27:59I say any thing with the word beats and I'm not talking about the headphones,
- 28:03you know it's about to go down, like we need to leave like
- 28:07yesterday. So she said beats and I was like, what are you talking
- 28:10about? And she was like, I can't believe that you didn't, that
- 28:12you didn't do a road rage thing or whatever normally to be cursing the person
- 28:17out and all that stuff. I said, you know what, I believe
- 28:21that because I'm fifty two now, when my age comes wisdom, and because
- 28:26I see such hatred in people losing their crap in driving situations so much that
- 28:36end up being these breaking news stories. I've chilled out with my road rage
- 28:41a whole lot. So if you know that man must got stuff to do
- 28:48that don't go on head. You know, hopefully he doesn't go before me
- 28:56and gets involved in an accident. And now I gotta pull over and provide
- 29:00medical cared for because every time we go out somewhere, I say a prayer,
- 29:03Lord, please let nothing happen where we're going that I got to lay
- 29:07hands on somebody, whether it's in a medical situation or in the protective situation.
- 29:15Amen. Now that's that's the uncontrolled. The control is part of what
- 29:22I just said. Also, you have to maintain control of that anger,
- 29:29even if it's about grief, because again you got the five stages of grief
- 29:34denial. Anger's number two. You're gonna be mad that this person is not
- 29:41around anymore, you're gonna be mad that they got their life got clipped,
- 29:45you know. You know, if they were forty years old and they died,
- 29:48or they were a baby and they died, or they could be ninety
- 29:52years old and you're like, man, I'm not ready for them to go.
- 29:57You know, if it with somebody that killed them, if they died
- 30:02in an accident. You know, whatever the situation is, you have to
- 30:07maintain the system of control of that anger. And it's okay to feel anger
- 30:11because that's part of the human emotion and that's part of the human experience.
- 30:15In a grief situation, you have to sit there almost sometimes and do a
- 30:22woosie. You almost have to sit there and do some form of metaphysical modality,
- 30:30whether it's the EFT to tap in, whether it's meditation where you actually
- 30:36get out and do some yoga. You might have to contact a metaphysician that
- 30:41specializes in raiki or neural linguistic program in NOP or coindic ship behavior therapy for
- 30:48people that are dealing with grief and they might be having PTSD or CPTSD.
- 30:55You might have to do some EMD or there's so many modalities that are available.
- 31:00Just laying on somebody's couse for forty five minutes doing Q and eight it's
- 31:03not going to help pretty much embody. So and everybody does not need medicine.
- 31:08Medicine has it this place. I'm just saying, there's so many things
- 31:12that you can do when anger manifests, especially from a grief situation, that
- 31:22you have options. And that's all we're talking about. Put the tools in
- 31:29your tool box to deal with what's in front of you, because if you
- 31:33don't, I'm going to get another breaking news store that I don't want and
- 31:37you don't want that life one hundred percent, LP. And you know,
- 31:42you hit on so many of my favorite quotes of number one. There's so
- 31:49many tools available to us right in this intentional ignorance, right, you know,
- 31:55what is it? The book in nineteen eighty four says ignorance is bliss,
- 32:00but a lot of us, you know, I think there's a there's
- 32:02a level of fear that comes when grief is present too, because there's this
- 32:08fear of yes, I know that there's other things available, but what does
- 32:13that look like? Right? And so LP, you know, first and
- 32:16foremost, as always, I thank you for coming on and sharing your words
- 32:21of wisdom with our listeners. And I just love talking to you anyway,
- 32:24because coming from a medics standpoint, and also dealing with your own level of
- 32:30grief and providing that personal heart to heart because like I said, men don't
- 32:36often talk about what they're going through, and I think what you really hit
- 32:40on was being more encouraging to them. Any any whatever stage of life,
- 32:47any young man or someone who's your age that might be wrestling with grief of
- 32:53some sort and it's manifesting as anger, manifesting as depression, they have a
- 32:58way to in a sense, convert that anger, convert those emotions of sadness,
- 33:04depression, fear into some actionable way to move forward with their life.
- 33:12LP again for our audience who's tuning in, if they want to connect with
- 33:15you and learn more about you, please share your website and social media handle
- 33:19again. The website is www dot Penton Pending dot com. The IG pages
- 33:28that we have My personal page is at LP firemedic and the companies IG pages
- 33:36Penton at Penton Underscore Pending, Underscore CS or Consulting Solutions excellent. So everybody
- 33:45that was our who I will call our semi reinvented CEO and founder of Penton
- 33:52Pending Consulting Solutions LLC, mister Larry Penton himself. That you heard from and
- 34:00that concludes this live episode of Grew of Porsche Season number two. Thanks for
- 34:06listening, Peace and hair Grease. Everybody, Peace and Harris lp out.
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- 34:27until we meet again, Peace and hair Grease,