Ep. 89: Host Dr. Ryan Sauers Interviews Rob Cole and Rob Cole Music

Dr. Ryan T. Sauers hosts the Community Connections show. It features positive stories and encouraging news from top leaders in various sectors of communities nationwide, along with super insights and timely discussions.

**Enjoy this epishow to hear great insights and wisdom from our special guest, Rob Cole of Rob Cole Music:

Rob Cole is a singer and songwriter based in Pembroke, North Carolina. Listen to this show wherever you get your podcasts, OR watch this Community Connections TV show-> https://youtu.be/Q7NrpiIQ4sg?feature=shared Rob even played a little of his new song in this live episode—it was live, so he did it with no prep.

Rob Cole, who recently appeared on The Voice, is a singer and songwriter with a unique style that spans from Southern rock to Country. His music is a reflection of his life and love, and his greatest focus is to create an authentic sound through his songs. This authenticity is what makes his music so relatable and heartfelt, connecting with listeners on a deeper level.

Rob's family—his wife, Chelsey, and their three children (Harmony, Xander, and Amia)—are his greatest treasures outside of Jesus. His deep-rooted family values are reflected in his music, making it relatable and heartfelt.

For booking or more information and upcoming shows about Rob (his band) and all his social media handles, visit www.linktr.ee/robcolemusic

For more information on this or future shows, contact: Ryan@ryansauers.com

Transcript

SPEAKER_02 0:04

Hello again, everyone. It is time for another episode of the Community Connection Show. The show that brings you positive stories and encouraging news as we interview top leaders in every sector of the community. And now, here is your host, national speaker and best-selling author, Ryan Sowers.

SPEAKER_03 0:28

Hello again, everybody, and welcome to a community connections TV show with Ryan Sowers. I'm super excited to have my friend Rob Cole with us on the show. Rob, my friend, how are you doing?

SPEAKER_01 0:39

Doing good, bud. Doing good. Having a great day so far and excited to be on here with you finally, man.

SPEAKER_03 0:45

Yeah, we've talked about it a while, and Rob have been doing doing a lot of traveling and got to meet uh Rob and the great, great place of uh Cherry Grove area, and and he's got a great story to tell. We've become uh good friends and uh just want to be able to share what kind of guy this is. And uh like I said, he and I've been talking about four months and I finally got it got it done. So glad we got to do it. But Rob, let's let's let our guests just know a little about you and your background, you know, your family, your your faithful friends. Can you just tell us a little about who Rob Cole is?

SPEAKER_01 1:15

Yeah, so um I am based in North Carolina, uh Pembroke, North Carolina, to be exact. And uh I got a beautiful, beautiful family of uh there's five of us total, my beautiful wife Chelsea. I got three kids, Harmony, Xander, and Amaya, which are all the light of our worlds, and so they keep us on our toes and keep us going. But uh yeah, right here in Pembroke, North Carolina, southeastern North Carolina, and uh born and raised and still living. But uh I do a ton of uh traveling as far as music these days. I've been doing uh shows here the last two years or so, and uh I've been doing a ton of traveling, mostly there in uh that Cherry Grove North Myrtle Beach area. And so uh, but all my roots are right here, my family, my uh like I said, born and raised. I got two older brothers live right here. I got all the extended family. That's kind of what Pembroke is. It's one big happy family, and you got cousins and second cousins and third cousins all living here together. So uh that's awesome, man. Yeah, man, it's a pretty awesome thing, pretty awesome community. Um, super faith-based. Um, like you mentioned. Um, you know, I was raised in in church and still attend church, uh Christian faith, and um that's a big part of who I am. It's kind of how I make my decisions, base my everything. So uh kind of raising my family in that same manner. So um, yeah, that's a big deal to me here. Uh big part of who Pembroke is as well. So it's also um the home of the largest Native American tribe east of the Mississippi River, which is the Lumbee tribe. I did not know that. Very, very thankful to be part of my wife as well, my whole family. And so uh yeah, yeah, that's a big part of part of who we are and who I am.

SPEAKER_03 3:02

Well, it drew me when we we first met, um, just seeing, you know, your your kid, you know, your kids younger than mine, but you know, seeing the dad you are, seeing the um husband you are, seeing the faith component, you live it out. And uh, and I think when we do that in life, uh it draws us to certain people, and that's how you and I get to be friends. And so, well, let's talk about this. Now, you and I I don't know if I ever asked you this, but I know you always say sometimes when I've heard you play a couple years ago, you got deeper into country music. Yeah. Now, were you playing something? I never even asked David. Did you play something a little different before that? Because I've I've been yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 3:35

So before that, just kind of a little bit more of my history. Um uh I've always loved country music. That's always been kind of my go-to genre listening to my mom. Was a country girl, so she listened, she had us listen to a lot of country music. Um, but for about eight to ten years, I was actually uh worship minister. Okay at a at a church up in uh Fettville, North Carolina, about um about an hour away from where we live. But um I was on full-time staff. I was uh part of worship uh ministry there, and so uh that was a huge part of my music um career to start things out. But I always had a nagging, a wanting, a longing to get branch out and just do um I just I just love country music as the storytelling, the the life aspect. Like you said, I love the family, I love my kids. Being able to tell stories about those things and uh just about life has always been something I wanted to do as a not just a singer but as a songwriter as well. And so um I finally made that move a couple years ago and uh uh haven't looked back since. It's been great.

SPEAKER_03 4:41

Well, I mean, it's amazing, and uh it makes sense. I mean, it makes total sense to move in that direction. You can just feel kind of the way you encourage and inspire people while you're it's just kind of I don't know, it's just a whole soothing, it's almost like the whole you say worship leaders, like a country great music, but it's like soothing for the soul, you know, and you can see that I can see how that connects, it makes sense. I just never asked you that, I just thought about that. Yep. Um, all right. So uh I'm not gonna what do you think? Um what do you think would you you I'm gonna go ahead and set spoiler alert, you were on the voice, uh which oh yeah, forgive it. It's been it's been a minute, and you know what what was so cool, uh Rob is you know, a lot of people come on the voice, but they did like a five-minute segment on you and your family, I guess Pim Pembroke. And I'm like, I mean, this this was man, I was I'm just like must C TV. I mean I couldn't, I know you couldn't talk about it back then, but I was like, What's going on? So what was this? What was that? I mean, how did you know somebody uh recommended you or did you audition? I know it was a process, but you got on there.

SPEAKER_01 5:41

Yeah, it was uh it was uh quite the process actually. Um and uh it actually started back in um I got my first initial text in December of 2022. Is that right? My sister-in-law, my brother's wife, she sent me a message and said, Hey, check this out. And it was a virtual link to an audition for the voice, and nothing I've really ever considered, honestly. I was at the gym when I got the text, and I tried American Idol back in like 2011. I didn't get past the first initial anything, and so uh I hadn't really considered any of these uh shows since then. And she sent me the text, and I think it was maybe a day later, I just said, Why not? You know, why not try it? So I signed up for the virtual audition. It was in a couple days from there, and I sat up literally right here in this spot. And um, they wanted a minute and 30 seconds. I just hit hit record and played it and submitted. And about 15 minutes later, if that, um I got a message back, emailed back saying, Congratulations, we want you to move forward to the next uh phase of auditions. And so uh that next month I had to submit about three videos, three more videos of me just singing songs. And um it was about a six-month process before I actually made it out to LA. And so there were several steps you had to take, and you had to basically make it through each step, each phase. And so uh it wasn't like I submitted and was like, Hey, can I be on the show? And they were like, Yeah, come on out, we'll give you five minutes, you know. Right. So uh about six months until I got to LA. Um talking psych tests and all this stuff, meeting with counselors just to make sure you're there, which is crazy that it passed. But um uh but yeah, we got out there in LA and I was about out there about uh three weeks last June. Uh, came home for about a week and a half and went back out for another two weeks. Oh wow in July. And so um uh yeah, it was quite the experience to get that five minutes segment. And so uh while you're out there, yeah, yeah, go ahead.

SPEAKER_03 7:49

No, no, no, I was gonna say, but uh I mean you you know, regardless of what we tell them, but the amount of talent on that group who you're I know you're close, you you stayed close with, it's just amazing.

SPEAKER_01 7:59

Yeah, yeah, it's incredible. I mean, I'll never forget the first time I um I walked out. So we get to the hotel, and they've they're bringing people in, you know, separate days, the big groups coming in different days during that about a four-day stretch of just bringing people into the hotel. And we were there actually with season 24, um something different than they've ever done. They have never brought two seasons in at once to film, and so we were out there with season 24 as well. So um a lot of talent hanging around one hotel.

SPEAKER_03 8:32

And uh was that cool though to get to talk to those guys?

SPEAKER_01 8:36

Yeah, it was wild. It was wild. Um, of course, their season hadn't aired yet at that time, but um just to be there getting to know all these amazing people. I'll never forget though, when we got to the hotel, I got to my room, I unloaded, got all my stuff up. And I, you know, we started a big group me. Uh somebody had started a group me with our season, and everybody's like, hey, we're meeting at the secret pool, the secret pool. And I'm like, where the heck is the secret pool? Um, and I go to like the back of the hotel and find this random elevator, and that takes you down to a back pool that's enclosed in.

SPEAKER_03 9:10

Wow.

SPEAKER_01 9:10

And when I walk through that door, Ryan, man, I have never heard anything like that in my in my life. It was all these folks gathered around one little couple guitars, and they were just all singing. Uh I think the song was uh the Jason Moraz. Um and it was like literally like 50 or 60 people just gathered around this one song singing all this talent in one spot. It was it was unreal, man. I got chills when I walked out of there. You know, you know, and that's the thing, Rob.

SPEAKER_03 9:44

I think people don't realize, I mean, I'm gonna just tell you, your tongue is off the wall, and you know, uh, our friend Mark McKenney is talent off the wall. It's so funny that one centimeter of chance and opportunity, because you know, the song I was telling you, I might have to ask you to do a little deadly of your 58 hours. Because, you know, it's it's you know, it's all about timing, and you know, I again uh you you I don't well, I don't know what we can say about the song choice, but there was there's things I learned that are not necessarily, I guess that's a little bit of what goes on behind the scenes in terms of they give you certain songs and you have to prepare for a lot of them.

SPEAKER_01 10:19

Right, yeah, yeah. So they kind of they kind of um in essence they give you a list of songs, you kind of put your top 12, you kind of line those up. Um, but ultimately they kind of have the say because they are producing this show, you know, they want to make it um they want to make it um not just relevant, just um they want to spread it out, they want to make different artists kind of differentiate from this country artist to this country artist, right? So um I think that was their their goal and choosing that song and things like that.

SPEAKER_03 10:52

So well, and I say that because you know every human that watches the show is like, I wonder why they chose that song. Well, you know, and and it's funny, just the stuff I've done in my career, but you were saying, like, well, that's not exactly how it, you know, there and it makes sense. I mean, because you know, everybody could pick the same three or four country songs.

SPEAKER_01 11:08

That that everybody everybody would have picked Tennessee whiskey if it's yeah, a hundred percent.

SPEAKER_03 11:13

I mean, you know, you can go go down the list of uh you know some of those shows. Um, all right. So what would you say uh right now? You know, you got up and coming musicians, you know, and and you're I know you're booked a lot and and continue to book more and more, but the guys say, hey, you know what, I'd like to do that. You know, I I I think it's probably I'm gonna I'm not gonna try to word your mouth, it probably takes a little time, right? I mean, to get to get on the map.

SPEAKER_01 11:39

Yeah, it does, it definitely does. Um, like I said, I spent I spent a majority of my life so far, my adulthood. Uh most of my childhood, high school, some college, it was all sports. I was a sports guy that played nobody really knew I could sing and could play and things like that until I did it. And so um it was just this moment, man, where it came to me. I was like, I want to do music for a career. And so um I spent a ton of years there in the church. Um I feel like those were preparation years, just learning and things like that. But um ultimately, man, I would sell uh anybody trying to trying to get into this uh field. Um one, don't believe the lie that independent music uh won't won't get you anywhere. Um don't believe the lie that you've got to have a label, you've got to sign this, you've got to sign that. Um, you know, the right situation, you know, maybe I would. But um don't believe you can't get started by yourself and get things rolling. So um keep your head down and um take those moments to look up and see kind of where you're at. Um but ultimately just keep your head down, work hard and and just go for it, man. Make good connections with the right people, um, be personable, yeah, and uh be humble as well, you know, be humble in it. And so uh those those those few characteristics, those few things, man, will open up doors that you never uh expected to open. So that would be kind of my advice.

SPEAKER_03 13:08

Yeah, and you know, it's funny. I think I told you one time when I was finishing my uh dissertation doctorate thing, one of one of the biggest things, it sounds so stupid, but every entrepreneur, you know, which you're an entrepreneur or what you're doing, it said there's no shortcut of hard work. I mean, you you you've got to be willing to put in the work. Yeah, and you know, and thing, you know, and and like you said, of course, you know, the relationships, the transparency, the authenticity. But a lot of people I know, I shouldn't say that. I see some people just think, well, I guess you just got on the voice and you know, yeah, and uh you sing good, and now everything comes. It just doesn't work that way.

SPEAKER_01 13:39

No, it doesn't. It doesn't. I was when I first started doing the shows um two years ago, um, I was booking maybe two shows a month, if that. And that was only because I had a great friend named Jonathan Lockleer, which you know. Um the premier guitarist at the beach is what they call him. He's like the slash of country music. Oh, he's he's unreal, man, with an acoustic in his hands. And uh, but uh I just you know, I knew of Jonathan, had a had a good enough relationship with him where he approached me and was like, hey man, were you ever thought about doing shows? And this I was like, Yeah, why not? So about six months, man, I was I was booking two shows a month. I've got three kids and a wife. Um, no other job at that point. Uh I just wanted to try to make this music thing work countrywise. And so I was working landscaping and construction with my wife's uncle. He gave me a chance to kind of bring some more income into the family. So I was working about um right at 40 hours a week, man, in the heat. The real the real deal. The real deal. And then playing, you know, maybe two shows a month uh when I could when I could get some. And uh then about that six month, man, I got I ended up booking about five shows. And from then on, man, I haven't booked less than 10 shows in a month since last October or so. But it it took about a year, man, a year of just just doing it, believing in what I feel, grinding, trusting my gut, and uh just going for it, man. So um and not having any excuse, you know what I'm saying? So yeah, um it's it's hard.

SPEAKER_03 15:19

It was hard. I mean, when I first started went out to start speaking, uh, I had three little kids, the income wasn't where it was, my wife was in my corner, but you know, I'm working all these side things because you're trying to follow your dream. And you know, being a leader in this community, you know, I think it's what our when our listeners and viewers isn't know is again, if it's your dream and it's everything within you, your passion. Yep, you gotta, you know, I always tell my students keep pushing forward.

SPEAKER_01 15:43

Yeah, deep, deep, dig deep, right? One of my favorite quotes is um, your talent will open the door. Yep, your character is gonna keep you in the in the room. And so um I I knew I had something, you know. Um kind of just that self-belief. I'm not I'm not my biggest fan by any means. I'm my biggest critic, if anything. And so um, but I knew I had enough to to open some doors, and so just believing in yourself and uh finding those people that's in your corner that's not just your biggest cheerleader, but also your biggest um the most honest people you can find, uh, just to be honest with you and just say, hey, you could probably develop this area or develop that. Um but yeah, man, it's just so it's a lot of hard work. I and another thing this whole thing unlocked was more creative veins that I didn't even really necessarily know I had. Um, you know, in being an independent artist, you know, um having a family trying to find ways that okay, I could probably not hire somebody to do this because I could probably do that, like creating my own logo, um, you know, those type things, doing my own social media, um, creating my own posts and things like that, just really trying to tap into those creative areas that, like I said, didn't necessarily know I had or needed, but they're they've come in a lot of hands. I've saved a lot of money. Yeah, and then the artists just kind of doing my own own stuff. So uh so yeah.

SPEAKER_03 17:14

Well, I guess well, um, before I forget, well, do you wanna do you wanna give them a minute of the 54 hours a little lyric? I mean, this is a this is your now I know you can cover anything, but you you wrote this. When you wrote this, how long did you write this?

SPEAKER_01 17:27

Um this was a co-write, actually. Um with um my brother and that's right. My buddy Zach D's actually was on this song as well. Uh co-writing.

SPEAKER_03 17:40

So I figure uh, you know, if a picture's worth a thousand words, why don't we give them a deadly of uh a little bit? Because I mean that's a lot better me talking. No one wants to hear me talking. All right.

SPEAKER_01 17:48

Why not? Can you hear this guitar here? I don't know if it's coming, but I hope there is anyway. So I think so. I hope so. Let's see.

SPEAKER_03 18:00

We do we do all this stuff live, folks, so you know we're we're working with live.

SPEAKER_01 18:05

This is uh on the go. This is based on just a weekend. Uh guy's worked all week. This is the whole concept. The guy's worked all week and he gets off on Friday, and he's got about a 58 hour span of time before that clock goes off on Monday morning for him to get going. So there's a little bit of 58 hours for you.

SPEAKER_00 18:34

Driving my old truck, dragging through the dust, about an hour appeal both ways. The weekend's coming display. I'm gonna do a couple of things I've been dreaming all week. People say, boy, you don't ever stop. Let me show you right now how to take a load off. Knock off the boots on slap that signs and five long days, three slow nines, a pose of my baby battery. I'ma thinking I'ma drink it to sale. Last car to send the kidney coming to you, K no more. I got fifty-eight hours till Monday.

SPEAKER_03 19:18

That's that's awesome.

SPEAKER_00 19:20

Yeah, man.

SPEAKER_03 19:21

You know what, uh, folks, you gotta do it. You just kill it. Unfortunately, your guitar, you know, uh, this is the live part of it. But I'm gonna tell you what they we got to hear. Um, we're gonna get a link. Do you got you do you have a link to that? Is that out yet?

SPEAKER_01 19:34

Yeah, it's not out yet. Okay, all right.

SPEAKER_03 19:36

So we'll get that once it's once it's that's great. I don't want to, I don't wanna that's fantastic. But I know you're also not expecting me to ask you to sing on the show, but uh, but that that song, you know, you're talking about it it people know goes through how many more hours left of Monday? Probably when you were working out in that uh 100-degree heat, it probably uh that's exactly what inspired this song.

SPEAKER_01 19:56

I was gonna say what inspired the song, yep. That's kind of that round, man. So um I was always ready for the weekend and um I'm at that. Yeah, uh my weekends consist of shows, and so I'm gonna look forward to the weekend.

SPEAKER_03 20:11

Well, so so you got this um because I don't know how much time we have left, but we'll I'll keep us on. But what um, so when are you are you gonna drop different songs coming up, or are you trying to do a whole album you're gonna drop with the yeah?

SPEAKER_01 20:22

So I'm I'm I'm working towards a full-on album. Uh I want to get as much music as I can out. Uh that's a big goal for me right now in this next year, two years or so, is just to um I self-produced music right here in my corner of my bedroom, and so um grateful for that gift. I got that from my dad. He taught me audio engineering things like that. Um but that's my that's a big goal of mine. I'll probably release some singles here in the next couple months and leading up to the album. Um, my goal was to have the album actually done this month. But but uh yeah.

SPEAKER_03 20:59

The problem is when you're uh like you know, I do a marketing stuff, I get to all my marketing last because I'm always doing your own uh you know, like, but the point is you keep putting that great content out is what we talk about, anything. And like I said, even just let's you sing. I caught myself on camera singing with you, and I wouldn't even I got lost in the moment, and I was like, I'm thinking like, dang, man, but I'm just telling you, uh but you can you can cover almost anything, but Rob, I just want to say, you know, like I've said before, the way you uh pull in an audience and create an experience um with humility and passion is just unbelievable.

SPEAKER_01 21:37

I appreciate that, but it means a lot, it really does.

SPEAKER_03 21:39

It takes you, it'll take you a long way. And you know, you go from those two dates of two dates a month and you know 100 degree heat, you know, in the daytime to you know, being books all the time. And every time we're gonna say Rob Cole's gonna be here, Rob Cole's gonna be and you know it doesn't happen overnight. And that's why I mean I'm trying to share to our listeners. It just has talent, humility, passion, what you're talking about balancing your pace. And your kids and your family, your wife, and your cousins, and uh you're doing it, you're doing it all the right way. And um now the people in the voice, I know if you were the uh finalist, uh did you you still you still uh connected with them, right?

SPEAKER_01 22:13

Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Um actually four out of five, five, four out of the five almost are are good friends of mine, man. We still communicate. Uh Josh Sanders was just in Myrtle Beach at the um Carolina Country Music Fest they had, the big festival, and um uh got a chance to kind of chat with him for a little bit. But yeah, we still text back and forth, man, catch up, see how things are going, post voice, and uh some of the biggest uh encouragers I got, man, is uh just just hearing from those folks. And so um that that that that was a big that was a big uh takeaway from the voice, man, just the relationships you you made with folks, and so it's a huge deal.

SPEAKER_03 22:52

You know, and and the funny thing is there's some people, and I won't name them, but I told you probably like I knew them early in their career and they were humble people, and now if I said them, everybody in the world would know they're just gonna text you back because you know what they didn't get caught up and think they're bigger than they are. I mean, because we're all human, we you know, we all have our ups and downs, but those all seem like good guys, and and and and it got well, I guess my point is with the leadership part of this, is those relationships, if done right, are invaluable. I mean, just invaluable. I mean, the time you spent together is is a was a seed that was planted.

SPEAKER_01 23:23

Yeah, absolutely.

SPEAKER_03 23:24

And then keeping up with them, and you know, you never know where that's gonna lead. You know, you know, it could be a yeah, I've just seen so many things over the years and and and things come together. Um, let me see. Well, let's what what's a fun fact about Rob Cole that most people don't know?

SPEAKER_01 23:37

I mean, tell me a few of them with the but what's something like you enjoy or I am becoming a huge puzzle guy. A puzzle guy? I'm a puzzle, I'm becoming a puzzle guy, man. Um for whatever reason, I don't know if it's I don't know if it's the age, I mean the the wisdom um that I'm getting, you know, or whatever it is, but uh yeah, man, I've I've spent uh these last two last couple months, I've done two puzzles. So like uh real the real was you put pieces together, like yeah, the the whole the whole pieces puzzle deal. So um whatever reason, I guess my brain enjoys that.

SPEAKER_03 24:15

So well, you know what, you know what I would say? I would say think I would think your brain is always creating things that get you a tangible thing to do that's not where your brain's not having to think of it. I I get that. I actually thought about getting a puzzle the other day. Funny enough, you said that I'm like, my kid's like, why would you do that? I'm like, I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 24:31

I literally a couple of days I would start my day with just a coffee, sit down, and that's how I'd get my brain going. Love it, you know, get the puzzle rolling. And so um I've got to get a new one. I just finished one. So finish the puzzle.

SPEAKER_03 24:42

All right, we got a picture of the puzzle, but it's all right. So before I forget, what are your best you know, Instagram, Facebook websites, way people can check your stuff out?

SPEAKER_01 24:50

Yeah, so it's all Rob Cole music, just one word, no spaces, and uh usually um Instagram, Facebook, or TikTok, any of those vein veins. I also I have YouTube page, I don't keep it up as much as that is, but uh but yeah, and I'm Googleable now. I don't know if you know that, but uh you're Google.

SPEAKER_03 25:08

I had a guest, I had a guest a few years ago when I launched this show. I launched this show, believe it or not, when when COVID hit. And I had another one because every you know, you remember where we were four years ago, and I'm like, I mean, I'm like everybody had time, and somebody's used that term. I'm Googleable, and I'm like, I like that, never heard it before.

SPEAKER_01 25:26

But there you go.

SPEAKER_03 25:32

All right. Well, uh, let me ask you before we kind of finish up, uh, you know, any things I hadn't asked you that you just want to make sure you share with our audience. You know, uh you talked about the importance of community and your family and your friends, relationships, hard work that did you think, hey man, there's one more takeaway I want to leave this audience with.

SPEAKER_01 25:50

Yeah, man. Um I'll I'll say this lastly about just anybody looking to get into the music field and artistry and things like that. Um there has to become a point where it's becomes less of a hobby and more of a business to you. Um treat it less like a hobby and more like a business, and uh, you'll see the fruit of it. I promise you. And uh that's one of the biggest compliments I've gotten in the last two months. Somebody said, You just seem like you treat this thing like a business rather than a hobby, and that's that's exactly what what my approach has been. And so um believe in yourself, we all believe in you, so go for it, just go for it.

SPEAKER_03 26:26

I love it, Rob. I love it. Well, man, I I'm sorry it took so long to get you on, but uh I'm so glad we got to do it. And maybe we'll do a follow-up one once you drop, and then then you can play a couple. Um and then we'll just we'll we'll folks, we like I said, we do it all live. So it's no, there's no no ad libs here. What you see is what you get. But uh thanks for doing that, poor man. Thanks for doing all that you do as a community leader and inspiring people. Um, and thanks for coming on to guest. It's the uh community connection show.

SPEAKER_01 26:54

Thanks, Ryan, man. It's been an honor. Thank you so much.

SPEAKER_03 26:56

Absolutely, folks. This has been another community connection show with Ryan Sowers special guest today, Rob Cole. Folks, we'll see you again next time.

SPEAKER_02 27:12

This has been the Community Connection Show with Ryan Sowers. Stay on the lookout for new or past shows with community leaders wherever you listen to your podcasts. And if you want to see the video interview of any show, visit Community Connections TV.com. Thanks for tuning in, everyone, and we will see you next time.