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Hi everybody. John Truman Wolf here with the John Truman Wolf Financial Hour. Thanks so much for being with us. Uh delighted to have you on board here as we broadcast live from the uh beautiful Los Padres National Forest uh north of LA. It's a magnificent day up here. Hope it's nice where you are. Um let's take a look at uh uh things on the economic and uh investment front. Uh needless to say, you have to have been living on Mars not to know that the uh uh at least the the structure of the deal got approved by the president in Iran uh yesterday. Uh gas continues to fall, oil continues to fall, I should say, and gas. Uh it's still it's I l listened to a radio clip uh a little bit ago, something I knew and have known for many years, but it just it just struck me. Uh it quoted the gas uh price in LA, or I think it was just California, although LA I think is the highest uh in the state. Um and and then compared it to I think it was South Carolina, there's a two dollar a gallon difference. I mean wow. Uh a lot of that is state tax or state regulations, but uh two bucks, I mean, almost almost double the price of what it is in um I think it was South Carolina. Un unbelievable. Uh the um generally the markets like the deal. Um many uh politicians do not. Um but it uh it was up uh 70 some odd points. Uh you know, currently trading close to uh 52,000. I think the Dow is just gonna continue, folks. I don't see any um indication that uh the equities markets are going to fall. Uh maybe it'll happen, and I suppose if and when it happens, it'll happen fast. But right this minute they look solid. Uh precious metals markets have been in the doldrums uh down today, silver's down uh below 70 bucks, and uh gold uh uh uh around forty two hundred dollars an ounce. Um uh it has uh the precious metals markets have been languishing in these areas, gold in the four thousand dollar range, uh you know, up around forty five hundred, forty two hundred, etc. etcetera. And then the uh the the famous crypto markets have uh have been down and continue to be down. Bitcoin trading at uh I think today close to sixty-four thousand. Um now bear in mind if you you know if you follow Bitcoin, if you follow the cryptocurrency markets, you know that that Bitcoin was up um to a hundred and got up to about 126,000, I think. Um so it's down roughly in half. Um me, I think it's a good buy. I just got some. Um uh I think uh we'll we'll look back at these days as a great uh a great buying opportunity for uh uh for Bitcoin. Uh I'd grab some if I were you. All right, we're gonna take a short break, be back with our good friend Michael Letts uh after this uh message, and um we'll be right back. Stay with us, folks.

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All right, folks, we are back. John Truman Wolf back with you with the John Truman Wolf Financial Hour. Uh, joined as we are uh often with uh Mike Letz, the chairman of InvestUSA.org, that great uh nonprofit uh that provides bulletproof vests for law enforcement. Uh and we usually uh talk a little, uh a little politics, uh usually a little uh DJT. Uh uh Mike, things are actually looking pretty good. I mean, uh I think this deal uh it drove the stock market up, gas prices down. Um a fair number of Republicans are are criticizing it. What are your thoughts?

SPEAKER_06 6:18

Well, I understand their criticism or their criticism being John that you know you've got him up against the ropes. He can't trust them. Yes, we did get a good play. Uh, but could we have done better? But you know, John, that's always a like the uh second-trained quarterback or you know, driver the backseat driver. I'm sure in every decision that's made, there's always a betterment that can be done. But here's what you have to concentrate on, John. We've been dealing with this for decades. This is the first president that has said enough of the no and backed up his words with action. We've never had that before. Could it have been better? And hey, this may not be the end of it. We may be tweaking it as time continues to move forward. But we made a significant start, and you can see how the market's reacting to it because of it, and I think that's worth uh keeping in mind.

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Uh exactly. Uh I don't know if these guys are are are smart enough to um uh uh uh uh you know follow through with their commitments on the deal. Uh just about everybody I listen to says they're gonna, you know, try and break it. Uh of course they have a history of that. Um uh these guys are a few bottles short of a six-pack over there. I don't know who's running the country. Um and um I what I do agree with is uh just what everybody everybody, a lot of folks uh talked about was the possibility of when we c you know when we came in that it would result in uh some kind of res regime change. I can't imagine. I can't imagine that the Iranian people aren't just beyond sick and disgusted with this kind of leadership, don't you think?

SPEAKER_06 8:07

Well, there's no question, and that is a key component people are not concentrating on. We are not saying that, okay, we're walking away, this is it, this is all you get, done deal. We will continue to work behind the scenes to make sure that the dissidents are in a position to assume leadership and power. I can guarantee you there'll be some arms being sent that way to make sure they're equipped and ready to do that. The fact of the matter is, John, is they jumped the gun a little fast. Uh the Israelis did not complete their mission of eliminating all the leadership. And so they've had a hundred thousand of them killed. John, that's significant. And so they had to step back for a minute. It's not take them a while to recuperate and get their courage and get their planning and their mindset back together, but they will do it. We will be there to help them step by step, and this is a great start.

SPEAKER_02 8:53

Uh I th I think it's a great start as well. Um I mean, uh you we both know there's not there's nothing that uh uh the president uh gets done that isn't gonna get some kind of flack from uh folks on the other side who have uh you know candidates like this guy, Telurico in Texas, who is several bottles short of a six-pack. I mean, the guy is like the guy is like and and and um of course there's Mandami, and then there's some uh uh uh similar uh democratic socialists, I think in Michigan, and then the uh uh the mayor of DC just got elected and she's a socialist. I mean, what the hell's going on what the hell's going on?

SPEAKER_06 9:42

Well, I will tell you this, and I'm sure the president would tell you the same thing. You know, the we still do not control mainstream media. They still have great influence, and because of the fact that things weren't exactly the way everybody wanted them to be, they uh kind of said, Well, we'll take it out on the president. We'll we won't be as supportive. Instead of doing the right thing and moving forward like we are doing, making progress, you can't have it my way, I'm gonna take my marbles and go home. Problem is, John, is uh when they take their marbles and go home, when they're headed home, it's gonna be a whole lot worse than where it was before. These progressions being elected are to really show them what they what they got, and it's not gonna be pretty.

SPEAKER_02 10:22

Boy, uh uh isn't isn't that the truth. All right, so the next step is uh Vladimir and uh and and team. Um I see that uh the Ukrainians uh bombed a major oil plant in Moscow today or yesterday. Uh Putin at this point, after four years of not getting uh done what he intended to get done, I think he thought it was gonna be a a simple slam dunk. Uh I think he's ready to negotiate an end to this war. What are your thoughts?

SPEAKER_06 10:55

Uh there's no question about it, he's good at every indication. And here's what most people don't realize. He will be looking to the U.S. to kind of be the mediator to help get that accomplished. The president's more than willing to jump up and do that. He will be bringing priest to that region, I can assure you. He's gonna have the same problem that we have with with Iran. Folks, you need to understand that nobody ever walks away with everything they want. That's just life. And so uh it will take a little bit of negotiation, but it will get done. There will be peace in that region, and we're gonna do the same thing in Cuba, we'll do the same thing in Mexico, and every other place we need to go. We're gonna make this a much better globe than what it was when we first assumed it, and that's what you've got to concentrate on. We didn't say we're gonna make it perfect, we said we're gonna make it much better.

SPEAKER_02 11:42

Well, it's all it's already better. What do you think is gonna happen in Cuba, Mike?

SPEAKER_06 11:47

Well, the administration's collapsing, it's gonna continue to collapse. The question is what kind of deal can they cut? And here's the same thing as you have with Iran. You may not get rid of the administration on the day one, but as it continues to lose power and the support of the people, as you give them other options, they will make the transition on their own. That's what's gonna be happening in Cuba. It's gonna be opening up more and more to capitalism and to uh American ideas and American ingenuity. As that happens, the regime will just basically take a backseat and people will say, I'm not gonna support it anymore. I'm gonna reject it and move on to this new way of doing things, and that's what we're providing is a new way of doing things that actually was the old way, John, that worked real well until we had a bunch of crazy people decided they needed to do something new.

SPEAKER_02 12:35

Well, it seems to be running smoothly in Venezuela surprisingly smoothly.

SPEAKER_06 12:41

It does, and it's only going to get better as we continue to lay out the plans for how to make sure that their world we you know, we didn't go in there and just put a fence around and say it's all ours now. Yes, we are having influence, and yes, we're getting paid back for a lot of the uh excursion, the money that we had to pay to help bring it about. But we're making sure it goes back into the people of Venezuela. How can your country not benefit when you're putting your resources back into the people, which is what by the way, we're trying to do here in the U.S. and we're getting blocked in every car by the Democrats wanting to steal it instead of putting it back into the hands of the people where it belongs?

SPEAKER_02 13:19

Um I I think uh I think it's kind of I'm surprised at how smoothly it is going in Venezuela. And I think this gal that's running things uh um knew for knew from day one that um uh it was the right right way to go, and she has been uh cooperative. That country is full of resources, I mean, full of resources besides oil. So um I think we've done a great, great job there.

SPEAKER_06 13:49

We've just got to make sure we get it communicated so that we don't lose our effectiveness here in this country.

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I'm I'm I'm with you. Okay, folks, we've been talking uh talking to Mike Letz, the uh chairman of investusa.org, a great nonprofit for police. I'm John Truman Wolf. This is the John Truman Wolf Financial Hour.

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All right, folks, we are back. John Truman Wolf here with the John Truman Wolf Financial Hour. Uh we're going to do something a little different here. Um uh we've talked uh at the top of the show about how the markets are doing. Uh, we're gonna take a different step now into an aspect of life. You know, um I uh there are some people I think that uh when they're young uh have a purpose in life and carry through all the way through to uh adulthood. Uh that certainly wasn't the case with me, and I don't think it's the case with most people. Uh joining us is Bernard Percy, the creator of an uh organization that helps people refine their purpose in life. Bernard, thanks for joining us. My pleasure. Thank you, John. Um so uh your firm um uh uh helps folks uh well that tell us about it. I don't want to try and explain to the listeners. Tell us what uh tell us what you do and tell us what uh Foundations of Brilliance does.

SPEAKER_05 18:44

One of the biggest ruins I found in all my over 50 years of work as an educator is people not knowing what they really want to do. Um they work at different things that they may be successful at it, they may be making lots of money, but what's missing from so many people is a sense of pleasure and purpose of fulfillment because they know they're doing the wrong thing. And how do you align three things about yourself? So you know, yes, this is the right thing for me to be doing that brings a sense of fulfillment and happiness. That to be honest, from my viewpoint, only earning money doesn't necessarily capture everything. Of course, it's important, and so it's certainly a part of what anybody wants to do. But what are the three things that really help you understand I am doing the right thing? You know, there's so many people. Go ahead. No, no, no, you go ahead. How many people major in something in college and end up leaving that area where they've been studying and devoting their life because it wasn't the right thing for them? It doesn't bring them the happiness to fulfill what they really want, what they want. So, what I do is help people make an investment in themselves and know what is the right path to take. And it may be completely changing what you're doing, it may be aligning what you're doing more to the right thing for you to be doing.

SPEAKER_02 20:16

And and and and and how do you help people find that purpose, Bernard? How do you help folks do that?

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Well, again, I've worked with thousands of people all over the world. I've been to over 40 countries, traveled over two million miles, and have lots of experience working with individuals of all ages and all backgrounds. And what I discovered, there are three basic things you have to know and understand about yourself. And when you know these three things, you now have the foundations of success, the foundations of brilliance. And those three things are one, what are your talents? Your ability to do things while it can be developed into a greater skill. How many people have ever sat down and really evaluated what their talents are? Their ability. The second thing is your personality, your attitude, your interest, your behavioral pattern. Like when I was looking for a career path, I had no idea what I wanted to do when I was going to college. I didn't know what to major in or what to study. And finally I realized my personality, my attitude, my interest, behavioral patterns, and so on. It really always brought me a great sense of satisfaction and pleasure, and I was really good at it, was helping children. So I decided to become a a teacher, an elementary school teacher. This is, you know, in 1964. I mean, way before like so many other people who gone into teaching who were not women. My friends would say, What are you doing? That's a woman's job to be an elementary school teacher. Well, that's a fixed idea that is not true at all. And so I decided, well, being an elementary school teacher I loved and I was very successful at it for 14 years. And then the third thing, and this is of probably of the importance of talent personality, is knowing and understanding your purpose. And I define purpose as the reason for which something exists and for which it has been done already. And I discovered there are three certain elements to know you have the right statement of purpose. Many people will tell you the statement of purpose, but they're missing a couple of those elements that I know it's not the right thing.

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Fantastic. All right, folks, we're going to take, we're talking to Bernard Percy, the creator of Foundations of Brilliance, an organization that he and his organization help you find your basic purpose in life. He's traveled the world delivering this technology to folks. We're going to take a short break and be back with uh Bernard right after this. You stay with us. I'm John Truman Wolf. This is the John Truman Wolf Financial Hour. We'll be right back.

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And we are back, John Truman Wolf here with the John Truman Wolf Financial Hour. Thanks for joining us. And we are joined by uh Bernard Percy of Foundations of Brilliance and Bernard and his organization help folks uh uh find their basic purpose in life, which I think is a uh not a s not a small accomplishment. Uh Bernard, I'm curious, is there a difference between uh I know you've traveled a lot, between what you find, say, in I don't know, Japan as opposed to Germany or something? Or or or or is the process pretty much the same? It's very much the same.

SPEAKER_05 28:18

But I just want to clarify something. I don't say I help them find their purpose in life. What I say is I help them find that purpose that will direct their future attention and activities in the area of work and so on. You know, looking at life, it's a whole different, it's a different game, different activity. But my job is to help people understand what is that purpose that drives them, what's the right activity. And there are certain criteria that have to be met to know you have the right purpose. Let me give you an example. I was in Hungary, and one of the women I was working with said, I know my purpose. And this is a very nice statement. See, my purpose is to help people understand the potential so I can have a great success. But she said it matter-of-factly, no emotion behind it. We said, This is what it is. And I knew it wasn't the right statement because one of the criteria to know you have that right statement or purpose. Yes, that's it. Yeah, that's it. She's kind of, yeah, that's it. She says, you know, you're a perfect. Why don't you write your statement a little differently? Because you have to come up with a really precise, exact wording to know it's your right statement or purpose to direct your future actions and activities. She sits down and starts looking at it. Five minutes later comes back with another statement with tears flooding down her face. Literally flooding. Wow. And she said and she said, I found what my real statement is. I want to help people spread their wings so they can reach the stars. And that opens up so many different areas. And how do you know it's the right direction? Now you look at your talents and you look at your personality. What are the most vital important talents to you? And then you look at your your attitude, your interest, and so on. And so what I do is help people understand the right path to take in their education or career based on knowing with certainty what are the talents, the personality traits, and of course, what's that statement of purpose that will help direct future actions and activities? Not a purpose in life, that's a different activity.

SPEAKER_02 30:31

I see, I see, I I I see the difference. Um now how how do you know how how do you get uh for lack of a better word, customers or clients or people that are seeking your services? I mean, besides whatever promotion you're doing and and and so forth, I think your um your purpose and activity is unique. I don't know if there's anybody else that I've never heard of anybody else that does what you do. Uh how do you how do you find folks that are anxious to to use your services?

SPEAKER_05 31:14

Well, honestly, the most important way is word of mouth. People who've experienced or observed the effects and the results of the consultation will tell somebody else, and somebody else says, I need this. I want this for my child, who seems to be a wandering wanderer. What do I do? I'm not sure what to do. You know the importance of knowing a path that you want to take, a direction you want to take. It makes life so much better, so much more fun. It's a great investment. And very often two things happen. There's three things. One is you go, you know, I'm doing the right thing. Yay! So now you have more certainty that you have the right path to follow. Because you know you have a town, personality, and purpose. Sometimes you kind of adjust your direction a little bit. What I'm doing is okay, but not quite right. And the third one is people will also just quit what they're doing. I worked with this one young man, there's one young man from Australia. And he was a professional rugby player. His name is Daniel Patrick. And he does the program, and he knew his talents and he knew his personality, his attitude, interesting. But he didn't understand what is the purpose that really drives him. When he came up with that statement of purpose, he realized I want to be a rugby player. I want to become a fashion designer. He completely changed his path. And he's become very successful. If you go online, you look up Daniel Patrick. You know, it's his style of clothing. It's kind of street clothing and stuff. I wouldn't wear it, Rihanna's with you. If so many other people want to, and he charges like a lot of money. And so, but it's only when they understood his statement of purpose. It's the reason for which something exists and for which it is an inventor made. The reason is not a job title. And that's a confusion or a mistake people make. I want to be a doctor, I want to be a banker, I want to be an athlete. But what is the reason behind it? How do you want to help others? And there are other criteria to think with. And that's what I help people do, is find that real statement of purpose. And unless they feel truly excited about it, and they go, this is it, we don't have the right statement.

SPEAKER_02 33:33

What uh is there, I'm curious, is there a um uh how would I ask the question? Is there an age cutoff? In other words, uh I'm sure this is not just applicable to adults, but at at at what age can you uh work with someone to to to nail down uh uh this information for them?

SPEAKER_05 33:58

Well, that that's a great question. The youngest person I work with is nine years old. Now here's an exception. Usually I work with now I wouldn't want to work with anybody under 14, but in order to do the program, you really have to have true interests and really want to know what is the right career path to take. Again, that would bring me satisfaction and happiness in life. And when you know that, what a great investment you have in terms of the quality of your life. So I would say 15 or 16 is when they're old enough to start to look at this. Because you have to make a decision what's the education path they want to take. So you have to know the career path that you want to take as well. And so I would say 15 or 16, if the person truly is interested in knowing that right path to take.

SPEAKER_02 34:45

Okay, hold that thought. Uh, folks, we're talking to Bernard Percy, uh, creator of Foundations of Brilliance, helps uh uh helps you in life. Uh we're gonna take a short break and be back with some final words from Bernard. Uh stay with us. I'm John Truman Wolf. This is the John Truman Wolf Financial Hour. Uh we'll be right back, folks. Stay with us.

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All right, folks, we're back. John Truman Wolf back with you with the John Truman Wolf Financial Hour. Not talking finances this hour, but to Bernard Percy, whose foundations of brilliance is fascinating. What should motivate them to contact you? And then if so, how do they get to you?

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Great. Well, I have a website which really goes over this, and it's Career Solutions with an S.b. Career Solutions with an S.b. And then I have a book, Your Write Career Available on Amazon. And again, it gives you the basics of understanding what you have to know about yourself. And then that's a way of getting information, and there's a link, I guess, that you can uh contact me. Also, just very quickly, I don't know how much time we have left, but there are three basic published that I've worked with. One is a student want to figure out what I should study in college or I don't know what I want to do and they can't make go around anywhere. Secondly, someone in the middle of their career path realized, no, I'm not really doing the right thing. I'm not having a success and a satisfaction fulfillment. And then third, and this is what I'm starting to concentrate on. People who are retiring, retired. Okay, what do I do now in my life? They have so much to offer. And they don't want to just sit around and go swimming in the ocean every day. It's not a bad thing to do. So I find their happiness depends on their going along and pursuing a dream. Um, and that's the way to do it. And where do you really want to be brilliant? I mean, one time I was selling jewelry to help somebody else. Be honest, I didn't care a damn about selling jewelry. I was the worst jewelry salesman in the world. I didn't have a passion and a desire to do it. But when you know your talents that aligns in your personality and that purpose, especially, is an excitement, is a sense of intention and telling. This is what I want to accomplish. This is what I want to do. I used to envy people who already found that. And until I found it, which I did, I'm very happy to say, you know, I felt I was missing something in my life. Other people may be happy doing what they're doing. It's got requirement aligns to their talent, personality, and purpose. But it's okay. If you want to leave a life that's okay, then that's your decision. But if you want to lead a life that really impels you, that you really want to help, and you know how to help them best if you align to your talent, personality, and purpose. This is a program for you.

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Uh fantastic. Okay, folks, if you're a student and unsure what to what to major in, if you're uh a career person who has realized that they're that you're walking the wrong career path, or if you're retired looking for something to do, uh that's how you contact uh my friend Bernard Percy. Uh Bernard, uh they've been delightful having you here. Wonderful information for our listeners. And uh I hope they uh I hope a lot of them contact you. Thanks for joining us.

SPEAKER_05 41:06

And thank you for the opportunity to speak to so many people. Thank you, John.

SPEAKER_02 41:11

Yeah, my my my pleasure. Uh all right, folks. Uh uh talking to Bernard Percy, uh the creator of Foundations of Brilliance. Well what a unique um career he's made for himself uh helping other people uh uh uh focus their life. It's uh it's it's fascinating, I thought I think. Um he mentioned he mentioned uh just to repeat three different uh publics uh which would be college students uh that aren't sure what to major in. Uh that wasn't a problem for me. Uh uh somebody that is um uh in a career and realizes not not uh not really what I wanted. And uh then those that are retired looking for something to do. So uh that's a that's uh three different publics that can use uh Bernard Services. Um very fascinating stuff. Um okay. I want to wrap up with a little um uh political talk and a little uh financial talk. Uh the Fed uh met uh and didn't change rates. Nobody expected them to change rates. Uh everybody's kind of interested to see where the new Fed chairman's gonna go. I think it's interesting that Jerome Powell uh, while he retired as the chairman, uh is still sitting on the Fed's board. And I don't know if Donald Trump is gonna give him a hard time uh for that or not. Um you know, we'll see. Trump wants the rates down. Uh I was uh ple uh pleasantly surprised to see the mortgage rates dropped a bit today. Uh they're down below six and a half. Um I'm a big advocate of lower rates, at least lower mortgage rates so that um uh first-time home buyers uh can can get in there, you know, younger younger couples. I think the I think the marriage age has probably gone up a bunch since I was uh uh first married. I was I was twenty-one years old. Um but um uh uh I think the um uh I think uh the the lessening, the dropping of uh mortgage rates is um is important. I think it's gonna help the real estate market and I think it's gonna help a lot of young young folks get their first hand first home. Uh okay, I'm John Truman Wolf. This is John Truman Wolf Financial Hour. We'll come back with the final segment right now. After this, you stay with us, folks.

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