Ever wondered how some people manage to turn their darkest days into steps toward a brighter future? Kent King's story is a powerful example of such transformation. From grappling with the impact of family divorce to the heart-wrenching loss of a child amidst a global pandemic, Kent shares with us a raw, unfiltered look into the trials that have tested his resilience and the life-affirming philosophy that every new day is an opportunity to find joy and strength.
Join me as we travel the road of personal triumphs with Kent, a teacher, entrepreneur, success coach, and volunteer firefighter who embodies the spirit of perseverance. Our conversation is a deep exploration into the role of adversity in shaping one's inner strength, the crucial breakthroughs when overcoming self-imposed barriers, and how teaching math morphed into imparting life's most valuable lesson: overcoming adversity. Kent's candid storytelling and infectious optimism demonstrate that even when life seems to collapse around us, there remains a silver lining.
This episode is a tapestry woven with stories of survival, resilience, and the pursuit of happiness. Kent's approach to social media stands out as a beacon of positivity, and his insights into setting ambitious goals, appreciating the present, and championing a positive mindset are nothing short of motivational. Wrap up your day with this dose of encouragement and remember, it's indeed a great day to have a great day.
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Ever wondered how some people manage to turn their darkest days into steps toward a brighter future? Kent King's story is a powerful example of such transformation. From grappling with the impact of family divorce to the heart-wrenching loss of a child amidst a global pandemic, Kent shares with us a raw, unfiltered look into the trials that have tested his resilience and the life-affirming philosophy that every new day is an opportunity to find joy and strength.
Join me as we travel the road of personal triumphs with Kent, a teacher, entrepreneur, success coach, and volunteer firefighter who embodies the spirit of perseverance. Our conversation is a deep exploration into the role of adversity in shaping one's inner strength, the crucial breakthroughs when overcoming self-imposed barriers, and how teaching math morphed into imparting life's most valuable lesson: overcoming adversity. Kent's candid storytelling and infectious optimism demonstrate that even when life seems to collapse around us, there remains a silver lining.
This episode is a tapestry woven with stories of survival, resilience, and the pursuit of happiness. Kent's approach to social media stands out as a beacon of positivity, and his insights into setting ambitious goals, appreciating the present, and championing a positive mindset are nothing short of motivational. Wrap up your day with this dose of encouragement and remember, it's indeed a great day to have a great day.
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https://bamboolab3.com/
Hello and welcome to the Bamboo Lab podcast with your host, Peak Performance Coach, Brian Bosley. Are you stuck on the hamster wheel of life, spinning and spinning but not really moving forward? Are you ready to jump off and soar? Are you finally ready to sculpt your life? If so, you've landed in the right place. This podcast is created and broadcast just for you, All of you strivers, thrivers and survivors out there. If you'd like to learn more about Brian and the Bamboo Lab, feel free to reach out to explore your true peak level at wwwBambooLab3.com.
Speaker 2:Hey everyone, welcome to this week's episode of the Bamboo Lab podcast. I'm excited to have you on here. This week We've got an amazing guest, actually somebody I've gotten to meet face to face, which is really rare for most of my guests. I got to meet this gentleman a few years ago. We were in a wedding together and here's the reason I reached out to him. We have Kent King on here today and I'll share a little bit about Kent before I introduce him officially.
Speaker 2:But I'm on social media a lot because we promote the podcast. I promote my coaching practice a lot on social media and I see so much garbage on social media political rants, people bitching and complaining about their current life, complaining about family, and some things are just benign things like what they're having for dinner Doesn't interest me, I don't care, but it's not bad stuff. But then every once in a while you see these people who put on positive stuff, things that are uplifting, and I was going through a couple of weeks ago like scrolling. I'm like every time Kent's stuff comes up, I'm like I read it, I'm going that's good stuff. So I thought why not reach out to him? So thankfully he took time out of his busy schedule and he said, yeah, come on. And so today we have Kent King on folks and I'm going to share a little bit about Kent first.
Speaker 2:Personally, kent is a teacher, he's a business owner, a success coach, but he's also a volunteer firefighter on the side, so he's got a pretty busy, tight schedule Now. Personally, he is a constant work in progress self-proclaimed work in progress. He is the father of three and he feels that through his sheer perseverance he has been able to overcome many of the trials he's had in his life and he'll share those with us. He finds the positives through each one and it helps him to overcome and to continue to build the future he desires for himself and his family. He believes that people are capable of accomplishing amazing, amazing things and I aim into that but that we often fall victim to the excuses that we create for ourselves due to our limiting beliefs.
Speaker 2:I'm looking forward to that part of the conversation. He has turned his passions in his life to now spreading positivity and inspiration everywhere he goes and helping people really to get them out of their damn comfort zones. And what I like the best about learning about Kent is that he believes fully in the grind of life. Couldn't agree more. So, without further ado, kent King, my friend, welcome to the Bamboo Lab podcast.
Speaker 3:Hey, thank you, brian. A pleasure to be here. I'm excited to dive in, have a conversation about anything and everything.
Speaker 2:Well, we'll do that today. For sure we might go off on a tangent Kent, but that's OK. I've been off on many, many tangents, so it's funny that we live only well. I'm not there very often, but we live only a few miles apart. But we've only met each other the one time, I believe. Yeah, it was for Jason's wedding there.
Speaker 3:And it was one of those. I guess it's one of those things where busy lives both of us live to, where we're really far apart as far as being able to talk and connect, but very close by.
Speaker 2:Well, in the fact that I'm not up there anymore other than maybe a week or two out of the month, it's like now we actually get to know each other better. So what we'll do is we'll have to get together, and when you're in a wedding together, it's not like you get to spend a lot of quality time. It's like there are a lot of things you've got to do. You've got to dance, you've got to walk the aisle, you have to speak, you've got to have some beers. I mean, there's not a lot of opportunity to really get to know each other. So I'm glad we're able to do so now. Yeah, no, that was.
Speaker 3:It's hard to really have a conversation against no people and pictures and all that, all this stuff.
Speaker 2:Well, the one thing was the beers too. Yo, yeah, I'm not much of a drinker anymore, but that was back in the day where I was still having a little more fun with beer than I do today. So I've gotten to know your story pretty well over the years. Obviously not as well as I'm hoping to over the next several years, but can you tell us about yourself, your childhood, your family, growing up, who or what inspired you, whatever you want to share about your life, that growing up? Yeah, so, and he talked about cangons, so I'm gonna try to not grow on too much, but I was born in like GLaD's.
Speaker 3:So in Michigan, you know, up small town and kind of growing up, family got divorced and I think that was the first part where for me person, that was the first trial and I found myself kind of really feeling sorry for myself. I kind of considered it. You know, where I was from is like flat rock, which is a bunch of farms and there was, you know, the other kids were on the bluff and they had the nice families with the swimming pools and I remember like kind of growing up through that it was about eight, nine years old when they divorced and kind of growing up, kind of kind of looking at the bluff kids wishing I had that life and, you know, feeling sorry for myself. And you know that was kind of the first trial because I remember I was overweight and it was about eighth grade. A year I was 285 pounds. Now I'm a pretty big guy, you know.
Speaker 2:I was about probably six three at that time. Wait, what year, what grade was this? Eighth grade? In eighth grade, you were six three.
Speaker 3:About six, two, six, three. Yeah, oh my god Wow.
Speaker 2:I didn't really. I know you're tall now. I didn't realize you sprouted young.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and but the problem was I was, I was fat. Let's, you know, let's not beat around the bush. I was fat, I was feeling sorry for myself and you know, I wanted, I guess, to understand me is to understand that kind of point in my life where I can't say there was any specific situation or you know big life event that happened. I just remember one day I got sick of feeling sorry for myself and you know that that was the day. I just it, it was on me and kind of having that clarity, so young, I was probably about 15 at that time, 14, 15 years old and it just hit me, I was like I'm in control of this. And that's where, you know, for me, I really started, you know, getting into the weight room and getting in shape and you know all those insecurities that I felt, you know, started battling them rather than accepting them and you know, ultimately, for me, that's what got me to.
Speaker 3:I was fortunate enough to, you know, have a division one football scholarship out of high school from a small town, and that was kind of my first, I guess, revelation of, of the mentality that I have today was, you know, kind of that acceptance of like I'm in control and really the outside world, like it happens, but I control my happiness.
Speaker 3:Then, from that I graduated and went into teaching and I started, you know, teaching in public school, high school math.
Speaker 3:So high school math always, you know, kids love it, they do. And that's where I joined in the volunteer tribal department as well. I was able to kind of, once I settled in it was one of those things where the size and the size of the size and you know, athletic ability what did I do with that? And I felt like, you know, being able to kind of contribute to some level of the community was was a value. So that's where I, that's what really got me into that aspect and I did that for about five years. And then, you know, I went through, went through some I would call it rock bottom. You know I hate life happened and it was really kind of the big second trial of my life to where I really had to reflect, figure out and kind of work paths with a lot, of, a lot of things both externally and internally, and ultimately led me to starting my business and kind of putting me in a position where I am today and I'd love to go into details.
Speaker 2:You know, with that especially, yeah, well, you had mentioned that was the second trial of your life. Kent, what would you say was was the first trial when your parents were divorced? It was when you realized, hey, I need to get my shit together here. I'm overweight, overweight for my agent. I need to get into the gym.
Speaker 3:I think that, yeah, the first trial was my was overcoming, I guess, my insecurities, overcoming just that self doubt there that you know, I guess putting the blame on other things. That was kind of the trial was. I was consumed with blaming life. You know, life was happening to me and not for me. I think that you know that's a Tony Robbins kind of thing there. It was one of those overcoming that to like get in the way room and like fight, fight back.
Speaker 2:I guess I love that and I think it's so interesting when you put life in that perspective of trials or stages. And, kent, I was looking through my journal today. Actually I was going through looking for some ideas and I journal five to six days a week and I was going through. I want to pull it up here. I just got up and grabbed it, so bear with me, maybe I'll come back to it later, but I was coming out, had written down just a few weeks ago the three stages I've gone through my life and it just came to me and it was. I forget the stage. I know the stage. I forget. I even put the years.
Speaker 2:The first stage was survival, or I'm sorry that was survival. The second stage was struggles and the third stage is success. And I've realized and I started documenting okay, when did my just surviving life? What years were that in my life? It was like basically from age four or five to mid 20s and maybe early 20s and I, and then I was like then it was struggles, from then until about few years ago that I was just, you know, you're, you're just struggling to get to that next level, to overcome the shit you had to survive during that younger part of life or whatever it is, and then you get to that third stage, which starts to become success.
Speaker 2:Now, not everybody does that, and I honor people like you who see life as different trials, that you have to overcome different stepping stones, and if more people can put that mentality into their life and go, I'm not a failure or my life isn't fucked up simply because I went through some shit. There are just different trials and stages we go through and the idea is to elevate ourselves through each trial, through each stage, and become stronger and a better person, and that's exactly what you are doing. So question for you that I ask everybody is I don't care the timeframe, but what is a great learning you've had in the last year, two, three years or so? What's a learning that you can really pinpoint, that that has really stuck with you?
Speaker 3:And I love how you mentioned the trials. I see them as seasons, like I always kind of mentioned, like everyone wants to live in summer but no one wants to go through winter. But you know, those are just seasons of life. Seasons just happen like you can't control them and you got to live through them and yeah, but I would say, over the last few years, really, the lesson I've learned is that, I mean, it truly is only like my beliefs that limit me and it's only the beliefs that people put on themselves that limit them. And that's something that I, you know, I think has become more apparent when I'm growing my business and kind of going into that stage where you have a lot of doubt when you start out. So so that's, that's kind of one lesson that I've really been learning is that there is truly no limit. It's, you know, if you can overcome that self doubt and those limiting beliefs that you put on yourself.
Speaker 2:Can you have you ever written? I agree with you. Have you ever read the book the Big Leap by Gay Hendricks? I have not. All right, when we're done today, I'm going to get your address. I'm going to send you a copy.
Speaker 2:Reading is my favorite hobby. I'm a nerd that way. I always have been since I was a little kid, and I so when I, when I think a book is good and it made an impact, it's put because it's gone through. I might read 30 books and only one makes an impact on me. This is in the top five books of all time that I've read and he talks about exactly what you're talking about. So the book is called the Big Leap and it's about how do you overcome what he calls your upper limit problems.
Speaker 2:We, you know the glad, the self imposed glass ceilings, like you call it, your belief limits, and we go through these stages of of of the things we do and his ideas. We all need to work in our genius zone, where it's something that we're doing, things that we do. We're doing things that we love to do, things we excel at and things that make the boat most contribution to the people around us. While we're doing those things and how very few, small, small percentage of people reach that, that level of genius level, because they hit these upper limit problems, these, like you said, self imposed belief limitations. And he was actually on the podcast a year and a half ago, I think he was and one of the best, the most downloaded podcasts we've had not not the number one, but up there in the top and he shared some amazing content and beliefs, and and this guy is a he's a master at getting people to live that life. So he has a book out now that just came out three weeks ago, called your upper limit year, I'm sorry, your big leap year, and it's a daily exercise you go through and helping you define that.
Speaker 2:I would highly recommend that book to anybody out there. It takes about five minutes of work every day to help you overcome some of these self limiting beliefs, so I'm going to send you a copy so we'll talk about that after we're done here, though, because it's an honor to send that book to anybody. I appreciate it, oh God, yes, yeah, and I think you could use that with with your clients, with anybody you're working with on a consistent basis. I mean, it's it's so good with your kids. God be blessed for them to learn that stuff too. So when you talk about yourself, like your belief limits, can you give an example where at a time, you overcame something that at one point, kent, you didn't feel you could accomplish, because you had that upper limit or that self limiting belief that once you believed it, you accomplished it is there. Is there an example you can share with us?
Speaker 3:I mean, I think, kind of early on, the first one that I overcame was in high school. Being from a small town, I had, you know, some people like oh, that'd be good if you know division, to like achieving a division one scholarship from a small town, that was kind of the one that really sparked like, oh, look at that, like I hit the weight room you know it was three years straight I was working. It was the ground, as I kind of mentioned like that was where I learned that if you, if you fully dive into something and you commit to it, that you can, you know there wasn't always easy but it was a consistency that helped me, you know, achieve those big goals that I had at that time. And you know, just started my business, you know, going from like five kids that I because I have a tutoring business for math, yeah, and can you share us with the name of that Math recalculated.
Speaker 2:I like that name.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and you know, going from like five kids starting out to like 10 to 20, to you know I think last year we were at 50, 60, we were able to help. So like kind of growing that business and really taking ownership and kind of realizing like, oh, like I can be that person which I didn't think of myself as being able to kind of start a successful business on my own.
Speaker 2:Isn't it crazy, though and you were blessed at a young age I mean young relativity, I guess but in high school and even when you were in eighth grade, when you decided you were going to start you know working out and playing football, or you know you know getting in shape, because you had this big frame. When you get good at something, when you get that first thing that you realize I'm actually good at something, and it's something that you're good at not based on necessarily natural talent, but you got good at it because of the grind and the hard work you put in. When you get that first thing that you're good at, so many people stop there and they live in their glory days the rest of their lives. Some people never really realize that they're good at something, but the person who says who sucks at something? Or maybe they earn a good fit and they work hard at it and they become really good at something through hard work and grind, and they'd say, okay, if I did that, I can do the next thing, and I can do the next thing, and you start building these steps of confidence that you can get good at other things too, as life progresses. You became good in football because you worked hard, then, hey, I can become a good business owner. Hey, I can become a great dad I can, you know you, just you can elevate that up so many times in your life.
Speaker 2:So the one thing I'm going to recommend to the listener out there right now is think about the thing that you've gotten good at in your life based on hard work. I don't care if it was something in fourth grade, maybe you want a spelling bee because you studied at it. Take that and say, okay, how did I get good at that? Now, what can I? And think of all the things you've gotten good at because you've worked hard and it could be they might seem minor to you, but they're not and use those as stepping blocks to the next thing you want to be good at.
Speaker 2:Because, as Kent said, it is all about the grind, and grind isn't a bad thing. We think about grinding, we think about just wear and tear. It's not. Grinding is a beautiful place to be, because when you are grinding, when you're doing work and you're working hard at something, you're trying to improve yourself in one way, shape or form, whether it's intellectual, physical, spiritual, financial, whatever it is. It's a beautiful process, man, it is hard work but it's fun work too, and the reason and the fact that the fact that you're doing that work makes you a happier, well-rounded person. So grind isn't just like you think of it you think of just wear tear horror. There's some of that in there, but mostly it's a beautiful process. So I love that. I like the idea of talking about the belief limits that we have. So, anyway, are you going to wrap?
Speaker 3:it up. No, I was Quick story that just popped in my head, for that is actually that all sounds great, but I will say there was a point. It was my freshman year of shop put and this is kind of the competitive chapter of my life. I was sports, but my freshman year of shop put I started winning all these varsity meets and I started just beating everyone. And I remember there was a Tuesday meet. I won the conference all through all the seniors and all that stuff. And that Thursday was a freshman sophomore, a JV meet and I remember going into that bus, like pulling up and going. I got this in a bag Like it's done, it's already done, I already beat all the varsity plays and I took third place that day.
Speaker 3:And this is, I guess, something to kind of learn more about me is like I remember looking at our athletic director who was our coach, matt Huell, and I told him I'm never losing again, like I'm never losing again. You know I was a freshman and he was like haha, yeah, but that medal and I went on to never lose again. In high school we were in the UP, so I'm sure if I went bigger I definitely would have lost, not saying it was the greatest. But it was just the competitive of like I never, no matter how good someone told me I was, I never bought into it after that day because I knew what my capabilities and what I was capable of doing and I didn't need the, I guess, external, the validation of someone and I feel like that's for young kids a lot. They get caught up in chasing the opinions of the outside world rather than kind of that internal, you know, setting those limits for themselves. And yeah, that medal I had four UP championship medals. That medal was the only one that hung on my rear for your mirror in my car because it was a constant reminder of you know, as things are going good, as soon as you put your foot off the gas it can be gone.
Speaker 3:And that's where kind of that grind mentality really stuck in for me because you know it's one of those where if you're, if you're passionate about what you're doing and you believe in what you're doing, then you know I worked probably 14, 18 hour days, a lot like Monday through Thursday. But I love everything that I do, I really do, and I feel like you know, at least I try to make a difference in you know whether it's my students that I'm teaching, whether it's the confidence of the students that I have with tutoring and then also coaching, helping others build their tutoring businesses. At this point now, and you know every one of those aspects, I feel as though I can make a positive impact in someone's life. So for me it's not. It might be a lot of hours, but I guess I had that passion behind me to just keep getting better and keep driving, and I love the ground.
Speaker 3:I want to keep getting better.
Speaker 2:Well, what I like about it is when you think about the grind. You know I'm a big fan of do something that makes you uncomfortable every day, and that can be a number of things. You know it could be getting up at 430. It can be, you know, cold plunges, cold showers, working out. You know a number of things, but every and we've lived in a society where we are so uncomfortable with discomfort and you can't grow without a third place medal. You could never get a first place medal without a third place medal. You have to fail. You have to find things that just break you down every day a little bit so you can build up. You have to prove to yourself that I can get through some hard shit and that third place medal is a constant reminder for you. It was that I went through, I did some. There was a time when I felt pretty damn low about myself, and that motivates you to become uncomfortable, to work those long hours, to keep pushing, to keep grinding, to keep getting better every day for yourself, your family and for others around you. And I think so many people don't want to go through a discomfort thing, they want to be comfortable at all damn time. It's like well, great job, man, because you know what? And I hate to say this, but you're going to live, you're going to die and within a generation you will be forgotten. And I want people who listen to this show to realize they have everything to offer this world. I don't care if you're eight or 98, you have a lot left in your tank. You have a lot in your tank to leave a legacy, to make a difference, and the only way to do that is to accept the discomfort of life and grow from that discomfort. I mean it's.
Speaker 2:I just get disgusted when I talk to people who are just complaining constantly about how hard life is. Fucking life is hard, but life is tough. But be tougher. And that's one thing my mom never told me, but I watched her and I still watch her to this day, and my mother is 88 and a half years old and still going strong is. I've watched her live a tough life. She's lost so many loved ones, loved three men, buried three men over the course of her life her brothers, her sister, her sisters, friends and just raising kids on her own. And I just look at her and go. She is the epitome of life is tough, but we are tougher if we allow ourselves to be tougher and we do that through the grind, like you said. Okay, this is a question that I ask everybody can. It's probably the most foundational question that I get asked from audience members. To make sure I ask is what is the most difficult thing you've gone through, and one of them, in your life, and then how did you overcome it?
Speaker 3:Yeah, so who? So the most difficult thing that I've gone through I think it was kind of a compound event, I guess. So about three and a half years ago actually about three years ago now or four years ago, sorry I found out I was having my son and when we went to a check-in we found out that he was going to be born with gastroesthetist, which is kind of the intestines and everything is on the outside, and that was March of 2020. So COVID was just starting to become a thing and we had to go down to Ann Arbor at the Children's Hospital every three weeks and kind of do a checkup to make sure everything's going. And throughout those kind of check-ins he was due in July.
Speaker 3:As it got closer, that reality struck of like things. There could be complications or could be things that go wrong and that stress there, you know I remember it was there was a night of. You know I kind of talked about throwing down the Bruce keys. It was the night of we got home from our last check-in before he was, you know, going to be born and I had, you know, kind of conjured up an excuse to go up. So bars just opened up. So I went out and met a couple buddies, but you know that night I drank all my stress away and it resulted in me getting an OWI. So not only was the stress there now I'm putting that on Brooke who you know had that, so I had that going.
Speaker 3:Then my son was born and we had spent eight weeks in the NICU in Ann Arbor and we finally got the clear to be able to take him home. So you know, I kind of had the OWI going, but things were looking good. Our son was coming home, and then also the job implications for you know my mistake there too. So as life started going, he was home for about 10 days and he started having complications and so then we went back to the Milwaukee Children's Hospital and we were there for about a little over a week and you know things were looking good.
Speaker 3:We were actually talking about possibly getting released the next day and it was just one of those things where you know it turned bad quickly and you know we ended up losing him at two months old and you know that is by far the hardest thing that I've had to go through and I think you know part of it was like the hope, because there was hope attached, and then the hope was taken, and the hope was attached, and the hope was taken. And you know that I considered kind of being to the rock bottom, because once you know my son was gone and you know I had no job, my son was gone, and it was really one of those points where you know, there I am rock bottom, where do I go from here? And that was by far the hardest thing to deal with.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I remember that time. I remember following you and Brooke on social media talking to you, know Shannon and Jason, and you know kind of following your journey from the fringe level, and I remember thinking I don't know how they can do this, I don't know how you get through that. And I look now and you know I'm dude. I got to tell you you got my respect. You both do that's.
Speaker 2:I don't know if anybody out there listening could say I can top that as far as a very difficult timeframe of your life, a difficulty to go through, and I think it's a lesson for all of us that you know we can, we do complain about things that happen in our lives, and I know I do, and I know it's hard to compare and it's hard to you know, everything's relative, but at the same time what you guys went through is the most difficult thing a human being can ever go through in their lives. It is by far the most difficult thing. There's nothing worse. And you're, you survived it and you're you're, you've not moved on that's not a good way to phrase it but you, you're both moving forward in life and doing some great things. So you know, god bless you and God love you for it.
Speaker 2:How do you get through that, like, how do you get through? You know the number one, the emotional up and down, you know, in the hospital, nicu, ann Arbor, milwaukee. You know, like you said, hope, you know, is is attached and hope is taken, and then you got the OWI, then you lost your job and then, obviously then most disastrously, lose your son. What is something that got you through that, Kent?
Speaker 3:You know, I, I think it's.
Speaker 3:You know I might sound odd to some people, but it's, it's appreciation. I think that's the one thing that in our society today that's very lacking is appreciating what we have. And you know where we're at. Still bad things are going to happen, you know, somewhere in your control, somewhere with you know, out of your control, but you know, and I'm, I guess my little slogan was you know, it's a great day to have a great day Like I, I firmly believe, every day you can, you know it's.
Speaker 3:I would say that happiness is managed, it can be manufactured, but if you, if you learn to appreciate it and you might have to manufacture it some days, but you don't have to fake it I truly enjoy every day that I have and I think you know, during that time it was, you know, waking up and and though everything seemed to be going bad, I still woke up. You know, that's one of my checklists and my daily, my daily, I guess, call it the life that I wake up today, yes, okay, it's going to be a good day Now that everyone did, and, you know, starting my day off appreciating that fact alone that I get another day on this earth, that's kind of start helping me. You know, kind of build, build something out of that was down at the bottom. So and I think when you hit rock bottom, you know a lot of people think you know the rise kind of happens because there were so low that you know people rise up to a level. But I really think it's about building that momentum.
Speaker 3:I think when you hit rock bottom, you're you're stuck, like you have to admit to yourself that you're stuck, you're not going anywhere. And you know it's those points where some people choose to stay there and they, you know, they want to blame, blame the world, blame everything kind of you know, and I think it reflects that. So you know kind of one of the same like way in my childhood you know, blaming why can't I be a bluff kid? You know people, especially with social media, people share, all you know, the illusion that all these great things are happening and you know there's kind of some envy, I guess when you scroll through of that.
Speaker 3:You know people believe that, oh, if I was just then they make excuses for why someone's in a position they would want to be in and they're not. And they, you know they validate those excuses internally to themselves to believe that you know there's a victim. And yeah, I think waking up kind of with the appreciation every day that I have another day what I'm going to do with it, and kind of building up back up that momentum. Day by day you start to build up momentum strong enough to where you know you can't really get stopped, like I truly believe, like I, you know I never want to go through anything like that, but I know life's gonna happen and you know bad things are gonna happen.
Speaker 2:But kind of building up that momentum to know that whatever obstacles in my way, I'm gonna fight through it. Like there, there isn't. You know whether I can. It's just how. How do I do it? Yeah, you know.
Speaker 2:And the thing is I know when you talk about growing up and envying and you felt, felt, said, you felt sorry for yourself and you envied the bluff kids, and I guess we all probably get what we all understand on here what a bluff kid is. It's, it's, it's people lived in the bluff and they had typically more money, better houses and things like that. But I will share with you this is the 116th episode of this podcast. I've never had a bluff kid on here and I mean that's even metaphorical. And the reason I say that is because when I look at people like you, kent, who are doing great things and who are, you're building momentum. How old are you, kent? 32. Holy cow, okay, you got a long. We got a lot ahead of you. Then you got a lot of momentum ahead of you. And when you look at people like you whether you know someone's 32 or 82, that I've had a chance to either interview on the show or talk to as a client or a friend or a colleague or somebody I interview for other purposes.
Speaker 2:Everybody I know who is doing changing the world and doing amazing things. Everybody has gone through some really dark shit, whether it's as a child, as an adult. You know, you kind of have had a combination of there of. But when I see people who've had these quote unquote, perfectly padded lives, I'm sorry, people, you ain't doing anything, you're not making a huge difference. I mean, you can, but the majority of those people are not. And I think it's during the times when we have our greatest struggles and our greatest strives we determine we become, we find out who we are and what we're made of and what kind of metal we carry inside. And I think that you know those difficult times at can be. There's a silver cloud or silver lining in those clouds and they can be an unfortunate blessing in our lives if we use them properly. And I've also met people who've gone through a lot of dark times, who use those, as you said, dark times as excuses.
Speaker 2:But I don't see a lot of people who are changing the world and I know you're out there, I know I'm not saying if you had a great life as a child, trust me, I know you can have, you can be doing great things. I'm just saying that for the majority of the people I come in contact with, who are doing amazing things, when I really sit and talk with them, whether it's on the show or outside of this is they have gone through some really difficult times where they had to really look at their lives and reflect and say how do I get out of this mess? And in some are self imposed messes and some are imposed by an external force. But you kind of had both and we have, trust me, I have had two Kent. So so for you, like when you look at your life now, kent, you've got your children, you've got your family, you've got your business. What is a win for you? What do you consider to be a victory?
Speaker 3:So for the great question what is a win? I think a win is just for me, like I already kind of mentioned, is waking up, getting another day. And personally, my wins I guess come from making a difference. I have this I guess internal call it, I don't know, it's just internally in me I want to help people and I really do, and that's what gets me the most, I guess the happiest and makes me feel the best, is being able to help these people like help people out, help my students, help kind of anyone that I can out in those. That's kind of a win for me and that's something that I want to pass on to my children.
Speaker 3:As far as you know, kind of realizing like I think you know people like to try to define success is such a tricky thing for win. Success like what is that? And you know, and I know there's a bit of like a financial aspect to it, I think, in the definition of success, if you were to try to define it. But I think more so, success is just happiness, is being able to enjoy the day that you have today, and that's what I think is the most successful. That's what makes me think, you know, I have a successful life. I enjoy it every day and no one can take that from me and I feel that that's a win. And you know, and I worked road construction when I was in college for the summers and I remember at 4am I'd be like good morning guys. And then I'd shout out, but you know, it was just. You know, just having to be in here is a win, I think.
Speaker 2:Can't? Don't you just love mornings? I do, I do too, and everybody around me you know my girlfriend, you know my kids like what the hell's wrong with you? My daughter had to finally put a stop, like a month ago. She goes, dad, no text before seven o'clock in the morning, please, because this morning I was up at what was an odd morning it was.
Speaker 2:I got up at 3.55 this morning. That is normally it's between five and 5.30. But when I get up it's the happiest part of the day. Those first three hours are the best part of my day. I don't get up groggy, I just don't. I get I'm groggy in the afternoon I get kind of cranky. After like five o'clock I'm just like okay, my day's done, I want to go to bed now.
Speaker 2:But mornings are like there's a fresh start to mornings and people around me like God, you're an idiot Now. And there's some guys at deer camp. You know guys that you know that are like that too, like they're guys that got before I do at deer camp, and they can step till two in the morning and still be up at six o'clock in the morning, right at a bushy tail. I'm not quite that guy. If I'm, I don't go to bed at two in the morning. I don't know when the last time I've done that. I'm in bed, usually by 8.30, some nine o'clock I'm ready for bed, so I still get my sleep. But, man, I love the freshness of mornings.
Speaker 2:There's a there's an optimistic side of me that doesn't exist as much and as strongly as it does the rest of the day, but I want to address, because I want to make sure that the audience captures, what you said about appreciation. I wanted you to think everybody that answer surprised me. When I asked Kent, how did you get through that? Those Timmy, that's some difficult, as he calls them rock bottom moments, and I expected an answer like well, I self reflected, I, you know I started, you know you hear a lot of I go to church, or I started exercising, I started reading, I started going to therapy, I started talking to a pastor, what? Those are the lot of the answers I expect to hear. His answer was real, clear appreciation. And I want you to think of a. If appreciation can get help Kent get through that difficult, dark time of his life, what can it do for you right now? And it's just waking up because I've shared this with the audience so many times is that you know we have this little thing in our brain about the size of an almond.
Speaker 2:It's called an amygdala and it's part of our brain and it's there. It's designed for us to see scary things. It's designed for us to be warned for danger and it was necessary as we were a species that was being traced, chased by, you know, wild animals and wolves, and you know typhoons were taking out our villages and other warring tribes were going to come and rape and pillage us and kill us. So it was necessary. We don't have those dangers like we did back then for the most part and but our amygdala is still there. It hasn't evolved out of our brain yet.
Speaker 2:So everything we see, we see negative everywhere because it's it's biological, it's evolutionary, and for every positive thing that we see in our life and every throughout the day, we see nine negative things. So you think about that nine to one, negative to positive. No wonder so many people are depressed and so many people have such low energy. And if you start practicing appreciation and noticing the good things in life, like simply getting out of bed in the morning because some people aren't, some people don't have that luxury anymore. They went to bed and they're not getting out of bed, and so think about that, just that simple act of getting up and then start looking around life and saying, what other things do I have to be appreciative of? It can be a warm cup of coffee in your hand, it can be the fact that your dog just pissed on the carpet but you have a dog that loves you, you know. It can be anything, you know. Just look for the good things in life that you can feel gratitude for, because then you start flipping that switch from nine to one negative, then you can go maybe you know, three to one, then one to one. Then you can start going three to one, positive to negative, then you go nine to one, positive to negative, and that's where you dramatically improve the quality of your existence and therefore the quality of life of the people around you. So I love that. I think that's so powerful Appreciation.
Speaker 2:So, kent, I'm going to if I could drive up to Gladstone, michigan, today, and you and I could jump into a time machine and we can go off to any phase of your life, any age. Maybe it's a time when you needed today's Kent and you're talking. You could. The person you are, the man you are today. At one point you needed that man to give you a life lesson, to give you some words of wisdom. Go back in that moment. Let's see if we can go back there and you could sit and talk to your younger former self. What would you say to that person?
Speaker 3:Fail more. Yeah, I think you know and you kind of mentioned it earlier in our conversation, I think it's I know that I chased attainable goals. You know, like when you had those kind of internal like goal settings, what am I going to get done, you know, and those are good, those are good to achieve attainable goals and all that. But I think ultimately why I didn't chase bigger goals was because of the fear of failure. You know I had that fear growing up that you know I didn't want to fare. No one wants to fare Right. But I think now in my life, like I chase it, like what? What can I like? Where is the limit? And you know where, where does that stop? And I think part of that honestly kind of thinking about it deeper right now is I didn't get that opportunity, like with football, I didn't get the opportunity to be told I wasn't good enough.
Speaker 3:I ended up just tearing my ACL three years in a row. It wasn't a nice collegiate career that I had. I just tore my ACL, got that, tore my ACL, Got that, tore my ACL again. And you know it was one of those where I wish you know that unknown. I think that's you know.
Speaker 3:It's you know thinking I can't think of a quote right now but it's it's not about what you fail it's. It's what it's not about your failures, but it's what you didn't even chase, what you didn't try for. That's what's going to be, you know, looking back on your deathbed. That's what you're going to regret If you don't regret the times you failed. You regret the chances like you didn't take.
Speaker 3:And you know, I think if I, if I could go back to younger me, I'd, you know, I'd tell myself that earlier on like you may go out there and fail, like don't be afraid of it. Is it always going to work out the way you want it? No, but that's that's part of life. Like that's kind of the fun you know there's. There's got to be that balance without sadness. There's not really happiness without, you know, failure, there's not early success and you know, kind of being able to tell me I'm yourself that you know that for me would have been my basic advice Go out there and fail, because you know what Life's gonna go on and you're gonna learn from it. You're gonna be just fine.
Speaker 2:But just go for it. Just go for it and I think you sit at best here. That connects so well with what you said earlier, that people who don't, they only try attainable goals. They do that because they have those limited beliefs, so self-limited beliefs, about themselves. You know, when you get out there and you're okay failing, and you're trying, you're stretching yourself and trying things that you've never accomplished, that seem insurmountable challenges. You're facing challenges that seemed insurmountable. It's because you're taking away that self-limited belief and your ceiling is getting taller and taller, your comfort zone's getting bigger and bigger and bigger.
Speaker 2:And so I think for anybody out there who, when you right now, think of the goals you have and I did this, kent, when I did my goals this year I put on, I do them every December. I put my goals. I go through a five-step process. I do it with my clients, I do it with myself and I sat down after my goals and I'm like, and I was going through another, I'm going through this 10X learning process with this training program. I'm going through and I started going when I was going through their training. At the same time, I look back and they, they challenged my goals immensely and said, yeah, those are really good goals and they're really good goals. But they're kind of bullshit goals too, because you know you're going to attain those goals with a little bit of effort, a little extra effort. So I dramatically increased my goals, I mean beyond what I ever thought possible, and like three times on some of these things, I had four goals and one of those I increased by three times fold, three fold. And what happened right away?
Speaker 2:Kent, when you do that I think you've experienced in this and this is kind of what you're saying when you do that, you all of a sudden think you start thinking out of the box and how to accomplish those goals. When you set these attainable goals, you just follow what you've always done, and. But when you stretch your goals and go for things that are massive, you know you're going to fail during the process, at times you're going to fall down. But when you are going through those the attainment of those big, extraordinary goals you start thinking out of the box and try to find interesting ways that you never would have thought of before to attain those goals. And it's it simplifies life. It really does. It seems like it makes it more complex, but when you start thinking out of the box. Life becomes simple. It does. It doesn't become as complex as these small, attainable goals because, number one, you get bored with them. I get bored with those kind of things.
Speaker 2:But I did this year, despite all my coaching. I put my goals down and I thought, oh, those are good goals for 24. And then, when I was challenged on them, I thought, oh God, you're right. Those are really fucking easy goals, you know. And had I accomplished those goals and not changed them, I would have my self-limiting beliefs would have taken hold, they would have gotten stronger. So I think that's extremely powerful. What's next for you?
Speaker 3:Kind of Chief On-Grammed. You know I kind of stated earlier like I enjoy everything that I'm doing right now and you know I enjoy I'm teaching at an alternative school right now and you know I think my life and kind of going through those trials that I have like connects well with the kids. So I love where I'm at teaching because I feel like I can make a difference in some of these kids' lives that I have. Continue to grow the business because you know, talking about those goals, it went from all that'd be cool if I had 20 kids, all the cool 550 kids where you know and again there's ego involved in my statement I'm about to say but like I really do think I have an ability to connect with the kids and push them beyond their limited beliefs, especially with math, because I feel like that's what draws me to teaching. Math is like there's so much students lose so much self-confidence about their abilities and they just don't think they can and they don't think they're capable and being able to work with those kids. You know, I kind of tell the parents when they sign up for tutoring I'm like, just so you know, like I didn't change algebra and I'm gonna teach it any different. But it's that mindset, it's almost mindset coaching with these kids of like now you can do this, like let's go like kind of building that momentum up for them to, you know, kind of become independent. That's the biggest goal for my business. And you know, when I think about that on a scale like I want to get to thousands, like I want to build up something that that'll kind of help change kids' lives and that impact, kind of getting a bigger level there. And yeah, like I'm doing success coaching now for people growing their tutoring businesses. And you know there's a few that you know they were able to like they're now living the life that they dreamed of and kind of I get to watch that evolution as they come in not really confident with themselves and kind of coaching them through those limiting beliefs and really breaking through and seeing that it's.
Speaker 3:You know it's not, it's not just like possible, but it's probable if you continue to kind of put in a work, if you continue to make those improvements day by day, by day, kind of things. Don't things aren't just possible, they're probable. And because if you just keep going at it, like the odds then start to flip in the favor of you will succeed, you will hit those goals. So what's next is I, who knows, like that's the thing I'm excited to see. I'm excited to hit some big goals. I'm excited to fail, but I'm gonna fail forward and kind of see where I end up in the next. I guess my goals right now is eight years. Where am I gonna be at eight years and I turn 40. That's kind of. That's kind of my next I guess milestone that I set for myself, like what can I get accomplished by the time I'm 40? And that's what I'm kind of chasing to figure out right now.
Speaker 2:Question for you is where the hell were you 40 years ago when I needed a math, somebody to teach me math? And math was never natural for me, ever. You know, at a certain age, you know when you're young it's fairly simple, but when I got to a certain point I just got. I didn't like it and I had it seemed like every math teacher and in college, every math or math related teacher. Those calculus, algebra, you know every trigonometry, every one of those were so boring or I couldn't understand what they were saying that I just lost interest and they never made it. They never. They were challenging in the way that I didn't get it. So it challenged me, but they didn't challenge me. They didn't challenge me, they didn't get into my mind at all. They didn't make any customized coaching or teaching. It was all just get up there, talk and then take your homework, home goal, come back, we'll grade it, we'll take a test every three weeks. It was just so damn mundane. And I think math is such an important subject, it's incredibly important. And how many people and I'm talking to the audience right now how many of your children or your grandchildren, or you, for that matter, if you're still a young person going through school. How many of you have lost the opportunity or losing it or might lose it because the teacher you've had or have now or will have is just somebody who is just giving you the basic content of math and expecting you to figure it out, without challenging you on a personal level, to grow your mind and to reach that potential that you don't know you have right now. This is the kind of person right here that can help that, and I wish somebody like you was available. Because math.
Speaker 2:I became a financial advisor. I got my degree in finance and college Kent. I didn't even know what the hell math is a pretty. Your finance is a pretty math based. You know career. I became an advisor for five years before I started coaching and still sucked at math, still sucked at math.
Speaker 2:And I remember taking like summer classes in college I think it was a calculus class and I literally sat there for three hours twice a week in a summer class for like whatever four or five weeks, whatever summer school is, and I literally could understand maybe five words every three hours that this guy would say you know they were hiring people, that you know that I couldn't even understand what he was saying and they were just going through the motions of giving you the content and expecting you to figure it out. And I remember that being the worst class I ever took, the most disheartening class I ever took in my life, from college, high school, whatever because I just felt like such a failure when I was done. Like I got out of the summer school I think I got a C minus and I don't even know how I got that. And I got done, going back up to the UP to work for the rest of the summer before I went back to fall semester and I remember thinking what a failure I am. And it wasn't that I was a failure, just that I didn't understand the concept and he was not willing to teach it and help me to understand it and the whole class. I had a buddy of mine that was in there with me. He felt the same way. He felt like just such a failure when it was done.
Speaker 2:So I'm happy there are people like you out there doing taking young people at a young age, an impressionable age and teaching them a very important concept of math Because it's you know. People always say well, you'll never lose, but use math the rest of your life Bullshit. You use it every day of your life and a lot of it is even what I in critical thinking. You use math. You use math every single day, and despite the fact that we carry a calculator on our phones and we can figure everything out online, now, it doesn't matter. Math is a way of teaching the intellectual side of your brain, giving it a tool that it can use no matter what you do in life, so it's good to have you, a person like you, doing it.
Speaker 3:Yeah, go ahead. Can I add some of the records? Oh, yes, and I think that's one thing that math teachers and again, no disrespect of math teachers out there everywhere, I am one of you, but I think it's become it always comes. It seems to come so natural to them that when they try to explain it to someone else, it's almost like, well, yeah, look at. If you've ever heard this, you know those listening like, oh, just look at your notes, it's right there. And I think they have the best intention at heart. But I think it's so easy for them that they kind of just make the assumption like, oh well, the answer is right there. How doesn't this make sense?
Speaker 3:And to add to that of the way I kind of coach kids and I call it kind of coaching, besides, I guess, tutoring, but it's like for a lot of these kids, this is their first kind of challenge in life. You know, that's how I kind of see it. It's their first thing that hasn't really come easy, that they have to overcome. And that's where I really I guess that's where my passion that comes in is staying deep with the kids on a personal level of like, oh, here we've hit an obstacle, this is hard. How are we you know where are our choices here Are we going to then push through, overcome and face adversity on and overcome these challenges, or are we going to start to program our life into when things get hard or are we going to try to avoid it? And that's where I think I see the biggest impact with my students.
Speaker 3:As far as for me is that in don't get me wrong, I think math is an important skill and all that. But I really think that what got me into math and like tutoring and working with kids is that it's their first challenge. It's their first challenge that they hit that it doesn't come easy and they have to then kind of start to develop those habits of overcoming adversity. What are you going to do at that point? Are we going to, you know, persevere through this or are we going to try to avoid it? And then I correlate that you know with life, like what are you going to then do? What's the next problem that comes? Are you going to figure out a way to overcome or are you going to try to avoid it? And that's for me, I guess the bigger impact of what I'm doing is really coaching these kids up to fight through adversity and you know, oh, persevere.
Speaker 2:Well, I like the fact that you call it coaching versus tutoring. I think that right there is very symbolic of the way you approach your clients, the students, the young people, because tutoring has this kind of we're going to sit down and we're just going to go through the math problems themselves. Coaching is a broader scope process and I do think there's a beauty to that. No disrespect to math teachers out there. I think most of you are doing a fantastic job and it's a job that I could never do. I will say some disrespect to some of the ones I had who didn't try back in my day for sure, and I look at it like I never thought about it this way and that was a really good point. That math was probably is for most students the first big academic challenge they have in their lives, because other things are a little. I don't know if it's simpler, but literature, perhaps art, those are things that are just. We kind of know those things. We can draw with a crayon. When we're a year and a half years old, we've already done some art. We've had our parents read to us. Potentially we know what books are, but when math comes into our lives we're like what the hell is this thing? You don't know what it is. It's a brand new demon that you have to face now.
Speaker 2:And so I think when you have a teacher, a coach like you, when you have a teacher who might just push it through and say, I don't, yeah, you shouldn't understand this, because I understand it, but that's like trying to read hieroglyphics If you don't get it, you don't get it. You can look at it and it might seem obvious to a teacher, but it doesn't seem obvious to the student and they don't see it as a grander. There's a grander goal here. We're not just teaching them math, you're teaching them to overcome adversity and you're giving them a tool and a process to overcome their first real, at least academic, challenge in their lives. For the most part, for most people, and that's a tool.
Speaker 2:Like we talked about earlier, you get that one win at a young age that can catapult to bigger wins as you get older and older and progress in life. So I think it's great what you're doing, brother, I really do. I like your approach. I didn't even know your approach until just today, so I appreciate it. Yeah, okay. So as we wrap up, final question is there any question, kent that I didn't ask that you wish I would have. Or is there any final message you want to leave with the bamboo pack? You know, I think, the final message and we've kind of had it throughout.
Speaker 3:But the final. I guess call it a lesson, something that I've learned through. You know I didn't want to go off forever on the ups and downs, because I've had a lot of other downs in my life and you know peaks and valleys, but you know kind of understanding that appreciation is like a learned skill and we've kind of already hit this. It's something that you have to practice, because if you're focused on the negatives, you're going to only see negatives, and but if you, alternatively, if you focus on those positives, you're going to start to find more positives in your life. And kind of like my, my slogan, I guess, is it's a great day to have a great day, and and I truly believe that every day that I wake up, like I said, if you need a, a start to the positivity, you steal mine please. And that checklist on the first one of my checklist is and I know I'll do this for the rest of my life until, well, I can't Did I wake up, and if you woke up you have another day. You know, and I think that's something that we need to kind of learn, that that is something to appreciate, because you know people think of it as a, as a negative, when you know you could die tomorrow I could die today heading home, you know, from my way to work or home from work, and I think people put that as a a sad and they want to get like kind of sad thinking about that. But when you really think of it like that's the reality, that is the truth. But it also is like, oh well, how lucky am I that you know I do have this day and when you wake up tomorrow you do have tomorrow.
Speaker 3:And I think I guess the last thing I'll kind of say because you're talking about Facebook posts, this is one that I posted kind of recent because I was hearing people talk about entitlement and you know they were complain about the kids being entitled, entitled, entitled.
Speaker 3:And you know the people that I was listening to they kind of said you know, in a few years here, I can't wait to watch the change, you know, their future pacing, of how they believe that that you know, specifically the United States is going to kind of make a change.
Speaker 3:And I thought he's reflecting and thinking like I think they have the biggest entitlement themselves is they think they're entitled to tomorrow. You know they're getting all worked up, they're having what they see on the news, they're having what they see on Facebook and Instagram and all the other apps, like they're letting that ruin their day and they believe they're entitled to tomorrow. And I think that's the biggest entitlement of anything is for us to believe that we, we, you know, we assume that tomorrow is just a given. So kind of to anyone still listening to me rant about it, you know, just know that today is a gift and learn, learn to appreciate it and you'll you'll kind of start to see your life Like I said, that's what got me out of my lowest spots and I know that if you've learned to appreciate everything that you do have and you start to focus on those positives, you know your, your life's going to start to correlate in the in the direction you want it to.
Speaker 2:I can't think of a better way to end this podcast, but I am going to directly quote you because I'm reading your, your post, right now. That folks this is from February 7th Kent's post is I hear a lot of people complain about the entitlement these days. They'll rant about how unfair the world is. The biggest, biggest entitlement that I see is not enjoying their life today because they think they are entitled to a tomorrow. Bingo, that's all about appreciation. I got to read one more quote that I love that you put on here become so passionate about something that even your mom gets sick of hearing about it. Yeah, and honestly, my friend, this is a stuff that really drew me to your, to your, your social media site and really wanted me to bring you on this show and, honestly, I didn't know what to expect. I met you one time at the wedding and we have not talked until 10 minutes before we started recording. Today, you've, you have succeeded my expectations and my hopes for today. Well, I appreciate it. I'm glad that I could.
Speaker 3:I'm glad that you enjoy kind of a little bit of my life and what I've learned this far.
Speaker 2:Well, I'm going to ask everybody out there, please reach out to me.
Speaker 2:I mean, Kent shared some very vulnerable parts of his life to us and he shared with us some incredible wisdom on how he used the act of appreciation and the grind to really supersede those moments, those dark moments, those low moments, and is now building such a much better life for himself, his family, his students and then eventually, the entire world.
Speaker 2:I believe and in this podcast you're going to reach a lot of people around the globe, Kent, and I'm hoping and I believe fully that a lot of people are going to go holy shit, if he can do it, I can do it, and that's really all we're trying to do today is share a little bit of hope with people out there through your story, your experience and your wisdom. So I just want to take the time to thank you so much for being I mean, I always use the term inspiring guest, but in this time, I mean, I'm kind of thinking of a better word but, for lack of a better word, my limited mind right now, Kent, thank you one. I just want to thank you for being such an inspiring guest on the Bamboo Lab podcast.
Speaker 3:I appreciate you having me.
Speaker 2:Hey, we're going to do this again, you know, yeah, I hope so, you know. And just for anyone listening, know that, yeah, that poor kid from Flat Rock, if I can do it, if I can, you know, kind of find those things you can do. I know it. Amen, brother, you are doing it All right.
Speaker 2:So, everybody out there, I want to give a quick shout out to two young people who are, by the time this airs, are enjoying the beautiful beaches of Oahu in Hawaii. My son, Dawson, and his beautiful girlfriend, Audrey are sitting in Hawaii right now for seven days, eight days, and I know they're listening. So all I'm going to say is guys, have a great time, make some beautiful memories, and I would love, love to see a picture sent back of Dawson in a, in a grass skirt. So, Audrey, that's your job. I want to see coconut bikini on his top and I want to see him in a grass skirt. So that's your only job. Anyway, I love you both. Have a great time and everybody out there. Please. Thank you for joining us.
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