1 00:00:00,166 --> 00:00:00,834 All right. 2 00:00:00,834 --> 00:00:04,170 Hey, welcome to another edition of What's Good with John and Joyce. 3 00:00:04,170 --> 00:00:06,606 You can find us on all the streaming platforms. And 4 00:00:06,606 --> 00:00:10,210 I'm John Cadillac Seville from iHeartRadio and John Seville Entertainment. 5 00:00:10,210 --> 00:00:13,313 And you are Joyce Logan, his pal. 6 00:00:13,413 --> 00:00:16,082 My pal, my buddy. We met over copilot. 7 00:00:16,082 --> 00:00:19,652 We met over three years ago and we did a long friendship. 8 00:00:19,652 --> 00:00:23,523 We said yes a long time ago when they used to have hamsters 9 00:00:23,523 --> 00:00:26,493 go around the wheel for power right. 10 00:00:27,494 --> 00:00:28,828 What's that? Far back? 11 00:00:28,828 --> 00:00:31,131 Oh, maybe not quite. 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Yeah. Thank you. 54 00:02:37,757 --> 00:02:38,791 We actually. 55 00:02:38,791 --> 00:02:41,794 Yes. Joe Perone, Joe Perone, Joe. 56 00:02:41,794 --> 00:02:47,033 So I only knew Joe from being the owner of New England Vision. 57 00:02:47,100 --> 00:02:47,800 Yeah, yeah. 58 00:02:47,800 --> 00:02:51,371 And, I just I shared a story with him because I wish 59 00:02:51,371 --> 00:02:56,609 I had met him in December when I had my head on collision. 60 00:02:56,609 --> 00:03:03,816 So when he had me head on and it was a very scary unknown time, I mean, 61 00:03:03,917 --> 00:03:07,353 especially you taken away by ambulance when I don't know where my car is. 62 00:03:07,687 --> 00:03:09,989 I don't know how to navigate that. 63 00:03:09,989 --> 00:03:12,959 And when you have an attorney, that is a, 64 00:03:14,060 --> 00:03:14,861 what do you call it? 65 00:03:14,861 --> 00:03:17,597 A self not. 66 00:03:17,597 --> 00:03:19,032 It's for what? 67 00:03:19,032 --> 00:03:20,466 Injury. Personal. Injury. Personal. 68 00:03:20,466 --> 00:03:22,101 Thank you a personal injury. 69 00:03:22,101 --> 00:03:25,805 Well, personal injury doesn't really cover where your car is 70 00:03:26,172 --> 00:03:28,441 and and how to deal with the insurance companies. 71 00:03:28,441 --> 00:03:31,511 So I was so grateful to have met you. 72 00:03:31,511 --> 00:03:35,114 Now, I hope I never need you again in the future, 73 00:03:35,215 --> 00:03:36,683 but I was certainly past that. 74 00:03:36,683 --> 00:03:38,885 Because you're companies like the. 75 00:03:38,885 --> 00:03:42,355 You're like the concierge of accidents 76 00:03:42,355 --> 00:03:45,191 where they call you and you handle everything. 77 00:03:45,191 --> 00:03:47,193 And I know that's just one of the things we're going to enjoy. 78 00:03:47,193 --> 00:03:49,128 And I'll talk from a personal experience really quickly, 79 00:03:49,128 --> 00:03:52,999 because I went to Joe once as well for a, for a banger in the back of my car. 80 00:03:53,266 --> 00:03:56,402 And the minute I walked in, I was greeted with smiles from everybody 81 00:03:56,402 --> 00:04:00,273 that was working on the cars, the worker bees to the gentleman behind the desk. 82 00:04:00,640 --> 00:04:03,443 And Joe checked up on me many times to make sure everything was fine. 83 00:04:03,443 --> 00:04:08,648 So, yeah, I feel like like I like, I'm in a lavish hotel here, the with everybody. 84 00:04:08,648 --> 00:04:09,515 But seriously. 85 00:04:09,515 --> 00:04:11,684 And and I'm going to recommend everybody to you 86 00:04:11,684 --> 00:04:12,518 and I have 87 00:04:12,518 --> 00:04:14,220 but Joe, we're going to let you talk right now 88 00:04:14,220 --> 00:04:16,055 because we're babbling a little bit too much. But yeah. 89 00:04:16,055 --> 00:04:18,358 Welcome to what's good with Johnny Joyce. Yeah. 90 00:04:18,358 --> 00:04:19,993 Thank you both for having me. 91 00:04:19,993 --> 00:04:21,561 Love the show. 92 00:04:21,561 --> 00:04:22,729 Thank you. 93 00:04:22,729 --> 00:04:25,832 I love you with the content that you guys are putting out, 94 00:04:25,832 --> 00:04:29,502 and I have definitely resonated with that myself. 95 00:04:29,502 --> 00:04:32,739 And, you know what's what's good is just such a blessing to me. 96 00:04:32,739 --> 00:04:34,440 So, yeah, thanks for having me on. 97 00:04:34,440 --> 00:04:37,243 And, you know, my name is chaperoning. 98 00:04:37,243 --> 00:04:39,812 Yeah. Oh, New England collision. But I'm a dad. 99 00:04:39,812 --> 00:04:43,383 I'm, you know, investor do a lot of different things. 100 00:04:43,383 --> 00:04:47,854 And, you know, in a different season of my life right now, which with, my boys, 101 00:04:48,121 --> 00:04:51,157 Bruno and Marcelo and, I love those names. 102 00:04:51,157 --> 00:04:51,891 Bruno and Mark. 103 00:04:51,891 --> 00:04:52,358 Yeah. 104 00:04:52,358 --> 00:04:55,361 And it's, you know, you got a small demo. 105 00:04:55,395 --> 00:04:56,362 Yeah. Right away. 106 00:04:56,362 --> 00:04:57,864 Yeah, yeah. 107 00:04:57,864 --> 00:05:00,133 But you Irish, you. No, no, no. Italian. 108 00:05:01,134 --> 00:05:01,801 Blood there. 109 00:05:01,801 --> 00:05:05,872 But yeah, you know, it's a it's a great season to be in and, 110 00:05:06,272 --> 00:05:08,975 you know, been blessed with a business, been 111 00:05:08,975 --> 00:05:12,512 blessed with a great business partner, been blessed with a great team. 112 00:05:12,845 --> 00:05:15,581 And, yeah, it's a 1998. 113 00:05:15,581 --> 00:05:19,419 We started the we started the business as workers. 114 00:05:19,552 --> 00:05:23,656 And, now we've gone into full time of ownership over the last, 115 00:05:24,290 --> 00:05:27,293 you know, over a decade, you know, the time kind of. 116 00:05:27,727 --> 00:05:30,029 It blurs after a while. Yeah. Sure does. 117 00:05:30,029 --> 00:05:32,198 As you, as you mentioned, Joyce. 118 00:05:32,198 --> 00:05:34,667 Like, that's one of the things that we offer is, 119 00:05:34,667 --> 00:05:38,671 we do offer a concierge service because we've, we've been in accidents 120 00:05:38,671 --> 00:05:41,641 before, and, you know, it's such a process. 121 00:05:41,674 --> 00:05:45,578 And, and dealing with all of that and dealing with for profit insurance 122 00:05:45,578 --> 00:05:47,480 companies and dealing with 123 00:05:47,480 --> 00:05:50,850 police departments and rental car agents, it's such a massive. Yes. 124 00:05:50,850 --> 00:05:53,152 You know, if you know how to navigate around that 125 00:05:53,152 --> 00:05:55,355 and you have people that are willing to help you. 126 00:05:55,355 --> 00:05:59,225 And, you know, our front office staff is so they're they're such kind people 127 00:05:59,225 --> 00:06:00,626 and they're just so empathetic. 128 00:06:00,626 --> 00:06:02,795 And they have just the it's a great present. 129 00:06:02,795 --> 00:06:06,199 That's why they were hired, because they're extensions of my myself, 130 00:06:06,199 --> 00:06:07,567 my business partner Mike. 131 00:06:07,567 --> 00:06:09,335 That's how we want to be handled. That's all we want. 132 00:06:09,335 --> 00:06:11,704 Would want our parents to be handled. 133 00:06:11,704 --> 00:06:13,973 That's where we want our siblings to be handled. 134 00:06:13,973 --> 00:06:15,074 Like that's how we want. 135 00:06:15,074 --> 00:06:17,243 It's a stressful situation. That's the whole thing. 136 00:06:17,243 --> 00:06:18,845 Nobody is looking forward to going in there. 137 00:06:18,845 --> 00:06:21,180 You opening up the door and you're not sure what you're going to get, 138 00:06:21,180 --> 00:06:24,784 and then you take that stress and you give us ease. 139 00:06:24,784 --> 00:06:25,184 Yeah. 140 00:06:25,184 --> 00:06:28,287 You know that anointment of ease as we kind of go into that doorway there. 141 00:06:28,287 --> 00:06:32,658 But let's go back to where it all began, kind of for you, because I'm an I, 142 00:06:32,692 --> 00:06:36,562 I've heard your story before when we've had coffee and Joyce for a little bit, 143 00:06:36,662 --> 00:06:40,533 but but for the audience, you're basically came from a point 144 00:06:40,533 --> 00:06:43,536 where you were like, really in dire straits. 145 00:06:43,803 --> 00:06:46,339 And I'm not talking about the band either, but but there were some 146 00:06:46,339 --> 00:06:48,641 there are some challenging times there for a while. 147 00:06:48,641 --> 00:06:50,476 Cadillac and Lou has to bring the music. 148 00:06:50,476 --> 00:06:53,413 Oh, it's going to be the music metaphor. Yeah, I love it. 149 00:06:53,413 --> 00:06:57,683 Well, you know, what you're referring to is the period of time where 150 00:06:58,351 --> 00:07:01,788 new, new business owners, newly 151 00:07:01,788 --> 00:07:06,025 married son on the first son on the way, and, 152 00:07:06,025 --> 00:07:09,395 yeah, was was rushed to the hospital in the middle of the day. 153 00:07:09,395 --> 00:07:13,199 Didn't no anxiety panic, dehydrated. 154 00:07:13,533 --> 00:07:15,968 You know, that was over a decade ago. 155 00:07:15,968 --> 00:07:19,138 So that was like in 2013. And, 156 00:07:20,673 --> 00:07:21,107 you know, 157 00:07:21,107 --> 00:07:24,210 and yeah, it was, you know, you think you're invincible, 158 00:07:24,210 --> 00:07:27,447 you know, mid, mid 30s, relatively healthy. 159 00:07:27,747 --> 00:07:30,416 But you, you know, you take on too much stress 160 00:07:30,416 --> 00:07:34,320 and you take on too much, you know, responsibility and stuff like that. 161 00:07:34,320 --> 00:07:38,424 And, you know, thankfully, you know, over a decade later, 162 00:07:38,424 --> 00:07:39,392 you know, you find out that 163 00:07:39,392 --> 00:07:43,496 that was all preprogramed, you know, decades prior to that. 164 00:07:43,496 --> 00:07:48,301 And, you know, our environment programs us, you know, you got to be a go getter. 165 00:07:48,301 --> 00:07:49,502 You got to get after that. 166 00:07:49,502 --> 00:07:52,805 You got to, you know, build, build, build sleep when I'm day. 167 00:07:52,839 --> 00:07:53,840 Exactly right. 168 00:07:53,840 --> 00:07:56,843 You know, we've all we've all heard it and and to all the, 169 00:07:57,210 --> 00:08:00,713 you know, the people out there that have grown up with that, 170 00:08:01,147 --> 00:08:06,185 you know, I definitely empathize with that way of upbringing 171 00:08:06,185 --> 00:08:10,923 because, you know, you're you're just in a constant mode of competition. 172 00:08:11,123 --> 00:08:12,358 It's never enough. 173 00:08:12,358 --> 00:08:14,627 No matter how much money you get, how much business you get, 174 00:08:14,627 --> 00:08:17,830 how big the house is, how nice the car, it's never enough. 175 00:08:17,830 --> 00:08:20,366 And it never feels like enough. 176 00:08:20,366 --> 00:08:26,072 And then when you finally hit a wall, when, like I did, and you say, you know, 177 00:08:26,572 --> 00:08:30,743 the stress is this is way too much, you know, the pressure's way too much. 178 00:08:31,077 --> 00:08:34,013 You know, all the things that I thought that I wanted, 179 00:08:34,013 --> 00:08:37,950 all the things that were, you know, the world's markers of success. 180 00:08:37,950 --> 00:08:41,721 Nice house, nice car, decent bank account. 181 00:08:41,721 --> 00:08:43,155 Not any wrong with that. 182 00:08:43,155 --> 00:08:44,924 Not that there's anything wrong with that. 183 00:08:44,924 --> 00:08:47,226 But that's not the end all. Be all. 184 00:08:47,226 --> 00:08:48,995 But you weren't really enjoying it. 185 00:08:48,995 --> 00:08:51,531 That because you were always striving for the next thing. 186 00:08:51,531 --> 00:08:52,098 It was. 187 00:08:52,098 --> 00:08:53,199 It was never enough. 188 00:08:53,199 --> 00:08:55,201 Like it was never enough. It was always something. 189 00:08:55,201 --> 00:08:58,237 It was always the next, you know, get to the next plateau, you know. 190 00:08:58,237 --> 00:08:59,272 And if it was, 191 00:08:59,272 --> 00:09:02,708 you know, this much money in the bank, it was, you know, that much more. 192 00:09:02,708 --> 00:09:06,512 And you know, two acts and three acts and you know, all the vision boards 193 00:09:06,512 --> 00:09:09,749 and all the things were always dollar amounts, material things, 194 00:09:09,749 --> 00:09:13,185 just things just things that it could be very easily 195 00:09:13,185 --> 00:09:16,322 replaceable, could be easily gone, could be easily gained. 196 00:09:16,322 --> 00:09:16,889 Right. 197 00:09:16,889 --> 00:09:20,960 You know, so it was a it was a humbling moment back in two. 198 00:09:21,060 --> 00:09:22,428 So you're okay now. 199 00:09:22,428 --> 00:09:24,463 Oh yeah I mean so well that way 200 00:09:24,463 --> 00:09:28,067 you know that was the that was the part the turning point was it. 201 00:09:28,067 --> 00:09:29,368 In a lot of ways. Yeah. It was. 202 00:09:29,368 --> 00:09:32,972 And so this was an unexpected like health event that happened. 203 00:09:32,972 --> 00:09:34,407 Yeah. Right in the middle of a workday. 204 00:09:34,407 --> 00:09:35,975 You know we're pushing out cars. 205 00:09:35,975 --> 00:09:38,644 We're getting people, you know, getting them back in their cars. 206 00:09:38,644 --> 00:09:41,981 And you know, we were the type of guys, hey John, throw your keys on there. 207 00:09:41,981 --> 00:09:42,782 We'll just keep taking them. 208 00:09:42,782 --> 00:09:45,618 We'll just keep taking, you know, we'll get your car out, you know? 209 00:09:45,618 --> 00:09:48,154 Hey, even if it puts us in hospital, we'll take a car. 210 00:09:48,154 --> 00:09:49,021 That's right. 211 00:09:49,021 --> 00:09:52,024 You know, and that was something that, you know, 212 00:09:52,391 --> 00:09:55,261 you know my business partner and I, that's how what we grew up on. 213 00:09:55,261 --> 00:09:56,963 That's everybody that we idolized. 214 00:09:56,963 --> 00:10:00,466 Everybody that was, you know, our mentors and people in business. 215 00:10:00,466 --> 00:10:04,503 It was just be busy, just stay busy, stay busy no matter what. 216 00:10:04,503 --> 00:10:07,106 Just stay busy because that was that was success. 217 00:10:08,374 --> 00:10:11,177 Until you're in Saint Rafael's 218 00:10:11,177 --> 00:10:14,580 in the waiting room with, you know, a bunch of other people, and you're. 219 00:10:14,580 --> 00:10:15,881 You don't know what's wrong with you. 220 00:10:15,881 --> 00:10:18,884 Your your blood pressure's high or dehydrated, 221 00:10:19,285 --> 00:10:22,555 and you finally get to see a doctor, and he says, 222 00:10:23,089 --> 00:10:25,324 you know, you can't live like this. 223 00:10:25,324 --> 00:10:26,626 You're going to have to be on 224 00:10:26,626 --> 00:10:29,695 anti-depressants, medication for the rest of your life. 225 00:10:29,695 --> 00:10:32,732 You have a medical doctor telling you this. 226 00:10:32,999 --> 00:10:34,367 That was a wake up call. 227 00:10:34,367 --> 00:10:37,169 That was a wake up call. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 228 00:10:37,169 --> 00:10:40,773 To be to be on some kind of an antidepressant for the rest of your life. 229 00:10:40,773 --> 00:10:42,141 Like that was the answer. 230 00:10:42,141 --> 00:10:43,442 That was their answer. 231 00:10:43,442 --> 00:10:45,177 After all. The medical school, everything. 232 00:10:45,177 --> 00:10:47,713 And and and that didn't that didn't vibe with me. 233 00:10:47,713 --> 00:10:50,683 And what changed at that point on, you had a lot of time to think about it. 234 00:10:50,683 --> 00:10:52,385 Okay? And now you act. 235 00:10:52,385 --> 00:10:55,187 So people hear that and they go back to the same old, same old. 236 00:10:55,187 --> 00:10:57,390 You didn't. What did you do? 237 00:10:58,824 --> 00:11:01,861 Well, you know, one of my one of my first mentors, 238 00:11:01,894 --> 00:11:04,897 had recommended a book by Jim Roan 239 00:11:05,431 --> 00:11:07,833 and, went through the book. 240 00:11:07,833 --> 00:11:10,169 And then I started really researching Jim Roan. 241 00:11:10,169 --> 00:11:14,140 He was one of my one of my early heroes of, you know, self-development 242 00:11:14,140 --> 00:11:18,210 and he said it and I and I, you know, shook my head at it. 243 00:11:18,210 --> 00:11:21,814 But he said, if you want anything in your life to change, 244 00:11:22,081 --> 00:11:23,883 you have to change. 245 00:11:23,883 --> 00:11:26,619 And that that hit me really hard like that was 246 00:11:26,619 --> 00:11:30,589 I wanted to just resist that so hard and say, what do you mean? 247 00:11:30,589 --> 00:11:31,891 It's not the weather, 248 00:11:31,891 --> 00:11:34,894 it's not traffic, it's not the government, it's not bureaucracy. 249 00:11:34,894 --> 00:11:37,963 It's not, you know, whatever political parties in office, 250 00:11:37,963 --> 00:11:42,601 no jail for anything in your life to change, you have to change. 251 00:11:43,502 --> 00:11:45,438 And it took me months. 252 00:11:45,438 --> 00:11:48,441 It took me a year to figure that out. 253 00:11:48,974 --> 00:11:50,976 And I said, okay, well, what do I change? 254 00:11:50,976 --> 00:11:53,345 You know, how do I change? What about everybody else? 255 00:11:53,345 --> 00:11:56,248 And I was so worried about what's everybody else doing. 256 00:11:56,248 --> 00:11:57,783 And I kept going back. 257 00:11:57,783 --> 00:12:00,119 For anything in your life to change, you have to change 258 00:12:00,119 --> 00:12:02,955 for anything in your life to change, you have to change. 259 00:12:02,955 --> 00:12:06,859 So I began making lots of changes, wise man. 260 00:12:06,859 --> 00:12:08,160 And you got the message. 261 00:12:08,160 --> 00:12:10,663 And what was what was like? What was the first change you made? 262 00:12:10,663 --> 00:12:12,865 Oh my gosh, you guys, I'll make you laugh. Yeah. 263 00:12:12,865 --> 00:12:13,532 Go ahead. Yeah. 264 00:12:13,532 --> 00:12:18,204 So up until that point, the only book that I had in the house, 265 00:12:18,204 --> 00:12:21,607 we had a Bible which was very dusty. 266 00:12:21,707 --> 00:12:21,974 Right. 267 00:12:23,275 --> 00:12:25,077 And we had one of those bathroom joke books. 268 00:12:25,077 --> 00:12:28,347 So that's all, yeah. 269 00:12:28,781 --> 00:12:33,919 But the joke was on me because in, you know, all of our libraries, 270 00:12:33,919 --> 00:12:36,455 now we have them on our phone, we have our Kindle. 271 00:12:36,455 --> 00:12:39,692 You have you have you can have a mentor day. 272 00:12:39,692 --> 00:12:42,661 You could have a new brand new mentor every day. 273 00:12:43,229 --> 00:12:43,963 Right? 274 00:12:43,963 --> 00:12:46,265 You know, you think about it. So many writes a book. 275 00:12:46,265 --> 00:12:48,601 They pour decades. 276 00:12:48,601 --> 00:12:53,205 They pour a lifetime into 200 pages for you to read. 277 00:12:53,873 --> 00:12:54,807 How foolish are we? 278 00:12:54,807 --> 00:12:59,178 Sometimes if we don't pick up that book and read what story? 279 00:12:59,178 --> 00:13:00,479 What they've been through. 280 00:13:00,479 --> 00:13:02,481 You know what they've learned. 281 00:13:02,481 --> 00:13:05,251 You know, success, you know, defeats. 282 00:13:05,251 --> 00:13:08,053 You know how they did it. Like, how foolish are we in that? 283 00:13:08,053 --> 00:13:11,223 How that's to the degree of foolish that I was because I didn't 284 00:13:11,457 --> 00:13:13,325 I didn't own any books. Yeah, yeah. 285 00:13:14,860 --> 00:13:16,028 And all that knowledge 286 00:13:16,028 --> 00:13:19,465 are pouring out for really, you know, pennies when you really think 287 00:13:19,465 --> 00:13:22,868 about the knowledge you're getting and these people just emulating them 288 00:13:23,169 --> 00:13:26,906 and they, they help you eliminate some of the pitfalls in a way, too. 289 00:13:26,906 --> 00:13:30,075 They can get you to where you want to go quicker by the 290 00:13:30,376 --> 00:13:33,946 they're letting you know what they did and what they didn't do. 291 00:13:34,146 --> 00:13:35,514 And you picked up on that, I'm sure. 292 00:13:35,514 --> 00:13:35,981 Yeah. 293 00:13:35,981 --> 00:13:40,352 And, and I think, you know, a lot of people say, well, what books do I read? 294 00:13:40,352 --> 00:13:43,823 You know, you see what's on top of the New York Times bestseller list, 295 00:13:43,823 --> 00:13:46,826 or you see, you know, you see different people recommend you a book. 296 00:13:47,126 --> 00:13:50,763 And it really, I, I see that as a little bit of a problem 297 00:13:50,763 --> 00:13:54,633 because, you know, until you know exactly what the problem is, 298 00:13:55,134 --> 00:13:58,270 you know, throwing a book at it won't help, you know. 299 00:13:58,270 --> 00:14:00,372 So I know I knew at that point 300 00:14:00,372 --> 00:14:03,809 it was it was really anything on personal development. 301 00:14:04,176 --> 00:14:09,982 Like what can I do if anything in my life has to change, I have to change. 302 00:14:09,982 --> 00:14:12,017 Right. Okay. Well, what do I change? 303 00:14:12,017 --> 00:14:13,552 You know, what? Do I start working? 304 00:14:13,552 --> 00:14:16,422 Where do you begin? Yeah, where do you begin? 305 00:14:16,422 --> 00:14:21,393 And, you know, kind of kind of a long, a long way to, to say this, 306 00:14:21,393 --> 00:14:24,997 but after every book and I could, if you ever want to attach it 307 00:14:24,997 --> 00:14:28,467 to the show notes, I could show you my library of books. 308 00:14:28,901 --> 00:14:31,770 It all comes back to the Bible, no matter what book. 309 00:14:31,770 --> 00:14:36,175 Every single self-help book on this planet, on the shelves, this. 310 00:14:36,208 --> 00:14:39,678 You have all of it. The basis is all of it. 311 00:14:39,678 --> 00:14:41,647 I would challenge anybody to just do it. 312 00:14:41,647 --> 00:14:44,383 I will challenge anybody on this. 313 00:14:44,383 --> 00:14:45,050 It's back. 314 00:14:45,050 --> 00:14:48,053 It's back to biblical principles 100%. 315 00:14:48,153 --> 00:14:48,754 Yeah. No. 316 00:14:48,754 --> 00:14:53,192 And, but the books I did read, the these people were, you know, less Brown. 317 00:14:53,192 --> 00:14:59,031 Jack Canfield, Zig Ziglar, Zig Ziglar, Norman Vincent Peale, 318 00:14:59,064 --> 00:14:59,798 love all those books. 319 00:14:59,798 --> 00:15:01,533 Love them. You know, Maxwell 320 00:15:01,533 --> 00:15:05,571 malts, psycho cybernetics, you know, and psycho cybernetics. 321 00:15:05,571 --> 00:15:09,775 Probably one of the first books that I read, that really helped 322 00:15:09,775 --> 00:15:14,179 me understand more of the mechanics of of what was going on. 323 00:15:14,179 --> 00:15:15,648 And it was, you know, 324 00:15:16,916 --> 00:15:18,217 setting your mind to, 325 00:15:18,217 --> 00:15:21,654 to what you wanted and the thoughts and what you thought. 326 00:15:22,087 --> 00:15:25,124 But that goes back to the Bible as a man think as it does. 327 00:15:25,224 --> 00:15:28,260 So, so, you know, those books were really pivotal. 328 00:15:28,427 --> 00:15:34,233 But I the process of sitting down and reading was probably 329 00:15:34,233 --> 00:15:39,571 one of the hardest, one of the hardest disciplines, that I had that I had to. 330 00:15:39,571 --> 00:15:43,008 Yeah, you know, relearn and write do. 331 00:15:43,509 --> 00:15:47,146 And it was, that was, that was, that was one of the hardest things 332 00:15:47,146 --> 00:15:51,517 was just sitting, sitting down and reading and humbling myself and, you know, 333 00:15:52,284 --> 00:15:56,755 you know, finding even if you only take one chapter, 334 00:15:57,523 --> 00:16:01,593 a day or a week, just sit with it. 335 00:16:01,593 --> 00:16:04,129 You know, if, if a book is speaking to you, 336 00:16:05,097 --> 00:16:06,699 take your time with it and 337 00:16:06,699 --> 00:16:09,702 really let it absorb into your body, your mind. 338 00:16:10,069 --> 00:16:10,402 Yeah. 339 00:16:10,402 --> 00:16:12,538 It sounds like that's what you did. 340 00:16:12,538 --> 00:16:12,938 Yeah. 341 00:16:12,938 --> 00:16:17,276 And I, I kind of brushed back at my mentor and saying, here, I want you to read, 342 00:16:17,276 --> 00:16:20,212 you know, read these books and go through these books. 343 00:16:20,212 --> 00:16:21,814 I'm like, I don't have time to read. 344 00:16:21,814 --> 00:16:23,082 And that was the number one. 345 00:16:23,082 --> 00:16:25,517 The that was the first thing that I had to change. 346 00:16:25,517 --> 00:16:27,619 We have all the time in the world, right? 347 00:16:27,619 --> 00:16:28,988 We have the same 24 hour, 348 00:16:28,988 --> 00:16:31,623 you know, you've heard it, you've heard all of these phrases. 349 00:16:31,623 --> 00:16:33,492 You have the same 24 hours in a day. 350 00:16:33,492 --> 00:16:35,394 We all have the same 24 hours. 351 00:16:35,394 --> 00:16:39,498 But it was what we do with that time and how we manage that time. 352 00:16:39,865 --> 00:16:43,202 And it was I could sit down for three hours and watch a ballgame. 353 00:16:43,802 --> 00:16:44,403 Oh, there you go. 354 00:16:44,403 --> 00:16:48,974 I was going to say TV like, if you cut out one program perhaps. 355 00:16:48,974 --> 00:16:51,944 Yeah. So it was like first change. 356 00:16:51,944 --> 00:16:54,213 Reorganize your time. Right. 357 00:16:54,213 --> 00:16:54,713 You know okay. 358 00:16:54,713 --> 00:16:57,916 Instead of watching three hours of the baseball game, maybe watch 359 00:16:58,150 --> 00:17:01,153 two hours and 45 minutes and the other 15. 360 00:17:01,286 --> 00:17:03,622 Let's spend some time in this book. 361 00:17:03,622 --> 00:17:04,089 You know what. 362 00:17:04,089 --> 00:17:06,759 What should I do to instead of watching my favorite football team. 363 00:17:06,759 --> 00:17:08,527 Which is horrible because they're always losing it. 364 00:17:08,527 --> 00:17:10,863 Me? Frustrated. Frustrating. Anyway, I watch the lowlights. 365 00:17:10,863 --> 00:17:12,031 I mean, the highlights. 366 00:17:12,031 --> 00:17:16,435 So you could watch all these games in just a three minute vignette, right? 367 00:17:16,435 --> 00:17:17,970 And that take time to do other things. 368 00:17:17,970 --> 00:17:20,072 But you have to be intentional. Yeah, yeah. 369 00:17:20,072 --> 00:17:23,042 About what you do because the world is vying for your time. 370 00:17:23,342 --> 00:17:24,943 There's so much going on out there. 371 00:17:24,943 --> 00:17:28,047 It's easy to get on Facebook and Instagram and scroll for hours. 372 00:17:28,380 --> 00:17:29,648 You have to set time aside. 373 00:17:29,648 --> 00:17:32,317 Like Joyce said, be intentional about it. 374 00:17:32,317 --> 00:17:36,855 15 minutes a day can change or get up a half hour earlier in the morning. 375 00:17:37,189 --> 00:17:37,656 Read. 376 00:17:37,656 --> 00:17:40,793 Get close to God, whatever it, meditate, whatever you want to do 377 00:17:41,193 --> 00:17:44,296 and take care of your your your spirit, mind, body. 378 00:17:44,696 --> 00:17:45,631 Yeah, we talk about that. 379 00:17:45,631 --> 00:17:45,898 Yeah. 380 00:17:45,898 --> 00:17:47,499 We get up in the morning, take care of that, 381 00:17:47,499 --> 00:17:51,070 take care, do some exercising and just prepare yourself for the day. 382 00:17:51,570 --> 00:17:55,307 And it's amazing how things can change rather quickly, you know. 383 00:17:55,607 --> 00:17:58,710 And there's another old saying which is so, so true. 384 00:17:58,710 --> 00:18:00,946 And that's what happened with you, Joe, 385 00:18:00,946 --> 00:18:04,716 is that when the student is ready, the teacher appears. 386 00:18:04,817 --> 00:18:05,451 Yeah, I love that. 387 00:18:05,451 --> 00:18:09,588 So you had to be pushed into a hospital bed. 388 00:18:10,722 --> 00:18:12,858 And to get ready 389 00:18:12,858 --> 00:18:15,861 and the teacher the book appeared 390 00:18:16,328 --> 00:18:18,630 and that's how it usually happens. 391 00:18:18,630 --> 00:18:22,668 Because what would resonate with you may not resonate with me, 392 00:18:23,102 --> 00:18:25,304 but you could read ten books. 393 00:18:25,304 --> 00:18:28,207 It's some obscure book could say something. 394 00:18:28,207 --> 00:18:31,210 And that one sentence, sometimes it's like, 395 00:18:31,210 --> 00:18:34,513 whoa, I never thought of it this way before. 396 00:18:34,780 --> 00:18:38,851 And then it just opens your mind to the possibilities 397 00:18:38,851 --> 00:18:41,854 that are given to us and within us. 398 00:18:41,854 --> 00:18:44,223 Yeah, it's it's so true. 399 00:18:44,223 --> 00:18:45,557 Now you have multiple businesses. 400 00:18:45,557 --> 00:18:46,859 I know in New England collusion. 401 00:18:46,859 --> 00:18:48,827 We're talking about you're invested in other business. 402 00:18:48,827 --> 00:18:52,498 What we're really what really has gotten my attention is what a great dad you are. 403 00:18:53,132 --> 00:18:56,034 There's a lot of dads watching right now and they love to have more time 404 00:18:56,034 --> 00:18:58,036 with their kids, because how many dads are working 405 00:18:58,036 --> 00:19:02,174 and they miss the key times in their kids lives, and you're on the road to that. 406 00:19:02,574 --> 00:19:04,610 But now I see everything on social media with you. 407 00:19:04,610 --> 00:19:08,447 You have so much time hosting your kids Bruno and Marcelo, 408 00:19:08,480 --> 00:19:11,450 what they're doing, the martial arts, the discipline 409 00:19:11,450 --> 00:19:14,786 they have going to school, seeing how well dressed they are. 410 00:19:15,254 --> 00:19:17,055 They're just you're just a great dad. 411 00:19:17,055 --> 00:19:19,391 Tell me about that. Oh, man. 412 00:19:19,391 --> 00:19:20,325 Oh, dress it up. 413 00:19:20,325 --> 00:19:25,030 Yeah, that's one of the, I was talking to somebody about that this morning, and, 414 00:19:25,697 --> 00:19:28,267 you know, you don't realize how hard of a job 415 00:19:28,267 --> 00:19:32,971 it is to be a parent at home, present and present. 416 00:19:33,172 --> 00:19:36,842 They're making the breakfast, making the lunches, 417 00:19:37,142 --> 00:19:40,746 correcting the homework, driving to the sports. 418 00:19:40,746 --> 00:19:43,148 You know, it's a lot. 419 00:19:43,148 --> 00:19:46,151 And it's actually the hardest job. 420 00:19:46,218 --> 00:19:47,286 It's very easy. 421 00:19:47,286 --> 00:19:51,123 I think the easiest thing that I ever did was get in the car, drive 422 00:19:51,123 --> 00:19:54,393 to work, spend 8 hours to 10 hours there, 423 00:19:55,160 --> 00:19:58,697 finish, stop and have a beer or something and drive home. 424 00:19:58,697 --> 00:19:59,565 That was easy. 425 00:19:59,565 --> 00:20:01,767 That was the that was the easiest thing ever. 426 00:20:01,767 --> 00:20:04,903 Now, you know, through, 427 00:20:05,470 --> 00:20:08,473 systems, through changes that we made, 428 00:20:09,041 --> 00:20:11,677 you know, my business partner and I were able to be 429 00:20:11,677 --> 00:20:15,781 hands off in the business, give other people opportunities to 430 00:20:16,081 --> 00:20:19,751 to have careers for themselves and do what they love to do. 431 00:20:20,052 --> 00:20:22,888 And, yeah, I'm able to spend 432 00:20:22,888 --> 00:20:25,891 an enormous amount of time with children. 433 00:20:26,291 --> 00:20:27,993 I'm. I don't miss a bus stop. 434 00:20:27,993 --> 00:20:32,965 I don't miss a practice, you know, every day, you know, and we're in it. 435 00:20:33,498 --> 00:20:35,734 And, yeah, it's it's definitely a blessing. 436 00:20:35,734 --> 00:20:37,970 And, you know, something I look forward to. 437 00:20:37,970 --> 00:20:40,138 And that's another thing you have to change. 438 00:20:40,138 --> 00:20:42,774 You have to be prepared for that. Yes. 439 00:20:42,774 --> 00:20:48,013 You know, it just reminds me of something that was brought to, my life recently 440 00:20:48,614 --> 00:20:51,617 and that and how important it is to be present. 441 00:20:51,817 --> 00:20:53,552 And, I won't say any names. 442 00:20:53,552 --> 00:20:56,355 They don't have the permission, you know, to talk about it. 443 00:20:56,355 --> 00:20:59,358 So I'll just say that my husband and I, 444 00:20:59,558 --> 00:21:02,561 helped out someone that was in need. 445 00:21:02,894 --> 00:21:06,765 And, due to circumstances, they weren't going to be around. 446 00:21:07,132 --> 00:21:09,234 And their three children, 447 00:21:10,502 --> 00:21:13,472 there was no one there to, you know, take care of them. 448 00:21:13,538 --> 00:21:15,274 So we committed to do this. 449 00:21:15,274 --> 00:21:18,443 It ended up that we ended up actually living there for six months 450 00:21:19,044 --> 00:21:22,047 and taking care of our own families and going back and forth. 451 00:21:22,347 --> 00:21:26,818 But this the one daughter is writing a book, 452 00:21:26,818 --> 00:21:30,088 and she sent me part of the book not too long ago, 453 00:21:31,356 --> 00:21:33,091 and it floored me 454 00:21:33,091 --> 00:21:36,795 to read this, she said, because my husband was 455 00:21:36,795 --> 00:21:40,432 he got up very early in the morning, so he made breakfast for them. 456 00:21:40,866 --> 00:21:43,869 So she wrote that 457 00:21:44,036 --> 00:21:47,639 while they could easily have made their own English muffins, 458 00:21:48,607 --> 00:21:52,644 he would ask them what they wanted and one wanted it dark, one wanted it light. 459 00:21:53,345 --> 00:21:56,281 And she said, I never felt 460 00:21:56,281 --> 00:21:59,251 so much love in an English muffin. 461 00:21:59,685 --> 00:22:02,421 And it was, wow, 462 00:22:02,421 --> 00:22:06,391 the littlest things that you do for someone, for your children 463 00:22:06,792 --> 00:22:10,028 at a young age, they're carrying that with them. 464 00:22:10,228 --> 00:22:12,197 They'll always remember that show. 465 00:22:12,197 --> 00:22:13,532 So yeah, yeah, yeah. 466 00:22:13,532 --> 00:22:15,867 Thank you for falling for that story. 467 00:22:15,867 --> 00:22:18,270 Yeah. It's not even in English. Muffin. 468 00:22:18,270 --> 00:22:20,172 Yeah. That's right. Yeah. It makes a meaning. 469 00:22:20,172 --> 00:22:22,908 Yes, I hear I've heard rumors. 470 00:22:22,908 --> 00:22:24,042 Oh, we bake bread. 471 00:22:24,042 --> 00:22:28,080 There's always smell of baked bread or some kind of baked goods 472 00:22:28,080 --> 00:22:28,914 in the morning. And. 473 00:22:28,914 --> 00:22:29,715 And you're right, 474 00:22:29,715 --> 00:22:31,683 I said, and there's some times where I think about that 475 00:22:31,683 --> 00:22:34,052 and it takes me back to my childhood where, 476 00:22:34,052 --> 00:22:37,022 you know, my dad would would make the Sunday sauce. 477 00:22:37,789 --> 00:22:38,457 Oh, God. 478 00:22:38,457 --> 00:22:42,728 You wake up on a Sunday morning and there's that, that Italian Sunday 479 00:22:42,728 --> 00:22:46,465 sauce smell going, and you know that it's comforting. 480 00:22:46,465 --> 00:22:48,734 It's making us feel care. 481 00:22:48,734 --> 00:22:49,401 Care? Yeah. 482 00:22:49,401 --> 00:22:50,569 You feel so cared about. 483 00:22:50,569 --> 00:22:52,704 And, you know, you just said making memories. 484 00:22:52,704 --> 00:22:56,942 That was my my grandmother's favorite thing to say. 485 00:22:57,242 --> 00:22:58,510 You know, when she. 486 00:22:58,510 --> 00:23:03,515 When she was alive, we we she lived on our third floor for many years. 487 00:23:03,749 --> 00:23:07,486 We had a three family house, and, she had the penthouse suite. 488 00:23:07,719 --> 00:23:09,087 Oh, okay. 489 00:23:09,087 --> 00:23:12,224 And we would go up there as kids and go, go cook with her. 490 00:23:12,224 --> 00:23:16,361 And she had no idea that any of this was appealing to, 491 00:23:16,395 --> 00:23:19,564 you know, a 9 or 10 year old kid. 492 00:23:20,465 --> 00:23:23,902 And, you know, just looking back at it now, it's like you'd 493 00:23:23,935 --> 00:23:28,340 see those little acts of, you know, Joseph, what would you like, you know, 494 00:23:28,340 --> 00:23:31,743 make you this after school or make you that after school and make you that snack? 495 00:23:32,277 --> 00:23:35,580 And, you know, if she was here now, she would see, you know, 496 00:23:36,114 --> 00:23:39,451 Joseph, you see how much work it ist, right? Yes. 497 00:23:39,551 --> 00:23:41,586 But she always said, we're making memories. 498 00:23:41,586 --> 00:23:42,854 I'm making. That's true. 499 00:23:42,854 --> 00:23:44,656 And I'm glad you. I'm glad you said that. 500 00:23:44,656 --> 00:23:47,659 And see the impact we make on people's lives by the way we treat them. 501 00:23:47,726 --> 00:23:48,193 I'm Luther. 502 00:23:48,193 --> 00:23:50,162 You're talking about your grandmother all these years later, 503 00:23:50,162 --> 00:23:53,231 and how we associate certain smells with our child 504 00:23:53,231 --> 00:23:54,299 in, you know, with the sauce. 505 00:23:54,299 --> 00:23:56,101 And I remember going home on Sunday afternoons 506 00:23:56,101 --> 00:23:59,070 after going out and playing football in the morning or basketball and, 507 00:23:59,070 --> 00:24:01,807 and open up the door and the smell just permeating 508 00:24:01,807 --> 00:24:05,343 the room of mom and dad with her cooking whatever they're doing in the crock pot. 509 00:24:05,410 --> 00:24:06,378 All that. 510 00:24:06,378 --> 00:24:08,980 And you're doing that now because you have that time to spend with your kids. 511 00:24:08,980 --> 00:24:10,849 Like you said, it's the hardest job. 512 00:24:10,849 --> 00:24:13,618 At the same time it's got to be the most rewarding job. 513 00:24:13,618 --> 00:24:15,320 And I say that in quotations. 514 00:24:15,320 --> 00:24:17,989 Yeah but you're there for them and they're going to remember that forever. 515 00:24:17,989 --> 00:24:21,092 And they're going to hopefully pass that on to their kids down the line. 516 00:24:21,460 --> 00:24:22,761 Yeah that's right. 517 00:24:22,761 --> 00:24:23,295 Yeah. That's right. 518 00:24:23,295 --> 00:24:26,531 And it's you know saying that it's a hard job. 519 00:24:26,531 --> 00:24:27,466 It's so true. 520 00:24:27,466 --> 00:24:30,202 And many parents would would empathize with it. And 521 00:24:31,436 --> 00:24:31,770 like you 522 00:24:31,770 --> 00:24:35,273 said it, it is those small things that we have no idea. 523 00:24:35,707 --> 00:24:36,708 We're just doing that. 524 00:24:36,708 --> 00:24:38,243 We're just out of our, 525 00:24:38,243 --> 00:24:42,013 our being, you know, you know, just just kind of unconsciously doing these things. 526 00:24:42,013 --> 00:24:44,883 And they see every little. Yes. 527 00:24:44,883 --> 00:24:46,318 And you yes. 528 00:24:46,318 --> 00:24:49,187 Even myself now working on, you know, being present. 529 00:24:49,187 --> 00:24:51,122 No cell phones like, you know, dinner. 530 00:24:51,122 --> 00:24:54,926 We sit down, the four of us, and there's no cell phones and there's 531 00:24:54,993 --> 00:24:57,362 you're actually have conversations with each other in the eye. 532 00:24:57,362 --> 00:24:58,763 We do, and we do. 533 00:24:58,763 --> 00:25:03,201 I love and the, you know, the maturity 534 00:25:03,201 --> 00:25:07,472 I see in my sons where they can say hello to somebody and look them in the eye. 535 00:25:07,506 --> 00:25:08,306 Oh that's great. Yeah. 536 00:25:08,306 --> 00:25:09,574 They could shake their hand and they're 537 00:25:09,574 --> 00:25:13,512 not ashamed to look at somebody or you know, they've like such confidence 538 00:25:13,512 --> 00:25:16,882 and you don't realize that these little things that you're, 539 00:25:16,915 --> 00:25:20,519 you know, teaching them along the way and, you know, they're just getting it. 540 00:25:20,785 --> 00:25:22,320 Right. Right. 541 00:25:22,320 --> 00:25:24,556 Raise a good human love that other than that. 542 00:25:24,556 --> 00:25:25,857 But I love that about you. 543 00:25:25,857 --> 00:25:27,759 Like the you said, like he's so busy. 544 00:25:27,759 --> 00:25:30,962 You're so busy, but you learn to prioritize. 545 00:25:31,029 --> 00:25:31,396 Yeah. 546 00:25:31,396 --> 00:25:35,367 And, what you focus on, you can create. 547 00:25:35,901 --> 00:25:40,472 And again, I go back to you being in the hospital bed and you started 548 00:25:40,472 --> 00:25:45,944 then in there to create the life that would benefit you and your family. 549 00:25:46,344 --> 00:25:49,681 But it had to begin with you because unless you put your oxygen 550 00:25:49,681 --> 00:25:53,051 mask on first, you couldn't take care of anyone else. 551 00:25:53,251 --> 00:25:55,153 That's true, that's true. 552 00:25:55,153 --> 00:25:59,157 And to add to that point, it's nobody really wants you at 70%. 553 00:25:59,925 --> 00:26:05,063 They've learned, you know, nobody wants you at 60 or 70%, they want you at 100%. 554 00:26:05,063 --> 00:26:08,066 And that's that's a piece of programing 555 00:26:08,433 --> 00:26:11,803 that we've adopted that, oh, I'll take care of this person. 556 00:26:11,803 --> 00:26:13,905 And we see we see helping others. 557 00:26:13,905 --> 00:26:15,774 And you know, we're selfless. 558 00:26:15,774 --> 00:26:19,578 Like I can't worry about me I can't no, you have to. 559 00:26:19,844 --> 00:26:23,548 You know, when we say treat others as you would want to be treated. 560 00:26:23,548 --> 00:26:26,551 Well, if you're not setting the bar for yourself. 561 00:26:26,551 --> 00:26:27,152 Yeah. 562 00:26:27,152 --> 00:26:28,787 You know, like, I admire you for. 563 00:26:28,787 --> 00:26:30,021 Yes. I'm just going to say. 564 00:26:30,021 --> 00:26:30,722 Yeah. 565 00:26:30,722 --> 00:26:33,725 John, your fitness, you take such good care of yourself 566 00:26:33,725 --> 00:26:36,695 and you die and, you know, texted you, hey, you go for lunch. 567 00:26:36,695 --> 00:26:38,663 You say I'm, you know, I'm on a fast. 568 00:26:38,663 --> 00:26:41,132 I'm so, you know, I'm so in admiration of that 569 00:26:41,132 --> 00:26:45,103 because you're committed to that and it in it just goes to show you that. 570 00:26:46,071 --> 00:26:48,540 But look how much you have to give out to other people. 571 00:26:48,540 --> 00:26:50,175 Yes, yes. 572 00:26:50,175 --> 00:26:52,677 It's like and you I don't know if I would want John at six, 573 00:26:52,677 --> 00:26:54,646 I wouldn't, I wouldn't want stressed out John 574 00:26:54,646 --> 00:26:56,982 right here. You take such good care of yourself 575 00:26:56,982 --> 00:26:59,951 and you see such a, you know, priority in that. 576 00:26:59,951 --> 00:27:03,421 And other people might see that as like, oh, you know, I could 577 00:27:03,421 --> 00:27:05,624 I could never do that. I could never take care of myself. 578 00:27:05,624 --> 00:27:09,594 But we want you at 100% because look at John at 100%. 579 00:27:09,661 --> 00:27:12,664 You know, I love John and I just said, well, the thing is. 580 00:27:12,664 --> 00:27:14,165 And Joyce and I talked about this too. 581 00:27:14,165 --> 00:27:15,734 And, John, you take care of yourself, Joyce. 582 00:27:15,734 --> 00:27:17,569 I mean, you're committed to working out as well. 583 00:27:17,569 --> 00:27:18,870 Functionality. 584 00:27:18,870 --> 00:27:22,073 The thing is, we're here for a finite, finite amount of time, 585 00:27:22,374 --> 00:27:25,577 and we owe it to our family, our friends, the people that we work with 586 00:27:25,677 --> 00:27:30,348 to be operating, like you said, at 100% or as close to as we possibly can, right. 587 00:27:30,415 --> 00:27:33,585 And God's given us this amazing temple. 588 00:27:34,252 --> 00:27:35,487 Let's take care of it. 589 00:27:35,487 --> 00:27:36,788 We all can do it. So many people. 590 00:27:36,788 --> 00:27:39,724 So I'm not sure. I'm sure you can't. It's just a decision. 591 00:27:39,724 --> 00:27:42,127 You made the decision in the hospital. 592 00:27:42,127 --> 00:27:42,527 Choice. 593 00:27:42,527 --> 00:27:44,529 You made a decision many times when you've had things 594 00:27:44,529 --> 00:27:46,598 that could have stopped you and your life and me as well. 595 00:27:46,598 --> 00:27:49,834 And of course, many of you, everybody watching you listening right now. 596 00:27:50,235 --> 00:27:51,603 And you can do it. 597 00:27:51,603 --> 00:27:54,472 You know, I can't wait to read the book that you're writing. 598 00:27:54,472 --> 00:27:56,207 Are you writing a book? 599 00:27:56,207 --> 00:27:59,010 It's it's coming along. It's coming along. 600 00:27:59,010 --> 00:27:59,577 All right. 601 00:27:59,577 --> 00:28:02,580 I think I think it's more of a living book right now than ever. 602 00:28:03,081 --> 00:28:05,283 So it's I'm living it chapter by chapter. 603 00:28:05,283 --> 00:28:06,151 So, you know. 604 00:28:06,151 --> 00:28:07,819 Right. You got to let us know when it's out 605 00:28:07,819 --> 00:28:09,320 because we want everybody to know about it. 606 00:28:09,320 --> 00:28:10,622 And I am documenting it. 607 00:28:10,622 --> 00:28:12,557 But it's a lot of documentation. 608 00:28:12,557 --> 00:28:14,793 You know, your story needs to be heard by the masses. 609 00:28:14,793 --> 00:28:16,561 Yeah I appreciate that. 610 00:28:16,561 --> 00:28:17,629 And it's 611 00:28:17,629 --> 00:28:19,464 you know, sometimes you don't know where to start 612 00:28:19,464 --> 00:28:22,033 because it's like there's just so much to start. 613 00:28:22,033 --> 00:28:22,567 Yeah. Yeah. 614 00:28:22,567 --> 00:28:25,203 There's a great rival doctor Wayne Dyer. Bring him. 615 00:28:25,203 --> 00:28:26,404 Oh, Lord. 616 00:28:26,404 --> 00:28:28,740 Because I just love he's a great philosopher. 617 00:28:28,740 --> 00:28:31,743 And, he said to begin a book 618 00:28:32,444 --> 00:28:36,114 he would take, he'd make up an image for the cover 619 00:28:36,514 --> 00:28:40,251 and he would just sit it next to his computer, and he would just 620 00:28:40,251 --> 00:28:43,455 look at the cover, and then the thoughts would come to him about the book. 621 00:28:43,822 --> 00:28:46,424 So maybe you think of a name. Yeah. 622 00:28:46,424 --> 00:28:49,360 And it doesn't have to be permanent. You know, it could change the name. 623 00:28:49,360 --> 00:28:50,328 Well, I have a name. 624 00:28:50,328 --> 00:28:51,663 Oh, well, there you go. 625 00:28:51,663 --> 00:28:54,632 Because you can't you can't unveil the name I can. Okay? 626 00:28:54,632 --> 00:28:55,967 You guys are friends. We're we're off. 627 00:28:55,967 --> 00:28:56,601 Are all friends here? 628 00:28:56,601 --> 00:28:59,604 Living proof living, living proof. 629 00:29:00,171 --> 00:29:03,241 And that was a song by we're going to show. 630 00:29:03,508 --> 00:29:04,375 And you're like country music. 631 00:29:04,375 --> 00:29:05,043 Of course. 632 00:29:05,043 --> 00:29:08,146 Ricky Van Shelton, Randy Williams, junior, living proof. 633 00:29:08,413 --> 00:29:11,382 Well, yeah, I know we're digging deeper. 634 00:29:11,382 --> 00:29:13,351 You know, I went deep. 635 00:29:13,351 --> 00:29:16,154 Yeah, I went into the kitchen because I love baking. 636 00:29:16,154 --> 00:29:17,856 So when you bake bread. 637 00:29:17,856 --> 00:29:20,725 Yeah, the dough has to proof. Right. 638 00:29:20,725 --> 00:29:24,963 So and bread is like, what a life, you know. 639 00:29:25,029 --> 00:29:27,732 So living proof it's perfect. 640 00:29:27,732 --> 00:29:30,535 That's a great. Yeah. It's a I didn't think of the bread angle. 641 00:29:30,535 --> 00:29:31,336 Right. Yes. 642 00:29:31,336 --> 00:29:32,504 Like the song MacArthur Park. 643 00:29:32,504 --> 00:29:35,106 You know, you bake and you go the rain. Right. 644 00:29:36,207 --> 00:29:37,208 What does that song mean? 645 00:29:37,208 --> 00:29:39,811 Those of me, I don't know what is there I could eat? 646 00:29:39,811 --> 00:29:42,113 I'm like squirrel, my wife always said, squirrel. 647 00:29:42,113 --> 00:29:44,716 Focus. Sorry about that. You got the weave. 648 00:29:44,716 --> 00:29:45,283 It's not. 649 00:29:45,283 --> 00:29:46,117 I do all the time. 650 00:29:46,117 --> 00:29:48,520 No journaling, but Joyce knows that, so it's great. 651 00:29:48,520 --> 00:29:50,221 But, Joe, you've been fantastic. 652 00:29:50,221 --> 00:29:53,124 I mean, good luck with your business. Thank you. New England collision. 653 00:29:53,124 --> 00:29:56,227 So if you get into an accident, this is the man to talk to. 654 00:29:56,227 --> 00:29:58,830 I know you're doing many other businesses, which we'll hear about in the future. 655 00:29:58,830 --> 00:30:01,966 I'm sure Super Dad book is on the way, but 656 00:30:01,966 --> 00:30:04,969 you blessed my life with your friendship and your blessing. 657 00:30:04,969 --> 00:30:09,140 So many people have others lives everywhere you go with your philanthropy 658 00:30:09,174 --> 00:30:10,475 and your mentorship. 659 00:30:10,475 --> 00:30:12,677 So thank you for doing what you're doing, Joe. Thank you. 660 00:30:12,677 --> 00:30:13,978 Thank you so much. 661 00:30:13,978 --> 00:30:17,115 And I love having you as you're a sponsor of our show. 662 00:30:17,115 --> 00:30:18,583 So we want you one more. 663 00:30:18,583 --> 00:30:19,017 That's right. 664 00:30:19,017 --> 00:30:23,021 And all of Joe's information is under our YouTube. 665 00:30:23,021 --> 00:30:27,358 And wherever you listen to us I heart Radio Podcast Network as well. 666 00:30:27,358 --> 00:30:28,860 So and so we're over at iHeart. 667 00:30:28,860 --> 00:30:30,695 But thank you so, so much for watching. 668 00:30:30,695 --> 00:30:32,831 What's good with John and Joyce, who maybe you're listening to it. 669 00:30:32,831 --> 00:30:36,100 They say a lot more people listen and watch nowadays, which, you know, 670 00:30:36,467 --> 00:30:39,971 I know come over and watch and criticize us. No. 671 00:30:41,406 --> 00:30:43,441 But, Joe, thank you so much for sharing. 672 00:30:43,441 --> 00:30:46,611 And thank you so much for having me on what's good with John and Joy. 673 00:30:46,611 --> 00:30:48,546 So many blessings to you and your family. 674 00:30:48,546 --> 00:30:52,483 And yes, remember to breathe, relax your shoulders and all as well. 675 00:30:52,483 --> 00:30:55,019 We love you. Just be a good human. 676 00:30:55,019 --> 00:30:55,553 God bless. 677 00:30:55,553 --> 00:30:57,755 Good message. Be a good human. Yes.