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Speaker 1: The Michael Barry Show, Mattress Mac Jim mackeveil making a

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Speaker 1: movie about him right now. He's a Houston icon. The

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Speaker 1: amount of service, money, hospitality that he has provided over

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Speaker 1: the years for those in need is truly incredible. He's

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Speaker 1: opened his doors to all the Hurricane Harvey victims. Who

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Speaker 1: can forget that he loves Houston. That's why we coined

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Speaker 1: the phrase Mac Gives Back, and we encourage others to

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Speaker 1: use it. Mac also has an incredible business mind. Nobody

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Speaker 1: markets their business better than Mac back. In twenty nineteen,

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Speaker 1: he gave a speech at the Advertising Education Foundation of

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Speaker 1: Houston Scholarship luncheon. He would share his ten tips for success.

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Speaker 1: Maybe you have kids home from college for the holidays.

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Speaker 2: This is a.

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Speaker 1: Great message for anyone, but especially young people getting ready

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Speaker 1: to go out and begin their careers. Share this with

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Speaker 1: the young people in your life. I think it's fantastic advice.

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Speaker 2: I came to talk about. I came to talk to

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Speaker 2: the students and give you my Mattress Max ten rules

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Speaker 2: for a successful life. Some of the same as last time,

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Speaker 2: some are new and anyway, here goes number one. Find

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Speaker 2: work a day in your life. I think it's real

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Speaker 2: important that you don't go into marketing or accounting or

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Speaker 2: become a lawyer or a doctor because your parents want

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Speaker 2: you to do it. I think you need to do

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Speaker 2: what you want to do. I think you need to

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Speaker 2: do what gets you excited in the morning and you

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Speaker 2: to get to work. I will tell you a story

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Speaker 2: about some of my history. I gamble a lot, and

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Speaker 2: I'm involved in the racehorse business. I became a millionaire

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Speaker 2: in the racehorse business. The only problem is I started

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Speaker 2: out as a damn billionaire. But that's another story. So

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Speaker 2: a couple of years ago, I was trying to figure

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Speaker 2: I came across this story about this woman named Temple Grandon.

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Speaker 2: And Temple Granded is the world's authority on animal welfare

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Speaker 2: and she is a savant. So anyway, I got to

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Speaker 2: was a woman that she was born to a wealthy

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Speaker 2: will never amount to anything, you know. Her mother was

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Speaker 2: like everybody in the audience here today, not a buyer,

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Speaker 2: And her mother and their father would have dinner parties

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Speaker 2: enormous sums for her speeches, and every dying from her

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Speaker 2: Her and I were talking about jobs, and she said,

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Speaker 2: a day in your life. That's my number one piece

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Speaker 2: of advice. And if going to work doesn't excite you more,

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Speaker 2: than your favorite activity, find a new job. Number two,

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Speaker 2: Realize that work is life's greatest therapy. Human beings were made.

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Speaker 2: We're put on this earth to live, work, play, and

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Speaker 2: and die in groups. Work is life's greatest therapy. I

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Speaker 2: have a wonderful little child. Her name is Elizabeth. When

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Speaker 2: she was thirteen years old, her mother and my wife, Linda,

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Speaker 2: came to me said something terribly wrong with Elizabeth. I said,

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Speaker 2: So we took Elizabeth and several North Houston area psychiatrists

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Speaker 2: case before of obsessive compulsive disorder named Howard Hughes disease

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Speaker 2: after a famous Houstonian, and several of these doctors set

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Speaker 2: and we finally found the minigre Clinican Topeak at Kansas

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Speaker 2: That was her perception, her reality. Nothing could have been

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Speaker 2: her that mentalisteuse for the rest of her life. And

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Speaker 2: and this place saved my life. Elizabeth got out of Minnegar,

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Speaker 2: Why mental illness never goes away, It lasts forever. My

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Speaker 2: then she had started helping other people with mental illnesses.

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Speaker 2: And you just found through doing this work, it gave

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Speaker 2: of her life. She has a PhD from the University

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Speaker 2: College of Medicine. So she continues on the road to

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Speaker 2: success because work is life's greatest therapy. You want to

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Speaker 2: feel better about yourself, Go delight a customer, right, Go

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Speaker 2: take care of a patient. Go make somebody's day. Human

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Speaker 2: beings were made to work. Next Mattress mac success tip.

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Speaker 2: This is one of my favorites. Get ready your sense

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Speaker 2: several of them. They are now legal, but they they

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Speaker 2: a great, big, unfair advantage, and that unfair advantage was

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Speaker 2: called desire. You can do anything you want to do

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Speaker 2: quit whining and do something about it. Avail yourself of

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Speaker 2: There's always plenty left for everybody else. I'm sixty eight

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Speaker 2: watching this incredible video the other day between a Catholic

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Speaker 2: at age sixty eight. He told this story about this

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Speaker 2: And every day of his life for the next seventy

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Speaker 2: Life is not about you and me. Life is about

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Speaker 2: Bush did, we should make a difference. Thanks very much.

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