Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome back to the Carol Markowitz Show on iHeartRadio.
Speaker 1: I mentioned in the last episode that I went to
Speaker 1: Asia this summer. It was my first time, I mean
Speaker 1: really going to Asia. I've been to Israel, I've into Turkey,
Speaker 1: but I think people know what I mean when I
Speaker 1: say that. We landed in Bangkok and ate our way
Speaker 1: through the busy, noisy, crowded city. The food was just outstanding.
Speaker 1: The street food you always hear about was better than
Speaker 1: you could imagine. The next stop was Hanoi, another carnival
Speaker 1: of crowds and food, really chaotic city. And the last
Speaker 1: stop was Singapore, which I thoroughly enjoyed. We have a
Speaker 1: family member who lives there and who we hope will
Speaker 1: come back to the US sooner rather than later. But
Speaker 1: after this trip, we totally understood why he hasn't. Singapore
Speaker 1: is a beautiful city, old parts and new parts, clean, orderly,
Speaker 1: super safe, with just amazing restaurants all around, amazing food.
Speaker 1: When you're there, you definitely get to thinking why aren't
Speaker 1: our cities more like this? And of course they have
Speaker 1: less freedom than we do. You can't really speak out
Speaker 1: against the government. Porn is illegal, pod is illegal. A
Speaker 1: lot of things are regulated there that aren't here, but
Speaker 1: that doesn't really explain the cleanliness or the orderliness of
Speaker 1: the city. And the thing I kept coming back to
Speaker 1: is we have all the same laws about that kind
Speaker 1: of stuff that they do. Littering is illegal in most
Speaker 1: probably all US cities, Sleeping on the street is illegal,
Speaker 1: theft is illegal, eating on public transportation is illegal in
Speaker 1: lots of places, including New York. But these things are
Speaker 1: rarely to never punish in the US. It's not that
Speaker 1: Singapore has more laws about the kind of things that
Speaker 1: make society function, it's that they enforce the laws that
Speaker 1: they have. In a lot of places in America, we've
Speaker 1: come to associate disarray with freedom. We don't have more
Speaker 1: freedom because society is in chaos, We probably have less.
Speaker 1: I thought New York was particularly dysfunctional, so I moved
Speaker 1: to Florida, and it's a far more normal, more functioning state,
Speaker 1: in part because like Singapore, we can count on laws
Speaker 1: being enforced in Florida. But I worry about the state
Speaker 1: of mind. That whole thing about chaos being the price
Speaker 1: that we pay for freedom. I worry about that perspective spreading.
Speaker 1: It's hard to preserve an oasis of sanity. In Florida
Speaker 1: and in other Red states, people worry that outsiders will
Speaker 1: move in and vote for Democrats and Ruins, and they're
Speaker 1: a good thing. It makes sense, but I fear the
Speaker 1: problem isn't just political. Apathy creates the kind of disorder
Speaker 1: I fear, and I feel that apathy spreading. I feel
Speaker 1: it spreading through our culture, and I'm not sure what
Speaker 1: to do about it. I'm going to spend some time
Speaker 1: thinking about this, and I'd love to hear your thoughts
Speaker 1: on it too. Also, thank you for the fiction book recommendations.
Speaker 1: I really love hearing from you. Guys. Hit me up
Speaker 1: on Twitter or My email is Carol Markowitz Show at
Speaker 1: gmail dot com. Coming up next and interview with Adam Coleman.
Speaker 1: Join us after the break. Welcome back to the Carol
Speaker 1: Markowitz Show on iHeartRadio. My guest today is Adam Coleman,
Speaker 1: founder of Wrong Speak Publishing and host of Breaking Bread. Hi, Adam,
Speaker 1: how you doing so Last I saw you, I was
Speaker 1: on Breaking Bread, which was a really good time. It's
Speaker 1: funny because your concept is that we have lunch while
Speaker 1: we chat, so like in the videos of it, I'm
Speaker 1: like I'm chewing and trying to make you know, interesting
Speaker 1: points at the same time. Do people find that to
Speaker 1: be a challenge or just me?
Speaker 2: I'm sure other people at the very start have a
Speaker 2: little bit of challenge. But I think the nature of
Speaker 2: the conversation is so relaxed because I don't want people
Speaker 2: to recognize the cameras, Like, don't look at the cameras.
Speaker 3: They're not here.
Speaker 2: We're just you go out with your friends, you're eating
Speaker 2: and you're talking. It's the same type of vibe. So
Speaker 2: I think in the beginning it's normal for people to
Speaker 2: kind of be like, I don't want to smack too hard,
Speaker 2: but then after a while they just like just go
Speaker 2: with it.
Speaker 1: I also, I chose Vietnamese food for our lunch, and
Speaker 1: you know that involves using chopsticks. I mean, I just
Speaker 1: I feel like I didn't think it through, like, you know,
Speaker 1: in retrospect, I should have done like something that was like,
Speaker 1: you know, one bite, not like, oh, I have this
Speaker 1: noodle dish with like chicken, and like.
Speaker 3: I eat noodles all time, but.
Speaker 1: On camera while trying to have a conversation and while
Speaker 1: trying to you know, look good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because the whole thing is like when you go
Speaker 2: out with your friends, you're not worried about like, oh
Speaker 2: do I look this?
Speaker 3: What?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying, Like it goes with being casual.
Speaker 2: I think the people who watch it understand, like we're
Speaker 2: eating like it's okay, you know. So I don't want
Speaker 2: you to worry about it. I don't think the audience
Speaker 2: worries about it.
Speaker 3: I don't. I don't really get people complaining.
Speaker 2: If anything, it gives them something to look at, like
Speaker 2: that looks good, you know, and they want to watch
Speaker 2: or they want to or if they're in the audio version.
Speaker 3: They're like what are they eating? Like I want to
Speaker 3: see what it looks like. Then they might want to
Speaker 3: actually look.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So what was the why did you start breaking bread?
Speaker 1: What was your purpose with it?
Speaker 2: That's a good question because for a long time, or
Speaker 2: resisted doing any any video content. And I give credit
Speaker 2: to Ed Lattimore for telling me, for like the fifth time,
Speaker 2: you need to do video content. You know, there was
Speaker 2: an opportunity. I was supposed to work with a different
Speaker 2: company and they were looking for video content. They're open
Speaker 2: to ideas, and so the idea kind of came to
Speaker 2: me because it's something that I had been doing the
Speaker 2: aspect of traveling to different countries or just traveling in general.
Speaker 2: Sitting down with people and talking politics with something I
Speaker 2: was doing for a number of years. I started traveling abroad,
Speaker 2: especially in twenty sixteen, and every time I would travel,
Speaker 2: I would sit down with people. Sometimes it would be
Speaker 2: other Americans, but most of the time it'd be people
Speaker 2: from various countries and we would sit and talk about
Speaker 2: where we're from the politics. But a lot of people
Speaker 2: are interested in American politics and do a lot, so
Speaker 2: then we would have a discussion about American politics, but
Speaker 2: they can actually talk to an American to gain an
Speaker 2: American perspective, and then wherever they're from, I would ask
Speaker 2: them questions. So I remember one time I was in
Speaker 2: a hostel with a guy from Sweden, a girl from Korea,
Speaker 2: and I think a girl from China just asking each
Speaker 2: other questions. I was like, you're here with an American,
Speaker 2: you want to ask me any questions? And we just
Speaker 2: had an open cannon conversation. So it was something that
Speaker 2: I was used to doing, and especially like having a
Speaker 2: meal and discussing these things. I remember one time I
Speaker 2: had a conversation for about an hour or so with
Speaker 2: a girl from Australia when I was in Barcelona, well
Speaker 2: having taught us and it was one of the better
Speaker 2: conversations that I had, So, you know, I just wanted
Speaker 2: to kind of bring that to.
Speaker 3: Video.
Speaker 2: And from the very beginning, I didn't know anything about
Speaker 2: creating videos. So over the past year it's been a
Speaker 2: lot of learning, which has actually been something that I've
Speaker 2: been very excited about, learning about cinematography or i should
Speaker 2: say videography, how this works, how to improve the quality
Speaker 2: of this and that. And it's been a lot of
Speaker 2: money invested and a lot of mistakes and learning from
Speaker 2: those mistakes and getting better at the craft excellent.
Speaker 1: So what kind of questions do they ask you at
Speaker 1: the hostel about being an American.
Speaker 3: That's a good question because I'm trying to remember offhand.
Speaker 1: Because I lived in Scotland for a few years during
Speaker 1: college and I traveled around and the Europeans they would
Speaker 1: ask such like, it's it's not like American cultures very
Speaker 1: in their face. They're they're constantly, you know, getting our
Speaker 1: culture mixed into their culture, but there's there's still kind
Speaker 1: of one dimensional about what we actually are, Like they
Speaker 1: think we are all these you know, you know the
Speaker 1: picture of like what Europeans think Americans eat for breakfast
Speaker 1: and it's like a giant stack of bacon with like
Speaker 1: a gun like right next to it, and like it's
Speaker 1: not totally wrong, but it's it's a little, you know,
Speaker 1: a little far fetched. But they would ask me things
Speaker 1: like it was during the Clinton era, and they, you know,
Speaker 1: they'd want to know, like why do Americans care so
Speaker 1: much about a blowjob? And you know, I'd be like, well,
Speaker 1: it's not really the blow job that they care that here,
Speaker 1: but you know because especially in places like friends, they're like,
Speaker 1: what like cheating on your spouse is like, you know,
Speaker 1: something obviously all the politicians do. So what kind of
Speaker 1: things did you get asked?
Speaker 2: Well, in that particular conversation, I don't I remember asking
Speaker 2: questions about China and censorship and their opinion on it,
Speaker 2: and it was kind of an interesting answer that they
Speaker 2: gave me. But I can't remember all the questions they
Speaker 2: were asking me in that particular moment. But if I
Speaker 2: was to summarized the different conversations that I have with people,
Speaker 2: a lot of it was very it was all in
Speaker 2: good faith. So I'll say that it was all in
Speaker 2: good faith, and they were actually curious, and I was
Speaker 2: showing that I'm open to whatever. There's no bad question
Speaker 2: you can ask, right, I won't take any offense, and
Speaker 2: so I think that opened them up to ask, like, well,
Speaker 2: what about this?
Speaker 3: What about that?
Speaker 2: But what I found was that a lot of the stuff.
Speaker 2: And mind you, at the time, I was a Democrat.
Speaker 2: So now that I've I've left the Democrat bubble and
Speaker 2: I've kind of just I look at everything as an independent,
Speaker 2: I realize and I kind of realized while I was there,
Speaker 2: much of the media is very much so left leaning
Speaker 2: in Europe, and it is very much one narrative.
Speaker 3: And I remember being.
Speaker 2: In Germany and I saw like this spoof video I
Speaker 2: might have recorded at the time, some spoof video of
Speaker 2: like some of Donald Trump, like some like making an
Speaker 2: ugly face, kind of weird looking thing on TV and
Speaker 2: they were making fun of Donald Trump. And I thought like, like,
Speaker 2: it's kind of like this everywhere, Like every narrative that
Speaker 2: they would talk about is very much so from a
Speaker 2: left wing perspective, and so their concept of what's going
Speaker 2: on in America is very much so one sided. And
Speaker 2: that's what I realized personally later on, is that the information.
Speaker 2: Even though I was very analytical about the information that
Speaker 2: I had, I didn't have the entire source of information
Speaker 2: to really give a fair assessment as to what was
Speaker 2: going on. But yeah, I found that much of the
Speaker 2: stuff that they were hearing is basically stuff that you
Speaker 2: would see on CNN or you would see CNN International,
Speaker 2: and they're watching it from there. So it was very
Speaker 2: much so one sided.
Speaker 1: Yeah, do you have like a particular beat that you
Speaker 1: like to cover? Is there something that you like to
Speaker 1: write about more than anything else.
Speaker 2: I would say the most important thing I like writing
Speaker 2: about is families, especially the impact of family separation. But
Speaker 2: I also put like slash fatherhood, the importance of fatherhood
Speaker 2: and how it impacted me growing up without my father,
Speaker 2: but also being a father to my son who's now
Speaker 2: eighteen and now he's in the stage of being an
Speaker 2: adult and watching him flourish. So yeah, I would say
Speaker 2: those things are far more important to me to talk
Speaker 2: about because I think it's the greatest issue facing all
Speaker 2: of Americans.
Speaker 3: It's not just a black issue.
Speaker 1: Well, so I was going to ask, what do you
Speaker 1: think is our largest cultural problem? And I guess it
Speaker 1: might be something related to this.
Speaker 3: Yeah, family separation. Family separation.
Speaker 2: We are number one in the world when it comes
Speaker 2: to children growing up in separate homes from their parents.
Speaker 2: The United Kingdom is number two, nearly a quarter of children,
Speaker 2: and so it's a much bigger issue than I think
Speaker 2: people led on.
Speaker 1: Nearly a quarter of children in America grow up living
Speaker 1: separately from both parents or from one parent, or what.
Speaker 3: Is it, separately from at least one.
Speaker 1: Parent, at least one parent? Wow?
Speaker 2: Yeah, ok, yeah, So there's either a children who grow
Speaker 2: up in single parent homes where they never live with
Speaker 2: their it's usually they live with their mother, another father
Speaker 2: where they never grow up with their father, or children
Speaker 2: of the four, but somewhere in that spectrum. And then
Speaker 2: if we were to go out even further, right, so
Speaker 2: what's the impact of that. I've talked about how the
Speaker 2: statistics are ridiculously crazy when it comes to children being
Speaker 2: harmed growing up in an environment with an adult figure
Speaker 2: who's not their biological parent. And it's not to say
Speaker 2: that there aren't good stepfathers, good step mothers out there,
Speaker 2: but if we were to look at what's the greatest
Speaker 2: danger facing a child, one of those greatest dangers is
Speaker 2: growing up in that environment because predators look for single
Speaker 2: mothers all the time. And I've had these conversations, especially
Speaker 2: in another podcasts. One particular podcast, after I made this
Speaker 2: very point, he admitted that was his childhood. You know,
Speaker 2: he was molested by his stepfather for years. So I mean,
Speaker 2: this really exists, but we just don't. We don't like
Speaker 2: to talk about it. And I think there are many
Speaker 2: reasons as to why.
Speaker 1: So do you think it's something that's solvable. Do you
Speaker 1: think we can make any progress on this or is
Speaker 1: it sort of only going to get worse. I'm pretty
Speaker 1: pessimistic on stuff like this. I don't know how we
Speaker 1: turn it around.
Speaker 3: I think we can turn I'm one of those people.
Speaker 2: I have a model that I tell my friends just
Speaker 2: let it fail, because sometimes you have to fail in
Speaker 2: order to find success. You know, my life, there's so
Speaker 2: many areas where I failed, but I found success later
Speaker 2: on because of those phase and I learned from those lessons.
Speaker 2: And even for me raising my son, I learned from
Speaker 2: my father's failure to be involved in my son's life
Speaker 2: right and not to be like my father. Now, did
Speaker 2: I need that to be a good father? Maybe I didn't,
Speaker 2: but I still use that as a source. And I
Speaker 2: think there are a lot of children who are becoming
Speaker 2: let's say the gen Z crowd, who are becoming adults,
Speaker 2: and they have the Internet, and they have all this
Speaker 2: information at their fingers tips, and they're asking questions and
Speaker 2: good questions about the world around them. But their parents
Speaker 2: taught them. What their parents are leaving them. Are they
Speaker 2: set up for the future? Does this work? And I
Speaker 2: think some of them are asking the right questions as
Speaker 2: far as I get it, Like I didn't grow up
Speaker 2: in this environment, but was this the best environment for
Speaker 2: me to grow up in?
Speaker 3: In how I was raised? And I think it's good
Speaker 3: to ask these particular questions. So I am.
Speaker 2: I am relatively optimistic that we will make a turn
Speaker 2: for the better.
Speaker 1: Is that going to look like more people getting married
Speaker 1: or how like? How do we how does that turn happen?
Speaker 1: What is the what's the picture you have of a
Speaker 1: positive change in this way where more kids, you know,
Speaker 1: don't live separately from a parent.
Speaker 2: Part of it is, like I was saying, I think
Speaker 2: part of it is the internet. We have we have
Speaker 2: more voices talking about family separation, So that's one I'll
Speaker 2: throw my voice out there. I'm talking about family separation,
Speaker 2: the impact on children. We have more reflection that is happening.
Speaker 2: We have people who not only just take selfies, but
Speaker 2: they're making videos talking about their emotional state and how
Speaker 2: they are affected by whatever happened in their life, including
Speaker 2: their childhood and what they experienced. The fact that I
Speaker 2: was on a podcast and a guy was willing and
Speaker 2: open enough to share how he was molested and how
Speaker 2: it affected his life, and it just takes one person
Speaker 2: to hear that and you're like, you know what, maybe
Speaker 2: I should change how he's doing, or maybe when I
Speaker 2: do go to have children, maybe this would be very important.
Speaker 2: I think part of the culture war that's happening, especially
Speaker 2: the battle between the sexes, has a lot to do
Speaker 2: with frustration with wanting to create that, and I think
Speaker 2: from the male perspective, I think there are a lot
Speaker 2: of men who feel like it is harder to create
Speaker 2: that scenario where they are married, where they are in
Speaker 2: that situation where they can raise their child ldren like
Speaker 2: they're fearful of it. Some of that fear is legitimate,
Speaker 2: some illegitimate, some of its propaganda, but I think it
Speaker 2: some of that comes from a good place where they
Speaker 2: want to have these things. The young men want to
Speaker 2: get married, they want to have a wife, they want
Speaker 2: to rise children in that household, especially because I think
Speaker 2: many of these men who liked this content didn't grow
Speaker 2: up in that particular environment, so they see the bad
Speaker 2: of it, and I think that is something that's good
Speaker 2: because they're recognizing there's a problem, and so you can't
Speaker 2: change what you don't acknowledge, and by them acknowledge that
Speaker 2: there's a problem, they're more willing to try to seek
Speaker 2: out a solution.
Speaker 1: Interesting, we're going to take a quick break and be
Speaker 1: right back on the Carol Marcowitch Show. You've written how
Speaker 1: many books?
Speaker 3: Just one so fast? One?
Speaker 1: I thought it was two.
Speaker 3: The second edition. That's okay.
Speaker 1: To tell us a little bit about your book.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Black Victim of Black Victor. I started writing it
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty. I think it was like a few
Speaker 2: months after George Floyd. I wrote it because I wanted
Speaker 2: to express myself. I thought there were narratives that are
Speaker 2: out there. Some I agreed with, some I disagreed with.
Speaker 2: Mostly I disagreed with. But even the narratives that I
Speaker 2: agreed with, I didn't like how it was stated and
Speaker 2: it didn't sound like my voice. And you know, I
Speaker 2: had an idea about writing a book a year prior,
Speaker 2: but I had no idea what I wanted to write about.
Speaker 2: And I actually got encouragement from free speech forums like
Speaker 2: you should write more often because of how I was
Speaker 2: explaining how I felt. And so I was like, maybe
Speaker 2: this is the idea, Maybe this is it, and I
Speaker 2: started writing it.
Speaker 3: It took me about I.
Speaker 2: Think eight to nine months, and I self published it
Speaker 2: and had no idea if anybody would like it or
Speaker 2: care to read it or anything. But I wanted to
Speaker 2: give it a try. But my main goal was two
Speaker 2: main goals. I wanted to express myself into. I wanted
Speaker 2: to leave something behind for my son to be proud of,
Speaker 2: and you know, with God's blessing, like all these you know,
Speaker 2: I'm sitting here talking to you. You know, all these
Speaker 2: different things have happened that I didn't come close to
Speaker 2: ever seeing. And I like to joke about when I
Speaker 2: was writing my book, one friend told me that, like,
Speaker 2: you should send an article to the New York Posts.
Speaker 2: I'm like, they would never publish my stuff.
Speaker 1: Now you're right there. All the time.
Speaker 3: It's exactly yeah, So you never know.
Speaker 1: You never know. Do you feel like you've made it?
Speaker 3: I don't know what it is.
Speaker 2: All I know is that if I can be a
Speaker 2: little bit deep. A couple of years prior to writing
Speaker 2: the book, I was on it. I specifically wanted to
Speaker 2: think about that. I was on a train in Germany
Speaker 2: and i was by myself and my headphones on, and
Speaker 2: I'm just thinking. I wanted to think about what is
Speaker 2: my purpose in life? And there was one way they
Speaker 2: came to mind was to serve. Everything I've done is
Speaker 2: in my life, and the most important thing and the
Speaker 2: thing I really enjoyed was serving helping people. All of
Speaker 2: my jobs were customer service related. You know, my background's
Speaker 2: in it, but it's dealing with technical issues in person.
Speaker 2: Let me help you fix that over the phone support,
Speaker 2: let me help.
Speaker 3: You fix that.
Speaker 2: And I love helping people, and I'm like, I am
Speaker 2: built to serve. I'm built to be here to help people.
Speaker 2: You know, when my friendships with people, I go out
Speaker 2: of my way to help people because I feel like
Speaker 2: that is my purpose. My purpose is here to serve
Speaker 2: in any capacity that I'm doing anything in and so
Speaker 2: for me, I don't know if I I've made it
Speaker 2: because I feel like it's a never ending journey of serving,
Speaker 2: and now, especially with me being baptized, I fully fully
Speaker 2: understand who I'm.
Speaker 3: Here to serve for.
Speaker 2: I'm here to serve for the Lord. I'm here to
Speaker 2: help mankind as much as I can. It's why I
Speaker 2: don't engage in negative things. I try to stay, stay
Speaker 2: really really hard away from all the negativity that can
Speaker 2: come to politics, and talk about the issue, talk about
Speaker 2: it from a realistic standpoint, be critical when you see
Speaker 2: evil things, we see bad ideas by trying not to
Speaker 2: go after people unless they're people in power, which they
Speaker 2: deserve it. But I am here to serve the public
Speaker 2: and any capacity, even on a very personal level. You know,
Speaker 2: I just had a conversation with a follower of mine
Speaker 2: who wanted to know about becoming a Christian and was
Speaker 2: having trouble coming to faith. I gave them my numbers
Speaker 2: to call me, and I only say this. It's not
Speaker 2: to brag, but it's to show that I really do care.
Speaker 2: I want people not only to come to Christ, but
Speaker 2: I want to help people in any way possible and
Speaker 2: be a good representation as a Christian especially it's beautiful.
Speaker 1: And you just recently got baptized, right, yeah, Saturday. Wow,
Speaker 1: So that's really amazing. You know, I think that the
Speaker 1: work that you're doing, it comes across that you really
Speaker 1: want to help people. I don't. I think that that's
Speaker 1: very obvious in your writing and listening to you talk
Speaker 1: about services. It's very much in line with who I
Speaker 1: think you are. So end here with your best tip
Speaker 1: for my listeners on how they can improve their lives.
Speaker 2: Oh, best to improve your life is to take responsibility,
Speaker 2: be accountable for all of your all of life's outcomes.
Speaker 2: I use the example of if you give from a job,
Speaker 2: it's very easy to blame your boss. My boss didn't
Speaker 2: like me, the company was bad. But if you're accountable,
Speaker 2: you're part of this relationship. You're part of the reason
Speaker 2: you're getting fired. So why did you get fired? Take
Speaker 2: accountability for that portion, not everything, but that portion, and
Speaker 2: use that and find a way to improve yourself. And
Speaker 2: so that's why I think that failure isn't always a failure.
Speaker 2: Like failure, it can be the greatest lesson that you
Speaker 2: learned in life. Failure could be something that you really
Speaker 2: appreciate about life. Moving forward, you know, I've been homeless
Speaker 2: as a child twice, and I was homeless or when
Speaker 2: I was around twenty one for a few months, and
Speaker 2: I don't think of it at least anymore. I don't
Speaker 2: think of it as a woe as me think. I'm
Speaker 2: really thankful I went through that because it showed me
Speaker 2: if I could go through that, I can go through
Speaker 2: all this other stuff. It showed me the kindness of
Speaker 2: human beings because while I didn't have a place to go,
Speaker 2: the people I was working with on their own put
Speaker 2: me in a hotel room for months till I had
Speaker 2: enough money to get my own place. They didn't have
Speaker 2: to and I didn't ask them, and the kindness of
Speaker 2: their heart, they wanted that and they didn't ask for
Speaker 2: any money afterwards. You So, I am thankful for all
Speaker 2: these people that I encountered, which by the way, these
Speaker 2: are people of different racial backgrounds, where there's just regular people.
Speaker 2: And they didn't even know me. I had just moved
Speaker 2: to Tennessee and they didn't know who I was, but
Speaker 2: they knew about my situation. They didn't want to see
Speaker 2: their coworker sleeping in their car. And I think about
Speaker 2: all these things as a point of pride and an
Speaker 2: appreciation for humanity, the goodness that exists in humanity, and
Speaker 2: I think far too often we're so hyper focused on
Speaker 2: the negative. There's so many good people who are out
Speaker 2: here who do things at the kindness of their heart.
Speaker 2: They don't want anything. They just want to make sure
Speaker 2: that you're good, because if they were in that situation,
Speaker 2: they would want that too. So Yeah, to summarize, be
Speaker 2: accountable for your life, because that's how you act, actually
Speaker 2: change your life. Victimhood will never get you anywhere.
Speaker 1: I love it. People are so good and I think,
Speaker 1: you know, encouraging people to be to want to be
Speaker 1: those good people. It is such a good thing. Thank
Speaker 1: you so much, Adam. He's Adam Coleman, founder of Wrong
Speaker 1: Speak Publishing and host of Breaking Bread. Check it out.
Speaker 1: It's really really excellent. Thank you for coming on, Adam.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much. I appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Thanks so much for joining us on the Carol Markowitz Show.
Speaker 1: Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.