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Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, it's still Courtney with an army and normal folks.

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Speaker 1: And we continue now a part two of Alex's conversation

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Speaker 1: with Brian Schwartz right after these brief messages from our

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Speaker 1: general sponsors.

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Speaker 2: One of the things you just said is that neighbors

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Speaker 2: reaching out. That's interesting, Like I wouldn't have thought about that,

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Speaker 2: Like why are I mean, I can kind of guess,

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Speaker 3: Well, it's a broad aspect, right, It's a blend of

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Speaker 3: reasons to get their permission, because it helps the overall

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Speaker 3: the neighborhood isn't looking pretty right. But at the same time,

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Speaker 3: So it's multifaceted. And that speaks to the point of

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Speaker 3: going back, going back to August of twenty twenty, at

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Speaker 3: a time when I wasn't even thinking about creating a nonprofit,

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Speaker 3: there was this perfect stranger, this woman in New York

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Speaker 3: a letter saying, dear Brian, I saw the story about

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Speaker 3: And then she went on to say I once saw

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Speaker 3: that's why I keep doing it.

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Speaker 2: One thing, with the gap of ten thousand requests two

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Speaker 3: So there's a bunch of mechanisms I've put in place,

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Speaker 3: Now I think I I probably have a pretty big

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Speaker 2: One thing I would say one of the reasons I

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Speaker 3: It, right, and we serve as like instead of going

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Speaker 3: There's no hard feelings, there's no offense taken because we're

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Speaker 2: So other people are now using your platform. I think

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Speaker 2: here to one of our listeners recommended that we interview you,

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Speaker 2: and I thought about you know, Rodney originally you know

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Speaker 3: For sure, and and to just right out the gates,

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Speaker 3: And so it was actually like in the early days

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, like Freedom Lay I think did a year

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Speaker 3: Yeah, So his program encourages the youth to go out

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Speaker 2: So I presume in the past, like when one of

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Speaker 3: But if we're another channel that is expanding that net

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Speaker 4: So I want to leave a legacy. And maybe not

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Speaker 2: both time and money, you know, is much more sacrificial.

446
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Speaker 2: And I mean, I think we all need to do that,

447
00:24:17,119 --> 00:24:18,760
Speaker 2: and army and normal folks need to do it, and

448
00:24:18,800 --> 00:24:22,080
Speaker 2: more billionaires need to do it. And I think it's

449
00:24:22,119 --> 00:24:24,320
Speaker 2: a more beautiful way to live. And well that's more

450
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Speaker 2: fulfilling too for sure.

451
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Speaker 3: Reflecting back helping others help me, and yeah, and again

452
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Speaker 3: back to my kids, like I just want them to

453
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Speaker 3: know that, just more than anything, Just like my late

454
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Speaker 3: father said to me, he just wanted to impart two

455
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Speaker 3: things on me, be a good person and find problems

456
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Speaker 3: to solutions, find solutions two problems. And yeah, I just

457
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Speaker 3: want them to know their dad never gave up on himself.

458
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Speaker 2: One other thing I want to plug is, I know

459
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Speaker 2: you're trying to encourage corporations to get involved too, with

460
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Speaker 2: you know, their folks being able to do this like

461
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Speaker 2: you know, say once a year, you know a company

462
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Speaker 2: can have you know, a mowing day and get everyone

463
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Speaker 2: out there and what it does for you know, their employees.

464
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Speaker 2: And I think you're aware of some studies you know

465
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Speaker 2: how it actually helps you know the employees in the

466
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Speaker 2: company if you can you know, expand upon that more.

467
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Speaker 4: Yeah.

468
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Speaker 3: So yeah, there's there's obviously proven research that and improves

469
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Speaker 3: productivity and morale when you enable individuals from companies to

470
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Speaker 3: go out and do something for the community. And you know,

471
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Speaker 3: we've been actually being able to facilitate some events like

472
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Speaker 3: for instance, we work with Keller Williams on their Volunteer

473
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Speaker 3: Service Day down in North Carolina, and so yeah, work

474
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Speaker 3: with a few other companies and some of them offer.

475
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Speaker 4: Grants for volunteer hours that are put in.

476
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Speaker 3: So we've been able to get some grant volunteer for

477
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Speaker 3: volunteer hours, like through Motorola and even Google for volunteer

478
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Speaker 3: hours that were put in. So yeah, no, it's it's

479
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Speaker 3: definitely proven the show like corporate social responsible companies like

480
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Speaker 3: are there for a reason.

481
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Speaker 4: You know, it helps boost morale.

482
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and even if you know they just start with

483
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Speaker 2: one day, a lot of their employees purchase for might

484
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Speaker 2: decide to do it on and weekends you know, on

485
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Speaker 2: their own there after.

486
00:27:02,160 --> 00:27:06,320
Speaker 3: Sure, And that's what you know we're exhibiting. And one

487
00:27:06,359 --> 00:27:09,480
Speaker 3: thing we want to again re emphasize is we're not

488
00:27:10,280 --> 00:27:15,280
Speaker 3: taking business away from professional landscapers. We're you know, working

489
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Speaker 3: with people that generally can't do it themselves or can't

490
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Speaker 3: afford it. And that's why I like we exhibit a

491
00:27:19,520 --> 00:27:23,600
Speaker 3: landscaping conferences to get more professional landscapers on board because

492
00:27:23,640 --> 00:27:26,439
Speaker 3: maybe they might have an extra thirty minutes on their

493
00:27:26,520 --> 00:27:32,040
Speaker 3: route to add someone to their to their route that

494
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Speaker 3: they can help.

495
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Speaker 2: So, Brian, if somebody wants to contact you, first, can

496
00:27:38,920 --> 00:27:41,359
Speaker 2: you share the website and then if you're open to

497
00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:44,120
Speaker 2: sharing your email address, we ask folks to do that too.

498
00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:46,480
Speaker 2: And it's kind of unique. I think we've maybe the

499
00:27:46,560 --> 00:27:48,840
Speaker 2: only podcast that does that, but almost every guest you

500
00:27:48,840 --> 00:27:51,719
Speaker 2: know shares their personal contact info. And in case somebody

501
00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:54,080
Speaker 2: you know wants to get involved or has questions for you,

502
00:27:54,160 --> 00:27:56,719
Speaker 2: and you know, hopefully some good comes out of our

503
00:27:56,960 --> 00:27:57,800
Speaker 2: time together today.

504
00:27:57,880 --> 00:28:02,880
Speaker 3: Yeah, I appreciate that it's w ww dot I want

505
00:28:03,359 --> 00:28:05,960
Speaker 3: to owe your lawn dot com.

506
00:28:06,040 --> 00:28:08,359
Speaker 4: You can also do you can also do dot org.

507
00:28:09,080 --> 00:28:11,520
Speaker 3: That one of the many things that we have in

508
00:28:11,520 --> 00:28:15,439
Speaker 3: the pipeline is the transition from the dot com to

509
00:28:15,520 --> 00:28:18,480
Speaker 3: the dot org. But it's still the same, just so

510
00:28:18,520 --> 00:28:21,760
Speaker 3: that it sounds more official as a nonprofit. I know

511
00:28:21,800 --> 00:28:24,679
Speaker 3: that many nonprofits are dot com but that was just

512
00:28:24,720 --> 00:28:28,280
Speaker 3: the first thing that just worked in the beginning. But

513
00:28:28,760 --> 00:28:30,320
Speaker 3: I want to mod your lawn dot com and you

514
00:28:30,320 --> 00:28:35,040
Speaker 3: can reach me at Brian b r I a n AT.

515
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Speaker 3: I want to moder your lawn dot com.

516
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Speaker 2: Do you ever want to do this full time? Have

517
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Speaker 2: you thought about if you can scale it enough that

518
00:28:41,480 --> 00:28:41,880
Speaker 2: you could?

519
00:28:42,240 --> 00:28:45,920
Speaker 4: I get that question a lot. I would love to

520
00:28:45,920 --> 00:28:47,360
Speaker 4: be able to focus on it full.

521
00:28:47,240 --> 00:28:51,120
Speaker 3: Time, and especially just more on the marketing and the

522
00:28:51,160 --> 00:28:55,760
Speaker 3: creative and finding the right people. If I ever get

523
00:28:55,880 --> 00:28:58,760
Speaker 3: enough money to pay a salary, I would rather pay

524
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Speaker 3: someone else to be honest, to oversee the operations and

525
00:29:02,720 --> 00:29:05,440
Speaker 3: keep it going where I can just be a sounding board.

526
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Speaker 4: But if we have enough, are you.

527
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Speaker 2: Just saying that because you're a current eplayer might be listening.

528
00:29:15,120 --> 00:29:20,440
Speaker 3: No, but yeah, no, if the opportunity presents itself somehow,

529
00:29:20,520 --> 00:29:22,640
Speaker 3: some way, would love to focus on it full time

530
00:29:23,440 --> 00:29:25,680
Speaker 3: because I feel like to be able to do what

531
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Speaker 3: we've done with all volunteers just on a charity basis,

532
00:29:30,280 --> 00:29:33,800
Speaker 3: and with the limited funds that we have received over time,

533
00:29:34,320 --> 00:29:37,520
Speaker 3: I think even more impact could be done. Those ten

534
00:29:37,560 --> 00:29:39,800
Speaker 3: thousand might have been able to have been reached with

535
00:29:39,960 --> 00:29:41,040
Speaker 3: full dedicated time.

536
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and there's three hundred and thirty million people in

537
00:29:43,960 --> 00:29:46,880
Speaker 2: the country, so there's way more need out there, aging.

538
00:29:47,880 --> 00:29:52,920
Speaker 3: Aging population, rising costs, and the grass is going to

539
00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:55,520
Speaker 3: keep growing hopefully.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. Oh yeah, not on.

541
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Speaker 2: Wood anything else you want to cover, Bryan.

542
00:30:04,800 --> 00:30:06,120
Speaker 4: In the very moment.

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Speaker 2: No, I mean, I guess we could pay tribute to

544
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Speaker 2: your wife for allowing you to do this.

545
00:30:11,520 --> 00:30:12,320
Speaker 4: Thank you to my wife.

546
00:30:12,320 --> 00:30:15,560
Speaker 3: Thank you to both of our moms just helping out

547
00:30:15,560 --> 00:30:16,920
Speaker 3: on times where at.

548
00:30:16,920 --> 00:30:21,000
Speaker 2: The Graham's helping right now, so well you can be

549
00:30:21,040 --> 00:30:21,760
Speaker 2: here with us.

550
00:30:22,040 --> 00:30:29,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, yes, grandma's helping. We have well, it's very early projects.

551
00:30:29,760 --> 00:30:30,040
Speaker 4: You might.

552
00:30:30,080 --> 00:30:35,040
Speaker 3: I think you've heard about that Walden Media is potentially building.

553
00:30:35,280 --> 00:30:37,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, talk about it a film. If you can't talk

554
00:30:37,680 --> 00:30:39,120
Speaker 2: about it, yeah I can.

555
00:30:39,160 --> 00:30:42,680
Speaker 4: I can give you the general public. It's on Deadline,

556
00:30:42,720 --> 00:30:43,600
Speaker 4: it's on IMDb.

557
00:30:43,720 --> 00:30:44,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, tell us about it.

558
00:30:45,280 --> 00:30:51,320
Speaker 4: So it was actually in twenty twenty two that I had.

559
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Speaker 3: Posted to my LinkedIn network. Well, no, it was actually

560
00:30:58,280 --> 00:31:01,880
Speaker 3: twenty twenty one. I had posted to my LinkedIn network

561
00:31:01,960 --> 00:31:04,680
Speaker 3: that it's gonna be on the jew Barrymore Show. And

562
00:31:04,720 --> 00:31:08,160
Speaker 3: I think some of my network took notice of that

563
00:31:08,640 --> 00:31:11,240
Speaker 3: and just followed the journey since then. And it was

564
00:31:11,240 --> 00:31:15,360
Speaker 3: like a year later that I made more public that

565
00:31:15,840 --> 00:31:19,240
Speaker 3: had a panic attack. Actually din't speak about like weeks

566
00:31:19,280 --> 00:31:23,240
Speaker 3: after getting the layoff, just like everything happening all at once,

567
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Speaker 3: Like it was actually my wife that brought me to

568
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Speaker 3: the hospital, and it was funny because like a month

569
00:31:29,240 --> 00:31:32,240
Speaker 3: later she'd be the one I'd be driving. And so

570
00:31:32,520 --> 00:31:36,480
Speaker 3: like I told everyone about like mental health and reflecting

571
00:31:36,520 --> 00:31:39,440
Speaker 3: back how others helped me. And I showed like a

572
00:31:39,640 --> 00:31:41,880
Speaker 3: before picture with me at the hospital, and then then

573
00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:46,240
Speaker 3: after picture of like a clip. I think it was

574
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Speaker 3: like I'm in the Washington Post or Fox News or something,

575
00:31:51,120 --> 00:31:56,280
Speaker 3: and I guess who this one producer named Sam, like

576
00:31:56,560 --> 00:31:59,240
Speaker 3: continue to follow and it was that it was the

577
00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:03,080
Speaker 3: summer of twenty twenty. It was the summer twenty twenty two.

578
00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:07,320
Speaker 3: We had a segment come out on USA Today, and

579
00:32:08,320 --> 00:32:12,560
Speaker 3: this producer messaged me and we got a chance to

580
00:32:12,600 --> 00:32:15,920
Speaker 3: connect and speak about like the whole experience, and then

581
00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:19,600
Speaker 3: like twenty minutes into our conversation, he's like, I think

582
00:32:19,640 --> 00:32:22,320
Speaker 3: you have like the story about a movie. And I

583
00:32:22,320 --> 00:32:27,400
Speaker 3: was talking to him about like the scenario with my

584
00:32:27,480 --> 00:32:35,920
Speaker 3: father battling his terminal illness. And two years later, ultimately, yeah,

585
00:32:36,080 --> 00:32:41,280
Speaker 3: like pretty much sold life rights to Wolden Media to.

586
00:32:41,760 --> 00:32:43,440
Speaker 2: Did they just reach out to you cold.

587
00:32:44,240 --> 00:32:47,680
Speaker 3: Sam the producer had reached out and he like joined

588
00:32:47,720 --> 00:32:51,840
Speaker 3: up forces with a co producer named Adam, and they.

589
00:32:51,600 --> 00:32:52,520
Speaker 4: Brought the story.

590
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Speaker 3: The synopsis of it is kind of more on the

591
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Speaker 3: family side and not so much the long hair, like

592
00:32:59,680 --> 00:33:01,840
Speaker 3: the some of aspects of like the struggles, like the

593
00:33:01,880 --> 00:33:07,120
Speaker 3: mental health aspect and the relationship with my father, And

594
00:33:08,800 --> 00:33:14,520
Speaker 3: they brought it to Walden Media that they purchased the

595
00:33:14,560 --> 00:33:20,800
Speaker 3: life rights too. Pretty much come up with a film.

596
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Speaker 3: The supposed proposed title is Grassroots. And you know they've

597
00:33:27,760 --> 00:33:29,960
Speaker 3: produced some pretty interest some pretty good films.

598
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Speaker 2: Yeah, for people that don't know, I mean, they've done

599
00:33:31,920 --> 00:33:35,520
Speaker 2: Lion Witch and the Wardrobe Holes amazing grace. I mean,

600
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Speaker 2: you may know of some other titles.

601
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Speaker 4: Chronicles of Narnia they were a part of and Ray.

602
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Speaker 4: It's just surreal to have that conversation right now.

603
00:33:44,160 --> 00:33:47,760
Speaker 3: I never when I started, when I got laid off

604
00:33:47,840 --> 00:33:50,520
Speaker 3: and decided to just mole on and keep busy, and

605
00:33:50,600 --> 00:33:54,600
Speaker 3: never thought it'd become a possible feature film movie.

606
00:33:54,720 --> 00:33:57,200
Speaker 2: That did Charlotte's Web two, I just thought about yeah.

607
00:33:57,200 --> 00:34:01,520
Speaker 3: And Flinch with Tom Hanks still early stages, like it's

608
00:34:01,640 --> 00:34:04,440
Speaker 3: there's many moving parts in order for it to actually

609
00:34:04,880 --> 00:34:07,680
Speaker 3: go into production. But the fact that we're even having

610
00:34:07,720 --> 00:34:11,319
Speaker 3: that conversation is just surreal because there's so many other

611
00:34:11,400 --> 00:34:18,160
Speaker 3: stories and individuals and organizations that are deserving of a film,

612
00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:23,600
Speaker 3: nonetheless media coverage. So I'm just I'm truly grateful and

613
00:34:23,680 --> 00:34:27,760
Speaker 3: humbled and honored and just along for the ride. Hopefully

614
00:34:27,800 --> 00:34:34,080
Speaker 3: it inspires others. It's a message of resilience and community.

615
00:34:36,280 --> 00:34:39,040
Speaker 3: We're in early stages, like speaking to some screenwriters right

616
00:34:39,040 --> 00:34:40,720
Speaker 3: now just to get the right script.

617
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Speaker 4: But that's where we are.

618
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Speaker 2: That's awesome, you know. And our host coach Bill Corney,

619
00:34:48,080 --> 00:34:50,279
Speaker 2: happened to get his story told and undefeated, and he

620
00:34:50,400 --> 00:34:52,359
Speaker 2: had a very similar sentiment to what you just said.

621
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Speaker 2: I'm a guy whose story just happened to be told,

622
00:34:54,160 --> 00:34:57,120
Speaker 2: and there's millions of others out there who also deserve

623
00:34:57,160 --> 00:35:00,480
Speaker 2: to have their stories told. And we shouldn't do to

624
00:35:00,520 --> 00:35:02,440
Speaker 2: have our stories told, because most of us won't have

625
00:35:02,520 --> 00:35:05,040
Speaker 2: our stories told. But the greatest story is what it

626
00:35:05,080 --> 00:35:07,319
Speaker 2: does for us, you know. And it Spill always says

627
00:35:07,320 --> 00:35:09,440
Speaker 2: you get a thousand times more out of it than

628
00:35:09,480 --> 00:35:11,520
Speaker 2: you ever put into it, And you know, that's the

629
00:35:11,560 --> 00:35:14,600
Speaker 2: greatest story. But if yours happens to get told and

630
00:35:14,640 --> 00:35:16,560
Speaker 2: it helps more people, that's a beautiful thing.

631
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's pretty cool, all right.

632
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Speaker 2: So, Brian, you just dropped on us late in the

633
00:35:24,560 --> 00:35:29,560
Speaker 2: story about having the panitic attack, you know, early on,

634
00:35:29,800 --> 00:35:33,520
Speaker 2: you know, after losing your job, and you know, it

635
00:35:33,560 --> 00:35:36,399
Speaker 2: makes it even more humble that you didn't share it

636
00:35:36,520 --> 00:35:38,759
Speaker 2: and you were kind of downplaying your struggles. You know,

637
00:35:39,400 --> 00:35:41,600
Speaker 2: we were talking about it, you know originally, But now

638
00:35:41,640 --> 00:35:43,719
Speaker 2: that you've said it, can you bring the audience more

639
00:35:43,760 --> 00:35:46,319
Speaker 2: into into it and what was going on?

640
00:35:46,960 --> 00:35:48,959
Speaker 3: Yeah, So it was early June when I did lose

641
00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:52,640
Speaker 3: my job, and I was soon after I just that's

642
00:35:52,640 --> 00:35:56,120
Speaker 3: when I decided to do like the community service projects.

643
00:35:56,840 --> 00:35:59,400
Speaker 3: But it wasn't all like just smooth sailing, right. I

644
00:35:59,440 --> 00:36:03,040
Speaker 3: didn't just get right into just bowing everyone's lawns. I

645
00:36:03,080 --> 00:36:06,640
Speaker 3: was actually doing some other things along the way to

646
00:36:06,719 --> 00:36:10,200
Speaker 3: keep myself busy, my psyche. I took on instacart, gigs,

647
00:36:10,239 --> 00:36:15,040
Speaker 3: delivering groceries. I even attempted to do like print on demand,

648
00:36:15,200 --> 00:36:20,920
Speaker 3: e commerce design products, writing blogs and articles, none of

649
00:36:20,920 --> 00:36:22,920
Speaker 3: which was giving a whole lot of meaning and purpose.

650
00:36:22,960 --> 00:36:25,880
Speaker 3: And I think it was towards the tail end of June,

651
00:36:26,120 --> 00:36:30,040
Speaker 3: three weeks later after the layoff, where that was when

652
00:36:30,120 --> 00:36:34,040
Speaker 3: everything just started to really hit me that we were

653
00:36:34,200 --> 00:36:37,040
Speaker 3: going into the mortgage for barons. I was slated to

654
00:36:37,080 --> 00:36:40,960
Speaker 3: collect unemployment, thinking about how everyone's working from home and

655
00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:44,440
Speaker 3: I'm now competing with not just with people locally, but

656
00:36:44,480 --> 00:36:48,520
Speaker 3: people everywhere for jobs that you know, trying to recuperate

657
00:36:48,560 --> 00:36:49,080
Speaker 3: that income.

658
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Speaker 4: And I'm just.

659
00:36:50,880 --> 00:36:54,360
Speaker 3: Sitting outside on my patio and I start to feel

660
00:36:54,360 --> 00:36:59,399
Speaker 3: like this like pain in my chest that I haven't

661
00:36:59,400 --> 00:36:59,919
Speaker 3: felt before.

662
00:37:00,520 --> 00:37:01,400
Speaker 4: Mind you, I might have.

663
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Speaker 3: I think I've had only like a handful of like

664
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Speaker 3: semi anxiety attacks over the last prior ten years where

665
00:37:09,480 --> 00:37:11,879
Speaker 3: I had to like breathe into a bag to calm

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Speaker 3: checked that I IVY hooked up and EKG and monitors

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Speaker 3: and wires, and ultimately it was decided it was just

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Speaker 3: to calm me down. And that was an important part

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Speaker 3: anyone else. And it was there when I decided to

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Speaker 2: And so I mean after that attack, like how worried

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Speaker 3: All the above, and so yeah, I mean they were

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Speaker 3: and get just getting to the sun and just eating right,

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Speaker 3: not drinking too much caffeine, did some more like you know, juicing,

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Speaker 3: eating healthy. It was important because that was a scary

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Speaker 3: time for sure, and hindsight thinking back to like when

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Speaker 3: I haven't had that feeling since, so I think everything

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Speaker 3: that I might have had done helped me. But yeah,

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Speaker 3: the mental health was definitely a fact for sure, So

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Speaker 3: getting out there helped me.

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Speaker 2: It's you guys have helped two thousand people, but this

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Speaker 2: is also you know, really.

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Speaker 4: Helped you helping others save my life.

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Speaker 2: It's almost like, you know, the name is I want

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Speaker 2: to mow my lawn or I want to mowe your lawn,

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Speaker 2: but it's also I want to help myself.

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Speaker 3: It's been a form of therapy for sure. Yeah, gardening

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Speaker 3: in itself is an active thing. It should be on

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Speaker 2: Well thanks for sharing that, Brian. I know it's probably

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Speaker 2: hard to share, but I wish more people shared. There's

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Speaker 2: stories like that too. There's a great quote I always think

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Speaker 2: about from Deetrich Bonhoeffer, whose story we told on the show,

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Speaker 2: and he said, the problem with Christians that they're lonely

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Speaker 2: with their sins, whereas the centers of the bar have

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Speaker 2: so much more fellowship with each other because they share everything.

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Speaker 2: And so obviously that's not you know, not just have

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Speaker 2: to be a Christian to relate to that, but just

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Speaker 2: the idea of so many of us hold these things

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Speaker 2: within ourselves, you know, and feel lonely because of it,

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Speaker 2: but it also deprives other people who are going through this.

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Speaker 2: You just feel like, hey, I'm the only one experience

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Speaker 2: this and I'm alone, And no, there's lots of other

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Speaker 2: people experience this, and this story also shows you can

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Speaker 2: get over it, and you know, and service is one

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Speaker 2: of the best ways to heal from it. Absolutely, thanks

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Speaker 2: for being here, Brian. I really appreciate it.

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Speaker 4: Thank you, really appreciate the time. It's really cool. I

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Speaker 4: I really appreciate.

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Speaker 1: Everything, And thank you for joining us this week. If

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