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Speaker 1: What's up everybody. This is the people Shark. Here a

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Speaker 1: Damon John with another motivation moment for you. Courtesy of

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Speaker 1: that Moment with Damon John, a production of the Black

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Speaker 1: Effect Podcast Network and Fiveheart Radio, we are coming up

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Speaker 1: on Good Friday, the day that changed my life. Fast

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Speaker 1: forward many years after that. It was the day that

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Speaker 1: would define my life. Nineteen eighty nine Good Friday, three

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Speaker 1: fifteen in the afternoon, I would stand outside on a

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Speaker 1: corner of the Coliseum Mole on one hundred and sixty

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Speaker 1: fifth Street in Jamaica Queen's and I would sell a

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Speaker 1: bunch of hats that I made by hand the night before,

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Speaker 1: and one hour I sold eight hundred dollars work of hats.

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Speaker 1: I was on to something. Now. I would think that

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Speaker 1: I would never work again. But between that time, I

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Speaker 1: worked at Red Lofser and I worked at Red Lofser

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Speaker 1: and I started a company called Foobu. Well was the

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Speaker 1: name on those hats that I sold a from nineteen

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Speaker 1: eighty nine. It took me eight nine years to get

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Speaker 1: to be the person that was the CEO of a

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Speaker 1: large company, and that all started on nineteen eighty nine

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Speaker 1: Good Friday. However, two thousand and seventeen Good Friday, three

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Speaker 1: fifteen In an afternoon, I would go into the hospital

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Speaker 1: to get a small nondule removed off of my thyroid,

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Speaker 1: and the one hour surgery became five and a half

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Speaker 1: hours of removing a golf ball size of stage two cancer.

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Speaker 1: And when I came too and the doctors tonally that

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Speaker 1: they removed the golf ball size of stage two cancer,

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Speaker 1: I realized one thing that entrepreneurs, entrepreneurs and hardworking people

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Speaker 1: also have in common. We are so busy working for

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Speaker 1: others and serving others well, our customers, our boss, that

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Speaker 1: we don't take care of ourselves. And I have to

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Speaker 1: urge you that Good Friday meant so much to me

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Speaker 1: and so much to so many because of the sacrifice

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Speaker 1: of maybe the religion that you practiced, but also I

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Speaker 1: think it's a good day to remember that you are

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Speaker 1: supposed to take carry yourself. Now you may say, damon,

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Speaker 1: that is not for everybody, but take care of yourself

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Speaker 1: within your means. And how do you do that? Well,

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Speaker 1: just like any business, you don't wait until something happens

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Speaker 1: to respond. You create a business, you check inventory, you

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Speaker 1: do what you can do at the time you can

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Speaker 1: do it. With the amount of money or time or

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Speaker 1: effort you have in hand. So whether you're working at

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Speaker 1: a fast food restaurant and you get one annual checkup

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Speaker 1: allowed to you to check your blood, check your blood.

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Speaker 1: If you can't take these expensive cold plunges in you

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Speaker 1: have enough money to take a cold shower in the morning,

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Speaker 1: do what's within your means so you can get to

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Speaker 1: the place where you are very happy and you don't

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Speaker 1: need any of those other things besides your health. That's

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Speaker 1: all that you can depend on. Tune in every single

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Speaker 1: week for more episodes of That Moment with David John

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