Aug. 29, 2024

January Jones sharing A Fighting Chance: A Memoir by Senior Daniel Blanchard

January Jones sharing A Fighting Chance: A Memoir by Senior Daniel Blanchard

Dan Blanchard is a Bestselling and Award-Winning Author, Speaker, Educator, and TV Host who has been featured on TV and radio shows. He is a Life Coach, 2 X Junior Olympian Wrestler & 2X Junior Olympian Wrestling Coach.

Dan spent most of his...

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Dan Blanchard is a Bestselling and Award-Winning Author, Speaker, Educator, and TV Host who has been featured on TV and radio shows. He is a Life Coach, 2 X Junior Olympian Wrestler & 2X Junior Olympian Wrestling Coach.

Dan spent most of his childhood trying to hide in plain sight. A raw, abusive upbringing tarnished his entire family.
Dan and his brother, Chris, were born under the brutal fists of their father. Dan found his way out through sports and with success Chris wasn't so lucky.

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Who is January Jones. She is not a young, beautiful,

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talented actress on Madman. She is not an older, gorgeous

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exotic dancer from The Johnny Carson Show. She is an

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author and she wrote Thou Show Not Why the Eleventh

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Commandment that rates number one at Amazon dot com. She

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is a reality TV golf personality with World High Stakes

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Golf televised on hd Net. She is a huge and

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why knowlogist expert. She is your featured host today on

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January Jones sharing success stories. So sit back, relax, and

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get ready to laugh and listen to Ms Jones with

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her eclectic roster of guests. As you learn life's lessons.

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These stories plus sharing equal success. Welcome and remember beware

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because you are entering the no whining world of January Jones.

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Hello everyone, I'm January Jones and i'd like to welcome

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you to our podcast. I hope you're having a wonderful day.

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I'm looking forward to this show, I really am. I'm

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happy to announce also, as most you do, I hope no.

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I've created a new brand and it's called Glitter Granny

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Gifts and I'm now an affiliate associate at Amazon and

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i can share with all you seniors who love to shop.

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Go to my website. I've got all sorts of things there.

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You know, she could see hats, canes, glitter drinks, you

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name it, we've got it. My assistant, Golden Doodle, she's

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not here today. She went to the dog park. So

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remember all you Granny's out there. It don't mean a

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thing if it ain't got lame. Now get ready, and

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we're so excited to have a guest who's been on

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our show before. Actually before we went on the air,

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we were just talking about it and he was first

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on my show twelve years ago. And it's so hard

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to believe the time has gone by, and so much

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has happened to both of us along the way, good

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things too. So now, for my listeners, let me ask

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you a question. Did you grow up in a big family? Well,

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maybe some of you did. I didn't, but I always

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wished I had. And here's the follow up question. Was

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it a large Catholic family? You know, Catholic or Mormon?

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The answer is going to be yes, So tell me

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along the way. Was there any alcohol addiction in your family?

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Was it part of your everyday life? I think for

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a lot of us it was. And also, did you

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feel abused as a child? Did you realize it was happening? Now?

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Are you ready to meet someone who could share his

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personal story of abuse and his success story with us?

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Would you like to know how he did it? And

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more importantly why?

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Now?

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Let me ask you have you ever heard of a

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book called A Fighting Chance? A forty year journey from

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my birth to my brother's death. That's a pretty amazing topic.

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If you can answer yes or maybe to any of

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these questions I've asked, then I'm thrilled to welcome you

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to the right place. You are a January Jones sharing

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senior success stories today my guest is before we do that,

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rest relax, go get some wine, get some cheese and

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crackers so you can join me in the no wine zone. Now,

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let me tell you about my guests today. He is

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an old friend and I'm happy to have him back.

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He is a best selling and award winning author, speaker, educator,

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TV host who has been featured on over one hundred

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TV and radio s, as well as many of the

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top podcasts. He's been many times and I originally thought

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it was ten years, but now we realize it's twelve years.

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It's my pleasure to welcome back to our show again.

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Daniel Blanchard, Hey, January, how are you? I'm wonderful and

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you are so multi talented. And this book that you've

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written is incredible. I had texted you before that I

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read it and I literally could not put it down.

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I read it like within a day and a half.

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It was so intriguing to me because I grew up

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in a what I considered an alcoholic household. But when

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I read gerbook, I felt like, really, I felt like

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I had grown up in Disneyland.

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It's amazing. You should mention that I remember.

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To a whole different level.

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Yes, yes, And I remember I was on a book

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author tour slash little speaking tour, and one of the

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guys that got paired up with who went on to

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become pretty successful, he gave this speech about how, you know,

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his dad was drinking bears at like one of the

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big baseball game, you know, Yankees or whatever Yankees baseball games,

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and then his dad was, you know, maybe getting trunk

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during the baseball games, and then he drove him home,

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and I was just like, okay, So I was waiting

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for the bad part to come, and in his story,

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that kind of was the bad part. I mean, you know,

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for everybody it's relative. I mean, your story has your story.

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But I was like, oh, that was the bad part

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because your dad was drinking during baseball games, maybe something

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all of his attention on you, and maybe he was

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driving you home. So I mean, I'll have different levels

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of what our story is. But I remember just shaking

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my head, going, that's it. I would have been so

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happy if that was it, that was my story.

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Well, you know, that's why your book was so shocking

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and revealing to me, because I was in a home

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with alcohol and addiction and all that, but it was

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not physical and we were never physically in danger, but

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in your book that's how it starts out. And I

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mean you were just little bitty guys and this kind

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of thing was happening to you. Oh my gosh, that's

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an amazing thing that you've been able to survive.

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So well, yeah, no doubt about it.

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I can't remember anything except for violence from my youngest age.

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I me and my mother told me that my father

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was smacking around my brother like before six months old.

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You know, can you imagine on a grown man smacking

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around you know, what is that?

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Is that?

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Five months? Four months? I mean that smacking around a

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baby at that age. So I can't remember anything anything

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except for violence as long back as far as I

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can remember.

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And I got to tell you.

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I mean, some people like did you ever get therapy?

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And I was like, well, I'm like, well maybe you should.

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And I was like, well why, I seem to be

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adjusted just fine, But maybe I'm wrong because every now

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and then, like my wife was saying something to me

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and I'll look at her and I'll be like, well

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that was like kind of mean, you know, and my

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wife was like, what are you talking about? Like I

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didn't mean it like that. She's like, it's the way

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you're interpreting it. And I was like, oh, well, maybe

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I still get some isshoes, you know.

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All this being too sensitive, you know, too.

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Hyper alert to like like anger and danger and all that.

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Maybe it's still there.

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Yeah, because every now and then somebody said something and

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I got to stop and look at them like, I

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mean like like like boy, that was kind of like

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like almost like me, you know, but maybe not.

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I'm sure it's subliminal for all of us. And you

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came from family of six Catholic family, I said, early

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Catholics and Mormons. They all had big, big families. I

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know in your one brother has passed, Are the other

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four still alive and well and doing well well.

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I had a big brother and a younger brother, and

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my younger brother passed away from SIDS. Oh and I've

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got a really sad story about that. I mean, I

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don't remember much of it, but I got a really

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set story of moouel. When my mother was pregnant with

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my little sister, after my son, my little brother passed away,

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that I was crying and saying, don't have a baby,

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don't have a baby. I didn't take good enough care

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of the last one, and the last one died because

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I didn't take good enough care of it, and my

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mom's like, what, it gets crazy. My mother said, I'd

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be rock I'm a little baby, and I tried to

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get it to go to sleep so my dad wouldn't

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hit it for crying.

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How old were you when this took place that you

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could remember?

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I heard that so well, I don't remember that, which

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is the sad part.

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It is I blocked out.

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A lot of memories of my youth, and it took

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a lot of digging and a lot of help of

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asking people questions for me to be able to write

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this memoir because I blocked out a lot and when

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those memories came back, you know, like my mother told

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me about those memories of me rocking my little brother.

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So I was probably about two years older than him

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when I was because we were a big Catholic Irish family,

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my mom Irish, my dad French. But it was just

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one baby after another after another after another after another,

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so you know, it was me that my sister and

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then my little brother Neil. So I was probably like

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two years old, two and a half years old or

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whatever when I was rocking him. I'm trying to get

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him to be quiet so my dad wouldn't hit him.

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And I don't even remember that. And I don't remember

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crying to my mom. You know, my mom told me this.

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That's how I know this story. I don't remember crying

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to my mom. Don't have another baby because I killed

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glass one by not taking good enough care of it.

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A protecting a novel or whatever it was. But I

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was saying, which is so sad. But again, my mother

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had to tell me that story.

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And I'm sure now I noticed that you wrote this

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book after both your parents have passed, which I think

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is a pretty good thing to do, because I can't admit, well,

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actually I have done some writing about my father, and uh,

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that's a difficult thing to do, isn't it.

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Oh, it's extremely difficult.

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And that was one of the reasons when my wife,

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like ten years was saying, you need, you need to

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write this book.

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You need to write your memoir, you know, and.

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I was like, no, no, no, no, no no, because

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even though I was a grown man, you know, my

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big brother, you know, was still alive when my wife

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was asking me, why not? But when he when he dies,

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it's not too much longer after he dies than my

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father dies.

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Uh, and then then I write the story.

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But like I was saying, even though I was a

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grown man and I was like stronger and faster and

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you know, and I could. I was a two time

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junior state chep wrestler, junior Olympian wrestler. So obviously there

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was nothing my father do to me at that age.

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To physically beat me up. He couldn't physically beat me up.

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But it just the whole thing of just making my

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dad mad gave me like the ev GB's like scared.

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I was like scared, very very worried about making you know,

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at the least of making my dad angry, even though

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physically there was nothing he could do anymore, you know,

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but every time he was around, I could ev GBI's

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like I was still I got scared, little boy.

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And it was so it was sad, so sad.

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Oh, I know, And so many people are afraid to

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talk about it, and so many people can't talk about it.

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So I'm very happy you and I can sit here

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and talk about it and maybe help other people who

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Welcome back with my guest today, Dan Blanchard. See Dan,

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that's what happens when you get to be eighty years

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old and you're looking for something to do, and all

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of a sudden working with Amazon, and they've been wonderful.

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You know, before we begin, let's share your contact information

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for any listeners. Let's get this right out there so

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they can follow you and get your books.

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All right, let's go on.

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I mean, anybody who just googles Dan Blanchart, author speaker,

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I'm gonna pop up everywhere. In my website is Granddaddy

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Secrets dot com. You know, I got a Dan Dan

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Blanchard that as well. But if you go on like Facebook, LinkedIn,

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you know Twitter, which is x now Instagram YouTube. I

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got a YouTube channel obviously Amazon, you know, I got

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the Amazon.

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Forty two books now on.

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Amazon doubling check to make sure you check out my

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text talk you know what I'm saying. So I'm all

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over the place. You're going to be able to find me,

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like very easily.

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Forty two books. Well, I had a feeling because I

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was kind of browsing around and I was kind of

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chucking up on you. I've seen what you've been up to,

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and you've been as very busy as have I. How

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long did it you produce these books so quickly? My question,

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I'm on book number seven. Where do you find the time?

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Because I know you have a lovely wife and you

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have five children. I only had four, and you're a

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very busy guy. So when do you write in the

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middle of the night?

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Actually no, but sort of for ten years a decade,

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I set my alarm clock for four a m. And

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I would write seven days a week, three hundred and

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sixty five days a year for a decade.

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And I did that for a decade, you know, from

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four to five, and then at like five I would

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go to the gym six o'clock, I would be getting

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ready to hit the road to go to work as

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as a high school teacher.

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And I gonna be in around seven. So that's pretty

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much now.

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during vacations, you know, additional writing during vacations, summer breaks,

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sometimes at night. But I got to admit, like ten

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o'clock's cup rolling around. You know, I tend to like

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work really hard. I you know, my multiple jobs. I

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got five kids. So usually around nine ish, me and

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my wife sit down for the first time of the

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day to watch a TV show. And now it's like

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around tennish, and I'm going to tell you ten something.

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I need to go to bed because my long clock

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set for four am. Again, you know, now it's a

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little bit different my long clock is. You know, I

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found myself so sleep deprived. Now I set my longlock

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for five am, and I work, and I start working

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at five am and then.

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Go to and I just do everything short of chunk.

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Oh yeah, time whatever.

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You can wait till you get to be eighty. And

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it seems like all we do is go to doctor's

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appointments or take naps. That's kind of our day and

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you know, yes, share with my listeners that you and

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you share also about your dear brother Chris, who's past

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had difficult time in school because of the environment they

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I mean, this affected your whole life, the environment you

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came from. Could you share a little bit about the

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problems in school you had, and we'll end with the

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fact that you have now seven degrees, which is so impressive.

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Yeah, very I mean I had a lot of gaps.

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I mean the people that kind of know me now

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who are just amazed with what I was able to accomplish.

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But even now, you know, like I you know, I'm

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a school teacher, and I had a student teacher who

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was part of the one percenters, which I can big

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time attorney who wants to switch careers and come into

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teaching way way smarter than me. You know, he'd read

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a couple of my books, spent some time with me,

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and he was like, it's just so impressive, but I'm

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gonna get to my childhood. And second he goes, it's

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so impressive, he goes, but every now and then, Now,

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every now and then, Dan, you know, I noticed you

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have gaps in your education, and he goes, which I'm

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not surprised, you know. He goes, you have gaps and

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what you know, and I'm like, he's like, I'm not

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surprised considering your childhood. You know, I'm saying, So now

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going to my childhood. You know, I grew up in poverty.

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I was born in North End of Harford. We're the

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only white family in our neighborhood. Uh, surrounded by violence

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in the streets. Come home where it's supposed to be safe.

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Now violence there. You know what I'm saying.

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So nothing but trauma I went through like my youth.

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And I was for most people that don't know this,

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but I was born death in mute, so I was

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way behind with that as well. Today, even today, sometimes

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people talk to me and I'm like, what did you say?

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I get this auditory process in disorder that has never

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been diagnosed. So I've just got obstacle off to obstacle,

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off to obstacle. And the people in the modern era

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are familiar with the thing.

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I think it's called asis. It's adverse childhood experiences. You know,

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if you got like three or four of those, I

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mean you're you're probably running for trouble. Oh you got

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like four or five of them to you, there's a

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very good chance you could be going to jail. You know,

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you got like five or six of them, there's very

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good chance you could be.

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On death row for like murder, right, I got seven.

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I got seven for sure, And unlike you, I escaped

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big problems because I lived with I had two grandmothers.

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I lived with one or the other until I was twelve,

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So I did have support that you didn't have support.

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And tell us how old you did escape? But you

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were older, weren't you.

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was so tiny for my age.

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I remember eighth grade, you know, gos, I mean high school,

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you know, the summer before high school I was going

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and I was one hundred and five pounds. You know,

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I was like this little, real tiny boy, you know,

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like five ' three, one hundred and five pounds, and

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I was I was already developing into sort of like

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a football star wrestling star already because of like eighth grade.

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You know, I had stellar performances in football and wrestling.

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And this is what saved me.

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You know, I was so tiny, so afraid, constantly abused

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the terrible in education. You know I had trouble like reading, well,

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couldn't write to save my life. High schools, I was

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getting like c's. Didn't really know much at all. And

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when I was in high school, I was getting c's.

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He had to get a CE average. So sometimes I'd

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get at a D and sometimes I maybe a B.

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But it would all come on to like a C average.

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So just so I could play sports, just I could

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play sports. I mean I was so ill equipped, you know,

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I just wasn't like ready, it wasn't prepared.

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But I had wrestling and football saved me.

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Oh my gosh. And I loved the way shared in

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your book how your sports experience connected you with some

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pretty amazing men who kind of helped you, mentored you.

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And oh, it's so important if you're older and you

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see this situation to become a mentor, which I know

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Dan has done, and tell us a little bit about

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the mentors in your life and how they kind of

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pointed you in a different direction.

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Well, it's very interesting.

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In my early years, I didn't have any men, and

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I always tell people I got my mentors were actually

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you're very non traditional mentors. My mentors were my uh

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sports heroes. You know like doctor J and basketball, you know,

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Roger Staubach and football, Terry Bradshaw and football, you know, wrestling,

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I didn't really have any yet because I didn't only

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I just followed my brother's footsteps on the wrestling. But

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once I got into you know, sports, and they became

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my coaches. My mentors were my coaches because I was

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still terrible in the classroom and uh and I just

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really wasn't connecting that well with the teachers. But my

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my sports coaches were my mentors. And then later on

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I found myself. You know, I went to the Army

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and I became a football coach and a wrestling coach.

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You know, I went back to college.

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So then at this point, my you know, like I'm

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becoming my mentors, as like I'm becoming like the football

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coach mentor and the wrestling coach mentor. You know, I

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become the school teacher mentor for other kids. As I'm

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now going through college and a lot of my college

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professors are becoming my mentors, which is you know, because

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my high school teachers, I just didn't really connect with

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them because you know, not their fault, my fault. I

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wasn't connecting with them, But I was connected with my

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college professors because now I knew I wanted to be

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a school teacher, a wrestling coach, and football coach. So

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now I'm connecting with them. But at the same time,

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I'm becoming a mentor to the youth, you know, through

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coaching football, through coach and wrestling, through teaching school, I'm

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becoming a mentor to youth. And eventually this whole like

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life coaching sort of thing kind of comes into my life,

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so I become like a mentor over there as well.

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So it was awesome how I came full circle for

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a boy that looked like he was never going to

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go anywhere.

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And you know, the exciting part of the whole story

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for me is where you went. And I remember you

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came on my show many years ago with your first book,

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Granddaddy's Secrets, and it was so exciting and you did

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you like myself, you learned how to promote and what

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you need to do. But as for teaching, have you

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taught all the way through? How long have you been teaching?

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Yeah, I've been teaching thirty years now, you know.

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Could you imagine that in nineteen ninety four, nineteen ninety

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four I got a job at Same Times More, which

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was an international prep high school in Connecticut. It was

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for like, let's say, the rich, elite, powerful parents who

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were so busy that they weren't really able to be there.

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For their children.

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And their children were like a little angry and maybe

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not doing well in school because they really didn't They

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might have a nanny, but they didn't really have their

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parents in their life all the time because their parents

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were like off save in the world or whatever it

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was that they were doing.

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Some were rock stars, some were rocket scientists, went not

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but they were like very successful people.

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It just they weren't able to be there for their children.

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So they went to like.

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Prep schools, boarding schools, prep schools. My first job, you know,

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and you think, oh, well, this kid comes from like

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a rich, elite, powerful family.

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But they too needed help. They were like.

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Underachieving, maybe angry at the world, you know, undisciplined, and

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00:26:13.400 --> 00:26:14.119
they needed help.

466
00:26:14.240 --> 00:26:16.640
And I was there. I was the guy that helped them.

467
00:26:16.839 --> 00:26:18.759
And then the following year I jumped in the complete

468
00:26:18.759 --> 00:26:23.400
opposite spectrum when I went to Natchuk Hospital for students

469
00:26:23.400 --> 00:26:27.359
that came from very poor, broken families, you know. So

470
00:26:27.680 --> 00:26:32.279
the complete opposite spectrum, right, and those kids were special

471
00:26:32.279 --> 00:26:34.200
at kids that needed.

472
00:26:33.960 --> 00:26:36.240
Help, and I was there for them.

473
00:26:36.559 --> 00:26:38.680
And then in nineteen ninety six I went to New Britain,

474
00:26:39.119 --> 00:26:41.960
where I've been for the last twenty eight years in

475
00:26:42.079 --> 00:26:47.480
a poor inner city, very large schools, and these kids

476
00:26:47.599 --> 00:26:50.279
need my help and they need people like me in

477
00:26:50.319 --> 00:26:53.240
their lives. And here I am now for the last

478
00:26:53.279 --> 00:26:57.519
twenty eight years basically and going on thirty years doing

479
00:26:57.640 --> 00:26:59.680
this very very difficult job.

480
00:27:00.720 --> 00:27:03.599
I'm so proud of you. You know, thirty years ago

481
00:27:04.359 --> 00:27:08.160
I wrote my first book. I know how long that takes.

482
00:27:09.079 --> 00:27:11.680
And the other thing I wanted to share is when

483
00:27:11.759 --> 00:27:14.920
you became Teacher of the Year in Connecticut, didn't you.

484
00:27:16.319 --> 00:27:18.200
Well, well, no, they were doing it was this was

485
00:27:18.200 --> 00:27:19.079
an interesting thing.

486
00:27:19.599 --> 00:27:22.839
Uh it was teacher of Uh it was like the

487
00:27:23.000 --> 00:27:24.960
I guess, I guess you said, the teacher Award, but

488
00:27:25.039 --> 00:27:28.160
this one was was different and weirdly they actually broke

489
00:27:28.200 --> 00:27:31.039
it down to like months.

490
00:27:31.400 --> 00:27:34.240
Oh, so there was which was very interesting.

491
00:27:34.359 --> 00:27:37.680
So I got like a teacher of the Month, which

492
00:27:37.759 --> 00:27:41.480
was And then then another time I got like Apple

493
00:27:41.920 --> 00:27:45.000
I guess it was the Apple Computer Company. I got

494
00:27:45.039 --> 00:27:49.599
like Apple Teacher Award, and I forget if that was

495
00:27:49.680 --> 00:27:50.559
the year or month.

496
00:27:50.559 --> 00:27:53.480
I forget one that was Apple gave me like a

497
00:27:53.599 --> 00:27:54.319
teacher award.

498
00:27:55.799 --> 00:28:01.759
Well, you know, like our grandmothers, I do exaggerate and yeah.

499
00:28:01.559 --> 00:28:01.920
I mean.

500
00:28:03.480 --> 00:28:06.160
It's interesting because there's a lot of different awards out there,

501
00:28:06.400 --> 00:28:08.000
so you never know which one you could win.

502
00:28:08.880 --> 00:28:12.440
Well, I'm proud of you no matter what. Now, if

503
00:28:12.480 --> 00:28:15.440
you're a whiner or you know someone, this next one

504
00:28:15.920 --> 00:28:16.519
is for you.

505
00:28:19.640 --> 00:28:28.839
Introducing Living and Dying Without Whining. A memoir eighty Years

506
00:28:28.880 --> 00:28:35.759
of Magical Moments written by January Jones. Miss Jones shares

507
00:28:36.079 --> 00:28:44.119
her most exciting and magical moments. Patriotic moments landing on

508
00:28:44.359 --> 00:28:51.960
aircraft carrier USS Carl Vincent, staying overnight then catapulting off,

509
00:28:53.559 --> 00:29:02.559
Revealing moments working for the CIA for five years. Thrilling

510
00:29:03.119 --> 00:29:10.920
and comforting moments meeting Charles Lindbergh and Neil Armstrong together,

511
00:29:12.839 --> 00:29:22.119
Sassy moments swinging sixties and the seventies, the Age of Aquarius,

512
00:29:22.160 --> 00:29:28.880
Exciting moments as a TV contestant on Jokers, Wild and

513
00:29:29.359 --> 00:29:35.880
Family Feud, Reality moments playing in the World Series of

514
00:29:35.920 --> 00:29:42.720
Golf on Reality TV. Career moments as a stewardess for

515
00:29:42.880 --> 00:29:50.319
Eastern airlines, touching moments with meeting a half brother she

516
00:29:50.599 --> 00:29:57.400
never knew about, with many many more magical moments. Living

517
00:29:57.640 --> 00:30:04.640
and Dying without Whiny, A memoir eighty years of magical

518
00:30:04.680 --> 00:30:11.440
Moments written by January Jones, available at Amazon dot com

519
00:30:11.480 --> 00:30:17.240
and Audible dot com.

520
00:30:17.480 --> 00:30:19.400
Okay, Daniel, I've been busy too.

521
00:30:20.920 --> 00:30:24.039
Yeah, no doubt you've done some amazing things.

522
00:30:24.279 --> 00:30:28.440
Oh yeah, I tried to share things that other most

523
00:30:28.440 --> 00:30:32.119
people haven't done, So that's why I picked out those things.

524
00:30:32.240 --> 00:30:34.720
But the thing I'm proud of, I have a fifty

525
00:30:34.759 --> 00:30:37.640
four year marriage. So how long have you been married?

526
00:30:38.960 --> 00:30:43.559
Oh, my gosh, I got married in nineteen ninety eight.

527
00:30:44.200 --> 00:30:48.839
Okay, okay, quite a while. Yeah we're talking twenty six years. Yeah,

528
00:30:48.839 --> 00:30:49.880
you've got a ways to go.

529
00:30:51.680 --> 00:30:55.079
Yes, yes, yes, I mean, but I mean, but I

530
00:30:55.119 --> 00:30:57.920
look around. I look around at a lot of my old,

531
00:30:57.960 --> 00:31:00.279
let's say, high school classmates, men.

532
00:31:00.440 --> 00:31:01.799
A lot of them are divorced.

533
00:31:02.359 --> 00:31:05.599
So it's not easy to be married a decade, two decades,

534
00:31:05.599 --> 00:31:07.440
three decades, or five decades like you.

535
00:31:08.039 --> 00:31:10.480
It's not, I mean, it's an accomplishment. It's an accomplishment.

536
00:31:10.960 --> 00:31:14.240
Well, I see, mine was easier because my husband was

537
00:31:14.240 --> 00:31:17.400
an airline pilot, so he was gone half at the time.

538
00:31:19.119 --> 00:31:20.400
And so you have to room.

539
00:31:20.839 --> 00:31:22.759
It was always nice to see him come back, and

540
00:31:22.880 --> 00:31:27.440
I'd say, the kids, they're yours, now take them. You know.

541
00:31:27.680 --> 00:31:33.359
I wrote in my memoir Turning Points, I wrote about

542
00:31:33.400 --> 00:31:37.240
the turning points in my life. And I felt in

543
00:31:37.279 --> 00:31:40.640
your life when you went in the Army service, that

544
00:31:40.640 --> 00:31:44.400
that was a big step, wasn't it.

545
00:31:44.400 --> 00:31:45.119
It sure was.

546
00:31:46.759 --> 00:31:49.200
Well, I mean, I'm so thankful for the Army, And

547
00:31:49.559 --> 00:31:52.240
I know different people think different things about the military,

548
00:31:52.279 --> 00:31:56.400
but I am just so thankful for what the military

549
00:31:56.440 --> 00:32:00.400
did for me, and so thankful what the military can

550
00:32:00.519 --> 00:32:02.079
do for like MILITSI my students.

551
00:32:02.319 --> 00:32:04.119
But backing up, I mean, I think in some ways

552
00:32:04.119 --> 00:32:05.240
I was I was.

553
00:32:05.359 --> 00:32:08.319
I was bred or groomed for the military, not not

554
00:32:08.359 --> 00:32:10.599
on purpose or anybody's doing, but it just kind of happened.

555
00:32:10.920 --> 00:32:13.519
I mean, I was like nine years old, eight nine

556
00:32:13.599 --> 00:32:15.839
years old, and I was delivering newspapers before school my

557
00:32:15.839 --> 00:32:18.279
older brother and sister. By the time I was ten,

558
00:32:18.599 --> 00:32:20.720
I had my own paper route. Well, I was waking

559
00:32:20.759 --> 00:32:22.480
up at five in the morning at ten years old,

560
00:32:22.799 --> 00:32:23.839
you know, And I did that all.

561
00:32:23.680 --> 00:32:24.480
Through middle school.

562
00:32:24.480 --> 00:32:26.559
The four years of middle school, I did it through

563
00:32:26.559 --> 00:32:28.799
the four years of high school. Pretty much all the

564
00:32:28.799 --> 00:32:31.519
way through the eighties. I was getting up at five

565
00:32:31.559 --> 00:32:34.119
in the morning to go deliver those newspapers and they

566
00:32:34.160 --> 00:32:38.200
had to be delivered rain, snow, sleep, freezing weather. I'm

567
00:32:38.240 --> 00:32:41.559
not feeling good. I got injured in football wrestling. My

568
00:32:41.640 --> 00:32:44.400
knees the size of softball. It doesn't matter. You got

569
00:32:44.400 --> 00:32:48.160
to go deliver those newspapers. So that taught me and

570
00:32:48.359 --> 00:32:51.559
trained me and prepared me for the military.

571
00:32:51.160 --> 00:32:51.839
Life, you know.

572
00:32:51.839 --> 00:32:54.200
And then of course, you know, football helped. I think

573
00:32:54.240 --> 00:32:57.480
wrestling really helped, oh yeah, train me for the military.

574
00:32:57.720 --> 00:33:00.440
And then when I got in the military, well, waking

575
00:33:00.519 --> 00:33:04.200
up at like three thirty am every single day, it

576
00:33:04.240 --> 00:33:04.759
was early.

577
00:33:05.039 --> 00:33:07.039
It was tired, but I was kind of used to it,

578
00:33:07.559 --> 00:33:09.079
you know what I'm saying. And then we were doing

579
00:33:09.119 --> 00:33:10.119
that Pete that morning.

580
00:33:10.200 --> 00:33:13.759
Pet we were doing like push ups and leg raises

581
00:33:13.799 --> 00:33:16.279
and all that stuff to failure over and over and

582
00:33:16.319 --> 00:33:20.319
over again. That was like wrestling practice, you know what

583
00:33:20.400 --> 00:33:23.319
I'm saying, a little bit of football, but like wrestling practice.

584
00:33:23.519 --> 00:33:25.960
So I was like when my when my brothers in

585
00:33:26.000 --> 00:33:29.559
Green were puking, I was like going on, you know,

586
00:33:29.599 --> 00:33:31.680
and I was getting I just kept going and kept going,

587
00:33:32.200 --> 00:33:34.279
and it was kind of funny because somebody when I

588
00:33:34.279 --> 00:33:36.960
got back to civilian life, somebody said, what was it like?

589
00:33:38.240 --> 00:33:40.279
And I used to tell my buddies who I wrestled with.

590
00:33:40.400 --> 00:33:44.000
I said, well, you remember like wrestling practice, and they're like, yeah,

591
00:33:44.119 --> 00:33:47.400
I go it was sort of like an easy wrestling

592
00:33:47.480 --> 00:33:51.400
practice a day.

593
00:33:52.279 --> 00:33:52.880
I'm like, give you.

594
00:33:53.160 --> 00:33:56.680
Like Dan Gable, one of the greatest wrestlers ever College

595
00:33:56.680 --> 00:34:00.680
Olympic wrestlers ever, said that once you've wrestled, everything is easy.

596
00:34:01.160 --> 00:34:04.759
So for to me, you know, basic training the military,

597
00:34:05.039 --> 00:34:06.880
all those running pushups.

598
00:34:06.440 --> 00:34:09.039
Every day we had. The road marches were oh my god,

599
00:34:09.039 --> 00:34:12.760
it was torturous. The forced road marches. It was torturous.

600
00:34:12.840 --> 00:34:15.679
But then again I was like, once you've wrestled, everything

601
00:34:15.679 --> 00:34:17.960
else is easier, right, So the military, to me, it

602
00:34:18.039 --> 00:34:21.280
was like a sixteen hour and easy sixteen hour wrestling

603
00:34:21.280 --> 00:34:24.280
practice is basically what the military was. So I was

604
00:34:24.360 --> 00:34:28.599
kind of like indirectly, you know, like roomed for the military,

605
00:34:29.280 --> 00:34:30.760
and I loved the military.

606
00:34:30.800 --> 00:34:35.119
I thought the military was awesome. And then I took

607
00:34:35.159 --> 00:34:35.960
that January.

608
00:34:36.280 --> 00:34:39.480
I took all that stuff and applied it to everything

609
00:34:39.480 --> 00:34:43.719
that came after the military, you know, teaching grad school,

610
00:34:44.440 --> 00:34:48.440
you know, becoming a husband, you know, be coaching, obviously,

611
00:34:49.039 --> 00:34:50.079
becoming a father.

612
00:34:50.840 --> 00:34:51.320
None of that.

613
00:34:51.360 --> 00:34:57.320
Stuff is easy, those long, not easy days. But the military,

614
00:34:57.400 --> 00:35:00.199
I'm like, hey, I'm used to I do.

615
00:35:00.840 --> 00:35:01.679
I have these.

616
00:35:01.480 --> 00:35:05.599
Habits from the military, so I can get a's in

617
00:35:05.679 --> 00:35:08.840
college and degrees in college. Now I can do go

618
00:35:08.920 --> 00:35:11.519
the extra mile my marriage, go to the extra mile

619
00:35:11.559 --> 00:35:13.920
as a father, you know, go the extra mile as

620
00:35:13.920 --> 00:35:16.840
a teacher. And I could do all these things because

621
00:35:16.880 --> 00:35:21.800
the military basically laid the road a success of it.

622
00:35:22.559 --> 00:35:25.840
You know, I hope that all the other granny's out

623
00:35:25.840 --> 00:35:30.199
there listening, and mom's, dad's granny, granddaddy's, all of you.

624
00:35:31.119 --> 00:35:37.760
I hope you use this opportunity to share Daniel's story,

625
00:35:38.320 --> 00:35:42.280
share his books. If you know someone who is struggling

626
00:35:43.000 --> 00:35:45.840
and you're kind of in the background, not wanting to

627
00:35:45.880 --> 00:35:48.719
get too involved, but you do want to help. Of

628
00:35:48.760 --> 00:35:52.480
course you want to help, go to Amazon. He's got

629
00:35:52.559 --> 00:35:58.280
forty two books for you. And if your special child,

630
00:35:58.480 --> 00:36:02.679
grandchild is needs a mentor, or needs if they need

631
00:36:02.719 --> 00:36:07.000
an example. This is why I've invited Daniel back on

632
00:36:07.039 --> 00:36:12.400
the show, and his story is amazing. With the wrestling,

633
00:36:12.559 --> 00:36:16.679
the football, the service. Then you just go to school

634
00:36:16.960 --> 00:36:18.360
like unbelievable.

635
00:36:21.679 --> 00:36:24.079
Oh absolutely, yeah, I gotta tell you.

636
00:36:24.159 --> 00:36:27.280
I mean, people get shocked when they say, well, well wait,

637
00:36:27.280 --> 00:36:30.320
wait a second time. Did you say that you completed

638
00:36:30.320 --> 00:36:33.920
fourteen years of college and earned seven degrees? And I'm like, yeah,

639
00:36:34.800 --> 00:36:37.639
And it wasn't that hard. I mean, but coming from

640
00:36:37.679 --> 00:36:40.079
like a C student, somebody would just barely holding on

641
00:36:40.119 --> 00:36:42.480
in high school to be able to play football and wrestle,

642
00:36:42.559 --> 00:36:46.840
like it was like, oh, how again the success happens?

643
00:36:46.880 --> 00:36:49.360
Get up early, you know what I'm saying. Work hard,

644
00:36:49.880 --> 00:36:52.480
use every single minute of the day. Do it during

645
00:36:52.480 --> 00:36:54.719
your lunch breaks, do it at night, do it on weekends,

646
00:36:55.039 --> 00:36:58.000
on holidays, never take a day off, do it on Sundays.

647
00:36:58.320 --> 00:37:00.559
And I'm saying, when I was doing all, well, it

648
00:37:00.679 --> 00:37:01.639
sort of like the military.

649
00:37:01.719 --> 00:37:01.880
Right.

650
00:37:02.159 --> 00:37:05.559
You just keep going and keep busy and keep moving

651
00:37:05.599 --> 00:37:08.239
towards your goal and keep doing the work.

652
00:37:08.320 --> 00:37:11.800
Let me repeat that of doing the work.

653
00:37:12.079 --> 00:37:14.199
As long as you keep doing the work, next thing

654
00:37:14.239 --> 00:37:16.519
you know, you've just read another chapter, You've just written

655
00:37:16.559 --> 00:37:17.199
another paper.

656
00:37:17.639 --> 00:37:19.480
Right, you just keep doing the work.

657
00:37:19.800 --> 00:37:24.039
And for me, it wasn't that hard as long as

658
00:37:24.079 --> 00:37:25.079
I just kept doing the work.

659
00:37:25.239 --> 00:37:27.360
Again. That comes from like you know, the military. Just

660
00:37:27.480 --> 00:37:28.320
keep doing the work.

661
00:37:28.599 --> 00:37:31.079
Next thing, you know, fourteen years of college are down

662
00:37:31.119 --> 00:37:32.360
in seven degrees are down.

663
00:37:32.920 --> 00:37:37.239
And again okay to write a book, same thing. Keep

664
00:37:37.320 --> 00:37:37.920
doing the work.

665
00:37:38.000 --> 00:37:40.199
Never take a day off, keep doing the work. And

666
00:37:40.239 --> 00:37:42.079
next you know, second books down, throw books down, to

667
00:37:42.239 --> 00:37:44.039
books down. Forty second book.

668
00:37:43.800 --> 00:37:46.800
Is done, oh for sure. And you know, while I

669
00:37:46.880 --> 00:37:50.840
was reading your book, I kind of felt that, I

670
00:37:50.880 --> 00:37:54.239
want you to share this. I felt that Teresa kind

671
00:37:54.239 --> 00:37:56.519
of stepped up to the plate for you. Now she

672
00:37:56.760 --> 00:38:01.199
was your oldest sister or your youngest older sister.

673
00:38:01.280 --> 00:38:05.639
Thank god we had Teresa, because yeah, I mean.

674
00:38:05.519 --> 00:38:06.320
She really stepped up.

675
00:38:06.320 --> 00:38:08.000
And she had to step up at a very very

676
00:38:08.039 --> 00:38:14.519
young age because my brother was having trouble hearing and

677
00:38:14.559 --> 00:38:16.239
he was kind of like learning a little bit to

678
00:38:16.360 --> 00:38:20.440
like red lips, and he would constantly look over at Teresa,

679
00:38:20.519 --> 00:38:23.880
his younger sister, for cues on what to do to

680
00:38:24.079 --> 00:38:26.960
hopefully not be smacked around by his father, our father.

681
00:38:27.440 --> 00:38:29.920
Well not so. Teresa always always kind of like.

682
00:38:29.880 --> 00:38:33.159
There in the background trying to cue my brother and

683
00:38:33.280 --> 00:38:34.800
what to do to keep from getting hit.

684
00:38:35.360 --> 00:38:37.159
And she was, you know, there for me too.

685
00:38:37.519 --> 00:38:40.199
You know, I was born deap and mute, and I

686
00:38:40.199 --> 00:38:44.199
got ad met after a while, my parents were like, oh, well.

687
00:38:44.639 --> 00:38:46.519
He's just a mentally retarded one.

688
00:38:46.880 --> 00:38:49.159
So it kind of made it kind of made less

689
00:38:49.199 --> 00:38:51.800
sense for my father to be beating the heck out

690
00:38:51.800 --> 00:38:53.880
of me all the time because I was like the

691
00:38:53.920 --> 00:38:56.880
mentally retarded child. I got smacked around, you know half

692
00:38:56.920 --> 00:38:58.960
the time, you know, saying, but my brother got smacked

693
00:38:58.960 --> 00:39:02.480
around like all the time. Yeah, So my sister was

694
00:39:02.480 --> 00:39:05.519
there trying to save both of us without her getting

695
00:39:05.519 --> 00:39:08.360
smacked around. She's trying to like discreetly in the background,

696
00:39:08.519 --> 00:39:09.199
kind of cute.

697
00:39:09.039 --> 00:39:10.079
With us and like what to do.

698
00:39:10.360 --> 00:39:12.559
And when my father wasn't there, she'd be kind of

699
00:39:12.559 --> 00:39:15.519
like watching over all of us and trying to help

700
00:39:15.599 --> 00:39:18.679
us like get things done. So my father would smack

701
00:39:18.800 --> 00:39:21.559
us around, which is a daily basis of him smacking

702
00:39:21.599 --> 00:39:22.039
us around.

703
00:39:22.119 --> 00:39:22.800
And I got to tell this.

704
00:39:23.039 --> 00:39:27.239
Many people don't know this, but my father was never home.

705
00:39:27.320 --> 00:39:29.000
Like he would go off to work and he'd have

706
00:39:29.079 --> 00:39:30.519
to work, he'd go to the bar and he'd come

707
00:39:30.559 --> 00:39:32.840
home like ten on to'clock, eleven o'clock at night, drunk

708
00:39:32.880 --> 00:39:34.360
and angry, and that's what he'd wake you up and

709
00:39:34.400 --> 00:39:35.119
smack you around.

710
00:39:35.400 --> 00:39:37.079
Well, I so he did that all the time. But

711
00:39:37.119 --> 00:39:37.960
most people don't know this.

712
00:39:38.599 --> 00:39:41.679
When we were young, my mother, who took care of

713
00:39:41.719 --> 00:39:45.360
the house, she like fell and like broke her ankle

714
00:39:45.440 --> 00:39:46.719
or leg or something like that.

715
00:39:47.320 --> 00:39:50.039
And like my little my sister she was.

716
00:39:50.119 --> 00:39:52.880
Little, I mean, like kindergarten or whatever it was, and

717
00:39:52.960 --> 00:39:56.719
she was like cooking the family's dinners and doing stuff

718
00:39:56.719 --> 00:39:58.159
like that because my mother was laying in bed. But

719
00:39:58.280 --> 00:40:00.639
like it was, my mom was always pregnant, always sick.

720
00:40:01.199 --> 00:40:02.960
And then you know, I had a broke broken bone.

721
00:40:03.000 --> 00:40:05.719
My brother's knock around break her bones, you know, not

722
00:40:05.880 --> 00:40:08.360
just to follow it was all my sister was like

723
00:40:08.719 --> 00:40:12.360
many times was cooking the family dinner and taking care

724
00:40:12.440 --> 00:40:15.880
of the family. She was just a little girl, and

725
00:40:15.960 --> 00:40:19.880
many people don't know about about her, but she was amazing.

726
00:40:20.960 --> 00:40:21.159
You know.

727
00:40:22.039 --> 00:40:26.000
In the book, is speculate that perhaps your father, he

728
00:40:26.119 --> 00:40:29.280
was gone so much, you thought maybe he had a

729
00:40:29.360 --> 00:40:33.039
second family, and he never found out for sure. But

730
00:40:33.199 --> 00:40:36.760
I found out when I was seventy seven that I

731
00:40:36.880 --> 00:40:41.000
had a younger brother who was seventy five, and we

732
00:40:41.119 --> 00:40:45.400
met through ancestry dot com. We had the same father,

733
00:40:45.679 --> 00:40:49.000
but we had different mothers. So I mean, you probably

734
00:40:49.079 --> 00:40:51.079
have siblings you don't even know about.

735
00:40:52.440 --> 00:40:56.079
Yeah, they're definitely like. My sister's found pictures.

736
00:40:57.079 --> 00:41:02.480
Of my father with what looked like.

737
00:41:00.800 --> 00:41:03.599
Like another family. Wow, that is what it looked like.

738
00:41:03.639 --> 00:41:06.840
And my oldest sister said one of the little girls

739
00:41:07.320 --> 00:41:11.760
looked exactly like my younger sister Ali. So my sister,

740
00:41:11.960 --> 00:41:15.000
older sister Teresa, was like, I'm telling you he's got

741
00:41:15.039 --> 00:41:15.760
another family.

742
00:41:16.239 --> 00:41:18.840
And I was always like, nah, no, no, no, no,

743
00:41:19.039 --> 00:41:21.360
I can't be true. That can't be happening. He can't,

744
00:41:21.679 --> 00:41:21.880
you know.

745
00:41:21.920 --> 00:41:24.639
So I was always like denying it. Oh, my sister

746
00:41:24.719 --> 00:41:28.199
Teresa always believed he had another family because she saw pictures.

747
00:41:28.440 --> 00:41:30.440
And when my father died and.

748
00:41:30.360 --> 00:41:33.519
I was going through let's back up before he was

749
00:41:33.559 --> 00:41:35.280
dead and he was in the hospital and I was

750
00:41:35.320 --> 00:41:37.719
going through his dress and or bringing some clothes to

751
00:41:37.800 --> 00:41:42.119
the hospital, I found some pictures and I was looking

752
00:41:42.119 --> 00:41:45.760
at those pictures and I was like wow. And of course,

753
00:41:45.800 --> 00:41:47.960
I mean some of the pictures I found he was

754
00:41:47.960 --> 00:41:50.159
with other women and this and that.

755
00:41:50.440 --> 00:41:53.239
So I was just like, oh, man, I think it

756
00:41:53.320 --> 00:41:54.000
might be true.

757
00:41:54.400 --> 00:41:58.639
It was amazing with this DNA situation now because when

758
00:41:58.840 --> 00:42:02.480
I first met my brother. He came off an airplane

759
00:42:02.679 --> 00:42:04.920
and I looked at him and it was like, oh

760
00:42:04.920 --> 00:42:10.760
my gosh, it's my father. And when I hugged him,

761
00:42:11.360 --> 00:42:14.079
I said, you know, Ron, we don't have to ever

762
00:42:14.199 --> 00:42:19.360
do any more DNA. I just have to and you know,

763
00:42:20.039 --> 00:42:22.840
so that you know, it's an interesting thing a lot

764
00:42:22.880 --> 00:42:24.079
of people are finding out.

765
00:42:24.199 --> 00:42:27.800
I'm going to tell you January, it's funny that that

766
00:42:27.800 --> 00:42:31.639
we're talking about this right now because last night my

767
00:42:33.000 --> 00:42:35.800
wife always flipping through like her phone, and she found

768
00:42:35.880 --> 00:42:40.559
something in the news about a woman named Blanchard, a

769
00:42:40.599 --> 00:42:42.960
couple of years younger than me. There was in the

770
00:42:43.039 --> 00:42:47.760
news for very like controversial stop and my wife said

771
00:42:47.760 --> 00:42:51.039
to me. Just last night, my wife said to me, hey,

772
00:42:51.280 --> 00:42:53.360
are you sure this woman is in your little sister?

773
00:42:55.199 --> 00:42:58.119
Because I came from a dysfunctional family, so we wouldn't.

774
00:42:58.159 --> 00:43:00.199
I guess it would make sense that if there was

775
00:43:00.239 --> 00:43:02.679
another family out there, that one might be dysfunctional too.

776
00:43:03.320 --> 00:43:06.239
So like last night, I'm laughing, I'm going, no, no,

777
00:43:06.239 --> 00:43:08.440
I doubt it that. I'm kind of look at him going.

778
00:43:08.800 --> 00:43:12.760
Who knows. Maybe I don't know, you know, I.

779
00:43:12.719 --> 00:43:15.880
Think a lot of us are getting surprises, And mine

780
00:43:16.000 --> 00:43:21.719
was a wonderful surprise. When you reflect back on the

781
00:43:21.800 --> 00:43:26.199
whole situation, you were so extremely successful. And I know

782
00:43:26.519 --> 00:43:30.079
you give this situation quite a bit of credit, but

783
00:43:30.239 --> 00:43:33.239
the part where you work so hard, I think you

784
00:43:34.000 --> 00:43:37.039
share that with our listeners. But it entailed I mean,

785
00:43:37.119 --> 00:43:40.000
getting up so early and doing all those things that

786
00:43:40.119 --> 00:43:41.760
was amazing, amazing.

787
00:43:42.559 --> 00:43:46.159
Yeah, I mean, I've had a lot of success in life,

788
00:43:47.639 --> 00:43:49.880
and I gotta say you, I mean when I was young,

789
00:43:50.440 --> 00:43:53.119
there was like an anger at me that I that

790
00:43:53.239 --> 00:43:58.320
I funneled, funneled it toward like activity and and doing,

791
00:43:58.440 --> 00:44:01.360
being a doer and towards success.

792
00:44:01.800 --> 00:44:03.480
Right, So that definitely definitely helped me.

793
00:44:03.679 --> 00:44:05.119
One of the things that I thought about a bunch

794
00:44:05.159 --> 00:44:10.559
of times was what would my dad do in this situation? Okay,

795
00:44:10.559 --> 00:44:19.639
do the opposite, but I think it worked. And one

796
00:44:19.679 --> 00:44:23.159
of the things that was the opposite was when I

797
00:44:23.159 --> 00:44:28.480
picked my wife and got the opportunity to create the

798
00:44:28.559 --> 00:44:34.239
family I deserved instead of being born into, yeah, you know,

799
00:44:34.480 --> 00:44:37.679
a violent, dysfunctional family because of my father, not because

800
00:44:37.719 --> 00:44:39.639
of my siblings, but because of my father.

801
00:44:41.239 --> 00:44:42.320
Yeah, I was able to.

802
00:44:43.280 --> 00:44:47.599
Always treat my wife the right way, treat my kids

803
00:44:47.639 --> 00:44:51.440
the right way, and you know, and my wife wanted

804
00:44:51.480 --> 00:44:54.239
to be a stay home mom, which is a really

805
00:44:54.280 --> 00:44:58.119
really hard job, especially when you got five kids, and

806
00:44:58.239 --> 00:45:00.880
especially in these days when you kind of need two

807
00:45:00.920 --> 00:45:04.840
incomes and we're living on one income. I mean, that's hard.

808
00:45:05.039 --> 00:45:06.719
It's hard when my wife they can't go to the

809
00:45:06.719 --> 00:45:08.840
grocery store. You know, it's like she's got to wait

810
00:45:08.880 --> 00:45:11.519
another week, you know, stuff like that. But my wife

811
00:45:11.559 --> 00:45:14.519
is always there, and we're always there for us, always

812
00:45:14.559 --> 00:45:17.000
taking care of the kids, driving in the school, making

813
00:45:17.000 --> 00:45:20.199
sure they're okay, you know, checking on me, making sure

814
00:45:20.239 --> 00:45:24.360
I'm okay. And and in the meantime, I'm doing everything

815
00:45:24.400 --> 00:45:26.519
I can, you know, everything I can to be a

816
00:45:26.559 --> 00:45:29.559
good husband, a good father and create the family that

817
00:45:29.679 --> 00:45:31.920
I deserve, that my wife deserves, that my kids deserve,

818
00:45:32.280 --> 00:45:35.760
the one that I wasn't born into because my father

819
00:45:35.800 --> 00:45:39.159
had the opposite, trickle down leadership, you know, the leadership.

820
00:45:38.800 --> 00:45:39.519
From the top down.

821
00:45:39.880 --> 00:45:42.239
You know, it matters what I'm saying, and if you're

822
00:45:42.280 --> 00:45:44.400
tearing the place up, you know what I'm saying it

823
00:45:44.559 --> 00:45:48.039
versus what I do making sure everything's good and comfortable.

824
00:45:48.559 --> 00:45:50.920
And I'm trying to do like the right life lessons

825
00:45:51.360 --> 00:45:53.800
And to this day, you know, I get a very

826
00:45:53.920 --> 00:45:56.320
I get a very happy wife, and I got I

827
00:45:56.360 --> 00:45:58.119
got five awesome kids.

828
00:45:58.840 --> 00:46:03.920
Oh yeah, it's so lucky, hard for it, but I'm

829
00:46:03.960 --> 00:46:04.480
so lucky.

830
00:46:04.920 --> 00:46:09.599
Yeah, you've worked very hard, and I think that your reward,

831
00:46:10.039 --> 00:46:13.320
I said, you know, is you get grandchildren because you

832
00:46:13.320 --> 00:46:15.719
don't kill your children. So I know you're going to

833
00:46:15.800 --> 00:46:19.599
have a lot of wonderful grandchildren. And you're going to

834
00:46:19.679 --> 00:46:24.599
be a wise example, the wise old man, a great example.

835
00:46:25.400 --> 00:46:30.360
And it's so incredible what you've set the bar so high.

836
00:46:30.559 --> 00:46:34.079
I know you're coaching your son in wrestling. Are the

837
00:46:34.159 --> 00:46:35.679
other kids in sports too.

838
00:46:36.679 --> 00:46:40.760
I've been so lucky because I spent oh gosh, maybe

839
00:46:40.800 --> 00:46:43.719
like fourteen years coaching other people's kids.

840
00:46:44.800 --> 00:46:53.480
Just a minute, sweetie, I just realized we're done. So

841
00:46:53.840 --> 00:46:54.719
can you come back?

842
00:46:55.920 --> 00:46:58.119
Yeah? Absolutely, Okay, we'll.

843
00:46:57.840 --> 00:47:00.800
Have you back, and I won't wait twelve years or

844
00:47:01.280 --> 00:47:01.880
eight years.

845
00:47:01.960 --> 00:47:02.800
You'll get back.

846
00:47:02.920 --> 00:47:06.800
So everyone, thank you for joining us, and thank you

847
00:47:06.880 --> 00:47:11.360
for letting me share Daniel Blanchard with you and signing

848
00:47:11.440 --> 00:47:16.320
off as January Jones, your glitter Granny. Go to glittergranny

849
00:47:16.400 --> 00:47:19.760
dot com and I'll see you next week, same time,

850
00:47:19.960 --> 00:47:20.639
same place.

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00:47:24.639 --> 00:47:27.760
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successful too. Always remember your passion plus your purpose will

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