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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 ates 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 wrist
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and why knowlogist expert. She is your featured host today
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on January Jones sharing success stories. So sit back, relax,
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and get ready to laugh and listen to Ms Jones
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with 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 hope you're having a glittery and glowing day.
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I'm January Jones and i'd like to welcome you to
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our podcast today. I'm so happy to announce I've created
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a new brand recently, glitter Granny Gibbs. I've now become
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an associate affiliate at Amazon in order to share with
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all of you other seniors who love to shop my
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glitter hats, my jewelry, my collections of canes, so many
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other things, along with my assistant, golden Doodle ginger Ale.
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You know, this past week was a big birthday weekend
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for me. I'm now officially eighty one. Oh my gosh, Yes,
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that's a big one for me. All my kids came
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to celebrate with us, and as you can see, they've
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added to my bling and it's been wonderful having them
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with us. Remember, it don't mean a thing if it
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ain't got that blink. Now, start to get ready, every
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other Granny out there, to glimmer and shimmer with me
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today and every day. Go to our website, start shopping
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and subscribe with us at glitter granny dot com. Now
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for my listeners, let me ask you a question. Are
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you a senior? Well, technically, anyone over fifty, according to AARP,
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is a senior, and a lot of people are soon
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to be seniors. Are you ready to become successful? Are
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you ready to try something new? Would you like to
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go on an enchanted journey today with us? Are you
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ready to meet someone who can share his personal success
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story with us today? Would you like to know how
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he did it and more importantly, why he did it? Now,
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let me ask you. Have you ever heard of a
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book called The Enchanted Passenger. Well, I've just read this
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book and you'll find this book on the front page
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of my website. I was so impressed with it. You know,
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even have my own books on the front page, so
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you can tell I really like this book. As to
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my questions, if you can answer yes or maybe, then
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you are in the right place and I'd like to
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welcome you to January Jones sharing senior success. Now it's
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time to rest. Go, get some wine, get some cheese,
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find some cracters, and join us in the no wine zone.
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Let me tell you a little bit about my guest today.
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He will share with us how to become successful despite
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discouraging odds and surviving economic and emotional storms. Along the way.
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He has interviewed over seven thousand of the world's top
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thought leaders to find the common threads among them. That's
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a pretty impressive number. My multi talented guest is the
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author of The Enchatted Passenger and many many other books.
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This is my pleasure to welcome to our show today,
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to our podcast, Cory poor Ri.
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A Hi, Cory, Jennyry. How are you doing today.
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I'm doing great. I'm so happy to have you. And
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I hope I said your name right, poor Ria.
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Yeah you did. That's I mentioned offer. That's as good
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as I can do, maybe a little better.
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Or is that a French name.
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It's very French, and the other side of my family
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is Ducet, which is as French. And I can speak
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about this many words of French. I'm only partially being
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sarcastic in the sense that I can probably say about
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eight words like I can say, uh, sale deb and
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I panci really flat, which is like I think, where's
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the bathroom?
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Co that's abod all I got?
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Okay? Well, I kind of figured you were French because
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when I was in Catholic elementary school, one of the
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little boys in our class, his name was James forty
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in a and once I heard his name, he was
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so cute. I knew you were going to be wonderful
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and I had a feeling you were going to be French.
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So let's talk a little bit about your success story,
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where you were born and who your early influences were.
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Yeah, so I guess if I start with where I
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was born, I was I grew up and was raised
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in a small town or city a town at the
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time in Canada. It's basically in the smallest province from
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the country. So it's called Princevard Island.
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And oh.
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It's a small little place called prince Verd Island. I
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always say it's like Hawaii eight months of the year
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and then like Alaska four months of the year.
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So I guess.
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But I mean, it really is a gorgeous place, Like
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right here in my office, I'm looking at the waterfront
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ship coming in in the summer. I mean, there's a
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beach every ten minutes. So it is a cool little place.
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But I grew up in the small town. I was
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raised by single mother, barely graduated high school. I got
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a forty nine plus one in a class that I
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needed at fifty in meeting the teacher allowed me to
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legally graduate. I didn't know the difference between fiction and
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nonfiction when I graduated, and I didn't read my first
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book until age twenty seven. So that's kind of a
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little bit about my origin story and where I've kind
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of started.
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Okay, that's fascinating. Not knowing the difference between fiction and nonfiction. Wow,
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you know, I personally I love nonfiction and most actually
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all my books are nonfiction. But this book that we're
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going to talk a bit about today, the Enchanted Passenger,
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that is definitely fiction. And share with us how you
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were inspired to write this book. Actually, how did it
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all come about for you?
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Yeah? I mean, you know, if I go again.
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There's real sort of long story short stories, so I'll
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go more of the short route. But essentially, I had
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asked this question literally thousands of times in interviews. Now
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here's the interesting part. People could figure it out by
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doing a bit of digging. I don't want to share
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the question because it reveals a big i'll call it
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a big twist in the book. So but the question,
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I started thinking, what if that was a book? Like,
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in other words, what if this question was a book?
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And that's kind of what stirred it in my head.
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And then I sat with it for quite some time.
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I didn't write a word for a year, but I
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had the idea. I knew that one of them. I
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knew what I knew the ending from the minute I
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decided on the idea. Then I knew the beginning shortly after,
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and then I get a piece together the middle. But
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I kind of just came up with different concepts and
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ideas and decided it would be set on a plane
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and things like that before I.
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Ever wrote a word.
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And then a year later, we went a family vacation
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to a cottage and my wife said, you know, you're
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not as big of a swimmer as us, Like the
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kids have become swimmers. She is, I was born on
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an island, and I've never learned to swim, and so
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I used to I love the beach, so I would
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sit on the beach and read or whatever while they
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were swimming in that he said, if you're going to
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be like, you're not going to come in the water
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with us anyway much so what if you were to
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work on that book, you keep you appen about.
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And a good idea.
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So when I say that, it was like whenever they
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were doing stuff that normally I wouldn't do anyway, why
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not work on the book? And so at that it
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was two weeks we were there and by the time
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we left ahead about half the book written. And then
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but then nothing happened again for like six seven months,
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and then I would start hacking away like five pages
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at a time, like it. It really took about a
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year to a year and a half, yeah, to write
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the book. And so now we're two years in from
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idea to finally writing a rough draft. The interesting part
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is that part. Some would call that slow, some would
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call it fast, depending on their perception of slow and fast.
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But the interesting part is from that point once I
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had a rough draft, until I held the book in
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my hand, was another only a year. And that's what
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the traditional publisher. So normally, even if you had a
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book that was already on the market and they decided
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to buy it, unless it was already selling you know,
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a million copies a week or something crazy, normally they
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would tell you it's going to be two years before
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the book's back in. So the idea of my book
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being out a year in my hand from rough draft
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is very abnormal. But I went to a publisher that
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I had worked with before, and I said, here's my
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business and marketing plan for the book, and whether you know,
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if you guys publish it, that's awesome. If you don't,
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that's cool too, But the book has to be out
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by this timeline. And the timeline was like four months later,
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so it was that's a quick timeline.
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Oh, I know, I know.
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They they gave me a timeline and said, look, I
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had to have i'd like the final edited version in.
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I think it was within thirty days of when I
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asked it four months, so everybody was working quick.
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And then we put the book up for a pre
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order on April first of this year.
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And so, to be honest, when I told him when
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I wanted to have the book online and when it
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was up was all in twenty twenty four.
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So everything I just told you happened in this year already.
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Wow, the book hit the market quote unquote on June
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twenty fifth. So I know your question was more about
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what inspired the book, but basically it was that question
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and then I said, how would that play out in
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a plane. And then what I did was I created
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two characters, younger person, old person. They sit next to
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each other on the plane by chance. The younger person
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is a business owner who thinks he knows or a
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salesperson who thinks he knows it all. The older person
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is a consultant, wiser business person who knows a little more.
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Than the younger guy.
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Essentially reluctantly because he wants to learn how the older
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guy made money, he listens to him, but what he
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learns is how to become a rich person through ten
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life lessons that the older gentleman had learned during interviews
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and time he spent with a lot of thought leaders.
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So I will tell you, January, it's a hollywood ized
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version of my life. And really I'm a part of
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both characters. I was the younger character when I was younger,
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and I'm maybe closer to the older character now that
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I'm a little older.
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Oh okay, well I'll have to share with you something. Also,
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I've written six or seven books now, and I know
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what you're talking about. The long process and most books
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worth a darn tak two to three years to get
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out there. It's nothing overnight, but your shirt came along quickly.
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That's amazing. And I was drawn to your book. We're
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airline people. My husband was an airline captain and I
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was a steward as many many years ago, and your
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book just spoke to me because it's a lot of
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things that I'm going through through in my life right
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now as I'm in turning at turned eighty, and some
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of the same things that young people go through, seniors
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go through, and it's always very, very challenging. I really
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I just loved your book. I just couldn't put it down.
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And as I said earlier in the introduction, I'm even
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selling it for you. Yeah, I have your I have
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your book posted on my website right on the front page,
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and I also am encouraging people to go to buy
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it at Amazon. And speaking about promoting your book, I
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also want to promote my new website right now.
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Welcome to glitter Granny Gifts to Give to Get, posted
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by January Jones Aka and her golden doodle ginger Ale.
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If you're a granny who wants to glitter and glow,