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🗓️ 9 November 2014
⏱️ 63 minutes
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0:00.0 | When we're young we have an amazing positive outlook about how great life is going to be |
0:05.1 | but somewhere along the line we forget to dream and end up settling. Join up dots |
0:09.9 | features amazing people who refuse to give up and chose to go after their dreams. |
0:15.2 | This is your blueprint for greatness. So here's your host, live from the back of his |
0:20.6 | garden in the UK, David Ralph. |
0:27.0 | Hello everybody and welcome to 195, yes, episode 195 of Join Up Dots and I'm honest with you, I'm loving it more than I've ever done before. |
0:40.0 | How could you not want to join up a dot? See that's a little slogan for you. |
0:45.0 | Well today's guest is a man whose path to greatness started slowly. |
0:49.0 | As a child, he didn't really set the welderlight whilst attending McKinley High School, a trade school in Buffalo. |
0:55.0 | He failed many of his classes as well as not managing to make the grade at football, basketball, |
1:00.0 | or track and field teams either. |
1:02.0 | It was as if no matter what he tried to succeed at, he just couldn't get it going. |
1:07.0 | But like so many people in life who struggled to find their path, it wasn't until he transferred to a different location, in this case Bennett High School, |
1:14.9 | that he found that he was trying to achieve in areas that weren't naturally him. It was there |
1:20.8 | where he found his passion for public speaking and used his silver tongue to |
1:24.6 | well his peer group becoming senior class president. |
1:28.6 | And now he started to get going. |
1:30.2 | He had found something that he could do better than most. |
1:33.0 | But it's okay to have a silver tongue, but how can you take this talent and use it for maximum |
1:37.7 | effect? |
1:38.7 | Well, he realized that he would use it to help inspire individuals and organizations find their brilliance. |
1:44.1 | He would help the world tap into the talents that they were given at birth and start shining |
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