Hello, world.

Welcome to Discover Your Talent, Do What You Love, Number 299.

I'm creator and host, Don Hutchison.

Every day, I interview someone from around the world who has discovered his talents to do work

he loves to create a life of success, satisfaction, and freedom.

In his early 20s, two roads diverge for Joe, working for the president of the United States

or leaving politics altogether and moving to the

Pacific Northwest to help his brother-in-law start a real estate company. Today I'm delighted to bring

you our featured guest, Joe Callaway. Welcome, Joe. Thanks, Don. It's great to be here.

Thank you. Joe, are you using your talents doing work that you love?

I am. I've been very fortunate in that respect. And I have to say this, and it's kind of a recurring lifelong theme with me. It's always a work in progress.

Hold that thought. We want to hear every little particle of that. So thank you. That sounds great.

Joe Calloway is a leading performance expert with a client list that reads like a who's who in business, including

companies like Coca-Cola and Verizon to Cadillac and American Express. Joe is the executive in

residence for Belmont University Center for Entrepreneurship and is the author of six books on

business success, including becoming a category of one,

which received rave reviews from the New York Times, retailing today, publishers weekly, and many others.

Joe's an investor and advisor to startups ranging from a concert promotion company to a snowboard manufacturer.

Joe, that's a pithy summary of your career,

your fascinating career. Tell us what you're up to now that has you engaged and excited,

if you would. Well, a lot of what I do, Don, is what I've done for a long time, which is I give

a lot of speeches on trends in business and competitive positioning and how to improve performance.

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