Hello, world.

Welcome to discover your talent, do what you love, number 394.

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.

As he reflected on his own life experiences and wrote them down, James became convinced that

everyone has a story to tell and everyone's life has inherit value.

Reading a lifetime of letters, his father wrote by hand to his mother, he rediscovered a hero's journey and is finding ways to tell the story.

Today, I'm delighted to bring you our featured guest, James Barron. Welcome.

Hey, Don. How are you? Just doing great. James, are you using your talents doing work that you love?

Well, my limited talents, we should qualify that. Absolutely. Came to late in life, but life has been

very great and interesting to me, and it's a path that showed itself.

Good. We want to hear the whole story.

James Barron is a graduate of UCLA.

In his younger days, he worked in politics, serving as deputy chief of staff to the lieutenant governor of California

and in various positions in the Reagan Bush administration.

He's a serial entrepreneur involved in a range of businesses and projects.

He's also a cancer survivor.

He wrote the book, The Biggest Short Guy, The Amazing Untold Story of Walter Barron, the CPA who changed L.A.

Because not only was his father, his hero, he was the greatest man he ever knew.

He's currently finishing up a screenplay about Washington, D.C. Frank A. Paul is a pen name used

by Mr. Bear. James, actually, you'd like to be called Jim.

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