534: A Passion for Helping Vets Reach Greatness

Discover Your Talent–Do What You Love

Don Hutcheson

Entrepreneur, Turningpoints, Self-improvement, Careers, Business, Career, Education, Inspirational, Inspiring, Entrepreneurs

5 • 618 Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2017

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Phil Randazzo applied for a commission-only job selling fire extinguishers. The interviewer startled him by asking the last personal development book he’d read. When he couldn’t think of one, the man threw a Jim Rohn cassette at him and said, “Get out of my office and don’t come back until you learn to work on yourself!” Years later, he owns Text Safe Teens, an app to prevent people from using cell phones while driving. His online, nonprofit American Dream U helps transitioning military find their dream job or start a business. They have reached over 20,000 vets and their families.

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0:00.0	Hello, world.
0:11.6	Welcome to discover your talent to do what you love.
0:14.4	Number 534.
0:16.8	I'm creator and host, Don Hutchison.
0:19.0	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.
0:29.0	We created this podcast to provide you with the insights, strategies, and tools to propel your career to the next level.
0:37.4	Phil applied for a commission-only job selling fire extinguishers.
0:41.7	The interviewer startled him by asking the last personal development book he'd read.
0:46.7	When he couldn't think of one, the man threw a Jim Rone cassette at him and said,
0:51.1	get out of my office and don't come back until you learn to work on yourself.
0:54.8	I'm delighted to bring you our featured guest, Phil Randezzo. Welcome, Phil.
1:00.1	Good morning. Phil, are you using your talents doing the work that you love?
1:04.4	You know, I am. I'm at 80%. And I'm sure that's probably not the answer. Everyone wants to hear,
1:09.8	but I'm getting there, not. Yeah, it's honest. It's an honest answer. Everyone wants to hear, but I'm getting there, Doc.
1:11.6	Yeah, it's honest. It's an honest answer. We want to hear the whole story.
1:14.8	Phil Rondezo is a serial entrepreneur and veteran supporter. He owns TechSafe teams, a patented app, to prevent people from using cell phones while driving.
1:24.7	He runs and operates American Dream U, a nonprofit that helps transitioning
1:28.9	military find their dream job or start a business. The organization has reached over 20,000.
1:35.5	He was invited to the White House and to testify in front of Congress, given the keys to the
1:39.8	city of Las Vegas, and more. Well, Phil, that's a pithy summary of your career. Tell our listeners around the world what you're up to now that has you engaged and excited if you would. Yeah, so the two things I'm most excited about now are exactly that. The app, which is called Drive Safe Mode, we want to try to save as many lives and injuries as possible on the road. I'm sure you're not guilty of it, Don, but unfortunately there are a lot
2:01.7	of people out there that use their cell phone for a number of reasons while they're driving, and
2:06.0	one and four fatal accidents is caused by distracted driving. And so we're trying to keep people
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