Come with me on an exploration of self-discovery. On this podcast we

decipher what really matters as we unravel the chaos of day-to-day work to

learn how to build an essential life. At the end of this episode you're going to

be able to lead and influence others in a way that takes less effort but

produces better results and better relationships. Well I think that's a pretty

good value proposition and I've invited my friends Steven M.R. Covey onto the

show to talk about that today. Steven is the uber best-selling author of The

Speed of Trust and Smart Trust. He's like the Trust Guru and he's also the

author of a marvelous new book Trust and Inspire How Truly Great Leaders

Unleash Greatness in Others. In full disclosure I endorse this book I love this

book and I love Steven M.R. Covey even more. Steven welcome to The What's

Essential Podcast. Thank you Greg. I appreciate your kind words and I love you

too. That's the best way to start. I want to give listeners a little more

background. Not even just of this book but I wonder if we could start with a

sort of readers digest version of your life. Like I mean starting at your

birth all the way up to this moment but just like you know just give us

it in sequential order. Yeah well you know I started my professional work. I

did some real estate development, did a short-standing investment banking and

then I decided I was going to join up with my father. This is before he had

written the seven habits of high-effective people but really before all of

that before all of that but I knew it was coming because he'd been teaching it

and talking about it but he hadn't launched the book yet. What was it called

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