Hello, everybody. It's Scott Johnson here. You know me and you probably are tired of hearing from me,

but guess what? I've got good news. Somebody is here with me today that will just, I think, inspire you.

You're sitting around right now going, I got a creative idea, something I want to try to put out in the world,

and then you're not sure how you can pull the trigger or make it happen. Well, we're going to inspire you to do that today. With me as an old friend, it's weird to say that

because when I first met him, he was seven and I was a long time ago. Hold on. How old are you now?

I am 18 now. I turned 19 this year. 18 years old. 19 this year. That's an insane thing to hear out of

anyone's mouth. That makes me feel very old and I am old now.

But when I first met you, I think I was just out of my 30s and now I'm very happily in my mid 50s.

Anyway, this is Ethan White and Ethan White is an old pal of the family. He is a really, really smart kid.

Used to be my neighbor used to have a

class where i taught him and his sister and uh we just got really close to this family think the world of

them and one of the things i always liked about ethan was his propensity towards art and writing

and creativity and every week when i saw him it was a chance to kind of see

what he'd been doing in this notebook of his and you'd bring this notebook a little spiral bound

notebook open it up and it'd be full of these crazy ideas coming out of this kid and it was like wow

I don't remember being quite this creative when I was his age and so I would always you know

really say yeah that'd be great and he'd say I'm his age. And so I would always, you know,

really say, yeah, that'd be great. And he'd say, I'm going to make a book. And I'd say, you should make a book. That'd be a great thing for you to do. And then kind of in the back of my head

going, well, when you're a kid, you think you know what you want until you get to a certain age. want that, which is totally normal. That's everybody. Everybody has different interests in their

life and those things sometimes change. But you didn't. You went ahead and made the thing that you

said you were going to do. Are you surprised that you ended up making a book, writing a book?

Yeah. No, there's no way I could do it on my own. I needed so much handholding and so many people

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