Hey, welcome again to the John Maxwell leadership podcast.

My name is Mark Cole and I am excited about the next four weeks.

You see many years I have been traveling with John Maxwell and I hear people ask the

question all the time, John, who's your mentor?

You're my mentor.

In fact, John is mentor to literally tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of

people.

He's not close up from a distance and every time he answers that question, his dad,

Melvin Maxwell is at the top of that list.

It's every time.

Now many of you may know that are close to John that July the 4th, 2020, we lost Melvin

Maxwell.

We lost a patriarch.

We lost John Maxwell's top mentor.

And so for the next four weeks, you're going to get to hear John talk about lessons he's

learned that has profoundly impacted him in his life and in his leadership.

Melvin was his dad but Melvin was John Maxwell's mentor.

And because of that, the next four weeks, Melvin Maxwell is going to become mine and

your mentor as well.

We thought about just letting these podcasts just be John talking about his dad.

But Jason Jake and I felt like that given to our normal format of podcasts, we needed

to break it down and say not only how did Melvin impact John, but how did Melvin impact

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