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The Jon Gordon Podcast

Damon West | How to be a Coffee Bean

The Jon Gordon Podcast

Jon Gordon

Leadership, Teamwork, Success, Positiveuniversity, Jongordon, Health & Fitness, Positivity, Education, Positiveu, Happiness, Teambuilding

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of Positive University, Jon Gordon is joined by Damon West, coauthor of "The Coffee Bean" and their latest book "How to Be a Coffee Bean: 111 Life-Changing Ways to Create Positive Change." Damon's story of being sentenced to life in prison to now sharing the message of the coffee bean is truly remarkable, and it shows what happens when you change your environment instead of letting your environment change you. Jon and Damon go in depth on Damon's story and share tips on how to be a coffee bean and live it out.

Get Jon and Damon's new book "How to Be a Coffee Bean" anywhere books are sold including Amazon and Barnes & Noble.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, this is John Gordon with Positive You, and today I have a great guest.

0:13.6

I have a friend, also a co-author today, his name is Damon West.

0:18.6

Damon, how you doing?

0:19.6

John, I'm doing great, brother, what's going on, man?

0:22.6

Doing awesome.

0:23.6

We wrote the coffee bean together, and now we return with how to be a coffee bean.

0:29.7

Damon, how are these two books different?

0:32.3

What's the follow-up book like, and how is it different than our first book?

0:35.9

Yeah, so look, first of all, the coffee bean, this is where I first kind of like you get

0:41.2

an interest to the world with this podcast right here.

0:43.2

So it's really kind of cool to be back here four years later, because that's the longest

0:47.2

been, John.

0:48.2

It was a summer of 2019 when the coffee bean came out.

0:51.5

Remember when you called me in 2018, you said, hey, Damon, devil, give me your number.

0:57.0

So we wrote the book, The Coffee Bean, and it came out and it launched over the world,

1:00.4

John, because it's got that global publishing deal attached to it.

1:03.5

And I went around sharing the coffee bean message, and really my presentation is about

1:07.2

the five ways that I became a coffee bean when I heard this story, when I was serving

1:11.4

life in a prison.

1:13.2

But as the coffee bean message just has matured and has its grown up a little bit, and

1:17.4

as we've got to see, you and I both got to see it in the last four years, this message

1:21.1

has spread like wildfire, because remember what happened right after the book was published

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