Dave Cooke: A Man Who Faced Heartache, And Then Pedaled To A Future He Could Not Have Imagined

Join Up Dots - Business Coaching Made Easy (With A Bit Of Life Coaching Too)

David Ralph of Join Up Dots

Interview, Motivation, Online, Businessinterview, Education, Businesscoaching, Entrepreneur, Lifestyle, Income, Business

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🗓️ 12 July 2014

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Todays guest is a father who has faced the most difficult of times,and in the process started changing the world.As an accomplished businessman,author and motivational speaker,he was a man in control.He coached groups of people large and small to help them overcome the challenges that can derail all of us in our professional lives.He helped increase revenue, he developed leaders, and improved teamwork, life was good.Little did he know however, that whilst this side of his life was firing on all cylinders, his sons life was on a path that no parent would want them to be on.Discovering his son was taking heroin, living homeless, and devoid of positivity in his life, our guest had a choice to make.In fact he had no choice.He turned his life both personally and professionally on its head to face his sons problems head-on,and provide the love and support that a father only knows.And that was just the beginning of the tale.A story, with many twists and turns, successes and failures, and an usual mode of transport which you wouldn't expect to be part of the salvation of this father and son couple.So lets bring onto the show, to start Joining Up Dots, the one and only Mr Dave Cooke.

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0:00.0	When we're young we have an amazing positive outlook about how great life is going to be
0:05.0	but somewhere along the line we forget to dream and end up settling.
0:09.2	Join up dots features amazing people who refuse to give up and chose to go after their dreams.
0:15.1	This is your blueprint for greatness. So here's your host, live from the back of
0:20.4	his garden in the UK, David Ralph.
0:26.4	Good morning everybody.
0:27.5	How are you all?
0:28.5	Welcome to episode 75 of Join Up Dot.
0:32.4	In the introduction it says amazing people who went after their dreams.
0:37.0	Now it's a bit of a different conversation that we're going to have today because the guest is not somebody that I think has had the dream all their life, but it's certainly a vision that they have created.
0:50.0	Hopefully that will make a bit more sense as we actually go into the conversation.
0:55.0	It is going to be quite a difficult conversation.
0:57.0	As I say, most of the episodes of Joining UpDots are quite light and breezy.
1:01.0	Well, hopefully keep it that way, but you'll understand why I'm saying
1:04.4	that again.
1:05.4	There is a kind of darkness to the content which we will be touching on.
1:08.9	So today's guest is a father who has faced the most difficult of times and in the process started changing
1:14.4	the world. As an accomplished businessman, author and motivational speaker he was a man in
1:19.3	control. He coached groups of people large and small to help them overcome the challenges that can
1:24.4	derail all of us in our professional lives. He helped increase revenue, he developed leaders and improved
1:30.4	teamwork and in short life was good.
1:33.0	But little did he know however that whilst this side of his life was firing on all cylinders,
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