This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host.

This is the James Altature Show on the Standsbury Radio Network.

This is James Altature and I'm here with another weekly podcast of the James Altature Show.

I have with me an incredible guest, Adam Braun, founder of Pencils of Promise, sets up schools all over the world.

And the book he wrote about it is called The Promise of a Pencil, how an ordinary person can create extraordinary change.

And I think, Adam, when you wrote this, you're not just talking about yourself.

You're just talking really how any ordinary person can create extraordinary change.

For sure, yeah, my fundamental belief is that the same weight and potential is just within every single individual.

It's just up to us to really find our sense of purpose and then unlock it.

And Adam, one thing, I want to get into the whole story and what your organization does and how you started it and overcame all the obstacles.

But one thing I noticed about your book, which I've never seen on any other book, I go to Amazon and there's 350 reviews.

337 are five star reviews. I've never seen such a high ratio of five star reviews for a book. Like people really love your book.

Yeah, I mean, truthfully, you've experienced it, right? You put out a book and that's the first time I've ever learned.

So obviously there's a lot of kind of apprehension and nervousness with the kind of ideal of what are people going to think of this.

And I hope, I hope, some of you say, like many hope that your words and your style of writing resonates with others.

And I choose that I've been a writer my whole life, I've kept the journals since I was 16. I feel writing in and journal frequently as I can.

And truthfully, I never thought that the writings would ever get into the world. I was just kind of wrote for myself and maybe I kind of imagined like my grandkids discovering them one day.

But I guess just that kind of hidden silent practice became helpful in crafting an heritage boy.

And then ultimately sharing this story because I've just been blown away with the positive response that it's received.

I think that's true because as I was reading the book, I felt like there was no extra fluff or poetry. You were sort of telling it as it is.

But also the book was a page turner. Like every, it was almost like reading a thriller in some sense. Like every chapter, you know, some chapters you're about to die at the end, some chapters, you're a critical decision is about to happen or else the whole charity will go under.

And just you really wrote you and this is how I think nonfiction should be written not as something like a dry piece of work, but as you know, your ultimate goal is to educate the reader.

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