What's going on? We're welcome to another edition of the Secret to Success podcast. I'm your host CJ joined as always by the Bayesian sensation Mr. Carl Wesley Phillips.

What was happening? What did you and Dr. Douglas Thomas was going on?

What up? What up? What up?

Man, so there's no, there's no, no easy way to do it. No, no good way to do it. As you guys know, man, you guys are a part of this podcast and because you're a part of the podcast and listen every week, you kind of become like family to us.

And we pledge to do this podcast every week and that's what we try to do. Come hell of high water. We try to be here every week and this is probably one of the first weeks I was ready to call off and then be like, yo, all right, we need a break.

We need to take a time out and thought about it, pray about it. And we decided to do it.

We lost a very close. I don't even want to call my friend family member, ETA family member. Chris Daniel. Many of you have heard us talk about the animal assessment. You know, we always for those of you see us out.

And you're like, what's gorilla flamingo, Camille, you turtle. What I was developed by Chris Daniel, who is currently on the take control tour with us.

He's teaching. He's done the animal assessment. So many of you have been blessed by his message. The conferences have been amazing. His last one in San Francisco was amazing.

But yeah, he passed the other day. We're doing this podcast today's Tuesday and we just got the news yesterday. So it's been an incredibly tough couple days for us.

You know, it is definitely hard to think about. He passed in his sleep. So he went peacefully. And so we're grateful for that man. But it is a tough time. And you know, we weren't going to try to sugar coated on the podcast or come on here and act like nothing was wrong.

Or you know, whatever we're hurting. And but we wanted to come on and talk about it. So Chris is a major major part of our squad. I start coaching Chris a few years ago, helping him build his brand.

He used to come to all the conferences. And that's kind of how we met him. And he's got an amazing story. And I'm sure in the days to come, the weeks to come, months to come.

You know, we'll be putting out some of his videos, you know, as his family, you know, gives the okay just so we can share more of what he did with the world. But just an incredible human being 40 years old gone way too soon.

We don't know the cause of death. And that's not our concern right now. Our concern right now is just you know, praying for the family and and being there for one another in our BU family has been tough on all the BU family. Chris hosts a lot of our calls. And so

I don't want this to be a sad podcast really don't you know, I want it. I want it to be something where you know, we uplift them. And when he and I were talking and I was thinking about should we or shouldn't we.

You know, I thought about the fact that you know, Chris was one of our first and biggest fans of the podcast. He would text me. He would always listen like Friday morning. He was always text me right after the podcast just timing in on his thoughts and feelings and

just an outstanding human being and I know people say that when somebody dies, but

he really is. So I appreciate you guys for being here with us bear with us. We probably won't go to full time tonight today whenever you're listening to this.

But wanted to get on here and share some thoughts and some feelings about our dear brother Chris and also he said, you know, we should use this time to talk about legacy. You know, and

those of you out there who are, you know, looking to leave that legacy and all of those things.

You know, you never know when that time comes. So, I don't want this to be super morbid man. I'm already getting emotional. So why don't you kind of take it over and I'll chime back in.

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