Welcome to today's episode of the Maxwell Leadership Podcast.

Today, John Maxwell is going to talk to us about serving others to unlock self-discovery.

Now, I love Chris Robinson.

I love always when you're here. It's always fun. It's always leadership, and it's always a chance to just add value to others, which is kind of our

favorite thing. I was thinking as John's teaching today, and you're getting ready to hear this,

Chris and I just just listened to it right before this intro. And John talks about somebody that really

unlocked his self-discovery, which is Zig Zig, right? And so you'll hear John talk about the

first time he heard Zig was in Dayton, Ohio. How many of our podcast listeners out there,

how many of you viewers, you can remember hearing Zig Ziglar live? And so today,

because so much of my self-discovery has been because of people like John Maxwell, people like

you, Chris Robinson, but also Zig Zigler. And so tell me, how did Zig Ziglar unlock your self-discovery?

Give me a Zig story. Yeah, so I've i've got one zig ziggler story that is

that i will always remember and so you know i was invited by a friend of mine to go to a conference

it was in dallas texas and you know i told him hey i can't afford to get down there i just didn't

have the money at the time i mean i was i was broke and was broke. And he says, well, hey, he goes,

I'll take care of the hotel room. I've got a suite. You can sleep on the couch. And I'll take

care of your ticket. Just get down there. And I said, okay, I'll get down there. And so I go down

there broke. I mean, not two pennies to rub together. I'm sleeping on my buddy's couch, but I'm going in and I'm listening to speakers. I'm listening to speakers and Zig Zigler gets up and he speaks and then, you know, afterwards throughout the day, I'm kind of hanging around. Another speaker is speaking. I get up and I go to the bathroom. Well, I'm walking to the bathroom and, you know, right in front of me is Zig and I'm going, I hope he's not going to the bathroom. Well, sure enough, he goes to the bathroom and, you know, I stop right there and I say to his handler, I'll just, you know, I'll wait because I want to give him this space. I don't, you know, I want to go in there and, you know, how people are in the bathroom. People will talk to you in the bathroom.

They will.

And he says, oh, no, go ahead. So I go into the bathroom. It's me and Zig in the bathroom. Okay. And we're done with the urinals and we're washing our hands. And he looks at him. He says, young man, I don't know why you're here. He goes, but let me tell you this. He says, never in a million years did I think writing one little book would take me all around the world.

He says, I don't know what you're here for, young man. He goes, but whatever it is, pursue it with all your heart, and I'll see you at the top. Oh Oh my. And we walk out the bathroom. I never,

that was about 18 months before he passed away. And that was my only moment with Zig Ziglar.

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