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let's join your host David Ralph from the back of his garden in the UK or wherever

he might be today with another jammed pack episode of the number

one hit podcast join up dots.

Yeah good morning to you good morning to you you. Welcome to a personal podcast episode.

This is from a guy called Tony, who sent me an email,

and I've checked with Tony that I could create it

into a podcast episode, and he said that was fine because it's going to be something that a lot of parents will have some

Experience with I suppose which become evident as we go through the email.

So it says, hi David, I've been a long time listener of your join up dots podcast and I've always found

your insights incredibly helpful and inspiring so I'm hoping you might be able to give me some your but he's currently lacking any real motivation. Most days he just sits in his bedroom playing computer games.

I know he has potential and so many opportunities ahead of him, but he seems stuck and I'm struggling to get him excited about anything beyond his screen.

I've been thinking that perhaps starting a business together might spark his interest and give him something to focus on.

I'd love to create something we could both work on and grow together, but I'm not quite sure where to begin or how to get him on board.

Do you have any advice on how I can motivate him and introduce him to the idea of building a business with me?

I'd really appreciate any thoughts you have on how to engage him and make he's a journey we can both be excited about.

Right. So I think really the key thing to this and I sent this email out to a few of my close friends who have got 19 year old and 22 year old sons.

And I understand this thing about gaming because my my son works

hard he turns up at his job he does his job but he has a kind of he might work till

two o'clock in the morning and the the next day he has off and then the next

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