I don't want to share someone else's thoughts.

I want to create my own original thoughts.

I want to create my own original solutions.

I want to look at situations and come up with my own phrasing, my own words, and do it my way.

This is the John Taffer podcast.

Shut it down.

Hello, hello everybody. I'm John Taffer.

This is the John Taffer podcast.

And, you know, we've been talking the past few weeks about New Year's resolutions and getting ourselves better and COVID and excuses and holding back and career changes and all of these things that are different that we've never dealt with before.

And, you know, I wanted to have a great guest on this week, and I do, Dr. Ian Smith, who's hosted the doctors on television, which some of you may know, I've been on that show several times. And I wanted to have somebody on the show who would be really inspiring and powerful, whose words would really make a difference. So a little later we're going to have the end in the show But I got to tell you, Corey, before we get going

What's that, John? aspiring and powerful whose words would really make a difference. So a little later we're going to have Ian in the show, but I got to tell you, Corey, before we

get going.

What's that, John?

I'm thinking of, and I don't want to get too political, but I'm thinking of when Trump was

inaugurated, how nobody would go.

Oh, yeah.

How negative the whole scene was.

And then I read in a newspaper this morning how

Kevin McCarthy, Republican, a leader in the Congress in the House and Bill McConnell, Republican,

a leader in the Senate, went to church yesterday with Joe Biden. Oh, wow. And I can't help but say to myself,

this is the way it's supposed to start.

Right.

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