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Hey, this is John Gordon, and welcome to the John Gordon podcast.

Today, my guest is a familiar face and voice. He's my co-author of the coffee bean.

Damon West. Damon, how you doing? John, man, it's good to see you, brother. Hey, we didn't just do the coffee bean. We did How to Be a Coffee Bean. We did How to Be a Coffee Bean for kids. Like, no one's ever written three books with you, John. I'm like only one.

That's right.

They've done three books, how to be a coffee bean, also coffee being for kids.

How does it feel when you go around the country knowing that these kids are reading the

coffee being for kids book out there that's impacting their lives at such a young age?

One of the coolest things in the world, John.

Some of these places I go into, when we wrote the coffee bean, you know, you knew it was going

to be big.

You told me, you said, Damon, look, this is going to be big.

In fact, you told me, you said, don't ever change your message.

You know, you said, that's what people do wrong sometimes in life.

They had this one thing they believe in, right? But then they don't see the results fast enough. And then they changed their message. They changed the thing. And then no one really knows what they, what they're about. And so I kept with it. And, you know, the coffee bean took off like a rocket ship. And I don't know if I'll ever write anything that I'll ever compare to the coffee bean. I mean, you said it would sell a million copies, and you're right. But the coffee bean for kids, John, I go into schools. Some schools buy 5,000 copies of that book. They'll make sure every kid leaves the book. But I hear stories from parents all the time about how that book is really good for telling kids what the world is going to be like. There's going to be tough times, but you do have a choice and all this. And it really goes back to why we wrote it, right? During the pandemic, we're like, hey, kids need to understand this is the changing world. And, John, I think it's one of our best books. My wife thinks it's my best book of all my books. And I've written six books now, John.

She loves a coffee even for kids. Yeah. It teaches kids that you have the power inside of you to

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