Hey, welcome back to the Maxville Leadership Podcast. And I say welcome back because over 200,000 downloads this week will be by many of you.

Your teams, your companies are all tuning in. And today I'm super excited. Now if you're watching us on YouTube, and by the way, to go ahead and jump in, let me tell you you want to today, Maxwell Podcast dot com forward slash YouTube, you'll see sitting with me in the studio today is the founder of this podcast. And see, we, I say this every week, we are the podcast committed to adding value to leaders who multiply value to others.

John, you've heard that a few times before. Yeah, a few thousand just a few thousand. And that's because everything John has founded from podcast to companies to certification teams. It all is founded on the foundation that we exist to add value to you so that we will multiply value to others. Right.

Now I'm sitting beside not only John Maxwell, the founder of the Maxwell Leadership Podcast, the founder of Maxwell Leadership Team. I'm sitting beside one of the most most noted authors and one of the best communicators in the world.

We all have been impacted by one of John's messages. I am sure today we're celebrating yet again. The fact that John has recently released a book called the 16 Laws of Communication.

And today, John, if you don't mind, I would love to jump in and talk about the power of this book. And the way we're going to do that is one we've got some bonuses for you. We've got some things that I know that you will love if you will go to Maxwell Podcast dot com forward slash action.

We're going to put the laws of communication and action in your life today.

John, I'd love to start with this whole question. Does this book apply to people that are just standing in front of audiences?

Are would this also apply to people that has to communicate any message? It applies to everyone. I mean, is there a day in anybody's life that they don't have to take take time to talk to maybe a parent to their children.

A school teacher to the class, somebody sitting around and having dinner together. We're all communicating and trying to share with others thoughts ideas, dreams that we have in our life.

So every day, we're spending time communicating. So what I say is if you talk this book's for you. If you don't talk, don't get the book. Okay.

And Warren Boppet, as you know, said the most important skill that a person can learn to to increase their self worth and their net worth is the is the skill of communication.

And so I'm committed to really helping all of our listeners viewers today learn how to connect communicate better. And I know you are too. And that's why I'm so excited to be on the podcast with you.

Well, I thought we'd take a little bit of a different angle. John, this this podcast community is so large 27 million downloads. Now it's remarkable. What

you have been able to do and our message has been able to do through the podcast, one of the greatest things that we get as far as feedback from all of you is the authenticity. How what you see us what you get with John, what you see is what you get with myself and our co-host each and every week. And so John, I thought we would dig into this book today using your my yours truly myself.

And the case study I am on communicating. Here we go. And so if you enjoy my portion of the podcast, which is small compared to John in his content, that's because John Maxwell for the last five years has been mentoring me on pace.

He's been mentoring me on effectiveness on energy on content on how to be a better speaker and John. I was pretty bad at the beginning. Yes, you were.

But you know, it doesn't matter where you start. In fact, I think people put way too much emphasis upon where they start and wait to little emphasis of how they're growing and developing. And you were you were already a good communicator mark. But because of who you are in your position, you had to raise your level communication to be much more effective. So for the last four or five years, I have mentored mark and it's been a it's been a delight to watch you grow. I can still remember a couple years ago at Pebble Beach.

And I think we had a couple of years ago. And I think that our annual golf tournament for equipped there, and you stood up in front of the crowd and you talked the first evening. And I looked at you and I thought, he's got it. Now, there's still a lot of room for growth. But I understood that the basics of good successful communication. You were now not understanding them, but you were doing it. And that was for a person that mentors people that is greater.

So you have made great advancement in communication. And I can hardly wait for us to have kind of a student mentor kind of podcast here today and tell me what you're learning and what what what what in the book is helping you and I'll try to put it all ice on the cake when I can.

And we're going to talk about three laws law of observation, the law of connection and the law of results. Yes. And over the next 25 minutes or so, I want to relate with our podcast listeners. Those are out there that would look to you as their icon of how to communicate in large crowds.

And those that would look to you and say, I want to make the person standing right in front of me feel like I'm the focus of their energy. And truly, whether you're in front of one or you're in front of 1000, you have this incredible ability to communicate.

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