Welcome to Entrepreneurs the Playbook. I am excited because I have my doppelganger, not by the way he looks,

but I think by the way he thinks, even though I've been rejected by Stanford twice and he was

accepted to Stanford, I still get to teach and speak and claim my dear friend John Hennessy as a mentor,

one of the finest Stanford inaugural inaugural people that I know.

But Sehill Bloom has written a book that will change your life.

Even Mr. Cook loved it as I do.

The New York Times bestselling author, owner of SRB Holdings.

I am so excited to have Sahil Bloom with us today. Thanks for joining us,

Hill. Thanks for having me. It's a pleasure. So you had me at hello, no pun intended,

from my Berkeley friends over there. But the book that you've written started with a realization

that I had. I'm a 57-year-old mama's boy, and I just lost my mom a few

months ago. And my relativity relationship with my parents, as I got older, the realization of it

being a finite relationship. I started doing the math. I know you're very quantitative in how you see

things with time, et cetera. But it was shocking when I realized I only had a limited amount of

encounters or times that I could see my parents. And so I, you may not know this about me.

The best thing and best advice I give to people

about their parents is I still text my mom every day, even though she's passed. I kept her phone

number. It's on my plan. And I text her the four things I told her for 18 years every single day,

that I am happy, I am healthy. I love you, and I appreciate you.

And that healed so much of my mommy issues and built a relationship, especially with my mother.

And I was so grateful that I did that and still am.

For you, when you came to this single conversation that

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