This year has felt like we're living in a pot of boiling water. So many challenges, so much adversity, but here's the thing. When placed in a pot, an egg is hardened. A carrot is weakened, don't be like either. Instead be like the coffee bean. It transforms the water into something new. And you have the power inside you to transform

your environment as well. That's exactly what this

episode of the Positive University podcast is all about. Hi I'm Daniel Decker

co-host of Positive You and today John Gordon is joined by our good friend

Damon West as they share

principles from their best-selling book The Coffee Bean and how the message also

benefits kids with the newly released Coffee Bean for Kids book. You can get a copy of the Coffee Bean or

Coffee Bean for Kids anywhere books are sold and if you go to coffeebean

kids book.com you can also get access to download a free action plan and other

resources. That's Coffee Being Kids Book.com. We hope

this message benefits you, your kids, and others. All right, let's dive in.

Hey, this is John Gordon with Positive You, and today my guest is Damon West.

Damon, welcome back to Positive You.

Don, it is good to be back. Can you believe it was just like a year and a half ago when I first came on to your podcast

when my life kind of got launched into a different atmosphere being connected to the

John Gordon train that became the coffee bean man so here it is a year and a half later and we're here for another book right?

Pretty exciting who would have thought you know we did the coffee bean we didn't even meet when we wrote that book.

We actually wrote it just on the phone, talking together.

We hadn't met in person.

The book came out.

Then we met, which is pretty cool that we met after the book came out and and it's been a journey and then you had this idea to do the coffee bean for kids so talk about that like why did you want to do this book I'm showing it up right now if

anyone's watching on video if you're just listening I'm showing a copy of the

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