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Welcome back to Office Hours.

I'm David Melzer.

Wow, this has been the world record edition

episode of Office Hours.

I know we bring one of the world's best hospitality experts.

He is an executive producer, an

entrepreneur, an investor. It's amazing. People ask people like John Taffer, how do you

do it all? And I have recently in my middle age here in my 50s realize how people like John

do it and it's actually from the strength within knowing your own essence and as I

look through your resume and all the great achievements with Taffers Tavern and Bar Rescue and the

list of going on and I'm sure you ask questions about it.

I'm really curious on when and how you took inventory of your own skills, your

knowledge of who and what and your desires and then we're able to amplify it in all types of different opportunities and it took me a long time to learn this lesson trying to be what everybody else thought I was supposed to be.

And once I learned who I was, skills, knowledge, and desire wise I was able to

amplify my own essence and the abundance followed very quickly. Were you

conscious about doing that for yourself? I know you have.

A little, I think I had an advantage in that my grandfather, my grandfather, who raised me,

invented direct mail and actually got credit for it, created the

direct marketing agency became worth hundreds of millions of dollars,

created the Betsy Wetsey the first wedding doll,

we looked like my mother.

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