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Here's your host, Simons like diamonds.

God's divine connections.

Hey everybody, Joe Simons like diamonds back again with Salz wrung in church and we're talking about the connections in our lives of relationships the people that God has put in our path that have changed our lives that will be changing your lives in the future.

And this podcast really started out from something that happened to us recently.

And by us I'm talking about Luke and I in the business side of things and if you don't know

here at Salt Strong we have had a 2025 vision kind of the vision of the future and it's

it's now about to be seven years old.

So we wrote this almost seven years ago and put it out there for the world to see.

A little bit scary because some of the stuff was a little bit crazy,

like having the property for a theme park

was a big one which I'll talk about in a second.

There are some other things about

how we're impacting the fishing industry

from the conservation side of things,

and that happened with Darlene, someone

who was connected to us, and ended up becoming a lifelong insider member and now has licensed

Salt Strong's name for essentially a nonprofit conservation, which is already doing some really, really cool things.

And that was part of the vision.

I mean, I'm pitching myself looking back at how all of these things have evolved and just kind of fallen into place.

One, when we had a, you know, kind of a clear vision of the future and that was from

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