Welcome to today's episode of the Minds and Mentor podcast.

I am your host Rob Dyle and if you have not yet done so hit that subscribe button

so you never miss another podcast episode and today is Thursday which means it is the

business edition of the Minds and Mentor which also means I am joined by my best friend

of 15 years and business partner Dean DeVrice Dean what's going on buddy.

It is another day in paradise and it's a fantastic Thursday.

Happy Thursday.

It is for sure happy Thursday.

Today we're going to talk about the importance of community and connection.

We're going to talk about for your business specifically but we're also going to talk

about for your lives and Dean and I have been really you know we've talked a lot about

this lately of just the feeling of we didn't realize how much we were starving for connection

except for in the past couple weeks and so I'll give you a quick example for me and

Dean can tell you about him so I'm a part of a mastermind and the mastermind has a hundred

people in it that's where it caps out it and we had an event that was in Miami and there

was necessary precautions we had to go through I had to do a you know a PCR test and that

had to come in negative a couple days before then when we got to the event we had to do

another rapid test before we could go into a room with anybody else and at one point

in time so everybody passes I was all good I went into the event everything was amazing

and on day one I remember walking into the event and I was surrounded by there was about

120 people with all the staff members and everything and I thought to myself it like hit

me I was like oh my god I haven't been in this situation with this many people in like

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