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Unknown Speaker  0:00  

Hey, this is Chris Wagner, best selling author of The Art of influence and if you really want to learn how to level up your life you should be listening to the time designed today podcast with my friend, Scott Ferguson.

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Hey, this is Scott Ferguson with time to shine today podcast. Welcome my varsity squad. Thank you so much for tuning in. As we know that here at time to shine today, we don’t want anyone to feel like they have no one. And if there is anyone out there that can really level you up. It’s my friend Chris Weidner, fantastic top 50 in the world that is not a misspeak, or a misspoke. He’s one of the top 50 speakers in the world. He has been mentored and worked with people like Jim Rohn john Maxwell Zig Ziglar. The list goes on and on. The knowledge nuggets he’s going to bombard you with our you’re going to want to take notes, he shares stuff, you’re Getting A FREE masterclass hear from Chris he’s a best selling author, he again he’s a top 50 speaker in the world. So without further ado I’m going to shut up my clam and turn it over to my good friend Chris Weidner.

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Hey time to shine today podcast swatted Scott Ferguson and I am in you’ve heard me say fanboy with a couple other people like Randy gage your inner Chuck when I’ve had them on but like I got Chris Wagner. I never miss one of his podcasts, the fortunes from speaking podcast. If when we’re done I’ll remind you again, go put it on your iPhone, droid, whatever. I use overcast, try that app, but get fortunes from speaking podcasts. He’s got the movers, shakers, anybody that’s anybody when it comes to speaking and getting their message out of their head over their lips and out to the world. Chris is the guy you must listen to the people that he interviews in. I am so so stoked to have him have Chris on Chris is been named one of the top 50 speakers in the world, one of the top 100 leadership speakers by Inc magazine. That’s some serious credentials right there. And as a member of the motivational speakers Hall of Fame, Chris was personally mentored by legendary speakers, john Maxwell, Zig Ziglar and Jim Rohn. And as everybody knows out there, I regurgitate a lot of stuff that comes from people before me and I get to where I’m at by standing shoulders of giants and Chris is one of those people who just doesn’t know it or know me like that much but he’s one of the shoulders they stand on to get my voice out there to the world. So without further ado, I’m gonna bring Chris on to introduce himself so Chris, welcome to time to shine podcast show but first, what is your favorite color? And why?

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Purple because it’s regal.

Unknown Speaker  3:00  

That was quick and I love that.

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It’s regal. It’s the Royal color regal. Absolutely.

Unknown Speaker  3:08  

I love it. Let’s get to the origins of you, man. You’re a giant in the industry of speaking in your coaching. The origins of me.

Unknown Speaker  3:15  

Yeah, my dad and my mom.

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They got together and know that let’s let’s give the listeners a little bit about your background there, Chris.

Unknown Speaker  3:24  

Yeah, absolutely. So I’ll try and give you the quick dive rotten upbringing. My dad died when I was four. He had been very, he’d been making a lot of money but he was under insured. So we moved from a house. My mom had to sell the house we were living in when I was four years old because she couldn’t afford the $400 a month mortgage payment. This was 1970. That house recently sold for $2.3 million began a downward spiral for my mom and me. I ended up living 28 homes and went to 11 different schools. My mom in desperation shipped me off to live with relatives twice once in the fourth grade once in the ninth grade. I began drugs and fifth or sixth grade, made most of my money growing up, betting the horses at long acres horse track. I ended up the summer before my senior year I had this moment where I got invited to church. And I had never been to church. I mean literally knew nothing about it. I spent the night at my best pot smoking buddy’s house, and we brought it up a lot of fatties on Saturday night and on Sunday morning, his mom walked through the door at about eight in the morning and said get up. We’re going to Sunday school, and I went Sunday school like what is Sunday, I truly didn’t know none of the language of the church or anything meant anything to me because I never went I my family was not religious. And I ended up going and I met a youth minister there from Montana. He was a good old boy from Montana. And meeting him was really important for my life because a he taught me about God which gave me a sense of purpose. But b i had no male role models in my family. My grandpa’s didn’t know either my grandpa’s my dad died when I was four. My brother is 13 years older than me. And, and so he he got married to a woman who didn’t like my mom. So they weren’t, he wasn’t around much growing up. So this youth minister really was a pivotal moment in my life. And I ended up going into the ministry, I started out as a youth minister, and then as a pastor for 14 years from 88 to 2002. But I was what they called a church planter, which means I started churches, I planted them. And so there was no money in it. I didn’t get paid. So I had to start a sort of a side business and I started a publishing company, again, sort of tightening 30 years into a couple minutes. That publishing company ended up I licensed audio programs from other speakers. And for a number of years, probably 2004 to 2009. We were selling about a million and a half to $2 million a month of audio programs through Costco and Sam’s Club, and we were selling people like john Maxwell Zig Ziglar, Jim Rohn. And that’s how I got into relationship with those guys. I was selling 50 to 75,000 boxes a month through contract frames that 2004 to 2009 CDs a little

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bit in that well the reason

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we got out was because CDs were going away. And I sold that company that I had started to my partner who had brought on to help me with that project. He’s then turned it into a book publishing company and such and so I went full time as a speaker in 2002. Because I was preaching on Sunday mornings and then I was at Harvard Business School on Wednesday afternoons and, and General Electric on Thursday mornings and Tuesday nights, I was speaking at&t and and so I finally went and did it full time. First thing I did was I put on a conference September 2002, I took out $100,000 mortgage against my house, which at the time was worth about $375,000 and I gave 55,000 of the hundred I took out of my house to Maxwell to get him to come out and speak for me, because his fee was 50,000 and then probably another five grand in expenditures and travel and all that And so I blew 55% of $100,000 mortgage that I took out. I giving it to john Maxwell. And that’s how I got to know john, I ended up ghostwriting for john. And then Jim Rohn called and asked if I’d write with them, I ended up writing the Jim Rohn, one year program, and then Jim’s last book called 12 pillars. And then I had a TV show in Dallas 2004 to 2007, something like that. And they asked Zig to do a TV show called True performance and Zig was getting older. And so his son Tom said, Hey, would you be willing to co host the show? Was it? I said, Yeah, sure. Who wouldn’t? You know, I felt like I tell people the first time I walked into the studio, I felt like a priest who’d been called to the Vatican to serve communion with the Pope. You know, it’s like, and I had never met him before until the till the day I walked into into that studio I’d never met Zig personally before. In but I sold you know, hundreds and hundreds of thousands of audio programs have Is Sure. So that’s a brief like three minute version of from birth to where I am today.

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That’s, that’s amazing. You went through a grind. But every time it seems like you hit a bump or a fail, if you will you fail forward into opening up and into better and bigger things. We call that on this podcast leveling up. So what was the backup? What was the aha moment that said, I’m going to be a full time speaker out of this because your some audio programs went out? What was that thing that clicked in your mind? Chris? It was, well, I

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was a full I mean, I was speaking a lot from 1988 because my upbringing was so bad, and I was a youth ministry major and a youth pastor. So I was being asked to speak all the time about how to overcome a crazy childhood. But when I decided to go full time, I’ll tell you what happened. I was reading a book called The journey of desire by john Eldridge. And john is more well known for his book called Wild at Heart. And wildheart was the book that came after the journey of desire and it gets more To the publicity, but journey of desire was profound in my life. I realized reading that book that I didn’t want to be a pastor anymore. I wanted to be a full time speaker. Now, Funny enough, I read a book in high school. That’s not it’s totally out of print. And in fact, most of the advice wouldn’t even be good anymore. But it was called How to make a fortune as public speaker put your money where your mouth is. And I read that in high school. Now I was the kid I was always talking. My mom was always telling me to shut up. In fact, when I started getting paid a lot of money to give speeches, she said, You mean people to pay you to do what I told you all those years to stop? And I’m like, Yeah, they actually do. You remember in high school, you would sit down in first period and then the buzzer would be the teacher till you sit down and then the guy came on for announcements, right? Alright, class today for lunch. We’re having fish sticks and tater tots with side horn. Maybe football, be at the bus by 230 To go to your game and you know, whatever, that was me, that was you. I did that for two years until I got in trouble my senior year and they fired me. My principal called me and fired me because I was a little bit of a rabble rouser. But in college, I was the I was the college announcer for the basketball in house in the stadium basketball. So I announced the starting lineups, and you know, all the way through the game and that kind of thing. So I was always sort of a talker, but then I just really realized I needed to go out and do it and really make this my life.

Unknown Speaker  10:32  

Gotcha. Chris, what makes a great speaker?

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Well, it depends. There’s a big there’s a big difference. There’s a difference between a great speaker and a great speaking business. A great speaker is a person who I think can educate and entertain at the same time, they can make it interesting and lively and make people want to listen and engaged and at the same time, teach them something and I do a lot of speakers. coaching. I train speakers now on how to craft that magical stage presence. I started with politicians, my best friend in the early 2000s ran for governor. And he hired me as a speech coach. He said, Well, you’re the professional speaker, why don’t you help me so I helped him and, and that ended up turning into I’ve helped people running for president some names, everybody knows all the way down to city council. And one of the things that I tell people to do as speakers in order to and this is what I do, and I started doing it with politicians, is you should craft your speech so that you run people through what I call the emotional cycle, or the emotional roller coaster. So you craft your speech so that at some points, they’re going, Oh, yeah, I really agree with that. Uh huh. That’s interesting. And then other times, they’re leaning forward and they’re just really intense and they’re just really, and other times they’re laughing. And other times they’re cheering like you want to. I literally describe it people if you’re watching this, like some of you aren’t, but I want people to rotate through Those cycles of emotions. And one trick that I use or technique, it’s not a trick. And I teach people this is the best place to insert a poignant point is right after you have people laughing. And so I’ll give you an example of how I do this. I have a story of my speech, I talked about my daughter, and I talked about how how she was making $75 a day in tips as a barista when she was 14 years old. And she told me that she engages with people and she asked them all she does ask them questions about themselves, while she’s making the coffee. They’re saying the counter and just question after question after question. People get to talk and, and so at one point, I finalized the story. And I, I say, you know, look, you know, in a way, it’s kind of sick, if you think about it, because there’s this 14 year old girl who’s learned how to manipulate 45 year old men for money. And of course, the audience like you are the audience laughs right. So now I’ve done what I want you to do. I’ve gotten you to open up like literally and figuratively people open up when they laugh, they literally, they lean back, they throw their hands and they create an open position. Emotionally, they open themselves up as well, the very next line after I say no, in a way, it’s kind of sick, because here’s a 14, a 14 year old girl who’s learning to manipulate 45 year old men for money. I let people laugh for five or 10 seconds, I say, but there’s a deep spiritual truth there. And that is that people want connection, so much so that 45 year old men will triple the amount of money they tip simply because somebody asked them questions about themselves. Wow. And and so I get them to laugh and open up and then I slide right in there with a very poignant point and say, I actually ended up interviewing a woman the other day, who her whole thing is on the psychology, she calls it neuro neuro Humor or something like that. It’s the connection between the brain and humor and what happens and how we learn through humor. And so I think that, that great speakers take people on a roller coaster of emotion and a journey that’s both fun and educational.

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So the emotional cycle that roller coaster of emotion. Yeah. Okay. All right. So I gotta ask you this. Do we have other questions? I have to ask you this because you asked every one of your fortunes from speaking podcast. What is your favorite venue?

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Well, yeah, so you got I I’ve asked that question people’s

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feet to the fire. So I’m sure you got it. It’s just funny

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because people have such a hard time with I’m like, okay, you could say the venue or you could say the country or city or you could say yeah, group of people. So I’ll tell you my favorite group of people. I love network marketers. Because they’re energetic. they’ve paid to be there. So they want to be there. They’re friendly, and they buy lots and lots of stuff. stuff. So, so I love them for that. My favorite city that I’ve probably been to is probably. I mean, Shanghai is just incredible. I love Shang I loved Barcelona.

Unknown Speaker  15:13  

I mean, the one that had the, the podcasts, I’ve listened all years that where you would speak and then the interpreter spoke it out to the audience.

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Yeah, that was Petersburg, Russia, which was my next one. I was gonna say, Okay, well in St. Petersburg, in St. Petersburg. I did the alternating I spoke for, you know, 30 seconds he spoke 30 seconds, okay, back and forth like a dance in Barcelona and a number of other cities like Cologne, spoke in Cologne, Germany. For a company they put on these huge events like 20,000 people, and they are doing simultaneous translation. So behind the stage, it was kind of cool to see behind the stage. There was like these wooden made up like pressboard or what do you call it? plywood, plywood like almost like phone booths that had been made up? And each phone booth had a different person in it listening. They were listening to me and then they were talking into a microphone and there was an Italian one a German one, a Spanish one, a Portuguese one. So they were listening to me talk and talking into their microphone and it was being simultaneously translated. So when people would come in the venue, this was in Barcelona they would grab headsets that said Spanish and they put them on and then they could listen I mean just the the the way that they what they had to pull off to make that happen. That’s amazing. Bad Boy. Yeah,

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was it like was almost throw your standing up there say something that’s kind of funny, and you’ll hear laughter pop up over here. Maybe not over here in other parts of the audience. I mean, if that had been the most surreal experience, especially being at the level that you’re at, that’s crazy. Yeah.

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It’s it’s always fun to talk to those giant audiences. Yeah.

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It was funny. I’ll tell you

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a funny story. Biggest audience ever did was 25,000 people. It was in LA. There was a speaker bureau speaker management gal that had always wanted to see me speak but had never been able to so she came out to this thing and she was saying about managing my career. And, and I had Jim Rohn international had been sold and I’d moved on from Success Magazine. And so she comes out 25,000 people, it was network marketers, and I’m like, I’m just gonna blow the doors off of this joint. And, and literally by the end of standing ovation, chanting my name and it was all designed that way, you know? Sure. And afterwards the woman goes, I could never represent you. I could never I can’t do it. I can’t represent you. And I’m like, why not? She goes, I don’t know. That’s like Tony Robbins level kind of stuff like 5000 people chanting your name. I I do more like 500 person like corporate events. Yeah, that’s, that’s what I do too. Mostly. Right. But but it is fun when you get those giant crowds, especially if you know how to work a crowd. It’s a lot of fun.

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A lot of energy coming your way. And it’s just, it’s

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real to me. It’s fantastic. So it’s a level up that I’m going to get to.

Unknown Speaker  17:53  

You know, a funny thing though. Let me tell you, Scott, that most people don’t understand when you’re doing a giant event like that. 10,000 plus In a in an even a small arena kind of thing. arenas usually start at like six or 7000 people, these sort of regional arenas. Most people don’t know that there’s so much lighting on the stage. And they’re beaming right into your eyes, that you really can’t see that many people in the crowd anyway, because it’s blinding you. So I actually have to force myself to like, look up to the rafters, even though I can’t see anything. I look up there as though I’m talking to them. So you’re constantly telling yourself, okay, make sure you’re looking this way. And now you’re looking way back there. And now you’re looking over here and then you’re looking down front. So it’s even though you don’t see anything about the only people you see in a 20,000 person arena is like the first 300 people in the first two or three rows you’re

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blinded. It’s funny to say that because I used to compete in bodybuilding shows all the time where I put in my hair and I flex my muscles and I couldn’t see anything. That’s what made it my first show was like 1996 and I was like the skinny guy at stage and I remember looking out and going this isn’t that bad. Cuz I can’t see.

Unknown Speaker  19:01  

Yeah, exactly 1500

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people out there. Hey, Chris, let’s hop in Marty McFly, his door DeLorean. Let’s go back to the 20 to 23 year old Chris Weidner. Let’s talk to him. What would you tell him with the knowledge nuggets that you have now? Not about the speaking business, right?

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Please be patient, be way more patient than you are.

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Love people, be graceful, help others. Almost nothing at this stage in my life is about business or success, or, you know, all those kinds of things. You know, there’s a famous book in fact, I just refer to it a friend of mine makes about 80 million bucks a year and he’s trying to find himself. It’s trying to find himself I said you need to read this book. It’s called a halftime by Bob. by Bob. Buford, Bob you for halftime by Bob Buford, and the subtitle is called halftime subtitle Moving from success to significance, and it’s about it’s about how this unique thing that happens to people, they go out and get really, really successful. And then they realize it doesn’t feel them at all. And and they get to be 45 or 50. And they go, Wow, okay, I thought that having all this would would really make me happy and they realize that it doesn’t. And, and so they have to kind of figure out okay, now how do I move into significance? The unfortunate problem is, is that young men and young women for same thing, they’re so ambitious, right? Because that’s the stage they’re in. It’s time to go build a family, it’s time to go build a business, it’s time to go build my career. It’s just build, build, build, you know, and that’s great and we have to do that. But I think oftentimes we miss the deeper meaning of life stuff and then 20 years into it when you’re successful and you get all that and you kind of go okay. Doesn’t really isn’t really fulfilling. I’ll give you an example. I drove by a house for 21 years, this house was on 10 acres but there was nothing else around it. So there was probably 2000 acres around it had a half a mile a Riverfront, 1800 bottle, wine cellar, swimming pool, pool house, everything. And I bought it. I drove by it for 21 years the front gate Scott. The front gates were 500 feet long brick pillars with wrought iron fencing big double. I call them Elvis gates that opened up this quarter mile circular driveway. Two weeks after I bought that house 2004 well into the seven figures. My dream house, I finally bought it two weeks afterwards, I’m walking around the driveway, I get to the top of the driveway. I’m holding a drink. I look back down at the house. And I think to myself, now what? Sure. And that was one of the more profound moments of my life. I’d worked for 21 years to be able to buy this house. Now I love the house mainly because I loved it was great. It was away from away from everybody. So it was great. Coming off. The road I could just get away from everybody. Sure. But remember, I lived in 28 homes and I wanted my kids

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to say that were they, it was for that right?

Unknown Speaker  22:09  

I mean that you must have been kind of been brought up with when you say it kind of same thing happened to me. Much smaller level, I bought a house in Michigan, on the lake in a very prestigious area, but I just looked at it and I was because I was raised by a guy that worked on a line at General Motors. And I made it and again, I was like what’s next, right? That’s Yeah, that’s amazing. You’ve accomplished so much in your life. Chris, what is there anything bigger, that you want to really attain have happened to you? Is there what’s the big thing that will in a egotistical way make you immortal? That’s,

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um, you know, it’s kind of funny because I really have done everything I’ve wanted to do in life. I’ve had a New York Times bestseller. I’ve spoken to 25,000 people I’ve, I’ve run for the United States Senate. I’ve I’ve done everything I’ve wanted to do it. I’ve never held back in life. And and what I really want to do now and this is again, kind of back to that halftime thing is is I was blessed by zig and Jim and people that opened doors for me, Denis waitley. All those folks, and you get to a place where you’ve done it kind of done it all. And then you kind of say, Okay, how do I help other people? So I’m doing a lot of speaker coaching. I’m doing a lot of executive coaching. I do executive coaching across the board, I’m starting to do a lot more for people in the faith based arena executives, and entrepreneurs. It’s sort of blending my success coaching with my old pastors at you know, there’s, there’s a lot of people that don’t, they have this misconception that if you’re a person of faith, you can’t be successful in the world, right? Because so many people have misquoted the Bible for so long. You know, what do we hear? What do we hear the by you know, that people say, well, the Bible says that money is the root of all evil. Well, the Bible doesn’t say money. The root of all evil when you, when you go back into the original Greek language that it was written in, it actually says money is a kind, or the love of money is a kind of all kinds of evil. Sure. And so or the root of all kinds of evil. And so I think most people would agree with that, if you’re so obsessed with money, you could really end up in some bad places, right? That’s the truth of it. It’s not saying that if you have money, you’re somehow evil. So I think that I have a real passion for that helping people understand that you can both have an inner life as well as a successful outer life coaching people on speaking, you know, helping them become world class speakers. And so it’s for me, it’s all about meaning at this point.

Unknown Speaker  24:43  

Love it. So what’s your definition? I think I could answer this for you. But I want to hear it from you. Quickly, kind of what’s your definition of a life well lived

Unknown Speaker  24:53  

was interesting. You say a life well lived because Jim Rohn and I in our book, 12 pillars we say you can’t determine how long you live. But you can determine how well you live. And and I love that quote that we came up for in that book. A life well lived, in my opinion, is a life of service. I my next book is coming out November 3 2020. It’s called lasting impact, how to create a life and business that lives beyond you. And that’s really what we all want. We want to know that our we want to know that our life mattered. We want to know that we made a difference. We want to know that other people are better because we were there and in their life. So to me, it’s about contribution. It’s it’s less about what we take from the world, more what we give to the world. Excellent as we kind

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of don’t wind things and I got a leveling up lightning round that I’ve actually added some questions for you on this. And the you and I could talk for 15 minutes on each one of them. I would listen the whole time, but I need five seconds, Mike. Okay,

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here we go. All right.

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All right. What’s the best leveling up advice you’ve ever received?

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It’s just is easy to think big as it is to think small

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profit. share one of your personal habits that contributes to Chris’s success. I take time for myself. Love it, other than your own website, of course time to shine today calm. That’s my shameless plug. What’s another website you’d like to go to? To possibly level up?

Unknown Speaker  26:21  

Boy, I don’t even know where to start. I mean, there’s I get on the internet every day. And I just say

Unknown Speaker  26:26  

Google for you. Yeah, I mean, it really is.

Unknown Speaker  26:28  

I will go, I’ll go on and I’ll see some great stuff. And then I’ll deep dive into certain topics. And Sir, it’s hard to name one.

Unknown Speaker  26:37  

Okay, outside of your plethora of 20s, mid 20s, almost 30 bucks. What’s a book not the flavor of the month that you’re reading right now? What’s the book that you would go to, to hand somebody and say you have to read this. So it’s interesting that you said not the flavor of the month because I’ve always said I don’t read much pop culture books because I read Dead guys.

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And

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I read a lot of people because if they’ve died and it’s still around it means that it’s it’s timeless and not just Vogue content, I always go back to a book called The pursuit of God by AWS and

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I think it’s one of the greatest books ever written,

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favorite charity or organization that you’d like to contribute your time or and or money to.

Unknown Speaker  27:29  

I love World Vision. I love that you can buy like cows and goats and bees and things like that for people in third world. My kids for years and years. That’s what I asked them. They’re like, what do we get Dad? He’s asked everything I said buy some bs for some people.

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Okay, last question. Best decade of music 60s 70s 80s or 90s 80s

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gotta be the

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right there. Big hair don’t care. Exactly. This leaves us with. kind of quickly though. What one is Knowledge Nugget that you want our listeners here to internalize and take with them.

Unknown Speaker  28:06  

Be a voice, not an echo.

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I was at a conference. I was at a conference in the early 90s. This one of the weirdest things that ever happened to me, Scott and I was at a conference in the early 90s. And I’m standing there it was during a break, there’s all sorts of people around, and I turned around and there was a woman about 55 and a woman about 30. Obviously, a mother and a daughter. And the daughters eyes get giant like saucers when she sees me. And she just her jaw drops, and she’s looking and we’re standing face to face. And their mom looks at her and says, Is that him? And she says, It’s him. And I said, What’s me? And the mom says, in the middle of the night, last night, she woke up, she couldn’t sleep and she had a dream of a man that she was supposed to tell something to. And, and she couldn’t go back to sleep. She said, I have this picture of this man’s face and I’m supposed to tell him something. And apparently it was my face she saw in this dream. And the mom says we’ll tell him tell him what you’re supposed to tell him. And she looked at me and she said, I’m supposed to tell you to be a voice, not an echo.

Unknown Speaker  29:09  

Wow. And I

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was probably 23 years old and it has been, I found out later on that it was it’s been attributed to Albert Einstein, his voice, not an echo Suzman profound.

Unknown Speaker  29:22  

That’s amazing. So I know we can find you on Weidner coaching comm I believe Chris Wagner, calm Yeah, in your books, I’m going to put all that stuff in the show notes. Is there any thing else that you want to share with the squad of how they can find you or anything?

Unknown Speaker  29:38  

Just fish weidner.com or you can if you go there, you can click on anything, it’ll take you to the coaching and all the different things but you can reach out to me if you want if you’re interested in any sort of coaching you can just send me an email whitener, whitener group@gmail.com

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I love it and hey squad. You’ve just been bombed with some knowledge nuggets from a who’s someone I consider a mentor in a sense And a friend Chris Weiner. Remember to be a voice not an echo. If you’re getting into the speaking business, he gave us a huge Knowledge Nugget of insert or point your point after laughter, Chris’s patience, is loving, grateful. He loves to help others. He’s humble, yet hungry, levels up his health levels up as well. And Chris, thank you so much for coming on. This is amazing. And you’re part of our squad now whether you like it or not, but really, really,

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I get a shirt with a number. Anyway, we’re gonna get you on.

Unknown Speaker  30:32  

Thank you very much, Chris. Thanks, God, I appreciate you having me on. It’s a great pleasure.

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