Becoming Bridge Builders

Four Keys for Rock-Solid Optimism

October 10, 2022 Keith Haney Season 4 Episode 123
Becoming Bridge Builders
Four Keys for Rock-Solid Optimism
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Dominique “Dom” Brightmon, DTM is a certified trainer with the Maxwell Leadership Team, bestselling author, and host of the Going North Podcast, a podcast committed to featuring authors from around the world to promote the power of the written word and inspire listeners to publish books of their own. His mantra is to Advance others to advance yourself.

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[keith_haney__the_man__the_myth__the_legend]:

well so get the gun down and show how are you doing today

[dom_brightmon]:

and i'm doing

[keith_haney__the_man__the_myth__the_legend]:

oh

[dom_brightmon]:

good retief great to be here with you

[keith_haney__the_man__the_myth__the_legend]:

it's good to have you round

[dom_brightmon]:

i

[keith_haney__the_man__the_myth__the_legend]:

last guy killed in so if i was in the better i'll be you so

[dom_brightmon]:

yeah

[keith_haney__the_man__the_myth__the_legend]:

i

[dom_brightmon]:

that is gold

[keith_haney__the_man__the_myth__the_legend]:

impoisbosn like i like that

[dom_brightmon]:

yeah

[keith_haney__the_man__the_myth__the_legend]:

so i'm so glad to have in because my first my first time in the ministry i gave over the first day i walked into my church and realized not of i'm going to be a leader in like well then teach in the seminary so

[dom_brightmon]:

yeah

[keith_haney__the_man__the_myth__the_legend]:

the first thing i did was i went to find the one the one person i was doing leadership and i wasn't at the thing at the time it was when talking about it and it was it was it was john maxwell and so i came john maxwell student so i'm so glad that we can talk about some shipinkind of other things too and just kind of bout him but i don't want to give you a chance as in this conversation to tell the last and best advice you want to receive

[dom_brightmon]:

and this

[keith_haney__the_man__the_myth__the_legend]:

this

[dom_brightmon]:

was a hard question when i first saw it i'm like man but same thing i told a friend of mine yesterday asking folks this one question who do you know that i should know who do you know that

[keith_haney__the_man__the_myth__the_legend]:

now

[dom_brightmon]:

i should know because life moves at the speed of your relationships and i've noticed that through its past i can't believe ten years since actually became integinal bout personal development and john maxwell told us that in a key note address

[keith_haney__the_man__the_myth__the_legend]:

no

[dom_brightmon]:

that he was giving and it was like hey you're gonna change your life ask folks that question when you're connecting with other people and it's been a game changer has been a game changer

[keith_haney__the_man__the_myth__the_legend]:

i love that he should know that's good i didn't think about that because it's all about those connections because s you never now how to make connection players and gas leading so that's a great of advice

[dom_brightmon]:

oh yeah

[keith_haney__the_man__the_myth__the_legend]:

yeah

[dom_brightmon]:

it's great with all the ours as tony the talk but so it's great advice

[keith_haney__the_man__the_myth__the_legend]:

yes fovaciogoing up so i like to

[dom_brightmon]:

the triple t himself baby too the tiger

[keith_haney__the_man__the_myth__the_legend]:

that's right that's right so you your cheese to to introduce yourself to the onions listen at home to something about yourself that most people don't know

[dom_brightmon]:

yes for the millions at home and watching and listening around the world a fun in fact the folks don't know about me that much i have to say that i've actually done tyke one do before i got my blue bell never got like b because

[keith_haney__the_man__the_myth__the_legend]:

i

[dom_brightmon]:

i switched over to kick boxing and cross fit so that's probably a fact that a lot of folks don't know about me did take one do for a few years about a good let's say six

[keith_haney__the_man__the_myth__the_legend]:

yeah

[dom_brightmon]:

years ain't

[keith_haney__the_man__the_myth__the_legend]:

yeah

[dom_brightmon]:

got to blue blue bell for switching over to kick boxing

[keith_haney__the_man__the_myth__the_legend]:

so that's that's a little mat of fact and that's what we're running

[dom_brightmon]:

yeah i got

[keith_haney__the_man__the_myth__the_legend]:

oh

[dom_brightmon]:

some long legs my colleagues class we was like oh god i don't want to spar and we could actually kick my head off real like he's got the dog reach yeah

[keith_haney__the_man__the_myth__the_legend]:

that's right so real fact

[dom_brightmon]:

yeah

[keith_haney__the_man__the_myth__the_legend]:

um

[dom_brightmon]:

yah

[keith_haney__the_man__the_myth__the_legend]:

if you can at montreal

[dom_brightmon]:

ah

[keith_haney__the_man__the_myth__the_legend]:

regret it

[dom_brightmon]:

disciplines involved too i don't plan on sending people to hospital that's the good news

[keith_haney__the_man__the_myth__the_legend]:

i won't play on it but i could

[dom_brightmon]:

yeah

[keith_haney__the_man__the_myth__the_legend]:

oh

[dom_brightmon]:

it's like you got all these broken ribs what happened was just covid that's all

[keith_haney__the_man__the_myth__the_legend]:

that's where he was covid don't know what i know where i came

[dom_brightmon]:

oh

[keith_haney__the_man__the_myth__the_legend]:

from oh

[dom_brightmon]:

yeah

[keith_haney__the_man__the_myth__the_legend]:

so i leaned i love learning about people journey and your doing is really interesting my role by first book i was in my fifties

[dom_brightmon]:

ah

[keith_haney__the_man__the_myth__the_legend]:

so you impressed me by the fact that your first book came to twenty three tell us the journey of how you got there and how you developed and worked your first book

[dom_brightmon]:

sure thing well about a good let's say can't believe it's been almost ten

[keith_haney__the_man__the_myth__the_legend]:

no

[dom_brightmon]:

years ago now because back in twenty twelve the year where folks

[keith_haney__the_man__the_myth__the_legend]:

work

[dom_brightmon]:

in america thought the world is going but all that happens that we lost twenkesfour moth is that that wonderful year had a three prong attack i called a setback sandwich because july thirty first father went out for a drive and he got lost and he ended up in a town called service ber on about a good forty miles outside of baltimore driving on the wrong side of the road and interestingly enough sadly like he actually got lost but we were glad he got discovered because he was lost but good thirty two hours before we asked the police to help us out and that night it was around that sunday night when i got on my news to pray at one a m after playing some bit games to get my mind off of things we get a call about a good i'd say around i'm about to be another two minutes into praying and we get a call from a hospital holy cross hospital were like hey we found your husband he's he's here we got him and i was like wow like that it goes to show that prayer were i was praying that he god helped me find us found my dad hopefully that his okay because he was up there in age but we didn't know that it was that bad so thank god for finding him but he was discovered they totally had all somers because he was driving on the wrong side of the road and that led to me doing more stuff to help out around the home and eventually becoming part time care giver on top of being a part time employee local library while being a full time college student and a month later after that and some change turned twenty one but on the day of my birthday when i was going to head over to it security a's got into a wonderful car accident and the reason why it's wonderful because i'm still alive and it's a good story to tell because i get to live the toll tale about it

[keith_haney__the_man__the_myth__the_legend]:

right

[dom_brightmon]:

the not not so wonderful and is that i was like oh crab the car is crashed i'm like oh well durance so didn't that wasn't able to drive my ride for about a good two muffs but i was still glad to be alive but there was a lot of intern struggle because a couple of weeks later

[keith_haney__the_man__the_myth__the_legend]:

couple weeks later

[dom_brightmon]:

it was showing up in my work and my boss called me and was like hey dum i got all these new people coming in they're gonna be looking to you as a leader and you keep screwing up in these areas you got to shape up here and for some reason looking back over all these years that one word stuck out to me later that my boss told me it didn't hit me at the time sometimes you got to tell me something twice so i can really understand it and some reason after that a few weeks later found one of john maxwell's books the five loves of leadership looked up that book listened to it on the audio changed my life gone to personal development read a book the magic of getting what you want by david swart and in the book he had an activity where you would write your own obituary and in that obituary wrote that was going to be a best selling author multiple ok and then it just keeps going to where a few weeks later the opportunity shows itself net working at a toast masters conference i was networking with people handing out a reading list of people because i loved reading book at that time i still do as opposed to just handing out business cards to people on hand out reading lists by contact in because business cars end up in a trash or forgotten and when she looked at the list looked at me it was like he swore on the list i'm like oh yes right there at the bottom you at the fort like no we're not talking about that to talk about you as an author and i was twenty three at the time and i'm like you got nothing to write about twenty three like i want to hear from mylenniyou know how bad millennia get a bad rap these days even though i'refreaking awesome like oh don't worry right how about a year from today you write your very own first book and i'm like you know what that sounds cool not doing it okay how about we both become published authors a year from today we both become published authors write our books will do the journey together i'm like man you are an impressive lady right here you got this thing covered not doing it so a couple of days later

[keith_haney__the_man__the_myth__the_legend]:

yeah

[dom_brightmon]:

went to a toast masters meeting a ken session and during the session friend of mine asked me hey don when you're gonna wite your book and i'm like dude that had nothing to do with the presentation i just give just gave to the other folks in the meeting so i didn't want to look like a punk on stage so i said a year from today to write my very first book and publish it scared out of god knows what i was scared but ran home wrote fourteen pages of rock content hybrnated for two most picked it back up in early twenty sixteen and october twenty six tying the book was finally published going north tips and techniques to advance yourself

[keith_haney__the_man__the_myth__the_legend]:

wow that is an impressive story but somebody saw something o that said you can do this and i think that's so important that when you pour into people's life you never know we that will be on the other side of that first for saying and looking you go i see something in you if you don't see in yourself yet when i want to encourage you and to me it's just a power or testimony

[dom_brightmon]:

it meant to that

[keith_haney__the_man__the_myth__the_legend]:

yes

[dom_brightmon]:

because leaders are dealers in hope and they see the jewels that are within other people that they don't see within themselves yet and the right people around

[keith_haney__the_man__the_myth__the_legend]:

it

[dom_brightmon]:

you i guess it kind of goes back to that wonderful advice like who do you know that i should know ometimes those people that you should know is sometimes

[keith_haney__the_man__the_myth__the_legend]:

oh

[dom_brightmon]:

yourself and you need those right people help you realize that you have jewels within yourself to share with the world and gifts to share with the world

[keith_haney__the_man__the_myth__the_legend]:

so from that interaction looks like you have not interviewed over five hundred other authors what are some of the lessons you have learned life lessons you've learned from the fact hundred people that ve interviewed

[dom_brightmon]:

one of them one of the major things i picked up was having a victory log because a lot of

[keith_haney__the_man__the_myth__the_legend]:

a

[dom_brightmon]:

folks

[keith_haney__the_man__the_myth__the_legend]:

lot

[dom_brightmon]:

of sure folks who may be familiar with the secret or in twenty twenty where gratitude journals exploded over the a few years like writing down things you're grateful for that's amazing but there's some people out there where they're like oh gratitude oh joy i'm thankful right so instead of those maybe a little negative about it a guest of mine sam lebuwut's mentioned just off the cup out and nowhere just say how about you write a victory log and do it for ninety days see how you feel and that change my life because instead of just writing things are grateful for which is very powerful i enjoy that piece but seeing them as victories as well like waking up today that is a victory lot of folks didn't get to wake up today like bing but to start your car and not having to shoot it up because that's happened to a colleague of mine where she had her car and had battery issues an took to like five different service shop folks and mechanics they're like it's not a battery issue until the hated lost today it's a battery issue so just having no issues just those small things those big victories that even being only becoming bridge builders podcast like this is a victory for me being able to speak with you reverenkeeth like this is a big victor an just tracking those victories down and seeing him as wins and that will boost your confidence because a lot of folks may have low confidence a day's because of still recovering from the pandemic or still having a delayed pandemic so it's just that one tip alone is one of the major things i've learned from iterviewing five hundred people just having that wonderful mind set

[keith_haney__the_man__the_myth__the_legend]:

that's great because i had another guy on my my podcast talk about talk about gratitude actually he said it was funny he said think about how god uses what we think of is maybe a day and say what did god do in the midst of that situation so it's kind of talk about the idea of everything we see in life may not be a defeat or even a setback but it could be how god bless me in that situation and so i like the idea of of looking at your life and going what does god use that situation for that i can take ran was with it a car or one with your father you know that could have turned out horribly but the victory was he prayed that he came home safely and he did and you discover you know some other thin about it from that situation so you never know how guy is going to use those events in life

[dom_brightmon]:

you mentioned that you never know they say he works mysterious ways he also sets of humor too

[keith_haney__the_man__the_myth__the_legend]:

it's i he does

[dom_brightmon]:

oh

[keith_haney__the_man__the_myth__the_legend]:

so something you said before kind of stuck in my mind because i am old enough where i have melinnials kids um and

[dom_brightmon]:

yeah

[keith_haney__the_man__the_myth__the_legend]:

you talked about the fact that melinnias are awesome in you always get a really bad wrap in society so there's your chance to speak to those awesome malines out there what are three skills that those molinos should put into practice and elope oh

[dom_brightmon]:

probably one of my favorite questions to answer because i kind of cheat with it because the first skill i always name is communication

[keith_haney__the_man__the_myth__the_legend]:

oh

[dom_brightmon]:

communication is a giant tree with a whole bunch of branches of skills because when you communicate with others the email that's a whole different ball game mis communication

[keith_haney__the_man__the_myth__the_legend]:

yes

[dom_brightmon]:

can happen instantly because so many things can go wrong text messages even through facebook messenger then there's public speaking being able to communicate to a group of people one on one conversations with podcasthosts and podcast guests like being able to sell being able to persua at being able to master communication specially at a written level because ben franklin once noted that writing leads to wealth and it is so true like we're both published off cause we've gained a form of wealth one way or another after publishing our books and that wealth can be just inspiring at least one of the persons or writing a book of their own or even getting through their day or maybe avoiding that defeat is vic the mind set so communication that's definitely the first major skill the second one is being able to network and build relationships with other people especially those who may be of quoting hive or value than the other person because there's some folks who may have a high level of influence compared to some other folks who may have not gotten to that point yet because i wonderful i shared in the book with my first book going north was with magic johnson when he actually was in his rooky year and he actually went over and took pitches with a kid because one of his team mates just basically brushed off this kid who wanted an autograph and magic johnson actually signed kid stuff and took a picture with them and little did he know that after b a career was over and he was in his entreprenorial phase of life looking to sign his first multi million dollar venture with someone the first and that he was going to negotiate with was the father of that child that he actually treated with respect and kindness in his rooky year so just being able to count those small victories making sure you're being nice to people and build those wonderful relationship with people so that way to pay off in a long run and the third major skill is financial literacy because that's something that they don't really teach in shoo is that something got to learn from your own if you're not getting it from home depending on who's raising you or if you're being raised by some somebody or whatever your situation is because a lot of especially nowadays at it was actually interesting specially early pandemic were a lot of folks living to pay check to pay check they were getting hit but also busy since we're living paid check to paid check as well because they had to pay their staff and it was just an eye openers like wow being able to consider all those elements so the three things just to go over again communication being able to build relationship is one for folks and the third thing is financial literacy

[keith_haney__the_man__the_myth__the_legend]:

you have such an infectious personality just come up and is this really positive person how do you develop black kind of an attitude because there's so much in the world and i can draw us down that can sap the joy out of us how do you keep and maintain such a positive mental attitude

[dom_brightmon]:

yes it's actually an accronem form for those who love acronems is for r a v e that's raved so don't worry i don't

[keith_haney__the_man__the_myth__the_legend]:

war

[dom_brightmon]:

got any glow sticks to pop up on the video it's not that conde even though it could be raves action accradim for reading great material audio immersion listening to great stuff like this podcast right here visual stimulation making sure that you look at a something that's going to benefit you more than just plain entertainment making sure you learn something and then the s for encouragement encouraging yourself and other people because one day i was writing chapter from my book and thanks to the wonderful spirit of god and capen i was able to eccapsulate what i actually do to maintain a post mental latitude that's rock solid and it's with those four things of reading listening to great audio watching great content and encouraging other people specially myself because if someone's living and breathing they need encouragement like we all need it if somebody in even a study by the author the late massaro moto in his book the secrets hidden secrets of water he did a study where he would take this clear water and would watch it for at thirty days one container of water he would speak positive words to it over and over again and then one the other container wild peak negative words to it and after the few about a good thirty days after the experiment was over the positive words like hey year beautiful water your crystal you got this all that good stuff it was a shiny sharp crystal that developed after time as opposed to the negative container where all the negative words speaking the crystal still formed but it wasn't as clear and was a sharp so just that example alone just shows that we too if water can react to the positive words imagine how us humans can react to positive words so encouragement definitely important in all of our

[keith_haney__the_man__the_myth__the_legend]:

oh

[dom_brightmon]:

lives

[keith_haney__the_man__the_myth__the_legend]:

that's powerful so you wrote a book called going north and then you have a podcast called going so tell us why you started the podcast and how you started podcast and me it comes out of it oh

[dom_brightmon]:

sure thing so after the book post published going north twenty sixteen october about a good i'd say five months later lost my father after his long battle with the darnel somers and it was definitely a long battle but looking back especially after all these years of going by it's been about five and some change years changing since that happened it was actually a good way the way he passed on because i wouldn't want it any other way for and i'm pretty sure he would have been enjoyed being able to leave without dealing with any pain any more and just losing track of marketing my book and starting my business like there was no there was no drips in the falsehood after a while it was it was basically the books wasn't weren't weren't selling was focusing more on my day job at the time i got promoted to a full time librarian at that time and also was coming towards the end of my term as a division director overseeing seventeen clubs in maryland northern maryland area and i was just basically burned out but i realized wait a second my dad was a hard worker so this book is definitely going to take me a lot further down the road if i put some more work into it so i decided how about start that podcast to marketing and i was like wait a second instead of me rambling every week how about i just interview other people who would talk about an interview oh yeah other authors because other authors need publicity they need platform to get their voices and stories out there and to promote their work especially newer authors who want some interviews under their belt to get their feet wet being interviewed and all that good stuff so ah how about to start a podcast interview other authors and had this great idea fifty days of inspiration was around july twenty seventeen where got the confidence got a little moment one of my belt like fifty different days share fifty different inspirational quotes and then on day fifty the podcast was going to launch didn't tell anybody with a surprise is going to be while i was doing fifty days of inspiration well come day four to seven i forgot i didn't make all the fifty images correctly in time and day fifty there was no podcast along even though i had around a good five episodes accorded with guests and there was a lot of delay especially since i didn't know what the heck was doing in terms of putting it on to a podcast hosting platform to create an our s s feed and i'm like okay well i guess i'll just keep polishing these episodes up and then launch him later and i got an email from one of the folks i interview and she was like hey so you said it's going to be up in august twenty six it's like august or am i missing something like oh yeah you're you're not missing anything it's just me it's just me it'll be up by september fourth safe so september tea i basically put my nose to the grindstone lits creek edited like five different episodes had no sleep for thirty two hours i actually had to give a speech that same night as i was doing everything else so i was basically running on cafenannosleep and the podcast as able to launch that day and then two more weeks later when i figured out how to get everything on the podcastingosti platform lison at the time ten episodes are able to launch you on i tunes and that set me up for a great wonderful cushion of episodes because with a lot of podcasts they say usually three to six episodes at launch date so folks have multiple episodes to choose from because a lot of folks listen to podcasts the bench listened like the bench watched netflix and i was able to have that great i tunes head start and that set me up for success down the road where i'm still podcasting today with five under fifty one official episodes on my way to interviewing over a thousand different authors across the globe

[keith_haney__the_man__the_myth__the_legend]:

well that's pretty good

[dom_brightmon]:

ah yeah

[keith_haney__the_man__the_myth__the_legend]:

but the lessons about

[dom_brightmon]:

yes

[keith_haney__the_man__the_myth__the_legend]:

park that is not

[dom_brightmon]:

yeah

[keith_haney__the_man__the_myth__the_legend]:

is not as easy as people think it is ye

[dom_brightmon]:

oh no i

[keith_haney__the_man__the_myth__the_legend]:

oh

[dom_brightmon]:

was a lot of people for the first two years like oh yeah podcastit's lazy man's radio state like no it's it's not no

[keith_haney__the_man__the_myth__the_legend]:

yeah yeah no you just you just and all out of bed

[dom_brightmon]:

yeah

[keith_haney__the_man__the_myth__the_legend]:

with these questions oh

[dom_brightmon]:

yeah

[keith_haney__the_man__the_myth__the_legend]:

oh

[dom_brightmon]:

exactly you're just talking to mike it's easy there's like

[keith_haney__the_man__the_myth__the_legend]:

ah

[dom_brightmon]:

no trucks driving behind your sound at all ruining your great one lot of your guests dropped like it's it's easy

[keith_haney__the_man__the_myth__the_legend]:

ah my favorite problem is

[dom_brightmon]:

yeah

[keith_haney__the_man__the_myth__the_legend]:

a training to pass about every day about twelve o'clock so

[dom_brightmon]:

exactly

[keith_haney__the_man__the_myth__the_legend]:

like if you weren't training the background that needs this noon in iowa oh

[dom_brightmon]:

there you go that's a good side to wake people up

[keith_haney__the_man__the_myth__the_legend]:

that's right it's not

[dom_brightmon]:

yeah

[keith_haney__the_man__the_myth__the_legend]:

good morning vi now

[dom_brightmon]:

yeah yeah

[keith_haney__the_man__the_myth__the_legend]:

so as you go on this journey that guys put you on where do you hope people learn from your journey that they can apply to their own personal lives

[dom_brightmon]:

yeah i have to say it will be three words success is tangible success is tangible no matter where you come from no matter what you're bringing is yes especially for the s the millinated folks the chocolate the carmen all the meloninfolks the black folks like it's we're already

[keith_haney__the_man__the_myth__the_legend]:

already

[dom_brightmon]:

born especially in america from basically with a setback but that shouldn't stop us from moving forward yes there's going to be times where folks are going to discriminate against you but you just take that in stride whenever possible and making sure that still push ahead because never in a million years i thought i'd be doing a podcast interviewing folks with tons more followers

[keith_haney__the_man__the_myth__the_legend]:

a

[dom_brightmon]:

than me million dollar business has created all this wonderful success and i'm based equally having conversations with these people that can share with the world that can help boost their credibility boost mind and even learn from them to better my life as an example because even god himself like the bible is full of underdog stories like david himself he the apple of god's eye and he was in his family he was the one tending to the sheep busy fighting bears like he was the one that became king and when the other family it's thought he that's just david is young and he's just playing with the sheep like no he's actually winning a bunch of battles and becoming the king of god's people like just classic underdogs store he's throughout the whole book and under dogs are really the successful people because they've may have been set out to lose on paper from those who may be on the outside looking in but truth be told when the story is all said and done success is tangible for them because that's actually their advantage

[keith_haney__the_man__the_myth__the_legend]:

a right that is so cool so i love to know what project we can launch and tell people when they're working on where you working on they might be exciting to the audience

[dom_brightmon]:

yes

[keith_haney__the_man__the_myth__the_legend]:

yes

[dom_brightmon]:

a big project is going to be called podbook at the three phase the greatness to write your book launch your podcast and create a legacy wright now three

[keith_haney__the_man__the_myth__the_legend]:

now

[dom_brightmon]:

parts an be taken in three different parts on it later right now working on the podcasting piece a nice little tip

[keith_haney__the_man__the_myth__the_legend]:

yes

[dom_brightmon]:

book and guide for folks who want to start and grow and manage a podcast of their own and they go to work into the book writing piece and then combine both of them for the ultimate book book and online course those who want to become a content creator and create some good inspiration

[keith_haney__the_man__the_myth__the_legend]:

yes

[dom_brightmon]:

of content to really set themselves apart and survive in this wonderful air of pod fading ware a lot of folks may make a run for ward after episode ten or even five but hey keith overhead your plus episodes in so it is going to be definitely great

[keith_haney__the_man__the_myth__the_legend]:

that's great because i tell you won you get past the episode of fifty or like i was i got to keep going now but you know get to fifty

[dom_brightmon]:

yeah

[keith_haney__the_man__the_myth__the_legend]:

oh so do as you think about your life what do you want your legacy to be

[dom_brightmon]:

i want my legacy to be focused on helping folks to basically become excited about reading and reading as a way to really develop yourself to the next level end

[keith_haney__the_man__the_myth__the_legend]:

okay

[dom_brightmon]:

it's just an honor because

[keith_haney__the_man__the_myth__the_legend]:

no

[dom_brightmon]:

the thing is i never thought in a million years that success

[keith_haney__the_man__the_myth__the_legend]:

yes

[dom_brightmon]:

at my level could actually help other people who are decades out of me my first ever book going north people bought and read that book and he saw how thin it was and saw me promoting it and they're like wait at this an can publish this book at twenty three and promote himself than me at fifty three i can publish my work six other folks became published authors after seeing me in action and they had one of their dreams of field or becoming a published author because someone made that jump

[keith_haney__the_man__the_myth__the_legend]:

yeah

[dom_brightmon]:

and

[keith_haney__the_man__the_myth__the_legend]:

ah

[dom_brightmon]:

they too are going to be able to reach people that i can

[keith_haney__the_man__the_myth__the_legend]:

oh

[dom_brightmon]:

reach and they're helping other folks be encouraged to read books they may i'd read

[keith_haney__the_man__the_myth__the_legend]:

at

[dom_brightmon]:

a hundred books a year fifty books a year but if they see a relative and they like them and they read their book then that's just one step closer to creating more readers across the globe definitely want to be known as a god to help folks have a love for reading or greater love for reading

[keith_haney__the_man__the_myth__the_legend]:

that's great because i wasn't a bigger leader as a matter of fact my philosophy about waiting was if it's good to make into a movie

[dom_brightmon]:

oh

[keith_haney__the_man__the_myth__the_legend]:

but by going back to school i realize there's so much out there that you get to you get to learn and acknowledge what you read a lot of stuff and a lot of content just make your life wither um sometimes they make them in the movies but the movies sometimes lack what the book actually has it is it's good like you said the dive in there and just kind of let the book take you on a venture you may never get to so reading is a huge huge part of that yes

[dom_brightmon]:

yeah that's red indeed its super huge that's right it's like five polar

[keith_haney__the_man__the_myth__the_legend]:

oh

[dom_brightmon]:

bears really huge yeah

[keith_haney__the_man__the_myth__the_legend]:

there you go five polar bears black eyes is huge and icy um

[dom_brightmon]:

vanilla will be proud

[keith_haney__the_man__the_myth__the_legend]:

i use would be proud to is anything i have in ask that i should have

[dom_brightmon]:

uh yeah

[keith_haney__the_man__the_myth__the_legend]:

oh

[dom_brightmon]:

definitely

[keith_haney__the_man__the_myth__the_legend]:

yeah

[dom_brightmon]:

why libraries are filled with gold especially in the twenty first century because during the pandemic specially in the wonderful maryland baltimore area we actually had to pivot to where

[keith_haney__the_man__the_myth__the_legend]:

yeah

[dom_brightmon]:

we actually even made the steps a couple o years ahead of time because we had over three hundred crone book

[keith_haney__the_man__the_myth__the_legend]:

oh

[dom_brightmon]:

lap tops folks had check out to do their work and we started to get fifty wifie

[keith_haney__the_man__the_myth__the_legend]:

you

[dom_brightmon]:

hot spots so folks can have internet at home little do we know that a darn pandemic would show up forcing

[keith_haney__the_man__the_myth__the_legend]:

well

[dom_brightmon]:

people to stay at home and having to do a lot of their work at home we even expanded our wifie to reach

[keith_haney__the_man__the_myth__the_legend]:

yeah

[dom_brightmon]:

the whole entire park and losses what if someone may not have gotten

[keith_haney__the_man__the_myth__the_legend]:

now

[dom_brightmon]:

lucky and got one of the hot spots they can still

[keith_haney__the_man__the_myth__the_legend]:

okay

[dom_brightmon]:

chilled our parking lot on a nice sunny day and do some work because we extended the wide fie to where it reached the parking lot and we also became a

[keith_haney__the_man__the_myth__the_legend]:

oh

[dom_brightmon]:

actual quite a few of us became wonderful drop off spots for lunches though for parents who wanted to feed their children if they didn't have enough food for the kids they can come and get free meals

[keith_haney__the_man__the_myth__the_legend]:

a

[dom_brightmon]:

for

[keith_haney__the_man__the_myth__the_legend]:

or

[dom_brightmon]:

their kids and libraries nowadays especially public ones are community centers

[keith_haney__the_man__the_myth__the_legend]:

oh

[dom_brightmon]:

for their communities and we are all about helping

[keith_haney__the_man__the_myth__the_legend]:

oh

[dom_brightmon]:

people we got people cover from diver to divers i sometimes

[keith_haney__the_man__the_myth__the_legend]:

wow that's impressive so where can you find your book your podcast and find you in social media

[dom_brightmon]:

sure thinks so wherever books are sold you can find me on dom right man dot com got three books out got another few books in the works as well as olin dom brightman dot com and everything social media is at dom brightman s d o m b r i g h t o n on most social medias the instagram is the face books the linked

[keith_haney__the_man__the_myth__the_legend]:

oh

[dom_brightmon]:

ins all there i'm not on tiktok yet i think i'm enjoy missing that boat not a fan of it i don't feel like pointing at the

[keith_haney__the_man__the_myth__the_legend]:

i was

[dom_brightmon]:

air

[keith_haney__the_man__the_myth__the_legend]:

i was waiting to see the darned the stink like tick top

[dom_brightmon]:

oh

[keith_haney__the_man__the_myth__the_legend]:

oh so

[dom_brightmon]:

oh

[keith_haney__the_man__the_myth__the_legend]:

i have about to miss the particular thing on tick tom

[dom_brightmon]:

maybe one day not to day or this year

[keith_haney__the_man__the_myth__the_legend]:

when brown thinks so much or bit show as better

[dom_brightmon]:

yeah

[keith_haney__the_man__the_myth__the_legend]:

please want

[dom_brightmon]:

next i'd be robert keith yeah

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