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{\b\fs48 Episode 1537: Interview with Dennis J. Henson About His Book "Real Impact, Daily Inspiration"\b0}

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{\b\cf1 Scott Maderer:\b0}

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{ Thanks for joining us on episode 1,537 of the Inspired Stewardship Podcast. }

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{\b\cf3 Dennis Henson:\b0}

{ I'm Dennis Henson. I challenge you to invest in yourself, invest in others, develop your influence and impact the world by using your time, your talent, and your treasures to live out your calling. Having the ability to form good habits like daily reading is key and one way.}

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{To be inspired and to do that is listening to this The Inspired Stewardship podcast with my friend Scott Maderer.}

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{But you've also told a lot of other people, Hey, this is a good book. Maybe. Maybe I should read it too. And it's like a ripple. It's like a butterfly effect. You did a little tiny thing that didn't mean much to you, it didn't take }

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{ much of your time, but you help a lot of people by doing that and do it often.}

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{\b\cf1 Scott Maderer:\b0}

{ Welcome and thank you for joining us on the Inspired Stewardship Podcast. If you truly desire to become the person who God wants you to be, then you must learn to use your time, your talent, and your treasures for your true calling in the Inspired Stewardship Podcast who will learn to invest in yourself.}

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{Invest in others and develop your influence so that you can impact the world.}

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{In this podcast episode I interview Dennis Henson. I asked Dennis about how he reinvented himself through reading and teaching others. I also asked Dennis to share how reading helped form a framework for his life, and Dennis also shares how his book, real Impact Daily Inspiration, can help you develop the habit of daily reading.}

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{I. I have a great book that's been out for a }

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{ while now called Inspired Living. Assemble the Puzzle of your Calling by Mastering your Time, your Talent, and your Treasures. You can find out more about that book over@inspiredlivingbook.com. It'll take you to a page where there's information and you can sign up to get some mailings about it, as well as purchase a copy there.}

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{I'd love to see you get a copy and share with me how it impacted your world. With the pre track record spanning over five decades, Dennis J. Henson has solidified his position as a leading authority in the business world. Beyond his successful entrepreneurial ventures, Dennis is a dedicated educator, inspiring countless individuals to achieve their goals.}

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{Through his bestselling books, captivating workshops, and international speaking engagements, Dennis initially made his mark in the real estate investment world. He founded Vanguard Marketing and Investments. In 2003 and continues to serve as president. He served as president of the Arlington Real Estate }

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{ Investing Association, and over the past several years, he has taught individuals and classes in real estate investing.}

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{His books, the Royal Flush of Real Estate, investing in a Millionaire's Treasure Map to Real Estate Investing were widely hailed. More recently, he has dedicated much of his time to a broader focus of helping people develop it. The mindset and habits for true success. Taking what he has learned through his dedication to reading, his proven personal practices, his business experience, and his systematic approach to self-improvement, Dennis has developed a transformative training program that empowers individuals to reach their full potential.}

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{Drawing on his wealth of experience and educational background, he has distilled his insights into seven secrets of success. By embracing these timeless principles as his mentor, Tom Hendricks would say, you can no more fail than water can run Uphill Dennis's. New book, real Impact Daily Inspiration is intended to help people develop the habit of reading daily content that will improve their beliefs in themselves and inspire them to action.}

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{Welcome to the show, Dennis. Scott, thank you for having me. I appreciate it very much. Absolutely. So we're both not too terribly far from each other, physically and distance. And so before we started recording, we were both commensurating about the end of winter here in the cold weather that we're having down here in Texas.}

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{Hopefully by the time this releases, it's a little warmer for everybody. But it's a little chilly today as we're recording. So I shared a lot in the intro about some of the things you've done and the work you've done. Both in the investment world as, as well as in business and leadership and entrepreneurship, and now you're also working here, putting out your book and coaching and Arthur, all of these different things that you've done.}

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{I. Yet, I always think intros never really show the whole story of how we got from where we started to where we end up. Would you mind sharing a little bit more about your background and your journey and what brought you to this point where this is the }

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{ message that you're putting out into the world?}

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{I don't know if there's enough time to get all }

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{\b\cf3 Dennis Henson:\b0}

{ of that in this podcast. When I was in high school, I hated school and. One day a college band came and they brought their marching drum section, and when I saw that I thought, oh my God, I've got to be in that. So that changed the path of my life.}

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{I, I had terrible grades and so I decided I'll do anything I. To be in that drum section. My college, my band director said now you're really gonna have to change your grades. So I did. I pulled 'em up to A's and B's and I went to Jacksonville State University and I got in the drum section and I graduated and became a band director.}

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{I taught band for about five years, but my goal was to become a college band director. Georgia Tech offered me a position in 75. I moved to Atlanta to take the position, but I hadn't signed the contract. And a big company out of Tennessee contacted me and said, }

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{ you're the kind of person we want in our company.}

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{And I said I'm not interested. I've got the dream job. I'm not gonna do that. So they said look, we'll give you a round trip, a ticket to Memphis. We'll pick you up in a limousine. We'll buy you a steak, give you a big cigar. And I thought what have I got to lose in 75? Getting to fly on a plane was a big deal for a young kid.}

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{Hadn't flown much. So I went to Memphis and they picked me up in the limousine. And to make this long story a little shorter, they offered me 20 times what Georgia Tech was going to pay me. So I left the music world or the teaching world and went into the business world. When I started with them, the first thing they did was they gave me three books.}

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{Think and grow rich, greatest salesman in the world by Mandino and success, the Glen Bland method, when I laid those books down, I was a different person than the person that picked }

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{ those books up. I was just on fire. I could not wait to get in front of a prospect, and I really made a lot of money. I was very successful with that company and that was my business career.}

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{So during that period of time, I would see these commercials on TV about real estate. Mark Harrelson had out a program how to Wake up the Financial Genius inside You. And I purchased that. It was like four cassettes and a book, and I thought I can do this on the side, and.}

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{Make some extra money. And so that's when I started really investing. I had already invested some back in the 1970, but that's when I got serious. I bought a little apartment complex and some homes in Valdosta, Georgia. Then I moved to Athens and I continued to invest. So let's fast forward to moving to Texas.}

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{About 30 years ago, I moved to Texas and I }

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{ started investing in real estate here in Texas. There wasn't a close by real estate group. There wasn't one in Arlington. There were groups in Fort Worth. There were groups in Dallas, but the Metroplex is a big place and the traffic gets bad sometimes.}

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{So to drive to Dallas was sometimes an hour and a half, and then the round trip, so that took a lot of time. Same way with Fort Worth. Arlington's close to Fort Worth, but the ones in Fort Worth, were in North Fort Worth, and at Fort Worth is very long. So it's another hour and an hour back.}

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{I thought if I'm going to get to consistently go to these meetings, I need to start one myself. So I started the Arlington Real Estate Association of Investors, the a RA, and it grew and grew. And I brought in speakers and we, it was it. It was a lot of fun. I taught some classes. I thought if I wanna learn about real estate, if I wanna learn about short }

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{ sales, then I'll announce an elite class so that I'm teaching short sales and next month or two months from now, and then I have two months to learn.}

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{Everything there is to know. And so I learned by teaching. One day one of the members came up to me and said, Dennis. I'm going to retire in about three weeks and I'm gonna let you mentor me. And I said Mike, I'm really too busy. I, I have my real estate business. I'm trying to run these meetings.}

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{I really don't have time to take on individual students. And he looked at me funny and he said, you didn't understand what I said, Dennis, in three weeks I'm gonna retire and you're going to mentor me. And I thought we'll see. And he said let's go out to lunch. I'll buy your lunch and we'll talk about it.}

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{So }

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{\b\cf1 Scott Maderer:\b0}

{ you }

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{\b\cf3 Dennis Henson:\b0}

{ make }

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{\b\cf1 Scott Maderer:\b0}

{ a lot, you make a lot of decisions based off of free meals.}

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{\b\cf3 Dennis Henson:\b0}

{ So he bought me a Whataburger. Can you believe that? }

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{ What, okay. So he was cheaper than the steak. But still after, after we finished eating, he had on a suit like this, he reached into his pocket and put out a checkbook. And handed it to him and he said, here, fill this out. And I said, do you mean the amount?}

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{And he said yeah, fill that out. So I thought this'll end this. There's not a way he's gonna continue to bug me about teaching him when he sees what I put down, because my time is worth a lot of money. So I put down a figure there that I knew no one in their right mind would pay. I handed it back to him, to the checkout, signed it without even looking at it, handed it back to him.}

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{That's when I started teaching. That was about 2005. So over the next 15 years, I had 400 students, more than 400 students, and they just blossomed. I really worked hard to try to see that they became successful, and because of that I was invited to a lot of }

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{ other. Groups and expos and podcasts were just coming on.}

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{So there was a real estate podcast that had me come on their podcast and they were interviewing me and they said, Dennis, what makes your students so successful? I said I haven't changed their, if they changed their habits to success habits, they will become successful. And he said what's the number one success habit that you would have them for?}

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{I said, form the habit of reading something positive every day that leads you towards your goal. In this case, their goal was real estate investing. So after the podcast was over, I thought, that was a good answer. Wouldn't it be great if there was some kind of a tool to help people form that habit?}

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{A book or an out? And then it hit me whoa. Wait. Dennis, since 1975, you've been collecting books. That motivated you and poems and }

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{ quotes. So you could put all those in one book and people could form the habit regardless of their time limitations. So if between appointments they have 10 minutes, they could read a short story or if if they have five minutes, they can read a poem, or if they get home and they're exhausted and they forgot to read that day.}

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{They can flip over to the back of the book to the quotes and read a quote, takes seconds to do that. Or if you're at the airport waiting on a plane, you can go to the list of the books in the back and have one of those books with you all the time. You can read for hours. So I thought this shouldn't take long.}

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{I have everything ready. }

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{I'll put it together in a couple of months, I'll have the book, I can use it with my students and I can make gonna make it available to everyone. Six years later, 2004 or last year, 2004 the book finally got published. And to }

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{ tell you the truth, Scott, I worked on that book almost every single day for six years.}

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{I put my heart and soul into it. It's my legacy, but I sincerely believe that the book will change a lot of people's lives. It'll make 'em better, real estate investors or anything else that they want to do or want to become. So I try to make that short, but I left that a lot. }

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{\b\cf1 Scott Maderer:\b0}

{ That's good. Let me ask you a FA follow up.}

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{First off tell everybody again the name of the book. It's real impact }

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{\b\cf3 Dennis Henson:\b0}

{ daily }

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{\b\cf1 Scott Maderer:\b0}

{ inspiration. And that's why I wanted to ask the follow up. So you said real impact, daily inspiration. Connect the dots for me on how, you mentioned the success habit daily reading, reading something that's.}

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{Positive and things, how do you think that habit begins to lead to the other kinds of success that, that people might want to have? }

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{\b\cf3 Dennis Henson:\b0}

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{ There's a trick to it. It's like this, in the beginning of the book, it says How to use this book and the magic formula. The only way you can use the book is you have to decide what you want.}

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{That's really big. So many of the super motivational speakers say, if you know what you want, I can help you get it. }

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{The lamp on the front of the book is supposed to represent Aladdin's lamp. It tells the story about a young man who found a lamp, and when he was cleaning it, he realized if he rubbed the lamp, then a genie appeared and gave him through three wishes.}

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{But he had to. He had to give the genie what he wanted. That's the power of the story. You gotta decide what you want. So once you decide what you want, you start reading a little bit about it every day. Something that's motivational and inspirational, educational. It keeps you on track. Okay, here's what I }

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{ want.}

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{It reminds you every day, I want this, I'm moving in this direction. And I really, I know this words, when I was in high school, I literally hated high school, and then that drum section came in and I saw them and my mind just exploded Every morning when I got up until I went to bed, all I was thinking about was.}

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{You have to learn the drum ru much. You have to learn the cadences. You have to pass your grade. You have to do whatever's necessary to get to be in that drum section and that kind of thing. That kind of devotion to a single thing will change anybody's life and you don't have to wait till something comes along to blow your mind.}

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{You can just have a desire and say, wouldn't it be great if I could do this? Maybe somebody that's young would say I would really love to be a doctor, but then }

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{ their butt got in the way. Okay. I would love to be a doctor, but I don't have the money, but I don't have the education, but I don't have the connection.}

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{But they gotta get their butts out of the way. So that look. You wouldn't have had the desire wait to }

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{\b\cf1 Scott Maderer:\b0}

{ become a doctor. They have to move their butt. }

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{\b\cf3 Dennis Henson:\b0}

{ That's right. Okay. These desires are not random. }

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{\b\cf1 Scott Maderer:\b0}

{ Right. }

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{\b\cf3 Dennis Henson:\b0}

{ You're given the desire. Everybody wants to know what's my purpose in life?}

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{You're, your purpose in life is being given to you all the time. It's called desires. Wow. I'd love to do that. That's a desire. Lock in on it and go do it. If you wanna be a good real estate investor, lock in on it. Do you wanna do single family? Do you wanna do apartments? Do you want to do commercial?}

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{Do you wanna develop land? What do you wanna do? And then once then start reading about it, studying about it in 10 years, you'll be teaching other people how to do it. That it's just amazing. }

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{ Or Zig Ziglar said. Little by little, a little becomes a lot. If you just read 20 pages in the 200 page book every year you'll read 20 books by the end of a year, which is 19 more than the average person that will set you apart.}

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{And Zig did, he practiced what he preached. Oh yeah. He read three hours every single day. Can you imagine that? How successful he was, he's been dead for four or five, six years and he's still successful. When I go out to speak, I'll say, how many people here have heard of Z Ziglar?}

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{Now I'm not talking about just in the United States, anywhere, any country. And then, 90%, 95%, a lot of hands go up. }

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{Because, he's famous, but it didn't start out that way. He was a pots and pans salesman. Yep. When he decided I can do this. I want to, I'm gonna teach other people how to make their lives better.}

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{And that's when he wrote his book, see You At The }

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{ Top, which is which is part of this book the story about See You at the Top. I got in touch with Zigs secretary, she's still alive and living in Dallas, and she collaborated with me helping rewrite the story. So the story's very authentic and it's very powerful.}

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{All the stories in the book are authentic and powerful. Some of 'em, I took some liberties to make 'em a little bit more interesting, but mostly they're pretty much the way things happen. So }

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{ I've got a I wanna circle back and ask some more about some of what we were just talking about.}

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{But before I go there, one of the things I'd like to highlight on the show is how. Our personal belief system, faith journey, that kind of how we connect to, you just mentioned that, we're given things from outside of ourselves sometimes, and whatever name we put on it, whatever version of that we, we have, how that affects kind of the decisions we make and the journey we're }

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{ on.}

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{Would you mind sharing a little bit about how your spiritual walk or your faith journey has affected you? }

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{\b\cf3 Dennis Henson:\b0}

{ The first book I started to write is called The Seven Secrets of Success, and the first secret of success is getting your mind and under that is faith. Faith has always played a signi, a significant role in my life.}

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{It provides meaning, purpose, and guidance, faith will work miracles. As you read the stories, you'll see that people like Lou Holtz. By the way, Lou wrote me a letter thanking me for putting it him in my book, which was just, that really made my day. But anyway he got fired from his first, really, his first coaching job.}

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{And his and the head coach said, you need to find something else to do, Lou. You just don't have what it takes to be a football coach. So Lou said he did. I think he did okay for himself. So Lou decided I couldn't }

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{ play for Notre Dame because I was too small, but I can be the coach. So he decided I'm going to become the coach at University of Notre Dame.}

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{He had faith when no one else did. No one else, but it was, if you talk to him in the position that he was in, it's funny. Him becoming the coach at Notre Dame was about as out to happen as him becoming the pope. How could he possibly do it? But the story of how he did it is just amazing.}

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{It's so inspirational. And he finally got there and won a national championship. That's what faith can do. Another story in the book is Rudy. Rudy wanted to play at Notre Dame, but he wasn't built to play football. He was a, he was short and he didn't have the grades to get in to school, but he was determined that he was going to put on that uniform, }

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{ that blue uniform and that golden helmet and go out on that field and play for the fighting Irish, and he did it.}

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{That took a lot of faith because he got knocked down so many times, and in my personal story, I had faith that I was going to become a member of that drum section because I wanted it so bad. I could taste it, I could feel it, I could smell it. It never ever left my mind. I even went and told my teachers.}

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{In high school that I'm going to be going to college. And they, some of 'em actually laughed out loud when I told them that. That's how funny it was because I was oh, I was such a poor student and I ended up not only going to college, I became the drum major of the band. I got a BS degree, got a master's degree.}

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{I got my, I started, I got the first step toward a doctorate, and then I got a fellowship from University of Mississippi to finish my doctorate. But I went into business }

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{ instead. So it's just amazing what can happen if you know what you want and you have faith and believe that you can get there.}

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{\b\cf1 Scott Maderer:\b0}

{ So circling back to the, that daily habit idea of, I think a lot of times when people hear about for instance, having a reading habit, just, sticking with that example, they think that the magic behind it is the information that they gain. I. The knowledge they gain. What is it, what's the difference between reading a book?}

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{Not that reading a book for knowledge is bad. That's not what I'm saying, but, what's the difference between what you're talking about and the folks that say, oh, I've gotta go read a book that's gonna teach me something. }

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{\b\cf3 Dennis Henson:\b0}

{ Back in the fifth century, a group of marks got together and said, we need to get closer to the scriptures.}

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{We want to be more apart. Of scripture. So they developed a process called Lectio, Dina Vina. Where every day they would take one scripture. They didn't read the entire Bible, }

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{ they would just pick one scripture and they would read it out loud, and then they would imagine themself being part of that scripture.}

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{Then, I'm sorry. They'd read it silently first. Imagine themselves being a part of it. Read it out loud and then they'd spend the rest of the day and that night contemplating, I. So I was doing a podcast and one of the hosts said, that sounds like Lake the O Dina. And I said, what's that? And so I looked up it's going into my next book, real Impact Two.}

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{But it's true. It's about, it's not about reading and gaining knowledge, it's about reading quality things that have to do with where you want to be or who you want to be because. If you can visualize yourself having already succeeded and feel what it feels like being there, then the entire }

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{ universe turns towards you and pushes everything towards you as you're moving toward it.}

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{Now, that is a law of nature. It can't be changed. It's if you plant a seed. Just because somebody don't believe, if you plant one kernel of corn, it could turn into thousands of kernels. It doesn't matter if they believe that or not. If you plant the kernel of corn and you water it and you take, keep the weeds out, it's going to turn into thousands of colonels, and those thousands can turn into millions and millions.}

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{That's just a law of nature and so is faith and so is believing and seeing yourself already there. So like with when I started teaching real estate investing, I saw myself teaching lots of students and I ended up teaching lots and lots of students. I made lots of good friends. And the great thing is, I love it when they come back and say, oh boy, Dennis, you've changed my life.}

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{I'm so }

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{ glad. And even on Amazon, the reviews, some of my students have gone in and left a review on Amazon and talked about how the training, what powerful effect it had on them. }

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{\b\cf1 Scott Maderer:\b0}

{ You know that idea of reading to. Inform your belief and program your mind to look for things.}

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{I, I think is something that a lot of people miss because, like I say a lot of folks read for knowledge. It. And again, it's not that knowledge is bad, but there's more to, 'cause you didn't have all the knowledge in the world and if you don't do anything with it, it doesn't really change anything.}

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{\b\cf3 Dennis Henson:\b0}

{ Yes. You need to have something out there pulling you. It say, I would love to go to Europe, and then the buts start coming in. I'd love to go to Europe, but I can't afford it. It can't take that much time off this, that, that. When I was in college, of course I was in the drum section and.}

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{There's these things called drum and build corps, and at the end, or in every summer they have A DCI, which is a national competition, and all the }

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{ great drumming bug corps come and play and it's just amazing now. When I was in college, I was so poor. Then I would five chicken pot pies for a dollar and six cokes for a quarter.}

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{That's how much things cost back then, and that's what I lived on for a week. Some of my friends in the band and they would have me over for lunch because they knew I was starving to death. But at the end of every year, I found a way to go to DCI. It was usually in Chicago or somewhere up in the northeast, which was a long way, and I certainly couldn't afford an airline ticket, but some way I would get there.}

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{So if you set your mind. Just move the butts outta the way and go get it. It will pull, it will meet you halfway, wanting, it pulls it towards you and you're going toward it. So that's a life changing }

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{ wall of nature that most people don't even realize that's available to them. }

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{\b\cf1 Scott Maderer:\b0}

{ Yeah.}

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{I, in, in my coaching and work I call it finding your why, the big enough driver. To get you moving, even when things are, even when it's going bad. Even when things are rough. Even when you think you can't do it. It's the thing that's big enough to make you do it anyway, yeah. So how has the daily reading habit and the how has what you're talking about, how have you put that in practice in your own life, and how has it affected where you've ended up? }

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{\b\cf3 Dennis Henson:\b0}

{ I went to work with KO back in 75 and I read those books. It was like I had taken a drug. It made me feel euphoric, I was, gosh, I was motivated and that felt so good.}

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{And of course, my goal then was to meet certain cell standards, and that was fine to, to reach those and the big checks coming in. That was fun. But }

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{ I got in the habit of looking for more and more because I couldn't not have that inspiration. I could not have that euphoric feeling. Back in 75 and the years after that, there wasn't a Google, there wasn't even an internet.}

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{So the only way you can find a good book was to find somebody that was super successful and go and ask them, what are you reading? What kind of book? Have you read anything lately that gave you inspiration? It's amazing how they're anxious to share, so I got a lot of books that didn't do very well.}

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{I read 'em anyway. But the ones that really motivated me, they reached into my soul, plucked my heartstrings, and really pushed me. It was that drug. I kept a list because I thought, I may need to go back and read this again someday because I can't find the drug I need, which is the next book.}

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{So for 50 years, I read and kept }

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{ list of the things that motivated me. And if in that book I saw poem or a quote, I met Jim Ron back in the seventies. Now this is before Jim Ron was anybody. He was just, another guy that came to our group to help teach ourselves group. He really insisted that we keep a journal, you can end it 'cause you don't ever know when you're gonna come back.}

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{Need this information you may need it someday. So that's when I started capturing things. Capturing things, and that's how over the years I was writing a book, didn't even know it, but by reading, continually reading things that continued to motivate me. Even when things go bad, when you lose everything and people turn their back on you and you're disappointed, you can always go and read something positive and it'll turn your situation around, turn your attitude around make }

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{ things feel better.}

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{And they also let you know other people are struggling too. They look what happened to Lincoln, or look what happened to Blue Holtz or, sylvester Stallone or Arnold Schwarzenegger. Those are names you think those are super successful people. Did they have a hard time?}

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{Yeah, they did. They got knocked down a lot of times and just continue to get up, which gives you the motivation to say my life's not over. I can still make it better. So that's the effect that it's had on me. }

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{\b\cf1 Scott Maderer:\b0}

{ Yeah. It's always interesting to me when you hear the story of a quote, overnight success, somebody who's made it big and it's that just means you don't know the whole story because, very few people wake up and or that kind of success.}

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{Without some intervening stuff happen in between. I'm not gonna say it's never happened because there's probably an exception out there that would prove me wrong, but there's, there, I would say there's a lot fewer of those than there are the people that there was a long grind }

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{ before they became an overnight success.}

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{\b\cf3 Dennis Henson:\b0}

{ Randy Owen was being interviewed. He's in the Alabama group, super, super successful musical group and. Of the reporters said how do you deal with your overnight success? And he looked at him really funny and he said. Overnight success. What about all those bars we went to for 10 years and there was nobody there and there were there that were having fights and throwing beer balls at us.}

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{We didn't have any overnight success. So actually I went to university, I went to Jacksonville State University with Randy Owen. Isn't that funny? We're the same, exact same age. And he was there when I was in the drum section. }

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{\b\cf1 Scott Maderer:\b0}

{ So what I know this book is focused on that daily reading habit, but you mentioned earlier you said success habits, plural.}

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{What are some of the other success habits that you've seen people form that have moved the needle? }

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{\b\cf3 Dennis Henson:\b0}

{ The }

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{ book has an underlying meaning. And I like to use acronyms because I was in music. You use acronyms for everything, for the spaces and lines and so forth. So the underlying message in this book and habits would be DFW down in Fort Worth.}

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{And then I live in Arlington, A-D-F-W-A Desire, faith Will and Action. Now if you can do those four things, you can have anything you want. The first thing you've gotta do is you gotta figure out what is that desire. Then you have to believe what all your mind and soul and heart, you've got to feel it and smell it and breathe it and see it.}

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{Then you have to have the will to know it's not going to be easy. Things are going to get in the way it's going to look like at times it's impossible. }

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{ You're gonna get knocked down and stepped on. But if you have the will to get back up, it's just like in the Rocky story the bail bruiser or leader was fighting Ali and no one thought he would last around.}

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{He not only lasted around, he knocked Ali down and actually probably won the match and he stayed in there for 15 rounds. The judges gave it to Ali because he was the world champion. You have to beat the world champion. But when Sylvester Stallone saw that it moved him so much that he went home and wrote for three days.}

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{Creating the script for Rocky. So that's, that will is so powerful. And then of course, if you don't, none of it is worth anything. It's Mondino said, my dreams are worthless. Everything is dust if I don't take }

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{ action, because without action, that is the conduit between you and what you want.}

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{It's the bridge. You can't get across the river without getting on that bridge and taking the steps. These daily readings, that's part of the steps. To get you what? And it keeps you centered if the human mind is very powerful, but it's also very erratic. It thinks of a thousand things.}

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{When you wake up in the morning, your mind could go through 50 to a thousand things before you have breakfast. It's just going in all different directions. But you got, but you need to put a rudder on your boat. And the rudder is the daily reading habit that moves you in the direction that you decided you wanted to go.}

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{And you can change it if you want to. Something may happen, you wanna change it, but then you just change your daily reading habit to. That other thing. What this book can }

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{ do if people use it the way it's intended, is literally change the direction of your life. Musk is talking about sending a spaceship to Mars.}

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{What if he's off one degree? One degree. What would that do? He would miss mar }

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{\b\cf1 Scott Maderer:\b0}

{ shop }

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{\b\cf3 Dennis Henson:\b0}

{ hundreds of thousands of miles. It wouldn't even be close. What if we could change a young person that's graduating from high school or college or just getting into high school? What if we could change their life in a positive fashion just by one degree?}

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{That's what this book's intended to do. And it doesn't matter how old you are. I'm seven, say I'm years old, and I'm still learning and moving in a certain direction. And my direction is the thing I, that I really wanna do. That's why I'm sitting here. I wanna get the word out about this book because I wanna leave the world a better place than it }

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{ was when I came.}

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{So because I was here, a lot of things happened that were very }

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{\b\cf1 Scott Maderer:\b0}

{ positive, helped a lot of people. So I've got a few questions that I like to ask all of my guests, but before I ask you those, is there anything else about your book or what we've been talking about this morning that you would like to share with the listener?}

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{\b\cf3 Dennis Henson:\b0}

{ Scott, I think we've covered it pretty thoroughly. I hope everybody will find the book and read the book. I hope that you'll go and leave a review. And one other thing, I wanna plant a seed in your mind. If you want to feel good today and help someone today, here's an easy way to do it. If you just read someone's book, maybe mine or someone else's, and you thought, oh, that was really good.}

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{Go to Amazon, find the book, leave a Star review, leave five stars, and then say, I just read this wonderful book and I liked it because now you will }

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{ have just made the author's day. I don't know, whoever the author was, they ought read that. And oh gosh, a five star review. That's wonderful. You made someone today.}

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{You've also told a lot of other people, Hey, this is a good book. Maybe I should read it too. And it's like a ripple. It's like the butterfly effect. You did a little tiny thing that didn't mean much to you, it didn't take much of your time. But you help a lot of people by doing that. And do it often, do it once or twice a week or even every day.}

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{Every time you find a good book, go leave a rating. Awesome. }

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{\b\cf1 Scott Maderer:\b0}

{ So my brand is inspired stewardship, and I run things through that lens of stewardship, but that's one of those words that I've discovered over the years means a lot of different things to a lot of different people. So when you hear the word stewardship, what does that word mean to you?}

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{To me, }

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{\b\cf3 Dennis Henson:\b0}

{ stewardship means helping other people }

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{ doing everything you can to make. The world, the community, your family, your personal life. I think that the best thing that people can do for other people is to be happy and successful themselves. If. If someone is successful and opens a company and hires a hundred people you've paid a hundred people a salary to go out and feed their family and live a happier life.}

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{So I, I think stewardship is doing everything that is possible, that you have the gifts to do, to have as many other people. And if you make it. If you're successful and you make money by doing that too, that's okay, but that's not how you I feel you should look at it. Zig Ziglar said, if you help enough people get what they want, you'll get what you want.}

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{And so he devoted his life to helping people get what they want. And didn't }

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{ worry so much about the money because it just came. And I believe that can happen, }

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{\b\cf1 Scott Maderer:\b0}

{ To everyone. So this is my favorite question that I like to ask everybody. Imagine for a moment that I invented this magic machine, and with this machine, I could take you from where you are today and transport you into the future, maybe 150, maybe 250 years.}

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{And through the power of this machine, you were able to look back and see your entire wor life and see all of the connections, all of the ripples, all of the impacts you've left. What impact do you hope you've left in the world? }

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{\b\cf3 Dennis Henson:\b0}

{ That's pretty easy because I visualize this quite often. I used to wonder, did Socrates ever think that people would still be quoting him a thousand years or hundreds of years after he's gone?}

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{Or did Napoleon Hill ever think that? Think and Grow Rich was going to make millions of millionaires. So while I was thinking }

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{ about that and walking, one day I was listening to an old recording of Napoleon Hill. It was right after he had published Thinking Grow Rich. And he said, here's my new book, thinking Grow Rich.}

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{And it's helping thousands of people become successful and over the years it will help millions. And I thought he did know. And Scott, that's how I feel too. I think a hundred years from now, people will still be reading not only this book by the laws of nature, some secrets of success. I think people will be saying, wow I'm glad I wrote this book.}

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{I I'm, I feel like I'm going to be kinda like Wallace Waddles. Now, if you haven't heard of Wallace Waddles, you need to go look him up and read his book. But he's been dead for more than a know what, more than a hundred years. And people still think back on him and think I'm sure glad he ca he came around }

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{ because he changed a lot of people's lives.}

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{So I'm hoping that's how, and I believe that's how people will feel }

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{\b\cf1 Scott Maderer:\b0}

{ about me. Awesome. So what's coming next? What's on the roadmap as you continue on your journey? }

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{\b\cf3 Dennis Henson:\b0}

{ Real impact two is about 80% finished. It's many of the stories I didn't put in Real impact one. Then real impact three. It's funny that you mentioned spiritual real Impact three.}

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{Three is a spiritual number, so I decided I didn't want to put a lot of really, religious things in these first two, because I wanted, I didn't want people to lay it down and not use it, but I saved all of those powerful stories. The story of Stuart Hamlin is so powerful that I can just think of the story and start to tear up.}

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{How powerful it is. That's gonna be in Real Impact. Three. I'm working right now on the Laws of nature. I mentioned a few of those as we talk today. The Seven Secrets. I've been }

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{ working on it for 50 years and hopefully that's going to be coming out. And I've just finished a series of real estate books.}

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{They're in, formatting right now. They're, they're done, they've been proofread. The covers are being designed and so forth. So there, there's five of those. The first one's already published, the Royal Flush. Then there's how to get started, the five s of real estate investing. That's the skills}

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{66 Ways to find deals and all the money you'll ever need. So that's a series and I think a lot of people will enjoy, especially if they're just thinking of getting into real estate. This is really it's pretty much what I taught my students and they were super successful, so I wanted to capture that and share it with a lot }

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{\b\cf1 Scott Maderer:\b0}

{ of other people.}

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{Awesome. So you can find out more about Dennis Henson and his book over@realimpactbook.com. Of course, I'll have a link to that in the show notes as well. }

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{ Dennis, is there anything else you'd like to share with the listener? Sure. }

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{\b\cf3 Dennis Henson:\b0}

{ If you go to real impact book.com and scroll down to the bottom where it says podcast attendee, and click on that it asks you for your name and email.}

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{You will be instantly. It's not a, somebody's gonna find it and send you the book. You'll instantly receive the download of the book and it's free and you will not be put on any kind of a mailing list. There is a little place there where you can say, contact me when you have other books published. If you click that, the only email you'll ever get from me is here's my next book.}

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{But I want this book to get out because when you read it, you're gonna think, oh, this is a great, an not anniversary, graduation gift. You're gonna think, oh, my, my friend's son's graduating. Here's something that I can give him that's inexpensive book. Better }

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{ really have an impact on him. You can give it to people in nursing homes.}

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{And in fact, on that same website, there's a little tab that says, help the children. I. I'm giving these books away to schools that don't have high budgets to nursing homes, to senior citizen centers. And I've started a GoFundMe. So if you want to help spread the word, get the book out and help some people just donate a dollar, $5 or 10 or a thousand or how much effort that you can afford to help people.}

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{And I think once you've read the book, you'll see. I believe }

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{\b\cf1 Scott Maderer:\b0}

{ it will help lot people. Awesome. That's a great gift. Thank you so much for sharing that. }

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{\b\cf3 Dennis Henson:\b0}

{ Thank you Scott.}

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{\b\cf1 Scott Maderer:\b0}

{ Thanks so much for listening to the Inspired Stewardship Podcast. As a subscriber and listener, we challenge you to }

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