John and Joyce talk with Joe Perrone, who has been the owner of New England Collision for over 20 years. With customer service as his number one priority, Joe is on a mission to make having an auto accident as stress-free as possible for customers. He has embodied New England Collision’s motto; “Relax….it was just an accident.”
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All right.
Hey, welcome to another editionof What's Good with John and Joyce.
You can find us on all the streamingplatforms. And
I'm John Cadillac Seville from iHeartRadioand John Seville Entertainment.
And you are Joyce Logan, his pal.
My pal, my buddy. We met over copilot.
We met over three years agoand we did a long friendship.
We said yes a long time agowhen they used to have hamsters
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go around the wheel for power right.
What's that? Far back?
Oh, maybe not quite.Maybe I'm exaggerating.
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That's tech fixwkyc.com t e chf I fix.com.
But it's just so good to be hereonce again.
And thank you so much for watchingand or listening.
It means a lot,and it means a lot that we have a very,
very special guest here todaythat I really admire a lot.
I had a chance to meet him,but 3 or 4 years back and,
this guy has a faiththat I really admire a lot,
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but he was really on on the cusp of,Well,
you know, he was in a hospital for a whilebecause he was working so hard
for his family.
His motive and intentis always to bless other people.
And then somebody pulled him aside.
I think a family member said,you know, Joe,
you really got to get your act togetherand, you know, come up with something.
You know, some, you know, mayberead some books, develop some, you know,
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emotional maturity in some areas.
Right,which I'm still working on, quite frankly.
But you've done so well.
I mean, you teach dadshow to get home with their kids.
You have multiple businesses,you're successful at everything you do.
And most of all,you're a really good person.
You're a philanthropist.
And, Joyce, I know you met,I met you once, Joe.
And I just thought,what a terrific person you are.
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You're very special. Yeah. Thank you.
We actually.
Yes. Joe Perone, Joe Perone, Joe.
So I only knew Joe from being the ownerof New England Vision.
Yeah, yeah.
And, I justI shared a story with him because I wish
I had met him in Decemberwhen I had my head on collision.
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So when he had me head on andit was a very scary unknown time, I mean,
especially you taken away by ambulancewhen I don't know where my car is.
I don't know how to navigate that.
And when you have an attorney, that is a,
what do you call it?
A self not.
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It's for what?
Injury. Personal. Injury. Personal.
Thank you a personal injury.
Well, personal injurydoesn't really cover where your car is
and and how to dealwith the insurance companies.
So I was so grateful to have met you.
Now, I hope I never need you againin the future,
but I was certainly past that.
Because you're companies like the.
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You're like the concierge of accidents
where they call youand you handle everything.
And I know that's just one of the thingswe're going to enjoy.
And I'll talk from a personal experiencereally quickly,
because I went to Joe once as wellfor a, for a banger in the back of my car.
And the minute I walked in,I was greeted with smiles from everybody
that was working on the cars, the workerbees to the gentleman behind the desk.
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And Joe checked up on me many timesto make sure everything was fine.
So, yeah, I feel like like I like, I'm ina lavish hotel here, the with everybody.
But seriously.
And and I'm going to recommendeverybody to you
and I have
but Joe,we're going to let you talk right now
because we're babblinga little bit too much. But yeah.
Welcome to what's good with Johnny Joyce.Yeah.
Thank you both for having me.
Love the show.
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Thank you.
I love you with the contentthat you guys are putting out,
and I have definitely resonatedwith that myself.
And, you know what's what's goodis just such a blessing to me.
So, yeah, thanks for having me on.
And, you know, my name is chaperoning.
Yeah. Oh, New England collision.But I'm a dad.
I'm, you know, investordo a lot of different things.
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And, you know, in a different seasonof my life right now, which with, my boys,
Bruno and Marcelo and,I love those names.
Bruno and Mark.
Yeah.
And it's, you know, you got a small demo.
Yeah. Right away.
Yeah, yeah.
But you Irish, you. No, no, no. Italian.
Blood there.
But yeah, you know,it's a it's a great season to be in and,
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you know, beenblessed with a business, been
blessed with a great business partner,been blessed with a great team.
And, yeah, it's a 1998.
We started thewe started the business as workers.
And, now we've gone into full timeof ownership over the last,
you know, over a decade,you know, the time kind of.
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It blurs after a while. Yeah. Sure does.
As you, as you mentioned, Joyce.
Like,that's one of the things that we offer is,
we do offer a concierge servicebecause we've, we've been in accidents
before, and,you know, it's such a process.
And, and dealing with all of thatand dealing with for profit insurance
companies and dealing with
police departments and rental caragents, it's such a massive. Yes.
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You know,if you know how to navigate around that
and you have peoplethat are willing to help you.
And, you know, our front office staff isso they're they're such kind people
and they're just so empathetic.
And they have justthe it's a great present.
That's why they were hired,because they're extensions of my myself,
my business partner Mike.
That's how we want to be handled.That's all we want.
Would want our parents to be handled.
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That'swhere we want our siblings to be handled.
Like that's how we want.
It's a stressful situation.That's the whole thing.
Nobody is looking forwardto going in there.
You opening up the door and you'renot sure what you're going to get,
and then you take that stressand you give us ease.
Yeah.
You know that anointment of easeas we kind of go into that doorway there.
But let's go back to where it all began,kind of for you, because I'm an I,
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I've heard your story before when we'vehad coffee and Joyce for a little bit,
but but for the audience,you're basically came from a point
where you were like,really in dire straits.
And I'm not talking about the band either,but but there were some
there are some challenging times therefor a while.
Cadillac and Lou has to bring the music.
Oh, it's going to be the music metaphor.Yeah, I love it.
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Well, you know, what you're referring tois the period of time where
new, new business owners, newly
marriedson on the first son on the way, and,
yeah, was was rushed to the hospitalin the middle of the day.
Didn't no anxiety panic, dehydrated.
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You know, that was over a decade ago.
So that was like in 2013. And,
you know,
and yeah, it was, you know,you think you're invincible,
you know, mid,mid 30s, relatively healthy.
But you, you know,you take on too much stress
and you take on too much, you know,responsibility and stuff like that.
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And, you know, thankfully,you know, over a decade later,
you know, you find out that
that was all preprogramed,you know, decades prior to that.
And, you know, our environment programsus, you know, you got to be a go getter.
You got to get after that.
You got to, you know, build,build, build sleep when I'm day.
Exactly right.
You know, we've all we've all heard itand and to all the,
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you know, the people out therethat have grown up with that,
you know, I definitely empathizewith that way of upbringing
because, you know, you're you'rejust in a constant mode of competition.
It's never enough.
No matter how much money you get,how much business you get,
how big the house is,how nice the car, it's never enough.
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And it never feels like enough.
And then when you finally hit a wall,when, like I did, and you say, you know,
the stress is this is way too much,you know, the pressure's way too much.
You know, all the things that I thoughtthat I wanted,
all the things that were,you know, the world's markers of success.
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Nice house, nice car, decent bank account.
Not any wrong with that.
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
But that's not the end all. Be all.
But you weren't really enjoying it.
That because you were always strivingfor the next thing.
It was.
It was never enough.
Like it was never enough.It was always something.
It was always the next, you know,get to the next plateau, you know.
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And if it was,
you know, this much money in the bank,it was, you know, that much more.
And you know, two acts and three actsand you know, all the vision boards
and all the things were always dollaramounts, material things,
just things just thingsthat it could be very easily
replaceable, could be easilygone, could be easily gained.
Right.
You know, so it was ait was a humbling moment back in two.
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So you're okay now.
Oh yeah I mean so well that way
you know that was the that was the partthe turning point was it.
In a lot of ways. Yeah. It was.
And so this was an unexpectedlike health event that happened.
Yeah. Right in the middle of a workday.
You know we're pushing out cars.
We're getting people,you know, getting them back in their cars.
And you know, we were the type of guys,hey John, throw your keys on there.
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We'll just keep taking them.
We'll just keep taking, you know,we'll get your car out, you know?
Hey, even if it puts us in hospital,we'll take a car.
That's right.
You know,and that was something that, you know,
you know my business partnerand I, that's how what we grew up on.
That's everybody that we idolized.
Everybody that was, you know, our mentorsand people in business.
It was just be busy,just stay busy, stay busy no matter what.
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Just stay busybecause that was that was success.
Until you're in Saint Rafael's
in the waiting room with, you know, abunch of other people, and you're.
You don't know what's wrong with you.
Your your bloodpressure's high or dehydrated,
and you finally get to see a doctor,and he says,
you know, you can't live like this.
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You're going to have to be on
anti-depressants, medicationfor the rest of your life.
You have a medical doctortelling you this.
That was a wake up call.
That was a wake up call. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
To be to be on some kind of anantidepressant for the rest of your life.
Like that was the answer.
That was their answer.
After all. The medical school, everything.
And andand that didn't that didn't vibe with me.
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And what changed at that point on,you had a lot of time to think about it.
Okay? And now you act.
So people hear that and they goback to the same old, same old.
You didn't. What did you do?
Well, youknow, one of my one of my first mentors,
had recommended a book by Jim Roan
and, went through the book.
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And then I started really researchingJim Roan.
He was one of my one of my early heroesof, you know, self-development
and he said it and I and I,you know, shook my head at it.
But he said, if you wantanything in your life to change,
you have to change.
And that that hit me really hardlike that was
I wanted to just resist thatso hard and say, what do you mean?
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It's not the weather,
it's not traffic, it'snot the government, it's not bureaucracy.
It's not, you know,whatever political parties in office,
no jail for anything in your lifeto change, you have to change.
And it took me months.
It took me a year to figure that out.
And I said, okay, well, what do I change?
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You know, how do I change?What about everybody else?
And I was so worried aboutwhat's everybody else doing.
And I kept going back.
For anything in your life to change,you have to change
for anything in your life to change,you have to change.
So I began making lots of changes,wise man.
And you got the message.
And what was what was like?What was the first change you made?
Oh my gosh,you guys, I'll make you laugh. Yeah.
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Go ahead. Yeah.
So up until that point,the only book that I had in the house,
we had a Bible which was very dusty.
Right.
And we had one of those bathroomjoke books.
So that's all, yeah.
But the joke was on me because in,you know, all of our libraries,
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now we have them on our phone,we have our Kindle.
You have you haveyou can have a mentor day.
You could have a new brand new mentorevery day.
Right?
You know,you think about it. So many writes a book.
They pour decades.
They pour a lifetime into 200 pagesfor you to read.
How foolish are we?
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Sometimes if we don't pick up that bookand read what story?
What they've been through.
You know what they've learned.
You know, success, you know, defeats.
You know how they did it. Like,how foolish are we in that?
How that's to the degree of foolishthat I was because I didn't
I didn't own any books. Yeah, yeah.
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And all that knowledge
are pouring out for really,you know, pennies when you really think
about the knowledge you're gettingand these people just emulating them
and they, they help you eliminatesome of the pitfalls in a way, too.
They can get you towhere you want to go quicker by the
they're letting you know what they didand what they didn't do.
And you picked up on that, I'm sure.
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Yeah.
And, and I think, you know, a lot ofpeople say, well, what books do I read?
You know, you see what's ontop of the New York Times bestseller list,
or you see, you know, you see differentpeople recommend you a book.
And it really, I,I see that as a little bit of a problem
because, you know, untilyou know exactly what the problem is,
you know, throwing a book at itwon't help, you know.
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So I know I knew at that point
it was it was really anythingon personal development.
Like what can I do if anything in my lifehas to change, I have to change.
Right. Okay. Well, what do I change?
You know, what? Do I start working?
Where do you begin? Yeah,where do you begin?
And, you know, kind of kind of a long,a long way to, to say this,
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but after every book and I could,if you ever want to attach it
to the show notes,I could show you my library of books.
It all comes back to the Bible,no matter what book.
Every single self-helpbook on this planet, on the shelves, this.
You have all of it.The basis is all of it.
I would challenge anybody to just do it.
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I will challenge anybody on this.
It's back.
It's back to biblical principles 100%.
Yeah. No.
And, but the books I did read, thethese people were, you know, less Brown.
Jack Canfield, Zig Ziglar,Zig Ziglar, Norman Vincent Peale,
love all those books.
Love them. You know, Maxwell
malts, psycho cybernetics,you know, and psycho cybernetics.
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Probably one of the first booksthat I read, that really helped
me understand more of the mechanics of ofwhat was going on.
And it was, you know,
setting your mind to,
to what you wantedand the thoughts and what you thought.
But that goes back to the Bible as a manthink as it does.
So, so, you know,those books were really pivotal.
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But I the process of sitting downand reading was probably
one of the hardest, one of the hardestdisciplines, that I had that I had to.
Yeah, you know, relearn and write do.
And it was, that was, that was,that was one of the hardest things
was just sitting, sitting down and readingand humbling myself and, you know,
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you know, findingeven if you only take one chapter,
a day or a week, just sit with it.
You know, if,if a book is speaking to you,
take your time with it and
really let it absorb into your body,your mind.
Yeah.
It sounds like that's what you did.
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Yeah.
And I, I kind of brushed back at my mentorand saying, here, I want you to read,
you know, read these booksand go through these books.
I'm like, I don't have time to read.
And that was the number one.
The that was the first thingthat I had to change.
We have all the time in the world, right?
We have the same 24 hour,
you know, you've heard it,you've heard all of these phrases.
You have the same 24 hours in a day.
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We all have the same 24 hours.
But it was what we do with that timeand how we manage that time.
And it was I could sit downfor three hours and watch a ballgame.
Oh, there you go.
I was going to say TV like,if you cut out one program perhaps.
Yeah. So it was like first change.
Reorganize your time. Right.
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You know okay.
Instead of watching three hoursof the baseball game, maybe watch
two hours and 45 minutes and the other 15.
Let's spend some time in this book.
You know what.
What should I do to instead ofwatching my favorite football team.
Which is horriblebecause they're always losing it.
Me? Frustrated. Frustrating.Anyway, I watch the lowlights.
I mean, the highlights.
So you could watch all these games injust a three minute vignette, right?
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And that take time to do other things.
But you have to be intentional.Yeah, yeah.
About what you dobecause the world is vying for your time.
There's so much going on out there.
It's easy to get on Facebook and Instagramand scroll for hours.
You have to set time aside.
Like Joyce said, be intentional about it.
15 minutes a day can change orget up a half hour earlier in the morning.
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Read.
Get close to God, whatever it, meditate,whatever you want to do
and take care of youryour your spirit, mind, body.
Yeah, we talk about that.
Yeah.
We get up in the morning,take care of that,
take care, do some exercisingand just prepare yourself for the day.
And it's amazing how things can changerather quickly, you know.
And there's another old sayingwhich is so, so true.
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And that's what happened with you, Joe,
is that when the student is ready,the teacher appears.
Yeah, I love that.
So you had to bepushed into a hospital bed.
And to get ready
and the teacher the book appeared
and that's how it usually happens.
Because what would resonate withyou may not resonate with me,
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but you could read ten books.
It's some obscure bookcould say something.
And that one sentence, sometimesit's like,
whoa,I never thought of it this way before.
And then it just opensyour mind to the possibilities
that are given to us and within us.
Yeah, it's it's so true.
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Now you have multiple businesses.
I know in New England collusion.
We're talking aboutyou're invested in other business.
What we're really what really has gottenmy attention is what a great dad you are.
There's a lot of dads watching right nowand they love to have more time
with their kids,because how many dads are working
and they miss the key times in their kidslives, and you're on the road to that.
But now I see everything on social mediawith you.
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You have so much time hosting your kidsBruno and Marcelo,
what they're doing, the martial arts, the discipline
they have going to school,seeing how well dressed they are.
They're just you're just a great dad.
Tell me about that. Oh, man.
Oh, dress it up.
Yeah, that's one of the, I was talking tosomebody about that this morning, and,
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you know,you don't realize how hard of a job
it is to be a parentat home, present and present.
They're making the breakfast,making the lunches,
correcting the homework,driving to the sports.
You know, it's a lot.
And it's actually the hardest job.
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It's very easy.
I think the easiest thing that I ever didwas get in the car, drive
to work, spend 8 hours to 10 hours there,
finish, stop and have a beer or somethingand drive home.
That was easy.
That was thethat was the easiest thing ever.
Now, you know, through,
systems, through changes that we made,
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you know,my business partner and I were able to be
hands off in the business,give other people opportunities to
to have careers for themselvesand do what they love to do.
And, yeah, I'm able to spend
an enormous amount of time with children.
I'm. I don't miss a bus stop.
I don't miss a practice, you know,every day, you know, and we're in it.
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And, yeah, it's it'sdefinitely a blessing.
And, you know, somethingI look forward to.
And that's another thingyou have to change.
You have to be prepared for that. Yes.
You know, it just reminds me of somethingthat was brought to, my life recently
and thatand how important it is to be present.
And, I won't say any names.
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They don't have the permission,you know, to talk about it.
So I'll just say that my husband and I,
helped out someone that was in need.
And, due to circumstances,they weren't going to be around.
And their three children,
there was noone there to, you know, take care of them.
So we committed to do this.
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It ended up that we ended up actuallyliving there for six months
and taking care of our own familiesand going back and forth.
But this the one daughteris writing a book,
and she sent me part of the booknot too long ago,
and it floored me
to read this,she said, because my husband was
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he got up very early in the morning,so he made breakfast for them.
So she wrote that
while they could easilyhave made their own English muffins,
he would ask them what they wanted and onewanted it dark, one wanted it light.
And she said, I never felt
so much love in an English muffin.
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And it was, wow,
the littlest things that you dofor someone, for your children
at a young age,they're carrying that with them.
They'll always remember that show.
So yeah, yeah, yeah.
Thank you for falling for that story.
Yeah. It's not even in English. Muffin.
Yeah. That's right. Yeah.It makes a meaning.
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Yes, I hear I've heard rumors.
Oh, we bake bread.
There's always smell of baked breador some kind of baked goods
in the morning. And.
And you're right,
I said, and there's some timeswhere I think about that
and it takes me back to my childhoodwhere,
you know,my dad would would make the Sunday sauce.
Oh, God.
You wake up on a Sunday morningand there's that, that Italian Sunday
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sauce smell going,and you know that it's comforting.
It's making us feel care.
Care? Yeah.
You feel so cared about.
And, you know,you just said making memories.
That was my my grandmother'sfavorite thing to say.
You know, when she.
When she was alive, we we she livedon our third floor for many years.
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We had a three family house, and,she had the penthouse suite.
Oh, okay.
And we would go up thereas kids and go, go cook with her.
And she had no ideathat any of this was appealing to,
you know, a 9 or 10 year old kid.
And, you know, just looking back at itnow, it's like you'd
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see those little acts of, you know,Joseph, what would you like, you know,
make you this after school or make youthat after school and make you that snack?
And, you know, if she was here now,she would see, you know,
Joseph,you see how much work it ist, right? Yes.
But she always said,we're making memories.
I'm making. That's true.
And I'm glad you. I'm glad you said that.
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And see the impact we make onpeople's lives by the way we treat them.
I'm Luther.
You're talking about your grandmotherall these years later,
and how we associatecertain smells with our child
in, you know, with the sauce.
And I remembergoing home on Sunday afternoons
after going out and playingfootball in the morning or basketball and,
and open up the doorand the smell just permeating
the room of mom and dad with her cookingwhatever they're doing in the crock pot.
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All that.
And you're doing that now because you havethat time to spend with your kids.
Like you said, it's the hardest job.
At the same timeit's got to be the most rewarding job.
And I say that in quotations.
Yeah but you're there for them andthey're going to remember that forever.
And they're going to hopefully passthat on to their kids down the line.
Yeah that's right.
Yeah. That's right.
And it'syou know saying that it's a hard job.
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It's so true.
And many parentswould would empathize with it. And
like you
said it, it isthose small things that we have no idea.
We're just doing that.
We're just out of our,
our being, you know, you know, just justkind of unconsciously doing these things.
And they see every little. Yes.
And you yes.
Even myself now workingon, you know, being present.
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No cell phones like, you know, dinner.
We sit down, the four of us,and there's no cell phones and there's
you're actually have conversationswith each other in the eye.
We do, and we do.
I love and the, you know, the maturity
I see in my sons where they can say helloto somebody and look them in the eye.
Oh that's great. Yeah.
They could shake their hand and they're
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not ashamed to look at somebodyor you know, they've like such confidence
and you don't realize thatthese little things that you're,
you know, teaching them along the wayand, you know, they're just getting it.
Right. Right.
Raise a good humanlove that other than that.
But I love that about you.
Like the you said, like he's so busy.
You're so busy,but you learn to prioritize.
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Yeah.
And, what you focus on, you can create.
And again, I go back to youbeing in the hospital bed and you started
then in there to create the lifethat would benefit you and your family.
But it had to begin with youbecause unless you put your oxygen
mask on first,you couldn't take care of anyone else.
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That's true, that's true.
And to add to that point, it'snobody really wants you at 70%.
They've learned, you know, nobody wantsyou at 60 or 70%, they want you at 100%.
And that's that's a piece of programing
that we've adopted that,oh, I'll take care of this person.
And we see we see helping others.
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And you know, we're selfless.
Like I can't worry about meI can't no, you have to.
You know, when we say treat othersas you would want to be treated.
Well, if you're not setting the barfor yourself.
Yeah.
You know, like, I admire you for.
Yes. I'm just going to say.
Yeah.
John, your fitness,you take such good care of yourself
and you die and, you know, texted you,hey, you go for lunch.
(26:36):
You say I'm, you know, I'm on a fast.
I'm so, you know, I'mso in admiration of that
because you're committed to that and it init just goes to show you that.
But look how much you have to give outto other people.
Yes, yes.
It's like and youI don't know if I would want John at six,
I wouldn't,I wouldn't want stressed out John
right here.You take such good care of yourself
(26:56):
and you see such a,you know, priority in that.
And other people might see that as like,oh, you know, I could
I could never do that.I could never take care of myself.
But we want you at 100%because look at John at 100%.
You know, I love Johnand I just said, well, the thing is.
And Joyce and I talked about this too.
And, John,you take care of yourself, Joyce.
I mean, you're committedto working out as well.
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Functionality.
The thing is, we're here for a finite,finite amount of time,
and we owe it to our family, our friends,the people that we work with
to be operating, like you said, at 100%or as close to as we possibly can, right.
And God's given us this amazing temple.
Let's take care of it.
We all can do it. So many people.
So I'm not sure. I'm sure you can't.It's just a decision.
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You made the decision in the hospital.
Choice.
You made a decision many timeswhen you've had things
that could have stoppedyou and your life and me as well.
And of course, many of you, everybodywatching you listening right now.
And you can do it.
You know, I can't wait to read the bookthat you're writing.
Are you writing a book?
It's it's coming along. It's coming along.
All right.
I think I think it's more of a living bookright now than ever.
(28:03):
So it's I'm living it chapter by chapter.
So, you know.
Right.You got to let us know when it's out
because we want everybodyto know about it.
And I am documenting it.
But it's a lot of documentation.
You know, your story needs to be heardby the masses.
Yeah I appreciate that.
And it's
you know,sometimes you don't know where to start
because it's like there'sjust so much to start.
Yeah. Yeah.
There's a great rival doctor Wayne Dyer.Bring him.
(28:25):
Oh, Lord.
Because I just lovehe's a great philosopher.
And, he said to begin a book
he would take,he'd make up an image for the cover
and he would just sitit next to his computer, and he would just
look at the cover, and then the thoughtswould come to him about the book.
So maybe you think of a name. Yeah.
(28:46):
And it doesn't have to be permanent.You know, it could change the name.
Well, I have a name.
Oh, well, there you go.
Because you can'tyou can't unveil the name I can. Okay?
You guys are friends. We're we're off.
Are all friends here?
Living proof living, living proof.
And that was a songby we're going to show.
And you're like country music.
Of course.
Ricky Van Shelton, RandyWilliams, junior, living proof.
(29:08):
Well, yeah, I know we're digging deeper.
You know, I went deep.
Yeah, I went into the kitchenbecause I love baking.
So when you bake bread.
Yeah, the dough has to proof. Right.
So and bread is like,what a life, you know.
So living proof it's perfect.
That's a great. Yeah. It's aI didn't think of the bread angle.
(29:30):
Right. Yes.
Like the song MacArthur Park.
You know, you bakeand you go the rain. Right.
What does that song mean?
Those of me, I don't know what is thereI could eat?
I'm like squirrel,my wife always said, squirrel.
Focus. Sorry about that.You got the weave.
It's not.
I do all the time.
No journaling,but Joyce knows that, so it's great.
But, Joe, you've been fantastic.
I mean, good luck with your business.Thank you. New England collision.
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So if you get into an accident,this is the man to talk to.
I know you're doing many other businesses,which we'll hear about in the future.
I'm sure Super Dad book is on the way, but
you blessed my life with your friendshipand your blessing.
So many people have others liveseverywhere you go with your philanthropy
and your mentorship.
So thank you for doing what you're doing,Joe. Thank you.
Thank you so much.
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And I love having youas you're a sponsor of our show.
So we want you one more.
That's right.
And all of Joe's informationis under our YouTube.
And wherever you listen to usI heart Radio Podcast Network as well.
So and so we're over at iHeart.
But thank you so, so much for watching.
What's good with John and Joyce,who maybe you're listening to it.
They say a lot more people listenand watch nowadays, which, you know,
(30:36):
I knowcome over and watch and criticize us. No.
But, Joe, thank you so much for sharing.
And thank you so much for having me onwhat's good with John and Joy.
So many blessings to you and your family.
And yes, remember to breathe,relax your shoulders and all as well.
We love you. Just be a good human.
God bless.
Good message. Be a good human. Yes.
All right.
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But it's just so good to be hereonce again.
And thank you so much for watchingand or listening.
It means a lot,and it means a lot that we have a very,
very special guest here todaythat I really admire a lot.
I had a chance to meet him,but 3 or 4 years back and,
this guy has a faiththat I really admire a lot,
(01:54):
but he was really on on the cusp of,Well,
you know, he was in a hospital for a whilebecause he was working so hard
for his family.
His motive and intentis always to bless other people.
And then somebody pulled him aside.
I think a family member said,you know, Joe,
you really got to get your act togetherand, you know, come up with something.
You know, some, you know, mayberead some books, develop some, you know,
(02:14):
emotional maturity in some areas.
Right,which I'm still working on, quite frankly.
But you've done so well.
I mean, you teach dadshow to get home with their kids.
You have multiple businesses,you're successful at everything you do.
And most of all,you're a really good person.
You're a philanthropist.
And, Joyce, I know you met,I met you once, Joe.
And I just thought,what a terrific person you are.
(02:36):
You're very special. Yeah. Thank you.
We actually.
Yes. Joe Perone, Joe Perone, Joe.
So I only knew Joe from being the ownerof New England Vision.
Yeah, yeah.
And, I justI shared a story with him because I wish
I had met him in Decemberwhen I had my head on collision.
(02:56):
So when he had me head on andit was a very scary unknown time, I mean,
especially you taken away by ambulancewhen I don't know where my car is.
I don't know how to navigate that.
And when you have an attorney, that is a,
what do you call it?
A self not.
(03:17):
It's for what?
Injury. Personal. Injury. Personal.
Thank you a personal injury.
Well, personal injurydoesn't really cover where your car is
and and how to dealwith the insurance companies.
So I was so grateful to have met you.
Now, I hope I never need you againin the future,
but I was certainly past that.
Because you're companies like the.
(03:38):
You're like the concierge of accidents
where they call youand you handle everything.
And I know that's just one of the thingswe're going to enjoy.
And I'll talk from a personal experiencereally quickly,
because I went to Joe once as wellfor a, for a banger in the back of my car.
And the minute I walked in,I was greeted with smiles from everybody
that was working on the cars, the workerbees to the gentleman behind the desk.
(04:00):
And Joe checked up on me many timesto make sure everything was fine.
So, yeah, I feel like like I like, I'm ina lavish hotel here, the with everybody.
But seriously.
And and I'm going to recommendeverybody to you
and I have
but Joe,we're going to let you talk right now
because we're babblinga little bit too much. But yeah.
Welcome to what's good with Johnny Joyce.Yeah.
Thank you both for having me.
Love the show.
(04:21):
Thank you.
I love you with the contentthat you guys are putting out,
and I have definitely resonatedwith that myself.
And, you know what's what's goodis just such a blessing to me.
So, yeah, thanks for having me on.
And, you know, my name is chaperoning.
Yeah. Oh, New England collision.But I'm a dad.
I'm, you know, investordo a lot of different things.
(04:43):
And, you know, in a different seasonof my life right now, which with, my boys,
Bruno and Marcelo and,I love those names.
Bruno and Mark.
Yeah.
And it's, you know, you got a small demo.
Yeah. Right away.
Yeah, yeah.
But you Irish, you. No, no, no. Italian.
Blood there.
But yeah, you know,it's a it's a great season to be in and,
(05:06):
you know, beenblessed with a business, been
blessed with a great business partner,been blessed with a great team.
And, yeah, it's a 1998.
We started thewe started the business as workers.
And, now we've gone into full timeof ownership over the last,
you know, over a decade,you know, the time kind of.
(05:27):
It blurs after a while. Yeah. Sure does.
As you, as you mentioned, Joyce.
Like,that's one of the things that we offer is,
we do offer a concierge servicebecause we've, we've been in accidents
before, and,you know, it's such a process.
And, and dealing with all of thatand dealing with for profit insurance
companies and dealing with
police departments and rental caragents, it's such a massive. Yes.
(05:50):
You know,if you know how to navigate around that
and you have peoplethat are willing to help you.
And, you know, our front office staff isso they're they're such kind people
and they're just so empathetic.
And they have justthe it's a great present.
That's why they were hired,because they're extensions of my myself,
my business partner Mike.
That's how we want to be handled.That's all we want.
Would want our parents to be handled.
(06:11):
That'swhere we want our siblings to be handled.
Like that's how we want.
It's a stressful situation.That's the whole thing.
Nobody is looking forwardto going in there.
You opening up the door and you'renot sure what you're going to get,
and then you take that stressand you give us ease.
Yeah.
You know that anointment of easeas we kind of go into that doorway there.
But let's go back to where it all began,kind of for you, because I'm an I,
(06:32):
I've heard your story before when we'vehad coffee and Joyce for a little bit,
but but for the audience,you're basically came from a point
where you were like,really in dire straits.
And I'm not talking about the band either,but but there were some
there are some challenging times therefor a while.
Cadillac and Lou has to bring the music.
Oh, it's going to be the music metaphor.Yeah, I love it.
(06:53):
Well, you know, what you're referring tois the period of time where
new, new business owners, newly
marriedson on the first son on the way, and,
yeah, was was rushed to the hospitalin the middle of the day.
Didn't no anxiety panic, dehydrated.
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You know, that was over a decade ago.
So that was like in 2013. And,
you know,
and yeah, it was, you know,you think you're invincible,
you know, mid,mid 30s, relatively healthy.
But you, you know,you take on too much stress
and you take on too much, you know,responsibility and stuff like that.
(07:34):
And, you know, thankfully,you know, over a decade later,
you know, you find out that
that was all preprogramed,you know, decades prior to that.
And, you know, our environment programsus, you know, you got to be a go getter.
You got to get after that.
You got to, you know, build,build, build sleep when I'm day.
Exactly right.
You know, we've all we've all heard itand and to all the,
(07:57):
you know, the people out therethat have grown up with that,
you know, I definitely empathizewith that way of upbringing
because, you know, you're you'rejust in a constant mode of competition.
It's never enough.
No matter how much money you get,how much business you get,
how big the house is,how nice the car, it's never enough.
(08:17):
And it never feels like enough.
And then when you finally hit a wall,when, like I did, and you say, you know,
the stress is this is way too much,you know, the pressure's way too much.
You know, all the things that I thoughtthat I wanted,
all the things that were,you know, the world's markers of success.
(08:37):
Nice house, nice car, decent bank account.
Not any wrong with that.
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
But that's not the end all. Be all.
But you weren't really enjoying it.
That because you were always strivingfor the next thing.
It was.
It was never enough.
Like it was never enough.It was always something.
It was always the next, you know,get to the next plateau, you know.
(08:58):
And if it was,
you know, this much money in the bank,it was, you know, that much more.
And you know, two acts and three actsand you know, all the vision boards
and all the things were always dollaramounts, material things,
just things just thingsthat it could be very easily
replaceable, could be easilygone, could be easily gained.
Right.
You know, so it was ait was a humbling moment back in two.
(09:21):
So you're okay now.
Oh yeah I mean so well that way
you know that was the that was the partthe turning point was it.
In a lot of ways. Yeah. It was.
And so this was an unexpectedlike health event that happened.
Yeah. Right in the middle of a workday.
You know we're pushing out cars.
We're getting people,you know, getting them back in their cars.
And you know, we were the type of guys,hey John, throw your keys on there.
(09:41):
We'll just keep taking them.
We'll just keep taking, you know,we'll get your car out, you know?
Hey, even if it puts us in hospital,we'll take a car.
That's right.
You know,and that was something that, you know,
you know my business partnerand I, that's how what we grew up on.
That's everybody that we idolized.
Everybody that was, you know, our mentorsand people in business.
It was just be busy,just stay busy, stay busy no matter what.
(10:04):
Just stay busybecause that was that was success.
Until you're in Saint Rafael's
in the waiting room with, you know, abunch of other people, and you're.
You don't know what's wrong with you.
Your your bloodpressure's high or dehydrated,
and you finally get to see a doctor,and he says,
you know, you can't live like this.
(10:25):
You're going to have to be on
anti-depressants, medicationfor the rest of your life.
You have a medical doctortelling you this.
That was a wake up call.
That was a wake up call. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
To be to be on some kind of anantidepressant for the rest of your life.
Like that was the answer.
That was their answer.
After all. The medical school, everything.
And andand that didn't that didn't vibe with me.
(10:47):
And what changed at that point on,you had a lot of time to think about it.
Okay? And now you act.
So people hear that and they goback to the same old, same old.
You didn't. What did you do?
Well, youknow, one of my one of my first mentors,
had recommended a book by Jim Roan
and, went through the book.
(11:07):
And then I started really researchingJim Roan.
He was one of my one of my early heroesof, you know, self-development
and he said it and I and I,you know, shook my head at it.
But he said, if you wantanything in your life to change,
you have to change.
And that that hit me really hardlike that was
I wanted to just resist thatso hard and say, what do you mean?
(11:30):
It's not the weather,
it's not traffic, it'snot the government, it's not bureaucracy.
It's not, you know,whatever political parties in office,
no jail for anything in your lifeto change, you have to change.
And it took me months.
It took me a year to figure that out.
And I said, okay, well, what do I change?
(11:50):
You know, how do I change?What about everybody else?
And I was so worried aboutwhat's everybody else doing.
And I kept going back.
For anything in your life to change,you have to change
for anything in your life to change,you have to change.
So I began making lots of changes,wise man.
And you got the message.
And what was what was like?What was the first change you made?
Oh my gosh,you guys, I'll make you laugh. Yeah.
(12:12):
Go ahead. Yeah.
So up until that point,the only book that I had in the house,
we had a Bible which was very dusty.
Right.
And we had one of those bathroomjoke books.
So that's all, yeah.
But the joke was on me because in,you know, all of our libraries,
(12:33):
now we have them on our phone,we have our Kindle.
You have you haveyou can have a mentor day.
You could have a new brand new mentorevery day.
Right?
You know,you think about it. So many writes a book.
They pour decades.
They pour a lifetime into 200 pagesfor you to read.
How foolish are we?
(12:54):
Sometimes if we don't pick up that bookand read what story?
What they've been through.
You know what they've learned.
You know, success, you know, defeats.
You know how they did it. Like,how foolish are we in that?
How that's to the degree of foolishthat I was because I didn't
I didn't own any books. Yeah, yeah.
(13:14):
And all that knowledge
are pouring out for really,you know, pennies when you really think
about the knowledge you're gettingand these people just emulating them
and they, they help you eliminatesome of the pitfalls in a way, too.
They can get you towhere you want to go quicker by the
they're letting you know what they didand what they didn't do.
And you picked up on that, I'm sure.
(13:35):
Yeah.
And, and I think, you know, a lot ofpeople say, well, what books do I read?
You know, you see what's ontop of the New York Times bestseller list,
or you see, you know, you see differentpeople recommend you a book.
And it really, I,I see that as a little bit of a problem
because, you know, untilyou know exactly what the problem is,
you know, throwing a book at itwon't help, you know.
(13:58):
So I know I knew at that point
it was it was really anythingon personal development.
Like what can I do if anything in my lifehas to change, I have to change.
Right. Okay. Well, what do I change?
You know, what? Do I start working?
Where do you begin? Yeah,where do you begin?
And, you know, kind of kind of a long,a long way to, to say this,
(14:21):
but after every book and I could,if you ever want to attach it
to the show notes,I could show you my library of books.
It all comes back to the Bible,no matter what book.
Every single self-helpbook on this planet, on the shelves, this.
You have all of it.The basis is all of it.
I would challenge anybody to just do it.
(14:41):
I will challenge anybody on this.
It's back.
It's back to biblical principles 100%.
Yeah. No.
And, but the books I did read, thethese people were, you know, less Brown.
Jack Canfield, Zig Ziglar,Zig Ziglar, Norman Vincent Peale,
love all those books.
Love them. You know, Maxwell
malts, psycho cybernetics,you know, and psycho cybernetics.
(15:05):
Probably one of the first booksthat I read, that really helped
me understand more of the mechanics of ofwhat was going on.
And it was, you know,
setting your mind to,
to what you wantedand the thoughts and what you thought.
But that goes back to the Bible as a manthink as it does.
So, so, you know,those books were really pivotal.
(15:28):
But I the process of sitting downand reading was probably
one of the hardest, one of the hardestdisciplines, that I had that I had to.
Yeah, you know, relearn and write do.
And it was, that was, that was,that was one of the hardest things
was just sitting, sitting down and readingand humbling myself and, you know,
(15:52):
you know, findingeven if you only take one chapter,
a day or a week, just sit with it.
You know, if,if a book is speaking to you,
take your time with it and
really let it absorb into your body,your mind.
Yeah.
It sounds like that's what you did.
(16:12):
Yeah.
And I, I kind of brushed back at my mentorand saying, here, I want you to read,
you know, read these booksand go through these books.
I'm like, I don't have time to read.
And that was the number one.
The that was the first thingthat I had to change.
We have all the time in the world, right?
We have the same 24 hour,
you know, you've heard it,you've heard all of these phrases.
You have the same 24 hours in a day.
(16:33):
We all have the same 24 hours.
But it was what we do with that timeand how we manage that time.
And it was I could sit downfor three hours and watch a ballgame.
Oh, there you go.
I was going to say TV like,if you cut out one program perhaps.
Yeah. So it was like first change.
Reorganize your time. Right.
(16:54):
You know okay.
Instead of watching three hoursof the baseball game, maybe watch
two hours and 45 minutes and the other 15.
Let's spend some time in this book.
You know what.
What should I do to instead ofwatching my favorite football team.
Which is horriblebecause they're always losing it.
Me? Frustrated. Frustrating.Anyway, I watch the lowlights.
I mean, the highlights.
So you could watch all these games injust a three minute vignette, right?
(17:16):
And that take time to do other things.
But you have to be intentional.Yeah, yeah.
About what you dobecause the world is vying for your time.
There's so much going on out there.
It's easy to get on Facebook and Instagramand scroll for hours.
You have to set time aside.
Like Joyce said, be intentional about it.
15 minutes a day can change orget up a half hour earlier in the morning.
(17:37):
Read.
Get close to God, whatever it, meditate,whatever you want to do
and take care of youryour your spirit, mind, body.
Yeah, we talk about that.
Yeah.
We get up in the morning,take care of that,
take care, do some exercisingand just prepare yourself for the day.
And it's amazing how things can changerather quickly, you know.
And there's another old sayingwhich is so, so true.
(17:58):
And that's what happened with you, Joe,
is that when the student is ready,the teacher appears.
Yeah, I love that.
So you had to bepushed into a hospital bed.
And to get ready
and the teacher the book appeared
and that's how it usually happens.
Because what would resonate withyou may not resonate with me,
(18:23):
but you could read ten books.
It's some obscure bookcould say something.
And that one sentence, sometimesit's like,
whoa,I never thought of it this way before.
And then it just opensyour mind to the possibilities
that are given to us and within us.
Yeah, it's it's so true.
(18:44):
Now you have multiple businesses.
I know in New England collusion.
We're talking aboutyou're invested in other business.
What we're really what really has gottenmy attention is what a great dad you are.
There's a lot of dads watching right nowand they love to have more time
with their kids,because how many dads are working
and they miss the key times in their kidslives, and you're on the road to that.
But now I see everything on social mediawith you.
(19:04):
You have so much time hosting your kidsBruno and Marcelo,
what they're doing, the martial arts, the discipline
they have going to school,seeing how well dressed they are.
They're just you're just a great dad.
Tell me about that. Oh, man.
Oh, dress it up.
Yeah, that's one of the, I was talking tosomebody about that this morning, and,
(19:25):
you know,you don't realize how hard of a job
it is to be a parentat home, present and present.
They're making the breakfast,making the lunches,
correcting the homework,driving to the sports.
You know, it's a lot.
And it's actually the hardest job.
(19:46):
It's very easy.
I think the easiest thing that I ever didwas get in the car, drive
to work, spend 8 hours to 10 hours there,
finish, stop and have a beer or somethingand drive home.
That was easy.
That was thethat was the easiest thing ever.
Now, you know, through,
systems, through changes that we made,
(20:09):
you know,my business partner and I were able to be
hands off in the business,give other people opportunities to
to have careers for themselvesand do what they love to do.
And, yeah, I'm able to spend
an enormous amount of time with children.
I'm. I don't miss a bus stop.
I don't miss a practice, you know,every day, you know, and we're in it.
(20:33):
And, yeah, it's it'sdefinitely a blessing.
And, you know, somethingI look forward to.
And that's another thingyou have to change.
You have to be prepared for that. Yes.
You know, it just reminds me of somethingthat was brought to, my life recently
and thatand how important it is to be present.
And, I won't say any names.
(20:53):
They don't have the permission,you know, to talk about it.
So I'll just say that my husband and I,
helped out someone that was in need.
And, due to circumstances,they weren't going to be around.
And their three children,
there was noone there to, you know, take care of them.
So we committed to do this.
(21:15):
It ended up that we ended up actuallyliving there for six months
and taking care of our own familiesand going back and forth.
But this the one daughteris writing a book,
and she sent me part of the booknot too long ago,
and it floored me
to read this,she said, because my husband was
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he got up very early in the morning,so he made breakfast for them.
So she wrote that
while they could easilyhave made their own English muffins,
he would ask them what they wanted and onewanted it dark, one wanted it light.
And she said, I never felt
so much love in an English muffin.
(21:59):
And it was, wow,
the littlest things that you dofor someone, for your children
at a young age,they're carrying that with them.
They'll always remember that show.
So yeah, yeah, yeah.
Thank you for falling for that story.
Yeah. It's not even in English. Muffin.
Yeah. That's right. Yeah.It makes a meaning.
(22:20):
Yes, I hear I've heard rumors.
Oh, we bake bread.
There's always smell of baked breador some kind of baked goods
in the morning. And.
And you're right,
I said, and there's some timeswhere I think about that
and it takes me back to my childhoodwhere,
you know,my dad would would make the Sunday sauce.
Oh, God.
You wake up on a Sunday morningand there's that, that Italian Sunday
(22:42):
sauce smell going,and you know that it's comforting.
It's making us feel care.
Care? Yeah.
You feel so cared about.
And, you know,you just said making memories.
That was my my grandmother'sfavorite thing to say.
You know, when she.
When she was alive, we we she livedon our third floor for many years.
(23:03):
We had a three family house, and,she had the penthouse suite.
Oh, okay.
And we would go up thereas kids and go, go cook with her.
And she had no ideathat any of this was appealing to,
you know, a 9 or 10 year old kid.
And, you know, just looking back at itnow, it's like you'd
(23:23):
see those little acts of, you know,Joseph, what would you like, you know,
make you this after school or make youthat after school and make you that snack?
And, you know, if she was here now,she would see, you know,
Joseph,you see how much work it ist, right? Yes.
But she always said,we're making memories.
I'm making. That's true.
And I'm glad you. I'm glad you said that.
(23:44):
And see the impact we make onpeople's lives by the way we treat them.
I'm Luther.
You're talking about your grandmotherall these years later,
and how we associatecertain smells with our child
in, you know, with the sauce.
And I remembergoing home on Sunday afternoons
after going out and playingfootball in the morning or basketball and,
and open up the doorand the smell just permeating
the room of mom and dad with her cookingwhatever they're doing in the crock pot.
(24:05):
All that.
And you're doing that now because you havethat time to spend with your kids.
Like you said, it's the hardest job.
At the same timeit's got to be the most rewarding job.
And I say that in quotations.
Yeah but you're there for them andthey're going to remember that forever.
And they're going to hopefully passthat on to their kids down the line.
Yeah that's right.
Yeah. That's right.
And it'syou know saying that it's a hard job.
(24:26):
It's so true.
And many parentswould would empathize with it. And
like you
said it, it isthose small things that we have no idea.
We're just doing that.
We're just out of our,
our being, you know, you know, just justkind of unconsciously doing these things.
And they see every little. Yes.
And you yes.
Even myself now workingon, you know, being present.
(24:49):
No cell phones like, you know, dinner.
We sit down, the four of us,and there's no cell phones and there's
you're actually have conversationswith each other in the eye.
We do, and we do.
I love and the, you know, the maturity
I see in my sons where they can say helloto somebody and look them in the eye.
Oh that's great. Yeah.
They could shake their hand and they're
(25:09):
not ashamed to look at somebodyor you know, they've like such confidence
and you don't realize thatthese little things that you're,
you know, teaching them along the wayand, you know, they're just getting it.
Right. Right.
Raise a good humanlove that other than that.
But I love that about you.
Like the you said, like he's so busy.
You're so busy,but you learn to prioritize.
(25:31):
Yeah.
And, what you focus on, you can create.
And again, I go back to youbeing in the hospital bed and you started
then in there to create the lifethat would benefit you and your family.
But it had to begin with youbecause unless you put your oxygen
mask on first,you couldn't take care of anyone else.
(25:53):
That's true, that's true.
And to add to that point, it'snobody really wants you at 70%.
They've learned, you know, nobody wantsyou at 60 or 70%, they want you at 100%.
And that's that's a piece of programing
that we've adopted that,oh, I'll take care of this person.
And we see we see helping others.
(26:13):
And you know, we're selfless.
Like I can't worry about meI can't no, you have to.
You know, when we say treat othersas you would want to be treated.
Well, if you're not setting the barfor yourself.
Yeah.
You know, like, I admire you for.
Yes. I'm just going to say.
Yeah.
John, your fitness,you take such good care of yourself
and you die and, you know, texted you,hey, you go for lunch.
(26:36):
You say I'm, you know, I'm on a fast.
I'm so, you know, I'mso in admiration of that
because you're committed to that and it init just goes to show you that.
But look how much you have to give outto other people.
Yes, yes.
It's like and youI don't know if I would want John at six,
I wouldn't,I wouldn't want stressed out John
right here.You take such good care of yourself
(26:56):
and you see such a,you know, priority in that.
And other people might see that as like,oh, you know, I could
I could never do that.I could never take care of myself.
But we want you at 100%because look at John at 100%.
You know, I love Johnand I just said, well, the thing is.
And Joyce and I talked about this too.
And, John,you take care of yourself, Joyce.
I mean, you're committedto working out as well.
(27:17):
Functionality.
The thing is, we're here for a finite,finite amount of time,
and we owe it to our family, our friends,the people that we work with
to be operating, like you said, at 100%or as close to as we possibly can, right.
And God's given us this amazing temple.
Let's take care of it.
We all can do it. So many people.
So I'm not sure. I'm sure you can't.It's just a decision.
(27:39):
You made the decision in the hospital.
Choice.
You made a decision many timeswhen you've had things
that could have stoppedyou and your life and me as well.
And of course, many of you, everybodywatching you listening right now.
And you can do it.
You know, I can't wait to read the bookthat you're writing.
Are you writing a book?
It's it's coming along. It's coming along.
All right.
I think I think it's more of a living bookright now than ever.
(28:03):
So it's I'm living it chapter by chapter.
So, you know.
Right.You got to let us know when it's out
because we want everybodyto know about it.
And I am documenting it.
But it's a lot of documentation.
You know, your story needs to be heardby the masses.
Yeah I appreciate that.
And it's
you know,sometimes you don't know where to start
because it's like there'sjust so much to start.
Yeah. Yeah.
There's a great rival doctor Wayne Dyer.Bring him.
(28:25):
Oh, Lord.
Because I just lovehe's a great philosopher.
And, he said to begin a book
he would take,he'd make up an image for the cover
and he would just sitit next to his computer, and he would just
look at the cover, and then the thoughtswould come to him about the book.
So maybe you think of a name. Yeah.
(28:46):
And it doesn't have to be permanent.You know, it could change the name.
Well, I have a name.
Oh, well, there you go.
Because you can'tyou can't unveil the name I can. Okay?
You guys are friends. We're we're off.
Are all friends here?
Living proof living, living proof.
And that was a songby we're going to show.
And you're like country music.
Of course.
Ricky Van Shelton, RandyWilliams, junior, living proof.
(29:08):
Well, yeah, I know we're digging deeper.
You know, I went deep.
Yeah, I went into the kitchenbecause I love baking.
So when you bake bread.
Yeah, the dough has to proof. Right.
So and bread is like,what a life, you know.
So living proof it's perfect.
That's a great. Yeah. It's aI didn't think of the bread angle.
(29:30):
Right. Yes.
Like the song MacArthur Park.
You know, you bakeand you go the rain. Right.
What does that song mean?
Those of me, I don't know what is thereI could eat?
I'm like squirrel,my wife always said, squirrel.
Focus. Sorry about that.You got the weave.
It's not.
I do all the time.
No journaling,but Joyce knows that, so it's great.
But, Joe, you've been fantastic.
I mean, good luck with your business.Thank you. New England collision.
(29:53):
So if you get into an accident,this is the man to talk to.
I know you're doing many other businesses,which we'll hear about in the future.
I'm sure Super Dad book is on the way, but
you blessed my life with your friendshipand your blessing.
So many people have others liveseverywhere you go with your philanthropy
and your mentorship.
So thank you for doing what you're doing,Joe. Thank you.
Thank you so much.
(30:13):
And I love having youas you're a sponsor of our show.
So we want you one more.
That's right.
And all of Joe's informationis under our YouTube.
And wherever you listen to usI heart Radio Podcast Network as well.
So and so we're over at iHeart.
But thank you so, so much for watching.
What's good with John and Joyce,who maybe you're listening to it.
They say a lot more people listenand watch nowadays, which, you know,
(30:36):
I knowcome over and watch and criticize us. No.
But, Joe, thank you so much for sharing.
And thank you so much for having me onwhat's good with John and Joy.
So many blessings to you and your family.
And yes, remember to breathe,relax your shoulders and all as well.
We love you. Just be a good human.
God bless.
Good message. Be a good human. Yes.
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