September 30, 2025 • 52 mins
✨ From Stallone’s struggles to Disney’s dreams—discover how ordinary grit builds extraordinary success.
In this episode of Chatting with Betsy, host Betsy Wurzel welcomes bestselling author Dennis J. Henson to discuss his inspiring book Real Impact: Daily Inspiration. Dennis shares how Real Impact was created to give readers something positive to reflect on each day, blending powerful quotes, poems, stories, and lessons on perseverance, gratitude, faith, and believing in yourself.
👉 Hear how Sylvester Stallone overcame homelessness before creating Rocky, and why figures like Benjamin Franklin, Walt Disney, and Milton Hershey are shining examples of resilience. Betsy reads moving quotes from the book, and Dennis explains how his 50-year passion for collecting wisdom turned into a life-changing resource. He also shares how listeners can give back through his website, helping disadvantaged children gain access to inspiring books.
📚 Learn more and connect with Dennis at www.realimpactbook.com 🎧 Tune in now to hear how perseverance, gratitude, and learning from mistakes can create a lasting impact.
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In this episode of Chatting with Betsy, host Betsy Wurzel welcomes bestselling author Dennis J. Henson to discuss his inspiring book Real Impact: Daily Inspiration. Dennis shares how Real Impact was created to give readers something positive to reflect on each day, blending powerful quotes, poems, stories, and lessons on perseverance, gratitude, faith, and believing in yourself.
👉 Hear how Sylvester Stallone overcame homelessness before creating Rocky, and why figures like Benjamin Franklin, Walt Disney, and Milton Hershey are shining examples of resilience. Betsy reads moving quotes from the book, and Dennis explains how his 50-year passion for collecting wisdom turned into a life-changing resource. He also shares how listeners can give back through his website, helping disadvantaged children gain access to inspiring books.
📚 Learn more and connect with Dennis at www.realimpactbook.com 🎧 Tune in now to hear how perseverance, gratitude, and learning from mistakes can create a lasting impact.
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/chatting-with-betsy--4211847/support.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello everyone, this is Betsy Worthal. You're a host of
Chatting See I'm passed your old talk radio network, a
subsidiary of Global Media Network llc Ora mont Is to educate, enlightened,
and entertain. The views of the guest may not represent
those hosts of the station. Folks. I'm excited as always
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to have you join me on my show to listen
wherever you are. Thank you, and I just want to
make two public service announcements before I announce my guest.
One is that it is September and September is World
Alzheimer's Awareness Months, So if you have any concerns about
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your memory, please consult your primary care physician. And if
you are seeking support, we have plenty of guests that
we're on Chatting with Betsy the wonderful resource. And also
it is Suicide Prevention Months. If you are struggling, please
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call the Christis Line nine eighty eight and seek your
primary care physician for referrals in the area which you
live in. And with me today is Dennis J. Henson.
He was a guest back in February and I'm so
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glad he's joining me again today. Dennis J. Henson is
a successful real estate investor with over fifty years of experience.
Dennis is a teacher, business owner, best selling author, and
international speaker. His students is on the most successful business
owners in Texas. His books on business of improvement and
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real estate are changing lives. Dennis is a long time
president of VANGUARDY Marketing and Investments in Corporation name of
his book, which I highly recommend. It is full of
wonderful inspiring stories, Real impact, daily inspiration. I'm wan to
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welcome you back, Dennis Jay Henson to Chenning with Betsy.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Thank you, Verte, thank you. I really appreciate you having me.
I always enjoy visiting with you.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Oh, thank you. And I really enjoyed our chat the
last time. And just to refresh people's memories. And if
you had didn't listen to Dennis back in February, go
back and listen to Dennis, because it was really an
excellent shop. I have to say so myself, what inspired
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you to write Real Impact?
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Well? I collecting books on success when I first went
into business. Need that I went to work for it.
Gave me three books and they changed my life. I
had never been introduced to self help books and I
didn't know about who hastily been latitude or anything like that.
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And I read those books and oh my gosh, it
gave me such a high. I was just exhilarated, and
I wanted more. So I asked everyone that I knew
who was successful, what books are you reading? And so
I continued to do that for fifty years, and I
only kept the list of the ones that really really
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shook me, like they went reached inside and pucked my heartstrings.
They really got me motivated. So I also started collecting
poems and quotes and short stories. So I was on
the podcast one time, a real estate podcast, and the
host said, innis flying. Why are your students It's so
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amazingly successful, And I said, well, I have them changed
their habits. You know, if they can form success habits,
it will become successful. Then he said, well, what's the
number one success habit? I thought for a second, and
I said, well, form the habit of reading something positive
every day that moves you towards your goat. And after
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the podcast was overright, ohow man, that was the right answer.
Wouldn't it be wonderful if there were some kind of
a tool to make it really easy to form that
habit because it's such a powerful habit. Then it hit me.
I mean it was almost like somebody reached down and
grabbed me on the shoulder and shook me. Hey, you've
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been collecting these things for fifty years. You can put
them in a book, and people can form that habit
reading something really, really powerful, regardless of the time. If
they have five minutes, they can read a super poem.
If they only have a few seconds, they can read
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one or two quotes. If they're at the airport, they're
waiting on the plane, they have three hours, they can
read one of the books it's listed in the bike,
which are powerful books. Or they can read a short story,
which may take anywhere from five minutes to thirty minutes.
So I started working. The thought, well, I have all
the stuff in my computer, I mean, collecting it for years.
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I'll put that together and in a couple of months
I'll have the book and it'll be ready to go
and I can use it with my training. So I
started working, and I worked every day for six years.
I started in twenty eighteen and I finished in twenty
twenty four. And it had to be perfect, and the
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hardest part of putting it together was eliminating because I
had to me I had one hundred stories and they
wouldn't all fit in one book and get the poems
and quotes everything else. So I'm very pleased with it.
And the thing that really thrills me it's going to
Amazon and reading the reviews. I just love to go
there and the people love the book. And I'm over
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one hundred reviews of five star average, which is not
easy to do. And it's been an Amazon number one
best seller. The largest book club in the world had
me for a Book of the Month this book the
Yeager the Yegger Book Club, so it's won some other awards.
I'm just really thrilled with it. And I think anybody
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that just takes the time and go and look at
the book and give it a chance, it can change
their life. And I know you've read part of the
book and you can attest it's amazing. Yeah, something you
look forward to the next day so you can read
some more.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
That's what I love about this book, Dennis. It's a
book that you can just pick up, read, you know,
a story, read a poem, and it is very inspiring.
And you mentioned something that I said often on my
show giving someone a book can change their life, can
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change the direction of their lives. I've heard it by
many guests, and you're saying the same. And this book
real impact, really inspiration, can change someone's life. It will
give someone inspiration, It will give someone hope that's feeling down.
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Would you be making a second part of this book
of the stories that you didn't put in the first one.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
It's even better than that. My initial plan was to
do a book one and two for the stories that
I left out. So I started on the book too,
and I was working on it, and I tried to
keep these stories. I didn't want to get too spiritual,
because if you do, I didn't want to turn someone
off because I had gotten into spiritual hockey and I
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just stuck with success. But I kept finding these stories
that were just so powerful miracles that happened, and I thought, well,
I'll do a book three, which is kind of a
spiritual number. And book three is better than book one
and two. It's just miracle after miracle after miracle of
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people who were in desperate condition and all of a
sudden things exchanged for and I love reading it. I
could just read it every day. But I'm glad you
asked that. And I'm writing other books. I'm writing The
Seven Secrets of Success, The Laws of Nature for Success,
as Burning Desire, Wisdom, Statue of God in Man. So
(09:05):
I'm busy, you know, I'm yeah, it kind of runs
it well, but I right, every day, all right, two
to three thousand words a day every day.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Wow, that's incredible. When what's your third book come out?
The Spirituous?
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Well, I'm not sure when that one will be finished.
I have finished five books on real estate, which is
a series, and they will be coming out shortly.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
The next book is a success book, The Seven Secrets
of Success. We've think we just I just gave it
to my secretary of descend to the the person who
gets it ready and publishes it.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
So the Seventh Secrets will be the next one that
probably your audience would be most interested in. But hopefully
by the end of this year or part part way
through next year, we'll have that second and third read
impact book completed.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Well, I have to say this, Dennis, So reading this
book real impact, daily inspiration and knowing your successful career,
I'm sure the Seventh Secrets, says, is going to be
another blockbuster. It's gonna be another bestseller and people should
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definitely consider purchasing that. That is for sure, because if
you want to book how to do something, you've got
to go to the to the masters. Like I say,
we have to go to the experts. And you're definitely
an expert about being successful. You're welcome, You're welcome. Uh.
(10:53):
I wanted to discuss, folks. They're this book real impact
test stories about many different people. One story stands out
and that did Selvesti Stallone, the famous actor, writer, director,
And it just struck me, Dennis, because I didn't know
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how down and out Sylvester Stallone was. I mean, he
gave up his dog, he was sleeping in there's a
car or at the train station and he just hung
in there and went to different studios about his first movie, Rocky.
(11:41):
And can you tell us how you found out about
the story and expand on that because it's very inspiring.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
When I was teaching, I said a lot of students
on for real estate investing, and part of their teaching
was motivation. Wanted them to be motivated to get up
and go out and do stuff. So I was always
looking for stories that had that kick, you know that
made him realize, Hey, it doesn't matter what condition you're
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in right now. The only thing that matters is what
you do. And I saw a headline that says the
saddest story in Hollywood, and I thought, I'll read that
and see employed. When I read that story, I thought, mind,
just like you. That is amazing. Now. The story I
read was abbreviated what's in the book. I did a
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lot of research and added a lot to it, but
it was basically that he was having a difficult time.
He was so broke out of it that he had
to sell his dog, which was his best friend, so
that the dog would be able to eat, and it
broke his heart. He got twenty He got twenty five
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dollars and came out crying, tears running down his eyes.
But he thought, well, at least he'll be able to
be fed. So then it was shortly after that that
he saw the fight with Ali and the bayon bruiser
and wrote the screenplay and he went for an addition,
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and while he was there, he thought, well, I'll tell
these producers that I have a screenplay, and he told
them and they kind of slucked him off and said, yeah,
we'll look at it, and to their surprise, he came
back the next day and did have a screenplay and
they read it and they loved it, and they offered
him a tremendous amount of money. It was like three
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hundred and fifty if you'll give me the screenplay. He said,
I'll do Yeah, I'll do that, but I have to
be the lead in the play. Well, they didn't want him.
They wanted Brian Onneill, one of the leading stars of
the day. They wanted a big star to play it.
And he said, well, I'm already used to being broke.
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I'll just take my chances. And he turned it down.
He turned down that kind of money, and he was
homeless and broke and didn't have enough food to feed
his dollars. Well, they really wanted it, so they came
back and made a different offer where he would be
the lead. But he only got thirty five thousand dollars
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and he had to spend fifteen thousand dollars to get
his dog, Buckers back. It cost him fifteen of his
thirty five. But he wanted it back so bad that
he spent the majority a lot of the money to
get the dog back. And the dog's in the movie.
So if you ever go back and see Rocky Looked
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for Buckets, he's one of the stars of the movie.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
That is incredible. He you know, hung in there. Oh
and I had to make a correction, folks, So Vester
Stallone didn't even own a car. He was living in
a bus station. So imagine living in a bus station.
From that to winning Oscar, he won Oscars for Best Picture,
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Best Directing, and Best Film Editing, and received six other nominations,
and the picture was even inducted into the American National
Film Registry as one of the greatest movies ever made.
That is just phenomenal. I was inspired because you know,
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you sometimes you think, oh, can it get any worse?
You know what's going on, and it's I think Denis
is like from people and they always say it's darkest
before dawn, and you know there is light at the
end of the tunnel. And if you just hang in
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there and just have I think faith in and yourself
faith in a supreme being. I'm not going to tell
people what to believe in. That's not what I'm here for.
But I think that really helps get to where you
want to go.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Do you agree, yes, that's uh. We talked about the
Seven Secrets of Success my new book, and that's the
seventh secrets to be persistent. You know you're going to
get knocked down. That's part of being successful is but
what do you do when you get knocked down? If
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you could just keep getting up? That yeah, one of
the keys.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Yes, and I maybe it was in a Rocky one
of Rocky's movie where he's saying, yeah, you're gonna get
knocked down. It's yet, can't be making excuses and blaming people.
It's getting in there, getting in the ring, and you're
gonna get beaten up. Life. We'll beat you up, and
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life will knock you down. It's getting back up that is.
I think the sacred sauce, you know, getting back up
and you know, trying again and again. I mean you have.
It's not in the book, but I'm just thinking, like JK.
Rowling right in the Harry Potter series, she was turned
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down and turned down so many times, living in her car,
she became successful. The actor and director. Are you familiar
with Chad's Palmitary? He wrote The Bronx Tale.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
I've heard the names lately.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Familiar but no, Yeah, he was in well, he did
a Bronx Tale and he again he was broke. He
kept shopping it around. They wanted he wanted to be
in the main star and he was doing a one
man show about it, and Robert de Niro happened to
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come into that watch him, and Robert de Niro said,
I will you know, play your dad and I will
direct it. And it became phenomenal. It's a wonderful movie.
And then he got you know, other roles. But it's
hanging in that is good the key and I just
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had to say, Dennis, and I know I say this
all the time, but I have learned such an appreciation
for a life after watching my husband die. My husband's
only sixty six. My brother was sixty seven, And people
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will say, now, Betsy, how can you be grateful for
your journey with Alzheimer's with their husband he had it young.
Because of that journey changed my life, made me a
better person, brought me to where I am today, where
I'm helping other people. So I am thankful for that journey,
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as sayful as it was, because it inspired me and
helped change my life. And we have rough patches that
we go through, right.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Well, one of the keys, actually the very first key
and the most important keyper that says is to get
your mind right. And what you're saying is you know,
being grateful. Look, you're in this life. Things are going
to go bad. You have a choice. If you want
to be happy, you have to be grateful. If you
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want to be sad, then don't be grateful and just
you know, be bitter and it will ruin your life.
Things are going to happen. You've just got to deal
with what happens. And if you want to feel good,
then start counting your blessings, looking for the things that
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you have to be thankful for. You're still alive. You
can breathe, their hands work. You know. There's a poem
in the book about a person that was going through
the day and he saw the lady with beautiful, well,
a beautiful hair, and maybe it was a she she thought, oh,
what beautiful hair. And then and then as the person
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walked by and she was crippled, and she thought, oh, well,
I may not have beautiful hair, but I've got my legs.
So the world belongs to me. And the night of
the poem is the world is mine. It's a beautiful poem.
In fact, all the poems in the back of the
book are like that. If you're down, just go read
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a couple of those and it'll make you appreciate what
you have.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Absolutely I had. I had to share the story with
you in the audience, Dennis, and this is just shows
you how your perspective can change on how you view things.
This summer, my washer and my dryer both stopped working
at the same time and took a couple of weeks
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to get it fixed. And I was going to laundry
mat and I was thinking, oh wow, why did this,
you know, thinking why did this happen? Then they said,
wait a minute, Betsy, while you're in dryer, that's nothing
that could be fixed. And you are healthy, thankfully, or
healthy you could drag that stuff to the launching net
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and you this is nothing. This gonna be fixed. There
are people with much worse problems. And I have my health.
And my grandmother would say, Betsy, when you have your health,
you have everything, and that is true. And when I
change my perspective, then I said, okay, this will be six.
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This is nothing. This is a little glitch. And my
attitude was much better.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Sure, And in the real estate business we get hit
all the time with unexpected bills. If you've got sixty houses,
you're in the summer, you're going to have five or
six air conditioners that go out. It's going to cost
you six or eight thousand dollars and you just got
to write a check and fix them. So the way
I look at it is this, Oh, I'm so glad
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I have the money to do this. That's the difference
in your mindset. You can no, another air condition went out.
There's thousands of dollars. What am I going to do?
You can think that, or you can think, oh, well
I have the money in the bank to pay it. Now,
I'm blessed. It's your mental attitude. It determines how you feel.
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In fact, I have a little new promo for the book.
It says this, Do you want to sleep better? Would
you like to feel better all the time? Do you
want to look beautiful? Do you want to make more money?
Would you like to have or blood pressure? Or a
new home? How about a new car? Would you like
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to be respected among everyone you know? Okay, conform the
habit of reading something positive every day that moves you
toward whatever goal you have. Whichever of those goals, and
you may think, well, I have time to read something
positive every day. Well, yes you do if you use
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this book, because it's written to fit into whatever time
you do have, and it's powerful and you can take
it and it'll leads you to other books. You don't
have to go out search, Oh, what I'm going to
read next? Well, no, there's a hundred books in there
that you can read backs and they're in priority order.
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Read this one first, second, third, fourth, fifth, So you
don't even have to make any decisions. You just you
just did the habits, read the books, and I'll guarantee
you it'll change your life. But we haven't told everybody
how to get the book or where to get in?
Is okay if I do that?
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Sure? Before you do that, Dennis, can I read two
quotes from your book? I tell you about circumstances? This
just like hit me right right in the face right now.
Here is one quote, we can let circumstances rule us,
or we can take charge and rule our lives from
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within Earl Nightingale. And another one is you never know
how far a bullfrock and jump when it's sitting on
the creek bank by Charles Bowden. Uh, that's that's phenomenon.
I really like that. But yes, go ahead, you can
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share where people can buy the book.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Well, if everyone would go to real impact book dot com.
There's three free gifts. If you scroll to the bottom
where it says podcast attendee and click on that, there's
three gifts for you, no strings, wonderful gifts and you'll
be so pleased that you've got those. And that website
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is where you go to find out where to purchase
this book, the other books that are coming up. How
to be notified if you would like to. It has
the mystery the lamp. There's a picture of a Laddin's
lamp on the front of the book, and that website
solves the mystery. It has the magic formula how to
(26:10):
use the book and get whatever you want. It has
every month a free ebook, so you can come back
every month and get a new book to read for
that month. And it's going I guarantee it's a wonderful book.
There's a game where it says the lamp escape from
one of the covers and it's somewhere in this website. Remember,
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the website has lots of different pages. You have to
click on the different links. But if you find the
lamp and send us an email. We'll send you the
audio book, which is like an eighteen dollar value. There's
a place where you can help the children by donating
these books to the children, and a place to contact
me in case you need to talk with me, or
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want me to speak, or just want to know something
about what's coming next.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
Well, that is excellent information. I've been on the website
and it is quite a phenomenon. I'm going to read
one of your quotes, Dennis from your book. I love this,
except discord it is inevitable, but strive for harmony. Wow,
(27:26):
that is powerful. There's folks, I'm telling you, not only
the quotes, the poems. You do have a list. There's
a list of all these books that can change your
life by reading them. And there's just so many stories.
(27:48):
There's Mary Kay in here. You wouldn't have heard of
Mary Kay cosmetics. There's her story which is very inspiring.
I learned more about Abraham Link from reading your book, Dennis,
of what his life was like, and of course Didney
(28:08):
Walt Disney, and you know, we sometimes we put out
ourselves in boxes, you know, and we limit ourselves or
we limit ourselves because someone said we can't do something
or we're good enough. Don't listen to those people. You know,
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Walt Disney was told he wasn't creative enough. Can you
believe that? And look he created It's just incredible. I
think Glynn Eastwood was told he couldn't act, and you know,
it's just really amazing. The people that we know who
(28:59):
were run down over and over again told they were
challenged and went and became very successful.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Exactly. Uh, there's a story about Clint Eastwood and Burt
Reynolds were setting out in front of one of the
Hollywood studios and they had both lost their job on
the same day. Burt Reynolds marked the job and the
gun smoke and Clint Eastwood lost his job and raw
eye and they were sitting out on a curb wondering
(29:30):
what they were going to do next. Is that is
they figured it out? They had wonderful careers. Yeah, the
story of Clint Eastwood is in book two. And you
just cannot imagine what you're going to learn about Clint
Eastwood in book two. It's just hit. His story is
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is very powerful, very powerful. He almost lost his life
a couple of times. You know, just like Disney. Disney
almost watched his life several times in that story, but
he got back up, dusted off his pants, and went
on to become super successful. He did die pretty young,
though he could have done so much more if he
(30:17):
could have just lived fifty more years.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
Yes, yes, he was diable. He was trying to get
the Disney it's it called Disneyland, disney World. That's died
in Florida.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
We were planning to build Epcot Center in Disney World,
and he passed away before disney World was built, and
his brother, Roy was retiring, but he came out of
retirement and said, I'm going to do this for my
little brother, and he renamed it disney World. So if
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it wasn't for Roy, we wouldn't have one disney World. Wow,
that epcutt yet they have a little FCOT section. But
he was planning to build the city of the future,
and it was going to be big and it was
going to have things that no other city ever had.
In every city from that point forward would pattern after that,
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so our world would be different. Had Disney lived just
a little longer, same way with Lincoln and some of
the other people. But what they did while they were
here was pretty amazing.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
Yes, yes, that's the short Clint Eastwood. I think he
turned ninety five recently. He was still directing. He was
still you know, making movies and to his nineties.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
Yeah and right, they're still good, yes, yes, very very
good movies.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
I forgot the last movie I Star with him went
right out of my head, but that was really good.
I always enjoyed watching Clint Eastwood movies and it you know,
we get inspiration from reading about real people who had
(32:30):
real struggles. You know, sometimes people think, oh, well, you
know that wasn't real. That's make believe. Now, these are
real stories. They're not make believe at all, people. These
are real stories about people that were very successful after
they had a very tough time. You even have a
(32:50):
story about it's been a while since the read about
the Hershey company, am I right about? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (32:58):
Yes, yeah. Hershey always wanted to be in the candy business.
And he would start a business and he would fail.
He would try really hard, and he would move to
another city and he started and he would fail, and
he failed, and he failed and he failed, and finally
(33:18):
he came up with a caramel recipe that was so
good that he was able to put a business together,
and a bank loaned in a lot of money because
he got a big order and it was just kind
of a miracle that he got the big order, but
he did. So he started his business. It was a
caramel business, but he had worked in Denver in a
(33:40):
candy company who who was doing experiments with new machinery
making chocolate. And he always thought, that's when I want chocolate,
I want to make chocolate. I want to make milk
chocolate candy for the masses. Well, at that time, most
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people couldn't afford to eat chocolate. It was really expensive
and unless you had lots of money and could you know,
afford something really luxurious, you didn't get chocolate. Well, he
he wanted to come up with a chocolate and milk
that kind of diluted and made it, made it less expensive,
(34:22):
but it's still tasted good. And once she got his
camel business up and made enough money, he built a
chocolate factory and experimented for years and he failed and
failed and failed, and it just looked like it wasn't
ever going to happen until one day there was a breakthrough.
(34:44):
And it's what we know is Hershey's chocolate, the chocolate
bar that we get and the little Hershey's drops. What
do they call those little hershey drops? They were any
good kissing? Yeah, they kisses. Yeah. It's the same formula
that they created then and it took off. People loved
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it and it was affordable. So the chocolate that most
people know of now is that formula what Hershey created.
And it would have never happened had he been someone
who would quit when he got knocked down. And he
got knocked down over and over and over. But it's
fun to read the story to see how resilient he was.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
Yes, Yes, And thinking of Hershey's Kisses has a wonderful
memory for me. Every anniversary of Valentine's Day, my husband
loves her She's Kisses. I buy him a little mini
bag and put in his lunch of hers She's Kisses
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and he really enjoyed that. So your book not only
inspired me, Dennis, but it made me think of wonderful
memories of my own wife. And I have to thank
you for that. And do you have a story about
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I don't think I read that one about Benjamin Franklin
who kept trying to invent electricity, kept trying and trying
and trying.
Speaker 2 (36:31):
Yes, he believed that there was electricity in lightning, but
he didn't there wasn't a way to prove it, and
so he did lots of experiments, and finally he put
a key on our cot string and the string was wet,
and the light and called the cot string and came
(36:52):
down and hit the key, which proved that to him
that there was electricity in lightning. And so from that
he invented the lightning rod and did some other things.
He was quite an inventor, not just that, but he
had been an awful lot of things.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
And yes, yeah, and you know it's really incredible. I mean,
I live in New Jersey sometimes its Edison is very
popular to have a little museum not just far from
where I live. Creating the light bulb, well, he tried
like ninety nine times they strike out and wow, ten
(37:34):
thousand times wow, because I thought I heard a quote
like I think with him that said it something to
the effect of, well, I know ninety nine ways that
it doesn't work.
Speaker 2 (37:48):
Right. Yeah, I didn't. I didn't fail. I just I
just found ten thousand ways it wouldn't work, you know, Yeah, Edits.
But he had been in most of his stuffed after
his mid sixties. In sixties, he wanted to be an inventor,
and he was an inventor, but he had an invented
(38:10):
anything that unmounted too much. But he had a big
laboratory and lots of employees and lots of experience experiments
going on. Well back then, all of the buildings were
made of wood. And one of his experiments went bad
and it caught his lamb on fire, and it burned
(38:33):
to the ground. Everything he'd been working on, all of
his notes, all of his experiments, everything was gone, and
his wife and daughter came up while the fire was burning.
I guessed the consultant, and he said, oh, honey, look
at that beautiful blaze. You know you'll never see anything
(38:54):
like that again in your life. Isn't that amazing? And
the next day he started over, and everything that he invented,
which was quite a lot of things that we know
about today, was after that. So you know, no matter
how bad things get or how low you are, you
(39:16):
know you can always get up, dust your pants off,
and go again, you know. Klonel Sanders was when in
his late sixties before he finally found something that worked,
which was a recipe for his chicken. But it wasn't
It didn't instantly catch off. He had to Well that's
in one of my new books. He had to call
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on people for a couple of years. He called on
four or five restaurants a day and make chicken for them,
and all he heard was no, no, no no no
no no no no no no, until finally someone said
yes and things turned around for him at that time.
And you know, you see his picture everywhere now. I
(40:00):
mean he's famous for his Kentucky Fried chicken.
Speaker 1 (40:04):
Yeah. And he was in his seventies, wasn't he.
Speaker 2 (40:08):
Well, it was in late sixties, yeah, yeah, when he
actually invented the recipe eleven nerves and spoties. Yeah, and
so yeah, he was in the seventies when it actually
when he sold the franchise and made the three I
think it was three million dollars. Uh, wow, made a
lot more, but you know, three million dollars at that
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time was a lot of money.
Speaker 1 (40:32):
Yeah. Yeah, And that that also shows that it's like
people think, oh, well, you know, I'm sixty or seventy eighty,
I can't do that until old Well, no you're not.
I have interviewed people writing books for the first time
in their seventies and eighties and being best seller of us. Wow,
(40:58):
so God bless it. And you know, and that's the
thing to keep going, to keep your mind active. And
I think that, and I've heard this before until I
get too many business people that people who they don't
(41:21):
look at it as sailing when something don't work out.
They look at it as a learning lesson. Okay, this
didn't work, I'm gonna try something else. Fail failure to me,
and I think to people that are very successful, it's
not even trying, not even taking the first step to
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try what you want to do. So what if you
make a mistake, You'll learn from it and go on.
Speaker 2 (41:55):
It's funny. I have a close friend that came up
with a brilliant idea about a little party. It was right.
It was right next to a state park which is
always full. And he bought forty acres right next to
that and was going to build these little cabins. And
he had the plan. He got to s be a loan.
(42:16):
Everything was going great until one little thing came up
that you know, it looked insurmountable to him, and I said, well, no,
that's that's really not insurmountable. You just need to do
this and this and it'll be okay. But he was
convinced that that was going to stop him, so he
stopped and it all just fell apart. And it's to me, Oh,
(42:42):
just broke my heart. And I thought, oh, my goodness,
because he was going to make millions and millions of dollars.
But he just you know, some people just can't understand
that you don't just go out there and win. There's
always going to be obstacle. There's always going to be
things you have to overcome. And part of the test
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to see if you're worthy is are you willing to
stand in there and overcome it. That's that's one of
the keys to being successful. It's persistence. You just don't quit.
Speaker 1 (43:17):
That's true. I have to read this other poem, a poem,
a quote from doctor Martin Luther King Jr. This is amazing.
This is why I get those book, folks, because the quotes,
the quotes alone will inspire you every day. So there's
a quote from doctor Martin Luther King Jr. The ultimate
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measure of a man is not where he stands in
moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at
times of a challenge and controversy. Isn't that the truth?
That is they're true? Go ahead, then they quote.
Speaker 2 (44:01):
Not just quotes, and anybody can go out and pick
some motivational quotes and put them in a book. You
can do that and they may be good and they
may not. Those quotes were collected over a fifty year
period where I heard it. It inspired me so much
that I stopped what I was doing. I captured it,
(44:22):
and I put it in a place where I could
keep it. So you can just literally open the book.
Open the book to any quote in there. I challenge you,
I don't care which one, and read it and it
will be inspiring. There's not a single quote in there
that I have any question that's not inspiring. That's that's
(44:45):
how I feel about it, because it it was a
hard job to keep it from keep these quotes from
nineteen seventy five until now, you know, preserve them so
that they made the bar you got in the book.
Speaker 1 (45:02):
Well, there's a wonderful quote. It's a very very inspirational.
I heard a pastor one time say, mind to be
The quote of Martin Luther King Jr. Is if you
want to see what a true character of a person is.
When they have problems and they get shaken up. You'll
(45:26):
see what's stilled out. And that's very true. That is
so true. I just really enjoy talking to you today, Dennis.
I know you're a very busy guy, and so I
thank you for spending time with me today to go
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over your your book again. How inspirational it is, how
motivational it is, and how it can help someone just
reading a chapter of a poem, a quote. I got
inspired just reading these quotes doing the show. I got inspired.
(46:12):
Excuse me and talking to you, and I look forward
to talking to you again when your new book comes out.
So just contact me when your Seven Secrets of Success
comes out because I would love to talk to you
about that book.
Speaker 2 (46:33):
Well, thank you so much. I really appreciate that. I
appreciate you having the wonderful things that you say. I
appreciate your audience. I hope they will get the book
and it will change their life. I hope that they
will think of other people that would benefit from it
and give it as a gift. Someone told me this yesterday.
(46:54):
You know, people do not throw books away if you
give them Anne hardcover book and this one comes into hardcover.
If you give a nice hardcover book and put something
in it, they'll put it in the bookshift and keep
it forever. So if you're thinking of a legacy gift
for a grandchild or a nephew, or someone graduating from
high school to college, or if you have someone in
(47:17):
the nursing home, people in the nursing homes really love
these books and they can read them and talk to
each other about them. So it's it makes a nice gift,
and it's inexpensive. Where else can you get a really
really nice gift for less than forty dollars. I mean,
that's true, A pretty good, pretty good deal.
Speaker 1 (47:39):
That's true. This is a book that I will keep.
I give a lot of books away to a veterans group,
but I am keeping this book because I need inspiration
and I could just pick it up, read a chapter
about somebody, quote or poem. This is a book to
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have for someone's lifetime. And you know what, it's September,
but before you know it, it's going to be holiday time.
Sat as time goes, this is a great book to
give for holidays, Birthday, Mother's Day, Father's Day, any occasion,
just to say hey, I'm thinking of you. You know
(48:26):
someone who's having a rough time, who's struggling, given this
book as a gift, I think would definitely would would
help inspire them. I just really think it's a great book,
and I hope people will go on your website Dennis
and buy it, which is Real Impact book dot Com.
(48:51):
Go on that website, folks, all the information about Dennis
day Hens that will be in the blog that gen
Waite writes and they could connect twits you on your
Real Impact book dot com website, Dennis, there's a link
that saysn't contact us.
Speaker 2 (49:10):
It literally has my phone number. You can call myself now.
You can send me an email or whatever if you
want to connect, and if you'd like to have me
speak for a group, or if you just want to talk.
Maybe you need cheering up, you know, I enjoyed people.
Speaker 1 (49:28):
That is also I just want to say, anyone's listening
who belongs to a book club, this is a great book.
Contact Dennis to have him speak to your book club
via zoom or however you want to do it, because
this is really a would be a wonderful book for
(49:50):
a book club, very inspiring. So thank you again. Dennis.
You heard Dennis jayh who is author and writer. Award
winning author and writer, a real impact, daily inspiration, makes
a wonderful gift, folks. I highly encourage you to buy
(50:13):
this book by two buy one for yourself and get
one as a gift to someone. And another great idea
donate it. Buy a book donated to a nursing home,
Donate it to a veterans home. A veterans home, they
would love this book. They would just love it.
Speaker 2 (50:33):
There on the website so that you can donate in
the book. Everything that you donate goes to word purchasing
the book for the kids. There's no it's for kids
and disadvantaged communities that need their life changed. Yes, yeah,
there's no override. It all goes directly into purchasing the books.
Speaker 1 (50:56):
Yes, this would be a wonderful book for this advantage
children to read about other people who were disadvantaged just
like them. And they made it. So I'm gonna thank
you again Dennis Jahnsen for coming on the show. And
I wanted to thank Lillie Caldwell, who's CEO of Patch
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primary care physician for referrals in the area which you
live in. And with me today is Dennis J. Henson.
He was a guest back in February and I'm so
(01:27):
glad he's joining me again today. Dennis J. Henson is
a successful real estate investor with over fifty years of experience.
Dennis is a teacher, business owner, best selling author, and
international speaker. His students is on the most successful business
owners in Texas. His books on business of improvement and
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real estate are changing lives. Dennis is a long time
president of VANGUARDY Marketing and Investments in Corporation name of
his book, which I highly recommend. It is full of
wonderful inspiring stories, Real impact, daily inspiration. I'm wan to
(02:11):
welcome you back, Dennis Jay Henson to Chenning with Betsy.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Thank you, Verte, thank you. I really appreciate you having me.
I always enjoy visiting with you.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Oh, thank you. And I really enjoyed our chat the
last time. And just to refresh people's memories. And if
you had didn't listen to Dennis back in February, go
back and listen to Dennis, because it was really an
excellent shop. I have to say so myself, what inspired
(02:47):
you to write Real Impact?
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Well? I collecting books on success when I first went
into business. Need that I went to work for it.
Gave me three books and they changed my life. I
had never been introduced to self help books and I
didn't know about who hastily been latitude or anything like that.
(03:13):
And I read those books and oh my gosh, it
gave me such a high. I was just exhilarated, and
I wanted more. So I asked everyone that I knew
who was successful, what books are you reading? And so
I continued to do that for fifty years, and I
only kept the list of the ones that really really
(03:37):
shook me, like they went reached inside and pucked my heartstrings.
They really got me motivated. So I also started collecting
poems and quotes and short stories. So I was on
the podcast one time, a real estate podcast, and the
host said, innis flying. Why are your students It's so
(04:00):
amazingly successful, And I said, well, I have them changed
their habits. You know, if they can form success habits,
it will become successful. Then he said, well, what's the
number one success habit? I thought for a second, and
I said, well, form the habit of reading something positive
every day that moves you towards your goat. And after
(04:24):
the podcast was overright, ohow man, that was the right answer.
Wouldn't it be wonderful if there were some kind of
a tool to make it really easy to form that
habit because it's such a powerful habit. Then it hit me.
I mean it was almost like somebody reached down and
grabbed me on the shoulder and shook me. Hey, you've
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been collecting these things for fifty years. You can put
them in a book, and people can form that habit
reading something really, really powerful, regardless of the time. If
they have five minutes, they can read a super poem.
If they only have a few seconds, they can read
(05:06):
one or two quotes. If they're at the airport, they're
waiting on the plane, they have three hours, they can
read one of the books it's listed in the bike,
which are powerful books. Or they can read a short story,
which may take anywhere from five minutes to thirty minutes.
So I started working. The thought, well, I have all
the stuff in my computer, I mean, collecting it for years.
(05:29):
I'll put that together and in a couple of months
I'll have the book and it'll be ready to go
and I can use it with my training. So I
started working, and I worked every day for six years.
I started in twenty eighteen and I finished in twenty
twenty four. And it had to be perfect, and the
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hardest part of putting it together was eliminating because I
had to me I had one hundred stories and they
wouldn't all fit in one book and get the poems
and quotes everything else. So I'm very pleased with it.
And the thing that really thrills me it's going to
Amazon and reading the reviews. I just love to go
there and the people love the book. And I'm over
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one hundred reviews of five star average, which is not
easy to do. And it's been an Amazon number one
best seller. The largest book club in the world had
me for a Book of the Month this book the
Yeager the Yegger Book Club, so it's won some other awards.
I'm just really thrilled with it. And I think anybody
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that just takes the time and go and look at
the book and give it a chance, it can change
their life. And I know you've read part of the
book and you can attest it's amazing. Yeah, something you
look forward to the next day so you can read
some more.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
That's what I love about this book, Dennis. It's a
book that you can just pick up, read, you know,
a story, read a poem, and it is very inspiring.
And you mentioned something that I said often on my
show giving someone a book can change their life, can
(07:21):
change the direction of their lives. I've heard it by
many guests, and you're saying the same. And this book
real impact, really inspiration, can change someone's life. It will
give someone inspiration, It will give someone hope that's feeling down.
(07:45):
Would you be making a second part of this book
of the stories that you didn't put in the first one.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
It's even better than that. My initial plan was to
do a book one and two for the stories that
I left out. So I started on the book too,
and I was working on it, and I tried to
keep these stories. I didn't want to get too spiritual,
because if you do, I didn't want to turn someone
off because I had gotten into spiritual hockey and I
(08:17):
just stuck with success. But I kept finding these stories
that were just so powerful miracles that happened, and I thought, well,
I'll do a book three, which is kind of a
spiritual number. And book three is better than book one
and two. It's just miracle after miracle after miracle of
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people who were in desperate condition and all of a
sudden things exchanged for and I love reading it. I
could just read it every day. But I'm glad you
asked that. And I'm writing other books. I'm writing The
Seven Secrets of Success, The Laws of Nature for Success,
as Burning Desire, Wisdom, Statue of God in Man. So
(09:05):
I'm busy, you know, I'm yeah, it kind of runs
it well, but I right, every day, all right, two
to three thousand words a day every day.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Wow, that's incredible. When what's your third book come out?
The Spirituous?
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Well, I'm not sure when that one will be finished.
I have finished five books on real estate, which is
a series, and they will be coming out shortly.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
The next book is a success book, The Seven Secrets
of Success. We've think we just I just gave it
to my secretary of descend to the the person who
gets it ready and publishes it.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
So the Seventh Secrets will be the next one that
probably your audience would be most interested in. But hopefully
by the end of this year or part part way
through next year, we'll have that second and third read
impact book completed.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Well, I have to say this, Dennis, So reading this
book real impact, daily inspiration and knowing your successful career,
I'm sure the Seventh Secrets, says, is going to be
another blockbuster. It's gonna be another bestseller and people should
(10:31):
definitely consider purchasing that. That is for sure, because if
you want to book how to do something, you've got
to go to the to the masters. Like I say,
we have to go to the experts. And you're definitely
an expert about being successful. You're welcome, You're welcome. Uh.
(10:53):
I wanted to discuss, folks. They're this book real impact
test stories about many different people. One story stands out
and that did Selvesti Stallone, the famous actor, writer, director,
And it just struck me, Dennis, because I didn't know
(11:17):
how down and out Sylvester Stallone was. I mean, he
gave up his dog, he was sleeping in there's a
car or at the train station and he just hung
in there and went to different studios about his first movie, Rocky.
(11:41):
And can you tell us how you found out about
the story and expand on that because it's very inspiring.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
When I was teaching, I said a lot of students
on for real estate investing, and part of their teaching
was motivation. Wanted them to be motivated to get up
and go out and do stuff. So I was always
looking for stories that had that kick, you know that
made him realize, Hey, it doesn't matter what condition you're
(12:15):
in right now. The only thing that matters is what
you do. And I saw a headline that says the
saddest story in Hollywood, and I thought, I'll read that
and see employed. When I read that story, I thought, mind,
just like you. That is amazing. Now. The story I
read was abbreviated what's in the book. I did a
(12:38):
lot of research and added a lot to it, but
it was basically that he was having a difficult time.
He was so broke out of it that he had
to sell his dog, which was his best friend, so
that the dog would be able to eat, and it
broke his heart. He got twenty He got twenty five
(13:01):
dollars and came out crying, tears running down his eyes.
But he thought, well, at least he'll be able to
be fed. So then it was shortly after that that
he saw the fight with Ali and the bayon bruiser
and wrote the screenplay and he went for an addition,
(13:24):
and while he was there, he thought, well, I'll tell
these producers that I have a screenplay, and he told
them and they kind of slucked him off and said, yeah,
we'll look at it, and to their surprise, he came
back the next day and did have a screenplay and
they read it and they loved it, and they offered
him a tremendous amount of money. It was like three
(13:45):
hundred and fifty if you'll give me the screenplay. He said,
I'll do Yeah, I'll do that, but I have to
be the lead in the play. Well, they didn't want him.
They wanted Brian Onneill, one of the leading stars of
the day. They wanted a big star to play it.
And he said, well, I'm already used to being broke.
(14:10):
I'll just take my chances. And he turned it down.
He turned down that kind of money, and he was
homeless and broke and didn't have enough food to feed
his dollars. Well, they really wanted it, so they came
back and made a different offer where he would be
the lead. But he only got thirty five thousand dollars
(14:30):
and he had to spend fifteen thousand dollars to get
his dog, Buckers back. It cost him fifteen of his
thirty five. But he wanted it back so bad that
he spent the majority a lot of the money to
get the dog back. And the dog's in the movie.
So if you ever go back and see Rocky Looked
(14:51):
for Buckets, he's one of the stars of the movie.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
That is incredible. He you know, hung in there. Oh
and I had to make a correction, folks, So Vester
Stallone didn't even own a car. He was living in
a bus station. So imagine living in a bus station.
From that to winning Oscar, he won Oscars for Best Picture,
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Best Directing, and Best Film Editing, and received six other nominations,
and the picture was even inducted into the American National
Film Registry as one of the greatest movies ever made.
That is just phenomenal. I was inspired because you know,
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you sometimes you think, oh, can it get any worse?
You know what's going on, and it's I think Denis
is like from people and they always say it's darkest
before dawn, and you know there is light at the
end of the tunnel. And if you just hang in
(16:05):
there and just have I think faith in and yourself
faith in a supreme being. I'm not going to tell
people what to believe in. That's not what I'm here for.
But I think that really helps get to where you
want to go.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Do you agree, yes, that's uh. We talked about the
Seven Secrets of Success my new book, and that's the
seventh secrets to be persistent. You know you're going to
get knocked down. That's part of being successful is but
what do you do when you get knocked down? If
(16:44):
you could just keep getting up? That yeah, one of
the keys.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Yes, and I maybe it was in a Rocky one
of Rocky's movie where he's saying, yeah, you're gonna get
knocked down. It's yet, can't be making excuses and blaming people.
It's getting in there, getting in the ring, and you're
gonna get beaten up. Life. We'll beat you up, and
(17:12):
life will knock you down. It's getting back up that is.
I think the sacred sauce, you know, getting back up
and you know, trying again and again. I mean you have.
It's not in the book, but I'm just thinking, like JK.
Rowling right in the Harry Potter series, she was turned
(17:36):
down and turned down so many times, living in her car,
she became successful. The actor and director. Are you familiar
with Chad's Palmitary? He wrote The Bronx Tale.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
I've heard the names lately.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Familiar but no, Yeah, he was in well, he did
a Bronx Tale and he again he was broke. He
kept shopping it around. They wanted he wanted to be
in the main star and he was doing a one
man show about it, and Robert de Niro happened to
(18:17):
come into that watch him, and Robert de Niro said,
I will you know, play your dad and I will
direct it. And it became phenomenal. It's a wonderful movie.
And then he got you know, other roles. But it's
hanging in that is good the key and I just
(18:43):
had to say, Dennis, and I know I say this
all the time, but I have learned such an appreciation
for a life after watching my husband die. My husband's
only sixty six. My brother was sixty seven, And people
(19:06):
will say, now, Betsy, how can you be grateful for
your journey with Alzheimer's with their husband he had it young.
Because of that journey changed my life, made me a
better person, brought me to where I am today, where
I'm helping other people. So I am thankful for that journey,
(19:28):
as sayful as it was, because it inspired me and
helped change my life. And we have rough patches that
we go through, right.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Well, one of the keys, actually the very first key
and the most important keyper that says is to get
your mind right. And what you're saying is you know,
being grateful. Look, you're in this life. Things are going
to go bad. You have a choice. If you want
to be happy, you have to be grateful. If you
(20:06):
want to be sad, then don't be grateful and just
you know, be bitter and it will ruin your life.
Things are going to happen. You've just got to deal
with what happens. And if you want to feel good,
then start counting your blessings, looking for the things that
(20:26):
you have to be thankful for. You're still alive. You
can breathe, their hands work. You know. There's a poem
in the book about a person that was going through
the day and he saw the lady with beautiful, well,
a beautiful hair, and maybe it was a she she thought, oh,
what beautiful hair. And then and then as the person
(20:49):
walked by and she was crippled, and she thought, oh, well,
I may not have beautiful hair, but I've got my legs.
So the world belongs to me. And the night of
the poem is the world is mine. It's a beautiful poem.
In fact, all the poems in the back of the
book are like that. If you're down, just go read
(21:10):
a couple of those and it'll make you appreciate what
you have.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Absolutely I had. I had to share the story with
you in the audience, Dennis, and this is just shows
you how your perspective can change on how you view things.
This summer, my washer and my dryer both stopped working
at the same time and took a couple of weeks
(21:41):
to get it fixed. And I was going to laundry
mat and I was thinking, oh wow, why did this,
you know, thinking why did this happen? Then they said,
wait a minute, Betsy, while you're in dryer, that's nothing
that could be fixed. And you are healthy, thankfully, or
healthy you could drag that stuff to the launching net
(22:03):
and you this is nothing. This gonna be fixed. There
are people with much worse problems. And I have my health.
And my grandmother would say, Betsy, when you have your health,
you have everything, and that is true. And when I
change my perspective, then I said, okay, this will be six.
(22:24):
This is nothing. This is a little glitch. And my
attitude was much better.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Sure, And in the real estate business we get hit
all the time with unexpected bills. If you've got sixty houses,
you're in the summer, you're going to have five or
six air conditioners that go out. It's going to cost
you six or eight thousand dollars and you just got
to write a check and fix them. So the way
I look at it is this, Oh, I'm so glad
(22:54):
I have the money to do this. That's the difference
in your mindset. You can no, another air condition went out.
There's thousands of dollars. What am I going to do?
You can think that, or you can think, oh, well
I have the money in the bank to pay it. Now,
I'm blessed. It's your mental attitude. It determines how you feel.
(23:17):
In fact, I have a little new promo for the book.
It says this, Do you want to sleep better? Would
you like to feel better all the time? Do you
want to look beautiful? Do you want to make more money?
Would you like to have or blood pressure? Or a
new home? How about a new car? Would you like
(23:38):
to be respected among everyone you know? Okay, conform the
habit of reading something positive every day that moves you
toward whatever goal you have. Whichever of those goals, and
you may think, well, I have time to read something
positive every day. Well, yes you do if you use
(23:58):
this book, because it's written to fit into whatever time
you do have, and it's powerful and you can take
it and it'll leads you to other books. You don't
have to go out search, Oh, what I'm going to
read next? Well, no, there's a hundred books in there
that you can read backs and they're in priority order.
(24:19):
Read this one first, second, third, fourth, fifth, So you
don't even have to make any decisions. You just you
just did the habits, read the books, and I'll guarantee
you it'll change your life. But we haven't told everybody
how to get the book or where to get in?
Is okay if I do that?
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Sure? Before you do that, Dennis, can I read two
quotes from your book? I tell you about circumstances? This
just like hit me right right in the face right now.
Here is one quote, we can let circumstances rule us,
or we can take charge and rule our lives from
(24:58):
within Earl Nightingale. And another one is you never know
how far a bullfrock and jump when it's sitting on
the creek bank by Charles Bowden. Uh, that's that's phenomenon.
I really like that. But yes, go ahead, you can
(25:19):
share where people can buy the book.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Well, if everyone would go to real impact book dot com.
There's three free gifts. If you scroll to the bottom
where it says podcast attendee and click on that, there's
three gifts for you, no strings, wonderful gifts and you'll
be so pleased that you've got those. And that website
(25:48):
is where you go to find out where to purchase
this book, the other books that are coming up. How
to be notified if you would like to. It has
the mystery the lamp. There's a picture of a Laddin's
lamp on the front of the book, and that website
solves the mystery. It has the magic formula how to
(26:10):
use the book and get whatever you want. It has
every month a free ebook, so you can come back
every month and get a new book to read for
that month. And it's going I guarantee it's a wonderful book.
There's a game where it says the lamp escape from
one of the covers and it's somewhere in this website. Remember,
(26:35):
the website has lots of different pages. You have to
click on the different links. But if you find the
lamp and send us an email. We'll send you the
audio book, which is like an eighteen dollar value. There's
a place where you can help the children by donating
these books to the children, and a place to contact
me in case you need to talk with me, or
(26:57):
want me to speak, or just want to know something
about what's coming next.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
Well, that is excellent information. I've been on the website
and it is quite a phenomenon. I'm going to read
one of your quotes, Dennis from your book. I love this,
except discord it is inevitable, but strive for harmony. Wow,
(27:26):
that is powerful. There's folks, I'm telling you, not only
the quotes, the poems. You do have a list. There's
a list of all these books that can change your
life by reading them. And there's just so many stories.
(27:48):
There's Mary Kay in here. You wouldn't have heard of
Mary Kay cosmetics. There's her story which is very inspiring.
I learned more about Abraham Link from reading your book, Dennis,
of what his life was like, and of course Didney
(28:08):
Walt Disney, and you know, we sometimes we put out
ourselves in boxes, you know, and we limit ourselves or
we limit ourselves because someone said we can't do something
or we're good enough. Don't listen to those people. You know,
(28:32):
Walt Disney was told he wasn't creative enough. Can you
believe that? And look he created It's just incredible. I
think Glynn Eastwood was told he couldn't act, and you know,
it's just really amazing. The people that we know who
(28:59):
were run down over and over again told they were
challenged and went and became very successful.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Exactly. Uh, there's a story about Clint Eastwood and Burt
Reynolds were setting out in front of one of the
Hollywood studios and they had both lost their job on
the same day. Burt Reynolds marked the job and the
gun smoke and Clint Eastwood lost his job and raw
eye and they were sitting out on a curb wondering
(29:30):
what they were going to do next. Is that is
they figured it out? They had wonderful careers. Yeah, the
story of Clint Eastwood is in book two. And you
just cannot imagine what you're going to learn about Clint
Eastwood in book two. It's just hit. His story is
(29:55):
is very powerful, very powerful. He almost lost his life
a couple of times. You know, just like Disney. Disney
almost watched his life several times in that story, but
he got back up, dusted off his pants, and went
on to become super successful. He did die pretty young,
though he could have done so much more if he
(30:17):
could have just lived fifty more years.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
Yes, yes, he was diable. He was trying to get
the Disney it's it called Disneyland, disney World. That's died
in Florida.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
We were planning to build Epcot Center in Disney World,
and he passed away before disney World was built, and
his brother, Roy was retiring, but he came out of
retirement and said, I'm going to do this for my
little brother, and he renamed it disney World. So if
(30:58):
it wasn't for Roy, we wouldn't have one disney World. Wow,
that epcutt yet they have a little FCOT section. But
he was planning to build the city of the future,
and it was going to be big and it was
going to have things that no other city ever had.
In every city from that point forward would pattern after that,
(31:24):
so our world would be different. Had Disney lived just
a little longer, same way with Lincoln and some of
the other people. But what they did while they were
here was pretty amazing.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
Yes, yes, that's the short Clint Eastwood. I think he
turned ninety five recently. He was still directing. He was
still you know, making movies and to his nineties.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
Yeah and right, they're still good, yes, yes, very very
good movies.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
I forgot the last movie I Star with him went
right out of my head, but that was really good.
I always enjoyed watching Clint Eastwood movies and it you know,
we get inspiration from reading about real people who had
(32:30):
real struggles. You know, sometimes people think, oh, well, you
know that wasn't real. That's make believe. Now, these are
real stories. They're not make believe at all, people. These
are real stories about people that were very successful after
they had a very tough time. You even have a
(32:50):
story about it's been a while since the read about
the Hershey company, am I right about? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (32:58):
Yes, yeah. Hershey always wanted to be in the candy business.
And he would start a business and he would fail.
He would try really hard, and he would move to
another city and he started and he would fail, and
he failed, and he failed and he failed, and finally
(33:18):
he came up with a caramel recipe that was so
good that he was able to put a business together,
and a bank loaned in a lot of money because
he got a big order and it was just kind
of a miracle that he got the big order, but
he did. So he started his business. It was a
caramel business, but he had worked in Denver in a
(33:40):
candy company who who was doing experiments with new machinery
making chocolate. And he always thought, that's when I want chocolate,
I want to make chocolate. I want to make milk
chocolate candy for the masses. Well, at that time, most
(34:00):
people couldn't afford to eat chocolate. It was really expensive
and unless you had lots of money and could you know,
afford something really luxurious, you didn't get chocolate. Well, he
he wanted to come up with a chocolate and milk
that kind of diluted and made it, made it less expensive,
(34:22):
but it's still tasted good. And once she got his
camel business up and made enough money, he built a
chocolate factory and experimented for years and he failed and
failed and failed, and it just looked like it wasn't
ever going to happen until one day there was a breakthrough.
(34:44):
And it's what we know is Hershey's chocolate, the chocolate
bar that we get and the little Hershey's drops. What
do they call those little hershey drops? They were any
good kissing? Yeah, they kisses. Yeah. It's the same formula
that they created then and it took off. People loved
(35:06):
it and it was affordable. So the chocolate that most
people know of now is that formula what Hershey created.
And it would have never happened had he been someone
who would quit when he got knocked down. And he
got knocked down over and over and over. But it's
fun to read the story to see how resilient he was.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
Yes, Yes, And thinking of Hershey's Kisses has a wonderful
memory for me. Every anniversary of Valentine's Day, my husband
loves her She's Kisses. I buy him a little mini
bag and put in his lunch of hers She's Kisses
(35:54):
and he really enjoyed that. So your book not only
inspired me, Dennis, but it made me think of wonderful
memories of my own wife. And I have to thank
you for that. And do you have a story about
(36:16):
I don't think I read that one about Benjamin Franklin
who kept trying to invent electricity, kept trying and trying
and trying.
Speaker 2 (36:31):
Yes, he believed that there was electricity in lightning, but
he didn't there wasn't a way to prove it, and
so he did lots of experiments, and finally he put
a key on our cot string and the string was wet,
and the light and called the cot string and came
(36:52):
down and hit the key, which proved that to him
that there was electricity in lightning. And so from that
he invented the lightning rod and did some other things.
He was quite an inventor, not just that, but he
had been an awful lot of things.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
And yes, yeah, and you know it's really incredible. I mean,
I live in New Jersey sometimes its Edison is very
popular to have a little museum not just far from
where I live. Creating the light bulb, well, he tried
like ninety nine times they strike out and wow, ten
(37:34):
thousand times wow, because I thought I heard a quote
like I think with him that said it something to
the effect of, well, I know ninety nine ways that
it doesn't work.
Speaker 2 (37:48):
Right. Yeah, I didn't. I didn't fail. I just I
just found ten thousand ways it wouldn't work, you know, Yeah, Edits.
But he had been in most of his stuffed after
his mid sixties. In sixties, he wanted to be an inventor,
and he was an inventor, but he had an invented
(38:10):
anything that unmounted too much. But he had a big
laboratory and lots of employees and lots of experience experiments
going on. Well back then, all of the buildings were
made of wood. And one of his experiments went bad
and it caught his lamb on fire, and it burned
(38:33):
to the ground. Everything he'd been working on, all of
his notes, all of his experiments, everything was gone, and
his wife and daughter came up while the fire was burning.
I guessed the consultant, and he said, oh, honey, look
at that beautiful blaze. You know you'll never see anything
(38:54):
like that again in your life. Isn't that amazing? And
the next day he started over, and everything that he invented,
which was quite a lot of things that we know
about today, was after that. So you know, no matter
how bad things get or how low you are, you
(39:16):
know you can always get up, dust your pants off,
and go again, you know. Klonel Sanders was when in
his late sixties before he finally found something that worked,
which was a recipe for his chicken. But it wasn't
It didn't instantly catch off. He had to Well that's
in one of my new books. He had to call
(39:39):
on people for a couple of years. He called on
four or five restaurants a day and make chicken for them,
and all he heard was no, no, no no no
no no no no no no, until finally someone said
yes and things turned around for him at that time.
And you know, you see his picture everywhere now. I
(40:00):
mean he's famous for his Kentucky Fried chicken.
Speaker 1 (40:04):
Yeah. And he was in his seventies, wasn't he.
Speaker 2 (40:08):
Well, it was in late sixties, yeah, yeah, when he
actually invented the recipe eleven nerves and spoties. Yeah, and
so yeah, he was in the seventies when it actually
when he sold the franchise and made the three I
think it was three million dollars. Uh, wow, made a
lot more, but you know, three million dollars at that
(40:30):
time was a lot of money.
Speaker 1 (40:32):
Yeah. Yeah, And that that also shows that it's like
people think, oh, well, you know, I'm sixty or seventy eighty,
I can't do that until old Well, no you're not.
I have interviewed people writing books for the first time
in their seventies and eighties and being best seller of us. Wow,
(40:58):
so God bless it. And you know, and that's the
thing to keep going, to keep your mind active. And
I think that, and I've heard this before until I
get too many business people that people who they don't
(41:21):
look at it as sailing when something don't work out.
They look at it as a learning lesson. Okay, this
didn't work, I'm gonna try something else. Fail failure to me,
and I think to people that are very successful, it's
not even trying, not even taking the first step to
(41:45):
try what you want to do. So what if you
make a mistake, You'll learn from it and go on.
Speaker 2 (41:55):
It's funny. I have a close friend that came up
with a brilliant idea about a little party. It was right.
It was right next to a state park which is
always full. And he bought forty acres right next to
that and was going to build these little cabins. And
he had the plan. He got to s be a loan.
(42:16):
Everything was going great until one little thing came up
that you know, it looked insurmountable to him, and I said, well, no,
that's that's really not insurmountable. You just need to do
this and this and it'll be okay. But he was
convinced that that was going to stop him, so he
stopped and it all just fell apart. And it's to me, Oh,
(42:42):
just broke my heart. And I thought, oh, my goodness,
because he was going to make millions and millions of dollars.
But he just you know, some people just can't understand
that you don't just go out there and win. There's
always going to be obstacle. There's always going to be
things you have to overcome. And part of the test
(43:04):
to see if you're worthy is are you willing to
stand in there and overcome it. That's that's one of
the keys to being successful. It's persistence. You just don't quit.
Speaker 1 (43:17):
That's true. I have to read this other poem, a poem,
a quote from doctor Martin Luther King Jr. This is amazing.
This is why I get those book, folks, because the quotes,
the quotes alone will inspire you every day. So there's
a quote from doctor Martin Luther King Jr. The ultimate
(43:40):
measure of a man is not where he stands in
moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at
times of a challenge and controversy. Isn't that the truth?
That is they're true? Go ahead, then they quote.
Speaker 2 (44:01):
Not just quotes, and anybody can go out and pick
some motivational quotes and put them in a book. You
can do that and they may be good and they
may not. Those quotes were collected over a fifty year
period where I heard it. It inspired me so much
that I stopped what I was doing. I captured it,
(44:22):
and I put it in a place where I could
keep it. So you can just literally open the book.
Open the book to any quote in there. I challenge you,
I don't care which one, and read it and it
will be inspiring. There's not a single quote in there
that I have any question that's not inspiring. That's that's
(44:45):
how I feel about it, because it it was a
hard job to keep it from keep these quotes from
nineteen seventy five until now, you know, preserve them so
that they made the bar you got in the book.
Speaker 1 (45:02):
Well, there's a wonderful quote. It's a very very inspirational.
I heard a pastor one time say, mind to be
The quote of Martin Luther King Jr. Is if you
want to see what a true character of a person is.
When they have problems and they get shaken up. You'll
(45:26):
see what's stilled out. And that's very true. That is
so true. I just really enjoy talking to you today, Dennis.
I know you're a very busy guy, and so I
thank you for spending time with me today to go
(45:49):
over your your book again. How inspirational it is, how
motivational it is, and how it can help someone just
reading a chapter of a poem, a quote. I got
inspired just reading these quotes doing the show. I got inspired.
(46:12):
Excuse me and talking to you, and I look forward
to talking to you again when your new book comes out.
So just contact me when your Seven Secrets of Success
comes out because I would love to talk to you
about that book.
Speaker 2 (46:33):
Well, thank you so much. I really appreciate that. I
appreciate you having the wonderful things that you say. I
appreciate your audience. I hope they will get the book
and it will change their life. I hope that they
will think of other people that would benefit from it
and give it as a gift. Someone told me this yesterday.
(46:54):
You know, people do not throw books away if you
give them Anne hardcover book and this one comes into hardcover.
If you give a nice hardcover book and put something
in it, they'll put it in the bookshift and keep
it forever. So if you're thinking of a legacy gift
for a grandchild or a nephew, or someone graduating from
high school to college, or if you have someone in
(47:17):
the nursing home, people in the nursing homes really love
these books and they can read them and talk to
each other about them. So it's it makes a nice gift,
and it's inexpensive. Where else can you get a really
really nice gift for less than forty dollars. I mean,
that's true, A pretty good, pretty good deal.
Speaker 1 (47:39):
That's true. This is a book that I will keep.
I give a lot of books away to a veterans group,
but I am keeping this book because I need inspiration
and I could just pick it up, read a chapter
about somebody, quote or poem. This is a book to
(48:04):
have for someone's lifetime. And you know what, it's September,
but before you know it, it's going to be holiday time.
Sat as time goes, this is a great book to
give for holidays, Birthday, Mother's Day, Father's Day, any occasion,
just to say hey, I'm thinking of you. You know
(48:26):
someone who's having a rough time, who's struggling, given this
book as a gift, I think would definitely would would
help inspire them. I just really think it's a great book,
and I hope people will go on your website Dennis
and buy it, which is Real Impact book dot Com.
(48:51):
Go on that website, folks, all the information about Dennis
day Hens that will be in the blog that gen
Waite writes and they could connect twits you on your
Real Impact book dot com website, Dennis, there's a link
that saysn't contact us.
Speaker 2 (49:10):
It literally has my phone number. You can call myself now.
You can send me an email or whatever if you
want to connect, and if you'd like to have me
speak for a group, or if you just want to talk.
Maybe you need cheering up, you know, I enjoyed people.
Speaker 1 (49:28):
That is also I just want to say, anyone's listening
who belongs to a book club, this is a great book.
Contact Dennis to have him speak to your book club
via zoom or however you want to do it, because
this is really a would be a wonderful book for
(49:50):
a book club, very inspiring. So thank you again. Dennis.
You heard Dennis jayh who is author and writer. Award
winning author and writer, a real impact, daily inspiration, makes
a wonderful gift, folks. I highly encourage you to buy
(50:13):
this book by two buy one for yourself and get
one as a gift to someone. And another great idea
donate it. Buy a book donated to a nursing home,
Donate it to a veterans home. A veterans home, they
would love this book. They would just love it.
Speaker 2 (50:33):
There on the website so that you can donate in
the book. Everything that you donate goes to word purchasing
the book for the kids. There's no it's for kids
and disadvantaged communities that need their life changed. Yes, yeah,
there's no override. It all goes directly into purchasing the books.
Speaker 1 (50:56):
Yes, this would be a wonderful book for this advantage
children to read about other people who were disadvantaged just
like them. And they made it. So I'm gonna thank
you again Dennis Jahnsen for coming on the show. And
I wanted to thank Lillie Caldwell, who's CEO of Patch
(51:18):
World Talk Radio Network, who makes this all possible, and
thank you for listening and subscribing, and if you don't
already subscribe to Chatting with Betsy, it's for free on iHeart, Spotify, Speaker,
Amazon Music. If you have Alexa, you could program Alexa
for Chatting with Betsy. And thank you for taking me
wherever you are and listening. Please share the show to
(51:42):
help someone else. I want to help as many people
as possible, so does Dennis, and we coly do that
as you share the show and tell people about real impact,
tell people about Chatting with Betsy, and just want to
thank everyone for listening that I always say at the
end of my show. You could follow me on Facebook
(52:03):
bets Worzel w or ze l And in a world
where you could be anything, please be kind and shine
your life bright because we need it now more than
ever before. This is Betsy Worsal. You're a host of
Chatty with Betsy. I'm pastor World Talk Radio Network, a
subsidiary of Global Media Network LLC. Talk to you soon,
(52:27):
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