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Chapter 11 – How Relationships Actually Form

Liz and Natalie, Stephen and Greg’s mom and sister. They saw me fly by the window when I was painting the house and fell into a big bush and got stuck! Greg’s 240SX at my house. Gregory’s smile after removing his braces himself with a dremel and needle nose pliers. Greg’s car in my garage, […]

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Chapter 12 – Earning Trust Over Time

Greg’s friend, ‘Runaway Mike,’ who lived down the street from me in the same neighborhood, where I met Stephen and Greg and eventually the other skater kids.

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Chapter 14 – Talking, Listening & Letting People Open Up

Brandon on our flight to Spain around 1988. Brandon and I visiting his girlfriend, who also was an exchange student, at her host family’s house in Madrid, Spain. On the way to Madrid from Barcelona, Brandon had this idea to make grated tomato, pulp basically, sandwiches. Just grate a fresh tomato and put the pulp […]

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Chapter 15 – Mentorship Without Calling It That

Travis in Athens, Greece. We next to the house on the island of Cephalonia, which is where the Greek kids thought, and would not accept that I wasn’t, Chuck Norris. 16 year old Travis at the racing school the old Paul Ricard race track in France, during our two-month trip to Europe. Riding the trains […]

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Chapter 17 – Knowing When to Step In — And When to Steo Out

Here’s a picture of the beast, the Great Dane named Roman that Travis surprised me with on my return from a business trip. Of course, when I asked, “Who’s going to take care of him?” you get the stock answer, “Oh, I will,” the same answer every parent has heard when asking that same question […]

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Chapter 19 – Doing Things Because You Want to

This is the Ferrari 308 GTS that I surprised Travis with when I showed up to pick Travis up at Orange County Airport, telling him to meet me at the curb, and later drove to the Long Beach Grand Prix that weekend. Travis sitting in the Ferrari. 16 year old Travis at the old Paul […]

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Chapter 20 – Taking Action Before You Feel Ready

LIVING AND WORKING IN THE MIDDLE EAST Supercar dealership in Doha, Qatar. Kids dressed in traditional Qatari clothing, celebrating Qatar’s National Day. The kids were going through our office building to show everybody. As I recall, ‘kids being kids everywhere in the world‘, the kids didn’t look too thrilled about getting dragged around by a […]

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