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| My Worthless 2cents Table Talk podcast. Special guest Richard Blank of Costa Rica's Call Center. |
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| Group: Administrator Level:  Posts: 180 Joined: 3/6/2019 IP-Address: saved  | Louisiana Country Boy: Oh, get ready, Get ready, Get ready. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Oh yeah. Answer me, boy. The Louisiana country coming internationally. Wait a minute, I'm gonna say more time. Coming at love internationally. Ooh, that's a big old word for the old country boy internationally. Look it here. Oh look here. Old country boy going tell y'all I I I'm just tick a pink over. Here I am. Tickle pink. Um, y'all know I don't do no introduction, but look, I got my pipe pot. I am international. Not, That's right. That's right. I done did it. I done did just na nerve. But I'm going to shut up and I'm gonna tell y'all this. I have a fantastic gentleman on the show now. Uh, I ain't going, I ain't going. I am, I'm gonna pump him up. I'm gonna pop him up cause I, I got me a c e O I'm gonna say I got me a c o on the show tonight. Yes, I. Yes, I do. This man right here is the CEO of Say, Say. Yeah, y'all can Google it. You can Google if you want to say, say that's right, and he gonna tell you all about it, or whatever you want to tell you. Cause he is the special guest chef. Now Chef. Without further ado, am my new worry, Richard. Without further ado, as I always. Sit back, relax. Put on your head. Give oh Richard, ceo. Put something in their ear. Have you away my friend. Richard Blank: I, I am speechless. Donny, I've done almost close to a hundred podcasts. That is undoubtedly the greatest introduction I have ever heard. I thank you so much, sir. That was trumpets in a red carpet. . Louisiana Country Boy: Hey, I appreciate you. I appreciate you. You coming on. I appreciate you coming. I thank you so much for, uh, you know, the table and humbled to have you. It is, uh, it is indeed an honor and I'll say, Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Look old country boy. I'm gonna shut my mouth. I'm, you know, I'm all excited. Palms all sweaty. You know, it's like, it's like meeting the president. I'm but I'm gonna shut up and I'm gonna let you have your way. Sir. You know what? You introduce yourself, Uh, you, you are the. I'm gonna just sit here and be ready to eat. I was ready. I ain't ace nothing all day. I said Rich's gonna come cook tonight, so we going to eat what Rich is cooking tonight. . Richard Blank: Well, I really appreciate you extending that southern charm. And you know we have a northeast Philadelphia guy hanging out with a southern guy, so to see where this goes tonight. Louisiana Country Boy: All right, well just send me one of them on Phll chase types. I'll tell you, I lock them fine. Just Richard Blank: remember one thing my friend, You gotta put wiz on it. I don't like when people put or mozzarella . Louisiana Country Boy: That works. I can do that. But this is Richard Blank: great. We're old men, white beards, a lot of wisdom to share. Your audience. You know, it's very funny off the podcast as well, when we're off the air, we were just talking about such incredible things about our lives and our family. Yes. And we were sharing some intimate details just to get to know one another. But we have so much in common. We are on the same page. Our, our goal is just to elevate and uplift others by passing forward what was taught to us by our beautiful and incredible. And grandparents. And so I guess we're just gonna be passing along some of that wisdom with some fun stories Louisiana Country Boy: too. Hey, that, there it is there. You know what, Richard? I, I think that, and I said this and I share this with you, that that's one of the most important things, and I think we, we, a lot of us got away from it is, is about sharing that is about, you know, at some point people thought that the way that they was brought up was terrible, you know? And, and it was like, Oh, well I don't wanna talk. But you know, I, I look at it like this for my, my parents, my, you know, as we, I was coming up, they could only give me what they had to give. Um, they couldn't, they, you know, they couldn't teach me, you know, about how to, how to drive a, you know, a spaceship because they'd never driven one. That's right. But what they could do was give me the tools that they had for me to be a better person. And I think that if we mostly embraced that and start embracing it wasn't that they was bad. They gave us what they. And if each person somehow we just went like, Oh, I don't wanna talk about it. I don't wanna talk about it. But we wouldn't, I know I wouldn't for sure be where I am today if I, if they had to pull it into me. Richard Blank: That's wonderful. When your family believes in you and encourages you, now they won't let you run wild and get in too much trouble. But when they saw that you were gravitating towards something that was positive, if it was education, your. Your athletics, your friends, or what you have done with this amazing podcast. Naturally you get that sort of momentum and, and your family supports you on that. Even though they've never done it, they don't even know how to start it. But the fact that we are representing our families in the best light, I think it's a beautiful thing. Louisiana Country Boy: Yes, indeed. I, I totally agree with you. I totally agree with you. Well, look, you know, just shoot us about yourself, Richard. I mean, you know, I. They already know about me. I'm just old country boy, like, you know, hot oil cornbread and collar greens, but . But that's, that's just me. You know, I might, I might even meet a pig feeder two, but that's just, that's just me that, you know. But, you know, be, you know, like I said, it's your show. Look, it is just your show, what they call facilitator. I'm just a fci. Richard Blank: Actually, you and I are splitting this pizza tonight. Don't worry, I'm not taking that extra slice and I don't double dip either in double dip. But, um, no. My story, it's got some twists and turns. I didn't fall into the trap of pre-disposition opinions or someone setting a career for me when I graduated high. At Abington in 1991, I decided to double down on my favorite class, which was Spanish. I didn't go law medicine. I didn't go Ivy League. I was a, I was a dreamer. I was somebody that knew that I didn't want to be in a certain box without walls. If I had to do homework for the rest of my life, I wouldn't be on this podcast smiling. I'd be depressed. I , but. I decided to follow through on humanities and by speaking a second language opened so many doors. And when I was 27, my friend, I had an opportunity to move to Central America, to Costa Rica, north of Panama and south of Nicaragua was only supposed to come down for two months and work at a friend's call center just to teach English. Well, as I mentioned, if you can get past your parents' guild, you can live anywhere in the world. So I wanted to take this one in a million opportunity. That crossed my path. I could have always. Right. But when I came here, I was, I was speechless in regards to just first being in Central America Paradise, but when I was at my friend's call center, I was seeing these bilingual individuals that were on the phones and being creative in the artist's speech that it, I was enticed and, and I saw certain areas my friend, where I could give them their dignity. I could show empathy. And by working with the people, not starting as a C level executive, I was with once. , I was able to see what it was like. Right. And when I had the chance in my mid thirties with impulse control maturity and enough finances to throw my hat in the ring, I decided to go for it. And my wife and I started this business and you know, through just the stars being aligned and some grit and determination, I'm pretty much celebrating almost my 15th year in business. Wow. We feed over a hundred families. . And that to me is the greatest reward. Money always comes and trust me, golden jewels, they lose their luster. You look for other things in life Yes. To inspire you. And if you can give a lot of the times, it will come back three or four times and assist you. Louisiana Country Boy: That's most that's, that's so true. You know, and to, to leap out there and take that, that step of faith. Um, and you know what you. It's money can't buy money, can't buy the things that you're talking about as, as far as treating people with dignity, money can't buy that, that that's something you like Self with dignity. Right? And that's, that's something that, that, that's internal, you know, And, and I wish that more people would, could grasp that you, you know, your. That's what it says. You know, the first time that, that you and I talked and I told you, Look here, I could do an email all day, but I need to see the fussing face to face. And that's just me. Um, you know, there's so much that you can gain from just having a conversation with a person, just an open, honest conversation. It doesn't have to be about business, anything else, but it just has to be about knowing the person's character, what this person is. And, and Richard Blank: people need the self-reliance. Donnie, they need self-confidence. You, you say you wish more people were like this. They always had it in them, but one day you have to leave the castle to slay the dragon and save the princess. It's when are you going to begin, right? When are you going to, when are you gonna have a coming of age moment done that changes your trajectory of. . So everything after that just builds on that sort of positive momentum. And so you can't force it. You can't hit the ball and drag Johnny. Right. But maybe through your example or tapping in is what you and I have done to certain areas of interest. You could unlock that sort of potential. There's a lot of naysayers, my friend, people that will be great believers and tell you, you can't do it. I'm not telling you to be egocentric or selfish. Right. But it's better off to live your. Hmm. Than live a life Louisiana Country Boy: of others. Yes, yes, yes. You know, that's
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