Podcasts Education Inspire Someone Today E27 - Damon West - Be A Coffee Bean

E27 - Damon West - Be A Coffee Bean

Published: July 15, 2021, 6:30 p.m.

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Sentenced to sixty-five years in a Texas prison, Damon West once had it all.

Damon West on this episode of Inspire Someone Today, shares his personal story of a flourishing life squandered due to drugs and how he was able to reinvent himself through the jail term. The genesis of being a coffee bean story, finding hope from a hopeless situation and the pay it forward work, that he is doing through his foundation to help kids.

Damon\\u2019s story has been featured both nationally and globally. His second book, The Coffee Bean, co-authored with best-selling author Jon Gordon, became an instant best-seller and a part of Forbes\\u2019 \\u201cTop Twenty Books You Need to Read to Crush 2020.\\u201d Damon is passionate about the Coffee Bean message and loves sharing how it changed his life and how it can change yours, too.

Timestamps\\xa0

  • Damon\\u2019s back story - 2:02
  • Being a coffee bean - 11:45
  • Finding hope in a hopeless situation - 20:49
  • Servant leadership - 26:07
  • Be A Coffeebean Foundation - 29:03
  • Rapid fire - 34:20
  • IST Message - 42:35

Key quotes and references from the episode:

  • Past is a lesson, present is a gift and future a motivation
  • Hate corrodes the container that contains them
  • Energy we put out is the energy we attract, think about it!
  • You are what you eat, just not the food but the associations we develop
  • Life is a difficult place - You have 3 choice to respond
    • You can choose to be a carrot
    • Choose to be like an egg
    • You have a third option, you can choose to be a coffee bean

Books of Damon : The Coffee Bean and The Change Agent

Website:\\xa0 https://beacoffeebeanfoundation.org/

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