A Living Legacy

Maybe leadership was a fit for you from the beginning. That’s just who you are. But most of us never aimed to be a leader. It’s something that just happened.

Whatever your situation, however, I know that at some point in your life, a special person stepped in and put you on a course of personal growth down the path called leadership.

Several years ago singer-songwriter, Dan Fogelberg, composed a tune called, Leader of the Band.  It’s about  his father, and in that tribute Dan sings, I’m just a living legacy to the leader of the band.  His father’s love and example marked him for life. No surprise that a website in Dan's honor is called TheLivingLegacy.net

Not long ago, I met Barbara Burk for the first time. Both of us were at a Juice Plus+ Boot Camp in Naples, Florida.  I soon learned that she had connections in Louisiana. So, I asked her if she knew Bunny Jumonville.  Her face lit up with eyes as big as saucers.

Bunny Jumonville? Of course I know her. She changed my life!” 

If you know Bunny, you know what Barbara’s talking about. She is one of the most infectious people you will ever meet. If you ever run into her, you will never recover!

Every Fall and Spring at Juice Plus+ Leadership Conferences, we watch the newest National Marketing Directors walk across the stage, then step to the podium to share their stories with five or six thousand of their closest friends!

Have you noticed? There is always a common theme: “One day, an incredible person came into my life who chose to walk with me—and that has made all the difference.” 

That's my story too. Twenty-two years ago my life was unraveling. I was coming unglued.

But Jackie Beavers, my sister-in-law, knew something that I didn’t. Before I was willing to even think about this business, much less do this business, she was convinced it was a perfect fit for me. That wasn’t my perspective! But she saw something in her messed up brother-in-law that was impossible for me to see about myself. Somehow Jackie knew that somewhere down the road I would be telling you these things in these very words.

Thank you, Jackie, for believing in me before I had a clue.

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"I think that if I had been allowed to write only one song in my lifetime, it would have been this one"
~Dan Fogelberg 1951—2007

 


 

 

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