Podcast 536: Ron Stelle: Finding The Surprise In The Written Word

Join Up Dots - Business Coaching Made Easy (With A Bit Of Life Coaching Too)

David Ralph of Join Up Dots

Interview, Motivation, Online, Businessinterview, Education, Businesscoaching, Entrepreneur, Lifestyle, Income, Business

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🗓️ 30 May 2016

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Today’s guest joining us on the Steve Jobs inspired Join Up Dots Podcast is a man who has experienced something that we see time and time again on Join Up Dots. Sometimes a calling is waiting to be answered. You work through your life, doing a myriad of things until with a knock knock on the door, you are thrown into a world that for many begs the question. “Why the hell didn’t I do this earlier….its amazing” Well today’s guest is such a person and after growing up on the south-West side of Houston Texas, did what many young men did in the late seventies. Saught out adventure and travel by joining the US Navy for 23 years, which had him based in Virginia where he ultimately retired in 2001. But this is just a small part of his story as he also worked as a restaurant manager, a musician and also in the auto-mobile industry as a Service advisor. None of these occupations giving much clue to where his life was heading. It was however, after he started doing daily posts on Facebook that his wife Sandy had an idea, and over a period of time persuaded him to write a book And so he started writing a novel about growing up in the sixties. which turned out to be something of an epiphany to him. As he says “I found that I have a natural gift that I was unaware I possessed.” And now the books just keep on coming with the name of “Best Selling author” firmly linked to his output. He has written six novels from coming of age comedy to supernatural thrillers. His latest work, Xtreme Options, is a fast paced Detective Murder Mystery that throws the Irish pair of Bryce Mallory and Shamus Crawley into a whirlwind of excitement as they match wits with the High Stakes Killer, who gives his victims a chance to walk away if they win the bet. So although he states his writing skills were a complete surprise, did he ever show a passion for English and Literature at school? And what does he say to people who often say things like “It’s ok for you, I’m just not talented at anything!” Well lets find out as we bring onto the show to start joining up dots, with the one and only Mr Ron Stelle

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0:00.0	When we're young we have an amazing positive outlook about how great life is going to be
0:05.0	but somewhere along the line we forget to dream and end up settling.
0:09.2	Join up dots features amazing people who refuse to give up and chose to go after their dreams.
0:15.0	This is your blueprint for greatness.
0:18.0	So here's your host, live from the back of his garden in the UK, David Ralph.
0:22.8	Yes, hello there everybody and welcome to join up darts.
0:30.2	Do you know every day I say I love being a podcaster? There's nothing better in the world
0:35.3	Except today. It's the first perfect day we've got in the United Kingdom all year the clouds have just disappeared beautiful blue sky and I'm trapped indoors all day
0:45.8	recording episodes but believe me I wouldn't have it any other way so it's a delight
0:50.0	to connect with today's guest because he's going to deliver something that is something
0:55.2	that we see time and time again on join up dots. It's one of those kind of similar stories that
0:59.3	sometimes a calling is just waiting to be answered. You work through your life doing a
1:04.0	myriad of things until with a knock-knock on the door you're thrown into a
1:07.2	world that for many begs the questions. Why the hell didn't I do this earlier?
1:11.6	It's amazing. Well today's guess is such a person and
1:14.6	after growing up on the southwest side of Houston Texas he did what many young
1:18.6	men did in the late 70s. He sought out a venture and travel by joining the US Navy for 23 years which had him based in
1:25.3	Virginia where he ultimately retired in 2001. But this is just a small part of his story as
1:31.0	he also worked as a restaurant manager, a musician and also in the automobile
1:34.7	industry as a service advisor. None of these occupations giving much clue to where his life was
1:40.3	heading. It was however after he started doing daily posts on Facebook
1:44.8	that his wife Sandy had an idea and over a period of time persuaded him to write a book
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