I wouldn't be here without a little book that I encountered in the year of 1969.

To me, books were so magical, and the thought of being an author and being able to write a book seemed impossible.

Reading the book, it was as vivid to my imagination as a movie.

If you pay attention carefully, you can see that you're being showered with blessings constantly,

and you're missing most of them because I'm not paying attention.

I remember reading the book and laughing so hard I'd pee my pants, and my abs would

hurt for like a week from laughing so hard. Hi, this is Gay Hendricks,

welcoming you to another episode of our Big Leap podcast. Today we're focusing on books that have

changed our lives. I have a bunch of them and my buddy Mike does and Mike take it away.

All right. Well, I'll tell you what.

First of all, I'm super excited about this because you and I tear through seven books each,

actually with some bonus books.

A couple I've never heard of before that I bought while we were recording this.

We always record our intro second.

So without further ado, here are the books that changed our lives and shaped us.

All right, Gay, so here we are doing something that both of us are big fans of. You a, I don't know, 50-time bestselling author at this point.

I've written my share.

In fact, I've got two books coming out soon, but the books that shaped us.

And what we're going to do is just go back and forth with the number one, number two books.

We've each got six or seven.

And what are one of the biggest books that shaped

you and why? Yeah, this is really exciting stuff for me because I think, was it Brian Tracy

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