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Don't you always want to be the
best you can be. The Frankie Boyer

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Show it's more than a lifestyle show. It's a show about living in today's

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world. I think something is happening. Frankie enthusiastically brings an amazing, eclectic

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mix to the airwaves. One of
the reasons she's earned legions of loyal fans

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is very simple. When you listen
to The Frankie Boyer Show, you just

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never know what's going to happen.
So listen for yourself. Here is Frankie

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Boyer. Welcome, It is Frankie
Boyer. So glad you're with us today.

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And many people from younger generations are
wondering, are absolutely wondering. Are

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they going to have jobs? Will
will artificial intelligence take over? Will they

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be able to be trained in a
skill that will be obsoletely? Well a

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third So this was a new survey
that found almost half Americans think artificial intelligence

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could easily replace their jobs. So
it's from Bloomberg. A third of employees

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surveyed are already using AI at work. So what does that mean for them?

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For the next generation of workers?
And joining us today is Education and

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Global Workplace expert and I have to
say, Robbie, Robbie huttiasing author of

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Pivot, Empowering Students today to Succeed, kind of surprising how high those numbers

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are that people really think AI is
going to knock them out. You know,

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it was just a few years ago
when it was the opposite, where

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it was seventy five percent or so
of people thought that their jobs were safe.

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But now AI has just become so
apparent, you know, and so

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it's such a big part of the
conversation that statistics really flipped and everybody's starting

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to get a little scared about it, and you know, maybe with good

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reason, but you know, at
the same time, where there are challenges,

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there are opportunities. And that's what
I try to focus on and when

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I give my keynote speeches to education
leadership, that's what we're talking about.

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How do we convert these challenges into
opportunities so that our students today really can

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succeed in the future. So,
Robbie, we interviewed two high school students

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a couple of weeks ago. They
were absolutely brilliant. They came up with

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a new technology using AI to help
with eyesight, and it was brilliant and

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their technology and their background and when
you listen to these two young high school

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kids, so this is an example
of how they were using it, using

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AI to enhance and to create new
technology. And I think that we forget

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that that's that's what this is all
about. But I did see I have

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to say, Robbie, I saw
a brand new list of the top thirty

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movies coming out for the fall,
and one of the movies is about AI

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taking over and it's about robots that
just take control. And I think that

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this is a trend and I think
that this is where this is. This

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is a concern a lot of people
have. Well, you know, Steve

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Wasney at co founder of Apple,
he said some years ago I heard him

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in an interview and he basically said
the same thing. He's really scared scared

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of what technology can do. I
mean, when AI starts making AI,

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you know, do we lose control
over it as a human beings? And

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does it you know, do we
start to become the pets of the robots?

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You know? So I think that's
what a lot of these movies explore.

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And you know, I think it's
it's good to keep that in check.

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It's good to stay aware of you
know, what that possible. He

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looks like. But at the same
time, you know, then your other

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example of these two high school students, I mean, look at what they're

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doing. They're doing exactly what we
need to be teaching them to do,

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which is to embrace technology, to
use it in a way the benefits society,

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to stay in control of it,
but not be afraid of it.

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It's it is, you know,
at this point, it is a tool,

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and it's a tool that we need
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as a force for good and a
force for productivity and efficiency and all

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of those things. So you know, when we ask this question, right,

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you know, asking the question will
these kids have jobs in the future,

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Statistics tell us that forty percent of
the jobs today are going to be

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automated within the next ten years.
And what that means is that about sixty

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five percent of today's students are going
to work in jobs that we don't even

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know about yet, that haven't been
created. So there's lots to be excited

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about as well. You know,
that's I think that's really the point.

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I also want to say that technology
scares the heck out of you, and

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should It's at times. But a
couple of weeks ago, we were on

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the way to a location and we
we had our phones because we rely on

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GPS. I put on I put
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he put in a separate set in
his phone, and we got two.

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It was a very very hot day
and we were in the country and we

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got two different, totally different sets
of directions that were really confusing, and

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one route kept taking us around in
a circle like and I said that this

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is we've we've been down this road
before. It's like, no, yeah,

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we literally have been down this road
twice already. And it was it

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was maddening, and it added an
extra hour I'm not kidding, an extra

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hour to where our destination was.
And again it was very hot and we

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were in the country. But but
even technology today can fail us. And

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that's my point is that we need
to have backups as well. You know.

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It's uh, you know, my
background really was as a musician.

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But after that, and I was
a guitar player for the band Hanson back

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in the late nineties, top selling
band in the world. Yeah at the

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time, you remember Hanson, of
course I do. Yeah, And it

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was it was an amazing, amazing. Actually your band, your band,

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your band was a top selling band
and and Triple Grammy nomand and my goodness,

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yes, you were on the stages
of the White House, Madison Square

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Garden, the Tonight Show, Good
Morning America, Saturday Night Live. I

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mean, Robbie, you have been
everywhere as a rock star. Yeah,

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and you know, it was a
really, really exciting time in my life.

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But I also also always call you
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about my time in Hanson, I
refer to Hanson at the Harvard Business School

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of Rock and Roll because it was
also such a learning opportunity and a and

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a you know, lifelong learning opportunity
of you know, the music business and

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the things that were really important to
me. But after the industry basically collapsed

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because of ye uk and Napster and
peer to peer file sharing, you know,

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my my career in the music industry
went with it, and I some

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years later pivoted and became a pilot. And one of the great things about

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becoming a pilot is I found that
the cockpit of an airplane was the greatest

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classroom I had ever been. And
one of the reasons is because it taught

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me data triangulation, which is what
you're talking about with this GPS situation where

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you had two different sources that were
conflicting each other. You know, in

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the confit of an airplane, you
never rely on one or two sources to

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tell you what your airplane doing.
You always look for the third, the

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tiebreaker, and then you ask,
you know, does this all make sense?

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And I think to your point that
technology does fail us at times,

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and therefore we have to have the
common sense skills to be in, the

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analytical skills, the critical thinking skills
to be able to say, well,

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wait a second, this just doesn't
make sense. Let me try and figure

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out something else that will help me
understand what's going on. So we have

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so much to talk to you about, Robbie, because not only were you

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part of of the guitars for Hansen, but you're also the first America can

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warn member of the family that created
and governed the world's largest democracy for over

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forty years. You're the nephew of
of of India's only female prime minister,

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yep and Dera Gandhi exactly, and
I grew up in a very politically charged

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family that was amazing to be part
of those kind of geopolitical discussions and have

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that sort of thing. I can
only imagine. So when did you become

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okay, the rock hot wait man, how does someone from your background wind

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up in hands? I'm like puzzled
here, how do you wind up?

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How do you wind up in Hanson? And then did you become a pilot?

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And then the entrepreneur, so tell
us the sequence sequence of the of

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events. Yeah, so I grew
up basically, you know, right in

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this in this family that had a
political legacy and fought aling Mahat and Gandhi

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of course, and then of course
who was the youngest prime minister as well?

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That was well, so that was
my cousin, Rajiv Gandhi. So

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my great uncle jabrajo El Neru was
the first prime minister, and he and

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Gandhi, you know, fought against
the British in order to I'm sorry,

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an independent nation. Robbie, we
have got to take a quick break,

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so when we come back, we
have so much to talk to you about.

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Your new book is out. It's
called Pivot, Empowering students today to

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succeed in an unpredictable tomorrow. Give
us the website. My website is is

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RAVI Unites dot com r A v
I n U I T e s dot

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com. It's all about bringing people
together in uniting them so and all my

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social media handles are also rav unites
wonderful And we will take a quick break

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and be right back for we have
so much to talk about. On Frankie

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Boyer joining us today, someone who
I don't the background. Your background is

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so extraordinary and that's what makes you
so unique to share your vision for young

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people. And Robbie at Teasing is
with us, author of Pivot empowering students

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today to succeed in an unpredictable tomorrow
as a global education and corporate speaker and

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a cultural diplomat for the US State
Department. Nice to have you back with

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us, But I have to go
back to your background, your family and

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you have had this amazing life because
the first American born member of the family

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that created and governed the world's largest
democracy and India in Daria Gandhi, and

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she was India's only female Prime minister
and the cousin of the youngest prime minister.

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What tell us what came first in
your desire to be a rock star

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pilot and an entrepreneur. Give us
the sequence of events, and then we

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need to talk more about the family, because that's just so extraordinary, all

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right. So we were an immigrant
family because my dad decided not to go

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into politics in India, so he
decided to come to the United States and

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go into business. And he was
actually one of the first Indians to ever

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work on Wall Street. So I
grew up in the suburbs of New York

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City. I had two older brothers, seven and nine years older than me

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that followed in my dad's footsteps.
So here I was coming from a family

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of a political legacy, but working
in finance. I basically just rejected at

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all. I didn't I didn't want
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I was a younger kid. I
was the rebel black sheep of my family,

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and at the age of eleven,
I basically decided that I wanted to

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be anguts young of ACDC. That
was what spoke to me. And I

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was lucky that my mother. My
parents were going through a pretty ugly divorce

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at the time, and I was
just alone with them and she said,

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Hey, I'm glad my youngest son
here is into something. So she brought

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me an electric guitar, and I
had just found my passion at that point,

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and that's what I pursued. And
didn't you know anyone that played the

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guitar? Did you know of any
other family members or I mean, did

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just pick up the guitar and take
to it as such? I mean,

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it's amazing. Yeah, I just
took to it. You know, my

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brothers were into music, and my
eldest brother classical piano, so music was

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always part of our life growing up. But for some reason, the electric

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guitars what spoke tomantic. I had
a friend in school that maybe got one,

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and I thought it was really cool, and so I just wanted to

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travel down that road. And I
was so lucky because you know that my

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educational journey, which is what I
talked about with my audiences, was complicated

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because I didn't relate to school.
I wanted to be a rock and roll,

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a rock star. I didn't want
to go to classes in school and

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all that. But at least I
had two wonderful music teachers in high school

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that gave me a reason to get
up every day and come to school.

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Because it's only so much later in
life that I realized how valuable my education

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has been for the journey you know
that I've taken. But but for me,

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it was all about music. And
I had my own recording studio and

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I was teaching guitar before I graduated
high school. And when I went to

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college, I just didn't relate to
college either, and I wanted to drop

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out. And one of the stories
I love to tell is what my dad

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said to me. Right this investment
banker, highly educated, comes from a

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highly educated family, and his youngest
son wants to drop out of school.

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And he said to me, said, Okay, there's one thing I want

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you to do for me before you
leave school. I want you to write

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me a business plan. No one
had ever asked me to articulate my vision

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for my future before like he did. And it was probably the greatest lesson

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that I've ever had. And I
think it was that lesson that's allowed me

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to do many of the things that
have done since then, because you had

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to create a plan, you know, and you had to formulate and articulate

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my vision. Tell us how you
got into the rock band, I mean

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not just getting into a rock band, but you got into a famous a

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group that became so famous and Grammy
nominated how and tour it all over the

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place. How did that happen?
Yeah, well sort of. The short

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version of the story really is that
I had a studio client while I was

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in high school and running the studio
out of my mother's basement, and he

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got a great job at Mercury Records, and somebody asked them one day for

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a recommendation of a young guitar player
for a band that they were trying to

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launch, and I was the first
one that came to mind, and he

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gave them my phone number, and
basically, you know, after a few

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conversations, they hired me to help
launch this band. It was just for

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one show, one appearance, and
the band took off so fast that the

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Hanson family and they're now the Hanson
Company, hired me as their guitar player.

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And I was on the road with
Isaac Taylor and Zach Hanson, you

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know, living the dream for the
rest of that year, playing everything from

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David Letterman to Jay Lanos, Saturday
and I Love One House, Today Show,

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Good Morning America. I mean,
the list goes on. It was

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unbelievably fortunate that I happened to land
in a band that that just a few

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months later, outsold every other band
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would you leave that? Well,
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contain this threat to their bottom line. And it's an interesting when we look

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at artificial intelligence today and we look
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industry and say, wow, there
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and as a result, tons of
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companies closed. Instead, they could
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it as a marketing resource, and
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left it. It left me unfortunately, and I had to pivot, you

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know, like like what I talk
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skill of pivoting, which is when
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while that was really a hobby,
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you could just fly an airplane takes
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another interesting experience where I met an
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learn to fly airplanes. And he
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I've always wanted to learn to play
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flying lessons for guitar lessons, and
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to fly with him and getting my
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of an airplane was the greatest classroom
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visiting middle schools and high schools and
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to your teachers and then apply your
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live your dreams. And so I
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the industry. Can you stay with
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too much to talk about. We
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going to keep you for the host
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to hear the gut, the determination
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want and then go out and get
it, get your dream. We'll be

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back in just a moment. Give
us the Robbie, give us the best

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website, Rabbi units dot com.
That's r v I U n I t

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ees dot com. I'm Frankie Boyer
will be right back. Stu too,

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and welcome back. He is here
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have to tell you. We just
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a couple of segments, because you're
fascinating. Life is so amazing. Robbie

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ut Teasing is with us, author
of Pivot, empowering students today to succeed

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in an unpredictable tomorrow. Okay,
starting out as the group Hanson, you

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meet a pilot, you barter.
What how long did you become a pilot

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for? Well, So this was
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global financial crisis. You know,
it was just like I had to find

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something. I had to pivot and
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industry, I had a career.
I wasn't able to revive it. Between

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two thousand and two thousand and eight. I was just sort of plugging along,

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but it wasn't growing anymore. And
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fly an airplane. So I spent
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I was able to get my,
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point, and was able to go
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which is a vantage point that I've
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you know, for me, I
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in the cockpit of an airplane.
Is I like to say, somebody taught

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me trigonometry in high school, but
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airplane, and I didn't know it
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started speaking to high school students and
medical middle school students about how great it

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is to apply your education in an
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I was an aviation speaker. And
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like Buzz Aldrin and the Tuskegee Airmen
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Angels, and I mean, I
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I would be in, you know, I haven't come out of the rock

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and roll industry, and now,
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these just amazing, amazing people,
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I just really enjoyed that until the
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was in twenty fifteen. I got
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longer be a pilot and I lost
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pivot again, and I managed to
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in Moscow and Russia. I wanted
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that I'd never been and see parts
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and that evolved to me meeting the
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the Indian ambassador, and to getting
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which, you know, to keep
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in me becoming a cultural diplomat for
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to do lecture tours in Russia and
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about two different things, the arts
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United States really excels where the US
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has to offer the world. And
it was a very proud opportunity for me.

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And again that's another thing I never
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I just wanted to be angus here
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old. Wow, unbelievable. Now
all of this makes sense. It makes

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sense the title of your book pivot, because you know that what life Isn't

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that what life so has become,
Robbie, And you're trying to get younger

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people to know that it's okay to
pivot. And how many athletes have had

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to leave their sport and have recreated
new lives for themselves. How many people

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in everyday life there aren't that many
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wait a minute, just because it
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or wanted or however, doesn't mean
it's not going to work out. And

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pivoting is so critical? Isn't it
so critical? You know it really is.

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And you know I wrote the book
during the pandemic where we all had

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to pivot. And it just seemed
that obviously this was something the whole education

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industry was pivoting. Everybody was going
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go to offices were pivoting, they
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changing so fast, and I realized
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I guess I have, but more
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need to be teaching. It's a
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We have to be able to encourage
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to encourage them to fail so that
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up. There were a lot of
things that I started thinking about in my

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own education and in our education industry
that needs to change, that needs to

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pivot in order to make sure that
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future. It's it's really essential,
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break it down in the book into
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we need to nurture talent, we
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we need to foster communication. And
those are really things that have guided you.

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How do you save them again?
Because they're they're all important, say

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it again. Inspire curiosity, nurture
talent, provoke critical thinking, and foster

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communication. Yes, because you can
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but it doesn't necessarily mean you'll go
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the things that I often tell people
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than I who could have done you
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mean, it's it's the fact is
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have the other skills to leverage their
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So it takes all of that,
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those are the four pillars of lifelong
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and I think that if we empower
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be fine in an unpredictable future.
It goes back to what I said at

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the beginning of our conversation Frankie,
is that sixty five percent of today's students

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are going to work in jobs that
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if we give them those tools,
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going to be able to create the
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on the opportunities presentatism. You know, Robbie, those tools are so critical.

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I'm wondering, where where do we
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thinking and how do we even promote
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a bunch of sheep. It's like
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this this these fifteen year olds in
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year olds that are coming from the
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through social media, but they're gathering
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time on the expense of other people. They crowded a movie theater and trick

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it over, and they harassed police
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the festival, the North Ends Sacred
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to be everywhere, freewhere. They
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that just I just am saddened by
it, so saddened by it. You

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know, you're you're touching on something
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audiences about, you know, when
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and I had all this opportunity to
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different diplomats, including Jill Biden and
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these people and talk to them.
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time was on November thirteen, twenty
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where young radicalized terrorists. Basically,
we're going out and killing innocent people in

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cafes and in nightclubs and everything at
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up and I asked myself and then
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that I knew, what are we
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and this radicalism, what's causing it, and what are we doing to combat

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it? And you know that led
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the idea was, why don't we
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opposed cultures and religions and put them
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music and see what happens. So
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education system needs to do, and
this is what I sort of proved to

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that we continue to have the arts
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so that we don't get this sort
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by social media and by other influences
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referring to. That just, yeah, seems so what we need. I

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have a new idea for you when
we come back from break, we'll talk

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about that. Robbie give us the
best website ravunites dot com. That's riv

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i U n I t ees dot
com. His new book is out Its

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Call, which is what he does. He pivots all the time, pivot

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empowering students today to succeed in an
unpredictable future. And Robbie Hutti Sing will

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be with this our last segment in
just a moment seeing is can you only

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imagine what the memoir is going to
look like at the end of one's life,

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At the end of Robbie Huttinson's life
because it is such an extraordinary life

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that he's had. And Robbie,
welcome back. Pivot. Empowering students today

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to succeed in an unpredictable tomorrow is
your new book. You're a global education

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and corporate speaker. You've served as
a cultural diplomat for the US State Department.

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You've been a member of the rock
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He was the guitarist for Hansen.
They traveled and toured all over You became

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a pilot. We heard your pilot
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you are helping young kids and entrepreneurs
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question to you is what about the
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workshops around the country for them.
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there's so many things that we can
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realign our young people with humanity.
You know, we got into this conversation

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and so much of what I talk
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influence of AI and chat, GPT
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of jobs. But at the end
of the day, we're all people and

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we have to get back to what
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we never lose the human spirit.
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just love about music and the arts, and your idea of creating these workshops

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really help will help us keep our
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know, around the human spirit because
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happens when when AI starts to create
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you know, nothing is going to
replace the human spirit as long as we

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keep developing it. And so that's
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sports and all of those things really
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has to keep those types of opportunities
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you know, in touch with that
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ask you, is there any plans
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is that just the early chapter.
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one of the things that I see
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a full circle approach. You know. It's it's kind of funny, right

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because I grew up with a family
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think I would end up work on
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Department as a cultural diplomat, but
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Music has always remained part of my
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diplomat is creating the songwriting workshops that
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religions through music. So music's constant
threat. It's never left me and never

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will. Whether it becomes, you
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do again is yet to be seen. But I'm starting to get that hitch.

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To be honest, I'm starting to
play my guitar a lot more again

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and writing songs again. So maybe, yeah, I just feeling. My

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feeling is that it's not done yet. It's not done yet. When when

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you are sitting back and relaxing and
taking time to reflect between the police,

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political and for those of you that
that are just joining us, your political

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your family tree, oh my gosh, talk about Gandhi talk about your family

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tree. A lot of pressure,
you know, but a lot of exposure

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to to what it means to fight
for freedom, what it means to be

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a leader. As I tell my
audiences, true leadership is empowering those below

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you to rise above you. So
it requires a lot of humility and That's

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something that I've learned from my family
legacy, is that if we're really going

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to change the world, if we're
really going to make it a better place,

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it's not about lifting ourselves. It's
about lifting others and giving them and

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empowering them, just like when I
talk about in my book regarding students,

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empowering them to really succeed. So
that's that's the gift that I've gotten from

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my family legacy. The pressure,
though, must be so intense. And

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by the way, did your dad
love the fact that you had such tremendous

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success in Hanson. Yeah, he
did. You know. I always used

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to joke that even before Hanson,
when I was playing the dive bars in

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New York City, that the three
guys in the suits in the back where

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my dad and my two brothers.
You know, they were very supportive always,

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and they were loving it when I
was with Hanson, and they would

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come to the shows and they would
be in the TV audiences, and you

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know, they they really did support
me a lot, and you know,

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I think respected the fact that I
decided to venture on my own path and

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try to find my own way,
and they were all very proud of me

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for for succeeding. Yeah, I
bet, I bet. I have to

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say that that the way in which
you have pivoted is inspirational so many and

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and that's that's the story, that
is so that's that's the piece that we

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need to hear. The hope,
the fact that if it doesn't work out,

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turn around, look below, look
above, look beside, and you

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have so many connections that you have
made, and that people don't realize that

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these connections that you think are you
know, the power of networking, the

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power of connection in your life has
been extremely powerful, extremely powerful. One

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of the things that I also say
in my keynotes is the worst thing we

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tell children is don't talk to strangers. How can you imagine if I had

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never talked to strangers, I wouldn't
have been able to have created any of

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these opportunities. We need to teach
kids how to talk to strangers. And

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you know, that's where you can
convert opportunities and ignize them and then convert

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them into realities. That's the skill. And then you know, Pivot is

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my life story. It is what
I talk about in the book, and

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it is my hope that it not
only inspires people, but that it actually

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gives them a blueprint on how they
can create these scenarios and these opportunities for

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themselves in their own way, so
that they can achieve happiness, so that

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they can achieve success not just for
themselves, but for those around them,

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and you for the greater good too, because we all absolutely serve in that

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sense. So Robbie, this has
been so enjoyable. Thank you, Thank

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you for all that you bring to
us and the new book. Congratulations,

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come back sooner than later. I
know it's been a while. We'd love

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to continue the conversation because your insights
and information is just so critical and very

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important. Thanks for being with us
and give us the best website. Thank

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you, frank I really appreciate it
to everybody. Can come and visit me

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at RAVI units dot com, r
A v I U n I T e

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s dot com. Thank you so
much, and thank all of you.

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This has been another edition of the
Frankie Boyer Show. Thanks for listening.

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Make it a great day everybody,
and as always, smile, handsome