Damon West

And in the summer of 2019, Mick, 10 years after I first heard that story from Mohammed in a jail cell in Dallas County Jail, that book, The Coffee Bean, came out, took the world by storm.

The world, Mick, it starts off in America, man.

Four to six weeks at the top of every bestseller list.

Got a global publishing deal.

Global publishing deals are rare, Mick.

Your book gets reprinted in every language in the world.

You start seeing that popping up in Chinese and Spanish, Arabic, French, Italian, German, Vietnamese, Korean.

And then in 2020, a global pandemic hits.

The entire world becomes a pot of boiling water and the entire world is searching for the right message.

And that's when the world discovered the coffee bean guy.

Mick, my life went horizontal to vertical, man, just like that.

And it hadn't stopped yet.

Since 2021, I've been on the road 20 to 25 days of every month sharing this story somewhere.

But Mick, and this is what I want everybody to understand.

It all goes back to that one night in Houston, Texas, January 11th, 2017.

That night that I had seven no's in the first hour.

And I'm 10 feet from that door.

And the voice in my head is telling me to leave.

And Mick, I'm very close to walking out the door because what are the odds the biggest coach in the room is going to say yes, right?

He's definitely going to be a no.