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It was a mid-summer afternoon about three weeks ago while sitting at Starbucks enjoying my cappuccino (extra wet, with whip and cinnamon sprinkles at the bottom) with biscotti in hand I realized one thing. I was sitting alone. Maybe I reached that observation when I started talking to myself, but it seemed the really interesting people all around me on their lunch hour were conducting business and what appeared to be networking. I’m sure some were there having flings, others scheming on how they could be the next Bill Gates, and a few had no idea why or how they got there. For the most part it seemed like they were there to network.

If there were so many people there huddled around cups and I was sitting alone (this is when the voices in my head start and I start talking to myself before I’m approached by the person who brings samples around), what’s wrong with this picture?

Well this super networker wasn’t really networking it. I’m not sure where I’m going with this story, but basically I realized I had a sugar and caffeine high. I should meet people for lunch / coffee and see what their story is and blog it.

Rewind about four years prior. I was out and about meeting people looking to understand how they got to where they were and how I could be as successful as them one day if I followed in their footsteps. Granted we all have to take our own paths, but it was interesting nonetheless.

Now that you know my coffee of choice and that there are voices in my head feel free to browse around the interviews I’ve done. The Interviews are listed on the right in 4 genres (Movers & Shakers, Political Leaders, Interesting Professions and Religious Leaders).

When you start to read the interviews you’ll notice I’ve tried to make the questions somewhat consistent for ease of finding the motivating pattern in everyone.

If there is anyone you think I should interview please do contact me.

Meditative Thought:
We are the music makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers,
And sitting by desolate streams;
World-losers and world-forsakers,
On whom the pale moon gleams:
Yet we are the movers and shakers
Of the world for ever, it seems.

Arthur William Edgar O’Shaughnessy
“Ode” from his book Music and Moonlight (1874)