Speaker 1: 0:05

Welcome to Speak Up International with Rita Burke and Elton Brown. Powerful Steve has a story that will ignite your passion. One day, while he was driving through an intersection in Brampton, he asked himself how do you build a masterpiece? He is here today to discuss how we are all masterpieces and how every person we meet, every moment in our journey, contributes to the larger masterpiece of our lives. Powerful Steve, the virtual floor is yours.

Speaker 2: 0:55

Good afternoon, good morning, good evening, it doesn't matter what time of day it is. For you I'm Powerful, steve, the King of Inspiration, and it's only when you're aiming high you spread your wings and truly fly. I gotta tell you this story and I want to let you all know. It's a true story. I was driving in my car one day and as I crossed through the intersection of Dixie and Howard in Brampton, my mouth opened and said this how do you build a masterpiece? Now, the interesting thing is my niece, who is sitting beside me. She thought I was talking to her, but what she failed to understand is I wasn't even talking.

Speaker 2: 1:38

When I pray and I meditate, I always say to my creator take my hands, take my feet and take my tongue, because your tongue, it's your most unruly member. So if you can submit your tongue to God, that means all your other members have to fall into place. So by me saying, take my hands, take my feet and take my tongue, little did I know that my creator was actually going to take me up on it. So as I drove through the intersection, my mouth opened and said how do you build a masterpiece? My niece turned to me and says how do you build a masterpiece? I realized at that time that I needed an answer for her, so I asked within myself and I said Lord, how do you build a masterpiece? Then he opened my mouth again and said this you go to the master that has all the pieces. Now I meditated on that statement for about two weeks and I got a vision, and so I want to say to each and every one of you that's listening right now and those that will listen later, that you are a masterpiece. Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci you see those guys, they created art, but not all their pieces were considered masterpiece. But you see our creator everything that he has created is a masterpiece. So, elton, I got news for you you are a masterpiece, I'm a masterpiece.

Speaker 2: 3:11

Now, the beautiful thing of what's happening right here right now all three of us have connected together.

Speaker 2: 3:18

Because we have connected together, we are actually creating another masterpiece, because I learned that through the process of time, your journey, you're going to come across people. That's called your destiny helpers. So if you visualize right now a box of puzzle and there is a thousand pieces in this box, after you dump out the pieces, the first thing you do you turn all the pieces right side up, and you probably do what I do and most people do. They find the edges first and they construct the frame of the puzzle. Then they start to look at the box where the picture is, pick up a piece of the puzzle and try to figure out where in the puzzle it fits, where in the puzzle it fits. Now, what I'm trying to get at is this when you get to 99 pieces, that one piece missing is incomplete. But the moment you slip in that last piece and you got 1,000 pieces in place, you just created a masterpiece. Find your destiny helpers and leave this world better than you have found it. Thank you very much.

Speaker 3: 4:32

The voice you are hearing is coming from masterful Steve, powerful Steve, who is a global thought leader. He is an award-winning and inspirational speaker, author and actor. Steve is a sought-after resource for professional and business circles and helps small businesses with startups, business circles and helps small businesses with startups. He strives to ignite the fire within for the individuals and groups that he works with. Steve is also a professional storyteller, as you heard at the top of this interview, and I must add this little caveat, and I must add this little caveat a servant of the most high Steve also tells us that he was born in Jamaica, his heritage is in Nigeria and he currently lives in Canada, to our audience.

Speaker 2: 5:44

Help me to welcome powerful Steve to Speak Up International. Thank you very much for that.

Speaker 1: 5:47

I appreciate it. Thank you so much, powerful Steve, for giving us a unique introduction to our podcast. Can you tell us a little bit about?

Speaker 2: 6:03

your early life in Jamaica and the journey that led you to Canada? Yes, my early life in Jamaica, as in Jamaica we start school earlier than Canada. So I started going to school when I was three years old and I was an extrovert. I got a lot of friends and just enjoying life. I can tell of a situation that happened that scared my mom. She came out and she saw me at age four and I was about 50 feet above in this tree and I'm totally oblivious of the height and the possibilities if I was to fall. But my mother is freaking out, trying to not frighten me but trying to get me to come out of the tree. And I'm saying to her mom I said, mom, I'm just climbing a tree like all the other guys, because I was just following all the older boys. They were climbing the tree and I said, ok, I can do that too.

Speaker 2: 7:01

And yeah, at the age four, when I climbed my first tree and scared the dickens out of my mother, we immigrated. I immigrated two years after that. So literally I lived to the day six years of my life in Jamaica. I literally came to Canada the day after my sixth birthday. That was March 28,. 1971 is when I arrived in Canada and I've been living here ever since. I have not lived anywhere else but Canada, but I've lived in two cities in the stay in Canada, that's Cambridge and presently Brampton, cities in the state in Canada, that's.

Speaker 3: 7:45

Cambridge and presently Brampton. It sounds to me as if from an early age, powerful Steve, that you have been a risk taker. There's no question about that. Definitely Tell us, talk to us about your relationship with the Guinness Book of Records, please.

Speaker 2: 8:05

Yes, I had a friend that looked at some records and he recognized that there is a Guinness Book of Records of. 109 authors got together in the same room. They all wrote a chapter in the same book and they all signed it simultaneously their own copy of it all at the same time, and so that became the Guinness Book of Records. So he called up all the authors he knows. They even created some that record. So I am one of 121 authors that has set the new standard by from 109 to 121, whatever difference that is. So now I am a Guinness Book of Record author.

Speaker 1: 9:01

Wow, congratulations.

Speaker 2: 9:03

Thank you very much.

Speaker 1: 9:04

Wow, congratulations. Thank you very much, powerful Steve. What inspired you to become an inspirational speaker and how did you come to be known as Powerful Steve?

Speaker 2: 9:18

Wow, that's, that's a real, that's a real good question. The first one is a little bit easier, elton, because when one discovers purpose, it's almost like you're saying I was always an inspirational speaker, I just walked into the revelation of it. I was called and placed on this earth to do, and little did I know at the age of eight when I actually spoke my first speech on stage in front of 25 people. I'm 60 years old now, so that's 52 years that I have been speaking. So that answers that I walked into my purpose. As for the second question now, when I came off the stage, the number one thing that people would say is wow, that speech was powerful. Wow, that speech was powerful. And so that's one of the first stage of how I became that. But then I also gave my life to Christ and the Holy Spirit is living inside of me, and so the Holy Spirit brings power and authority, hence the name Powerful Steve.

Speaker 3: 10:30

Thank you. That certainly cleared something up for me. I thought that perhaps you would have said you were a boxer, a fighter, a wrestler, but no, it's your mind and your soul that makes you Powerful, steve.

Speaker 2: 10:43

There you go. Yes, and it's funny. You should say that because, yes, I was a boxer and a wrestler. I played many sports, but I got a concussion in boxing and I couldn't remember the outcome of the fight and that was my last fight. I retired because of that.

Speaker 3: 11:00

I wanted to protect my mind that I wanted to protect my mind. Now, steve, at the top of the show, in your bio, you refer to as a global thought leader. Yes, what does a global?

Speaker 2: 11:14

thought leader do. It's all about innovation and it's all about helping business, corporation and government get to the next level. So there are some governments that I do have collaboration with on certain projects, and it's growing as well, as I have Destiny Leaders Academy. It's presently an online school, but we're destined to have a brick and mortar school, and so I'm in negotiations with various parts of the world to be able to put the school. So the first location that we're going to start is Nigeria, and then we're going to branch out from there. So a global thought leader is just that you are in a think tank, you're masterminding, so you can actually help the community, help the business, help the individual in their growth.

Speaker 1: 12:11

You have powerful, steve, over 30 years of experience, which is nothing that can't shake a stick at. That Thank, you. So what are the key lessons that you've learned about helping others reach their potential?

Speaker 2: 12:28

Very good question. First and foremost, position yourself to help yourself. Foremost, position yourself to help yourself. You've heard it before that when the gas mask falls, if the plane is going down, put the gas mask on yourself first, because that's very important, because it's all about energy. So if you are in a negative frequency, it's very difficult and challenging to help somebody get to their place in society when you are not in a right frame of mind in a place. So, first and foremost, put the gas mask on yourself first.

Speaker 2: 13:05

Second is now a lot of the times the people don't even know who they are, so you have to draw it out of them. So we at Destiny Leaders Academy, we actually have a questionnaire that they can fill out and from the answers they give the questionnaire, we then tell them what their strengths are, what their weaknesses are and so forth. Once they figure that out, then things start going in the right direction as the potentials for what kind of job that they want to monetize. It starts with that, this questionnaire. It's very comprehensive and so far it has not steered us away in any way. Shape or form in any way.

Speaker 3: 13:53

Shape or form Master Destiny Leadership Academy. I will not forget that you help small businesses to get going startups. Could you tell us a success story with one of those businesses that you helped, please?

Speaker 2: 14:10

Ah, yes, you know what? Sometimes it's good to just start with your own story, Because it was the experience of through the school of hard knocks. I actually went to Sheridan College in Brampton majoring in marketing and unfortunately, in 1984, it actually went on strike and they stayed out too long and so they actually gave us our money back and I then actually dove into business without knowing anything about business. And everything that I know about business, I learned the school of hard knocks, a lot of bumps and bruises, from failures, because I didn't have a mentor and I didn't really know who to turn to. And at that time, back in 19, we started a latter part of 80s, 1988. We actually didn't have the Internet like you have now, where you can literally ask Siri or whatever other name your phone is, and now they got artificial intelligence. We didn't have all of that. So what I really can honestly tell you, what I had was the wisdom of God. So God was my coach, was my mentor, and so I quickly learned that if you don't have the capital to start, then you have to have the passion to convince somebody of your vision. First and foremost, if you don't have the capital to start, you got to be able to tell your story to a degree that somebody will say here's $5,000, here's $10,000. Now with us, we didn't have any money and we needed $10,000. We walked into a company the first company and we said to the owner of the company we want to start a janitorial, carpet and upholstery cleaning business and we don't have any money.

Speaker 2: 16:17

I literally watched the gentleman. He just back, he looked at us and says you know something? You guys look like honest guys. He brought us to the showroom and he said choose the equipment that you want. We chose the equipment that we want. He got the chemical supply for us and he says come back and pay me as you make money. He didn't sign a piece of paper. He didn't shake our hands, no, nothing. We literally walked out of that place just on a word. He said when you start making money, bring it back. And we did. We started making money and we paid back that gentleman. But I got to tell you I cried that day because that day I witnessed a miracle from God. This was a Caucasian man and I've never experienced anything like that. No handshake, no signature, no, nothing. Just by word of mouth.

Speaker 3: 17:16

He said this is 2024. Do you think that would scenario would repeat itself today?

Speaker 2: 17:24

you know something. All I can say to that is because of how it happened with me, and god still does exist. I will say to you all things are possible through Christ. That's my answer to that.

Speaker 1: 17:40

Very good answer, if I may say so myself Powerful, Steve. Near the end of our podcast. Sometimes Rita talks about how she feels after the podcast. At the end. Sometimes she feels rejuvenated, she feels blessed, she feels full is another word that she sometimes uses. You're a storyteller, obviously. Yes, you have motivational speeches. So I want to know how do you feel after giving that motivational speech and how do you use that speech to connect to your audience?

Speaker 2: 18:24

OK, the first part is how do I feel? I feel like Niagara Falls. Are you guys familiar with Niagara Falls? Are you guys familiar with Niagara Falls? That's how I feel that there is just a reservoir of energy just flowing out of you because you are freely giving of yourself and you can see that it is impacting others.

Speaker 1: 18:54

What was the second question? Again the second part powerful Steve, when you're giving your motivational speech, how?

Speaker 2: 19:01

do you use it to connect with your audience? I have a program that is 10 steps 10 steps for a dynamic speech, and so what you're asking me is two of the main ones, and that is eye contact. Eye contact and emotion. So when you are doing a speech, it cannot be monotone. You have to be able to elevate your voice, you have to be able to take your voice down. You have to be able to do a dramatic pause, you have to be able to do hand gestures, lift your eyebrows up. But one of the things that I recognize, elton, that usually cause people to be riveted is when you walk off the stage, you look right directly at one individual and it's like just you and him is in the room and nobody else, and you connect with people. That on another level, because the words that's coming out of your mouth, because you came off the stage and you're standing in front of him, he knows that every word you're saying is applied to him.

Speaker 3: 20:16

Steve, you just taught Elton a lesson. You just taught me a lesson about public speaking, because we both belong to Toastmasters, and you said everything just right, thank you. Thank you. Probably should invite you back on here to talk about how to make a dynamic presentation or speech. So thank you for that. That's beautiful. You're welcome.

Speaker 2: 20:39

Yeah.

Speaker 3: 20:40

Tell us a little bit more about Uncaged Productions.

Speaker 2: 20:45

Okay, when I was in grade school that's when I was eight years old that's what started it for me in the entertainment field. I actually played one of the lead roles in a stage production. Matter of fact, it was about a true toothbrush right, toothbrush was the main character and the villain was Meanie McCavity. Meanie McCavity, that was the name of the villain, and of course, it was a cavity. So I remember that, and so it was all about vanquishing the cavity by brushing your teeth. That was the whole production. It was about personal hygiene. That was my state first stage production.

Speaker 2: 21:26

And so, as I grew older and life happens and you drift away from the things in which you're passionate when you're younger. And so I was driving in the Uber when I say driving in the Uber, I was actually the Uber driver and something came on. I'm trying to remember. Oh yes, it was the season of TIFF Toronto International Film Festival and so something came over the airways and I made a declaration saying you know what? I'm going to get into the film industry. I just made that declaration.

Speaker 2: 22:00

That was in 2016. And then the latter part, the last month of 2016,. I actually registered with Melissa Lee Agency as a background actor. A week after that they called me to be on my first set. I was actually on the TV show Designated Survivor. That was my first set and I did three seasons on that and I think I did about two seasons on Suits and I started to get the experience and learning the different aspects of the industry. And then, when things started to slow down and things like that, I then realized that God says and then, when things started to slow down and things like that, I then realized that God says I've given you power to create wealth and so I decided to open up my own production company and it's called Uncage Production and the Uncage is we, our community. We're breaking free of the chains. I wish I brought the logo so you can see it, because it's this big, muscular guy and he's chained up and he's broke free from the chains. That means uncaged productions. We are free at last.

Speaker 1: 23:04

Boy, do you have many, many stories to tell? We could probably just wind you up and just let you go for at least an hour.

Speaker 2: 23:13

Funny. You should say that because the longest I ever spoke is three hours. Wow, yeah, I have that in me.

Speaker 1: 23:23

It sounds like it just by your tone, your expression and your passion. I want to talk a little bit about your community involvement and activism. A little bit about your community involvement and activism. Can you share a little bit about your work with the homeless over the past? Three years or so, and what inspired you to start this mission?

Speaker 2: 23:50

I got fed up and what I said is I've been in church. Like I said, I gave my life to Christ at age 23. And you heard me mention I'm 60 years old now. So I've been running with the Lord for a while and it got to a point where we're the light of the world. We get into the building and we're just reflecting our light off of each other. But light only becomes relevant in darkness. And so I just one day just got out of my house and started walking down the street. It was late at night and I started to observe. And through the process of observing I then went to the store and I got a few cases of water and I got the hard dough bread at home and peanut butter and jam, and I put together some sandwiches, maybe about 15 or 20 sandwiches, with the 48 case of water to two cases of 24. And I just went out on the streets of Brampton and I started to just give out food. Then I discovered that there is a ministry that they actually get food, actual food. So I got plugged into them and they started to supply the food for me and then it became a regular thing that I started to give food out on the streets of Brampton.

Speaker 2: 25:17

Now I did that for an entire year until one day, when I was leaving, this lady came up to me and says excuse me, can I talk to you for a minute? And I said, sure. She said we were talking among ourselves and everybody says that they don't know who you are, and you've been coming out here quite a while now giving us food. So we actually want to know who you are and why you are doing this, something like that. And so we sat down on the curb. I introduced myself to them and I told them that I'm doing this because I'm a servant of the most high God, that I'm doing this because I'm a servant of the Most High God and he directed me to do this, so I work for him full time. And so I literally became what they call street P. I'm a street pastor, and the homeless community here in Brampton they recognize me as their pastor.

Speaker 3: 26:11

So do you literally preach or you just allow your behavior to be the word?

Speaker 2: 26:17

Most of it is behavior, is character, but there does come opportunities where I actually do preach and I do a lot of holding of the hands and praying as well. Yeah, I would say I do more praying than preaching and more serving than praying. Hey you know what, whatever works.

Speaker 1: 26:47

It's got to be conducive to the environment. Yeah, so you preach on the corner in Brampton. So how does this I'll call it hands-on approach impact your ministry?

Speaker 2: 27:00

on approach, impact your ministry. It literally revived me because, like I said, I spent 25 years preaching in the pulpit and I have to tell you, what I hate the most is when somebody, when I come off the pulpit and they say, wow, that was a real powerful message, I can't wait to hear the message next week. That's the worst thing that you could say to me because, pretty moved on from the word that you just got that is supposed to be manifested, I'm not there to entertain you, I'm there to deliver a word so you can grow, not for you to feel excited and to congratulate me and says I'm coming back to hear your message next week. No, what are you going to do with the message that you just got? So me making the transition from the pulpit to the streets.

Speaker 3: 27:46

It reinvigorated me and I fell in love with Jesus all over again again, Mr Steve, powerful Steve, who lives in Brampton and who is a street minister and who ministers to people who are unhoused, works better for you being on the pulpit or being on the pulpit on the streets?

Speaker 2: 28:12

Being on the pulpit, on the streets 100%, 1000%, because God says that we are the light of the world and that we must let our light so shine before men. If you think of it from a scientific perspective, nobody walks out on the street at 12 noon when the sun is out and turns on a flashlight. If they do, you won't even see the beam of the flashlight because the brilliance of the sun has already absorbed that light. But the minute the sun sets, that same flashlight that you couldn't see at 12 noon, it becomes the center of attraction, and so I am having more impact on my community. I've baptized more people off the streets of Brampton than I'm sitting in the pulpit waiting for somebody to come into the church for me to do an altar call.

Speaker 3: 29:10

For you to entertain them, because very often I don't particularly like seeing this.

Speaker 2: 29:15

That's the expectation of a lot of people who walk into a church yes, and I really got upset, because can you imagine preaching to a group of people for 25 years and you don't see any growth in them? And that's that's that's what was happening and I said I just got upset and I just shifted that and the ministry, my ministry. Like right now, I have an online ministry. I'm not even in a building right now and I'm ministering to thousands of people across the globe right now, on every continent.

Speaker 1: 29:48

Wow, sometimes I think, just being a speaker, you have to think of yourself as a farmer and you have a particular crop that's been growing well and all of a sudden it doesn't.

Speaker 1: 30:02

It's not growing fast enough, so you need to maybe add something to the dirt in order to get that crop to start growing again, and that's what it sounds like you did in order to get your congregation moving again. Now I don't know if our audience is familiar with TD Jakes. He is a pastor and he televises his ministry and I've watched him several times and he is definitely a dynamic and powerful speaker. So I know that you watched the Potter's House with TD Jakes. Yes. So how did that influence your decision to begin donating food and water to those in need? I know we talked a little bit about that earlier, but now I want to know how did TD Jakes influence you?

Speaker 2: 31:02

There is a few individuals that I respect their style of teaching. Td Jakes was one of them, miles Monroe was another, and there was a Zimbabwe gentleman. I'm trying to remember his name right now, but all of a sudden it slipped my mind. I hope I could remember it. But yeah, and then there's Myron Golden. Myron Golden is one of my mentors as well. I call them my mentor, even though I have not met them in the physical realm, I have met them in the spiritual realm and I have learned, as me, being a man of God, and I myself is growing and have my flaws.

Speaker 2: 31:45

I tend to stick to listening to the word and listening to the message rather than bringing any kind of judgment on the deliverer, because when you really look at it a mailman, his job is to deliver the mail to your house and your job is to open the mail. At no time do you criticize the mailman if he has a hole in his pants. Or yesterday he brought the mail at 1045 and today he brought it at 11 o'clock and he's 15 minutes late. No, you're just happy to get the mail.

Speaker 2: 32:20

And yeah, td jakes really inspired me when it came to liberating a lot of the oppression that women were going through and women couldn't hold certain offices and things like that. But now I see it a lot better now, as I you heard me mention woman, thou art loose. I that that series there. It had a lot of great impact on me and my ministry also. In order to be able to facilitate that and to recognize that there's giftings that God has put in a male body and giftings that he's put in a female body, and just because from the family structure, the Bible says the man is the head, that doesn't say that the woman is not playing a role or the woman doesn't have her place as well. And yeah, td Jakes helped me to streamline that and put it in the proper biblical context.

Speaker 3: 33:21

We are speaking with powerful Steve, who is an author, public speaker, actor, community builder, and on Speak Up International we highlight the stories of community builders so that those stories could inspire, inform and educate. And so I have a question for you. I want to call it my signature question, and here it is Was there a time in your life, Was there a time in your life, Powerful?

Speaker 2: 33:54

Steve, when you had to say enough, yes. I'm going to get a little emotional now on you, because I went through two years of depression. Two years of depression literally laying on my bed and not wanting to take a shower, not wanting to go to the bathroom, not wanting to see anybody. I didn't think that powerful Steve, the king of inspiration, can go through such a thing, because I hear people talk about depression and I could only empathize with them. But, going through 24 months of depression myself, I can now sympathize with them.

Speaker 2: 34:44

I can literally write a book over the process where it got to the point where I'm actually reasoning in my mind that if I was to kill myself, what method I would use? And that's the darkest. Or I should say, that's the valley of the shadow of death that I passed through. And then to hear the voice of God say if you have a valley, that means it's surrounded by two mountains. That means it's surrounded by two mountains. And the Lord said to me look up, pick a mountain and start to climb. And so I looked up and, metaphorically, I started to climb the mountain and when I got to the crescendo, god started to minister to me on another level. And so my ministry is that much stronger and greater now because of that journey of two years in the valley of the shadow of death.

Speaker 3: 35:43

What is the best piece of advice? I so identify and understand your story about the valley of the shadow of death, and you wouldn't believe it, powerful Steve, that this woman that's sitting here on this Zoom platform with you was once a mental health nurse, so I fully understand what you're talking about. So, steve, what would you say is the best piece of advice that you've ever been given?

Speaker 2: 36:18

Wow, the best piece of advice that I've ever been given. That significantly changed my life. I was 22 years old. I had went into Bramley City Center with my girlfriend at the time to purchase something. And I don't like to shop, I don't like walking around and buying things. When I need something, I know where the store is, I know where the product is, I go in, I get the product, I pay for it, I walk out. I don't like window shopping, I don't just like lollagagging. But my girlfriend liked to do that. To accommodate her, I drove her and then I went inside with her and I said this bench, right here, I'm going to sit on this bench and I'm not going to move from this bench until you come back.

Speaker 2: 37:08

So there I am sitting on the bench and shortly after that, here comes this elderly gentleman. He had to be over 70s and he had his lovely wife with him and he came and he sat beside me and then his wife walked away. So when I saw that, I started to laugh within myself and I basically said something to him. I said, let me guess you don't want to walk around and shop, right? So you're just here to support your wife. And then he smiled at me, right. So we got into talking and through the conversation I said to him experience is the greatest teacher. And then he quickly said no, it's not Now.

Speaker 2: 37:51

When he said that, in my mind I said this old man is either a crackpot or he's about to tell me something that's so profound.

Speaker 2: 38:00

So right there, I quieted myself and I just started to look at him.

Speaker 2: 38:04

When he saw that he had my uninterrupted attention, he said this to me Someone else's experience is the greater teacher.

Speaker 2: 38:15

Why should I have to take crack cocaine and know the results of taking crack cocaine and getting addicted to it, when I can simply watch somebody that's on crack cocaine and watch what he goes through through his addictions and how he goes to his friend's house and steal their records and their CD selections and go to the pawn shop and sell it, just so they can get another fix? And when they go from their family house to their family house until no more family would allow them to come over the house, because every time they come out of the house something is missing why should I have to go through all that when I can see somebody go through it and learn from that? When he said that I realized that he just spoke words of wisdom to me and at that point I said I am going to be a creature of observation and I do a lot of observation to this day. I'm 60 years old now. I was 22 years old when that old man gave me that piece of advice.

Speaker 3: 39:17

And now, today, you're an old man.

Speaker 2: 39:19

And now today, I'm an old man, but I got to tell you, rita, I'm halfway there. I had a conversation with God and he told me that I'm going to live over a century, and I gave him the number in which I want to live and he didn't say no to it. So I'm 60 years old, so I'm just halfway there. The latter 60 is going to be greater than the first 60. How's that?

Speaker 1: 39:43

There you go. Yeah, you take what you learn and you move forward.

Speaker 2: 39:48

Most definitely.

Speaker 1: 39:50

This has been one wonderful, refreshing experience with you. This morning, powerful Steve, we had the opportunity to talk a little bit about your personal background, your professional and inspirational work, your community involvement and activism. We did talk a little bit about your Destiny Leaders Academy and other work that you've also participated in. Steve, it's been wonderful to have you with us. Can you quickly tell us the name of your book again, and where can it be purchased?

Speaker 2: 40:29

Yeah, it's who Am I, and then it's Maps to your Success. It is on Amazon so you can get a copy there, or you can just reach out to me if you want the link to the Amazon. My phone number is 416 or 1-416-708-5377. Is lifecoachstevecurr at gmailcom. My Facebook is Steve Curr. My YouTube is at PowerfulSteve1774. And so you can reach out to me. I'll get you the link for that book. Also, my second book, it's Never Over Until I Win, and I have seven other books that I've written. I'm just waiting for the appointed time to publish them.

Speaker 1: 41:26

Thank you again for giving us the time out of your busy schedule this morning. Much appreciated, Rita. Do you have something that you'd like to add to that?

Speaker 3: 41:36

I've been inspired, I've been enlightened and I'm continuing to observe. Thank you so much for spending the time with us. I'll remember a lot of what you said. Really appreciate it, steve.

Speaker 2: 41:50

Thank you very much. I appreciate it. Now will you guys be sending me a copy of this so I can hear myself again?

Speaker 1: 41:57

Yes, as soon as the podcast is produced, you will get an email from us. Okay, give me the link and you can do whatever you want with it. We don't put any restrictions on it. I'll just say go with God.

Speaker 2: 42:14

Okay, thank you very much. I appreciate it and I want to thank you guys very much. Your questions were precise. You guys are an amazing, dynamic duo. I am honored to be on this podcast and to and to serve your listening audience, and sure I would love to come back again and do this again, because there is other pages. There is a lot in me. Like I said, we're in the process also of writing a script for a movie. We're hoping anywhere it could start filming in 2025, but if not 2025, 2026. So there's a lot that's going on. So I want to thank you guys greatly and looking forward to building on this relationship.

Speaker 1: 43:05

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