00:00  : Welcome to Diary of a Dreamer, where resilience unlocks your potential. I’m Tasha Eizinger, and each week I’ll bring you powerful stories and practical insights from my own experiences and inspiring guests. Whether you’re facing challenges or chasing dreams, this podcast is your go-to for motivation, building confidence, and practical tips for transforming obstacles into opportunities. Be sure to check out my website, TashaEizinger.com. 

00:34  : Let’s dive into today’s episode and start turning your dreams into reality. Today we are with Mike Brown, who is a speaker, author. And the founder of Soulstir, which I cannot wait to hear more about everything you’re doing, Mike, because I know like the focus of what you’re doing is to create an impact. So through Soulstir, you’re publishing, speaking, and it’s a social impact company. So we need more people making a difference in the world. I think we don’t have to look far to see the need for that. So I appreciate everything you’re doing, Mike, to help our community and pretty much everybody you meet, I feel like. 

01:17  : yeah well thank you for for for sharing those kind words and if you look in the mirror as well you’re doing great great stuff too so thank you for creating this space for conversation to share stories to encourage people inspire people to do good and so thank you as well well i appreciate that so here’s kind of a funny story mike i’ve never told you how i first learned about you 

01:42  : oh oh boy depending on what year that was let me see here good one it’s a good one um so anyways i was doing an author event and this woman who you know obviously we’re both authors we’ll get into that in you know the same community and so she was like have you heard of mike brown i’m like who’s mike brown she’s like 

02:07  : oh my goodness he was the first black leprechaun of notre dame i was in school when he was there and i’m like great i went to purdue i really don’t pay that much of attention to sports anyways sorry not sorry about what happened recently oh i don’t really pay attention to sports so you know i went there for the education there you go so i um i’m listening to her as she’s just like 

02:32  : telling me all about your book Little Netta’s Gift and just this whole big thing and she finally maybe i had a look on my face of just like i don’t know what to say because she’s such a raving fan and i was like happy that you know you sounded like a great guy so anyway she was like i’m so sorry but i’m just such a big fan and i got him once 

02:55  : She talked to you once. It was the sweetest, most sincere interaction about what she thought of you. And I thought, well, that’s great. We should all have people that we admire and all of that. That’s fine. And then I met you at an author event and really got to know the heart of what you’re doing and the impact you’re having. And it makes me so happy that she is a fan of a truly good man. 

03:26  : I don’t even know how to respond to that, Tasha, to be honest with you. What do you say? I mean, it’s, I’ll tell you, it’s an honor. It’s a humbling experience, right, to hear people speak about you in that way. It’s something that when you think about it, Tasha, you don’t necessarily set out to have a good review of you in life, right? I feel a lot of things that we do in life, you do, and you focus on doing good and doing things well, and you’re doing your best, and you’re trying to. 

03:56  : you’re in many cases just trying to have fun, to be candid, right? My time is leprechaun, which is how she knew me. That really was an experience where my roommate just convinced me to try out and I was doing something fun and boom, you know, 20. Now I’m almost 30. Don’t say that too much. Years later, people are- It’s been a minute. Yeah, it’s been a minute. But when you first said someone was speaking about me that way, I thought you were talking about my mom. I was like, oh, I’m gonna talk to my mom, huh? Oh my goodness. Well, you know, what I love, Mike, is as I’ve seen a little bit about what you’re doing and how you operate and how people speak so highly of you is

04:42  : You’re right. It is humbling, but you’re also not taking that responsibility lightly. I think sometimes people, it does feed their ego. And then it’s like, well, don’t you know who I am and what I’ve done? You’re not that guy. You are taking it as a responsibility to give back and contribute. And one of the big ways you’re doing it is through picture books. So I know you’ve done So Lucky to Have You, Little Netta’s Gift, and the Leprechauns Game Day at Notre Dame. Yes. 

05:07  : Those are my babies. Isn’t that great? That’s so exciting. How did you get started? I know you weren’t somebody who was setting out to be an author growing up. Where did this all come from? Go through that process a little bit. Through the journey, I say. Four years ago, based on where we are today, this wasn’t even a thought. A lot of these projects now, the books, the stories that are being shared weren’t. 

05:37  : weren’t even ideas, right, in my head. But all along, if you think about it, as you go through life, they’ve been percolating, right? There’s been something that’s been there and there’s been a thread that’s been working through and all of a sudden, boom, it comes to life. So 2020 is, when you talk about an authorship, my authorship journey, I’ll jump all the way to 2020 in terms of a lot that was happening in 2020, global health pandemic, a lot of social injustices, the awareness of them, I’ll call it, was heightened. 

06:07  : a lot of political divide that year, as well as just a lot of hate that was in the atmosphere, I’ll call it. And the question that I kept posing to myself as I looked around and I tried to figure out, well, what can I do in this moment? How can I use my gifts? How can I use my talents to contribute positively in this? 

06:32  : moment that we’re going through. I wasn’t out protesting. I wasn’t posting a lot on social media about how I felt about the COVID vaccine. That wasn’t quite my lane. I was working as a fundraiser at a great university that was at a great mission. And I felt I was doing good work through that and having an impact there. But I felt like there was more. I felt like there was something else I could do. And that’s when on September 20th, 2020 is when my 

07:02  : grandmother. So my maternal, or I’m sorry, my paternal grandmother was honored in Milwaukee. My late paternal grandmother, she was honored with a highway, a portion of the highway that was dedicated to her. And it was on that day that I watched the ceremony from home. And I was very moved by that experience. And it was September 17th. Sorry. 

07:30  : One grandmother is September 17th, another grandmother is September 20th, so they’re right. I got two Titans that are right close to each other. But September 17th was the date. But I watched her get celebrated, get this honor, and it moved me. And I thought about her life and how she persisted and had so much perseverance through a lot of things in her life. And I said, man, what’s something I can do through the things that are going on in mine? And so that’s really what triggered. 

07:59  : something that I could do. And so a couple days later, Tasha, I went for a run. I was training for a half marathon. It was not a, people were like, oh, which one? I said, it was the Mike Brown made up marathon. And I just. No aid stations. Yes. No finish line. You didn’t even make yourself a medal or something. You know, my medal was coming up a hill toward my house and seeing my wife and daughter. Like that was. 

08:28  : the biggest medal it pushed me 13.1 that wasn’t in my my goal list either so books were not on my my list of things to write and then running a half marathon wasn’t quite either and so but that happened but i had a 10 mile long run a few days after that moment and that’s when the idea to share my late cousin story i’m on that run and running as a special movement running 

08:54  : Walking, there’s just something special about that activity that just kind of gets you, gets your mind thinking about things. And that’s when I had the idea to share my late cousin’s story. And that’s when the story of Little Netta and Little Netta’s Gift, that first book, that’s when it was born. So it’s a book that’s based on a true story. And so I wasn’t really making things up right with that story. It was more sharing about my cousin’s legacy and the beautiful act of kindness that she did on her birthday. 

09:24  : Yeah. I feel like writers write when they have something that needs to be shared. I like it. You’re right. Right. And her story needed to be honored and who she was needed to be honored. And what a beautiful way to do that in such a timeless way, because books exist forever, right? Forever. It’s forever. It was one of those moments, Tasha, where I literally before I shared. 

09:51  : the fact that i was publishing this book or writing this book before i posted anything about it the night before i said have you ever done something or had something where you feel as though you were born to do it i said that’s how i feel right now i’m excited to share something with you tomorrow that’s very special and that’s how i felt the night before i announced little netta’s gift was coming i felt literally as though there was something in my spirit there’s something part of my calling 

10:20  : There was something that put me in this position to be able to share her story in so many ways, right? The resources, the number of people that I have a reach to. And so there was a lot of reasons why I feel I’m literally born. This is something I was born to do. Yeah, everything was falling into place. I think of like dominoes. 

10:42  : you know if you just shift the domino a little bit it goes down a different path right but if you look back you’re like wow this path this crazy wild path led me right here oh i think about that often i think about that often talk about rivers and i like to reflect on life and i reflect on where i went to college right i was on one path to go to one school ended up going to another i think about jobs and where i was going to take this job but ended up going i got two job offers on the same day 

11:12  : It was, it was like, wait a minute. Am I going to go into, it was called conversions or am I going to go into sales? I was like, same day, same day. And you never know what would have happened if I go any other way, et cetera. But yeah. You’re like a Robert Frost poem that two roads diverged, two colleges, two careers. Like, yeah, it was wild. Yeah. It’s been quite the, quite the journey, but yeah. Yeah. You know, and backtracking to. 

11:40  : like 2020 and what you’re saying, because I feel like we’re in another pivotal time period in history. This episode probably won’t air and go live until probably the spring of 2026. We’re recording about October of 2025. What you said is so crucial for everybody to think about is what can I do? What can I do? 

12:07  : What can I do? It’s not just the posting and the shouting. And there’s a time and a place for everything as long as there’s peace, right? Right. What can we as individuals do? And you took a moment to reflect on your gifts because we all have them. We have them. We all have them. 

12:29  : yep and how can i use it to contribute because i feel the same way you know the books and things that i do it’s to give back in my own way it’s a way of like peaceful protest if you will it is it is it really is and i think i’m reminded all the time right it’s you can’t necessarily control all the things that happen around you but you can control how you respond or you can control your actions and that’s really how i feel in in this moment but 

12:57  : in life right it’s there are things that we do have within i call our sphere of influence and our control that there are things that we can do whether they’re small grand you name it but as long as it’s toward and there’s here’s the thing you can do some things that aren’t necessarily good a lot of people don’t always use their gifts and their talents and things for good 

13:19  : I tell people all the time, I wish some of the carjackers would work in my logistics department and help me manage my book operation and help me get some parts moved around and give me some logistics help. But you can also use your gifts and your talents for not good purposes. But we all bring something to the table. It’s one of my core beliefs. We all have something that… 

13:44  : that we can do to contribute to whatever’s happening in our lives and the lives of others in our community you name it so there’s something we can do now it’s on we have to find it you got to go through a little bit of a discernment period to do it and it’s something that i think needs to be intentional and that’s something that i really took to heart is having that intentional point and period of discernment where you really do think about okay what do i really care about what what are my real passions 

14:12  : uh what what’s my purpose of existing on this earth and these aren’t quick 30 seconds so but just discerning that but also doing it on an ongoing basis i mean i constantly revisit i actually put a little document together where i just mapped out what are the things i’m good at why am i good at them why is that important how does that help you and so it’s one of those things where it’s a it’s an ongoing 

14:37  : just process but there are things that you can do that we all can do to have a positive impact in our in our world yeah we could probably make a whole series just on that yeah right there because it’s so true and i one of the things i tell my girls is there’s always been good and evil in the world since the beginning of time till the end of time there’s always going to be good and evil and it takes the good people 

15:03  : working together and using their gifts and using what they can to keep the shift towards the good. Yeah. And we can’t all be passionate about everything that we see because if we did, I’d be in the fetal position right now instead of interviewing you, hopefully inspiring people together. Right? Right. Exactly. Exactly. They say balance to the force or something. I’m sure there’s a thing, but, but yeah, it’s. 

15:28  : It’s one of the biggest challenges I have right now, Tasha, is really trying to focus my energy quite candidly on the things that I can have the biggest impact in. And really, you talk about so many things that there’s so many needs, so many challenges that need to be addressed. And I’m like, OK, if I really think about it here, OK, there’s 24 hours in a day. Where should I be spending my time to have the biggest impact? 

15:57  : in whatever area it may be but yeah it’s it’s a lot and you can get caught up and almost get become one of the things that happened tasha you can become you can almost be frozen you almost feel helpless and you get a sense of hopelessness and actually one of my friends that’s kind of how he felt that’s what he told me and when he said that i was like man 

16:23  : there is something you can do though i didn’t i didn’t have the words but it was like well what can i do and i’m like there’s something that you can do but nonetheless no i agree and i think there is space for taking a moment and feeling hopeless and feeling like you can’t do anything and feeling numb for a moment like if anybody feels that way right now like it’s okay we have a lot going on right 

16:47  : but you can’t stay there. You gotta get up and fight the good fight, if you will, in your own way, because there are a lot of people in the world, if we all work together, we can do good things. You can. You really can. 

17:08  : That’s also part of the things that I really care deeply about is working together. I come from a village is what I call it, Tasha. It’s a village of people who all work together to help raise me. So I grew up in a family. I live with my grandmother and my mom. my maternal grandmother, I had two aunts, my two sisters, and two younger cousins. We all grew up in the same house. What a blessed man to be surrounded by all those incredible ladies. Yes, yes. I love them all. And yeah, I learned a lot about curling hair and all the things. But yeah, it was a village of them. Then I had my church community. Then I had neighbors, people in the neighborhood, people through school. 

17:50  : but it was a village and one of my uncles who i didn’t i’ll actually live with him for about a year or so it was a community of people we were all working together everyone was eating everyone was fed right we worked there were carpools but we worked together and i think applying that same village community working together principle in other facets of our lives is exactly what we need to continue to do working with someone like you right you’re you’re doing great work we’re we’re now engaged with each other and now the things that we bring to the table in my opinion will be amplified and so the goodness will be be amplified even more so i’m a firm believer of partnering working together in that community that village kind of that village concept i completely agree we can’t do it all alone no just can’t and we’re not meant to 

18:36  : right yeah so i love collaborating with people like you and i know we’ve talked about your books and stuff but tell me about Soulstir when did that come about and why how all of that sure so I mentioned the book Little Netta’s Gift, which was the first book that I wrote. I had no idea what I was doing. I called a buddy of mine. I said, hey, I got this story. Now what? And so I had a wonderful gentleman named Jim Langford. He said, Mike, you need to get someone to edit it. I said, well, can you be my publisher? What does that mean? He said, well, I’ve never done a children’s book, but we can work on it and see what we can do. So that story is what essentially… 

19:17  : led to the creation, ultimately, of Soulstir. It was during that journey of creating that book where I found an editor. That editor happened to be my classmate. Oh, wow. At Notre Dame. We were in a cheer squad together. And I tell people all the time, you just never know how these paths will come back together. I searched editor on LinkedIn. I said, okay, I searched editor on LinkedIn and Cara Kren’s name comes up. 

19:46  : And she’s like, hey, great to hear from you. We reconnected. And she happens to be a children’s book writer, editor, extraordinaire, award-winning writer. Are you kidding me right now? That’s unreal. Unreal. Unreal. You can’t make this up. Yeah. But that, connecting with my publishing mentor now, a guy who’s my publishing mentor, connecting with Cara. Cara had additional ideas for books. 

20:11  : It was actually the Leprechaun’s Game Day book, which was my second book. That was actually her idea to write. I said, I don’t know. I didn’t want to write a book about myself as a leprechaun, at least in that way. But she said this would be a great way to kind of share your own story. And one story leads to another. And that’s where I thought, OK, let me maybe package this up into an actual formal entity. And that entity ultimately became a publishing company. And it started with. 

20:41  : a company that had a container for my own books. And so, but now we’re up to six books that have been published through the company. Three have been mine with three of our other authors. And by the end of 2025, knock on wood and all the things, we’ll be up to eight books that we have published. So, and so that was part of the creation of Solster is to have that container, if you will, for formal business. But what we also do through Solster, which is… 

21:10  : Equally, if not more importantly, is we have these social impact programs where every book is tied to some sort of social mission. And so Little Netta’s Gift is a book where we work with children that are at schools that maybe have a low reading proficiency. We work with them. Those schools often also have. 

21:33  : a high percentage of economically disadvantaged students there as well. And so what we do, since Lil Netta is from Milwaukee, we work with a school, two or three, we’re up to seven schools now over the last five years, where we give a copy of the book and share Christmas gifts with students at those schools. And so every book works in a similar way in that they’re also tied to a social mission. And so the Leprechauns Game Day book supports scholarships. 

22:02  : uh the the so lucky to have you book that that’s more recent release that one we’re using it we’re donating books to Ronald McDonald houses chapters across the country to nicu units across the country and so but all of these books have some sort sort of social mission tied to them as well so that’s a an equally if not even more important part of the company is that we operate that through through solster as well 

22:28  : Well, and what a great motivator to know, like, you can’t give up on your mission, man. These people are counting on you. They’re counting on me. They’re counting on you to keep going. They’re counting on me to keep going. They’re counting on us as a community to keep going. When you look at some of the statistics, particularly around youth, youth literacy rates, reading rates, it’s pretty… It’s unnerving. It’s unnerving. It’s unnerving. And so… 

22:54  : That’s where, while that wasn’t necessarily the reason why I wrote Lil Netta’s gift, it was more about sharing a story that was positive, a story of kindness. It’s also been something that led me down this path of kind of better understanding and having even more greater awareness of how… 

23:16  : how poorly we are just in general at reading as a community as a society and so so this is where there’s some small action that we talk about that we can take me coming into schools sharing a positive story that can get their attention encourage them to read and and this is where right this is my little part that i can try to do to hopefully change right a a nine percent reading proficiency rate to 10 to 11. 

23:43  : at one school to another school right and this is where it’s not just me but then a number of people doing the work and so that’s that that’s where that the company soul stir when you talk about it it’s a publishing uh company it’s also a company through which we do social impact work and giving books back but then i also do my public speaking through it as well and so i visit elementary schools middle schools high schools even talk to different corporations 

24:12  : about using their gifts about the importance of reading depending on the the level right of the audience i can go different different directions with it but the message is really consistent we all have gifts we all have something that we bring to the table it’s a matter of discovering what they are and then putting them putting them to work that is so beautiful and i hope everybody caught when you said 

24:34  : The change is incremental. It’s 9% to 10% to 11%. People keep looking for quick fixes. It does not exist. It takes time. But if we implement the right things, right? Reading, reading more, that’s a right action, right? And we encourage it. Over time, we can see improvement. Absolutely. Absolutely. Reading more, books in homes, seeing people. 

25:01  : uh having stories that students can connect connect with more easily it’s there’s a number of things that go into it i tell a joke but not joke but i tell somebody i’m not a curriculum i don’t come in and teach curriculum around phonics and verbs nouns i don’t i can’t i don’t know they’re in there somewhere they’re in there somewhere but but i know the importance of stories and i know the importance of sharing them 

25:31  : the importance of hearing them, the importance of processing them, and how those stories can really have an impact in your life. And whether you’re reading the book, listening to an audio book, you name it, right? It’s all important as we continue on this journey. Yes, absolutely it is. I want to move forward a little bit here and talk about some of the health issues you’ve had. 

25:55  : My heart goes out to you because I’ve had some serious health issues myself. And it is something that is really hard to explain to people what it’s like to experience a chronic issue 24-7. Yeah, 24-7. It’s always in the back of your mind. You’re always having to look at the world a little bit differently of how you function in the world. Right. So whatever you feel comfortable sharing, I would love to hear about some of your health issues and even where you are now, how you’re doing now. 

26:22  : No, glad to share. And the reason why I’m glad to share, Tasha, is because I’ve found it to be now part of my testimony in terms of what you can do. Again, I don’t know if everyone believes in God. I do. But by the grace of God and with his grace and mercy, some things that you can be carried through. But August 26, 2021, I’m a date person, if you can’t imagine. So August 26, 2021. You are very good at knowing dates. I’m so impressed. 

26:49  : dates are just so i don’t know i don’t know what it is but i just dates are important to me i just remember i vividly remember things that take place right these different times in your life but but yeah august 26 2021 life changed forever in that i had what what became known as what i didn’t know at the time it ended up being my first seizure and so i didn’t have any head trauma growing up i hadn’t had any issues prior to that date but 

27:19  : I was sitting on the couch. We were about to get ready to take my daughter to her soccer practice that evening. And while I was on the couch, I just started convulsing and fell on the floor. We didn’t know what, my wife didn’t know what to do. She called the ambulance there. So next thing I know, I’ll wake up in the hospital. I’m like, what’s going on? And so they said, you had a seizure, Mr. Brown. And so I said, okay. I was stressed. Honestly, I was 

27:47  : building this company. That was a time when I was in the middle of publishing and putting out into the world, Little Netta’s Gift, my first book. And so I said, okay, I was stressed. Let me take it easy. Let me kind of not stress too much about the book and the project, if things will be okay. And I felt I’ll be fine. Well, September 18th, 2021 is when I had my second seizure. And so that’s when it became… 

28:12  : Like, OK, something’s going on here. I took a leave of absence from work and and I tried to just really figure out what was going on. So four years later, Tasha, while the seizures now are more controlled, while I don’t have like I don’t have convulsions or anything anymore. Unfortunately, they’re still happening. They may happen every month or two, sometimes every other week or so. But when they happen now, it’s about a 30 second. 

28:40  : period of time maybe a minute where i simply lose awareness and i i’m fine right it’s not i don’t collapse on the floor or anything like that i just kind of lose awareness for a second and but then i snap right back and so but when you think about that i can’t go swimming right with my daughter by myself even when we go for a walk if i’m by myself with her we’re very particular she knows now hey if daddy’s doing this you got to make sure 

29:08  : Just watch out. Like, it’ll be OK. Driving. I don’t drive now. I haven’t driven a car in four years. And so not being able to just simply go to the grocery store or run a quick errand has been something that’s been it’s constantly on my mind. And so I think about the downside and the things that I’ve had to navigate, managing it, not driving. People say, man, you haven’t driven a car, but you’ve been everywhere. And I said, well, yeah, because you can’t let that stop you from. 

29:37  : living out your purpose and living out what you’ve been called to do it’s ubers a wife it’s friends i take the train places i fly everywhere i take the bus so people are like man we saw you in california you’ve been in texas you’ve been in florida you’ve been in new york i said yeah because i’ve been thankful to have just this ecosystem if you will of people and just uh options around me and i’ve been grateful to god to be able to afford right to be able to get ubers on a consistent basis but i walk 

30:07  : a lot tasha i i walk to i walk to the grocery store now i’ll walk to uh walgreens i’ll walk you’re getting in your steps i get a lot of steps in i get a lot of steps in every day but but it’s been a blessing it’s been a blessing because guess what happens when i walk i think i dream i i dream but you know i i think about different stories i need to be told think about 

30:31  : know what else i could be doing i i connect with a lot of people when i when i walk now it’s a time i take to call my mom and and just i have a lot of good conversations while i’m on those walks so it’s been a blessing to be able to even do that so i try to focus on that aspect of it more than what i can’t do i try to focus on what i can do uh throughout this journey because it’s been over four years tasha and i’ve probably been in front of five thousand 

30:59  : 6,000 kids. We’ve printed and distributed almost 10,000 plus books. It’s crazy. So I think about all that and it’s been during the time where I haven’t driven a car or a time where I constantly am worried about having a seizure, but it’s been just a blessing. Well, and I think it’s really important to focus on what you can do. 

31:24  : And also, I don’t know about you, but during my health issues, sometimes I would make the most ridiculous jokes. So I’m hearing you talk about you can’t drive. I’m like, Mike, you travel VIP these days. Yeah, exactly. You need a driver. I need a driver. I need a driver. I need a driver. I need a driver. Exactly. You are chauffeured around. I’m chauffeured around everywhere. You are very important. I’m so special. Yeah. 

31:51  : I know every driver in town now, by the way. I know all of them. I’ve been riding with the same people three, four times now. It’s been pretty, pretty wild. I love that. And they probably look forward to seeing you because you’re such a light and an encourager and like to make life fun instead of being somebody who’d get in the car with the chip on your shoulder while I can’t drive myself. And this is so hard and bad. Listen, here again, it’s okay to feel those things for a minute. 

32:17  : It’s okay to feel sorry for ourselves for a minute, but then you’ve got to pick yourself up, and that’s exactly what you’ve done. You really do. You really do. And it’s been, I’ll tell you, even those conversations, we don’t have to go too much in detail here, but even those conversations, hearing about their life and their journey, but then they also hear about my life and my journey, and so many of them, guess what, want to write books. 

32:41  : That makes me so happy. I’m like, hey, you got to do it. You got to do it. They’re like, yes, Vince. I’m like, get right, right, right. Finish it, finish it. And I say, even if it’s not finished, take that next step, right? Try to find someone to review. I’m like, you got to. So it’s. Get it on paper. Get it on paper. Get it out. You owe it to the story in your heart to get it on paper or your computer. Just get it out of you. Get it out. Get it out. 

33:09  : So we’ve had a lot of pep talks with them in the car as we’ve been on our way. The conversations have been just incredible in Ubers. I can only imagine the conversations they have with so many people who come through. But yeah, it’s pretty fascinating. I love that. Well, you are such a light in this world, Mike. Thank you for being here. I know that people are listening like, how can I get in touch with Mike Brown? 

33:37  : Where can people find you? Of course, I’ll put it in the show notes as well. Sure. So I can be found mainly through my company. It’s Soulstir.co. So S O U L S T I R dot C O. And that’s where it has everything. It’s got books, speaking, social impact programs. I really, people do ask how they can help and what they can do to join in on the mission. 

34:01  : I say three things. Number one, you can buy books. So the books that you buy fund, help, support, and fund the mission, right, in and of itself. And they’re great stories to enjoy with their family, friends, giveaway. The second thing is you can donate books, right? So people, if you want to donate through our initiatives, we’ll get the books into the hands where they’re needed. And then you can also invite me to come speak. 

34:24  : I’m happy to come bring some energy to someone’s school. I’m happy to come to a lot of different corporate leadership events, kind of get the teams fired up. And so I bring some energy in that regard. And I got to tell you, Tasha, I don’t usually do this, but people are like, who’s this Mike Brown guy? Some of them who may be listening or watching or hear the voice may remember me as the leprechaun at Notre Dame. And so that’s like when people are like, who’s Mike Brown? Mike Brown. 

34:52  : Like, oh, he’s a leprechaun. Oh, yeah, leprechaun. So I was a leprechaun there as well. So that’s how a lot of people, if you search for Mike Brown, Notre Dame leprechaun, you’ll also find some additional footage, some additional footage and pep, if you will. Oh, my goodness. I love that. And I know that you also share that our listeners today can get a discount. Yes. Share information about that. So just for you, for the work you’re doing and for the people who are following. 

35:22  : uh and and contributing to supporting your work tasha for your listeners they can actually visit www.Soulstir.co and enter diary of a dreamer to get 10 off any of the books that you see that are available on solster we’ve got children’s books we’ve got books on leadership we’ve got memoirs we got everything a little something for everybody is what i would say so but hopefully they’re all 

35:48  : Well, I know, I know for a fact that they are all stories that will in some way stir, stir your soul. I love it. Well, it looks like I’m going shopping. Let’s go. I mean, you can never have too many books, let’s be real. And they’re great for gifts and you can write little messages to the person that you’re giving it to. Like, yeah, it’s hard. Get a book. I’ll tell you. So last thing I’ll tell you about. 

36:14  : the book situation or one of them is so lucky to have you is a book that is for newborns right so it’s a board book it’s beautiful it’s about just having love for a child and i talk to my team we talk to people i’m like hey babies are born every day so that book babies are born every day so you gotta marketable and sellable exactly like every day many babies are born so yeah 

36:42  : We got something for each one of them that come up. We should talk business strategy sometimes. Well, thank you so much, Mike, for being here. Everybody needs to look up Mike Brown, the leprechaun at Notre Dame. You will find him somewhere on search engines, I’m sure. So thank you for sharing your time today. Thank you, Tasha. I appreciate the work you’re doing for real. 

37:12  : Thank you for tuning into this episode of Diary of a Dreamer. I hope you found the stories and tips shared today to be a source of motivation and strength. Remember, every challenge you face is a chance to grow and move closer to your dreams. Don’t forget to subscribe, leave a review, and share this podcast with anyone who could use a boost of encouragement. Please check out my website, TashaEizinger.com.