Hello again everyone. I hope you’re having a great day so far. This is Doug Thorpe, and this is Leadership Powered by Common Sense. Today, my guest is going to hopefully inspire us a little bit. I don’t know where you stand on the scale of being a reader, but our guest is going to talk to us about the value of such. And I’d like to introduce Dennis Henson. Dennis, welcome to the show.
Thank you Doug. I appreciate you having me today.
Absolutely. I always it’s a little bit of a tradition here. I ask my guests to kind of give a little backstory of their life journey and the twists and turns that got them inspired to do the work they might be doing today. So would you share your story, please?
Sure. I graduated from Jacksonville State University. I have a degree in music Education. I went to Mississippi State and got a master’s degree, and I was a band director for a few years. My ultimate goal was to become a college band director. So Georgia Tech gave me a call and said, we want you to come and direct the bands at Georgia Tech. I was thrilled. I moved to Atlanta and joined. The contract was ready to go. I was to sign it the next day and I got a call. I was visiting a friend and the phone rang. It was in 1975, so it wasn’t a cell phone. It was in his apartment and I didn’t even know anybody knew I was there. But they had tracked me down and they said, we want you to come and interview for a position. And I said, no, I’m not interested. I have a dream position. I’m going to be the band director at Georgia Tech. I said, Sir. Well, maybe you should listen to what we have to say. We’ll give you a round trip ticket and we’ll pick you up in a limousine. Buy your steak and give you a $25 cigar.
So I thought, well, I don’t smoke, and I can get a steak in Atlanta, and I don’t care about the limousine, but it was hard to turn down a round trip plane ticket in 1975 because I was a young guy and hadn’t got to fly much. So I thought, well, I’ll go up there and tell him no and then come back and take this job. So everything they said came true. They picked me up in a limousine. They bought me a steak. They offered me a cigar that looked like a log, but I didn’t take it. And then I liked the place. It was beautiful facility and lots of wonderful things going on there. And I thought, yeah, this is nice, but I never thought about being in business. And so before I left, they said, well, let’s talk Money, okay? To make a long story short, they offered me 20 times the salary, 20 times what Georgia Tech was offering me.
And I was a kid, I had never had any money. And I saw everybody there was wealthy. They were driving Mercedes Benz and wearing Rolexes. And I thought, I kind of like this. And so I took it. I went into the business world.
So the first thing they did was they gave me three books. They gave me thinking, grow Rich, Buy the Bowling Hill, success, The Glenn Bland Method, and The Greatest Salesman in the world, Bob Medina. Well, I’d never been exposed to a self-help book, and I didn’t know what a positive mental attitude was. So I just thought, well, I’ll read the books I gave them to me. And what when I finished reading those books, I was a different person. I mean, I was so motivated and I was exhilarated. It was just like something had come over me. It changed my mind thinking and my life. So I thought, boy, I wish I had more.
It was like a drug. I need another book like this. Well, in 75 you couldn’t Google it. There wasn’t an internet. There wasn’t even a computer. So if you wanted to learn about what successful people were doing, you had to call them or go see them and say, what books are you reading? I read this and I want to be motivated. So people gave me ideas and I read lots of books. Around that same period of time, I met Jim Rohn. He came to one of the company’s meetings and stayed a week, and it was early in his career, so nobody knew who Jim Rohn was at the time. And we became friends and he emphasized, write everything down. You never know when you’re going to need it again. If you hear a poem or a quote or a story, make a note of it. Or if you like a book.
So I started writing poems, quote, short stories, books, only listed the books that really moved me, and I had my territory was all of North Florida, which is a big territory, and all of South Georgia. So I drove a lot and I joined a little company in Waco, Texas called SMI that provided success tapes. And you send them a monthly payment, they’ll send you two tapes and you listen to them and send them back. Well, that took too long. So I bought a duplicator. And when the tapes came in, I duplicated them and sent them back the same day. And I developed a big library of motivational tapes. And when I was driving, if I heard a poem or a quote or anything, I’d pull over to the side of the road and write it in the journal. So that was in 75, and I continued to do that until 2018. So I was successful in that. And but I really wanted to work for myself.
So I started Investing in Real Estate. When I moved to Texas, back in 89, I was like a kid in a candy store, I mean, Dallas Fort there was so much real Estate, and I was just out buying houses, and I did all kinds of things. I want to Finance them, and I fixed them up and sold them. I wholesale them, I did everything there was, but I wanted to learn more techniques, better techniques. So I thought I need to go to real estate groups. Well, I lived in Arlington and there was no real estate group in Arlington. There was plenty in Dallas and Fort Worth, but if the traffic was bad, it took two hours to get there. If it was good, it still took an hour because metroplex is big. I thought there needs to be a group in Arlington. So I started the area meetup. It just came on the scene and I started a meetup group, and it grew and grew and grew.
And I mean, we had a really great area with some great real estate group. So I thought, well, if I really want to learn this stuff, I need to teach. So I started teaching classes. I taught subject two and short sales and private money and land trust. Not anything that was advanced that I wanted to learn. I set up a meeting and announced I was going to be teaching it. So they gave me about six weeks to learn it. So I had prepared slides and read books and just do everything I could. And that was successful too. So one day, one of the members came up and said, Dennis, I want you to mentor me. Now, I tried mentoring people before it took too much time. They didn’t really do what I told them, and I said, I’m just not really interested. I’m not going to do it. So he said, well, I’m retiring in a couple of weeks and you’re going to mentor me. Let’s go out and eat. I’ll buy your lunch and we’ll discuss it. So I told my wife, Norm, I said, I’m not going to do this. So I went out and met Mike and he bought me a water burger. So after we ate the Whataburger, he had a coat on like this. And he reached into his pocket and he pulled out a checkbook and handed it to me, and he said, here, you fill this in. And I thought, do you mean the amount? And he said, yeah. And I said, well, this solves the problem. I’ll put a number here that no one in their right mind would pay. And so I handed it back to him, and he took the check out without looking at it. Signed his name and handed it back to me. So he didn’t care what the amount was. He knew that if I taught him to do what I was going to do, he was going to make it back. And he did so that I took him.
I took him on as a student and that’s when I started taking students and I had hundreds. I mean, they were just lined up because I thought for this kind of money, I better teach them something that really works. So I took it very personally. And they did well. And I got a reputation of having a great training program. So people started inviting me to expose. I spoke in real estate groups all over the nation, and podcasts were just getting started, and it was a Houston podcast I was on and the host said, Dennis, why are your students so successful? There’s all kinds of gurus out here, but your students are just tearing it up. What’s the difference? Well, I teach them to change their habits. If they can form success habits, they will become successful. And I make them form the habit. I hold them accountable until the habit is formed and they become successful. And he said, well, then what’s the number one habit? And I thought, and I said, have them form the habit of reading something positive every single day that leads them toward their goal.
So after the podcast was over, I thought, and that was a great answer. That was the right answer. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if there were a tool to help people form the habit of reading every day? And then it hit me. So for 50 years I’ve been collecting success books, powerful books and poems and short stories and quotes. I can put those in book, and people can form the habit regardless of their time schedule. In between the meeting, they could read a poem that’s their reading for a day, or they can read. If they’re at the airport, they got an hour. They can read one of the books listed in the back, or if they get home at night and they’re totally exhausted and oh, forgot to read today, they can read a couple of quotes and go to Sleep thinking about something really positive. So I thought, well, I’ve got all this stuff in my computer. I transposed it many years ago. In two months I should have the. So I started working on it.
That was 2018. In 2024 it got published and I worked on it every single day. It took six years. And so when it hit Amazon, I started getting reviews and they were good. I mean, people were saying, hey, this came just at the right time. I was struggling, I was having problems, and this just pulled me right out. I mean, the reviews on Amazon are just amazing. They’re well over a hundred of them and they average five stars, which now that I know about being an author, I realize that’s really hard to do. There’s not a lot of other people have accomplished that. So that’s how the book came about. And when I finished it, I realized I couldn’t put all of the stories in one book. So I thought, well, I’ll do a real impact, too. Well, there was a note. There were. I had enough stuff for four. So I’m doing real impact one and two, three and four.
And then I started doing the seven Secrets of Success and Laws of Nature for success. So I became an author, and I’ve really enjoyed the last six years, spending my time putting things down that will help people become motivated and become successful. So it doesn’t matter if they’re real estate investors. The goal is this. You have to decide what you want. Once you decide what you really want, then you take a step in that direction every single day. The habit just keeps you and keeps you moving in the right direction because it’s easy. If a boat’s out in the middle of the ocean, it doesn’t have a rudder. It’s not going to go anywhere. You got to know where you want to go. And the book is like a rudder. It reminds you every day. Okay, here’s where I’m going. And I’m moving closer every single day. So that’s kind of my back story.
Well, that reminds me that final point there, that reminds me, some people and I talk about this. Some people call it being intentional. And I do a lot of work with Small Businesses and people find themselves stuck in the quagmire of day to day flash fires and things that are going on. And they wake up one day and go, my business hasn’t grown. And it’s like, well, have you been intentional about what you want to do? And yes, you may still have to fight those fires every day, but have you done something that one step forward in the right direction and it is too easy. And that same principle applies even for those that are in leadership roles in bigger companies. The question is, are you being intentional? Are you being intentional with who you want to be? If you are a leader, are you intentional about who you want to be as a leader for the people around you and the enterprise you’re working for? Or if you have a goal, are you doing something day by day, step by step to get there? I Love that thinking. And it does start with a mindset shift.
It does on my seven Secrets of Success. The first secret is you gotta get your mind right. You gotta know what you want. You have to have a burning desire to get it. And then you have to believe that you’re going to get there regardless of what happens.
Right. I’m curious. And you mentioned Napoleon Hill’s work, and I know that book comes up frequently. One of the chapters, as I recall it, he encourages people to write down the goal you’ve got if you’ve got a three year or five year goal. Did you write that down for you back that first time you read the book? Do you remember what your goal was when you wrote it down?
Oh, yes. I had just started with Henkel Incorporated, and I had a big sales territory, and they helped you develop your goal. They helped you sit down and they used all the principles in the book. And if you did what they said, you made a lot of money and I made more money than they even promise me. And I bought about a house, I bought a nice new Mercedes Benz. And like everybody, everybody in the company had a Mercedes Benz. So I had to have one of those. And I had a lot of toys. It got married. I mean, it was a real change in my life. And the book helped. What really did I used the principles in his book and the books that I’m writing now, like the real Impact Daily inspiration. Napoleon Hill had a step by step plan. Do this. Plan what you want to do. Plan what you’re willing to give for it. It went right down. My book has a similar Plan, but his book is about money. Thinking grow Rich is about determine how much money that you want. What you’re willing to pay for it, what you’re going to do to get there, and so forth.
My book is about it’s not about money. It’s about whatever you want. So if a young girl wants to become a veterinarian and work with animals, well, then the book will help her remember that’s what she wants every day. It will help her remember she needs to be looking at colleges, talking with veterinarians, finding grants, finding money, finding the ways which colleges are best. So once you know, when my real estate students, one of the first things I said was when they came in and said, I said, look, I want you to help me plan a trip. Can you help me plan a trip? And they said, yeah. And I said, okay. And then let’s say where you want to go. And I’d say that’s it. That’s it. That’s the answer right there. If you don’t know where you’re going, you can’t do anything. You can’t plan, you can’t get maps. You can’t get airline tickets. And that’s the way it is in real estate. Where you want to go, how many properties you want to have, how much do you want to make on each property? If I know what you want to do, I can make you a step by step plan and hold you accountable. And that’s why they were so successful. Because they knew exactly what they needed and exactly what it took on a daily basis to be able to get there.
Yeah. You know, that reminds me, I have done work in the business acquisition space and people that want to leave corporate and become entrepreneurs, they think about spending some of their money to buy a already cash flowing business, which is a great strategy if that’s truly what you want to do. But that is the first step that I encourage people to do, and we put a fancy title on it. We call it investment thesis. Stop a minute. Think about what you say you’re wanting to do. You say you want to take some money and put it to work for you, but doing what? Where? How? What is it you really want to achieve? And that helps define the kind of business you’re willing to pursue and maybe even the location. And I’ve certainly had clients that they’re young enough in their lives. They’re flexible, they’re willing to relocate for the right deal. Because they realize if they’re going to acquire one of these businesses, they’re going to need to probably be involved in it for a little bit to get it stood up and self operating before they can think about doing something else. But it’s all about that Setting that goal. Where do you want to go?
Right.
I think that’s so important because so many people and I see this a lot in the corporate world. My listeners have heard this story before, but when the big crash happened in oh eight and so many people lost jobs for the first time in their careers, there were plenty of people that had had good careers, ten, 15, 20 years and beyond, and all of a sudden got a pink slip. And they didn’t know what in the world they were doing. I created a nonprofit organization to coach and counsel those people to help them through the transition. And one of the things I figured out very quickly was people needed to get reoriented, and they needed to change their mind about what they had been doing. And for about two thirds of the people that worked with us when they did the hard work to really peel the own, their own onion that they had created in this thing they thought they called a career path. A big majority of them realized their career had happened accidentally. They got hired by a company. They did well as an individual contributor. They might have gotten recognized and been promoted to be a manager. And then the manager became a director and director became a VP, and so on and so on. But there had had been no plan, there had been no roadmap. And they took it by chance, and they were happy cashing the checks along the way. But when the music stopped and all of that was over, they didn’t know who they were or what they were. And we helped people do the work to really redefine their own sense of purpose and being so they could totally reset the script and many of them took off in whole new directions. They left an industry and went seeking something else. And one of the interesting things that emerged from all of that, when a person really gets locked in on a true sense of purpose and being, they show up differently. They show up with a much higher level of energy, engagement, excitement, commitment. And that shows and the person on the other side of the desk that might be doing the hiring sees that. And they say, I definitely want some of that on my team.
Exactly. That’s true. Yeah. That reminds me of when I was a high school student. I really hated school. I was dyslexic, which meant reading was difficult. It was like pushing a wagon uphill when everybody else was walking and running and having a good time and you were back behind them pushing the wagon up. And I was hyperactive. I had all of those ABC things behind my name, and the teachers didn’t like me, and I didn’t like being there. The only thing I liked about school was band, and I was in the drums. I like drums. I was learning the rudiments. I was the best drummer there. There wasn’t anyone else that knew a drummer, but other than me. And I went to school one day, and the day I went to school, I got called into the office and they said, your homeroom teacher and your mother are in the lab. They want to talk to you. So they took me in there and they said, Dennis is failing the ninth grade, and if he doesn’t pass it, he’d be held back, and he probably won’t finish high school. And so my mother made me. One that made me start studying a little bit. Enough to get past the ninth grade. Well, in the 10th grade we had an assembly.
And when I went to school that day, we were broke. My father was a disabled veteran, so he couldn’t work and we lived on a Pension and it wasn’t very much. And he was a very dominant person. He wouldn’t have let me go to college if I wanted to because I had to leave home. So we didn’t have any money. The grades, my grades were terrible. My father wouldn’t let me go. So college was pretty much out of the picture. In fact, I didn’t even like school, so I didn’t want to go to college. Well, we had an assembly and a college band played, and after that, the band director turned around and said, well, we brought a little treat. Today our marching drum section is going to put on an exhibition. So I don’t know if you’ve seen the movie drumline.
Oh yeah. Love it. Love it.
They went out there and they did stuff that I didn’t even imagine existed. I mean, my gosh, my mind just exploded. I thought, oh, man, that’s it. I have got to be in that. So when they left, I went to my band director and said, what do I have to do to get in that drum section? He laughed and looked at me and he said, well, Dennis, you don’t have to go to college. And with your grades, they’re not going to let you in college. And I looked at him and said, if I change my grades, will I be able to get in that drum section? And he says, well, if you don’t, you never will. So the next day I visited every teacher and I said, I’m going to college. And some of them laughed out loud. That’s how bad I was. So over the next 3 or 4 years, I changed my D’s and F’s to A’s and B’s, and I became I went to Jacksonville State. I became a member of the draft section. But you see, from that point to the balance of my school, I didn’t hate school anymore. I needed school to be able to get to what I wanted to do, and I was willing to do whatever it took so that showed me, you can do anything. I mean, that for me to become, to actually get into college. And then I got a degree and then I got a master’s degree. If the teachers were still alive and I went back and talked to them, they would just think, oh, my God, you went, you got a master’s degree.
The least likely.
Worst student in the school. Yeah, but sometimes it takes something to change you in that event. One of the stories in the books about Abraham Lincoln, he had less than a first grade education. He was extremely poor. He barely had shoes. He didn’t live in his own house. He lived with friends. But when he went into a courtroom and saw the court proceedings, saw the judge, heard the people debating and smelled the smell, he thought, I’m at home. I’m going to become an attorney. I’ll do whatever it takes to pass the bar. And not only did he pass the bar, he became the number two attorney in the state of Illinois, and his partner was the number one. So it’s amazing what can happen when you set your mind to what you want, and you’re willing to not let anything stop you. So the stories in the book are about people that everybody knows. Walt Disney, Mary Kay, the list goes on and on and on. And all of these people, they shouldn’t have succeeded. I mean, so many things happened that would have caused them to fail. And they just ignored them and got up and dusted off their pants and went on. And like Edison, Edison was an inventor and he was pretty successful. And back then all the buildings were wooden and he had a laboratory, big laboratory, and it caught on fire. One of the experiments went bad on fire and everything he had burned to the ground.
And so his wife came up and he said, oh, honey, look at this beautiful blaze. You’ll never see anything like that as long as you live. And the next day he started in the new business. Now he was in his mid 60s. Everything that we know of that Edison invented today was invented after that fire. So it’s just a matter of having the will and the determination. And he fathered the Seven Secrets of Success.
Well, and I think about that, as you say, that I have known folks. I have a friend now. He’s turning 99 pretty soon. And if you look at his life story, he’s had four major chapters or books of career trajectory and 20 to 25 years long on a certain path, something to happen. And it wasn’t as drastic as a fire burning the facility. But something happened that caused him to think a minute and agree to take a detour and start a whole new path. And his last chapter is an example. At age 65, he had decided to exit a business he was in and arranged a liquidation event for that, and then looked around and said, well, I’m not done yet. I need to do something. And he turned his attention to insurance of all things. And not only did he start a small boutique practice, but he grew a whole brokerage service. And he was in his 90s when he finally exited that and handed it off to the team that he had built. And that was his story and just kind of a constant opportunity to reinvent, refocus, repurpose. So my point in sharing all that is, if somebody’s sitting here listening to this thinking, maybe there’s only one path I need to be on. Well, that could be true. But there may be things that do happen in your life and in your situation that create an opportunity to open a new door. Like all of my people in in 2008, 2009, 2010, their careers got canned and none of their own being. It was just an economic thing that a company decided. And those that were willing. Reset their mind, reset their focus, created a new plan, and in most cases went totally different directions. And are incredibly happy and fulfilled because of it.
Absolutely.
I think the other thing that comes to mind, there’s a phrase I use sometimes and when something drastic does happen in your journey, you’ve always got the question, are you going to be better or are you going to be better because of it? just ignored them and got up and dusted off their pants and went on. And like Edison, Edison was an inventor and he was pretty successful. And back then all the buildings were wooden and he had a laboratory, big laboratory, and it caught on fire. One of the experiments went bad on fire and everything he had burned to the ground.
And so his wife came up and he said, oh, honey, look at this beautiful blaze. You’ll never see anything like that as long as you live. And the next day he started in the new business. Now he was in his mid 60s. Everything that we know of that Edison invented today was invented after that fire. So it’s just a matter of having the will and the determination. And he fathered the Seven Secrets of Success.
Well, and I think about that, as you say, that I have known folks. I have a friend now. He’s turning 99 pretty soon. And if you look at his life story, he’s had four major chapters or books of career trajectory and 20 to 25 years long on a certain path, something to happen. And it wasn’t as drastic as a fire burning the facility. But something happened that caused him to think a minute and agree to take a detour and start a whole new path. And his last chapter is an example. At age 65, he had decided to exit a business he was in and arranged a liquidation event for that, and then looked around and said, well, I’m not done yet. I need to do something. And he turned his attention to insurance of all things. And not only did he start a small boutique practice, but he grew a whole brokerage service. And he was in his 90s when he finally exited that and handed it off to the team that he had built. And that was his story and just kind of a constant opportunity to reinvent, refocus, repurpose. So my point in sharing all that is, if somebody’s sitting here listening to this thinking, maybe there’s only one path I need to be on. Well, that could be true. But there may be things that do happen in your life and in your situation that create an opportunity to open a new door. Like all of my people in in 2008, 2009, 2010, their careers got canned and none of their own being. It was just an economic thing that a company decided. And those that were willing. Reset their mind, reset their focus, created a new plan, and in most cases went totally different directions. And are incredibly happy and fulfilled because of it.
Absolutely.
I think the other thing that comes to mind, there’s a phrase I use sometimes and when something drastic does happen in your journey, you’ve always got the question, are you going to be better or are you going to be better because of it?
I like that, that’s great. I’ve got to write that down. Is that your quote?
And I’ve known people that something happened. I had people in my program back in that economic crash that were bitter and they couldn’t get over it. They couldn’t let go of the anger and hostility they had toward their former employee employer for letting them go. And I actually referred a lot of those people to therapists. I said, I can’t help you. You need to get professional help of a Mental Health kind to help you get out of this darkness in this hole you’re in. And that was about a third of the people that came through. So statistically, it was significant. And it was very concerning to me. But I knew that was the reality. That was just how they were wired and how they were going to look at the world. But the other two thirds were different in that I do tell the story. There’s one third or the classic work, rock stars, they were going to do well wherever they went. They were going to work hard. They were going to follow a script. They were going to figure things out, and they were going to be successful one way or another. The middle third was okay. I mean, they would eventually do the work, but they were maybe a little slower on the uptake and a little less committed and not certain questioning a few things. But when it was all said and done, they did it and found success doing it. And I’ve also extrapolated that. And I realized when I started looking at those numbers, that was a story of my career experience when I led teams, inevitably everybody ranked out kind of in a classic bell curve with a third, a third and a third. There was a third of my people on one end that were my rock stars, and they could do anything and were happy to do it and right on the spot and jump in and get after it. The middle third was okay. They helped fulfill the mission, but they weren’t going to do a lot of extra. And then there was that bottom third that they argued and they fought and they kicked at the policies and procedures and eventually maybe they got let go and had to move on or wouldn’t get promoted and the self-select and go somewhere else. But it’s an interesting human dynamic. And I don’t know if you run into that. You mentioned doing all your teaching and your group programs didn’t. Did you ever see people that showed up and said they wanted to get in and but then once you started showing them the work that had to be done, they kind of backed off and disappeared.
I did, I did, I tried to vet them carefully before I brought them in because I really didn’t want to have failures in the program. So they had to. They had to pass a test for me to even take them as students, because whether they succeeded or not was a big indication of whether I was a good teacher or not. So I turned a lot of people down. I just said, well, I don’t think this is for you. Consequently, I had very few that didn’t do well. Very few. Most of my students were just extremely more successful than me. I mean, I’m not very good. I’m kind of lazy. And I want to delegate as much as I possibly can. But I had some superstars come through my program, and once I told them the secrets and what they needed to do, I mean, they went out and made. I had one school teacher that became a multi-millionaire in the first 90 days. He was like he was bringing it $20,000 a month before he got through my program. And that was, he was paying it paid for itself with the first deal that he did. So that was yeah, most of them were they were not quite that successful, but most of them were very successful.
Yeah. Well that’s great. Well Dennis, thanks for sitting in and sharing this with us. Tell folks the best way to get Ahold of you, if they’re interested in knowing more about your work.
Is to go to the real impact book. Com. Up at the very top it says contact us and it has my name and phone number and email address. I mean, you could literally pick the phone up and call me if I’m not on the podcast or out speaking or something. I’ll talk to you or I’ll return your call. I’m available for speaking engagements or radio or podcast or just help people out. If they’ll scroll to the bottom. Real impact. Com scroll to the bottom where it says podcast attendee. I have three gifts for them, for attending today. And one of those gifts is the e-book The Real Impact. They’re the inspiration for the entire book and the motive there is this if you like this book, you’re probably going to like my other books. So there’s a link there that says, if you want to be notified when I write another book, just click there. That’s the only mailing list there is. I’m not trying to build a mailing list. I have a mailing list already with 90,000 people, so it’s not going to make much difference. So, I do want to know the people who like the way I write and are interested in moving up to the next level and whatever it is that they want to do.
Great. Well, as always, folks, we’re going to have those links in the show notes, so feel free to check that out and click the link there that you’ll find. But, one last time. Dennis, thank you so much. Really appreciate it.
Thank you. Doug, it was great.
All right. Well folks, we’re going to wrap up. I do like to remind you, if you need to get Ahold of me and want to talk more about possible help you need, either in your business or with your leadership journey. reach out to me at my website. Doug thorp.com. That’s t h o r p e.com and be happy to likewise get in touch with you. I have a free discovery call and we’ll just explore where you are and what you want to be doing. But I think for now we’re done. So we’re going to wrap up Say goodbye. Go out there and make it a great day.
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With a proven track record spanning over five decades, Dennis J. Henson has solidified his position as a leading authority in the business world. Beyond his successful entrepreneurial ventures, Dennis is a dedicated educator, inspiring countless individuals to achieve their goals through his bestselling books, captivating workshops, and international speaking engagements.
Dennis initially made his mark in the real estate investment world. He founded Vanguard Marketing and Investments, Inc. in 2003 and continues to serve as president. He served as president of the Arlington Real Estate Investing Association from 2005-2018. Over the past several years, he also taught individuals and classes in Real Estate Investing. His books The Royal Flush of Real Estate Investing and A Millionaire’s Treasure Map To Real Estate Investing were widely hailed.
More recently he has dedicated much of his time to a broader focus of helping people developing the mindset and habits for true success. Taking what he has learned through his dedication to reading, his proven personal practices, his business experience and his systematic approach to self-improvement, Dennis has developed a transformative training program that empowers individuals to reach their full potential.
Drawing on his wealth of experience and educational background, he has distilled his insights into Seven Secrets of Success. By embracing these timeless principles, as his mentor, Tom Hendrix, would say: “You can no more fail than water can run uphill.”
Dennis’ new book Real Impact, Daily Inspiration is intended to help people develop the habit of reading daily content that will improve their belief in themselves and inspire them to action.
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