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Personal Website https://www.byrongifford.com

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/byron_gifford/

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/byron.gifford.52/

Byron lives in Michigan and is a father. He has moved for his career several times and the stress of moving with young children led him to write his book - Life with Graffy, discovering bravery.

The book is about a boy that struggles with moving, which is something Byron's own son struggled with.

Byron loves Stephen King, especially the latest

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A great local bookstore is Prince books and coffeehouse

Transcript

Stephen 0:49Welcome to another episode of discovered wood Smith. Today I'm talking with Byron Gifford, who has he is a father and he's written a children's book based on his life experiences of moving with two small children. It is called life with grafitti discovering bravery. So if you have kids, this would be a great book to read. It has great lessons in it, and some wonderful pictures and illustrations that Byron has done himself. Again, I hope that you've been enjoying these interviews, finding some good books and new authors that you enjoy. And if you're a writer that you've been sticking around for the episode be where we discuss topics that are of interest to new writers. So if you like what you hear, please give us a review. Give us some stars or thumbs up wherever you listen to the podcast. And here's Byron. Oh, well, Byron, thank you for joining me today. I appreciate you take some time to talk to us about you and your book.

Byron 1:48Excellent. Thank you, Steven, proud to be here. Very glad to talk to you and have your audience learn something from this.

Stephen 1:54I hope so. And I think we've got a lot to talk about. So tell us a little bit about who you are, where you're from your background, things you like to do besides writing stuff like that?

Byron 2:04Okay. Well, most importantly, I'm a father, a husband, and an executive that's worked in the banking credit union industry for over 25 years. I'm originally from Berlin, Illinois, and eventually moved to Kalamazoo, Michigan. While I was in Michigan, this is where I started my banking career, developing my skills myself into what's really been a wonderful career so far. And I mentioned that because I've relocated for my career six times across the United States, and three of those with young children in those household moves. And the emotional impact on my young kids is really what fueled one of the story ideas for my new book.

Stephen 2:48I think that's great. I think some of the best stories have always come from personal experiences and getting out your feelings on things. Yeah. So tell us a little bit more about that book setting, got inspired, fueled by your kids? Tell us a little bit more about it.

Byron 3:09Sure, about the book. So life with Grassi discovering bravery, was published this month officially,