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Episode 35A – Jeff Johnson – Boy Lessons
Jeff has several boys, and like other authors, used what he learned raising his kids to write a book. He has been a lawyer and politician, and adds writer to his resume.
Besides this book, he runs a non-profit calls Can Do Canines where they raise and train service dogs.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1735913502/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1735913502&linkCode=as2&tag=saschneider-20&linkId=0c874f8f7f831d0d8f957086d6d9747b
Jeff recommends this book:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0679746498/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0679746498&linkCode=as2&tag=saschneider-20&linkId=ad7ca1b5586ce5d5c30a7ddf4cf53503
TRANSCRIPT:
Stephen 0:47Welcome to another episode of discovered wordsmiths. Today, I've got Jeff Johnson, Jeff wrote a book called boy lessons, which is interesting, because last week, we had Doug noosed on talking about man lessons. So these two books are very similar. And it was kind of fun talking to both of them separately. If you like these types of books, the nonfiction books, the ones was self help the lessons in life. Let me know if we need more of these types of books on here. I'd love to interview more authors like this. But please, any of the books you listened to the podcast episode you listen to go check out the books, let the authors know where you found it. Let them know what you think of the books. These authors need some support. And that's what we do. So now listen to Jeff. Here we go. Well, Jeff, thank you for coming on the podcast and talking to me today. It's great to have you. Yeah. Thank you, Steven. I'm glad to be here from a from a distance. Right? Yeah, aren't we all? So before we get into your book, why don't you tell us a little bit about who you are, where you're from a bit about your background and some stuff you'd like to do besides writing?
Jeff 1:54Sure. So I I'm a lifelong Minnesotan, save for a few years in Chicago and Washington DC. But I was born and raised in rural Minnesota and came back here about 25 years ago after I got married to to my college sweetheart, who is also from Greater Minnesota, and we've been in the Twin Cities now for that whole time. We've got two boys who are the subject of the book that we're going to talk about Thor is 22, I believe, and Ralph is 19. And we have a an 11 year old Bulldog who's kind of probably counting down his last months, hopefully not as last weeks. But he's been he's been a part of our family for a long time. My background professionally is as a lawyer, I practiced Employment and Labor Law both for a large corporation called Cargill, and a couple of law firms in Chicago and here in Minneapolis. But I stopped practicing law probably 20 years ago and entered the world of politics. So I served a few terms in the Minnesota House of Representatives. And now I just finished my last term on the Hennepin County Board, which is the largest county area in the in the upper Midwest and the county seat is Minneapolis and ran for governor a couple times here in Minnesota was the Republican candidate twice. And, and that wasn't to be, but an unbelievably awesome experience despite election day. And now I've moved on and started just a few weeks ago as the CEO of a nonprofit called can do canines and we raise and train service dogs. service dogs for people with disabilities for people who have mobility issues, or hearing issues or diabetes, or childhood autism, or seizures. And it's it's been a wonderful change. And I'm just really excited about that. Outside of writing, and this is the only book I've ever written so I don't do a ton of writing but I love to valve m...
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Jeff has several boys, and like other authors, used what he learned raising his kids to write a book. He has been a lawyer and politician, and adds writer to his resume.
Besides this book, he runs a non-profit calls Can Do Canines where they raise and train service dogs.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1735913502/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1735913502&linkCode=as2&tag=saschneider-20&linkId=0c874f8f7f831d0d8f957086d6d9747b
Jeff recommends this book:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0679746498/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0679746498&linkCode=as2&tag=saschneider-20&linkId=ad7ca1b5586ce5d5c30a7ddf4cf53503
TRANSCRIPT:
Stephen 0:47Welcome to another episode of discovered wordsmiths. Today, I've got Jeff Johnson, Jeff wrote a book called boy lessons, which is interesting, because last week, we had Doug noosed on talking about man lessons. So these two books are very similar. And it was kind of fun talking to both of them separately. If you like these types of books, the nonfiction books, the ones was self help the lessons in life. Let me know if we need more of these types of books on here. I'd love to interview more authors like this. But please, any of the books you listened to the podcast episode you listen to go check out the books, let the authors know where you found it. Let them know what you think of the books. These authors need some support. And that's what we do. So now listen to Jeff. Here we go. Well, Jeff, thank you for coming on the podcast and talking to me today. It's great to have you. Yeah. Thank you, Steven. I'm glad to be here from a from a distance. Right? Yeah, aren't we all? So before we get into your book, why don't you tell us a little bit about who you are, where you're from a bit about your background and some stuff you'd like to do besides writing?
Jeff 1:54Sure. So I I'm a lifelong Minnesotan, save for a few years in Chicago and Washington DC. But I was born and raised in rural Minnesota and came back here about 25 years ago after I got married to to my college sweetheart, who is also from Greater Minnesota, and we've been in the Twin Cities now for that whole time. We've got two boys who are the subject of the book that we're going to talk about Thor is 22, I believe, and Ralph is 19. And we have a an 11 year old Bulldog who's kind of probably counting down his last months, hopefully not as last weeks. But he's been he's been a part of our family for a long time. My background professionally is as a lawyer, I practiced Employment and Labor Law both for a large corporation called Cargill, and a couple of law firms in Chicago and here in Minneapolis. But I stopped practicing law probably 20 years ago and entered the world of politics. So I served a few terms in the Minnesota House of Representatives. And now I just finished my last term on the Hennepin County Board, which is the largest county area in the in the upper Midwest and the county seat is Minneapolis and ran for governor a couple times here in Minnesota was the Republican candidate twice. And, and that wasn't to be, but an unbelievably awesome experience despite election day. And now I've moved on and started just a few weeks ago as the CEO of a nonprofit called can do canines and we raise and train service dogs. service dogs for people with disabilities for people who have mobility issues, or hearing issues or diabetes, or childhood autism, or seizures. And it's it's been a wonderful change. And I'm just really excited about that. Outside of writing, and this is the only book I've ever written so I don't do a ton of writing but I love to valve m...