This is Chapter 12 of the Think and Grow Rich classic written by Napoleon Hill and narrated by Mike Aikins for the Relevance Podcast.  In this chapter, Hill carefully illustrates the importance of occupying the mind with positive reinforcement, as opposed to negative input that could drastically reduce your production.  

The seven major positive emotions are:  Desire, Faith, Love, Sex, Enthusiasm, Romance, and Hope.

The seven major negative emotions are: Fear, Jealousy, Hatred, Revenge, Greed, Superstition, and Anger.

One valuable thing to remember about this chapter is when Hill points out that both positive and negative emotions cannot occupy the mind at the same time. One or the other must dominate so it your responsibility as you attempt to thing and grow rich to make sure that positive emotions constitute the dominating influence of your mind.  

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Sharon Heath is an entrepreneur launching an assisted-living  business in the Buckeye Arizona area.  Sharon drops by the podcast to introduce her business and share a few of the challenges and rewards that came from getting this enterprise started.  Sharon is a hands-on owner and seeks to promote her business and at the same time, help anyone that's thinking about getting into a business within this industry.  Mike and Sharon share some good lessons and business acumen for the Relevance Podcast listening audience of future entrepreneurs.  

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This is Chapter 11 in the Think and Grow Rich classic book originally written by Napoleon Hill, rewritten and updated by Dr. Arthur R. Pell, and narrated by Mike R. Aikins.  Hill contests, that "sexual desire is the most powerful desire of all."  And when driven by this desire, people develop a keenness of imagination, courage, willpower, persistence and creative ability unknown to them in normal situations.  The desire for sexual expression is inborn and natural.  Hill claims, "the men and women of great achievement are those with highly developed sexual natures. 

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Chapter Ten is entitled Power of the Master Mind: the Driving Force, is the ninth step to riches according to Napoleon Hill.  Aikins narrates the classic book and makes an analogy to famous entrepreneurs such as H. Ross Perot, Andrew Grove, Andrew Carnegie, Mahatma Gandhi and Henry Ford.  All of these great men were able to assemble a network of other great people around them to acquire success.  

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The term "prison–industrial complex",  derived from the "military–industrial complex" of the 1950s, describes  the attribution of the rapid expansion of the US inmate population to  the political influence of private prison companies and businesses that  supply goods and services to government prison agencies for profit. Mike Aikins and Maryann Petri analyzes this issue and how it correlates with Child Support and Title IV-d. 

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This is chapter 9 of Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow Rich classic entitled:  Persistence: The Sustained Effort Necessary to Induce Faith.  The chapter is narrated by Mike Aikins on the Relevance Podcast and according to Hill, it's the eighth step to getting rich.  Hill uses analogies from the lives of famous men like Robert Smith of FedEx, famed martial arts phenom Bruce Lee, Tom Monaghan of Domino's Pizza and Starbucks founder Howard Schultz.  All these people suffered from the same adversity of failure, disbelief and malcontent, but overcame these obstacles to become rich and successful.  Follow each series of the classic rags to riches self-improvement story and take advantage of other products and services at www.relevancepodcast.com 

Maryann Petri, author of "Dismantling Family Court Corruption visits the  set to do a podcast with Mike Aikins, author of A Simple Guide to Child  Support Redemption.  The two authors cover first-hand experiences with  the corrupt child support systems in Pennsylvania and Texas.

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