Todays guest joining us on the Join Up Dots free podcast interview is Robert Mallon, a man driven to make a difference to the men of the world.
Alongside his business partner, Bill Watkins, he is the founder of RustyLion Academy, where they work with men between the ages of 30 and 49 to help them make huge steps forwards in their entrepreneurial ventures.
He knows better than most, that no man is an island, and by connecting with mentors and other like minded individuals across the globe their students make bolder and bolder decisions and believe in themselves to achieve greatness.
But it hasn't always been a road full of such positivity.
As a child, he struggled with the absence of his father he left the family when he was in the third grade.
His mother suddenly losing the partner in her life, and the income provider had to take three jobs to survive.
He had discovered his first mentor, and realised how life changing and powerful having someone to bounce of ideas with, or just converse with one to one could be.
And this seems to me to be one of the first big dots, on his Join Up Dots timeline.
But perhaps he would say otherwise, and point to other moments that have led him to where he is today?
How he recalls how his Mother pushed for her male employee to take him under his wing and what a gift his presence was throughout his life.
Why the name of the Rusty Lion Academy came to the fore and how powerful an image it is to all of us.
Why it is so important to be truly authentic in your life to focus in on the key skill and talent that you can do better than anyone.
Why the world today to wants to live in a microwave society and there is not getting away from it.
And how the memory of being bought a nice coat as a kid, could bring Robert to tears nearly half a century later.