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Pass the Baton 🏃🏾♂️
Damon Brown
September 24, 2025
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Hi reader,
One of my mentors, Glenn McIntosh, died a few days ago.
He was my last living mentor from undergrad.
I shed quite a few tears.
I also recognized the cycle of support
How one person prepares the next.
Each one teach one.
One of my loved ones said they could tell how my coaching work paralleled his
Which made me cry all over again.
Recognizing how a bend in the road
Being exposed to someone’s greatness
Can shift your life path for decades to come ⏳
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Being good ancestors in training
A never-ending chain.
In truth, we often fear being replaced
Because we don’t know our identity
Outside of the spotlight.
Old men holding on to power
Not knowing themselves
Without the dynamic.
What if we consciously became not just a powerbroker, but the sage?
I’m old enough now where my mentees are mentoring
My coaching clients are now becoming coaches
The seeds are becoming the trees
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Imagine if the baton didn’t have to be forced from your old hand?
Or begrudgingly thrown at the next people up?
Or just being dropped entirely?
But rather given with focus
With purpose
To the younger version
Of what you once were?
How many races would we all win? 🏁
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🙋🏾 I’m Damon! (http://www.damonbrown.net) I help side hustlers, solopreneurs & others like yourself bloom. As a bestselling author, 2x startup founder & 4x TEDTalker, I co-founded the popular connection app Cuddlr and led it to acquisition within a year while being a stay at home dad with my infant son.
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