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Rob Oliver is a dad, husband, best selling author, motivational speaker - and all around inspirational human. Mike & McD learn about his patience the hard way as they experience some technical difficulties getting started with the episode. Rob is unshaken and shares a really touching story about his newest book: “Who me? Yea, You,” which tackles some of the realities of bullying and speaking to readers about their very powerful ways to stop it.

A Pittsburgh native, Oliver shares about a trip to the Outer Banks, North Carolina that changed his life forever, including a turned down proposal from his now wife and life partner. Luckily, she said yes some time later - but there’s no way conventioNOT producers are sharing that story in this written introduction. We feel like that would be an injustice and needs to be heard straight from Rob Oliver as he tells it.

Join the guys for this really special episode with the owner of yourmotivationalspeaker.com and you won’t be wasting your time. Mike & McD feel fulfilled by a lot of our guests, but Rob’s kind story and recollection of life is something they’ve never heard before. We hope our listeners will be just as touched. Find conventioNOT anywhere you listen to podcasts and don’t forget to subscribe and follow us on your social media channel(s).

Almost all of us know an engineer. They’re easy to typecast, right? The pleated khakis, mismatched socks and superior mathematical and analytical skills almost always prevail. conventioNOT’s premise is to find the oddballs… those who swim against the stream, are the cream of the crop or any other stereotypical cliches we might utter. Steve Bear isn’t any of those things… except an engineer. Starting as an outcast runaway enrolled in a homogenous high-school, he recounts some of the seemingly normal things that could have changed his outcome - including a scary memory after being thrown from a motorcycle in his early 20s.

Shortly after his second accident on a motorcycle, Bear’s perspective on the way he would spend the rest of his life changed again again, focusing on the future. Many of our interview episodes end up being biographical and Future Proof lives up to the conventioNOT standard - in a slightly different way. Steve recounts a youth in which he refused to conform and used his intelligence to get by. Today when he mentions an early retirement, our listeners are likely to believe him - especially given his track record of proof.