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A few more connections

Me --> Evan White --> Ian Usher --> Richard Branson
During my 50-state tour I was fortunate to get to know a group of people doing great stuff.  One of them was Evan White. Evan put me in touch with his friend Ian who is trying to accomplish 100 goals in 100 weeks.  One of those goals: meet Richard Branson.  And he did!  Here's his story.

Me --> Amber Shinn --> Richard Branson
Since moving to Lansing I've been fortunate to meet a ton of people, people that blow my mind, and got involved with all these things pretty fast to meet all these cool folks.  Amber was one of them, actually met her the first week I moved here.  Turns out Amber ran into Richard Branson at a music festival once.

Me --> Linda Lynch -->  Robin Robins --> Richard Branson
Another Lansing Breakfast Club connection has been through Linda.  Her friend attended one of those really expensive business seminars, one that was I belive was hosted by Richard Branson.  I'll have to get more details from Linda.

Me --> Stacy --> Steve --> Richard Branson
Now this is definitely one of my favorite connetions so far.  Crazy to think, but I actually met Stacy the same time and place I met Amber that first week I was here in Lansing.  That first Mid-Mich Tweetup I attended could go a long ways.  Stacy put me in touch with her friend Steve who grew up in England, but now lives in nearby Flint.  I had a great chat with Steve over the phone.  Catch this, back in the 1980s Steve delivered pizza to Richard Branson! That's amazing. This was long before Richard Branson was a billionaire, and Steve started a pizza delivery place around the corner from where Richard Branson was working/living at the time.  Steve recalls that Richard Branson knew him on a first-name basis.  If Steve is the connection to make it happen he'll be coming along and we'll have to make it pizza and beer with Richard Branson.

Although these connections aren't promisng to get back in touch with Richard Branson yet, I would have no clue about these very close connections if I didn't launch a project like this.  It continues to make me believe that "your friend's friend knows Richard Branson, you just don't know it yet".