Get Your Kids Switched On: Kris Abdelmessih and Morgan Ranstrom JUST PRESS RECORD

If you grow up surrounded by people focused on success, or making money, or passively pining about the system that’s keeping them down you’re missing out and you might not even know it.

You might not know what a person who’s “switched on” looks like.

You might not know what it means to see a room full of people all get captivated by one person on a stage and collectively get lost in a moment.

If you’re a parent, how do you teach your kids that lesson?

The best part about making Just Press Record is letting go of any attempt to control the conversation we are about to have.

All I knew was that Morgan Ranstrom and Kris Abdelmessih were going to get along.

The guitars, the music, the family stuff, the finance education focus, the irreverent artist streak they each contain—I only had to kickstart their hearts.

But once we got into it, we kept hitting this common thread: people need to find the thing that makes them come alive. And, the only way we find it, is to be exposed to other people who are coming alive. Not just to complete a task, to be fully present in a moment of focus.

Morgan and Kris do it with music. They do it with their professional work. They do it with the communities they keep, as friends and social accomplices.

The point is, they do it, because they are committed to doing it.

This one ran long because it could have run 3x as long once we got started. If you’re a professional with a creative streak, or a creative with a professional streak, you have found 2 of your people. You’ve got to hear this: