Colonel Lee Ellis Replays 20 Inspiring True Romance Stories From Vietnam POWs

Bill Lampton Ph.D. 0:14<br /> Hi there, welcome to the best communication show, I’m your host, Bill Lampton the biz communication guide, bringing you communication tips and strategies that will boost your business. Because my guest and I are going to share winning words and ways. It’s a distinct privilege today to host Colonel Lee Ellis who comes to us from the Greater Metropolitan Atlanta area. You’ve probably seen Colonel ELLs as a media guest on CNN, CBS This Morning C span ABC and Fox News. What a privilege to see and hear him now. On the biz communication show. Colonel Leigh Ellis began his highly distinguished military service career as an Air Force fighter pilot, flying 53 combat missions over North Vietnam in 1967. He was shot down and held as a prisoner of war for more than five years, and the Hanoi area prison camps. After liberation, Lee resumed his Air Force career he earned his nation’s highest awards, including silver stars and the POWs medal. And civilian life Leigh Ellis is an award winning author, leadership coach and speaker in the areas of leadership and human performance. His list of clients reflects his global impact. His latest book captured my love set for release on May 30, is one that I have in hand because I was fortunate to get an advanced copy from Lee, captured by love gives us remarkable insights into the story of 20 amazing men who protected liberty. And also the exciting story of the courageous and loyal women who not only waited for them, but advocated for their well being and release. I know you’re join me, and saluting and welcoming Colonel Lee Ellis for our conversation about captured by love. Hello, Lee. Colonel Lee Ellis 2:28<br /> Hi, Bill, great to be with you. again. Great to see you. Again. We’ve known each other many years now. And you launched me into my speaking career, probably 12 or 14 years ago. Bill Lampton Ph.D. 2:40<br /> That’s one of the highlights of my career. Working with you when you first started out, and I remember how we met our earlier conversations and how excited I was to have and still am to have played any part at all and helping you get your dynamic message across which by now many 1000s have have heard, they’ve read about and believe me, it’s a wonderful pleasure to host you. I mentioned out at the outset here, the book that’s going to be released May 30 2023, captured by love who you have written several books, Lee. So your other books also talked about your, your Vietnam pow experience. So the logical first question would be, then why this book? What what does it add that a reader couldn’t get from your other books? Colonel Lee Ellis 3:40<br /> You know, just back up and start at the beginning, if you told any of my teachers, or my mother that I was going to be an author of a book, they would have laughed at you because I probably never never wrote more than two pages, except maybe four or five in college. And I’ve written several books on leadership and bringing into it those books, the leadership lessons that we learned in Hanoi Hilton, because we had great, great leaders, and it was in a very difficult circumstance. But what we learned was that those lessons we learned there apply every day in the workplace. Well, at our pow reunions, I kept hearing the stories of couples, as a specialty the wives were sharing because I knew their husbands I live with them locked up 24 hours a day, sometimes for years. And I heard the stories of how they met and their got their love, you know their romance and so on. And I said Hollywood cannot write a script this amazing. This romantic, this exciting. Somebody needs to write a book. And then I realized nobody was going to do that. And I said, Well, I know how to write a book and I could get a help get some help. From a romance writer and the two of us Greg go Dec who had written a book that sold over a million In called 1001 ways to be romantic. And so the two of us were together, we got 20 cou