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Today's Guest: Motivational speaker Joachim de Posada, author of 'Keep Your Eye on the Marshmallow.'

You can watch this exclusive Mr. Media interview with motivational speaker Joachim de Posada, author of 'Keep Your Eye on the Marshmallow,' by clicking on the video player above!

Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience of people who can count marshmallows all day but would rather be counting dollar bills all night … in the NEW new media capital of the world… St. Petersburg, Florida!

A few weeks ago, my daughter Rachel and I went with another family on a college visit to the Ringling College of Art and Design in Sarasota, Florida.

On the drive down, Wendy's mom asked me about my new book, written with internationally recognized motivational speaker Joachim de Posada—Keep Your Eye on the Marshmallow.

She wondered if it was based on the landmark Stanford University study in which young children were put at a table with nothing but a single marshmallow. They were told that if they did not eat the delicious treat in front of them, in 15 minutes they would get a second marshmallow.
JOACHIM de POSADA podcast excerpt: "When I was a young man, I became a spender. I would eat all my marshmallows. Later on in life, I said, 'Look at me! I'm a marshmallow eater!' I had $70,000 in credit card debt. I had always made a lot of money, but I spent it all. I said, 'I have to change my ways.'" 
You can LISTEN to this interview with motivational speaker JOACHIM de POSADA, co-author of KEEP YOUR EYE ON THE MARSHMALLOW, by clicking the audio player above!

The world, it seems, is split up among those of us who can delay gratification and are willing to wait for it, and those whose impulse control is such that their desires must be satisfied right now!

It turns out that Wendy's mom had tried out the marshmallow experiment on her daughter at a very young age.

Her result? Wendy had the patience to wait 15 minutes to

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