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Up close and personal with Frank Candy

When is your birthday?
December 18th

What Year?
Every year. It never changes.

Where is your current home?
Winter Park, Florida, the office is in Orlando, it's a great place to live and work.

What's your occupation?
Many of my clients have called me 'The Rainmaker' and often times 'The Business Maximizer or The Motivator' I'm in the business of teaching people to optimize and maximize their businesses. I use many ways as an author, professional speaker, entertainer, event producer, association executive and business development consultant.

Who are your favorite performers?
Sean Connery, Jackie Gleason, John Candy, Tony Bennett, Don Henley, Jimmy Buffet, Julia Roberts, Cameron Diaz, Billy Crystal, Kevin Costner, Rene Russo, Michael Caine, Eric Clapton, Clay Cotton, Gloria Estefan and Coco Ramos.

Is it true that you are a good cook?
Very true. I learned from my parents and grandparents, they were great cooks and there are chefs in our family too.

What else did your mother teach you?
Always offer to do the dishes. No man was ever shot while doing the dishes. (I have washed lots of dishes!)

What do you think your friends say about you behind your back?
"Haven't seen Frank in a while. I heard he's been very busy on an important assignment."

What's the name of your boat?
Assignment.

 

Who were your favorite mentors?
My grandfather Joseph, my brother Dennis, Dr. Johnny Miller, John Candy the actor, and Orville Hissom, one of the great renaissance men of the 20th Century.

What was the best time in your life?
There are several competing for the best time. I just love what I've been doing for over a decade. Looking back I would say it was when I gave away and sold almost everything I owned and traveled around the world… that was a great time. Coaching Special Olympics is very high on the list. Getting involved in a foundation that distributes food to hungry people is a very rewarding experience. Volunteering often at the homeless shelters is a worthwhile occasion. Creating random acts of kindness and remaining anonymous is an ongoing favorite too.

What is your all-time favorite book?
As A Man Thinketh, by James Allen

What are your all time favorite sports?
First let me say it's DOING It… NOT watching! I have for most of my life enjoyed bicycling, swimming, skiing and river rafting. I started windsurfing back in the late '70's down in the Florida Keys, and then became competitive with the sport for over a dozen years.

I asked some people who really know you well what they would say about you. They said you are a loyal friend, a generous person, different, memorable, driven to success and enjoys helping other people. What's your reaction?
I am very grateful for all the blessing in my life.

You've had some interesting jobs, and hobbies, tell me about them?
As a kid I delivered papers, shined shoes, pumped gas and fixed cars. In the late 60's and through the 70's I worked for a railroad as an engineer and the labor unions. The economy was in a recession so I was laid off often. The future didn't look good there so I figured I better go to college. To work my way through college I was a writer, a photographer for a newspaper, plus a cook, bartender, and a bouncer. I also made a few bucks shooting pool and playing cards. After completing my undergraduate work, I accepted a scholarship to engineering school and graduated at the top of my class. I bought some troubled businesses, turned them around, made them very profitable and sold them. Then I tried acting in Hollywood, and racing cars, (those were both very short lived). For two summers I had a job as a river guide for a rafting company on the Colorado River. For one summer I drove a tour bus in Yellowstone National Park, and for five years was an instructor for a couple wilderness experience schools. I have competed in, and won ski races, windsurfing, kayak and canoe races, and racquetball tournaments. I became a certified Red Cross first aid instructor, a certified down hill and cross country ski instructor and certified meditation instructor. In my spare time I read lots of books, taught photography, and communications at the college level and built computers from heath kits. I worked at advertising agencies, I was a human resource liaison for the Department of Defense, a volunteer fireman, a radio DJ, a journalist, and produced programs for PBS and industrial applications from product demos to training videos.

What did you like doing the most?
Delivering speeches and seminars and inspiring and motivating people to succeed at their level. I really enjoy working on turning around businesses. It's usually a complicated operation that often times require complex solutions and tough choices.

What would you do if you won a big lottery?
If I encountered a huge cash windfall I would keep doing what I'm doing, but on a larger scale. And I would probably sleep less. As one gets older he realizes there is less time and more and more to do.

Is it true you are a scratch golfer?
Oh No. Who told you that? I'm an avid golfer, not a scratch player. It is a very humbling game.

Do you remember your best score on a golf course?
Sure do! It was the fall of '94, it was a 68 at the PGA Resort in Palm Beach, but we were rained out after the 12th hole.

What are the two or three things that you believe count more than anything else for a person to be a success?
Focus, desire and having the right attitude have been the keys to my success. Having a good sense or humor helps too!

How do you handle success and failure?
Don't let your successes go to your head and your failures go to your heart. Like one of my best friends Larry said: "Just keep truckin' I think he got it from the Grateful Dead".

Any word of wisdom you would like to share?
Sure, don't take yourself too seriously. People need to lighten up.

Any words of advice?
Make every moment count. Live your life to the fullest. You can never have too many friends. Choose your friends wisely. And tell the people you love and care about how you feel about them.

Any final thoughts?
Just one… be good to yourself.

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