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Jon

About Me:
Live, Love, Learn while embracing Faith, Family, Community. then Everything Else.

My theme in my current book in progress and for dissertation will be Personal Financial Stability. In leadership terms how do you lead a cohort of interested learners where you have no control to compel actions or punish inactions? I am currently (August, 2020) studying the work of Ed Morrison from the Purdue Center for Regional Development, he asks, “How do we develop and execute a strategy in open, loosely connected networks?”

The goal I have in mind is to be part of creating an assessment and learning materials that can be easily taught, shared, and duplicated (open source) at a very low cost. This will include text, video, audio, assessments, and feedback groups and loops.

Good Debt, Bad Debt by Jon Hanson
Here is a downloadable pdf
of my 2007 edition of my book
Good Debt, Bad Debt (Penguin, 2004-2007)
http://downshifting.com/wp-
content/uploads/2020/05/JonHanson_GDBDBook-2007ver2.pdf

Good Debt Bad Debt 5 languages
Foreign language versions of Good Debt, Bad Debt In 2013 I purchased a revision of my rights and publish this book under Monroe Media LLC.
This is my son, Aubrey when he was 4, playing Army. He is 29 now, completed his service and this is the song I wrote and gave him a week before he left for basic training. He returned safely from a 14-month tour in Iraq several years ago. Tophawk Music Co 2008.
This is my daughter Paige and my wonderful son-in-law Tim. Over the years I wrote several songs for my daughter. This is the last one I wrote for the wedding in 2014. This was an easy song, as it was merely a reflection of my marriage and my beautiful wife. My daughter is the progenitor of three of four grandchildren.
If you have a daughter, other daughter songs (should be on Soundcloud) are: Three Squeezes (10th Birthday). Perfect World (15th Birthday) and Daughter of Mine (Slightly Heartbroken).
Sunday Morning song I wrote in 2015 upon the news of my first grandchild. “It’s like God is making up for everything I missed, and right now, I know, He’s sending me His very best.”
John Johnson of Atlanta provides the piano and vocal. -Jon Hanson
Draft Verse 1 only

Grandpa Love (2019 Jon Hanson)
This is an early version of a song I am slowly developing for my 3 grandsons. I have a granddaughter that is equally magnificent.