I’m the author. I never thought about the Maslow connection, but now that you’ve made it, it is TOTALLY on point. Thank you!

There’s one aspect of all this I didn’t mention in my post but it’s germane here: this is a group of men and women whom I LOVE in a way you’d have to be another veteran or maybe a cop or a fireman to appreciate.

We’ve bled together. We’ve buried the same friends. So I don’t have to work very hard to muster up the emo stuff at the very top of Maslow’s pyramid. I FEEL it. And so the audience does too.

That’s probably pretty hard to fabricate if it isn’t already there. But if it IS there, it’s a pretty powerful foundation for a host relationship.