213: LeVar Burton | Storytelling the Enemies of Education Off
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
4.8 • 12.3K Ratings
🗓️ 17 June 2019
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
LeVar Burton (@levarburton) is an award-winning actor famous for iconic roles from Kunta Kinte in Roots to Geordi La Forge on Star Trek: The Next Generation, and the host of long-running PBS series Reading Rainbow and the LeVar Burton Reads podcast.
What We Discuss with LeVar Burton:- How LeVar went from pursuing a vocation in the priesthood to acting in a miniseries that changed the national dialogue about slavery forever.
- What LeVar's Roots experience taught him about the power of television for education and engagement and how it paved the way for his involvement with Reading Rainbow.
- The questions LeVar asks parents who want their kids to read more.
- What it was like to act in Star Trek with the most expressive parts of his face covered and a head full of technobabble vocabulary.
- How LeVar avoided melting down in spite of international attention from an early age and what he's done to stay relevant over 40 years in show business.
- And much more...
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the show, I'm Jordan Harbinger. |
| 0:05.5 | As always I'm here with my producer Jason DeFilippo. |
| 0:08.1 | Today's guest has 26 Emmys and a P-Body for reading Rainbow. |
| 0:12.3 | He was coentakennte in Roots, he was Jordy LaForge on Star Trek and is a legit cultural |
| 0:17.9 | icon. |
| 0:18.9 | Today we're talking to my man aka the black Mr. Rogers, Lavar Burton. |
| 0:23.2 | I wanted to find out why despite early success Lavar never had a Hollywood meltdown. |
| 0:28.2 | He had the right kind of people around him and we'll learn how we can do the same. |
| 0:32.0 | This is a tale of almost self-almost sabotages, that of term self-sabotage, hustle, resilience, |
| 0:37.9 | grit and it's the story of someone who has probably influenced almost every single person |
| 0:42.8 | listening to the Jordan Harbinger show. |
| 0:44.9 | This was such a fun conversation today, I know you're going to love it and I met Lavar |
| 0:49.3 | through my network, we're two degrees of separation. |
| 0:52.7 | I'm teaching you how to do all that network and stuff, you know reach out to people, stay |
| 0:56.0 | in touch with them, offer value, get them to know, like and trust you so that you can |
| 1:00.0 | help each other out throughout the rest of your life. |
| 1:01.9 | That's sort of small game changing set of habits that has totally transformed my life |
| 1:07.2 | in my business. |
| 1:08.2 | That's a free course, six minute networking. |
| 1:10.2 | It's at JordanHarbinger.com slash course and I would love to hear what you think about |
| 1:14.1 | it and how it changes your life as well. |
| 1:16.5 | In the meantime, here's Lavar Burton. |
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