23: Bestselling Self-Taught Writer - Cathy Scott

Discover Your Talent–Do What You Love

Don Hutcheson

Education, Business, Self-improvement, Careers

5.0 • 619 Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2015

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

An L.A. Times bestselling author and blogger for Psychology Today, Cathy Scott left a secretarial job and broke into journalism. She wrote eleven books and taught journalism at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Her work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine. Recent TV appearances include Dateline and the Today Show. A line of dialog in the film, An Officer and a Gentleman, crystallized her motivation: “If you want something, go get it!” She recalls, “That just resonated with me. You have to go with your gut. That's what I went with. And it was hard.”

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0:00.0	Hello, world.
0:11.4	Welcome to discover your talent, do what you love.
0:14.9	I'm creator and host, Don Hutchison.
0:17.7	Every day, I interview someone from around the world who has discovered her talents to do work
0:23.4	she loves to create a life of success, satisfaction, and freedom.
0:28.7	Today I'm delighted to bring you our featured guest, Kathy Scott.
0:32.9	Hi, Kathy.
0:33.9	Hi, John.
0:34.9	Welcome.
0:35.9	Kathy, a quick question.
0:40.1	Are you using your talents and doing work that you love?
0:41.4	Absolutely.
0:42.6	Perfect.
0:43.7	We want to hear all about it.
0:56.3	Kathy Scott is an L.A. Times bestselling author and blogger for psychology today who wrote 11 books after changing jobs as a secretary and breaking into the news business.
1:02.4	Plus, she taught journalism at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Her work has appeared in the New York Times magazine. Recent TV appearances include Dateline and the Today Show.
1:08.5	Kathy, that's a fine executive summary.
1:16.2	Take us from here and tell us what you're up to now that has you fired up about the work you're doing.
1:22.7	Right now, in fact, this morning I was going over the galleys for a book that's being re-released,
1:28.8	murder of a mafia daughter, about the recent arrest of Robert Durst.
1:30.1	Oh, yes.
1:37.8	Yes, who police have called a serial killer, an admitted killer for killing a man in Galveston, Texas.
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