This is episode number two, 44, with the creator of Everybody Loves Raymond Phil Rose

and Paul.

Welcome to the School of Greatness.

My name is Louis Howe's former pro athlete, Turn Lifestyle Entrepreneur.

In each week we bring you an inspiring person or message to help you discover how to unlock your inner greatness.

Thanks for spending some time with me today. Now let the class begin.

Welcome everyone. But before we get into the episode, I had the pleasure of sitting down with an incredible human being.

His name is Phil Rosenthal and he's an American television writer and producer who is best known as the creator writer and executive producer for the sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond,

which ran for nine seasons and is still on TV all over the world. He has had 70 Emmy nominations for his show and one, two Emmys, also an author and currently producing a new show, all have what Phil's having.

You're going to want to make sure you watch the show because it's really awesome.

And come back to the show notes at LewisHouse.com slash 244 so you can watch a video of what I was having with Phil.

Also you can watch the full video interview there. Top five things you're going to learn from this episode. Why Phil recommends that actors take writing classes and directors take acting classes.

Also why they decided to stop writing everybody loves Raymond while it was still at its popular peak.

How young people are making the cheap urban neighborhoods cool through their creativity.

Phil's best tips for writing an amazing screenplay for all you screenplay writers out there and how Phil got himself to write 210 episodes of the same show.

I'm very excited about this. So let's go ahead and dive into this episode with the one the only Phil Rosenthal.

Welcome everyone back to the School of Greatest Podcast. We got a very special guest Phil Rosenthal in the house. How's it going?

It's good. I can't believe I'm in the School of Greatest. This is the studio. Here we go. Wow. Can we lower the expectations a little bit?

We can. School of Okeness in the forest. Yeah. But there's nothing you've done that's been average. Oh, you're very nice.

And Gary Bannerchuk, mutual friend, introduced us. He's the force of nature. He emailed me and said you've got to have this guy on.

I never heard about you until he mentioned you and I researched and I was like, how have I not heard about you?

I've heard about the work you've done. Yeah. The creator of everybody loves Raymond. Right? And that was, that's still on.

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