267: Brian Grazer | The Art of Human Connection
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
4.8 • 12.4K Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2019
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Brian Grazer (@BrianGrazer) is an Academy Award-winning producer whose films and TV shows have been nominated for 45 Academy Awards and 196 Emmys. He is the author of Face to Face: The Art of Human Connection.
What We Discuss with Brian Grazer:- What imposter syndrome looks like when you're at the top of the Hollywood game.
- How Brian turned a childhood learning disability into a superpower.
- Why being called a loser by Harvey Weinstein at the 1996 Academy Awards doesn't Brian hurt so much these days.
- How Brian networked himself up from legal clerk at Warner Bros. to one of Hollywood's most respected producers.
- Why Brian values curiosity over IQ.
- And much more…
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| 0:34.0 | Welcome to the show. I'm Jordan Harbinger. As always, I'm here with producer Jason de Filippo. |
| 0:38.0 | On the Jordan Harbinger show, we decode the stories, secrets and skills of the world's most brilliant and interesting people |
| 0:44.0 | and turn their wisdom into practical advice that you can use to impact your own life and those around you. |
| 0:50.0 | Today on the show, Brian Grazer, he co-founded Imagine Entertainment along with Ron Howard. |
| 0:56.0 | Over the years, the films and TV shows he's been involved with have been nominated for a total of 43 Academy Awards and 131 Emmys. |
| 1:05.0 | The films they produced over at Imagine have grossed over $13 billion, which is just bananas. |
| 1:12.0 | But aside from success in film, movies and television, Brian is an incredibly curious person. |
| 1:17.0 | For the past 30 years, he's made it his mission to meet a new person every week or so and sit down with them for a very specific curiosity conversation. |
| 1:25.0 | Much like myself, Brian started off as a shy kid and had to work around his anxiety and a learning disability to become one of the most iconic folks in the film industry. |
| 1:34.0 | He then networked his way from career and a closet all the way to the peak of Hollywood. |
| 1:39.0 | And of course, I'm getting the lowdown on how he networks and builds relationships both back in the day and even now that he's at the top of the game. |
| 1:46.0 | Brian is a riot and this conversation was really fun. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. |
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