278: How To Be a Professional Author with Steve Farber
The Chris Harder Show
Chris Harder
4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2019
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
In This Episode You Will Learn About:
-The best advice for aspiring authors
-Making money through writing
-The differences between a publisher or self-publishing
-The future of the book industry
-Using love as a core company value
-The tough side of love
Resources:
-Learn more at stevefarber.com
-Self-assessment: loveisjustgoodbiz.com
-LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/stevefarber
-Instagram: instagram.com/stevefarber
Show Notes:
Have you ever felt like you had a book inside of you? That is what we are going to talk about today with my good friend Steve Farber.
Steve is one of the highest regarded leadership experts in the world. Today, we do a deep dive on everything involved with being a professional author. And we help answer the question, "Should you attempt to be an author?"
Question Highlights:
-How did you come to be known as one of the most extreme leadership experts in the world?
-What advice do you have for someone who wants to be an author?
-Would you write a book in hopes of making a profit?
-Should you go with a publisher or self publish?
-Is writing and printing traditional books still going to be a thing in 10 years?
-What's the most surprising lesson?
-Who is this book for?
Guest Bio:
Steve Farber is the former Vice President of legendary management guru Tom Peters' company and is the founder and CEO of The Extreme Leadership Institute—an organization devoted to helping its clients develop award-winning cultures and achieve radical results.
Listed on Inc.'s ranking of the Top 50 Leadership and Management Experts in the world, and #1 on Huffington Post's 12 Business Speakers to See, Farber is a bestselling author, popular keynote speaker, and a seasoned leadership coach and consultant who has worked with a vast array of public and private organizations in virtually every arena.
Farber's third book, Greater Than Yourself, debuted as a Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestseller. His second book, The Radical Edge, was hailed as "a playbook for harnessing the power of the human spirit." And his first book, The Radical Leap: A Personal Lesson in Extreme Leadership, was named one of the 100 Best Business Books of All Time.
His much-anticipated new book, Love is Just Damn Good Business, published by McGraw-Hill, is available now.
Farber is a member of the exclusive Transformational Leadership Council, and his column, The Extreme Leadership Chronicles, runs frequently on Inc.com.
Follow me on social media @ChrisWHarder on Instagram and check out www.ForTheLoveOfMoney.com
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | because I hear this all the time. |
| 0:01.0 | Oh, someday I'm gonna write that book. |
| 0:02.2 | I've got this idea and some day I'm gonna sit that. |
| 0:04.3 | Don't tell me that. |
| 0:05.6 | Tell me when you've written 30 pages. |
| 0:08.7 | And then let's have another discussion. Welcome everybody this is for the love of money where we are making you |
| 0:20.4 | unapologetic about your pursuit of success by sharing the tools, tips, and |
| 0:25.6 | stories of those who have already made it. |
| 0:28.5 | My name is Chris Harder and each week I will bring you incredible guests |
| 0:33.2 | in order to prove that when good people make good money, |
| 0:36.4 | they do great things. |
| 0:42.0 | Hey everybody, welcome back to another incredible episode of for the love of money |
| 0:46.2 | I cannot wait for you to listen to today's episode because if you have ever had a book |
| 0:51.4 | inside of you or wanted to be an author or we're curious |
| 0:55.4 | about what it's like to be a professional author that is the discussion that we |
| 0:59.4 | are having today along with a whole bunch of other really awesome stuff with my friend Steve |
| 1:04.5 | Farber. Now you've probably heard of Steve before because he was on this show |
| 1:08.7 | a couple of years ago but aside from that he is is literally, and I mean literally, one of the highest regarded |
| 1:17.2 | leadership experts in the world. |
| 1:20.4 | He's constantly hired by the top 50 and top 100 companies in the world to come in and help them with their leadership and their culture |
| 1:28.5 | Now aside from being a leadership expert he's written four books. |
| 1:33.0 | He's a best-selling author. |
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