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🗓️ 23 January 2018
⏱️ 33 minutes
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0:00.0 | First off, congratulations, Erica Ender, who wrote the song, Desperado, which now has over |
0:11.3 | seven billion views on YouTube. |
0:13.6 | I'm re-releasing this episode, Erica. |
0:15.4 | We did it in October of 2017, but I wanted to, again, release this to celebrate your recent |
0:21.6 | Grammy nomination for best song of the year for Desperado, which you wrote with Luis |
0:26.9 | Fanzi. |
0:28.0 | During the episode, I asked her, how did you do it? |
0:30.5 | I wanted to learn about the process of being essentially the most listened to songwriter |
0:35.8 | in history with seven billion views. |
0:37.7 | Like, it's like the entire world listened to this song. |
0:40.3 | There are so many great takeaways from our conversation, but one of my favorites is, |
0:45.3 | have an abundance of mentality. |
0:48.6 | She said, people are always asking me, do you feel pressure? |
0:52.2 | What are you going to do next? |
0:53.5 | And I said, you know what? |
0:54.5 | This is such a gift. |
0:55.5 | I'm just focusing on whatever is good and being grateful and doing the best that I can |
1:00.0 | and everything that I do. |
1:01.4 | I'm not putting any pressure on myself because I think doing that is seeing life from the |
1:05.9 | ego eyes. |
1:06.9 | I'm not thinking I'm going to top this. |
1:09.2 | I'm just going to do quality work, she said. |
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