This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host.

This is the James Altiger Show on the Choose Yourself Network.

Today on the James Altiger Show, we're all allowed to deserve more or to want more in our lives.

And to believe it's possible.

Well, that's how it started. I was so unhappy on my law job and I had no idea what to do.

I'd never taken a writing class. I'd never written anything ever.

I wasn't even a big reader. But one night after I came home from the law job, I was so unhappy.

I just started to write stories about my childhood.

And there were three or four stories I wrote in a row that all had this exuberance in them.

Memories of times that I was exuberant and free.

And as I wrote, I thought, God, this is the first time I felt happy in a long time writing.

And I would look up at the clock after I finished these stories and four hours had passed.

And it seemed like 20 minutes.

I took this Kierkegaardian leap of faith into the abyss and quit my law job, which was paying me well into six figures

to take a $23,000 a year job doing data entry.

What the hell were you thinking?

I am here with Robert Kursin. First off, welcome.

Thank you so much. Great to be here.

Thanks for flying in from Chicago just for this podcast and no other reason at all.

You've been on the podcast before. This is your second time on.

Second time.

And your brother's been on, I think, three times.

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