408: How To Do What You Love & Make Good Money & Quitting Something You Love by Derek Sivers

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🗓️ 22 January 2017

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Derek Sivers, originally a professional musician and circus clown, created CD Baby in 1998. It became the largest seller of independent music online, with $100M in sales for 150,000 musicians. In 2008, Derek sold CD Baby for $22M, giving the proceeds to a charitable trust for music education. He is a frequent speaker at the TED Conference, with over 5 million views of his talks. Since 2011 he has published 34 books, including “Anything You Want” which shot to #1 on all of its Amazon categories. Episode 408: How To Do What You Love & Make Good Money & Quitting Something You Love by Derek Sivers (Don't Keep Your Day Job). The original posts can be found here: https://sivers.org/balance https://sivers.org/quit Please Rate & Review the Show! Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com and Join the Ol' Family to get your Free Gifts! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.5	ready to wind down and relax.
0:32.8	This is Optimal Living Daily, episode 408.
0:36.0	How to do what you love and make good money, and quitting something you love by Derek
0:40.7	Sivers of Sivers.org and I'm Justin Mollick.
0:43.6	Happy Sunday.
0:44.6	Sivers Sunday as I used to call it.
0:46.1	It's been a while since I've done this because he doesn't post a lot and most of his blogs
0:50.2	are short, so I was running out of content from him that was a good fit for this show.
0:54.0	But I found some newer posts that I think you'll like.
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1:00.6	covering personal development, minimalism, and more.
1:03.6	I think this is going to be the last time I mention it, at least for a very long time
1:07.4	because registration closes really early on Monday, that's tomorrow.
1:12.2	There's an awesome course being put on by a bunch of the authors I read right here on
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