499 How to Beat Resistance & Get It Done with Steven Pressfield
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Terri Cole
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🗓️ 20 April 2023
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Have you ever wanted to do something "big and scary" in your life? Like become an actor? Get your Ph.D? Change careers? Write a book?
Then this episode is for you. Today's guest is Steven Pressfield, author of Put Your Ass Where Your Heart Wants To Be, which is a step-by-step guide to outsmarting your own resistance and do what you really want to do in life.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, hello there and welcome to a very special episode of The Terry Cole Show. |
| 0:06.7 | Have you ever wanted to do something in your life? Write a book. |
| 0:11.3 | Become an actor. Do something. Get your PhD. Change careers. Well, if you do, then this episode is |
| 0:19.4 | for you, my friend. I'm interviewing a close pal of mine, Stephen Pressfield. I'll tell you all |
| 0:26.8 | about Stephen. If you don't know him, we're talking about his book, put your ass where your heart |
| 0:30.9 | wants to be. It really is a step-by-step guide to outsmart your own resistance to do what it is |
| 0:40.3 | that you really do want to do in your life. If you don't know Stephen, I'm going to tell you about him. |
| 0:46.9 | He's a best-selling author, fiction and nonfiction. He's so talented. He wrote the legend of |
| 0:52.4 | Bagger Vance, Gates of Fire, the Lionsgate. He also wrote the classics of creativity, the War of Art. |
| 0:59.6 | You have not read that book. Oh my god, you must. He wrote Turning Pro and Do the Work. |
| 1:05.2 | And his latest memoir is Government Cheese, which we talk about in this interview as well. |
| 1:10.0 | And we talk about put your ass where your heart wants to be. He also every Wednesday has a |
| 1:17.0 | creativity column. It's really like about writing that comes out of your Wednesday at stevenpressfield.com. |
| 1:24.0 | And it really is one of the most popular writing blogs on the web. It's amazing. The War of Art |
| 1:30.4 | has sold millions of copies globally. It's been translated into a zillion languages. And Stephen's |
| 1:37.4 | work, my husband and I know Stephen because I knew his work prior to my husband, Victor, who is a very |
| 1:47.2 | talented and established illustrator and artist. Stephen Pressfield has gotten touched with us and |
| 1:53.6 | he invicted a book together called The Daily Press Field, which is going to be coming out relatively |
| 1:58.4 | soon, I think. And they just became really close friends, like two little peas in a pod. And recently |
| 2:06.5 | in the past six months, Victor and I actually went out to Malibu to hang out with Stephen Pressfield |
| 2:12.1 | and his girlfriend Diana. And just spend time together because we became such close friends |
| 2:18.0 | virtually. And now they're planning to come out here to crackpot farm at some point when they |
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