588: Writer's Rebound from Ballot Box Loss

Discover Your Talent–Do What You Love

Don Hutcheson

Entrepreneur, Turningpoints, Self-improvement, Careers, Business, Career, Education, Inspirational, Inspiring, Entrepreneurs

5 • 618 Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2017

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Lori B. Duff thought she would be the voters’ obvious choice for probate court judge. She had a decade’s experience with a major metropolitan court, and her opponent wasn’t even a lawyer. Her unexpected loss was a stiff rebuke. At 42, she brushed herself off and found renewed life as a ghost writer, editor, and a best-selling author of 3 memoirs. She recently won a gold medal in the 2017 eLit awards. She has a series of memoir writing classes designed to give people a head start on writing their stories.

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0:00.0	Hello, world, welcome to discover your talent, do what you love, number 58.
0:16.7	I'm your host, Don Hutchison.
0:18.9	Every Monday and Wednesday, I interview someone around the world who's discovered their talents
0:24.3	to do work they love to create a life of success, satisfaction, and freedom.
0:29.8	On Fridays, I interview a well-known expert from the fields of personal or business development
0:34.8	who share experiences, tools, and insights to help our listeners along their journeys.
0:40.6	Lori thought she would be the voter's obvious choice for probate court judge.
0:45.4	She had a decade's experience with a major metropolitan court, and her opponent wasn't even a lawyer.
0:51.6	Her unexpected loss was a stiff rebuke.
0:56.7	At 42, she brushed herself off and put pen to paper. I'm delighted to bring you our featured guest, Lori B. Duff. Welcome, Lori.
1:03.8	Glad to be here. Thank you. Lori, are you using your talents doing work that you love?
1:08.9	On the good days. All righty.
1:11.3	Lori B. Duff is a recovering lawyer who is found renewed life as a writer.
1:16.5	She's an in-demand ghost writer and editor and an internationally best-selling author of three memoirs.
1:22.6	Her latest, You Know I Love You Because You're Still Al alive, recently won a gold medal in the 2017
1:28.6	Eilet Awards. She has a series of memoir writing classes designed to get people a head start on
1:35.2	writing their own stories. Well, that's a summary of your career, Lori. Tell our listeners what
1:39.6	you're engaged in now that has you excited and motivated, if you would please.
1:43.6	Well, I'm never one to do one thing at a time.
1:46.3	Obviously, I have about three or four different jobs, but what I'm excited about now are the
1:50.5	books that I'm writing.
1:51.8	I'm most of the way through the next book in my series, which is tentatively called If You've
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