5 • 618 Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2021
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Allegra Huston is the author of Love Child: A Memoir of Family Lost and Found, the novel A Stolen Summer (paperback 2019), and many screenplays including the award-winning short film Good Luck, Mr. Gorski, which she also produced. In 2019 she co-founded Twice 5 Miles, to publish how-to books on “the stuff nobody teaches you.” The first two titles are How to Read for an Audience by Allegra and How to Edit and Be Edited by Allegra and James Nave’ – both are the only books available on these subjects.
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0:00.0 | Hello, world, welcome to discover your talent, do what you love. |
0:14.4 | I'm your host, Don Hutchison. |
0:16.4 | Every Monday and Wednesday, I interview someone around the world who's discovered their talents |
0:21.8 | to do work they love to create a life of success, satisfaction, and freedom. |
0:27.3 | On Fridays, I interview a well-known expert from the fields of personal or business development |
0:32.3 | who share experiences, tools, and insights to help our listeners along their journeys. |
0:38.0 | People don't know what they're good at. |
0:40.6 | Don't have a natural talent like me. |
0:45.2 | So sometimes you have to find one or kind of create one for yourself. |
0:51.7 | You know, you've got to put food on the table and, you know, send your kid to |
0:55.4 | school. So there are those reasons. I think we also try to fulfill, if we're good girls or boys, |
1:05.2 | we try to fulfill the expectations that are inevitably held for us. |
1:11.5 | If we're bad girls and bad boys, we're fighting against those expectations, |
1:16.7 | but in either case, we're still being driven by other people's expectations. |
1:20.8 | It just takes some time and maturity and mistakes and unhappiness to start to find what is it that makes you excited in the |
1:36.0 | morning, that makes you want to be doing whatever it is that you want to do. |
1:41.5 | I'm delighted to bring you our featured guest, Allegra Houston. Welcome, |
1:45.9 | Allegra. Thank you, Don. Allegra, are you using your talents doing work that you love? |
1:52.1 | I am doing my very best to, yes. Good, good. Allegra Houston is the author of Love Child, |
1:58.8 | a memoir of Family Lost and Found. The novel, A Stolen Summer, and many screenplays, including the award-winning short film, Good Luck, Mr. Gorski, which she also produced. In 2019, she co-founded twice five miles to publish how-to books on the stuff nobody teaches you. The first two titles are how to edit and be |
2:18.9 | edited by Allegra and how to read for an audience by James Navay and Allegra, both the only books |
2:25.5 | available on these subjects. Well, Allegra, that's a summary of your career. Tell our listeners |
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