Hello, world, welcome to discover your talent to do what you love.

I'm your host, Don Hutchison.

Every Monday and Wednesday, I interview someone from around the world who's discovered their

talents to do work they love to create a life of success, satisfaction, and freedom.

On Fridays, I interview a well-known expert from the fields of personal or business development

who share experiences, tools, and insights to help our listeners along their journeys.

In honor of the four-year anniversary of our podcast, over the next several weeks,

we will be sharing with you the most popular interviews from our first 777 shows.

We hope you enjoy them, and we look forward to sharing the journeys of more fascinating guests soon.

I'm delighted to bring you our feature guest Michael McDonald.

Welcome, Michael.

It's good to be here, Don.

Thanks for inviting me on.

It is our pleasure.

Michael, are you using your talents doing work that you love?

I sure am.

All righty.

Well, we want to hear the whole story.

Michael has gone from managing cystic fibrosis and diabetes to using the lessons learned to run several businesses. He now helps people with their mindset and strategies to leave their job and run their business full time. Michael, that's a pithy summary well expressed. So tell us what you're up to now that has you engaged and motivated, if you would. Well, a big part of what I'm engaged in now is,

is understanding that there's always more to people's struggles than what they sometimes appear like.

So I work a lot on a one-to-one basis with people around their sort of

struggles because they want to start their own business. And I used to think that it was all

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