what if you could actually play the role of hero in your own story and obey the same principles

you would use to write a story and actually live an interesting experience. And then I got obsessed

with that because that's what I do and began to kind of outline, well, you know, a hero is going to

need to identify something that they want. A hero is going to need to knock back down whenever

there's a challenge. A hero needs to turn the other cheek. Otherwise, they're going to quickly

become the villain. You know, a hero is going to need to see something through until it's done.

And I began to ask myself the really simple question of, okay, if you were a character in a story

and a character did what you're about to do, what would the audience think? And that changed everything

Hello and welcome to pursuing health. I'm Dr. Julie Fouche, family physician and former

CrossFit Games Athlete. Here I bring you information and inspiration to help bridge the gap between

fitness and medicine and support your journey toward your healthiest self. Thank you so much for

joining me. Now let's get started with this week's episode. So welcome to pursuing health. I'm so

excited to be here today with Don Miller, who is the CEO of Business Made Simple, best-selling author.

He's written books, including Blue Like Jazz, building a story brand and his latest here on

a mission, which I'm super excited to talk about. And so thank you so much for joining me today.

I'm excited for this. I'm honored to be on. Awesome. Well, I also was excited to have you on

because I have listened to your book. You narrate your own audio books and you have a podcast,

and you also have a great podcast voice. So it's always good to have someone on who has a good

podcast voice. I've never been told that. I'm like, you know, you listen to your own voice.

Really? I'm always like, oh gosh, but no, it's great. I was thinking of that as I was listening to

to your here on a mission book. Oh, thank you. But really so much of what you do, I think it would

be great to start with. So much of what you do is belt around the elements of a great story,

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