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Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast where each day we bring you a passage of ancient wisdom designed to help you find strength, insight, and wisdom every day life.

Each one of these passages is based on the 2000 year old philosophy that has guided some of history's greatest men and women. For more you can visit us at DailyStoic.com.

What if you were trafficked into a cult over shot nine times or fell in love with a vampire or went into a minor surgery and woke up one week later, paralyzed.

What would you do?

I'm Whit Missildine, the creator of this is actually happening, a podcast from Wondry that brings you extraordinary true stories of life-changing events told by the people who lived them.

From a young man that dooms his entire future with one choice to a woman who survived a notorious serial killer, you'll hear their first person account of how they overcame remarkable circumstances.

Each episode is an exploration of the human spirit and personal discovery. These haunting accounts sound like Hollywood movies, but I assure you this is actually happening.

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American-born businessman George Cohan, the founder of McDonald's Canada, was never satisfied with the status quo. Throughout his career, George was always searching for new ways to innovate and revolutionize the way he did business.

At McDonald's, that innovative spirit let him do something truly extraordinary.

Hi, I'm Lindsey Graham, host of Wondry's show Business Movers. We tell the true stories of the business leaders who risked it all, the critical moments that define their journey and the ideas that transformed the way we live our lives.

In our latest series, George Cohan gives up his career as a Chicago attorney to open the first McDonald's fast food restaurant in Canada.

But as George moves up the McDonald's corporate ladder, a chance meeting with members of the Russian Olympic Committee gives George an opportunity to shake up the status quo once again.

In the midst of the Cold War, George sets out to open the first McDonald's behind the Iron Curtain. Find out how. Follow Business Movers wherever you get your podcasts.

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Hey, this is Ryan Holiday. Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stone Podcast. Man, I'm recording this intro right after I finished my interview with today's guest.

I gotta say, I'm like so pumped. I think this may be the best interview that I've done. It's certainly one of the ones I was most excited about.

I didn't know how it was going to go. My guest today is Brian Dory's. He's a writer, director, sort of a theater company operator.

He created this project called Theater of War that presents the ancient Greek plays to military veterans. He's done hundreds of military bases all over the United States.

He does. He speaks in prisons to gang members, refugees, survivors of genocide. He's been like everywhere. And he puts on plays by Sophocles, Escalus, Euripides, Shakespeare,

even texts from speeches from Frederick Douglass or Martin Luther King. And the idea is that these plays, these works of art were not intended for mere entertainment, but to teach profound moral lessons and to heal communities, to heal people, particularly as we talk about veterans of war or victims of trauma as, you know,

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