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🗓️ 29 May 2021
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On today’s episode, Ryan talks to author Charlie Mackesy about his #1 New York Times bestselling book The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse, the process of writing and creating the book, how beautiful and rare it is to find contentment, and more.
Charlie Mackesy is the author of The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse. The book has sold over 1.4 million copies and spent 55 weeks on the Sunday Times Bestsellers List top ten. He co-runs Mama Buci, which is a honey social enterprise in Zambia.
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0:10.5 | Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoke each weekday |
0:14.8 | We bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stokes |
0:18.7 | Something to help you live up to those four stoic virtues of courage justice |
0:23.9 | Temperance and wisdom and then here on the weekend |
0:27.0 | We take a deeper dive into those same topics. We interview stoic philosophers. We explore at length |
0:35.0 | How these stoic ideas can be applied to our actual lives and the challenging issues of our time |
0:42.8 | Here on the weekend when you have a little bit more space when things have slowed down |
0:47.8 | Be sure to take some time to think to go for a walk to sit with your journal and most importantly to prepare for what the week ahead may bring |
1:01.5 | Hey, it's Ryan welcome to another weekend episode of the Daily Stoke podcast |
1:07.8 | You know sometimes you you read a book and it just it hits you in a place |
1:12.5 | That you didn't maybe even know was a place, you know, you you read something that's just |
1:16.2 | Magical and whimsical |
1:19.7 | Beautiful and moving |
1:21.2 | Whatever it is it does what art is supposed to do which is it it touches something in what makes us deeply human |
1:28.8 | and today's episode is |
1:32.2 | About such a book to put it away. It's more than a book and it's about such an author |
1:37.0 | I'm I'm talking to Charlie McAcie |
1:40.8 | He's the author of the boy the mole the fox and the horse |
1:44.8 | Which if you haven't read it doesn't matter how old you are it doesn't matter if you have kids |
1:49.1 | Doesn't matter how old your kids are it's a beautiful book |
1:52.0 | It's it's like the little prince. It's like a great Pixar movie |
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