Chicken Soup for the Soul's Mark Victor Hansen (ep. 444)
Live Inspired Podcast with John O'Leary
John O'Leary
4.8 • 695 Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2022
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Mark Victor Hansen co-founded Chicken Soup for the Soul in hopes of sharing motivational stories with people all over the world. But it wasn't always the successful publishing franchise we know today.
Despite originally being turned down 144 times by publishers, Mark persisted. To date, Chicken Soup for the Soul has now sold more than 500 million books and had 57 different titles on the New York Times bestseller list.
Today, Mark joins us to share the four principles to which he credits his success and to remind us that we all have a story to share.
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| 0:36.7 | Welcome to the Live Inspired podcast with John O'Leary. |
| 0:41.1 | John is the number one national bestselling author of the book On Fire. |
| 0:45.4 | He's a world-class inspirational speaker and he's the host of the Live Inspired podcast. |
| 0:50.5 | John interviews extraordinary individuals on their life story so that you can wake up from |
| 0:56.0 | accidental living and more fully live your life story. Here's your host, John O'Leary. |
| 1:03.1 | Well, hello, my friends, and welcome to the Live Inspired podcast with John O'Leary. A question |
| 1:09.3 | for you before I bring on today's guest, a guest I know |
| 1:12.8 | you are going to love. Here's the question. When should you finally give up? When should we finally |
| 1:19.5 | cease the effort of putting into that thing, whatever that thing is that might be important |
| 1:24.7 | or matter deeply to you recognizing you failed. When should you finally |
| 1:30.7 | give up? Well, today, we have the honor of interviewing one of the greatest failures of a guest |
| 1:38.0 | we've ever brought on to the Live Inspired podcast. This gentleman was near bankruptcy. He was |
| 1:44.0 | struggling massively with self-worth and feeling |
| 1:47.7 | totally isolated from others. And yet in the midst of that storm, he also had a vision of sharing a |
| 1:53.7 | message that he knew would be elevating to the entire world. He shared his passion, he shared |
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