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Hi, welcome to Cultural Calis, where we teach you how to live fully live,

collab with God and change the world. I'm your host Chris Vellatin and today I have Donald Miller who wrote Blue Like Jazz. He's a New York best selling author, public speaker and business owner.

I had to actually read all that because we've been friends for so many years. I'm like, what have you accomplished since I knew you last.

And since we, since I had you out, thank you so much for being on my pleasure. I've been looking forward to this conversation for a long time.

I got to tell you a bunch of my team ran here because they're like, Donald Miller is here. We're all reds books. So down hill from here on out.

So excited to talk to you about owning your story and living a full purpose life.

Life will purpose is what they wrote here. See that? I'm even reading notes right now. Hey, conversation. What have you been doing? What are you up to and what makes you alive right now?

I want to answer Chris. I became a dad. I know. I've got a 16 month old named Emeline who is the life of the party. She's pretty much been the life of the party since she came out of the womb.

She is the happiest human. And I'm really not saying this. I mean, I realize no dad is objectious. Yes.

But I honestly think she's the happiest human being I've ever met. I mean, from from second one when she wakes up, she is filled with joy. And I bet she there's been five times when she's she's not been happy.

First thing in the morning through the through the rest of the day. And usually it's because she, you know, she got a fever or something.

So it's it's mostly figuring out, you know, how to be a good dad, you know, being a good husband. That's that's the exciting thing that happened that's happened to me over the last two years.

You know, I have a granddaughter who's two, two and a half her name's Edie.

Two days ago, we were moving a very heavy massage chair upstairs. And my son Jason, who's that's her dad brings her with me with her with him.

And so she's standing there. Of course, you know, of course, my wife is trying to keep her out of the way.

And she's she's going like this. Good job, you guys. You can do it. Oh, you guys come on. You can get this done two and a half years old. She's saying that for the half hour, we're trying to get this.

It was like, I said to her, I need to bring her to work and just have her do that all day long, you know, it was actually every time you respond to an email, just have her clap.

It's so cool. Hey, you risk wrote a book hero on a mission. Yeah.

Yeah. And it's a pathway to meaningful meaningful life that actually confronts the victim mentality. I have to be honest, I haven't read that book a bunch of my team have read that book. And they're like, you got to interview them about this book. So why'd you write this book and why does it feel important to you today?

Yeah, it's, you know, that book came out in January, it feels like five years ago, but it came out January and I've been thinking about that, you know, the stuff that's in the book for about five or seven years and had kind of had some, you know, how it is to try to write a book and you get three chapters into it. It's just not there. You're not ready.

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