Welcome to John Gordon's Positive University Podcast. My name is Daniel Decker. I'm the co-host of

Positive View, and today we're joined by Doug Ellen. Doug is a screenwriter and director best known

for creating the hit HBO series Entourage.

You'll hear how Doug went from being a stand-up comic to finding success in film, selling

multiple screenplays to basically unemployment, only to rise again and find the massive success we know

him for today.

It's a fascinating behind the scenes look at his journey and will encourage you on your

own.

Now our featured resource this week is John's mentor

coaching program. When you join you'll get access to a live interactive teaching and

Q&A session with John each month online. John will break down a

particular success

principle how you can take action on it and he'll answer any questions that you

have. Our next live session is on September 9th with John and his wife

Catherine sharing strategies to strengthen your

relationship. You can sign up at John Gordon coaching.com that's J-O-N-G-C-C-C-C-C-G-O-G-N-C-C-Toching. And if you're listening past

September night you can access the replay for that session and all of our previous sessions when you join.

All the details are at John Gordon coaching.com.

All right, let's join John and Doug.

Hey, this is John Gordon with Positive You, and today my guest is Doug Ellen. Doug, how you doing?

Good, good, as good as I can be.

Doug, we were just talking to you're from Brooklyn, grew up in Brooklyn, lived in

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