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The Breakdown with Shaun King

Ep. 291 - Make Change!

The Breakdown with Shaun King

The North Star

News, Society & Culture

4.812.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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It's here! My brand new book, Make Change, is now available in bookstores worldwide. Today, I want to share a short story of failure and the major pivot that we made as a result. ----- If you listen to The Breakdown and want to help support the work we do, consider becoming a member of our Patreon at www.patreon.com/thebreakdown for exclusive members perks and early access to content. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, today is a huge day for me and I'm so glad and so proud and so thankful for all of you who have helped to either pre-order my new book, Make Change, or who actually helped contribute to the book itself.

0:16.3

I'm super, super grateful.

0:18.4

If you have not gotten it yet, please do.

0:21.2

Today, I want to share really two key ideas from the book and I unpack them in

0:29.0

great detail. The book is 272 pages of both memoir and manifesto. You can also get the

0:36.8

audio book which which I love. I'm a huge audio book fan and I try to help create the audiobook that I would love to listen

0:46.1

to and I hope you love it as well. But I have two ideas that I want to share with you about

0:51.0

how I think we can make change together. I'm not going to be

0:54.8

reading from the book. This is just from my heart, but I'm going to be kind of

0:59.3

sharing with it from the perspective of some of the key lessons from the book all right this is

1:05.2

Sean King and you were listening to the breakdown

1:10.3

the breakdown the breakdown Breakdown.

1:13.0

The Breakdown.

1:15.0

The Breakdown.

1:17.0

The Breakdown. The Breakdown. . Before we get started, I just want to be clear that this podcast is not going to just

1:29.4

become a continuous commercial for the book, But today is a huge day. You know, until you

1:37.0

write a book, you have no idea, one, how long it takes to write 272 pages, how long it takes to edit those

1:48.0

272 pages, all of the different parts of the publication process, the promotion process.

1:55.8

It's been a beast, like even just the writing process and the editing process were, I mean I was going

2:02.2

to say brutal, I mean something less than brutal but just hard.

2:06.1

And I say that as somebody who has written thousands of articles and who writes and speaks

2:12.0

for a living,

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