Episode 020: The Traveler's Gift - with Andy Andrews
It's a Good Life
Brian Buffini
4.4 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 17 September 2016
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
“My mission in life is to help people live the lives that they would live if they only knew how to.” — Andy Andrews
Best-selling author and motivational speaker, Andy Andrews went from living under a pier to selling more than 3.5 million books with the help of Jones, a coach and mentor he met while he was homeless. In this episode, Andy shares his story with Brian Buffini. He shares what Jones taught him about perspective, how he learned to love to read biographies, the best advice he got from singer Kenny Rogers, and what his 9th grade teacher taught him about timing. Get ready to laugh and learn in this inspirational episode.
Inspirational quotes from today’s interview:
“I met an old man. I met a coach, basically. He was the first guy to tell me the truth about myself. He shifted the way I viewed things.” — Andy Andrews
“He was the first guy who told me, “You can’t always believe everything you think.’” — Andy Andrews
“I wasn’t depressed; I was just mad.” — Andy Andrews
“I can trace everything I do today to that time when I was forced to read.” — Andy Andrews
“You have to hear it, be humble, be resilient and be willing to fail.” — Brian Buffini
“Facts tell, stories sell.” — Brian Buffini
“Perspective will bring calm, clear thinking yields ideas and from those ideas those answers in proper timing.” —Jones
“My mission in life is to help people live the lives that they would live if they only knew how to.” — Andy Andrews
Learn more about Andy Andrews
www.andyandrews.com
Books by Andy Andrews
The Noticer The Traveler’s Gift The Heart Mender
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Brian Bafini show, where we explore the mindsets, motivation and methodologies |
| 0:19.3 | of success. |
| 0:20.3 | Here's your host, Brian Bafini. |
| 0:31.0 | Well, the top of the morning to you and welcome to the Brian Bafini show. |
| 0:35.5 | Thanks for joining me today. |
| 0:37.0 | Recently, at our annual mastermind event in San Diego, we had a fabulous audience of |
| 0:43.4 | 3,000 of our best clients come from all over North America and overseas and we just spent |
| 0:49.2 | two and a half days together and I'm hoping to share a number of elements of that show |
| 0:54.0 | with you over the coming months on our podcast. |
| 0:57.9 | But one really, really cool thing that happened at this year's mastermind is I got to meet |
| 1:02.1 | with and hang out with a guy who I've been a huge fan of his for years. |
| 1:06.0 | His name is Andy Andrews and he is, you know, your classic New York Times best seller |
| 1:10.8 | who's written a few books. |
| 1:12.4 | I'm sure you know very well the noticer, the traveler's gift is a huge seller in a great |
| 1:18.8 | book. |
| 1:19.8 | I recommend to everybody. |
| 1:20.8 | He's sold millions of millions of copies. |
| 1:22.8 | And Andy is a phenomenal communicator, great presenter. |
| 1:26.5 | He's your classic rags to riches story literally living under a bridge and lost his mother and |
| 1:32.2 | father in the space of a 12 month period as a very young man and really went from a zero |
| 1:37.2 | to hero as they say. |
| 1:39.0 | So great guy, great story, a great communicator and I'll be honest with you. |
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