Hello everybody welcome back to Franklin Covey's on leadership series I'm

Scott Miller and I serve as you know each week as your interviewer and host today

I am delighted to welcome to the set Sean Acor a multi-time best-selling author.

His TED Talk has over 22 million views.

A guest on Oprah's Soul Sunday, he joins a prestigious pantheon of guests, best-selling authors, business titans,

CEOs, thought leaders, the occasional celebrity.

What they all share in common is a well-deserved, well-vetted point of view on how to become a better leader and your family and your professional life in every aspect.

Sean A-Corps, welcome to on leadership.

Thank you so much for having me.

Sean, great to have you.

You're coming to us today from Dallas, Texas.

Read your book, Cover to Cover, Big Potential,

How Transforming the Pursuit of Success

raises our achievement, happiness, and well-being.

You are a well-recognized author, keynote speaker, interviewer on all things happiness and success.

I mean, dude, you've been on Oprah's soul Sunday. that's enough to warrant you a spot on our program

Delighted you gave us time today Sean. Thank you so much for let me join

Hey looking forward to digging in to your newest book Big Potential. Before we do that, you know, you're

well known as a success author and speaker written several books on the topic of happiness.

How did you leave Harvard where you did your education and move into this topic and passion around happiness and success?

Well, I felt backwards into this. I was not planning on being a happiness researcher. I didn't know that was a thing. I was on a military scholarship, Navy scholarship to Harvard and I was planning on being in the Navy and then I got excited about going to the divinity school.

So I went off to Harvard Divinity School to study Christian and Buddhist ethics.

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