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

Positive You. And on this episode, John is joined by Dan Cortez. You may know Dan as the

host of the Emmy Award winning M TV Sports, his roles on

Veronica's Closet, What I Like About You, and many other TV shows and movies.

Some of his characters have gone on to become cultural icons like Elaine's rock climber boyfriend Tony Memboe from Seinfeld.

Dana is also the author of the brand new book, Step Off, My Journey from Membo to Manhood. This episode talks about the lessons he's learned along the way.

I especially love when Dan said, if you don't like the narrative of your story, become the narrator.

So many great nuggets in this one. of your story, become the narrator.

So many great nuggets in this one.

Now our featured resource this week is Daily Positive.

It's a free daily email with an encouraging quote or short message to help you fuel your

mind and take on the day. You can sign up at

daily positive.com. All right let's join John and Dan. Hey this is John

Gordon with positive view and today my guest is Dan Cortez Dan how you doing I'm doing great

John thanks for having me buddy man Dan it's great to talk to you you are the man you have a new book that is

coming out so excited for it. Talk about that. It's called Step Off, My Journey

From Mimble to Manhood. The title came from an episode of Seinfeld I did. I did one episode and it was for the longest time before their

Super Bowl episode and their very last episode it was the highest rated

episode of Seinfeld ever. We don't know why. I tell my kids it's because I was on it. Not so true. But I played a character

under that was not the brightest guy but was Elaine's boyfriend who Jerry said you basically date him for the

way he looks because he's got nothing upstairs and Jerry says he's he's a male bimbo he's a

mimbo so when I was, the reason I tell the story, when I was asked to do the book by Wiley Publishing,

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