From Rock Bottom to Hollywood: How Crystal Dwyer Hansen Turned Vision into Reality
The Mike Litton Experience
Mike Litton
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🗓️ 29 May 2025
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
What if the answers to your biggest dreams were already within you—just waiting to be asked?
In this deeply inspiring episode of The Mike Litton Experience, I sit down with bestselling author, transformational coach, and entrepreneur Crystal Dwyer Hansen, who opens up about her incredible journey—from personal loss and hardship to co-authoring a bestselling book and landing a Hollywood movie deal.
Crystal shares the powerful story behind Ask: The Bridge from Your Dreams to Your Destiny, co-authored with her husband Mark Victor Hansen (co-creator of Chicken Soup for the Soul). We discuss how a simple act of asking changed her life, how she turned a short fable into a full-length screenplay during a global pandemic, and how trusting her inner voice unlocked opportunities she never imagined.
 What you’ll discover in this episode:
- How Crystal’s “fable of Michaela” became a screenplay and is now in the works as a major motion picture
- The secret power of the subconscious and why writing your intentions before sleep can transform your results
- Real-world strategies to manifest goals in your business, relationships, and personal growth
- Why asking is the key to unlocking clarity, connection, and abundance
 Grab the book: Ask: The Bridge from Your Dreams to Your Destiny
 Learn more about Crystal’s work: CrystalVisionLife.com
 Explore the movement: AskTheBookClub.com
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| 0:00.0 | You want to solve something in your life, you know something that's like this massively compelling |
| 0:04.6 | problem or issue or whatever, write down that you want the solution. |
| 0:09.2 | Write it down before you go to bed. |
| 0:10.7 | Write it down. |
| 0:11.5 | I need the solution by morning. |
| 0:13.3 | You'll wake up at three o'clock in the morning and go, who. |
| 0:15.5 | Lost everything. |
| 0:16.5 | She's an indentured servant out of stone quarry. |
| 0:19.0 | It's in the time of kings and queens, right? |
| 0:21.8 | She lost her mother, her father, then her house was taken away from her, and she's an indentured servant. So, |
| 0:26.3 | she's lost all hope. She's lost all hope. And her life every day is about lifting heavy |
| 0:33.5 | rocks from one place to another. And so she goes home one night, exhausted, detached from everything, because she's just, |
| 0:40.9 | there's just nothing there anymore. |
| 0:42.6 | She falls asleep. |
| 0:44.4 | You never know it. |
| 0:45.8 | He's the nicest guy on the planet. |
| 0:48.6 | And what he cares about is you. |
| 0:52.1 | He cares about taking care of the person that he's with at the time. He cares about |
| 0:57.8 | how he can help them. He cares about what he can do to pour into them, especially if he feels |
| 1:04.0 | like you're doing something to help make the world better, right? Because that's really your |
| 1:08.8 | mission. Your mission with Mark is to make the world a better |
| 1:13.3 | place to live. You pursue living their life the way you and Mark live your lives. This is the kind |
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