Happy Accidents: The Transformative Power of YES, AND at Work and in Life with Frank Ford
Entrepreneurs on Fire
John Lee Dumas
4.8 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2017
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Frank has had a successful career in the entertainment industry for the last 25 years and is one of the founding members, and partner, of Four Day Weekend, a comedy institution in Texas.
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| 0:00.0 | What's shaking fire nation J L D here and welcome to episode 1871 of EO fire right |
| 0:10.4 | shout out with entrepreneurs on fire seven days a week is time fire nation to |
| 0:16.7 | accomplish your number one goal in one hundred days so visit the freedom journal |
| 0:21.8 | dot com now shout out today's featured guest Frank Ford Frank are you prepared |
| 0:27.6 | to ignite yes and I'm excited to ignite with you and I'm so happy to be part |
| 0:35.2 | of episode 1871 yes Frank fire nation has had a successful career in the |
| 0:42.1 | inter-team industry for the last 25 years and is one of the founding members |
| 0:47.0 | and partner of four day weekends a comedy institution in Texas Frank take a |
| 0:53.8 | minute fill in some gaps from that intro and give us a little glimpse of your |
| 0:57.5 | personal life I do improvisation for a living and we started a 40-week end 20 |
| 1:05.5 | years ago we just celebrate our 20th anniversary on March 9th I know it's hard to |
| 1:09.8 | believe we've been around that long and what was really funny about it was |
| 1:13.0 | is that when we started the show it was for a six week run that's it we're |
| 1:17.2 | gonna do six weeks and before we knew it six weeks turned into six months six |
| 1:21.6 | months turned into six years and six years turned into 20 and here we are |
| 1:26.0 | still doing what we love to do 20 years later and I get to do it with my best |
| 1:30.4 | friends every day so it's a lot of fun amazing stuff and Frank what would you |
| 1:35.9 | say over these past 20 plus years you've grown into as your area of expertise |
| 1:41.4 | what is that specialty you know on stage when you improvise the audience members |
| 1:46.4 | it's kind of like whose line is in anyway they give you suggestions and you take |
| 1:50.4 | any suggestion from the audience and then you do scenes and songs based on the |
| 1:54.7 | suggestions well improvisation teaches you to be present to be in the moment you |
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