How to Become the World Champion of Your Favorite Hobby | Chris Ullman (Part 1)

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🗓️ 19 September 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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In this riveting two-part series, James Altucher sits down with Chris Ullman, a man who has been the right-hand to billionaires and politicians, but is most proud of his championship whistling. Part one focuses on how Chris became a four-time International Whistling champion and how he brings immense joy through this often-underestimated art form.

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0:00.0	Chris Olman has had an amazing life.
0:09.8	First, he was the world whistling champion.
0:13.2	He won it four times.
0:15.0	Second, he was basically the head of PR and communications for many successful, huge
0:24.0	politicians, presidential candidates, governors, and advisor to several billionaires.
0:30.7	He's in most notably, he worked for 18 years for David Rubenstein, who runs the Carlisle
0:36.0	Group.
0:37.0	He's been on this podcast quite a few times and Chris just wrote a book for a billionaires
0:42.4	and a parking attendant, lessons he's learned from all these different billionaires and
0:47.6	politicians and lessons he also learned from a parking attendant.
0:52.6	But prior to that, he also wrote a book called Find Your Whistle and it's his adventures
0:55.9	on the way to being the world whistling champion.
0:59.1	So we talk about both topics.
1:00.8	It's part one and part two.
1:02.3	The first part is basically how do you be the best in the world at what you love doing?
1:08.6	Whistling is not easy and being the world champion at any art form is not easy.
1:14.0	We talk about that.
1:15.4	Then part two, we talk about four billionaires and a parking attendant and the stories are
1:21.6	incredible.
1:22.6	At the end of part two, Chris also whistles for us.
1:27.0	So let's start off with becoming the world champion at the thing you love doing.
1:33.5	That's part one coming up and then part two will be the next podcast and it'll be all
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