How to Build a Life of Meaning | Rick Walker
Hold These Truths with Dan Crenshaw
Dan Crenshaw
4.6 • 16K Ratings
🗓️ 4 October 2025
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Rick Walker is an investor, author, and scholar of history and philosophy. He also happens to be Rep. Crenshaw’s one-time opponent in his very first primary campaign – but no hard feelings about that. Get ready for a wide-ranging conversation about everything from Alexander the Great’s quest for the Fountain of Youth to birthday shopping with Dennis Rodman to life lessons learned on the campaign trail. Within all of it, Rick finds the universal truths that can lead everyone to a life of meaning.
Rick Walker is the author of “9 Steps to Build a Life of Meaning: How to Unlock Your Mind, Happiness, Power, and Your Enemy’s Demise.” Find him on X at @RickWalkerTX and listen to The Rick Walker Podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | We hold these truths to be self-evident. |
| 0:02.1 | That all men are created. As a member of Congress, I get to have a lot of really interesting people in the office. Experts on what they're talking about. This is the podcast for insights into the issues. China, bioterrorism, Medicare for all, in-depth discussions. Breaking it down into simple terms. We hold. We hold these truths. We hold these truths. With Dan Crenshaw. The angle has landed. |
| 0:24.2 | Welcome back, folks. into simple terms. We hold, we hold, we hold these truths. We hold these truths with Dan Crenshaw. |
| 0:24.0 | Welcome back folks to Hold These Truth's greatest podcast ever. And you haven't given it five stars. |
| 0:30.9 | What are you doing with your life? We have a really cool podcast for you today with a good friend of |
| 0:34.9 | mine, Rick Walker. We're going to talk a lot about |
| 0:38.4 | his recent book, which is called The Nine Steps to Build a Life of Meaning. So it is, |
| 0:44.8 | it's one of those books I think definitely deserves to be one of the ones you might see at the |
| 0:49.5 | airport with all those other self-help books, but this one's really good. |
| 0:56.3 | And I can say that just because I know Rick, and we talk a lot. |
| 1:01.6 | We've been friends ever since the primary election. |
| 1:03.8 | We'll talk about that here too. |
| 1:06.0 | And he's a deep thinker. |
| 1:07.2 | He has his own podcast called Rick Walker Podcasts. |
| 1:10.0 | Rick Walker Podcast. |
| 1:10.7 | Yeah. You've had some pretty amazing guests on it, myself included. But, Thinker, he has his own podcast called Rick Walker Podcasts. Rick Walker Podcast. |
| 1:11.0 | You've had some pretty amazing guests on it, myself included. |
| 1:15.0 | But bigger than me. |
| 1:16.3 | Who else have you had on that? |
| 1:17.9 | Dr. Bing Carson had Don Jr. |
| 1:19.9 | Yeah. |
| 1:20.9 | Yeah. |
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