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Now here's your host, Andy Trobb.

Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of In the Loop with Andy Andrews, where we share

powerful and simple principles that once applied will change your life forever. Today we're going to

hear from a few different listeners, one who wants to know how to put one of Andy's books into action

and also how Andy deals with failure. Another listener has a question about that. And the meat of the episode today

is going to be about Andy's upcoming book, How to Kill 11 million people. And by the title,

we know this is a very different book, and we're going to talk about the origins of the book

and maybe give a little bit more of an idea what it's about. So Andy, thanks for being here, man. I'm honored to be here. I'm excited about this. Yeah, we've got a lot to cover, so we're going to jump right in. We've got a listener feedback from a gentleman in Alabama. He says, Andy, I met you at the recent Shoals Save a Life banquet in Florence, Alabama. I enjoyed having dinner with you and hearing you speak.

And on a recent podcast, you mentioned it took over three years for the traveler's gift to be accepted by a publisher.

My question is, how did you deal with that rejection over that length of time? And that's from Greg Woodard,

First Baptist Church in Greenhill, Alabama. So a lot of rejection over a long period of time.

Yep.

How did that work?

I would love to say that I dealt with it well.

You know, but I probably, well, definitely, there were times that I was not dealing with it well.

But I knew that I was learning that's never anything that well it's it's often something that we don't

love or choose but I knew that I was learning now here's an odd thing you know that, that book, as you know, the seventh principle, the seventh lesson in that book

is to persist without exception.

Not to persist, but to persist without exception.

So for three and a half years, 51 publishers turning this down, and I'm like, oh, I had to put that without

exception part in there, didn't I? And so I, but I knew that was right. I knew that was correct.

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