ITL071 : How to Make a Major Life Transition, an Interview with Jeff Jones
In the Loop with Andy Andrews
Matt Lempert
4.9 • 614 Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2013
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
On today’s podcast, professional drummer Jeff Jones, formerly of the band Big Daddy Weave, joins Andy and A.T. to talk about transitioning your life and career.
After reading The Traveler’s Gift and listening to the podcast, Jeff decided it was time to transition from being a drummer to becoming a speaker.
- He had been the drummer for Big Daddy Weave, touring all over the country and the world, for 13 years.
- He had been gone about 140 days per year for his family’s entire life.
Jeff came up with the acronym WISE, which has become the crux of his message.
- It stands for What I Sacrifice Every Day.
- The acronym embodies the choices you make in order to achieve the results you want in your life.
- When he was a kid and decided he wanted to play drums for a living, he began making sacrifices every single day in order to achieve that dream.
Andy’s Storms of Perfection series also inspired Jeff to create a custom pair of drumsticks for camouflage company Mossy Oak.
- The series inspired him to take action.
- It taught him that almost every successful person started out overcoming adversity.
- You don’t have to be “special” to be successful.
- All you have to do is seek wisdom and take action.
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Questions for Listeners
- Have you ever made a major career or life change? We’d love to hear your story!
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to In the Loop with Andy Andrews, a unique opportunity to see life from a different perspective with New York Times bestselling author, Andy Andrews. |
| 0:12.2 | Now here's your host, Andy Trob. |
| 0:15.0 | Well, hello, everyone. |
| 0:15.8 | I am your host, Andy Trob. |
| 0:17.1 | You can call me AT. |
| 0:18.3 | And I want to welcome you again to In the Loop where Andy Andrews |
| 0:21.2 | shares powerful yet simple principles that once applied will change your life forever. |
| 0:26.3 | Andy, thank you for joining us today, my friend. |
| 0:28.7 | I am glad to be here, and we have a very special guest. I'm very excited about this. |
| 0:33.8 | We do. He is a superstar, and he has decided to take a star from the sky and see if you can |
| 0:41.1 | put it up there again doing something different, which we're going to talk about. And that's Mr. Jeff |
| 0:45.3 | Jones. Jeff, welcome to the show. Hey, thank you guys for having me. It's a pleasure. |
| 0:50.4 | We're excited that you're here. If you're listening and you don't necessarily recognize the name Jeff Jones, you will recognize the name Big Daddy Weave. |
| 1:00.0 | And Jeff was the drummer for Big Daddy Weave. |
| 1:05.0 | I think the was part is actually key to why you're on the show here today and why I'm in hiding. |
| 1:12.6 | I know that all the Big Daddy Weave fans and all the Big Daddy Weave people are probably after me now |
| 1:18.2 | because this was unintentional on my part to get you headed in a different direction, Jeff. |
| 1:24.8 | But thanks for being here, and we're excited about this. |
| 1:28.2 | Oh, it's an honor to get to do it, and it has been an amazing journey. And, you know, |
| 1:32.4 | and like you said, I'm turning this page, this chapter in my life. So we're going to talk |
| 1:37.4 | specifically about, you know, the subtitle of the Travers Gift is not how to leave the band, right? |
| 1:43.4 | It's about taking action in your life. It's about |
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