ITL236: The Wild Story of My Career- How I Became a Speaker (Pt. 3 of 3)

In the Loop with Andy Andrews

Matt Lempert

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4.9 • 614 Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2016

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

On this week's episode, I'm finishing the discussion of my career pivots and how I transitioned out of comedy into what I do today.

I was on a bus with Kenny Rogers and we were talking about how we had grown up and sharing times in our lives.

At some point I told him about the Seven Decisions, living under the pier, and Jones.
He said, "You ought to start talking about that on stage," and I'm like, "Where on stage? It's not funny."
He told me I wasn't a joke teller but a talker and a storyteller.
I starting throwing it in and transitioning back into comedy, but people were telling me that the serious part was their favorite part.

I realized more people asked me to speak on serious topics than were asking for the comedy.

This odd thing developed where I was funny, but it had a point.
I realized that God has used all these crazy things in my life to make me into a very different kind of speaker.
As I transitioned into speaking, I put together the Storms of Perfection books.
Then The Traveler's Gift came along and I started writing the story that was born from living under the pier, and that developed into being more of an author.
The writing forced me to think.
To sit there and think, read through something, take notes, and ponder is not too hard, but people think it is and they choose not to do it.

Tune in to hear about the process of "getting to the bottom of the pool" and how that's forcing me to learn new ways of explaining the topics in the next book I'm writing.

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0:00.0	You're listening to In The Loop, a unique opportunity to see life from a different perspective
0:06.5	with New York Times bestselling author, Andy Andrews.
0:10.4	Now here's your host, David Loy.
0:12.8	Hi, and welcome to In The Loop with Andy Andrews.
0:15.6	I'm your host, David Loy, and Andy, we are back for part three.
0:19.6	Oh, my gosh.
0:38.0	Poor Paul. He asked one question. And he gets three weeks worth of episodes. And what's your friend's name in Atlanta who's going to be excited about this? Oh, Charlie Cooper? Charlie Cooper. Dr. Charlie Cooper. Dr. Cooper. Dentist to the stars. If you're in Atlanta and need a dentist, you might want to call Dr. Charles. He's an usher's dentist. Oh, well, that's, he might not be able to, he might not be able to squeeze you in then.
0:43.4	Well, I mean, he's usher's golf coach, too, you know. Ah, interesting. They've gotten to be friends.
0:51.1	Apparently. All right. So we are picking up where we left off the last couple of weeks we've
0:55.5	discussed really the journey of your career, your willingness and desire to continue to
1:02.0	evolve and pivot and make sure that you're adding value in different areas. We talked about you as a
1:08.3	comedian, how that was cruise ships, colleges, opening for A-list stars,
1:12.6	some hilarious stories last week about Joan Rivers and Cher.
1:17.0	And brother, I got a million of them.
1:19.1	We could do this for a while.
1:20.6	If you missed either one of the last two weeks, go back and listen to those so that you make sure that you're up to speed on what we're talking about.
1:27.9	But, Andy, let's go ahead and transition into your life after comedy.
1:33.7	And actually, I guess let's start with why did you make a transition from comedy?
1:39.3	And what did you transition to?
1:40.9	You know, some of it was not necessarily intentional.
1:48.0	It was definitely guided, okay?
1:51.0	I just don't think I was the one guiding it at that point because it never really occurred
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