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Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoic. Each weekday we bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stoic, something that can help you live up to those four Stoic virtues of courage, justice, wisdom and temperance.

And here on the weekend we take a deeper dive into those same topics. We interview Stoic philosophers, we reflect, we prepare, we think deeply about the challenging issues of our time.

And we work through this philosophy in a way that's more possible here when we're not rushing to work or to get the kids to school, when we have the time to think, to go for a walk, to sit with our journals and to prepare for what the future will bring.

American born businessman George Cohan, the founder of McDonald's Canada, was never satisfied with the status quo. Throughout his career, George was always searching for new ways to innovate and revolutionize the way he did business.

At McDonald's, that innovative spirit let him to do something truly extraordinary. Hi, I'm Lindsey Graham, host of Wondering Show Business Movers.

We tell the true stories of the business leaders who risked it all, the critical moments that define their journey and the ideas that transform the way we live our lives.

In our latest series, George Cohan gives up his career as a Chicago attorney to open the first McDonald's fast food restaurant in Canada.

But as George moves up the McDonald's corporate ladder, a chance meeting with members of the Russian Olympic Committee gives George an opportunity to shake up the status quo once again.

In the midst of the Cold War, George sets out to open the first McDonald's behind the Iron Curtain. Find out how, follow business movers wherever you get your podcasts, and you can listen ad-free on Amazon Music or the Wondering app.

What if you were trafficked into a cult over shot nine times or fell in love with a vampire or went into a minor surgery and woke up one week later, paralyzed? What would you do?

I'm Whit Missaldine, the creator of this is actually happening, a podcast from Wondering that brings you extraordinary true stories of life-changing events told by the people who lived them.

From a young man that dunes his entire future with one choice, to a woman who survived a notorious serial killer, you'll hear their first-person account of how they overcame remarkable circumstances.

Each episode is an exploration of the human spirit and personal discovery. These haunting accounts sound like Hollywood movies, but I assure you this is actually happening.

Follow this is actually happening wherever you get your podcasts. You can listen ad-free on the Amazon Music or Wondering app.

Hey, it's Ryan Holiday. Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoke Podcast. I remember it pretty vividly. I was in South Paulo, Brazil. This is right as Gokker was being, if you read my book, conspiracy, some of this will be familiar.

This is right as Gokker was getting sued into oblivion and losing its famous lawsuit against Holkogen. I got this email. I just written a piece about it. I just hit Publish from the hotel dining room as I was getting ready to leave to the airport and catch my flight.

It's always stressful flying out of South Paulo because it takes like four hours to get to the airport and traffic is crazy. But I got this email out of the blue from the author James Fry, which obviously I'd grown up having heard about and knowing, but was just sort of much more aware of the controversy surrounding him.

It was a surprise email. He just said, hey, I love this article. He gave me some backstory of his relationship with Gokker. We got connected and we've sort of become friends. It turned out he's a huge fan of the Stokes and he actually credits the Dow Dijing and Stoicism with his almost 30-year journey now with sobriety.

Fry is, you know, he's a fascinating guy. We text everyone some while we talk. I actually love his novel Bright Shiny Morning the most. It's this great book about L.A. I've raved about John Fontes, ask the desk before. And so hopefully this comes off as high praise. I think this is one of the second, maybe the second or the third best novel about Los Angeles, which is, you know, a very high bar to get over.

So check that out if you haven't read Bright Shiny Morning, you should. But I really liked his newest book, Caterina, which I think is just a fascinating sort of novel about life and death, but also about the desire, the urge to be great to do something great to be the best at something.

And it's, you know, it's a fictionalized, you know, sort of take on on you can see the seeds of why James got in the place that he got. Anyways, I think he's a great writer, a fascinating guy.

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