Journalist Edward-Isaac Dovere on the Soul of America

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🗓️ 24 July 2021

⏱️ 91 minutes

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On today’s episode of the podcast, Ryan talks to journalist and author Edward-Isaac Dovere about his new book Battle for the Soul: Inside the Democrats' Campaigns to Defeat Trump, being courageous and fighting for what’s right, how to ignore the noise and focus on the things that truly matter, and more.

Edward-Isaac Dovere is an American journalist who serves as staff writer for The Atlantic and former Chief Washington Correspondent for Politico.

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0:00.0	Hey, prime members. You can listen to the Daily Stoke podcast early and add free on Amazon music download the app today
0:10.5	Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoke each weekday
0:14.8	We bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stoics
0:18.7	Something to help you live up to those four Stoke virtues of courage justice
0:23.9	Temperance and wisdom and then here on the weekend
0:27.0	We take a deeper dive into those same topics. We interview Stoic philosophers. We explore at length
0:35.0	How these Stoic ideas can be applied to our actual lives and the challenging issues of our time
0:42.7	Here on the weekend when you have a little bit more space when things have slowed down
0:47.7	Be sure to take some time to think to go for a walk to sit with your journal and most importantly to prepare for what the week ahead may bring
1:00.8	Hey, it's Ryan Holiday welcome to another weekend episode of the Daily Stoic podcast. I am
1:09.6	fresh off the completion of
1:12.0	The audiobook for the next book which I've teased a little bit. I won't tease too much more
1:17.8	But I was joking on Instagram today that I am now measuring the pandemic in how many audiobooks
1:25.2	I've been forced to record at home the the number is two. I did lives of the Stoics here
1:32.6	Not in a studio because last summer the surge is really bad and this summer
1:39.2	Just recorded courage is calling
1:41.2	I'm vaccinated, but my two young kids are not and I just didn't feel great going to
1:46.9	A studio for three or four days plus I'd like to be able to dip in and out
1:52.3	I'll just walk in the other room and do some recording walk back to the other room and write so it's much less disruptive but
1:58.3	It is an exhausting experience. Let me tell you it does not come quickly or easily
2:03.0	You know you get you can do maybe 20 25 pages a day and then you start just sounding like a blubber and idiot
2:08.4	It's not that your voice gives out. It's that your brain gives out and all the words blur together
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