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🗓️ 24 September 2020
⏱️ 46 minutes
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I’ve spent the last 2 years trying to get Don on the show, and we finally made it happen!
Donald Miller is a NYT bestselling author and founder of a company called StoryBrand which has helped some of the largest brands in the world develop powerful stories that explain their brand.
In this episode, we talk about relationships, the meaning of life, writing books, and much much more.
Full show notes at https://okdork.com/podcast/167
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| 0:00.0 | Blue Like Jazz was a book that I wrote when I was 29 and it sold over a million copies. |
| 0:05.6 | I still agree with everything's in it, but I know if I read it I would think one thing more than anything |
| 0:10.1 | else. I would have |
| 0:15.0 | have written a completely different book that wouldn't have sold |
| 0:18.8 | as much so you know I'm not 60 I have a decade to go until I get anywhere near that, but I'd rather be a hypocrite than to stay the same person forever. |
| 0:27.7 | And so I'd rather have written Blue Like Jazz rather than say, I'll wait till I'm 60 and then we'll see how I feel about this last season. |
| 0:35.2 | I think it's okay to go ahead and speak your voice now. |
| 0:37.6 | What is up you sexy bastards, it is your boy K-Gang, aka Rabbi Cantliz, aka Noah Kagan. |
| 0:46.0 | In today's episode I talked to one of my favorite authors of all time, Donald Miller. |
| 0:50.0 | So I've spent the last two years trying to get him on the show so I can introduce you to him, and we finally |
| 0:55.0 | made it happen. |
| 0:56.0 | Dawn's books have spent more than a year on the New York Times Best Seller, and my favorite one of |
| 0:59.8 | all time is a million miles in a thousand years. He's also the CEO of Story Brand, a marketing |
| 1:04.8 | company that works with Charity Water, Berkshire Hathaway, Chick Valais, and a bunch more on their |
| 1:09.0 | brand messaging. Here's three gigantic things you're going to learn in this episode. It's one of my favorites. |
| 1:13.3 | Number one, what does it mean to live a full life of Hail Mary's and why it's the only path to live an interesting life? |
| 1:19.5 | Number two, how you can create meaning in your own life, especially if you're going through a tough time. |
| 1:24.5 | And 3. The mindset you need to develop if you want to write a best-selling book. |
| 1:28.6 | Enjoy those three things, plus a bunch more earnuggets along the way. Before we dive into the show, make sure you subscribe to my YouTube channel |
| 1:35.2 | at YouTube.com slash OKDork, |
| 1:37.8 | where I put out two to three tasty business videos |
| 1:39.9 | every single week to help people just like you |
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