Welcome to Franklin Covey's on-leadership podcast. I am Lena Renee. I'm the guest host today for our podcast, and I have the very special pleasure of interviewing Scott Miller, who is your standard host and who will be your host in the future. Welcome Scott to the on-leadership podcast.

Lena, thank you. Everybody will take my place. It will be you. So don't do too good of a job today, right? You can count on me not because you are very talented and it feels very special to be in this area.

I picked one of my favorite mentors and also friends and colleagues to take that chair. So it's much easier being over here. So good luck to you.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Actually, I get to put you on the hot seat today as we talk about master mentors volume number two.

Congratulations, Scott. Thank you. Thank you. Coming out right now. Yes. Just released. Just released. How are you feeling? I'm elated. You know, it's the second book in the 10 volume series. Yes.

We held a launch party a few nights ago. You were a guest because you are one of the mentors that I feature in the book. And as I mentioned the party, you know, I think the first half of my life career was very much having the spotlight focused on me. Yeah.

Everyone knows that. That knows me. And I think as I matured, hopefully, that I want to spend the next half of my career, half my life, turning that light metaphorically around and shining on others.

I also mentioned that I probably have like most people never had an original thought in my life. When I got past that depressing statistic, I realized that, you know, that's true. And what I can do, however, is be a great aggregator, a great pollinator distributor of others ideas by giving them credit.

And one of the privileges of being the host of this podcast now for gosh 250 episodes is we've learned an amazing amount from amazing thought leaders. And if I can be a pollinator of some of the transformative insights from our guests shared on or off the air, what an amazing platform and spotlight that I have. And so you're going to see the light a little dimmer on me and a little more bright on people like you and others that are in the books.

Well, I will see Scott master mentor number 55 is my favorite title right now.

It's me. I featured you as one of the two you've written two best selling books. You're a double wall street journal best selling author on both time management productivity and on customer employee loyalty.

And you've said some very profound things with your co-authors Sandy and Sean around how do you build a culture where people feel valued with their loyal to you.

I appreciate you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. And it's a real pleasure to be you know it's got something you said that resonates with me and I hope you're okay if we get real real real fast.

So today's world. I think we're in a unique space of thought leadership and authorship a couple of years ago, a whole bunch of brilliant people went into the pandemic and they went into their heads and their hearts and their minds and they came out with brilliant thought.

So what I'm finding as someone who is a perpetual learner is that there is a lot out there to curate and a lot to sift through in the thought leadership.

What I appreciate so much about this book is what you just said. It's like you've curated for me all of this brilliant thought when there's a lot of great thought out there right now.

And I will say in podcasts maybe that's not so unique, but in the book world that is unique and special. I mean podcasts frequently you'll have a new person every week.

So this is very unique and very special in book form where you've said here are 30 people who have great thoughts to share.

What are your thoughts on what I'm saying? Is that feel true to you?

It was risky. That's exactly. In fact the first publisher passed on the series they thought it was too episodic. Harper Collins got the genius that is Scott Miller.

They got the genius and because like you and I everyone's so darn busy. And I like the kind of books I can read for eight to 12 minutes at night when I'm exhausted and I'm falling asleep and I can pick it back up the next night.

So my books are fast. They're easy. They're breezy. They're not research based by strategy. They're not good to great or build to last kind of Jim Collins books or multipliers like Liz Weisman whose books I love.

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