Michael D. Eisner, CAMP: Life, Leadership, and Why You Never Stop Paddling
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.5 • 643 Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Totally Booked: LIVE! In this special episode of the podcast (in-person at the Whitby Hotel with a live audience!), former Disney CEO Michael Eisner joins Zibby to discuss and celebrate the 20th anniversary edition of CAMP: Life, Leadership, and Why You Never Stop Paddling. Michael reflects on his life-shaping experiences as a camper and counselor at Keewadyn, a Vermont camp that four generations of his family have attended for 100 years. He delves into the lessons of teamwork, resilience, leadership, and creativity learned in the wilderness that echoed throughout his remarkable career at ABC, Paramount, Disney, and beyond.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Zivie Owens. Thanks for listening to Totally Booked, the show where I get to talk to all my |
| 0:07.7 | favorite authors, and you get to hear from them too. Today, I am so excited to be talking to |
| 0:14.2 | Michael Eisner. I'll read you a little bit about him now. Michael D. Eisner has been a leader |
| 0:20.6 | in the entertainment industry for more |
| 0:22.7 | than half a century, beginning his career at ABC, becoming president of Paramount Pictures in |
| 0:28.7 | 1976, and then chairman and chief executive officer of the Walt Disney Company in 1984, |
| 0:35.7 | serving in the role for the next 21 years. |
| 0:38.7 | In 2005, Eisner founded Tournante, an entertainment company that today owns Port Smith |
| 0:46.9 | Football Club and has a large and growing television division. |
| 0:50.8 | He and his wife Jane founded the Eisner Foundation in 1996. His book is Camp Life |
| 0:57.0 | Leadership and Why You Never Stop Paddling. Welcome. |
| 1:02.8 | Thank you. |
| 1:06.8 | Camp, this is amazing. Thank you for taking us into your whole experience, you, the multi-generational camp of your family, |
| 1:15.9 | and reminding us about the joys of being outdoors and being in a found community. |
| 1:21.3 | So thank you. |
| 1:22.3 | Well, I appreciate being here. |
| 1:24.7 | A lot of people have gone to camp. |
| 1:31.9 | A lot of people feel love of it, youthful strength, |
| 1:33.4 | growth and all that. |
| 1:38.3 | And I just thought, this would be a good subject to go back and think about. |
| 1:44.2 | And my kids, my grandchildren, my father, my grandfather. |
| 1:46.8 | We've all been in this oldest camp, |
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