My guest today is Mitch Album.

When most people hear his name, they think of him as the author of the book Tuesdays with

Mori, which came out some 21 years ago and really became a part of the culture.

It sold a tremendous amount of copies and influenced a lot of conversations and began to awaken

people to the idea of asking bigger questions about life.

In those intervening 21 years, he has written a number of books spoken around the world,

become a philanthropist and served in so many different ways.

And he's got a new book out now, which is actually 15 years after he came out with a book

called The Five People You Meet in heaven.

This is the sequel to that book and it's called The Next Person You Meet in Heaven.

And I had an opportunity to sit down with Mitch and have a really wide-ranging conversation

where we woven a bit about what this new book is about, how it ties in with the earlier

one, but really went much deeper into who he is as an artist, as a creator.

The things that inspired him in life, the risks that he took, the openness to serendipity,

what motivates him, where his muse comes from, how he sees a sort of seamless relationship

between music and writing, how he found his way into a job that taught him how to write

in the very early days and actually worked for free for the first six months or what we

call, he sort of air quotes free, and how that has informed everything that he's done

since then, really excited to share this conversation with you.

I'm Jonathan Fields and this is Good Life Project.

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