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Mitch Albom: ...how lives and losses intersect

Nobody Told Me!

Nobody Told Me!

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.2671 Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

We’re very excited to welcome best-selling author, journalist, screenwriter, playwright, broadcaster and musician Mitch Albom to our show. Mitch’s books have sold more than 35 million copies worldwide. His book, Tuesdays With Morrie, is the most successful memoir ever published. His first novel, The Five People You Meet in Heaven, is the most successful US hardcover first adult novel ever.

And now, Mitch has written a sequel to The Five People You Meet In Heaven. It’s called, The Next Person You Meet In Heaven. You can purchase it at booksellers everywhere. His website can be found at https://www.mitchalbom.com.

This show originally aired last year, but his wisdom is needed more than ever today.

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0:00.0

Welcome to Nobody Told Me.

0:13.5

I'm Laura Owens.

0:14.7

And I'm Jan Black.

0:16.0

We are very excited to welcome best-selling author, journalist, screenwriter, playwright, broadcaster, and musician Mitch Albam to our show.

0:25.2

Mitch's books have sold more than 36 million copies. His book, Tuesdays with Mori, is the most successful

0:31.5

memoir ever published, and his first novel, The Five People You Meet in Heaven, is the most successful U.S. hardcover first adult novel ever.

0:40.6

And now, Mitch has written a sequel to The Five People You Meet in Heaven.

0:44.5

It's called The Next Person You Meet in Heaven.

0:47.1

Mitch, thanks so much for joining us today.

0:49.4

It's my pleasure. Thanks for having me on your program.

0:52.1

Talk to us a little bit about the next person you meet

0:54.5

in heaven. Well, the five people you meet in heaven was published 15 years ago, and the idea of

1:01.7

that was that there was an old man who thought he didn't matter in life. He never did anything.

1:08.7

He never went anywhere. He worked as a maintenance worker at an

1:12.5

amusement park. And on his 83rd birthday, he dies trying to save a little girl from a ride accident,

1:19.5

a big cart falls, and it's crashing down, and she's trapped under the platform. He pushes her out of

1:25.4

the way. She's saved, and he's killed. He goes to heaven

1:30.0

and he meets, he finds out that the first stage of heaven is that you meet five people who

1:35.4

were in your life, some of whom you might have known, some of whom you might not even remember,

1:40.9

but all of them played some significant part in changing your life and your and changing

1:46.1

theirs. And by the end of his five people, he finds that this meaningless life that he thought

1:51.5

he had led was actually extremely meaningful and had affected all kinds of people in all kinds

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