Mitch Albom: Your Pebble on the Pond Matters

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Dr. Phil McGraw

Mental Health, Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Education, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 2 July 2019

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Best-selling author, journalist, screenwriter, playwright and radio and television personality Mitch Albom joins Dr. Phil on this week’s Phil in the Blanks podcast. Albom, whose books include Tuesdays with Morrie and The Five People You Meet in Heaven among others, opens up about how writing Tuesdays with Morrie changed his life forever, his fascination with heaven, what he learned from Chika, a little girl he was raising as his daughter who died of a brain tumor, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	He says, you know that Sunday magazine job you applied for?
0:11.9	I said, yeah, you didn't get it.
0:13.4	And I had to put it on my shoulder and walk up and down the steps of the stadium going,
0:17.6	programs, yearbooks, scorecards, what ifs like that because my voice hadn't changed.
0:21.7	But I got to see all the baseball games and the football games which was pretty cool
0:24.9	for 11-year-old kids.
0:25.9	Yeah, no kidding.
0:27.8	I was like king of this little fishing village in Ireland where the resort was and I could
0:31.6	go down and...
0:32.6	Elvis moved in, we discovered Elvis.
0:33.8	Yeah, they didn't know who Elvis was, so I was Elvis.
0:36.2	Like I said about Morrie, you know, he didn't even know how much he touched me and how
0:39.7	he would consequently touch the world.
0:42.7	You know, it's often been said that the more you do, the shorter the introduction you need.
0:47.7	And Mitch Album is a perfect example of that.
0:51.8	This guy has written book after book and sold tens of millions of copies.
0:58.0	You probably first discovered him with Tuesdays with Morrie.
1:03.9	And he is about to get really real and you're going to get to know the real Mitch Album
1:08.8	the way I do.
1:10.4	This guy is funny, he's warm, he's real, and he's just a lot of fun to be around.
1:16.5	He's been a friend of mine for a long time and let's start talking to him.
1:21.4	You're going to do that in 40 seconds.
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