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Thrivetime Show | Business School without the BS

One of the Planet’s Top Literary Agents (Yfat Reiss Gendell of Foundry Media) Shares How to Start a Business During a Nuclear Winter

Thrivetime Show | Business School without the BS

Clay Clark

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2019

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Yfat Reiss Gendell, the co-founder of Foundry Media, the literary agency of choice for Elon Musk’s biography, The Subtle Art of Not Giving an F$%#, and You Are a Badass shares how the publishing industry works, and more.

Transcript

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Ladies and gentlemen on today's show we interview the co-founder of a literary

0:06.9

agency of choice for Elon Musk's best-selling biography. Her literary agency

0:12.3

has also represented the best selling book, Ready Player

0:15.4

One. The legendary comic book genius Stan Lee's books, the smash hit The Subtle Art of Not

0:21.2

Giving A What? And a book that just keeps on selling you are a bad

0:25.7

what how to stop doubting your greatness and start living an awesome life etceter my friends

0:31.8

found your media dot com represents the authors of the books that you know

0:36.0

today the woman I simply call the eFot shares with us how she was able to start her

0:40.9

successful literary agency during a nuclear winter of publishing.

0:44.7

How the publishing industry works. The habits that make her super successful. How authors get paid

0:49.8

their royalties. How she keeps track of all the royalty payments owed to her, why she likes to

0:54.4

start with a crazy idea when working with her authors, why she believes that you need to

0:58.8

always focus on operating your highest and best use, the role book publishers play in an author's career.

1:06.2

While you must be compromising in relationships but uncompromising with your career, her advice to female

1:12.4

business women about staying proactive and

1:15.0

much, much more. Ladies and gentlemen, this interview blew my mind. Without any further

1:20.0

ado, I present to you our interview with my friend Efaut.

1:24.8

Some shows don't need a celebrity narrator to introduce the show

1:30.2

but this show does.

1:32.0

Two men.

1:34.0

Eight kids, co-created by two different women.

1:38.0

Thirteen multi-million dollar businesses.

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