Hey everybody, what's up? It's Chase. Welcome to another episode of the show. Diving right in, I got an email. This particular email was flagged because it was from a guy named Mike Ducille. And it was an invitation to Mike's book book club which includes a number of other like-minded

creators and entrepreneurs and mike's goal is to get people together to read a book a month

and then reach out to the author with the goal of picking that author's brains around personal

questions from the book, the concepts that

they talked about.

And now this was in the wake of, it was about a year ago, maybe a little bit less.

And it was around my book, Creative Calling.

And what stood, there's a couple of things that stood out to,

uh, about Mike's email. Um, one is that he'd been paying attention to this community,

the one that you're a part of right now that you're listening to the show, the community,

um, for a long time and as understood the nuance of navigating the future of creativity, of entrepreneurship,

of living the life of our dreams.

And then second, I love people who take action and who rally and organize others.

Not everyone's lot in life, but to me, this was an interesting

way to essentially talk with one person who in turn can affect the lives of so many others.

So my goal with today's show is to share with you a Zoom call where I answered questions from this

book club. Many questions of which I had never been asked before about my career, about

the book, creative calling, but most importantly, the actions that we all ought to take and the mindset

required to pursue our dreams in career, in hobby, and in life. So a little warning here. As I

mentioned, the call, I was en route to the airport. So there's definitely some background noise

and the cell service isn't perfect.

But nonetheless, this is, I think, an important exchange of ideas that as I survey the

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