Steven Goldstein | How the Most Powerful People from Washington to Wall Street to Hollywood Make Us Like Them
The Unmistakable Creative Podcast
Srinivas Rao
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 2 November 2020
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Steven Goldstein shares his insightful story from childhood to activism as well as the interesting ways in which the powerful make us like them. Steven is a civil rights activist and an author who worked as a TV news producer before becoming a producer for Oprah Winfrey.
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| 0:00.0 | So I went from a Friday my last day working for the US Congress was on a Friday on |
| 0:06.6 | Sunday it wasn't even Monday two days later I was in I was in Indiana on Oprah's farm as her new producer. |
| 0:14.4 | That was quite a switch, left-braid, right-braid. |
| 0:17.2 | I don't know many people who would go from a Friday to a Sunday, |
| 0:20.9 | from a lawyer for the U.S. Congress to a producer on the Oprah Winfrey show. |
| 0:24.6 | To me it was a matter of finding people who are likable. |
| 0:28.3 | So just as I found people who are likable working for Chuck with O'Brien Bryce took notice of who were likeable witnesses. |
| 0:36.0 | It turned out to be the same categories of likeability, the same traits. |
| 0:40.0 | I whittled them down to eight traits over the years with different sub-traits and as early as |
| 0:46.7 | then 1994 I said you know this would be a good book someday and lo and behold from |
| 0:52.4 | 1994 till late last year I had thought of |
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| 1:51.0 | Stephen, welcome to the unmistakable creative. |
| 1:53.0 | Thanks so much for taking the time to join us. |
| 1:54.7 | Fantastic to be here, sweetie. |
| 1:57.1 | Well, I am so thrilled to have you here. |
| 1:59.4 | As I was saying before we hit record, I found your book to turn on how the powerful |
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