Steven Pressfield: Government Cheese
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🗓️ 14 December 2022
⏱️ 102 minutes
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Summary
Steven Pressfield is an author, Hollywood screenwriter, and Marine Corps veteran.
He has penned several bestselling novels including The Legend of Bagger Vance, Gates of Fire, Tides of War, The Virtues of War, The Afghan Campaign, and A Man at Arms.
Steven has also written numerous non-fiction books on creativity to include The War of Art, The Authentic Swing, The Artist’s Journey, and Do the Work.
His recent book, Put Your Ass Where Your Heart Wants to Be, serves as an antidote to being “defeated by a tendency to procrastination, self-doubt, fear, distraction, and perfectionism.”
Steven’s memoir, GOVT CHEESE, hits shelves on December 30th.
You can learn more about his work at stevenpressfield.com.
Follow him on Instagram at @steven_pressfield , on Twitter @SPressfield , and @StevePressfield on Facebook. You can subscribe to his YouTube Channel @StevePressfield
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Danger Close Podcast, an Ironclad original presented by Navy Federal Credit |
| 0:21.8 | Union. |
| 0:22.8 | The title drop video for my upcoming novel Only the Dead is out there now. |
| 0:27.2 | You can find it on my YouTube channel and on my social channels. |
| 0:31.3 | My guest today is the great Stephen Pressfield. |
| 0:35.8 | You might know him from Gates of Fire, the Legend of Bagger Vance, the Afghan campaign, |
| 0:41.2 | and his latest novel is a man at arms, and then his book on the nonfiction side put your |
| 0:46.9 | ass where your heart wants to be about the creative process and getting the work done. |
| 0:53.7 | He has a dear friend and he is a wealth of knowledge. |
| 0:57.4 | His latest book is a memoir and that is called Government Cheese and that is out now. |
| 1:05.4 | Without further ado, Stephen Pressfield. |
| 1:09.6 | All right, there he is. |
| 1:14.5 | And there he is. |
| 1:15.5 | Hey, how are you? |
| 1:16.5 | Hey, Jackie, looking great. |
| 1:18.0 | You are looking great too. |
| 1:19.0 | I see that Smith-Corona back there. |
| 1:20.6 | Is that the original? |
| 1:21.6 | It's actually a royal. |
| 1:24.0 | It's a royal original original. |
| 1:25.3 | Okay. |
| 1:26.3 | Where's the Smith-Corona? |
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