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Hi, and welcome back to the Carol Markov show on IHartRadio.

My guest today is James Al-Toucher.

James is an entrepreneur, best-selling author, national chess master, and host of the James

Al Tudcher's show. He is currently also involved in two different companies. So nice to have you on,

James. Carol, it's so great to be here. I know we've been, I feel like we've been planning to plan

to talk for years. And now we finally are. I love it. You know, it's so funny, you know,

I got your bio sent over and it doesn't even mention you're the author of 20 books.

Oh, yeah. Where, how do you do this? How do you even find time for like life? You know, I think

if you, if every day you kind of move the needle forward and whatever it is you're passionate about, you're going to get a lot done over the years.

Like, like take book writing, for instance, a thousand words is, you know, a couple pages, maybe three pages.

And if you write a thousand words a day, which is, again, three pages,

maybe it takes a couple hours a day. So you wake up an hour or too early and you go to sleep,

instead of watching TV, you write for an hour. You're going to end up with 360,000 words

by the end of the year, which is the equivalent of six books. So just take the best 60,000 words.

And now you have a book. And then over 20 years, you're going to have more than 20 books.

You make it sound quite easy. I've written a book. It didn't go like that. It was great. It was great.

It was a bestseller. I can't complain. but I will never do it again. It was extremely difficult.

Ever since my very first book, which was in 2004, I have said every single time, I am never going

to do this again. I am never going to write a book again. And then the next year, I end up writing

another book. What was your first book? What was a financial-oriented book called Trade Like a Hedge Fund.

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