What if selling books isn’t actually the most important thing your book can do?

J.D. Barker is a New York Times and international bestselling author whose career spans independent publishing, traditional publishing, collaborations with James Patterson, and his own publishing imprint.

What if you don’t actually know what you love doing?

Maybe you don’t need to figure it out first.

Maybe you need to do your way into discovering it.

What happens when we stop chasing the finish line and start paying attention to who we’re becoming along the way.

There’s one person who’s going to be with you for your entire life. How are you treating that person?

The things that used to take days now take hours. The things that used to take hours now take minutes. If you’re still selling your time, you’ve got less inventory to sell.

Are you a full-time resident of "Camp Someday"?

Don’t ask, “How do I relax?” Ask, “What restores me?”

There is so much love out there. Let’s go find it together.

In this conversation, I catch up with my friend Dale L. Roberts—YouTube creator, author, and one of the most respected voices in self-publishing—to talk about what’s actually working on YouTube today.