And this episode of good read Sunday I take a walk trying to burn off caffeine Jitters from too much coffee... And recommend a book about self-awareness.

Okay so this is really cool. Kevin was one of my favorite students ever back when I was teaching college. Then a couple of unexpected career turns happened and he got to the place where he realized that he wanted to do something else. this is a conversation about two things. How to level up and make more money, and how to create the thing that you know you were on this planet to do. And how it's perfectly okay for those two things not to be the same thing. It's part one and we will pick up part 2 next week.

I wish I could tell you that I was able to flip my early success and television into well, influence and long-term stability. I wish I could tell you that but it didn't happen. For all the success I had in traditional media... I wasn't able to take any of it with me. Other people owned the platform and I was just renting there for a minute. On the flip side most people don't want to start doing a podcast, writing or doing video with a very small audience. They're embarrassed there only getting 9 or 13 hits on their contacts. But I'm going to give you proof that those 9 or 13 people are worth way more than the 7 million I communicated with in traditional media over 15 years.

Because I do these podcasts while walking I haven't added in the feature of doing podcast notes yet. At some point I think I will.

3 1/2 stories the people I've actually met who were able to make serious cash and pay their bills with flexible jobs but gave them the room the build what they always dreamed of.

Epiode number two. Thank you for this episode one... I'm not kidding about that. Do not despise humble beginnings.

In the final months before my 30th birthday I was in a pretty bad spot. And away worst spot then I had been before the last milestone birthday, 21. You see at the age of 20 I had a triple threat career going. Major market radio. Emmy-winning TV program. Entertainment journalist. But like video game I was playing the wrong part of the map. I was focusing on the wrong skill tree. And like a novice player in the video game world I just kept losing over and over again the same way. a lot of times video games key get blamed for keeping people stuck. This is a story about how that helps me to understand how to get moving again.