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Steve Martin was sick of it. He was performing in front of sold-out stadiums. But nobody wanted him and everyone forgot him. The reason: he was opening up for others. For The Carpenters, Toto, and others. He had to be CHOSEN BY them. It was THEIR crowd coming to the stadiums. It was THEIR crowd […]

People kept asking me, “What happened?” My listeners asked. My readers, my friends, people I haven’t worked with or talked to in years. I wasn’t ready to answer. And then I had Amy Koppelman on my podcast (this is 2 years ago). She could tell… I wasn’t okay. And she helped me. “Take a picture […]

Yes, I once considered running for Congress (after watching Season One of House of Cards). Yes, I went through the process of looking into hiring people to help me. I sought out advice from professionals (the advice I got is a story by itself) and even began the process of looking for endorsements from national-level […]

I hate learning. I wanted to learn how to trade stocks and I ended up losing my home. I wanted to learn how to play chess better and in one of my first tournaments I threw all the pieces on the floor and cried. I wanted to learn to play poker and I lost about […]

So many people told me in the past few weeks, “Don’t worry. It’s just a number.” Yes, it’s a number. It’s “50”. I turn 50 today. Last year I wrote an article, “49” about what I learned at “48”. Everything changed in my life at age 49. I went from being a minimalist with no […]

I killed myself every day. Non-stop torture. For decades my “self” was a deadly mixture of anxiety about money, pain about relationships, petty jealousy, fear, wanting people to like me. I was thrown out of graduate school, failed at business, failed at jobs, lost a marriage, a house, then two. Always jealous. Always crying. Always […]

Tim wrote to me, I wrote back, then he never wrote back. Finally we met and he said, “I owe you an email”. No problem. Always no problem. We became friends after that. I’ve been on his show, he’s been on mine, we email, talk, have a billion mutual friends, etc. Every day I learn […]