Blog Category: Inspiration

Episode 277: Never Doubt, Just Do I wish they’d send Joan to space. She’s a real writer… who wrote about true things. I want her to describe the feeling and the wonderment of what life would be like. But they don’t send writers to space. Only scientists (for now). Joan Didion pioneered a new genre […]

Bill Cartwright and I have nothing in common. He’s from the west coast and I’m from the east coast. He’s 7’1” and I’m not. When Bill got drafted to the NBA, they called him “Moses”. He held every important basketball title in high school AND college. But being tall and having talent are two very […]

Before Sheila Nevins, no one cared about our human stories. “I felt that there could be performance in every man, that every man could perform his life or his situation or his trauma or his successes or his failure,” Sheila said. She’s a 26 Academy Award winning HBO producer. She birthed the modern documentary. 1,700 […]

Episode 267: How To Tap Into Your Authenticity He thought he was going to be one of the lucky ones. “I knew statistically… and intellectually that every once in awhile an artist has a hit song. And they’re lucky… they’re even luckier if they get two. I felt like, I was different. My first song […]

Episode 266: Amanda Cerny – A social media influencer Playboy wasn’t part of the plan. “It wasn’t on my list of things to do in life,” Amanda said. “What did you want to do?” I said. “Acting.” But everyone told her “no.” They told her, “You’re branded as a playmate, so that’s what you are.” […]

Episode 265: I Interview An Anonymous Guest on Hacking, Government, Bitcoin and Terrorism The FBI went to his high school when the 15 year old Mr. X hacked into the largest Internet company in the world and stole 90 million credit card numbers. “You are going to jail for a long time,” they told him. […]

Episode 264: ‘Despacito’ Songwriter Erika Ender “Everyone has their own talent,” Erika said. “And my talent is expressing through writing songs and from singing them.” She wrote “Despacito” – the fastest song to hit 3 billion downloads in the history of music. Now it’s past 4 billion. That’s half the planet.  I asked how she […]