Sam Horn, author of SOMEDAY is Not a Day in the Week: 10 Hacks to Make the Rest of Your Life the Best of Your Life
Sam Horn and Bill Ringle discuss the strategies and shortcuts to living a full life absent of limiting beliefs and habits that hold you back rather than propel you into the rich experiences available to each of us in our business or personal lives.
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Interview Insights
Top 3 Takeaways from this Interview
- Our legacy is not something we leave at the end of our life, but something we create and leave every day of our life.
- Ideas, books, and businesses in our head help no one, so we need to create, not to compete or compare, but to get it out in the world.
- We make our living from our mind and if we don’t write it down, the muse gets ticked and goes away.
Read the Show Notes from this Episode
- Sam Horn shares a piece of sage advice given to her by Mr. Bowers, her high school librarian that played a huge role on her philosophy in life. [01:35]
- How a book can leave a legacy. [05:27]
- When people can quote you, that means you left an impact. [09:30]
- CASE: Sandra Joseph, who played Christine in the play The Phantom of the Opera, still suffered from stage fright even after 10 years of performing, but overcame it to share her message through a book and a TEDx talk. [14:28]
- Why writers have an obligation to write. [16:33]
- A discussion about impostor syndrome. [16:11]
- CASE: Cathy Worley, a top real estate agent in Maui, demonstrates how we can integrate our work and recreation successfully. [21:39]
- My Quest for the Best Lightning Round begins. [29:05]
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Sam Horn, author of SOMEDAY is Not a Day in the Week: 10 Hacks to Make the Rest of Your Life the Best of Your Life
Sam Horn is the Founder/CEO of the Intrigue Agency and the Tongue Fu! Training Institute.
Her 9 books – including Tongue Fu!, POP! Washington Post bestseller Got Your Attention? and SOMEDAY is Not a Day in the Week – have been featured in New York Times, Fast Company, endorsed by Seth Godin, Tony Robbins, and Dan Pink, and presented to hundreds of organizations worldwide including Intel, Cisco, Capital One, Accenture, Nationwide, Boeing, YPO and EO.
In addition to being Executive Director of the world-renowned Maui Writers Conference for 17 years, she was the Pitch Coach for Springboard Enterprises which has helped women entrepreneurs generate more than $10 billion in funding.
Sam’s three TEDx talks have been viewed more than a half-million times and her LinkedIn communication series is used by organizations like Walmart and Wells Fargo to train their employees how to communicate more clearly and confidently.
As the Intrigue Expert, she has helped hundreds of clients – including Terry Jones, founder of Travelocity, Nell Merlin, co-founder of Take Your Daughter to Work Day, Charlie Pellerin, Project Manager of the Hubble Telescope, Sandra Joseph, 10 year Broadway star as Christine in Phantom of the Opera, creates one-of-a-kind brands, books, TEDx talks that catapulted their careers.
Sheri Salata, former Executive Producer of the Oprah Winfrey Show says, “Sam is one of the bright lights and most accessible wisdom sharers in our culture today.”
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Resources Mentioned During the Interview
Below are key people, places, books, quotes, websites and other resources that we discussed so you can explore further.
- Goethe: “Whatever you can do or dream you can begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.”
- Henry Fosdick Emerson: Teachers affect eternity, who knows where their influence will end.”
- Dr. Tom Moorcroft, innovative medical doctor and entertaining speaker/educator
- Ikigai – a Japanese term for a reason to wake up in the morning.
- Gary Marshall, director of Pretty Woman, starring Richard Geer and Julia Roberts
- Paulo Coelho – Author of The Alchemist, said the quote ‘one day, you’re going to wake up and there won’t be any time left.’
- Sorates – The Greek philosopher qyouted ‘an unexamined life is not worth living.’
- Sir Richard Branson -The Virgin Group founder quoted ‘I’ve never seen a separation between work and play. It’s all living.’
- Sandra Joseph, Phantom of the Opera star and author of Your Creative Soul: Expressing Your Authentic Voice