Mick Unplugged

What's one book that's changed your life? Mistakes were made, but not by me, which is the definitive book. First of all, great title on cognitive dissonance. I have to say, after really understanding cognitive dissonance, particularly in decisionmaking, I just see it everywhere.

the 10,000 hours that Malcolm Gladwell, the brother from Canada, talks about in Outliers.

My grandma taught me this scripture that's super helpful. And it is in, like, the book no one reads. The book of Zechariah. And it says, do not despise small beginnings because the Lord rejoices in seeing the work start.

He sold half a billion copies of Chicken Soup for the Soul.

Buy Back Your Time, I think it was by Dan Martel, is really talking about how you optimize your time as an entrepreneur.

Some people told me, well, that came from Outwitting the Devil. You know, I read that book once, but I don't remember it saying those 10 things.

How to Win Friends and Influence People. It should be required reading for anyone and everyone to learn how to treat other people.

And my purpose has been just be the best. There's a great book called The Four Agreements. I don't know if you're familiar with it. My Bible. And one of the things is to just, you know, be impeccable with your word. Don't make assumptions.

I can't put this book down. The Shift. Right. It is definitely one of my go to's. I have like three or four books aside from the Bible obviously that I'm in every day.

I was listening and starting in chapter one you had something that made me go buy the hard copy of this book. You said, "Problems can't be solved by the same mindset that created them." I literally pulled over, stopped my car, wrote that down and thought about it for fifteen minutes on the side of the interstate.

It was released on the day I had a book tour scheduled. It was the most successful book I've ever written. I actually wrote that book again, rereleased it with three additional chapters and it's called The Shift as well.

That is why I keep this book with me 247. When we have our 90day meeting we ask, "What's The Shift?" I've got to get my hand on that copy of that book and write a letter to you in it.

Because this book, The Shift, changed my business. It changed my life, but it changed my business first.

I always say I said this in my first book, The Psychology of Money, there are two topics that impact everybody, whether they like it or not, which are money and health.

Prior to writing my first book, The Psychology of Money, in 2020, I had been a fulltime professional finance writer for 13 years or so.

the three books. The Psychology of Money, Same as Ever, and Now the Art of Spending Money.

earlier this year, we released the selfconfidence, the emotional intelligence book. It's an empowering educational book that has a ton of strategies.

We've had actually with the help of Rick Warren's book, you know, talking about The Purpose Driven Life.

Bruce Lipton, he wrote a book called The Biology of Belief. He said on a cellular level, the cell is either in survival mode or growth mode.

When we think about entertainment, and especially you, right? Grammy winner. Our show, I cowrote Color Purple for Broadway. You sure did. I was going there next. It was an honor to write that and to work with Alice Walker, who is to me, she's amazing. She's like a goddess.

Talk about The Color Purple a little bit and what it was like working with Alice Walker, taking someone's vision, and then somewhat making it your own because you have to do that a little bit too, right? Our priority was to get it right for Alice because she's the creator and we wanted to honor her. So we always asked her, what do you think? What didn't you like in the first movie? And what do you like?

I wrote a book about the Flint water coverup, detailing massive fraud, Wall Street banks, racism, greed, and an ongoing publichealth disaster affecting 100,000 Americans.

I had thousands of confidential documents, smoking guns and media outlets would ask me if there was a Trump angle; there wasn't, and that's why I turned it into a book.

The only time off I actually had was when my daughter was born, and I wrote the book during her sleep; it took about a year of writing, editing, and finding a publisher.

People need to wonder why did they stop investigating? Amazing. Amazing. So Jordan, I'm going to make sure that we have, um, in the show notes in the description everywhere links to the book, because I think everyone needs to definitely read.

Through the book I published last year, we've seen more rapid growth and increased support for our investigative work.

I started reading Yogananda's Autobiography of a Yogi and I was like reading every book I could get on metaphysics and mysticism.

And it's about the original Black Beauty.

The Gap and The Gain, Dan Sullivan. Love that book.