Brad Meltzer shares how someone can live a life of wonder and what kind of world we can create today. Join Laura Gassner Otting as she hosts this episode of LGOtv with special guest, Brad Meltzer – Superhero Nerd, Mystery Debunker, High School Sweetheart.
Timestamps
1:30 – Our paths crossed many times, from high school to the White House.
3:22 – Tell me the story of Bill Clinton and Eli Segal.
3:40 – “I made the first bootleg Simpson’s T-shirts.”
5:50 – “He said, ‘Don’t go to law school.’”
6:34 – “This guy name Bill Clinton calls up one day and says, ‘Will you run my campaign?’”
8:45 – “I thought I wrecked my life.”
18:35 – “You appreciate what that means when that person that you look up to so much is thinking of you and shows you that kindness.”
22:30 – “For life, so many things, it takes one person to say yes sometimes. And our job in life is to find that person.”
25:30 – “There’s one name on the cover of every book, but only a fool thinks it’s a one person show.”
31:04 – The TODAY Show was our first interviews.
37:15 – “The opening line review opens with, ‘This show would be good if Brad Meltzer wasn’t in it.’”
41:30 – Brad Meltzer’s reading time with Barbara Bush: Re-creating the chocolate conveyor belt scene from I Love Lucy.
46:40 – “My 18-year old, with his eyes closed, feeling braille in the book and was like, ‘Dad this one’s actually good!’”
47:18 – “I love the fact that people now use our books to fight back against what they see in America today.”
Washington Post Best Selling Author and Motivational Keynote Speaker, Laura Gassner Otting, inspires people to push past the doubt and indecision that keep great ideas in limbo because her presentations make listeners think bigger and accept greater challenges that reach beyond their limited scope of belief.
She delivers strategic thinking, well-honed wisdom, and perspective generated by decades of navigating change across the start-up, nonprofit, political, as well as philanthropic landscapes. Laura dares listeners to find their voice, and generate the confidence needed to tackle larger-than-life challenges. She leads them to seek new ways of leading, managing, and mentoring others.
