![]() (03:49): And the person that I've become as I've aged and matured, I've developed a new language to realize actually what I was always after. ![]() And the reality is, is that when I actually sat down to write the book based on this core idea that I've been incubating for the last 10 years, I found that none of the content I originally wrote on this short story along the way, this manifesto I had written a number of years ago, it just wasn't fitting. And so about April-ish, I guess that would've been 2018, we signed a contract to go about writing this book, which is titled, Fire Your Boss, Discovering Work that You Love Without Quitting Your Job. And we found a yes in our partner Post Hill Press, which is an imprint of Simon Schuster, a big publishing house. So God bless Alex, he went fishing for the yes. So I told that story to Alex and said, You know, in the spirit of Todd, I'm sure there's a yes out there somewhere. ![]() (02:42): And so I asked this guy, I think his name was Todd, like, Todd, what are you doing? He's like, Dude, there's a yes in this phone book somewhere. And back in the day you'd have a phone book, literally like “phone book”, flip through the white pages, call businesses, cold, call them, and he would call one, get a no hang up, slam the phone down fire off some expletives, and then he would dial for the next number. There was this guy I worked with like, I don't know, 20-something years ago when I was in sales, early, my first sales job. And so I told Alex, I said, You know what? It's not near enough “no”s. We are contracted with somebody else who has something similar”, or whatever it was. ![]() We're not, we're not, we're hearing lots of the same kind of feedback. (01:43): And after somewhere in the neighborhood of like 15 or 16 “No’s” from publishers, all of the usual big publishing houses, the usual suspects that you might think of he came back and said, “You know, we're not making it very far. So we went about the process of trying to write a book proposal, finished that, and started sending it out, I guess it would be about two years ago right now. Do you have more stories you could tell? And I was like, Man, I, yeah, I think I do. He had said, Hey, you know that that core idea that you've been incubating this idea of firing your boss, He said, You know, I really like that core idea, but it's not really a book. So about 18 months ago when I signed a book contract, Th agent I was working with Alex, great dude. The truth is, I have been hard at work, and the short version is I've got something really fun to share with you today that is a reflection of that hard work. (00:30): Friends welcome to another episode of Work Life Play. I'm here to help you find work you love, learn to play, live adventurously, become curious, and live your life with joy and purpose. Aaron McHugh (00:00): Friends, welcome to Work Life Play.
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