Let’s talk about The Hero’s Journey 📕which also applies to the business and entrepreneurship world!

The hero's journey. I mean, that's something that you must have learned a lot about in the traditional broadcasting world before you jumped into the storytelling of business. And so was that an important piece of your pitch to NPR when you went to them with this show?

You know, it's interesting. It wasn't. I mean, I think you're referencing the hero's journey because in the book, I based the book around this concept. I structured the book around this concept of the hero's journey. And I think a lot of your readers who are super literate know about the hero's journey and Joseph Campbell. He recognized that great epic stories follow similar patterns, right? There's a hero, with a crazy idea and the hero has to leave the village and eventually has to go seek out their fame and fortune on their own, finds a mentor, the mentor dies, encounters a dragon, the dragon almost slays the hero. You know, it's Star Wars, it's Harry Potter, it's all the great epics. And Joseph Campbell wrote about this in the '60s and '70s. And I think like many people who've read his work, I was inspired by that. And in these stories, I recognized those elements too. You know, not every founder has a near-death experience,