My guest on E146 of #thePOZcast, Tucker Max is a four-time, New York Times best-selling author and founder of Scribe Media. His career took off after he started a blog on tuckermax.com, on which he actually created his own genre called “fratire”. New York Times writer Warren St. John coined “fratire” to describe Tucker’s writing at the time, which was mostly stories about the night life of a man in his twenties, all the partying that comes with it, tied together with a talent (or sometimes a curse) to always tell the truth no matter what.
Now with Scribe Media, Tucker lives a much more balanced life and helps other amazing people like David Goggins and Tiffany Haddish tell their stories and their truth by coaching them through the process of writing their own books.
This Episode’s Heavy Hitters:
- The price for being a lawyer is your soul. This comes from Tucker’s personal experience.
- The two years he spent in Hollywood were the “worst two years” of his life; and is also where Tucker realized he wasn’t a “soulless, sociopathic, narcissist.”
- Buddha’s “core principle” to “do your work, then help others do theirs” is Tucker’s guiding principle in life, and it’s taken him 42 years to truly understand the meaning and significance of it.
- The reason he makes his clients at Scribe participate in “read-alouds” of their book before publishing is because he once read his own audiobook and realized how many things he would’ve changed, even though he edited the script on paper many, many times already.
- A brand is a construction of who you are, so when people “rebrand” themselves, sometimes all it is is a reconstruction of people’s perception of you.
- If you want real change, you have to really change.
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2;25 - Process of recording an Audio Book
4:11 - Read the book before publish
4:48 - Practical application of the technique
5:47 - Honesty overrated or under-rated
8:07 - What motivates Tucker to write
10:12 - Self-fulfilling Prophecy
10:27 - How did the book come into existence
12:18 - Early self-awareness
14:16 - Process of Elimination
15:20 - Movie Release and reactions
17:27 Rebranding yourself
20:25 - Different perspectives on rebranding
21:40 - Challenges in Professional world
22:42 - All about Scribe (Writing Process)
26:05 - A Billionaire Business
26:55 - Coaching by Tucker Max
27:53 - Coaching on Content Perspective
29:03 - Feedback on Story Writing
30:05 - Thinking at 45
31:08 - Parenting Advice
32:52 - Tucker Max Collection
35:15 - Greatest piece of advice
36:22 - Tucker Max Super Power
36:37 - Personal and Professional Silver Linings
39:04 - Tucker Max North Star