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Saetta McQueen è una promettente auto da corsa che sogna di vincere la prestigiosa Piston Cup. In viaggio verso la California per disputare la finale, però, si perde e si ritrova nella remota e dimenticata cittadina di Radiator Springs. Qui instaura nuove amicizie e imparerà che nella vita ci sono cose più importanti di vincere una gara.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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What Yu-Gi-Oh! Deck do you use? Is McQueen really the GOAT?? Is Takemichi a bum? Find out on this episode of the AK update. Find us on Instagram at @the.ak_mindset and Twitter + Tiktok at @AKMindset. For any thing you would like us to talk about and for any suggestions for us to improve send us an email at: theakmindset@gmail.com. Our YouTube channel is also up and running check it out at The AK Mindset, like comment and subscribe.

Congratulations on winning the Piston Cup Voice Actor of Kratos Christopher Judge! And many other videogame things won many other videogame awards at The Game Awards! Join Joseph Martin, Blu Ryder, and James Pelster as they discuss such award winning topics this month, like - The Very Long Speech by Christopher Judge - New game announcments like Hades II and more - What old games with local multiplayer would we like to have online multiplayer added? - Blu explains the paradoxes of Marvel's Midnight Suns - James gives us the full context on Xenoblade Chronicles 3 - Joseph updates us on the competitive scene of Pokémon Scarlet and Violet - Other games we've been playing in recent times [Podcast Intro/Outro “5 is Average” by Meteo Xavier]

On a special episode of Pop Goes The Classics, Andy Atherton rides solo to do a live watch of 2006's Cars. Originally broadcasted live on Stream Lounge, his gives their thoughts on how the plot is very similar to “Doc Hollywood”; the difference between the three contenders for The Piston Cup; the underrated voice cast; racing video games; bumper ointment; driving tired; Snot Rod; car pick-up lines and insults; NASCAR vs. IRL; asking for directions; home field advantage; cruising low and slow; tractor tipping; Frank the combine; rusty old cars; Doc Hudson's big secret; going for a drive; rogue tractors; Radiator Springs growing on Lightning McQueen; the great character arc of Lightning; Guido with the greatest pit stop in history; Chick Hick's dirty driving and Mater's wish come true.   To watch along on Stream Lounge, click this link: https://www.streamlounge.io/watch/37205fa2-3c60-4e50-9229-277480a35071

Lightning McQueen is a hot-shot young race car competing for the coveted Piston Cup.But when he gets lost on the way to the big race, he realises that he still has a lot to learn about what it takes to be a true friend.©Disney ©Disney/PixarFind More

Pete and Michael are hitting the road and getting stuck in a small town, doing podcasting community service when we Re-View Disney/Pixar's Cars... erm sorry, I mean Doc Hollywood! Join us to hear our take on Michael J. Fox as a young doctor who really wants to land the Piston Cup! Doh! I mean plastic surgery job! Gha... nevermind.HalloweenCostumes.com Promo Link:Use this link to get 20% OFF one item, one use per customer.. Valid thru 11/6/21https://www.halloweencostumes.com/?CouponCode=TRNHALLOWEEN2021Follow @BoxOffice30 on Twitter and Facebook and @BoxOfficeThirty on Instagram!★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Ken and Gar hit the highway this week to review Pixar's 7th animated feature, Cars, first released in 2006. The brothers spend most of this week's episode trying to unlock the mysteries of the Cars Universe (Carniverse) and are still none the wiser. Have a listen and join the conversation on social to share your theories! Featuring  a road rocking cover "Life is a Highway" from Cars  by Magic by Design's resident singer, Nicole McDonagh. We hereby declare that we do not own the rights to this music/song(s). All rights belong to the owner. No copyright infringement intended.Watch along on Disney Plus and join the conversation on social media:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MagicByDesignPodTwitter: @MagicDesignPodInstagram: @magicbydesignpod

Cars raconte l'histoire de Flash McQueen une voiture de course de Nascar et son désir de remporter la Piston Cup, la plus grande course du championnat. a RETROUVER SUR https://www.histo-auto.com/fr/actualite/1255/pourquoi-le-film-cars-est-mythique

Cars raconte l'histoire de Flash McQueen une voiture de course de Nascar et son désir de remporter la Piston Cup, la plus grande course du championnat. Après une triple égalité pour la Coupe, une autre course est organisée en Californie pour déterminer le vainqueur. Cela signifie que les coureurs et leurs équipes doivent voyager à travers le pays jusqu'en Californie pour une ultime course à Los Angeles. A retrouver sur https://www.histo-auto.com/fr/actualite/1255/ce-jour-la-une-auto-cars-a-nos-enfants-et-a-nos-ames-denfants-merci-mr-lasseter

Anxiety and stress are on the rise in teens. It's hard to get away from the pressure, bullying, and negativity with all the social media platforms. YouTuber Gael from Piston Cup Productions joins me as he shares his story about his experience with stress and anxiety and how his mindset has helped him become a successful YouTuber with close to 60K subscribers. Join us an Gael shares his story with us. Follow Piston Cup Productions YouTube - Piston Cup Productions Instagram - @pistoncupproductions Don't forget to follow me Instagram @theanxietydr Facebook @theanxietydr Visit my website www.drlisacortez.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/theanxietydr/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/theanxietydr/support

Hey guys, it's Thomas J, and today I want to go over the most important thing in your business. I didn't get this right for a long time and got nowhere, so stay tuned and that's what we'll talk about in a sec. (00:11) This is Thomas J and you're listening to rocket science. MLM. Here's the science. How do real MLMers, like us, who have full time jobs, families, and a million other things vying for our time, grow a profitable home business, recruit A players into our downlines, and create extra income to achieve escape velocity from our nine to five without sacrificing the very time we are trying to get more of. And do it without bugging friends, family and coworkers or posting endlessly on social media. That's the critical question, and this podcast will give you the answer. My name is Thomas J and welcome to my journey to build a better MLM vehicle with rocket science. (00:51) What is the most important part of your business? Let me ask you a few questions. First, what is different or unique about your business? Is it the product? No. With MLM, we all have the same product, as the rest of the distributors in our company. What about that really awesome comp plan? Nope. Same thing. Is it the money you make? For a few, yes, but for most of us, we're not there yet. We can't use the money we are making as a differentiator to get our teams started. It's a chicken and the egg situation. We can't use success to get people to join our team until we have it, and to do it we need people to join our team. What about that amazing product experience? Well, you're getting warm, but that's still not it. An amazing testimony is great for selling product. You need them, but you need to get people to receive the testimony first. (01:43) Plus, the product testimony doesn't really help much with recruiting. You sell the same product as the team from the same company with the same comp plan. You have the same tools and the same trainings available to you. The only thing that's different is you. You are the most important part of your business. This is the first piece of the blueprint to build our new vehicle. I've named this step astronaut selection. I've talked before about wanting to be an astronaut, but the astronaut program is very selective. Thousands apply, but only a few are selected. And what most don't know is that even to apply, you need to meet some pretty lofty requirements. Within your MLM business you really need to know who you are before you can attract others to join you. For me, it happened in a few steps. (02:32) First, I had to recognize my uniqueness, then I had to be myself , and finally become the hero of my story. So I first had to become aware of who I was. For years, I thought I wasn't special. I guess, I was trying to be humble. I had to realize that I did have something to offer. I had more than a product. I had more than an opportunity. I had me, I am awesome and you are too. You just have to find it. Here's how it clicked for me. My wife and I won a trip to Cancun with our company. It was the first real contest that we had won. By the skin of our teeth, we squeaked through with just enough product volume and people joining our team to qualify for a weekend in an all inclusive resort. Although, a week before we left, we were told that we needed to create a little training presentation to give to the group. (03:21) The weekend wasn't all going to be just fun and relaxation. We had a few hours of meetings to attend. I think they did this so they could write off the trip as a business trip. I think, I even wrote it on the plane. It was just lighthearted and fun. Someday I'll resurrect the talk, and maybe make it a podcast. What we talked about though was the matter that made up our dreams. Basically it was a kind of a Scifi take on how to bring your dreams into reality. I mean, what do you expect from a aerospace engineer? Well, one of the Vp's started calling me a rocket scientist after the talk. He was so excited to be around a rocket scientist. Every chance he got he brought it up and to him it was a big deal. Even the owner of the company picked up on it and he started saying he had a rocket scientist and his company. (04:07) I mean for me it wasn't. Everybody I work with is the same as me, and it really didn't click in my brain that other people would find it cool. So start paying attention. Your friends will tip you off. If you aren't sure what's unique about you, ask those around you. Even your backstory can make the difference. My son has this marvel encyclopedia that lists all the superheroes from the marvel comics. It's actually been pretty useful over the last few years as the marvel universe has expanded on the big screen. He was reading it the other day and had a little revelation. Many of the superheroes are like superman. They could fly. They were super strong and invulnerable. When he mentioned this to me, it suddenly hit me. The heroes were different not because of the powers, but because of their weaknesses. I mean superman had kryptonite, but the others had something else. I know superman is not marvel, but it seemed like a lot of the marvel characters had superman like qualities. But they all had a different backstory. Where they came from and their limitations made them unique. Because of this, they could have their own story. (05:15) For me, I have this cool rocket science thing, but I have a ton of obstacles too. With that cool title comes a full time job that limits my time. Maybe that's my Kryptonite. On top of that, I have a family of eight. Trying to find quiet time to work on my little MLM project is hard. The time I do have, usually when the kids are sleeping. That's what leads me to build this better vehicle. I can't do it the traditional way without ignoring my friends and short changing my employer. But even though I recognize all these things, I wasn't ready. I had to become me, and a better version of me. The best me, the loudest me, I've heard it said. In the past, I thought I had to get better at the skills. MLM is big on personal development, but they don't really teach exactly what you need. (06:02) You can train on the right techniques for three way calls or how to invite someone to a meeting. These things are all good if that's what you want to do, but they just didn't fit me. Marketing online with these new techniques we're learning takes a mind shift. Your MLM will probably not be teaching you this. I had to become Thomas J MLM rocket scientist, and I'm still working on it. I'm a little nerdy, and I like to geek out about talking about funnels. I'm a family guy, with significant time pressures. I don't have everything figured out, but I'm walking down the path. I had to acknowledge all my strengths and uniquenesses while not ignoring my weaknesses and limitations. When you recognize who you are and start becoming that person you can be, then you can be the hero in your own story. Remember, marketing is telling stories. (06:50) Every story needs a hero. A hero's journey is usually similar in every story. You have that thing they need to do, like save the princess or win the championship. That's that external struggle. Then you have the personal or internal struggles to deal with. Usually through trying to accomplish the main goal, the hero grows as a person and overcomes that internal struggle. In some cases the internal success is more important than the actual external goal. So what I'm saying is this, be the hero of your own story. Don't focus on your abilities or your skills. Focus on overcoming your obstacles. Yes, showcase those things that are good, but don't hide the flaws. People can't relate to a perfect person. Every hero has a flaw and the journey he or she takes will have setbacks and personal growth. For some, they fail the overall mission, but overcome some internal personality flaw. (07:47) Lightning McQueen keeps coming to mind. In the first cars movie that we watched over and over and over again when my son was small, Lightning is the fastest and the best race car. The rookie that has everything going for him. But his ego was the flaw. In the end he lost his mission to win the Piston Cup, but he won that internal struggle of ego to truly become the best. I'm sure his fan base grew exponentially after he actually lost the race, and those fans were more loyal than those fair weather fans, Mia and Tia. If you don't catch the reference, go watch the movie again. You don't need kids to like it. It's a pretty good movie. (08:28) I've spent a lot of time this episode on you because it's the foundation. We can't build a rocket without an astronaut. All the automations and funnels will not work without a person to drive the ship. People need to be open to the message before you can tell it to them. You do this by giving them something that is interesting, but relatable; is unique, but flawed. Next episode we'll talk about, how we approach those people and who we're trying to reach. If you want to grab a copy of my blueprint and follow along, head on over to a rocketsciencemlm.com and that's it for now. See you later. Thanks for listening.

New for the summer of 2019 just past the Rock and Roller Coaster in the Sunset Showplace you’ll find Lightning McQueen’s Racing Academy.  The courtyard outside the academy is a perfect spot to get a picture with Cruz Ramirez and the Piston Cup.  Don’t forget to check your times guide for DJs dance party –“DJ’s Ready! Set! Party Time!” where you gather around DJ for Cars-inspired dances and games.  Then cruise on inside for the Racing Academy.  The Academy premiered on March 31, 2018.  The show lasts about 10 minutes, inviting guests into the world of Pixar animated, “Cars”, where you become a rookie racer and learn the rules of the road from Piston Cup champion Lightning McQueen himself.  Lightning appears live on stage with a 17-foot-tall wraparound screen stretching more than 200 feet across.  Lightning shares racing knowledge he gathered over the course of his career- and if there’s one thing he’s learned?  Things don’t always go the way they are supposed to, but with some help from your friends – you’ll get back on track.  Thanks for watching and be sure to subscribe for more SamsDisneyDiary.com, Youtube.com/SamsDisneydiary

Becoming the greatest race car of all time is Lightning McQueen's ultimate goal. No cost or sacrifice made in winning the Piston Cup is too great a price for the thrill of being known as the best, yet our hero may find himself to not be great at all when he only has his own eyes to look at himself. Your Hosts: V. Anthony Moore (@_andtheknee_) Austin Campbell (@awstuhnkambuhl) w/ Special Guest Anthony Myers (@antmy25)

Dépassé par une nouvelle génération de bolides ultra-rapides, le célèbre Flash McQueen se retrouve mis sur la touche d’un sport qu’il adore. Pour revenir dans la course et prouver, en souvenir de Doc Hudson, que le n° 95 a toujours sa place dans la Piston Cup, il devra faire preuve d’ingéniosité. L’aide d’une jeune mécanicienne pleine d’enthousiasme, Cruz Ramirez, qui rêve elle aussi de victoire, lui sera d’un précieux secours...

Holy crap! Look what I figured out over the last four days. On this episode Russell talks about The Hero's Two Journeys and what they mean. He talks about why the second journey is actually more important than the first. Here are some of the really cool things you will hear in today's episode: What the difference is between the journey of accomplishment and the journey of transformation and why you can't have one without the other. How every movie and story has these two journeys, but you just don't realize it. And what Russell's own Hero's two journeys was like. So listen below to learn about the Hero's Two Journeys and how they relate to business. ---Transcript--- Hey everyone it is a beautiful snowy, snowy day. I love the snow, it's so much fun. I hope you guys are having a good time wherever you're at in the world. Some of you guys are probably super hot, on a beach hanging out, which is cool. For me, I'm here driving in the snow. It's about 12:30 in the afternoon, I'm going in late because I've been writing, trying to get the book done. So I've been spending a lot of time at home locked away. I'm trying to get things done without people around me, and then I have to go and share the ideas because it gets the energy of everyone in our office, gets me fired up and gets me motivated to keep writing and creating. But it's kind of fun, the last three days, I was supposed to have the book done last week. Last 3 almost 4 days now, I've been focusing on the one chapter and it's the epiphany bridge and if you listen to the podcast you hear me talk about the epiphany bridge and as I'm explaining it……it's tough because when you explain things live there's an easy way to do it. You guys have probably heard me explain the epiphany bridge on the podcast and I think most people probably got it. But as you're writing there's a lot of things you have to fill in because your audience may not have the context. When you guys are hanging out with me, we have context, we know…..there's understanding you have when I share something it's like, “Oh that's how it fits in the context of all the stuff Russell's been sharing with me.” But a book there's a vacuum where someone could be getting off a book shelf and have no idea who you are. There's more filling in between the lines you have to do. So the epiphany bridge, I could explain it easily, but to get the full impact that I need, I need more. I spent the first night, I can't remember if I told you or not, but I spent three hours studying the story just to get back into that state of how you actually tell a good story. What's the structure? And I think I mentioned there's a really good audio called the Hero's Two Journeys, by Michael Hauge and Chris Vogler teach the story. And Michael Hauge is like a consultant for script writer in Hollywood, and Chris Vogler does similar stuff for novelists. I kind of resonated a lot more with Michael Hauge, in fact Michael came and spoke at one of our events. Dayton Smith and I a couple of years ago taught this concept called the Hero's two journeys. And it's cool because I listened to the audio of it, and he spoke at our event. And he was, it was super awesome to see the story. You look at all movies and all books, they follow a very similar story structure, so that was fascinating back then, but I didn't really know how to apply it. I'm not doing Hollywood productions or Hollywood movies, so how to this apply to our world? That was probably 5 or 6 years ago that he spoke at our event. It's been kind of up in the air for me for a long time. This week as I've gone back through it, and I've been looking at it and listening to it through a different lens. I have a structure with my epiphany bridge story, is it the same as the hero's two journeys? Is it different? What things am I missing that I should be bringing over? And it turned into this 4 day geek out session on Story, which has been so much fun. But now that it's happening, I'm seeing this clear picture of……it's amazing. I'm going to give Mike Hauge credit for a lot of this stuff because I'm learning it again through him and I'm trying to tweak it in a way that fits into my lens that I view the world through.  But some cool things, and I'll share a couple of them and then I'll be out of…probably wont have time to go through all of them. The cool thing is first off, talk about every good story, there's three core components. There's a character, then the desire of the character, where he's ggoing, the physical desire ( I need to go over there) then there's the conflict. So if you have those three you have a story. You have a character, little red riding hood. She has a desire, I want to take my grandma a bag of goodies. Then the conflict, the big bad wolf wants to eat her along the way. And that's the story and if you have those three elements, you've got the story. The three core things. What's interesting is that typically as marketers, we look at the desire is where we try to create desire in people's minds. I want the big house or car or wherever this thing you want to get to is. I want to lose weight….we try to create desire in that. But what's interesting is in the story desire is not created by the desire, emotion is not created by the desire. The Desire, the emotion we want in a story, the emotion comes from the conflict. That's what people actually care about it. If there's no conflict people won't care about the story. If my story is that I woke up and drove to the office, there's no conflict there, nobody cares, it's boring. So the conflict is what creates emotion, which makes the story actually interesting. There's kind of that. We talk about characters, always the back story, and I've kind of pulled out, there's about 5 or 6 ways you can build rapport with it, and with a character. In a movie they try to do those things prior to……it's the first ten percent of the movie, so prior to the attractive character, or the character, or hero, whatever you want to call it, leaving on this journey. So you try to build rapport and usually it's happening in one spot. And about ten percent into the movie there's this thing  that happens that usually physically they leave the location that they're at and go somewhere else. Frodo leaves the shire and he goes on this journey. What happens is there's always this visible desire we have called the Journey of accomplishment, the hero's first journey, the journey of accomplishment. I need to accomplish this thing. I gotta take the ring to Mordor and throw it in this lava pit. Every story's got that. There's this journey. That's the journey we're all watching and we're visible and we're aware and going with this character on this journey trying to help them achieve. But then there's also this second journey, that's why he calls it the hero's two journeys. And the second journey is not visible to the naked eye. We don't see it. Frodo's got to become a man, we don't see that piece of it. All we see is the desire of where they're trying to get to. And then the conflict that's happening along the way. So that's what's fascinating, there's this second journey happening, and that second journey is the journey of transformation. The first journey is the journey of accomplishment, second journey is the journey of transformation, them becoming a different person. So if you look at the back story of the story, what's happening is that we're creating an identity that this character believes about themselves. It's all their old beliefs or all their current beliefs. They believe this and this and all these things that are important and have created their identity. And then they go on this journey of accomplishment and during the process they have this journey of transformation where this identity of who they think they are breaks away and these old beliefs fall off and then these new beliefs are born and it shifts from their identity to their essence. And essence is the key. That's where we want to get to, that essence of who we actually are and having the hero discover that during this journey. What's interesting is that in good stories the hero will accomplish the thing that they wanted to, that they went on this journey of accomplishment, they accomplish that thing. But then usually it doesn't matter. They throw it away or they don't care because the real journey was this journey of transformation, where the character became something more. So as I was, yesterday as I came to the office I started geeking out, so I mapped out on a whiteboard and showed the whole thing to a bunch of guys on my team. I was explaining it all to them and then everyone was kind of like, “Give me an example of this journey of transformation.” And I was thinking and all the sudden it popped in my head and I remember this story of Cars. So Cars is, we just watched it on the Disney Cruise with my kids like 25 times, so it's top of my brain right now. Lightning McQueen is this hero. There's this back story, we hear all this stuff, he almost wins the Piston cup, there's a three-way tie, so now they're gonna race. So now he's got to leave, he's physically leaving this spot. During the back story we understood his identity, what's important. He's a rookie, He's in line to win the piston cup, blah, blah. We also see his character flaws, we find out before he leaves on his journey that he doesn't have any friends, even Harv, his manager, he thinks is his friend isn't actually his friend, he doesn't even like him. He's getting in this car and we realize that he's actually…there's this pain that he has and he doesn't know who he is. He's going to win this thing and that's his identity. He has to win the Piston cup or else he's a failure in life. He's gonna be the first rookie ever, so he jumps into the……Harv, they start on this physical journey. Leaving the current location for somewhere else. The desire for him is to go to California to win the Piston cup. That's the visual goal we all see. Then what happens, Harv falls asleep, he falls out of the car, gets stuck in Radiator Spring and that introduces conflict. And all this conflict starts happening. And through this conflict he becomes a different person. Then what happens is the end of the story he gets the ability to go accomplish his desires. So he leaves Radiator Springs, he goes to the race, gets in the thing, doing this race and has this opportunity to win. He's out there racing the track and goes through and it comes down to the last minutes of the race. He's going through and passes everybody and he's in the front and he has become the victor, he's gonna win. His desires that he's been trying to accomplish this entire movie, the whole journey of accomplishment is now his, he owns it. And then all the sudden Chick Hicks hits the King's wheel and the king flips up, boom, boom, boom, car wrecks. Smashes everything and he looks up and as he's about to cross the finish line he looks up and sees in the monitor he sees the King destroyed. And he remembers the story about Doc and him being destroyed and all the sudden he realizes in that moment, he changes. And he realizes that this journey of accomplishment, things he's trying to accomplish, does not actually matter. And he throws it away, slams on his breaks and stops an inch in front of the finish line and he sits there and Chick Hicks flies past him and wins the race. And then what does he do? He backs up, goes back and finds the King, goes behind him and he starts pushing the King to the finish line. The King says something to him. He says, “What are you doing, Rookie? You realize you just threw away the Piston Cup?” and then this is where we had this glimpse of the transformation Lightning McQueen had. He said, “You know an old race car once told me, all it is, is an empty cup.” And he pushes the king through the finish line and the story…..the hero's second journey, that transformation, he accomplished it. He became somebody more. Something different, something better. Isn't that amazing. And it's like, that is the story line for movies. It's the hero's two journeys. And when you see it, it starts becoming so clear that all these, every movie there's this external journey, the external desire they are going for, but then there's this internal journey that happens and I want you to think about this for yourself. Because, we'll get more when you get the book, it'll explain how this fits into the epiphany bridge and all that stuff. But for a lot of us, that's our life. We all get into whatever we're doing because we have this thing. I got into wrestling because I wanted to be, at first a state champ, I wanted to be a national champ. Here's my journey of achievement. That was all I lived, thought about. That was the only thing that mattered. I went on this journey and hit my state champ, I became an All American and went to college and my last goal was to become an All American in college. My whole life, everything rode on this journey, I was going on this thing, and I didn't hit it. I fell short, I didn't even qualify for the national tournament my senior year, fell short. And it was over. And I didn't get my thing that I'd been trying to achieve. But then for me as a person, I stepped back and I looked and I said, “What happened in the last 12 years of me pursuing this dream?” what was the journey of transformation for me? Who did I become because of that? If I didn't go on this journey, even though I didn't hit my desire, even if I would have hit my desire, what was put in my path? Who did I meet? How did I change who I am? How did I become someone different, someone better because of that? If I hadn't gone on that journey where would I be today? It would have been a whole different trajectory. But the journey of transformation happened because I was chasing that desire. So let's get into business, want to make money, that's the desire but then what happens along the way? Holy cow, you feel, you realize and this is true for me, you realize that the things you create actually have an impact on people and it can change their life. And suddenly it shifts from I need to make money to how can I have an impact? A transformation, that's the switch. That's why there's so many people who go through weight loss, this desire to lose weight and in the process they've learned something about themselves. And they have so much passion about it and they want to share it with other people and that's why they become trainers and coaches and experts and all these crazy things. It's so fascinating. It's in movies, in life. All over the place, the hero's two journeys. It's excited. So that's what I got for you guys to you. I'm almost to the office. I have more that I want to share, but I'll have to save it for another podcast. Maybe I'll do it on the drive home tonight because I have the paper right here. The next thing I'm looking at is the conflict. How do you break down the actual conflict that's happening inside of this story. The hero's, after he's left home, he's going through this thing, what are the levels of the conflict. I actually have it sketched out right here; it'll be in the new book. I'm calling it the Five Turning Points of Conflict, and it's awesome. So maybe I'll share that tonight or whenever the next podcast comes out. Least that's the game plan. If not, then go read my book because it will be in there for sure. I hope that is exciting for you guys, gets you a little pumped up about story and thinking through that as you're telling your stories. Because the end of the day no one really cares if the hero achieves the accomplishment. The audience cares that the hero becomes something and gets the journey of achievement, or the journey of transformation. That's what we actually root for. That's how we fall in love with characters. Rocky part 1, Rocky didn't win. But who did he become? That's why we love Rocky. Alright, I'm at the office, guys. Appreciate you all, have an amazing day. I'll talk to you guys probably later on tonight. Alright, bye.

Holy crap! Look what I figured out over the last four days. On this episode Russell talks about The Hero’s Two Journeys and what they mean. He talks about why the second journey is actually more important than the first. Here are some of the really cool things you will hear in today’s episode: What the difference is between the journey of accomplishment and the journey of transformation and why you can’t have one without the other. How every movie and story has these two journeys, but you just don’t realize it. And what Russell’s own Hero’s two journeys was like. So listen below to learn about the Hero’s Two Journeys and how they relate to business. ---Transcript--- Hey everyone it is a beautiful snowy, snowy day. I love the snow, it’s so much fun. I hope you guys are having a good time wherever you’re at in the world. Some of you guys are probably super hot, on a beach hanging out, which is cool. For me, I’m here driving in the snow. It’s about 12:30 in the afternoon, I’m going in late because I’ve been writing, trying to get the book done. So I’ve been spending a lot of time at home locked away. I’m trying to get things done without people around me, and then I have to go and share the ideas because it gets the energy of everyone in our office, gets me fired up and gets me motivated to keep writing and creating. But it’s kind of fun, the last three days, I was supposed to have the book done last week. Last 3 almost 4 days now, I’ve been focusing on the one chapter and it’s the epiphany bridge and if you listen to the podcast you hear me talk about the epiphany bridge and as I’m explaining it……it’s tough because when you explain things live there’s an easy way to do it. You guys have probably heard me explain the epiphany bridge on the podcast and I think most people probably got it. But as you’re writing there’s a lot of things you have to fill in because your audience may not have the context. When you guys are hanging out with me, we have context, we know…..there’s understanding you have when I share something it’s like, “Oh that’s how it fits in the context of all the stuff Russell’s been sharing with me.” But a book there’s a vacuum where someone could be getting off a book shelf and have no idea who you are. There’s more filling in between the lines you have to do. So the epiphany bridge, I could explain it easily, but to get the full impact that I need, I need more. I spent the first night, I can’t remember if I told you or not, but I spent three hours studying the story just to get back into that state of how you actually tell a good story. What’s the structure? And I think I mentioned there’s a really good audio called the Hero’s Two Journeys, by Michael Hauge and Chris Vogler teach the story. And Michael Hauge is like a consultant for script writer in Hollywood, and Chris Vogler does similar stuff for novelists. I kind of resonated a lot more with Michael Hauge, in fact Michael came and spoke at one of our events. Dayton Smith and I a couple of years ago taught this concept called the Hero’s two journeys. And it’s cool because I listened to the audio of it, and he spoke at our event. And he was, it was super awesome to see the story. You look at all movies and all books, they follow a very similar story structure, so that was fascinating back then, but I didn’t really know how to apply it. I’m not doing Hollywood productions or Hollywood movies, so how to this apply to our world? That was probably 5 or 6 years ago that he spoke at our event. It’s been kind of up in the air for me for a long time. This week as I’ve gone back through it, and I’ve been looking at it and listening to it through a different lens. I have a structure with my epiphany bridge story, is it the same as the hero’s two journeys? Is it different? What things am I missing that I should be bringing over? And it turned into this 4 day geek out session on Story, which has been so much fun. But now that it’s happening, I’m seeing this clear picture of……it’s amazing. I’m going to give Mike Hauge credit for a lot of this stuff because I’m learning it again through him and I’m trying to tweak it in a way that fits into my lens that I view the world through.  But some cool things, and I’ll share a couple of them and then I’ll be out of…probably wont have time to go through all of them. The cool thing is first off, talk about every good story, there’s three core components. There’s a character, then the desire of the character, where he’s ggoing, the physical desire ( I need to go over there) then there’s the conflict. So if you have those three you have a story. You have a character, little red riding hood. She has a desire, I want to take my grandma a bag of goodies. Then the conflict, the big bad wolf wants to eat her along the way. And that’s the story and if you have those three elements, you’ve got the story. The three core things. What’s interesting is that typically as marketers, we look at the desire is where we try to create desire in people’s minds. I want the big house or car or wherever this thing you want to get to is. I want to lose weight….we try to create desire in that. But what’s interesting is in the story desire is not created by the desire, emotion is not created by the desire. The Desire, the emotion we want in a story, the emotion comes from the conflict. That’s what people actually care about it. If there’s no conflict people won’t care about the story. If my story is that I woke up and drove to the office, there’s no conflict there, nobody cares, it’s boring. So the conflict is what creates emotion, which makes the story actually interesting. There’s kind of that. We talk about characters, always the back story, and I’ve kind of pulled out, there’s about 5 or 6 ways you can build rapport with it, and with a character. In a movie they try to do those things prior to……it’s the first ten percent of the movie, so prior to the attractive character, or the character, or hero, whatever you want to call it, leaving on this journey. So you try to build rapport and usually it’s happening in one spot. And about ten percent into the movie there’s this thing  that happens that usually physically they leave the location that they’re at and go somewhere else. Frodo leaves the shire and he goes on this journey. What happens is there’s always this visible desire we have called the Journey of accomplishment, the hero’s first journey, the journey of accomplishment. I need to accomplish this thing. I gotta take the ring to Mordor and throw it in this lava pit. Every story’s got that. There’s this journey. That’s the journey we’re all watching and we’re visible and we’re aware and going with this character on this journey trying to help them achieve. But then there’s also this second journey, that’s why he calls it the hero’s two journeys. And the second journey is not visible to the naked eye. We don’t see it. Frodo’s got to become a man, we don’t see that piece of it. All we see is the desire of where they’re trying to get to. And then the conflict that’s happening along the way. So that’s what’s fascinating, there’s this second journey happening, and that second journey is the journey of transformation. The first journey is the journey of accomplishment, second journey is the journey of transformation, them becoming a different person. So if you look at the back story of the story, what’s happening is that we’re creating an identity that this character believes about themselves. It’s all their old beliefs or all their current beliefs. They believe this and this and all these things that are important and have created their identity. And then they go on this journey of accomplishment and during the process they have this journey of transformation where this identity of who they think they are breaks away and these old beliefs fall off and then these new beliefs are born and it shifts from their identity to their essence. And essence is the key. That’s where we want to get to, that essence of who we actually are and having the hero discover that during this journey. What’s interesting is that in good stories the hero will accomplish the thing that they wanted to, that they went on this journey of accomplishment, they accomplish that thing. But then usually it doesn’t matter. They throw it away or they don’t care because the real journey was this journey of transformation, where the character became something more. So as I was, yesterday as I came to the office I started geeking out, so I mapped out on a whiteboard and showed the whole thing to a bunch of guys on my team. I was explaining it all to them and then everyone was kind of like, “Give me an example of this journey of transformation.” And I was thinking and all the sudden it popped in my head and I remember this story of Cars. So Cars is, we just watched it on the Disney Cruise with my kids like 25 times, so it’s top of my brain right now. Lightning McQueen is this hero. There’s this back story, we hear all this stuff, he almost wins the Piston cup, there’s a three-way tie, so now they’re gonna race. So now he’s got to leave, he’s physically leaving this spot. During the back story we understood his identity, what’s important. He’s a rookie, He’s in line to win the piston cup, blah, blah. We also see his character flaws, we find out before he leaves on his journey that he doesn’t have any friends, even Harv, his manager, he thinks is his friend isn’t actually his friend, he doesn’t even like him. He’s getting in this car and we realize that he’s actually…there’s this pain that he has and he doesn’t know who he is. He’s going to win this thing and that’s his identity. He has to win the Piston cup or else he’s a failure in life. He’s gonna be the first rookie ever, so he jumps into the……Harv, they start on this physical journey. Leaving the current location for somewhere else. The desire for him is to go to California to win the Piston cup. That’s the visual goal we all see. Then what happens, Harv falls asleep, he falls out of the car, gets stuck in Radiator Spring and that introduces conflict. And all this conflict starts happening. And through this conflict he becomes a different person. Then what happens is the end of the story he gets the ability to go accomplish his desires. So he leaves Radiator Springs, he goes to the race, gets in the thing, doing this race and has this opportunity to win. He’s out there racing the track and goes through and it comes down to the last minutes of the race. He’s going through and passes everybody and he’s in the front and he has become the victor, he’s gonna win. His desires that he’s been trying to accomplish this entire movie, the whole journey of accomplishment is now his, he owns it. And then all the sudden Chick Hicks hits the King’s wheel and the king flips up, boom, boom, boom, car wrecks. Smashes everything and he looks up and as he’s about to cross the finish line he looks up and sees in the monitor he sees the King destroyed. And he remembers the story about Doc and him being destroyed and all the sudden he realizes in that moment, he changes. And he realizes that this journey of accomplishment, things he’s trying to accomplish, does not actually matter. And he throws it away, slams on his breaks and stops an inch in front of the finish line and he sits there and Chick Hicks flies past him and wins the race. And then what does he do? He backs up, goes back and finds the King, goes behind him and he starts pushing the King to the finish line. The King says something to him. He says, “What are you doing, Rookie? You realize you just threw away the Piston Cup?” and then this is where we had this glimpse of the transformation Lightning McQueen had. He said, “You know an old race car once told me, all it is, is an empty cup.” And he pushes the king through the finish line and the story…..the hero’s second journey, that transformation, he accomplished it. He became somebody more. Something different, something better. Isn’t that amazing. And it’s like, that is the story line for movies. It’s the hero’s two journeys. And when you see it, it starts becoming so clear that all these, every movie there’s this external journey, the external desire they are going for, but then there’s this internal journey that happens and I want you to think about this for yourself. Because, we’ll get more when you get the book, it’ll explain how this fits into the epiphany bridge and all that stuff. But for a lot of us, that’s our life. We all get into whatever we’re doing because we have this thing. I got into wrestling because I wanted to be, at first a state champ, I wanted to be a national champ. Here’s my journey of achievement. That was all I lived, thought about. That was the only thing that mattered. I went on this journey and hit my state champ, I became an All American and went to college and my last goal was to become an All American in college. My whole life, everything rode on this journey, I was going on this thing, and I didn’t hit it. I fell short, I didn’t even qualify for the national tournament my senior year, fell short. And it was over. And I didn’t get my thing that I’d been trying to achieve. But then for me as a person, I stepped back and I looked and I said, “What happened in the last 12 years of me pursuing this dream?” what was the journey of transformation for me? Who did I become because of that? If I didn’t go on this journey, even though I didn’t hit my desire, even if I would have hit my desire, what was put in my path? Who did I meet? How did I change who I am? How did I become someone different, someone better because of that? If I hadn’t gone on that journey where would I be today? It would have been a whole different trajectory. But the journey of transformation happened because I was chasing that desire. So let’s get into business, want to make money, that’s the desire but then what happens along the way? Holy cow, you feel, you realize and this is true for me, you realize that the things you create actually have an impact on people and it can change their life. And suddenly it shifts from I need to make money to how can I have an impact? A transformation, that’s the switch. That’s why there’s so many people who go through weight loss, this desire to lose weight and in the process they’ve learned something about themselves. And they have so much passion about it and they want to share it with other people and that’s why they become trainers and coaches and experts and all these crazy things. It’s so fascinating. It’s in movies, in life. All over the place, the hero’s two journeys. It’s excited. So that’s what I got for you guys to you. I’m almost to the office. I have more that I want to share, but I’ll have to save it for another podcast. Maybe I’ll do it on the drive home tonight because I have the paper right here. The next thing I’m looking at is the conflict. How do you break down the actual conflict that’s happening inside of this story. The hero’s, after he’s left home, he’s going through this thing, what are the levels of the conflict. I actually have it sketched out right here; it’ll be in the new book. I’m calling it the Five Turning Points of Conflict, and it’s awesome. So maybe I’ll share that tonight or whenever the next podcast comes out. Least that’s the game plan. If not, then go read my book because it will be in there for sure. I hope that is exciting for you guys, gets you a little pumped up about story and thinking through that as you’re telling your stories. Because the end of the day no one really cares if the hero achieves the accomplishment. The audience cares that the hero becomes something and gets the journey of achievement, or the journey of transformation. That’s what we actually root for. That’s how we fall in love with characters. Rocky part 1, Rocky didn’t win. But who did he become? That’s why we love Rocky. Alright, I’m at the office, guys. Appreciate you all, have an amazing day. I’ll talk to you guys probably later on tonight. Alright, bye.

In this episode of The Mickey Dudes Podcast, we're joined by our special guest and runDisney enthusiast, Joe Quattrocchi. We discuss many aspects of the races and Disney running community, just ahead of the upcoming Star Wars™ Half Marathon - The Dark Side at WDW. In addition, we take a Mickey Dudes Podcast Poll and introduce another new segment to the show, the Piston Cup. It's an action-packed episode you'll not want to miss!

This week the DFPP team gets some tickets to the World Grand Prix from their pal Mater once they learn that Four time Piston Cup champion Lightning McQueen has entered the race in the 2011 Disney / Pixar film Cars 2. Listen, download, etc. Show notes: IMDB Wikipedia Official Site Trailer 2 and Trailer 3 … Continue reading "DFPP 28 – Cars 2"

Cars is one of those great family films that lures everyone from Grandpa to toddler with its old-fashioned values, cool car stars, hilarity and history. Our kids loved Lightning McQueen, the red-hot rookie race car with a big ego, who pulls off the fast lane and learns that sometimes you have to slow down in order to get where you need to be in life. On his way to the most important race of his life, the Piston Cup, Lightning gets lost and rips up the main road in Radiator Springs, a forgotten town on Route 66. Trapped in the small town while he fixes the road, Lightning falls for a beautiful Porsche, makes a new friend, and unearths a secret about the town's elder Statescar, Doc Hudson. In doing so, he learns about the value of friendship, the importance of keeping a promise, and what it means to be a winner. The movie's fabulous soundtrack and goofy humor gave the kids all the mileage they needed for dancing and laughing in their seats. Visiting a Car Museum with grandparents and kids in tow is a great way to bring the past alive and two generations together. Our kids have always loved the idea that a car could even be in a museum, and the shiny surfaces to be found in abundance will please even the youngest child. Our local museum has extensive collections dating back to the '20s, making it fun to track the evolution of the automobile. Kids who have grown up with car seats get their wheels blown off when they first see a rumble seat -- and when they heard how long it took their grandparents to travel from one city to another (in the "olden days"). Older kids start to get a sense of how automobiles and freeways changed lives, and our country. Our son, who is obsessed with contemporary high-end sports cars, loved seeing the glamour cars of the past -- while his grandpa whistled in amazement to hear how these cars have held their value over time. Just two boys lookin' at cars... some things never change.  Visit www.kidsoffthecouch.com for even more tips, information and great conversation starters.

Owen Wilson is the voice of Lightning McQueen, the superfast city boy race car who is on his way to California to win the Piston Cup, if only he can ever get out of little old Radiator Springs. Paul Newman is wise old Doc Hudson and Larry the Cable Guy is dumb old Larry the Cable Truck, or should have been. Bonnie Hunt is way sexier than an automobile has a right to be, which causes me to ponder car anatomy. I complain about the title of the film. I explain the concept of setup and payoff. And I explore the difference between American-style animation and Japanese-style animation. But I focus primarily on the two main stories that conflict and the two sub-plots that complicate things further and how the film manages to keep them all from tearing the film apart.