#279 - Charlie Munger's Wisdom and Writing Tips for Aspiring Creatives (Free Writing Session)
Welcome to another episode of the Spun Today Podcast, where writing is our anchor, but our explorations are limitless. I'm your host, Tony Ortiz, and I’m thrilled to have you here for our 279th episode, a free writing session that's as much about personal discovery as it is about crafting prose. This week, we dive deep into the art of free writing, a technique I champion for its cathartic and exploratory benefits.
I’ll also share some personal writing updates and a compelling writing tip from the iconic minds of Tim Ferriss and Ryan Holiday, offering insights into the freeing practice of journaling. Then we're delving into Charlie Munger's timeless wisdom from "Poor Charlie's Almanac," exploring how his principles can illuminate your path toward mastering your craft or any creative venture. Lastly, I'll open the time capsule and reflect on one of my past free writing pieces, discussing the journey of navigating emotions with intent.
You'll find inspiration and practical advice to fuel your creative process and perhaps a nudge past your own hurdles in writing or any imaginative pursuit. Thank you for tuning in, and let’s get started!
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Writing advice from the Daily Stoic Newsletter: https://dailystoic.com/all-articles/
Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Essential Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munge
The Best of Charlie Munger | Most Funny Moments https://youtu.be/gHLA64sh4WE?si=5tvDSAr4T9doEboq
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Tony Ortiz [00:00:19]:
What's up, folks? What's going on? Welcome to the Spun Today Podcast, the only podcast that is anchored in writing, but unlimited in scope. I'm your host, Tony Ortiz, and I appreciate you listening. This is episode 279 of the Spun Today Podcast and it is a free writing session episode. I call it that because at the very end I share an older piece of my own free writing. I'm a huge proponent of free writing and I've spoken about it in nauseum here on this podcast. But essentially for those who don't know what it is is you literally put pen to paper and write anything and everything that comes to mind. And you'll be very surprised at what you find and learn about yourself, what you figure out, and it's a great cathartic practice. In this episode, I'm also going to share my writing stats with you to let you know where I'm at on this writing journey that I'm on and kind of keep myself honest.
Tony Ortiz [00:01:16]:
I'm going to share a great writing tip that my fellow writers out there can implement or fellow creatives within their own creative endeavors. I'll tell you a little bit about what I've been reading. Spoiler alert. It's Poor Charlie's Almanac. In this episode, last but certainly not least, I share a piece of my own free writing. And the free writing kind of serves as a little piece of nostalgia for myself, a little insight for the listeners out there of how and what I was writing about a couple years back, whenever the free writing piece is from, and I get to pick it apart, see what I agree with or what still resonates, so on and so forth. And for me, most of my free writing, not all, but most, wound up being, you know, me working through personal shit insecurities, especially when it comes to writing. Any kind of me talking to myself without consciously deciding to talk to myself and try to motivate myself to get past these personal barriers.
Tony Ortiz [00:02:22]:
So some of it might have some use or advice for fellow creatives out there that might be going through similar phases in their lives. And that's what we have in store for you here today on the Spun Today podcast, episode 279. But before we get into it, I wanted to share a very quick way that you can help support this show if you so choose. And then we'll jump right into the episode.
Tony Ortiz [00:02:47]:
You can also support by checking out my writing. Go to spuntery.com freewriting here you'll find a collection of freely written thoughts which is intended to be a cathartic meditative practice for myself, but also winds up doubling up as motivation and inspiration for myself and others. You can also go to spunteray.com short stories to check out my latest short stories and also listen to the free audiobook versions of those stories. You can also support my writing by going to sponsor.comforward/books and check out what I have available for sale. Currently available is Make Way for you, which is a collection of tips for getting out of your own way. It's a great read for my fellow.
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Writers or creatives out there.
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Also available is Fractale, which is my debut time travel novel, and last but certainly not least, Melted Cold, which is a collection of short stories. Each of the books are available in all digital formats for your Kindle or Ibook or any other e reader, as well as paperback and hardcover options. Again, go to spuntery.com books and I'd.
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Check out as well as your thoughts after reading spun today.com books.
Tony Ortiz [00:04:11]:
My writing stats Since I am already off to a horrible start from the perspective of my writing and podcasting goals for 2025 that I broke down in my 2024 wrap up show, I am able to share with you my January writing stats for January 2025. Because of the fact that this episode is late, it's not on my regularly scheduled every other Thursday, not even at the time of this recording. Because sometimes a lot, a lot of what happened last year when I had to like re release episodes and just did a bunch of like late releases, I would record somewhat on time. But then yeah, you know, like the efforts to like editing and putting it together and you know, mixing it and putting it out that spilled over to past my my usual release date. And it's one of my goals for this year to stay on track, stay on my normal schedule that I kept for the better part of 10 years of releasing this podcast and so far I have not done so. So that one's for me. Another one of my goals that I'm not living up to is my actual writing style stats or the amount of time that I'm writing throughout each month. So what I do in this segment of this type of episode is tell you guys out of the given month how many days out of that month I wrote or worked on my writing craft.
Tony Ortiz [00:05:47]:
And for January 2025 I wrote a whopping four out of the 31 days of the month for a writing percentage of 12.9%. There's another one for me. I am off to a bit of a more motivated start for February. So hopefully I ramp up on that, the consistency aspect of that and I have a much higher numbers to report when it comes to the February stats. But time will tell. The writing tip that I want to share with you fine folks today is kind of a collab, if you will. It's from two folks that I definitely respect and enjoy their work, both from a writing perspective and a podcasting perspective. But it's from Tim Ferriss, but via the Daily Stoic newsletter.
Tony Ortiz [00:06:42]:
Tim Ferriss is a fellow writer and creative writer of best selling books like the Four Hour Work Week, has a great podcast, amazing interviewer at the Tim Ferriss show and the Daily Stoic is by another brilliant writer, Ryan Holiday, who also has the Daily Stoic podcast. He has a couple great newsletters. The Daily Stoic is one of them, which is where this tip is from, where he's citing Tim Ferriss and another one that I've spoken about in the past called the Daily dad, where he gives a bunch of parenting advice things through the lens of Stoic philosophy. But in the Daily stoic newsletter from January 14, 2025, he shared this piece which I'm going to read the excerpt from, which definitely resonated. I wanted to share with you guys as a writing tip to consider on your own writing journeys. Definitely resonated with me. And he says, speaking about generally the practice of journaling, which by the way, you can consider free writing a type of journaling, a way to journal, he says. Tim Ferriss captures this idea perfectly when he describes his daily journaling habit.
Tony Ortiz [00:07:57]:
I don't journal to be productive. I don't do it to find great ideas or craft prose for publication. The pages aren't for anyone else but me. I'm trying to figure things out. I'm just caging my monkey mind on paper so I can get on with my day. End quote. And what resonated most with me from that is the part about two parts really. One, the pages aren't for anyone else but me and two, I'm trying to figure things out because as I mentioned before in the intro while I'm free writing I am trying to figure things out whether consciously or unconsciously.
Tony Ortiz [00:08:38]:
Sometimes I literally go into a free writing session or have because as my writing stats that I mentioned before so I've definitely been slacking. But I have gone into free writing sessions with a something in mind, something that I want to write about or just free writing about an idea for a short story. And sometimes I go Completely blank mind, blank pen to paper and just start writing whatever comes out literally, even if it's the sentence. I do not know what to write until my mind flips or switches to something else as it does. And then I start writing about that. So that piece of I'm trying to figure things out definitely resonated. Also the and probably even more so where he says the pages aren't for anyone else but me. That's something that I need to underscore, I think more so for myself because I've been really kind of precious, for lack of a better term with my writing.
Tony Ortiz [00:09:40]:
Like, you know, I try to have like ideas formulated perfectly in my mind before I start writing. And I think that's just like a form of resistance and procrastination. Essentially that's what it works out to be. And it's weird because I've been in that Ruth, but I wasn't for anything else that I've actually, you know, worked through and published. And the advice of any and every writer from fucking Hemingway to with his, you know, the first draft of Everything is Shit quote to Steven Pressfield's teachings on resistance to Anne Lamont Bird by bird advice is just start writing. Just write. Nobody's going to see the first thing that you write anyway. It's just a literally bleed onto the paper, get the words onto the paper.
Tony Ortiz [00:10:28]:
Don't be precious about it. Don't self edit before even writing. That literally is procrastination. You're stopping yourself from putting whatever it is out because you're second guessing yourself so much, which is what I'm literally doing or have been doing. So that piece of advice there from Tim definitely resonated with me in something that I need to re remind myself of or bring to the forefront of my brain when I sit down to try to write, which is the pages aren't for anyone else but me. And that folks is the piece of advice that I wanted to share again from the Daily Stoic newsletter which I will link to in the episode notes if anybody's interested in checking that out. Tim Ferriss also has a great newsletter called Five Bullet Friday, which I borrowed from and kind of modeled my Spun Today newsletter after just in terms of the format of sharing five different things. Although I share five specific things, he shares five random different things within his newsletter.
Tony Ortiz [00:11:32]:
But if anybody's interested to check out mine and what you can expect to receive in my newsletter, feel free to check it out at sponsoreday.com forward/subscribe absolutely for free. I've been Reading Poor Charlie's Almanac the Essential Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger for those who don't know Charlie Munger, who has since passed within the last year or two, RIP Charlie is the billionaire investor, vice chair slash partner of Warren Buffett at Berkshire Hathaway, Warren Buffett being the more, you know, popular or known name out of the two. Charlie Munger was always more of a like a quieter behind the scenes at a bit of a mystique to him, if you will. And some people even went as far as saying that he was like the quote unquote, real brains behind the operation type of thing. But as I'm gonna share here in the first takeaway that I have from reading his book, or this book rather, you can see that even he himself never gave credence to that claim. But before I jump into it, let me share the official synopsis for the book. Quote, spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up.
Tony Ortiz [00:12:52]:
End quote. Charles T. Munger advises in Poor Charlie Salmanac Originally published in 2005, this compendium of 11 talks delivered by the legendary Berkshire Hathaway vice chairman between 1986 and 2007, has become a touchstone for a generation of investors and entrepreneurs seeking to absorb the enduring wit and wisdom of one of the great minds of the 20th and 21st centuries. Edited by Peter D. Kaufman, chairman and CEO of Glen Air and a longtime friend of Charlie Munger, whom he calls this generation's answer to Benjamin Franklin. Poor Charlie's Almanac draws on Munger's encyclopedic knowledge of business, finance, history, philosophy, physics and ethics, and more, to introduce the lattice work of mental models that underpin his rationale and rigorous approach to life learning and decision making. Delivered with Munger's characteristic shark wit and rhetorical flair, it is an essential volume for any reader seeking to go to bed a little wiser than when they woke up. Something great to to consider watching, if you guys are interested, are interviews that Charlie Munger has been on many times, at least the ones that I've seen in conjunction or together with Warren Buffett.
Tony Ortiz [00:14:20]:
And you get to see their like, their different mannerisms and just like personalities in general. He's like, he's more of a. Or was more of a, in my opinion, obviously don't know him, but a dark humor, kind of smartest guy in the room type of vibe who's funny and witty but also had like an amazing like economy of words where Warren Buffett's personality is a Little bit more. I wouldn't say bubbly, but just more personable, friendlier, maybe. I'll look up a couple and link them in the episode notes for you guys to check out. But, yeah, let's jump in first with something that Peter D. Kaufman, who again said that he. Charlie Munger, about Charlie Munger, that he's this generation's answer to Benjamin Franklin.
Tony Ortiz [00:15:07]:
And just something that made Charlie come off as more of a. Of a humble guy to me, which was that folks gave him credit for, quote, unquote, enlightening Buffett and, like, putting him on to, like, the finance game and just, like, making him step up his investment game. But Charlie says that Buffett would have done just as well if he himself never existed. And I think that says a lot about his character. I thought this was an interesting takeaway, which is that Charlie Munger worked at Buffett and Son, a grocery store owned by Warren Buffett's grandfather, Ernest P. Buffett, during his teenage years. And they actually didn't know each other back then, Warren and Charlie back in Omaha, Nebraska. They actually wound up meeting much later in 1959 at a dinner party in Omaha.
Tony Ortiz [00:16:02]:
But both reminisced working there above his grandfather's grocery store and shared valuable lessons from their time there. And Charlie, long before he met Warren, was accomplished in his own right. He was a lawyer by training, had his own law firm, and also did real estate investing on the side before that fateful dinner party meeting, which eventually became a handshake deal partnership with Warren Buffett when he made the decision to leave his firm. And a cool takeaway I got from the book is that he used to tell the lawyers that worked for them at Berkshire Hathaway that you don't need to take every last dollar to not think of your relationship with your clients that way and to choose your clients the way you would choose your friends. Again, I think very telling of his character. Also, when he left his firm, he didn't take the equity stake with him. Instead, he gave it to the estate of a younger partner that had died of cancer, which left behind a wife and kid. And then he went on just to continue making money with his real estate development deals and stock investments.
Tony Ortiz [00:17:09]:
Charlie believes that successful investing boils down to a handful of good decisions. And he called this approach, quote, sit on your ass investing. And he said that the benefits of this approach to investing is paying less to brokers listening to less nonsense. And if it works, the tax system gives you an extra 1, 2 or 3 percentage points per annum. Another Interesting piece of advice or takeaway that I got rather is that Einstein said that compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. And Charlie and or Einstein said the following about that. One, never interrupt it unnecessarily. Two, avoid unnecessary transactional taxes and frictional costs.
Tony Ortiz [00:17:56]:
Three, never take action for its own sake. Four, be alert for the arrival of luck and five, enjoy the process along with the proceeds because the process is where you live. Which makes sense for that type of investing approach, right? Like you're not investing for like a quick return and watching, watching the market really closely. It's kind of like set it and forget it, which is in my own personal comfort level with investing. That's where the camp that I fall into kind of like a set it and forget it. You know, pick a good well known company that I use their products and, or I'm familiar with, you know, like the Googles and Amazons and videos of the world, so on and so forth and purchase their stocks and forget about them. Look at them again ing October 1520 years and let that eighth wonder of the world compound interest work for you. Another great piece of advice that he shared is be fearful when others are greedy and be greedy when others are fearful.
Tony Ortiz [00:18:57]:
So when folks are all in and jumping into, you know, certain positions or in stocks or investments, you know, take pause with that type of approach. You know, like the NFT and crypto crazes and stuff like that. Unless you're really familiar and studied on whatever it is that you're investing in and feel confident in that. But on the flip side, be greedy when others are fearful, fearful when the market crashes, nobody wants to invest, everything's going down. It's an opportunity for investors to buy, you know, good value stocks on the cheap. You know, think of a like Black Friday sale or something like that. You know, like real ones, not when they like mark up the price and then tell you, you know, 30% off this TV even though the week before it was 30% less the actual cost. But think of like a real sale when you could buy something at 20, 30, 40, 50% off.
Tony Ortiz [00:19:54]:
That's like the similar type of thing that you're doing when you're purchasing a stock during a crash or during a downturn of the stock market. The stock went down, but that doesn't mean it's not worth what it was before. It's just a downturn in the market. Now this next piece of advice that he shared, I don't fully understand it goes into tax law and I don't, I Don't understand the nuances. There's or like how exactly this calculation is done. However, I get the, I believe I get the underlying point, which is again going with the theme of set it and forget it mentality to investing. Sit on your ass investing, as you called it, relating to letting compound interest work for you. And he says that buying something that compounds at say 15% per year, if you have to pay taxes once at the end, the way that works out after taxes is that you wind up keeping 13.3% per annum if you do the calculation.
Tony Ortiz [00:20:51]:
That's the piece that I'm saying. I don't know how to calculate myself, but I'll take the billionaire's word for it versus in contrast the same investment but paying taxes every year on what you earn, then your return is only 15% minus the 35% of the 15% earned. So the 35% in taxes that you're paying yearly on that 15% earned, which only works out to 9.75% per year of compounded interest. So if you sit on your ass instead of say collecting income and cashing out from the investment over that period of time, that difference of 3.5% over a 30 year span, for example, compounding is a truly eye opening amount. And he adds that you get a huge edge from nothing but just the way that income taxes work. That's an interesting way to have that work in your favor. I also like this piece of advice for a young person, career advice. Specifically, he says, don't sell anything that you wouldn't buy yourself.
Tony Ortiz [00:21:59]:
Don't work for anyone you don't respect and admire and work only with people that you enjoy. And in line with that advice, he shares, actually let me take a step back. Those three pieces of career advice definitely make a lot of sense to me. And you know, in a, in a perfect utopia type situation, you will always work with people that you love and work for people that you respect and admire. But as you go through life, you're gonna learn and go through situations and you know, life lessons if you will, and bump, bump against folks and work for people and work with people that you don't respect, that you don't admire, that you don't enjoy working with, but that you're in a situation where you kind of sort of have to, you know, you can't just be idealistic 24, 7, especially when you, you're talking in terms of work and a job or more so in a career, you know, once you're established within a certain field or within a certain company, for example. So those are definitely great ideas to, to strive for and to want to end up at. But also temper that with knowing that you will have to pay your dues. You might have asshole bosses every once in a while.
Tony Ortiz [00:23:14]:
I always remember advice of my father which would always say, you know, we're, you know, keep your head down, for lack of a better term, and work hard, you know, do your best at whatever it is that you do. Do everything that's asked of you. He had that type of approach and those values were definitely instilled in me and how I approached pretty much every job that, that I've had and even in situations where I did wind up working for people that I lost respect for or that I didn't admire or that I just didn't enjoy working with for whatever reason. So it's not to say if, you know, you don't enjoy working with somebody, you know, quit your job and go look for another one. But you definitely appreciate the jobs or positions that you have when you do wind up working with people that you do enjoy being around and that you respect and that try to make you better and that look out for you, so on and so forth, and that you look out for when the shoes on the other foot. So definitely great career advice there. Then. The last piece of advice that I'm going to share from poor Charlie's Almanac, or the last takeaway that I'm going to share rather, is a piece of advice from Charlie Munger's dad, which was, as you go through life, sell your services once in a while to an unreasonable blowhard, if that's what you need to do to feed your family, but run your own life like Grant McFadden.
Tony Ortiz [00:24:40]:
Now I had to look up who Grant McFadden was. I didn't get it from the context of within the book, but Grant McFadden is mentioned in Charlie Munger's anecdotes. This is what I looked up. Grant McFadden is mentioned in Charlie Munger's Munger's Anecdotes as a person who exemplified ethical behavior and the benefits of treating others well. According to Munger, McFadden is someone who promptly fixes problems and is nice to people, which results in fewer legal troubles. Munger contrasts McFadden with a big blowhard who generates a lot of legal work due to overreaching and misbehavior. Munger has used McFadden as an example to illustrate the importance of being ethical and kind in business and personal dealings. So what Charlie took away from that lesson, and what he mentions is in this book is that his father taught him that lesson very cleverly.
Tony Ortiz [00:25:35]:
He says that instead of pounding it in that, you know, he should live his life this specific way, like Grant McFadden, he told it to him in a way that made it a slight mental reach. That is, he had to figure out how to live like Grant McFadden. How did Grant McFadden live? And because of that reach, that mental reach that he had to do, the lesson was held better and he retained it for all his life. And I just took that as a takeaway because I thought it was a clever and interesting piece of parenting advice and that folks were just some takeaways that resonated with me from reading Poor Charlie's Almanac, the Essential Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger. If interested, I will link to the book in the episode notes for you guys to check out. Last but certainly not least. Last but certainly not least, that sounds wrong for some reason.
Tony Ortiz [00:26:32]:
The piece of free writing that I'm going to share with you fine folks today, you will be able to find on my website under sponsorday.com forward/freewriting. And this is one of the types of free writing that I do like I mentioned, you know, you can do it with a specific goal in mind or specific thought in mind or and or just completely blank. Nothing specific to write about. This one was prompted by a specific quote and I free wrote with that quote in mind. So the quote is from Customato, which was famously Mike Tyson's trainer growing up. Mike Tyson the boxer, one of the best, if not the best heavyweight boxes of all time. And he said, quote, fear is like fire. It can cook your food or burn your house down.
Tony Ortiz [00:27:23]:
Which I've definitely heard variations of that in the past. So I'm not sure if that's like 100% an original thought, but that that specific version of it is attributed to him either way. With that said, I wrote to that the duality of emotions. They can fuel your drive and dedication or cripple every ambition you dare to have. Where the end result falls within that spectrum of possibilities relies on your intent and perspective. Which direction will you steer those emotions when they begin to bubble up to the surface? Your intent in those moments matter. Emotions don't happen to you, they just happen. Actively practice to navigate them in your intended direction.
Tony Ortiz [00:28:13]:
Choose to cook your food, not to burn your house down. And I wrote that on Wednesday, July 20, 2022 at 8:13am and I actually like this post. I Still agree with a lot of what's in here. You know, just interpreting that fears like fire, it can cook your food or burn your house down. Interpreting that through the vein of emotions and how you feel and how you react to feelings and how that fear slash fire can fuel your drive to go in a positive direction, you know, like away from that fear slash fire. Or it can cripple you, AKA burn everything down and you just give into it. That's all definitely within that spectrum of possibilities there that I, that I reference. And then in a, you know, very apropos to, you know, speaking to myself as I do within these free writing posts, which direction will you steer those emotions when they begin to bubble up to the surface? So when you begin to fear, feel fear, are you going to go in the direction of positivity, away from that fear, or just give in to it and, you know, spiral into negativity? And I highlight that your intent in those moments definitely matter, which I would agree to.
Tony Ortiz [00:29:24]:
Emotions don't happen to you, they just happen. So in other words, you know, don't take it personally, feeling how you feel. And I really like this part, which was actively practice to navigate them in your intended direction. So if your intended direction is to be positive, to let the fear fuel you in a positive direction, be intentional about it, actively practice navigating them in that direction. Speak to yourself, Write to yourself. I feel fear. I'm scared of xyz. I'm going to use that fear to accomplish said goal instead of not choosing to face it head on and giving into it.
Tony Ortiz [00:30:04]:
So, yeah, thought that was a pretty good piece. Definitely check that one out and more@spun today.com forward/freewriting. And feel free to share, comment and all that good stuff. And that, folks, was episode 279 of the Spontane podcast. Thank each and every one of you for taking the time to listen. I really do appreciate it. I'm going to share a few ways, especially for my fellow writers and creatives out there, that you can help support this podcast. Discount codes, tools that I use within my own writing.
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Going to tell you a bit about each of them. Pro writing aid, mock up shots, you know, which is a great marketing tool for your books, so on and so forth. So stick around to listen to all that good stuff and I will check you guys out next time. Peace. What's up, folks?
Tony Ortiz [00:30:59]:
Tony here. I hope you're enjoying the Spun Today podcast as much as I enjoy producing it for you. Here are a few ways you can help support the show for my fellow writers and creatives out there, A really cool way you can help support this show is by going to Spun Today.com support and clicking on the ProWritingAid banner. If you're a listener of the show, you know that I use prowritingaid to pre edit all of my writing before I put it out or before I ship it off to my editor so that it is in as pristine condition.
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You can also support by checking out my writing. Go to spunter.com freewriting here you'll find a collection of freely written thoughts which is intended to be a cathartic meditative practice for myself, but also winds up doubling up as motivation and inspiration for myself and others. You can also go to spunteray.com shortstories to check out my latest short stories and also listen to the free audiobook versions of those stories. You can also support my writing by going to spunceiday.com books and check out what I have available for sale. Currently available is Make Way for you, which is a collection of tips for getting out of your own way. It's a great read for my fellow.
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Writers or creatives out there.
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Also available is Fractale, which is my debut time travel novel, and last but certainly not least, melted Cold, which is a collection of short stories. Each of the books are available in all digital formats for your Kindle or Ibook or any other e reader, as well as paperback and hardcover options. Again, go to spontaday.com forward/books and I'd.
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A fellow creative, a cool way that you can help support the Spun Today Podcast and actually be part of the podcast is by filling out my five question questionnaire located at spun today.com forward/questionnaire. Here you'll find the five open questions related to your craft, your art, what inspires you to create, what type of unrelated hobbies you're into, and what motivates you to get your work done. You can choose to remain anonymous or plug your website and your work. And once you submit your questionnaire, I read your responses on a future episode of the Sponsored A Podcast. It's completely free at no cost to you, and what I like to say about it is that if your responses could potentially spark inspiration in someone else, why not share that spontodate.com questionnaire and as always folks, substitute the mysticism with hard work and start taking steps in the general direction of your dreams. Thanks for listening. I love you Aiden. I love you Daddy.
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I love you Grayson. I love you Daddy.