Jan 26, 2021
Mike Rowe, host of Dirty Jobs and the new discovery+ series Six Degrees with Mike Rowe, Deadliest Catch narrator, prolific spokesperson, creator of the mikeroweWORKS foundation, author of The Way I Heard It, and soooo much more, joins me and goes with my therapy-like approach to interviews. It's fabulous.
We talk:
- Artificially inseminating a turkey
- Behind the scenes of Dirty Jobs
- How he got his start on-air at QVC
- Getting fired
- The secret to Dirty Jobs
- His 6 million Facebook fans
- Politics
- discovery+ (new streaming network)
- His new TV series, Six Degrees with Mike Rowe
- Regrets – or not
- His choice not to have kids
- His career path
- Being a “hobo”
- His favorite novels
- The work ethic his foundation, mikeroweWORKS, is based on
- Politics + if he's going to run in a future election
- His intimate relationships
- His parents, their marriage, and a clear message he sent Mike and his brothers
- Parenting today
- Stuttering
- Being a shy kid
- Innovation vs. imitation
- Efficiency vs. effectiveness
- Following your passion
- Whether or not people change
- And soooo much more!
Links!
- Mike's Fan Q&A on YouTube: https://youtube.com/reallyfamous
- discovery+ https://amzn.to/3hXaPR5
- (Six Degrees with Mike Rowe)
- mikeroweWORKS https://www.mikeroweworks.org/about/
- Mike's book: The Way I Heard It https://amzn.to/3hMwA66
- Mike’s mom’s book https://amzn.to/38iH4He
- Mike's first book: Profoundly Disconnected : A True Confession From Mike Rowe https://amzn.to/3q2p8Xn
- Mike's favorite John MacDonald novels https://amzn.to/3qhUGZk
- Mike's podcast: The Way I Heard It https://mikerowe.com/podcast/
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