I Spent Three Days With A Dozen New York Times Bestselling Authors

**Jay Clouse** (0:14)
Hello, my friend, welcome back to another episode of Creator Science. I am recording this on Sunday, April 5th, and I'm a few days removed now from getting back from an author's mastermind in Franklin, Tennessee. A few weeks ago, I was in my garage home gym, got a phone call from Haley at KIT, Haley Leeds Community for KIT, and she had some questions, and she also had an interesting offer for me. She said, hey, we're putting together a small group mastermind with a bunch of authors, and it's in conjunction with James Clear, and he put you on the list. And I said, huh? She said, yeah, it's in Tennessee at the end of the month if you want to come. And I said, of course, I would love to come to this. And that's all the information I had for a while. Over the next couple of weeks, I got details on the location.
She shared a Notion page with the attendees. And it was such an impressive, intimidating group of people. A lot of these folks shared photos from the event. So I don't feel like it's inappropriate for me to share who was at this event or some of the folks who were at this event that shared it publicly. Because it will add some context to what I want to share in this episode, which is some of the takeaways I had, some of the ways I was feeling. But folks who were there were members of the kit team, like Haley, Nathan Berry was there. He was co-organizing it with James Clear, who was obviously there. Amy Porterfield, Amy Purdy, who is a New York Times bestselling author. I hadn't met before this event. She was also on Dancing with the Stars. Diego Perez, who you may know as Young Pueblo, Donald Miller, Jefferson Fisher, Jen Hatmaker, Jenna Kutcher, Nir Eyal, Sahil Bloom, Tori Dunlap, Vanessa Van Edwards, Will Guidara and Madeline McIntosh, who is the CEO of Authors Equity. She's the co-founder of Authors Equity with James. And wow, there's somewhere between 10 and 12 New York Times bestselling authors on that list. And I think Nathan and I were the only ones there who haven't yet published. Nathan is nearing the finish line of his first book and I'm still pretty early on in the process. So talk about intimidating going to this event. But, you know, I talked to my wife about this. She assured me that there was a reason I was invited. I talked to friends about this. They said, this is going to be amazing. Of course, you should be there. I called my mom on the drive down. Was just constantly trying to psych myself up over the days leading up to this. Because obviously in a room like that, there is so much to be learned. And of course, I hope I have something I can share as well. But I was excited to be in the room. So over the three days that I was there, I took many notes in my Clear Habit Journal, which James gifted to all of us at the event. And I thought I would record a little episode here, breaking down some of the takeaways I had from this event. Things that I don't feel are secretive or inappropriate to share. This way, it's almost like you were there too. A lot of the benefit I can pass along because I think the spirit of this event was passing along. I was very pleased that everybody I met here was just a delight. Everyone was great. Everyone was very kind. There was no gatekeeping. And again, of course, I entered this was pretty anxious, but that calmed pretty quickly in the first night. So in this episode, I want to break down all of the takeaways I had. Some of those are very tactical things. That's one major section of this episode.
There were also several memorable quotes or ideas that I wrote down here that are kind of one-liners that I wanted to pass along. I had some thoughts on the structure of the event itself because I think it will inform some of the ways that I both plan our offline event in Boise in June. And also the way we do things inside the lab, our online community. And then there were some miscellaneous notes that I wanted to pass along as well. So I'll share all of that in this episode. No gatekeeping from me. We'll get to that full list right after this.

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