{"href":"http://player.captivate.fm/services/oembed?url=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.captivate.fm%2Fepisode%2Fc5824661-4441-4686-8976-2f1a687ab38b","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Captivate.FM","provider_url":"https://www.captivate.fm","width":600,"height":200,"type":"rich","html":"","title":"There is More, with Andy Andrews (Self-Improvement, Decision Making, Author, Success)","description":"Hailed by a New York Times reporter as \u201csomeone who has quietly become one of the most influential people in America,\u201d Andy Andrews is an internationally known speaker and author.\n\nAmong his New York Times bestsellers are the classic novels, The Traveler\u2019s Gift and The Noticer. Leaders from the world\u2019s top organizations\u2014including four U.S. presidents\u2014regularly seek him out as a trusted resource for unlocking extraordinary results.\n\nAndy lived a relatively normal life until the age of 19 when both his parents died just months apart\u2014his mother from cancer, his father in an automobile accident. \u201cI took a bad situation and made it much worse,\u201d he says, reflecting on the series of poor financial decisions he made during this tragic period of his life. Within a few years, he found himself literally homeless, sleeping occasionally under a pier on the Gulf Coast.\n\nIt was then that Andy asked the question that sparked a search for what would ultimately affect millions of people:\n\nIs life just a lottery ticket, or are there choices one can make to direct his future?\n\nTo find the answer, he went to the library. Over time, he read more than 200 biographies of great men and women\u2014from George Washington Carver to Anne Frank\u2014and discovered one common thread that existed between all of them: They had each made a handful of decisions at critical junctures in their lives that ultimately determined their success. Life was not a lottery ticket\u2014they had chosen their fate.\n\nThe \u201cSeven Decisions\u201d (as he calls them) became the engines Andy used to carry his life in a dramatically different direction. Eventually, they became the outline for The Traveler\u2019s Gift: Seven Decisions That Determine Personal Success, which was featured on ABC\u2019s Good Morning America as a book-of-the-month selection and remained on the New York Times bestseller list for more than four months. This stunning story of one man\u2019s time-traveling search for meaning and fulfillment has since been translated into over 40 languages.\n\nHis subsequent releases\u2014including the New York Times bestsellers The Noticer and How Do You Kill 11 Million People?\u2014have continued to earn Andy praise for his ability to weave subtle yet life-changing lessons into riveting tales of adventure and intrigue.\n\nBut Andrews is more than just a successful author. He is in such demand for personal appearances that he occasionally speaks to multiple audiences in the same city\u2014on the same day! And still, his personal schedule requires that he decline more engagements than he accepts.\n\nCorporations, associations, civic groups\u2014even entire cities\u2014have invited Andy Andrews to address their executive teams, employees, clients, or members.","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/269a0aa2-aaaf-495c-960b-8d23d21c8939/hsqlQQ-sM0qvY4GsO689rAzQ.png"}