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August 13, 2021 21 mins

Bruce Craven is a novelist, screenwriter and maverick who lives in the Palm Springs Desert.  His last book, “Win or Die: Leadership Secrets from Game of Thrones”, Bruce Craven brilliantly analyzes the journeys of the best and worst leaders in Westeros, so that leaders can create their own narratives of success.  His newest idea is “outlaw leadership” as an essential component of American leadership and business success.  He analyzes the disparate styles of Willie Nelson, Toni Morrison and Frederick Douglass - their style of going against the grain, having their own unique brand of leadership and being unafraid to carve out and follow their own paths.  But there are others - the Henry Fords, Muhammad Alis, Madame CJ Walkers, Vera Wangs, Oprah Winfreys, Lebron James, Colin Kaepernicks, Robert Smiths, Joe Bidens, Kamala Harris and Mellody Hobsons American figures who have fought against adversity and served as pistons in the engine of American ingenuity. 

“Outlaw leadership is American leadership, I think Americans, if they don’t understand how much that outlaw spirit has influenced us, they’re missing something important on how we’ve developed as a people.”  Bruce Craven 


Credits:

Guest:  Bruce Craven 

Producer:  Victory & Noble

Creator and Host:  Patrick A. Howell

Executive Producer and Narrator:  Tori Reid

Writer:  Patrick A. Howell

Director:  Tori Reid

Post Production:  WeEdit Podcasts

Post Production Assistant:  Kapri K. Echols

Show Intern Affiliation:  Howard University

Post Production Sound Engineering: Maven Sounds and Brian Jackson

Marketing Partners: Coast News in Encinitas  (North County San Diego)

Advertising Sponsor:  Vivreau Water Systems

Advertising Sponsor:  Hilton Sacramento Arden West

Ad Voiceover Artist:  Ginger Levert

Music: Holdin’ onto Magic by Easy Wheelers


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Getting Deals Done is a show about doing business, changing power, changing systems and making the world a better place one deal at a time. Host, veteran banker and entrepreneur Patrick A. Howell, speaks with leading and successful innovators, mavericks and captains of industry about making big things happen in the world.

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