Together, We are Better - Building Your Mosaic

05/27/20 • 70 min

During this episode of A Richer Life, host Rich Weingart speaks with Daniel Levin, Innovation Strategist, Speaker, Visionary, and Author of The Mosaic. Daniel Levin shares his story of spirituality and business. Daniel lost both of his parents two years apart on the same day, walked away from the chance to run a billion dollar business, studied in the seminary for five years and left one day before becoming a rabbi, has lived in a monastery as a monk, and worked as the Director of Development at Hay House Publishing Co taking them from $3m to $100m in revenue.

Episode Highlights:

Daniel Levin talks about the impact of losing both of his parents.
He discusses his moving in with his wealthy mother’s sister and her husband.
Daniel traveled around the world, including going to Israel.
How did he get connected to Hay House?
What were the contributing factors to growing Hay House’s tremendous economic growth?
He speaks to the power of living your own life and not one planned for you.
Rich summarizes what Daniel Levin’s book The Mosaic is about.
We all have trash to unload from our lives.
There are extraordinary things to be found in ordinary people.
Separation is a great illusion of our reality.
When people aren’t heard, they yell. Figure out the way to hear each other.
Danny talks about his kids and his relationship with his special needs daughter.
Daniel Levin shares a story about talking to a homeless man.
As a father and husband, what is Danny doing in his life to live a richer life for himself?

3 Key Points:

We are better together.
Daniel Levin helped expand Hay House’s sales from $3 million to $100 million in 10 years.
We have to stand up and face the challenges that we have been given.

Tweetable Quotes:

“Living in a world that was that unpredictable, that was that random, was so hard for me that I had to make up a story that had a cause and effect to it.” – Daniel Levin
“What am I doing today? I do organizational psychology with companies; one form of that or another. I’m doing exactly what my life was set up to do.” – Daniel Levin
“My belief system is, I can never be great doing someone else’s life." – Daniel Levin
“Who cares how many times we fall. At the end of the day, the only thing that is important is that we got up one more time than we fell. That is all that matters.” – Daniel Levin
“Your humility is beautiful. But never allow it to become a hiding place for you to shrink from your greatness. It is time to do what you were created to do.” – Daniel Levin from his book The Mosaic
“So many of the people that I met, and I helped to become really big people lost the sweetness and the innocence and the beauty of who they were, and they started to believe the press clippings of who they had become.” – Daniel Levin

Resources Mentioned:

Episode Highlights:

Daniel Levin talks about the impact of losing both of his parents.
He discusses his moving in with his wealthy mother’s sister and her husband.
Daniel traveled around the world, including going to Israel.
How did he get connected to Hay House?
What were the contributing factors to growing Hay House’s tremendous economic growth?
He speaks to the power of living your own life and not one planned for you.
Rich summarizes what Daniel Levin’s book The Mosaic is about.
We all have trash to unload from our lives.
There are extraordinary things to be found in ordinary people.
Separation is a great illusion of our reality.
When people aren’t heard, they yell. Figure out the way to hear each other.
Danny talks about his kids and his relationship with his special needs daughter.
Daniel Levin shares a story about talking to a homeless man.
As a father and husband, what is Danny doing in his life to live a richer life for himself?

3 Key Points:

We are better together.
Daniel Levin helped expand Hay House’s sales from $3 million to $100 million in 10 years.
We have to stand up and face the challenges that we have been given.

Tweetable Quotes:

“Living in a world that was that unpredictable, that was that random, was so hard for me that I had to make up a story that had a cause and effect to it.” – Daniel Levin
“What am I doing today? I do organizational psychology with companies; one form of that or another. I’m doing exactly what my life was set up to do.” – Daniel Levin
“My belief system is, I can never be great doing someone else’s life." – Daniel Levin
“Who cares how many times we fall. At the end of the day, the only thing that is important is that we got up one more time than we fell. That is all that matters.” – Daniel Levin
“Your humility is beautiful. But never allow it to become a hiding place for you to shrink from your greatness. It is time to do what you were created to do.” – Daniel Levin from his book The Mosaic
“So many of the people that I met, and I helped to become really big people lost the sweetness and the innocence and the beauty of who they were, and they started to believe the press clippings of who they had become.” – Daniel Levin

Resources Mentioned:

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