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From Grief To Purpose + Resiliency with John DeDakis (part 1)
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What if your hardest seasons became the fuel for your most meaningful work? In this episode, journalist and novelist John DeDakis shares how loss, discipline, and truth shaped his purpose.
John’s path started at American Forces Network in Germany, where he interviewed Alfred Hitchcock. From there, he moved through local news and on to CNN, where the nonstop pace demanded a creative outlet. Fiction became that outlet. His first novel took ten years, fourteen rewrites, and thirty-nine agent queries. The lesson: cut weak subplots, find your genre through subtraction, and treat reflection as part of the writing process.
He speaks plainly about modern media. The press and the White House often work in tension. Speed often beats truth. Integrity in reporting is harder to maintain when accuracy loses to attention. Those same tensions shape his thriller Fake, where a reporter’s reputation is destroyed by a lie everyone can see.
The heart of the conversation is writing through pain. John shares how early trauma and the loss of his son became the foundation for honest and healing work. He explains how writing can process grief, rebuild focus, and restore meaning. Leaders and teams face the same truth—unresolved pain drains morale and performance.
If you want to reconnect with your purpose, finish your story, or bring meaning to hard experiences, this episode gives you practical direction. Follow the show, share it with someone who needs perspective, and leave a review to help others find it.
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Natalie Davis is a licensed broker with Keller Williams Realty Downtown, LLC
Κεφάλαια
1. From Grief To Purpose + Resiliency with John DeDakis (part 1) (00:00:00)
2. Setting The Theme: Reigniting Passion (00:00:06)
3. Book Launch And Listener Feedback (00:01:41)
4. Marketing Ideas And Community Support (00:03:26)
5. Meet Guest: John DeDakis (00:03:46)
6. Draft, Vietnam, And Finding Journalism (00:04:34)
7. AFN Germany And Purpose (00:07:44)
8. From Local News To CNN (00:09:13)
9. Ten Years To An Agent (00:10:58)
10. Curiosity And Listening As Craft (00:12:21)
11. Genre Discovery And Revisions (00:13:35)
12. Process, Procrastination, And Morning Writing (00:17:18)
13. Inside The Newsroom And Ethics (00:18:20)
14. Speed, Accuracy, And Siloed Media (00:20:04)
15. Personal Tragedy And Cathartic Writing (00:21:17)
16. Grief To Advocacy And Speaking (00:23:06)
17. Closing And Listener Actions (00:27:24)
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