Gavin de Becker
speaker
3,187 appearances
6 recordings
5 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 1 Jul
Gavin de Becker’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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If this story is resonant to you, if this experience from all these people that I interviewed is resonant to you, and if that works for you, then you'll find value here.
There are some practical reasons why it was a bestseller, like Oprah doing it.
I mean, everybody did it.
Time magazine, Newsweek, everybody did big things on the book.
Why at that moment did that work out?
I have a theory, which is that a lot of people in media knew me.
or knew of me, but I never had done anything public.
And it took a lot of courage to do.
And when I, for me, I talk about things that were very personal in that book and in the other books as well.
And it took a lot of courage.
In fact, I went and met with two authors beforehand who had told
really hard stories about their lives.
And I didn't know them.
I just asked for meetings.
One of them was in D.C.
And I got some encouragement.
I also remember, by the way, meeting with a group of law enforcement officials who were at my company for some reason, and I told them a couple of stories from that book, childhood stories.
And they were kind of aghast.
Everybody was like, oh, it didn't stimulate any conversation at the table.
I knew I was in a kind of territory that most people run away from.
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