Leadership publication Authority Magazine recently caught up with Miller to learn what inspired him to write the book, the biggest lesson he’s learned on his journey, and how he’s applied that lesson to his life moving forward. Authority Magazine distinguishes itself by producing large interview series with scores of experts and thought leaders, around a single empowering topic.
The following is an excerpt from Authority Magazine’s interview with Todd Miller:
What happened that made you decide to write the book? What was the exact moment when you realized these ideas needed to get out there?
Early in my career with a Hollywood studio, I began to question what makes life delicious. My career was going great, but even in my 20s, I became obsessed with big questions:
- Work vs. life?
How much is enough?
What is “success” exactly?
For the past 25 years, I have researched best practices to answer these and other questions. The deeper I dug into this research, the more I realized friends and industry colleagues wrestled with the same dilemmas. Over time, friends increasingly turned to me for financial, career, and life advice, and through diverse conversations, I recognized there’s a wide yearning among professionals for a formula to thread career, life, and money. ENRICH distills and synthesizes this research into an actionable, replicable, framework that is relevant to professionals.
The exact moment when I realized the world needs ENRICH is the situation I describe in the introduction: on the same day that I retired to tropical Thailand, a close friend lost his job. He faced imminent financial pressure and the pandemic had already erupted in Asia. There was an urgency to the situation, so he flew to Phuket and I read to him the first manuscript draft.
He absorbed it all, and repeatedly told me he wished I’d written this book ten years ago! Following ENRICH principles, during the worst job market since the Depression, my friend bounced back from a job loss in just four months; but he also transformed his family relationships and personal finances in the process. When professionals everywhere are rethinking their lives, careers, and what’s most important, the message to enrich resonates.
You can read the interview in full here.