135 Breaking the Spell of Victimhood: Walt Disney’s Life

Walt Disney's Life Story

Blurb:

What trials and crosses shaped the man who would help millions wish upon a star? Journey through Walt Disney’s childhood, and be set free from the toxic loop of victim mentality.

Excerpt from episode:

“Confident at last, Disney walks into a Universal Pictures meeting expecting to negotiate a higher budget for future cartoons. Instead, his world comes crashing down. Not only is his request refused, but he is told that actually Universal Pictures owns Oswald, not Walt. Worse still, most of Walt’s own animators had secretly agreed to leave him and work for Universal studios instead. In a single moment, Disney loses his beloved character, is betrayed by his team, and the future he had spent years building comes crashing down. Now, most people would have flipped at that point and hated on the world, on people, on fate. What does Walt decide to do? On the long train ride back to California, in the very moment that should have shattered him, Walt began sketching the outline of a new character—not a rabbit this time, but a mouse. And this little mouse would become the most famous mouse the world had ever known … “

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