Dave Noll Releases “The Visionary in Charge: 7 Simple Rules... Because Just One Extraordinary Idea Can Change Your Life”

Hey, I'd like to welcome you to another episode of Mission Matters. My name is Adam Torres, and if you'd like to apply to be a guest in the show, just head on over to missionmatters. com and click on be our guest to apply. All right. So today is a very special day. This is probably two, two and a half years in the making. I finally got Dave Nolan, the show, he is the TV show creator of 60 plus TV series, and he's also a creator of the chopped franchise, which we all know and love, and I'm proud to announce Dave has just released a new book. The visionary in charge, seven simple rules, because just one extraordinary idea can change your life. Dave. Hey, long time in the make it. I'm so happy to have you back in the show. And we finally get to talk about your book. Welcome. And Dave Noll is a huge mission matters fan and a huge Adam Torres fan. So thank you very much. This is awesome. All right, Dave. So we got a, we got a whole lot to talk about today in the book. And there's just, I just want to know your questions. I'm so excited. So many nuggets here. Well, we're going to start this episode. The way that we start them all with what we like to call our mission matters minute. So Dave at mission matters, our aim and our goal is to amplify stories for entrepreneurs, executives, authors, experts, and entertainers. That's what we do. Dave, what mission matters to you? Really to me, the goal is, and it seems so simple to say. But the goal is to inspire people. What I've noticed. Is selling a TV show is so crazy hard. The only way to sell a TV show is to come up with some sort of very short, very inspirational way to describe that show, to pitch that show. And you have to do it again and again and again, through the course of the development, through the course of the pilot, through the course of the production, until you get that show on the air. And, and that's what people say. There's they say, Dave, you inspire. And that's why we give you all this money. To make TV shows. So that's my goal. Amazing. So great, great having you on. And I just want to, I want to dive right into the book. People are going to get to know about your background as we go through the book and as we kind of unveil is, you know, step by step what you wrote about. And I think, and we're going to jump all around the book. So this isn't a linear interview and for everybody listening, I'm only going to give you a cup, maybe a couple of spoilers I'm going to bring out of Dave, but. But I want you to pick up a copy of the book. So don't worry. There'll be a couple of little spoilers in there that I want Dave to elaborate on. Cause I'm curious. And I guess just to get us kicked off here, what inspired you to finally get the book out? Cause I've been talking to you about this for years now. And like, what was the impetus? What was the moment where you're like, all right, this has to happen. I just there was a point where the genesis for the book was there was a point where my partner Cleve and I used to pitch shows on a yacht in the south of France. And I know that sounds completely bonkers and completely crazy, but it was true. When I was reading that section, I was like, Oh, poor guy. I see Dave. Yeah. It's been a rough life. Go ahead. It's grueling. You have no idea. There was a point in time where we worked with Barry Diller, who's a billionaire. He started the Fox network. He greenlit the Simpsons and married with children and Beverly Hills, not actually went on all those shows. And and then he, at one point he ran Paramount. Pictures at one point he ran the USA network and, and he built this amazing career. And he's a billionaire. And so we worked with him and he basically said, look, what, what you guys do is so unique and so special. You could create the next wheel of fortune, the next family feud, next voice, or America's got talent. What I'm going to do is there's this TV festival twice a year in Cannes, in France, right on the water. I'm going to get you a yacht and I want you to pitch, take one show and pitch at 10, 10 30, 11, 11 30, 12, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. And that schedule's in the book, by the way, he has a printout of this in the book. And I was so proud when I saw it, cause I was like, this is what I'm talking about. You went as an author and A step further and you showed people continue. I just want the audience to know like that's in the book. He's not exaggerating. Go ahead. Yeah. And what would happen is If you hit it right, if you hit a great idea, you'd be pitching to executives from France at, at 11. And then at 1130, it would be executives from Japan. And then at noon, it would be people from Denmark or Sweden or whatever it is. And over the course of four days, that idea would become more and more and more popular. And it would bring other executives and you'd have, and then by day three, you'd have a time slot and you'd say, Hey can we just let as many people in as possible? And they would say yes. And y

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