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Five Minutes in America is a new weekday audio series written and told by Tony Michaels.

Each five-minute episode tells a complete American story about ordinary people, shared responsibility, and the constitutional principles that bind us together.

The first story, “The Fence,” is available now. Follow the new show so the next story is waiting when the weekday series begins September 7.

Apple Podcasts:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/five-minutes-in-america/id6805530471

Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/show/5FGk01MvG8IVSLIA0MHHGn

Listen on The Coffman Chronicle:
https://www.thecoffmanchronicle.com/s/five-minutes-in-america

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Perfectionism does not always look like fear.

Sometimes it shows up early, carries a clipboard, and points toward one more little thing a responsible person ought to fix.

In this episode of Along the Way, I look at the difference between craft and perfectionism, business and busyness—and the moment I finally allowed The Fence to stand on its own.

Listen to Five Minutes in America:
https://www.thecoffmanchronicle.com/s/five-minutes-in-america

Paid members of The Coffman Chronicle receive all five stories together on September 5, before weekday public release begins September 7:
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What have you kept perfecting because you are afraid to call it finished?

I’m Tony Michaels. I’ll see you... along the way.

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Success isn’t a spotless notebook. Success is refusing to surrender authorship.

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If somebody asked me to sum up everything I have learned about success in one sentence, this would be it:

It is impossible to fail.

We fail at things. We lose opportunities. We make mistakes. We write sentences we wish we could erase.

But those failures are events inside a life. They are not the verdict on a life.

Your life is the notebook. Your purpose is the pencil. The eraser reminds us that a mistake does not have to become a commandment.

You can make a correction. You can learn from the pages you cannot change. And while there is still an empty line in front of you, you can write the next sentence yourself.

In this episode of Along the Way, I also share the first taste of the music for Five Minutes in America—my new storytelling program coming to radio five days a week, five minutes at a time.

These stories won’t tell you which political team to join or ask you to spend five more minutes angry at somebody you have never met. They will take you to kitchen tables, fence lines, bait shops, front porches, and courthouse squares—places where ordinary people reveal who they are.

Paid members of The Coffman Chronicle will hear Five Minutes in America before the stories reach radio. Membership is $8 monthly or $80 annually, and it helps carry these stories from my notebook to the airwaves.

So let me ask you:

Who’s writing your story?

Tell me in the comments—and share this with someone who may be ready to take their pencil back.

I’m Tony Michaels. I’ll see you along the way.

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