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Dear Medium readers: Please Join Me in a Movement to Up Humanity’s Game!

It’s time for us to take this spiritual thing up a notch.

David Gerken
4 min readNov 18, 2024
Photo by Simon Berger on Unsplash

Dearest loyal Medium readers. It’s been a while. Why? I’ve been writing for the past few months on Substack.com.

After four years writing on Medium, I simply saw that Substack was a better fit for me. No hard feelings at all toward Medium.

If you enjoyed my writings and want to continue on the path with me, I humbly ask you to read on and learn the full story of what I’m up to.

My life story in a few sentences

Let me start with some background as some of you know my story and some don’t.

I grew up in Newport Beach, California, then headed off to Princeton for college. After graduating, I moved to Washington, D.C., where I worked on Capitol Hill for two congressmen and then ran a lobbying company.

After a good bit of soul-searching, I decided to throw caution to the wind and pursue my creative side. So I packed up my car and drove to Hollywood where I became a television writer.

My big break came working on The West Wing, where I was on the writing team that won the Emmy for Best Drama Series. I then worked on some lesser-known…

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David Gerken
David Gerken

Written by David Gerken

Meditation and Mindfulness teacher. Dad of three precious kids. Former writer for THE WEST WING. Follow me at davidgerken.net.

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