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Ryan Holiday is an American author and marketer who has become one of the leading voices bringing Stoic philosophy to modern readers. Inspired in particular by the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, he presents Stoicism as a practical way of living. Raised in Sacramento, California, he left the University of California, Riverside, at 19 to work at a Hollywood talent agency, later worked with author Robert Greene and served as director of marketing for American Apparel. His first book, Trust Me, I'm Lying (2012), pulled back the curtain on the media manipulation tactics he had used as a marketer, and he followed it with Growth Hacker Marketing. He then turned to philosophy with The Obstacle Is the Way (2014), Ego Is the Enemy (2016) and The Daily Stoic (2016), a book of daily meditations, along with Stillness Is the Key. Since 2018 he has hosted The Daily Stoic Podcast, and he runs the creative marketing firm Brass Check. Holiday brings clear, actionable ideas about resilience, discipline and self-mastery, drawn from ancient wisdom and his own career, to audiences of every size.