I'm Dave Isay, founder of Storycore.

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The Guinness Book of World Records has recognized Bollywood-Lewisist Samir Anjan, for writing

a staggering 3,524 songs.

But deep in Tennessee, one man might have everyone beat.

Jim von Stein has been writing songs since he was 9 years old.

In the last few years, he's written a song or two a day, every day.

There are so many songs you've written now.

I guess probably 8,000, at least.

But almost nobody has ever heard them.

It's funny at one point, I got to make a deal with God.

I said, let me live long enough to write 200 songs.

Well, within a couple of years, I was almost up on 200 songs.

So I made another deal with God.

I said, let me write 10,000 songs.

But then I felt like, oh my goodness, now I got to really write a lot of songs.

It's because you don't want to get there and God be mad at you when you get there.

For our last episode of the season, what happens when fear is so paralyzing, but it stops you

from following your dream.

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