

The One You Feed | Personal Growth, Emotional Resilience & Purpose
Eric Zimmer
Build resilience. Cultivate self-compassion. Live with purpose. The One You Feed brings conversations with leading thinkers — James Clear, Susan Cain, Tara Brach, and more — to help you navigate life’s challenges and feed your good wolf. No perfection, just direction, insight, and the small, consistent actions that make a meaningful life.
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Jul 3, 2019 • 49min
Claire Booth on Curing Achiever Fever
Claire Booth is an entrepreneur, author, and speaker. She’s the founder and CEO of the market research firm Lux Insights with two decades of experience serving some of the worlds most recognized brands. In this episode, Eric and Claire discuss her book, The Achiever Fever Cure: How I Learned to Stop Striving Myself Crazy.Need help with completing your goals in 2019? The One You Feed Transformation Program can help you accomplish your goals this year.But wait – there’s more! The episode is not quite over!! We continue the conversation and you can access this exclusive content right in your podcast player feed. Head over to our Patreon page and pledge to donate just $10 a month. It’s that simple and we’ll give you good stuff as a thank you!In This Interview, Claire Booth and I Discuss…
Her book, The Achiever Fever Cure: How I Learned to Stop Striving Myself Crazy
Her experience of learning to love her bad wolf
Keeping her inner house clean
The anxiety, depression, and insomnia that came with her constant achieving
The difference between achiever fever and achieving
I’ll be happy when…
The craving mindset of achieving
How every leader in her business has a coach
The importance of a coach
The questions we ask ourselves, the stories we tell ourselves – that we need someone to poke holes in them
Her inner critic – the judge
The left brain interpreter
Checking your thoughts for truth
Asking if your thought could be defended 100% in a court of law
Asking yourself, who would I be without that thought?
Cognitive Bias
Asking yourself “Would my life be better if I wasn’t drinking?”
The feeling of worry
How she is able to let go of worry
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Jun 26, 2019 • 57min
Adyashanti on Living in the Service of Truth - Part 2
Adyashanti is an American born spiritual teacher devoted to serving the awakening of all beings. His teachings are an open invitation to stop, inquire and recognize what is true and liberating at the core of all existence. Adyashanti also runs the Omega retreat which Eric has taken part in many times. In this episode, part 2 of a 2 part interview, Eric and Adya continue their conversation about his latest book, The Most Important Thing: Discovering Truth at the Heart of Life.Need help with completing your goals in 2019? The One You Feed Transformation Program can help you accomplish your goals this year.But wait – there’s more! The episode is not quite over!! We continue the conversation and you can access this exclusive content right in your podcast player feed. Head over to our Patreon page and pledge to donate just $10 a month. It’s that simple and we’ll give you good stuff as a thank you!In This Interview, Adyashanti and I Discuss…
How his relationship to his wife has become more of a mystery over their 23 years together
The role of play and being silly
How our spiritual striving can get in the way – in meditation, specifically
How meditation is the relinquishing of an agenda
The way we engage with the mystery of being
The curiosity that was sparked when he realized he was a mystery unto himself
That spirituality is an experiential encounter with the unknown
The paradox we’re embracing with meditation
Start meditation by listening to the quiet spaces inside, let go of trying to control what’s happening in your mind
When you realize you’re lost in thought during meditation, kindly and gently encourage your attention back to your meditation anchor or listening
Observe your relationship with failure – or things going some other way than the way you want them to – during meditation
Gratitude for popping out of the dream or trance state
Encountering life attitudes during meditation
Spiritual insight during real life – what do you value at any given moment?
Chasing a spiritual high
Asking “what am I in service to?”
Not having to have the feeling in order to engage in right action
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Jun 19, 2019 • 45min
Adyashanti on Living in the Service of Truth
Adyashanti is an American born spiritual teacher devoted to serving the awakening of all beings. His teachings are an open invitation to stop, inquire and recognize what is true and liberating at the core of all existence. Adyashanti also runs the Omega retreat which Eric has taken part in many times. In this episode, Eric and Adya talk about his latest book, The Most Important Thing: Discovering Truth at the Heart of Life.Need help with completing your goals in 2019? The One You Feed Transformation Program can help you accomplish your goals this year.But wait – there’s more! The episode is not quite over!! We continue the conversation and you can access this exclusive content right in your podcast player feed. Head over to our Patreon page and pledge to donate just $10 a month. It’s that simple and we’ll give you good stuff as a thank you!In This Interview, Adyashanti and I Discuss…
His book, The Most Important Thing: Discovering Truth at the Heart of Life
Attention and Intention
The inquiry at any given time: Where are we giving our attention to?
Considering the question: What is worthwhile orienting your life around?
The limitations that come with aging
How the definition of happiness changes as we age
Wholeness of being
Life as it is rather than the image of life
Two interpretations of the fact that sometimes those who are the most unhappy tend to be seeking happiness the most
Shooting for meaning rather than happiness
How meaning is an experience of being
The inquiry: What am I in service to?
That we don’t seem to do well as human beings when we live exclusively for ourselves
What does it mean to really serve what you realize (rather than trying to realize more and more)
The mistaken thinking that an act of service must be grand in scale or scope or must be visible to really count or matter
How it’s easy to be noble when you are noticed but in most of our lives that’s not what’s taking place
That giving time and attention when someone needs it can make for transformative moments
Seeing the importance of the things you do in your life now that are in service
That you can’t make yourself awaken but what you do DOES have an impact – it’s just indirect
The yearning itself comes from the very thing we’re yearning for (in terms of awakening)
Adyshanti Links:adyashanti.orgTwitterFacebookInstagramDaily Harvest – they deliver absolutely delicious organic, carefully sourced, chef-created fruit and veggie smoothies, soups, overnight oats, bowls and more! To get 3 cups free in your first box, visit www.daily-harvest.com and enter promo code: FEEDFabFitFun is a seasonal subscription box delivered 4 times a year with full-sized beauty, fashion, home, fitness, and wellness products for just $49.99 a box – though the box is valued at more than $200. The summer box is valued at over $400! Eric’s girlfriend absolutely loved the box they sent and has already signed up to receive their fall box. Use the code FEED to get $10 off your first box at www.fabfitfun.comPhlur makes stunning, non-toxic perfumes, listing every ingredient and why it’s there. Visit www.phlur.com and enter promo code WOLF to get 20% off first custom sampler setIf you liked this episode, you might also enjoy these other episodes:Adyashanti (Part 1) 2018Adyashanti (Part 2) 2018See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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Jun 17, 2019 • 3min
Something Special
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Jun 12, 2019 • 49min
Donna Hylton on Healing and Hope
Donna Hylton is a women’s rights activist and criminal justice reform advocate. Donna speaks publicly about the issues facing incarcerated women and girls and the significant impact the significant increase in the female prison population is having on families, children and our communities. Her book, “A Little Piece of Light: A Memoir of Hope, Prison, and a Life Unbound” tells the story of the childhood abuse she endured, the spiral of events that lead to her incarceration and how she learned to live, love and trust all over again. In this episode, Donna shares some deeply personal stories of her traumatic past and how she found her voice to help other victims of violence and abuse. Need help with completing your goals in 2019? The One You Feed Transformation Program can help you accomplish your goals this year.But wait – there’s more! The episode is not quite over!! We continue the conversation and you can access this exclusive content right in your podcast player feed. Head over to our Patreon page and pledge to donate just $10 a month. It’s that simple and we’ll give you good stuff as a thank you!In This Interview, Donna Hylton and I Discuss…
Her book, “A Little Piece of Light: A Memoir of Hope, Prison, and a Life Unbound”
Navigating the good times and bad times of her early childhood.
Finding the courage to ask for help.
How she ran track in high school as a way to “run away”
How we must talk about these painful stories to get to the root causes.
How dealing with trauma does something to our psyche.
Believing we don’t have value can be reinforced by those around you.
Dealing with the difficult relationship with her daughter, who was the result of rape
Years of therapy and healing helped find that place of light inside herself.
How talking about the trauma releases the pain instead of holding on to it.
How we need to face the trauma, try to understand it and then try to stop it.
When you’re young, you believe that what happens around you is your fault and therefore often make the same mistakes because you don’t know how to rationalize what is happening.
How she became a wounded healer.
How she started healing and forgiving herself when she went to prison.
How she became an advocate for the sick women in prison after losing a close friend.
Realizing she could no longer stand by or stay silent when something bad happened to others.
How she helped bring counseling, educational and other care programs into the prison system.
Saying goodbye to the little girl inside who was silent
Embracing the little girl inside who found her voice
We are not the worst moment in our lives, we’re not our mistakes
We are human beings who have been through something
Being part of the newly passed Domestic Violence Survivors Justice Act (DVSJA) which considers alternative sentencing or intervention for those convicted who have been victims of severe abuse.
When a body is put under pressure, it’s going to react and do whatever it takes to survive
Her source of unconditional love and truth, Sister Mary, who helped her to become the activist she is today.
How “we can connect deeply with humanity if we look through the eyes of love and compassion”
We were created in love and beauty is all around us if we can just recognize it.
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Jun 5, 2019 • 45min
David Kadavy on Getting Started
David Kadavy is a best selling author, blogger, podcaster and speaker. Through his blogging and podcasting, he helps people find satisfaction through following their crafts even if it takes them down an unconventional path. His book, The Heart to Start: Stop Procrastinating and Start Creating, is what he and Eric discuss in this episode. If you ever struggle with procrastination, you’ll find this episode helpful, informative, inspiring and empowering. There’s some real, practical wisdom here that will enable you to get started with whatever it is that you want to do in your life.Need help with completing your goals in 2019? The One You Feed Transformation Program can help you accomplish your goals this year.But wait – there’s more! The episode is not quite over!! We continue the conversation and you can access this exclusive content right in your podcast player feed. Head over to our Patreon page and pledge to donate just $10 a month. It’s that simple and we’ll give you good stuff as a thank you!In This Interview, David Kadavy and I Discuss…
His book, The Heart to Start: Stop Procrastinating and Start Creating
How to get started
The things that stand in the way of us starting
What it means to be creative, or to create
The resistance that comes from the ego surrounding getting started
Motivational Judo
Tricks to get yourself to just get started
Give yourself permission to suck
You can’t do good work without doing bad work first
Perfection paralysis
What happens when the scale of a creative project is too big
Fortress fallacy
The role of curiosity in getting started
Balancing exploitation and exploration
Following your curiosities
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May 29, 2019 • 37min
Alan Castel, Ph.D. on Successful Aging
Alan Castel, Ph.D. is a professor in the Department of Psychology at The University of California Los Angeles. His research focuses on how cognition changes with age and how people selectively remember important events. His work has been supported by the National Institute on Aging and has been featured in The New York Times and Time Magazine. In this episode, Eric and Alan discuss his book, Better with Age: The Psychology of Successful Aging.Need help with completing your goals in 2019? The One You Feed Transformation Program can help you accomplish your goals this year.But wait – there’s more! The episode is not quite over!! We continue the conversation and you can access this exclusive content right in your podcast player feed. Head over to our Patreon page and pledge to donate just $10 a month. It’s that simple and we’ll give you good stuff as a thank you!In This Interview, Alan Castel, Ph.D. and I Discuss…
His book, Better with Age: The Psychology of Successful Aging
How mindset matters in aging
Role models in successful aging
That life can get better with ageSocio-Emotional Selectivity Theory
The realization that time is finite
The ways that life can get better the older we get
What helps prevent cognitive decline
That older adults often have less regret than younger adult
How we’re better at focusing on what’s important as we age
Walking or getting physical exercise (getting blood flow to the brain) is key in preventing cognitive decline
The importance of balance training when it comes to healthy aging
How illuminating it is to test your balance
How helpful it is to be around people who do the things that we’re looking to do in our lives
The challenges that come with retirement – and how to overcome them
The middle way as it applies to retirement
The two most important things in life
Alan Castel, Ph.D. Links:memory & lifespan cognition labgoogle scholarNetsuite by Oracle – the business software that handles every aspect of your business in an easy to use cloud platform. Get Netsuite’s free guide, 7 Key Strategies to Grow Your Profits, by going to www.netsuite.com/wolfPhlur makes stunning, non-toxic perfumes, listing every ingredient and why it’s there. Visit www.phlur.com and enter promo code WOLF to get 20% off first custom sampler setThe Upper Room – a global ministry where you can join a worldwide community of Christian believers in daily prayer and devotional practice. Go to www.upperroom.org/welcome to get a free 30-day trial.If you liked this episode, you might also enjoy these other episodes:Jonathan RauchParker J. PalmerSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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May 21, 2019 • 58min
Re-Release: Mary O'Malley on Practical Awakening
Mary O’Malley is an author, teacher, and counselor whose work awakens others to the joy of being fully alive. Her inspired and transformative approach to compulsions offers a way to replace fear, hopelessness, and struggle with ease, well-being, and joy. Through her individual counseling and coaching, books, classes, retreats, and ongoing groups, Mary invites people to experience the miracle of awakening.Acknowledged as a leader in the field of Awakening by many Mary clearly sees both the big picture and the details of human patterns and conditioning. She possesses an extraordinary ability to understand and connect with people. And she is skilled in empowering people to work with difficult mind states resulting in greater inner awareness and presence and a greater capacity for joy. Eckhart Tolle says, “Thank you, Mary, for your contribution to the evolution of human consciousness.”Her latest book is called What’s In the Way, Is the Way: A Practical Guide to Awakening.Need help with completing your goals in 2019? The One You Feed Transformation Program can help you accomplish your goals this year.But wait – there’s more! The episode is not quite over!! We continue the conversation and you can access this exclusive content right in your podcast player feed. Head over to our Patreon page and pledge to donate just $10 a month. It’s that simple and we’ll give you good stuff as a thank you!In This Interview, Mary O’Malley and I Discuss…
The intertwining of good and bad, the yin and yang
Dealing with eating problems
How what we fight, we empower
Creating a relationship with the dark side
The impact of the early years of our lives
The conditioned self
How we are addicted to struggle
Being present to life instead of thinking our way through life
The “low-grade suffering” that permeates our lives
The storyteller in our minds
The Four Lets
Learning to not listen so closely to the storyteller in our mind
The difference between being here for life and being in a conversation about life
The power of curiosity
The 8 core spells that we tell ourselves
Look to Unhook
The power of human attention to heal
Sticking with these practices even when it seems to be going slow
Watching for tightness in yourself as a trigger to let go
Learning to be here for whatever life presents
The gift of our compulsions
Having a set of beliefs that empower us versus take our power away
Life is set up to bring up what is bound up so we can open up to be freed up so can show up for life
Not being the victim of life
Having the ability to come back to the heart
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May 15, 2019 • 49min
Ruth Whippman on the Complexity of Happiness
Ruth Whippman is a regular contributor to radio shows, television, and podcasts, having made appearances on shows including NPR’s Brian Lehrer Show, To the Point, CBS news and Morning Edition amongst many others. She is also a regular speaker and has given talks at Google, Princeton University and UC Berkeley as well as many other venues. Her book is, America the Anxious: How Our Pursuit of Happiness is Creating a Nation of Nervous Wrecks and it is this – along with the flaws of the self help that she and Eric talk about in this episode.Need help with completing your goals in 2019? The One You Feed Transformation Program can help you accomplish your goals this year.But wait – there’s more! The episode is not quite over!! We continue the conversation and you can access this exclusive content right in your podcast player feed. Head over to our Patreon page and pledge to donate just $10 a month. It’s that simple and we’ll give you good stuff as a thank you!In This Interview, Ruth Whippman and I Discuss...
Her book, America the Anxious: How Our Pursuit of Happiness is Creating a Nation of Nervous Wrecks
How many people in the self-help industry are trying to sell easy answers and life is incredibly complex
Sitting with a certain amount of complexity in life
The flaws with studies
The one thing consistent across all research and people’s experience about happiness
The American tradition of self-reliance
The victim blaming myth that we’re completely responsible for how we feel
That circumstances absolutely play a role in our degree of happiness
What’s behind the positive psychology movement
How we need to think of well being as a shared responsibility
That it’s easy to lose compassion when you go too far down the road of “your happiness is completely within your control and completely your responsibility”
The flaws in The Law of Attraction theory
How to cope with the anxiety-producing stuff going on in the news
The importance of social support, community, and connection
The challenges of social media
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May 7, 2019 • 46min
Skip Prichard on Mistakes and Success
Skip Prichard is the fifth president of OCLC, a global library cooperative that supports thousands of libraries in making information more accessible and more useful to people around the world. Among Skip’s many passions is his leadership insights blog where he interviews authors and thought leaders and shares his views on a number of topics. His new book is The Book of Mistakes: 9 Secrets to Creating a Successful Future.Need help with completing your goals in 2019? The One You Feed Transformation Program can help you accomplish your goals this year.But wait – there’s more! The episode is not quite over!! We continue the conversation and you can access this exclusive content right in your podcast player feed. Head over to our Patreon page and pledge to donate just $10 a month. It’s that simple and we’ll give you good stuff as a thank you!In This Interview, Skip Prichard and I Discuss…
His book, The Book of Mistakes: 9 Secrets to Creating a Successful Future
How what you focus on grows
That he looks at everybody as a teacher
The riddle that’s perplexed him throughout his life
Success is when you’re filled with ambition and peace in equal measure at the same time
The mistake of accepting excuses
Built-in personal accountability
How nobody but you can work on your healing
Ok, that happened – what are you going to do about it
The microphone in our mind
Allowing temporary setbacks to become permanent failures
Having Grit
The very real pain of failure
How do you keep going through despair, failure, depression – it’s resilience
Are you showing up to the people in the room intentionally?
Skip Prichard Links:www.skipprichard.comtwitterfacebookCalm app – Reduce your anxiety and stress and help you sleep better. Meditations for anxiety, adult bedtime stories, soothing music, calm masterclasses with may One You Feed Guests. Visit www.calm.com/wolf for 25% off a Calm Premium SubscriptionThe Great Courses Plus – learn more about virtually any topic – beyond the basics and even master a subject if you want to. Get a free trial with access to their entire library at www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/wolfQuip – Check out the new kid’s Quip! Now the whole family can brush using an affordable and effective Quip toothbrush Go to www.getquip.com/wolf to get your refill pack for freeIf you liked this episode, you might also enjoy these other episodes:Sam WeinmanEmma SeppalaCarol DweckSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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