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Mishka Shubaly- The One You Feed [powerpress]  subscribe in itunes  This week we talk to Mishka Shubaly  After receiving an MFA from Columbia University, Mishka promptly quit writing to play music. He lived out of a Toyota minivan for a year, touring nonstop, and has shared the stage with artists like The Strokes, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs and The Decemberists.  His Kindle Singles for Amazon have all been bestsellers. He writes true stories about drink, drugs, disasters, desire, deception and their aftermath. The Long Run is Mishka’s mini-memoir and details his transformation from alcoholic drug abuser to sober ultrarunner. His latest Kindle single is called Of Mice and Me and details him finding an orphaned baby mouse and the life lessons it brought to him.  Also at the end of the interview we have a pre-release of a song from Mishka’s forthcoming record.   In This Interview Mishka and I Discuss...  The One You Feed parable. Watching the wolves battle since he was a kid. Nihilism and self defeating behaviors. How he celebrated his 5 years of sobriety. The ebb and flow of life. Remembering and forgetting our life lessons. How running is his meditation and prayer Doing the hard thing and embracing the challenges remind him that he wants to be alive.  How its harder to train for six weeks than to run 10 miles at once.  That smaller changes can be more difficult to maintain. Changing the default posture of our mind. How his mantra went from Fuck It to Try Every Day. Success being built on a series of failures. Learning to recover from our mistakes Extending the benefit of doubt to ourselves. The negative voice of the bad wolf. How we won't recover from addiction unless it is the most important thing in the world. His fear of AA. How there are no magic bullets. His public promise to attend an AA meeting. How it's worth trying anything once, expect maybe crystal meth. Our communal desire for having a lot of pain over a long period of time versus a brief intense pain. How following our dreams is not always the right approach. Playing music for the love of it. How the only thing that makes us happy is happiness. How getting everything we want doesn't always make us happy. Posting a picture of the The Strokes guitar player's ass all across Manhattan. Mishka Shubaly Links  Mishka Shubaly Homepage   Misha Shubaly Amazon Author page  Mishka Shubaly on Twitter  Of Mice and Me  The Long Run  Beat The Devil     subscribe in itunes  Some of our most popular interviews that you might also enjoy:  Kino MacGregor  Strand of Oaks  Mike Scott of the Waterboys  Todd Henry- author of Die Empty  Randy Scott Hyde

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This week we talk to Chris Guillebeau

Chris Guillebeau is a New York Times bestselling author and modern-day explorer.

During a lifetime of self-employment that included a four-year commitment as a volunteer executive in West Africa, he visited every country in the world (193 in total) before his 35th birthday. Since then he has modeled the proven definition of an entrepreneur: “Someone who will work 24 hours a day for themselves to avoid working one hour a day for someone else.”

Chris’s first book, The Art of Non-Conformity, was translated into more than twenty languages. His second book, The $100 Startup, was a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller, selling more than 300,000 copies worldwide. His latest book, The Happiness of Pursuit, was just released today.

Every summer in Portland, Oregon, Chris hosts the World Domination Summit, a gathering of creative, remarkable people with thousands in attendance. Chris is also the founder of Pioneer Nation, Unconventional Guides, the Travel Hacking Cartel, and numerous other projects.

 In This Interview Chris and I Discuss...

  • The One You Feed parable.
  • What is a quest?
  • Finding adventure and purpose.
  • How a quest add meaning to our lives.
  • How effort can be it's own reward.
  • How an emotional awareness of our mortality can be motivating.
  • Developing a sense of urgency and opportunity.
  • How misadventure builds confidence.
  •  The difference between a hobby, a passion and a quest.
  •  How depressed people tend to have more generalized goals.
  • How quests don't always wrap up cleanly.
  • Creating meaning in our lives.
  • Eric's free ticket to World Domination Summit.

Chris Guillebeau Links

Chris Guillebeau Homepage

World Domination Summit

Chris Guillebeau on Twitter

Chris Guillebeau Amazon Author Page

The Happiness of Pursuit

The $100 Startup

The Art of Non-Conformity

 

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Some of our most popular interviews that you might also enjoy:

Kino MacGregor

Strand of Oaks

Mike Scott of the Waterboys

Todd Henry- author of Die Empty

Randy Scott Hyde

 

 

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