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This week we talk to Mark Manson about making sacrifices

Mark Manson is an author and personal development consultant.  His writing is a different take on the self help genre. He calls it self help from a first-person perspective.

He’s been published and quoted on CNN, Huffington Post, Business Insider, Yahoo! News, The Sydney Morning Herald and a variety of other publications. He is also the CEO and Founder of Infinity Squared Media LLC.
 
His blog is read over 2 million times a month.

 
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 In This Interview Mark and I Discuss...

  • The One You Feed parable
  • Being aware of what we think is important
  • Opportunity Cost
  • The fallacy of being able to do everything
  • The sacrifice inherent in doing anything great
  • The subtle art of not giving a F*!%
  • The best friend test for relationships, its not what you think
  • Mark's issue with The Secret
  • The dangers of positive thinking
  • How action can be the cause of motivation

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This week Eric and Chris get interviewed

It has been 100 episodes of The One You Feed and as a way to makr the occasion we asked our friend Greg from the Life on Purpose podcast to interview Chris and I together. We talk about why we started the show, what it's like making it and what we've learned from it. We also feature a song that each of us has written.

Thanks to each and every one of you for listening to the show.

You can hear the full version of Chris' song My Body Betrays Me here

You can hear the full version of Eric's song Grass is Greener here

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This week we talk to Steve Almond about the good and bad in all of us

Steve Almond spent seven years as a newspaper reporter in Texas and Florida before writing his first book, the story collection My Life in Heavy Metal. His books, Candyfreak, and Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life: A Book by and for the Fanatics Among Us were New York Times Bestsellers. His short fiction has been included in The Best American Short Stories and Pushcart Prize anthologies, and his collection, God Bless America, won the Paterson Prize for Fiction. Almond writes commentary and journalism regularly for The New York Times Magazine and The Boston Globe. A former sports reporter and play-by-play man, his latst book is called Against Football: One Fan's Reluctant Manifesto.

He is also the co host of the popular Dear Sugar podcast that he co-hosts with Cheryl Strayed.

 
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 In This Interview Steve and I Discuss...

  • The beginnings of the Dear Sugar column
  • Being funny and poignant at the same time
  • What makes good writing
  • How to make an advice column good
  • The culture of treating everything like a joke or with irony
  • Kurt Vonnegut
  • Language, storytelling and humor as a way to fight of despair
  • The declining American culture
  • The One You Feed parable
  • The two stories that we are constantly telling the world
  • How the two wolves keep fighting all our lives
  • The flattening out of character in American discourse
  • How we all contain great and terrible qualities
  • How our culture makes a god out of convenience

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This week we talk to don Miguel Ruiz about the stories we tell ourselves

Don Miguel Ruiz is a renowned spiritual teacher and internationally bestselling author. He has spent the past three decades guiding students to personal freedom through his profound insights regarding the nature of human reality. His forthcoming book is called THE TOLTEC ART OF LIFE AND DEATH: A Story of Self Discovery written with Barbara Emrys

Combining Toltec mythology and scientific perspectives, don Miguel has been able to merge ancient wisdom with modern physics and practical common-sense, forging a new philosophy for seekers of truth and personal authenticity.  His landmark bestselling book, The Four Agreements, contains practical steps for long-term, personal transformation and has been read by millions around the world.

First published in 1997, The Four Agreements has since sold over five million copies in the United States and seven million worldwide. It has been translated into 38 languages, appeared on the New York Times bestseller for over seven years, and was the 36th bestselling book of the decade. Don Miguel is also the author of The Mastery of LoveThe Voice of Knowledge, and the New York Times bestseller, The Fifth Agreement, a collaboration with his son, don José Ruiz.  Each of his books are international bestsellers.

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 In This Interview Miguel and I Discuss...

  • The One You Feed parable
  • His new book
  • That truth is life engergy, the force that moves matter
  • How we don't need to believe in the truth, it just exists
  • The fact that we are all artists and the greatest creation we have is the story of our lives
  • His near death experience
  • The fifth agreement
  • We learn to love by how others love us - with conditions
  • How we can start to love ourselves and others unconditionally
  • The fact that we are not responsible for other people's minds or other people's actions
  • How suffering is really in the mind and of the mind
  • That if we change our attitude, everything will change
  • The wonderful truth that you have control of your own life
  • The lesson that has taken him the longest to learn
  • Why he likes Popeye the Sailor Man

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This week we talk to Mike Peters

Mike Peters is a Welsh musician, best known as the lead singer of The Alarm. Between 2011 and 2013, Peters was the vocalist for Big Country as well as The Alarm.

A two time cancer survivor he founded the Love Hope Strength Foundation. The Foundation has found close to 1000 potentially life saving bone marrow donor matches; built the first ever children’s cancer center in Tanzania; supported the Bhaktapur Cancer Center in Nepal with life saving equipment and registered over 60,000 donors through it’s ‘Get On the List’ program.

Eric caught up with Mike in Akron on his tour supporting the 30th anniversary of the classic Strength album.

 

 
 
 
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In This Interview Mike and I Discuss...

  • The One You Feed parable
  • Feeding the positive side of our personality
  • Treating people the way we want to be treated
  • Seeing both sides of the story
  • Seeing The Clash and The Sex Pistols in 1977
  • Meeting Johnny Rotten and Joe Strummer
  • Joe Strummer teaching Mike to be positive
  • Creating an empowering message for the audience
  • What the song Strength means to him 30 years later
  • His 20 year battle with cancer
  • The Love Hope Strength Foundation
  • His approach to handling cancer
  • The power of music
  • Where he turns when he is struggling internally
  • The meaning of the song Blaze of Glory 

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This week we talk to Michael Taft about better mediation

Michael W. Taft is an author, editor, meditation teacher, and neuroscience junkie. He is currently a meditation coach specializing in secular, science-based meditation training in corporate settings and one-on-one sessions. Michael is the author of several books, including  The Mindful Geekand Nondualism: A Brief History of a Timeless ConceptEgo (which he co-authored), as well as the editor of such books as Hardwiring Happiness by Rick Hanson and the upcoming The Science of Enlightenment by Shinzen Young.

He has taught at Google and worked on curriculum development for SIYLI. Michael is also an official advisor to the Therapeutic Neuroscience Lab. He was previously editor-in-chief of Being Human, a site for exploring what evolution, neuroscience, biology, psychology, archeology, and technology can tell us about the human condition, and was editorial director of Sounds True.

 

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 In This Interview Michael and I Discuss...

  • The One You Feed parable
  • How it takes awareness to know what wolf we are feeding
  • Learning to meditate on emotional states
  • Defining meditation
  • The difference between meditation and mindfulness
  • Making the unconscious conscious
  • The misconceptions of meditation
  • How meditation does not mean having no thoughts
  • The Teletubbies
  • That meditation is not always supposed to be blissful
  • How there are more ways to meditate than just following the breath
  • His teacher Shinzen Young
  • The pillars of concentration, acceptance and sensory clarity
  • Meditation and the Flow state

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This week we talk to Casey Schwartz about the science of neuropsychoanalysis

CASEY SCHWARTZ is a graduate of Brown University and has a Masters Degree in psychodynamic neuroscience from University College London. She has worked as a staff writer at Newsweek/The Daily Beast, where she covered neuroscience, psychology, and psychiatry. Her writing has also appeared in The New York Times and The New York Sun. She lives in New York City.

 
 

 
 
 
 
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In This Interview Casey and I Discuss...

  • The One You Feed parable
  • What neuropsychanalysis is
  • Battling self doubt
  • The importance of asking others for help
  • The Don Draper approach to creativity
  • Taking a "mind bath"
  • The divide between neuroscience and psychoanalysis
  • Freud's Boldest Idea: Transference
  • Mapping transference in the brain
  • The resurgence of the unconscious in current neuroscience research
  • Avoiding the temptation to boil us down to chemicals
  • Honoring the mystery of human life and behavior
  • Reductionism vs holism in science
  • The fantasy of the easy answer
  • The oversimplification of the role of the amygdala
  • The dangers of extrapolating animal studies to humans
  • Psychoanalysis on patients who have had brain damage
  • The uneven pathway of recovery
  • Starving neural pathways that separate thought from feeling

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Amy Banks, M.D., has devoted her career to understanding the neurobiology of relationships. In addition to her work at the Jean Baker Miller Training Institute (JBMTI), she was an instructor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. She is the first person to bring relational-cultural theory together with neuroscience and is the foremost expert in the combined field.

Amy is the creator of the C.A.R.E. Program, an easy to use, practical guide that helps clinicians and laypeople assess the quality of their relationships and strengthen their neural pathways for connection. Amy also has a private practice in Lexington, MA, that specializes in relational psychopharmacology and therapy for people who suffer from chronic disconnection. Most recently, Amy has joined the core group of Harville Hendrix’s Relationships First, a small group of prestigious scientists and cultural leaders who promote the idea that “healthy relationships are non-negotiable in a healthy society.”

Her latest book is: Four Ways to Click: Rewire Your Brain for Stronger, More Rewarding Relationships

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In This Interview Amy and I Discuss...

  • The One You Feed parable
  • How feeding neurons means stimulating them
  • How culture can feed our bad wolf
  • The power of isolation & how it can lead to more sickness
  • How humans work best in healthy connection & interdependence with one another
  • The importance of identifying and building healthy relationships
  • The "5 good things" that exist in a healthy relationship
  • How boundaries in relationships are overrated
  • The 1 sign that you are at a 340% higher risk of premature death
  • The 4 neural pathways that function in the relationship realm

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Kevin Breel is a 21-year-old writer, comedian, and activist for mental health. His work has been featured by NBCCBS, The Huffington Post, MTV, CNN, The Today Show, Mashable and The Wall Street Journal.  His passionate TEDx talk entitled "Confessions of a Depressed Comic" went instantly viral online- amassing millions of viewers and being featured on more than 200+ media outlets. Mashable called it "one of the moments that brought the world together" and the Huffington Post said the talk was "simply amazing."

As a comedian, he’s performed in venues all across the globe; including the House of Blues, Rogers Arena and the historic Colosseum.  As a mental health activist, he's a National Spokesperson for the Bell LET'S TALK Campaign and has been a guest speaker at Ivy League schools and billion dollar companies.

His first book, available now, is called Boy Meets Depression: Or Life Sucks and Then You Live

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 In This Interview Kevin and I Discuss...

  • Still wrestling with depression
  • His viral Ted talk
  • Learning to build the skill set to handle depression
  • Defining our emotional landscape
  • The benefits of waking up early
  • The power and stabilizing force of a routine
  • The importance of honest conversations with others
  • Taking care of the physical body to help with depression
  • Learning to recognize when were taking a turn for the worse and knowing how to respond

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This week we talk to Tony Horton about the law of consistency

Tony Horton is the master behind the best-selling fitness series: P90X®, P90X2®10-Minute Trainer®, his latest 30-minute dynamo P90X3® and the brand new “X” series prequel; P90. Tony is a world-class motivational speaker and author of the top selling books “Bring It,” “Crush It,” and the incredibly motivating “The Big Picture.” He has appeared on countless television and radio programs as a fitness and lifestyle expert and is sought after to appear at Fortune 500 corporate events, health and wellness expos, universities and over 40 military bases throughout the world.

For the past 25 years, Tony has used his unique brand of humor to change the lives of over 8 million people through his powerful fusion of motivation, physical exercise, nutrition and discipline. From world class athletes, pro sports teams, congressmen, celebrities and the U.S Military, to corporate executives, couch potatoes and busy moms and dads alike, Tony has what it takes to reach and teach them all.

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 In This Interview Tony and I Discuss...

  • The One You Feed parable
  • How Tony used to feed his bad wolf
  • How we all need different approaches to changing our lives
  • The importance of the right teacher
  • Starting with the physical aspect of change
  • Working on the things we can control
  • The mental benefits of physical action
  • The downside of shortcuts to feeling better
  • Doing your best and forgetting the rest

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