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042: Chris Guillebeau

September 10, 2014 By Eric Zimmer Leave a Comment

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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

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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043: Chris Grosso- The Indie Spiritualist

September 16, 2014 By Eric Zimmer Leave a Comment

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This week we talk to Chris Grosso

Chris Grosso is an author, independent culturist, spiritual aspirant, recovering addict, speaker, and professor with en*theos Academy. He writes for Origin magazine, Mantra Yoga + Health magazine and created the popular hub for all things alternative, independent, and spiritual with TheIndieSpiritualist.com. Chris continues the exploration with his debut book titled The Indie Spiritualist.

In This Interview Chris and I Discuss…

The One You Feed parable.
How asking is the best way to get a yes.
Having Danny Trejo pointing a steak knife at him.
What the word spiritual means.
Don’t believe things on faith, try them out for yourself.
Eddie Van Halen solo and Chris’s mystical experience.
How spiritual experience can happen anywhere, it does not have to be a “sacred” place.
Chris Forbes and his love of Air Supply.
No mud, no lotus.
Becoming great because of our pain.
Hiding from pain with drugs and alcohol.
How his parents were his first teacher of compassion.
Johnny Cash, punk rock, and hard-core music.

Chris Grosso Links

The Indie Spiritualist

Chris Grosso on Twitter

Chris Grosso on Facebook

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014: Chris Brogan

March 11, 2014 By Eric Zimmer 7 Comments

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This week on The One You Feed we have Chris Brogan.

Chris Brogan is a best selling author, the publisher of the new online business magazine Owner, and the president of Human Business Works. He leads online classes on improving your business and yourself. He has a popular podcast and is one of the good guys in online marketing.

Chris puts out a weekly newsletter that you can sign up for here. It is one of those rare emails that I read each week.

We had a chance to go beyond (actually skipped entirely) online marketing and instead focused on being a better human.

In This Interview Chris and I Discuss…

The One You Feed parable.
The bad wolf’s smelly poop.
The power of confidence.
Building confidence by taking small risks.
How limiting chasing comfort can be.
Feedback and reward systems.
The value of accountability.
How mind reading others lands us in trouble.
Permission.
Starting where you are.
How Seth Godin got Chris to read Pema Chodron.
Chris’ conversion to Buddhism.
Dealing with setbacks.
Than danger of the all or nothing mentality.

Chris Brogan Links

Owner Magazine

Chris Brogan Homepage

Human Business Works

Pre-Order Chris’ latest book: The Freaks Shall Inherit the Earth: Entrepreneurship for Weirdos, Misfits, and World Dominators

Twitter- @chrisbrogan

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072: Chris Hoke

April 22, 2015 By Eric Zimmer 3 Comments

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This week we talk to Chris Hoke about finding spirituality within the darkness

Chris Hoke is a jail chaplain and minister to Mexican gang and migrant worker communities in Washington’s Skagit Valley. His experiences are recounted in his new book, Wanted: A Spiritual Pursuit Through Jail, Among Outlaws, and Across Borders, which Kirkus calls “a liberating, transformative chronicle of how spirituality can foster inspiration and hope while emboldening the downtrodden through their darkest days.” Through his work with the organization Tierra Nueva, Hoke co-founded a coffee-roasting business, Underground Coffee, which employs men coming out of prison and addiction, and connects them to agricultural partners in Honduras. Hoke’s work has been featured on NPR’s Snap Judgment and in Sojourners, Image Journal, Modern Farmer, and Christian Century.

In This Interview Chris and I Discuss…

The One You Feed parable.
Thinking of how we feed others as much as ourselves.
The state of our current prison system.
Practical Mysticism.
Bringing spirituality into the here and now.
How creation begins in a place of darkness and chaos.
How our challenges can make us great.
Hearing our own stories in old spiritual stories.
The rawness of the Bible.
The spiritual search.
The gift of tears.
Using sorrow to tame what is savage in our souls.
The limits of our ability to transform.
How some people might have more sensitive spiritual antenna.
The difference between mental illness and spiritual hearing.
How we would lock up the biblical prophets today.
How love means embracing suffering.
The Circle of Concern and the Circle of Influence.
Fighting despair.
Dealing with disappointment and heartbreak.
Underground Coffee- you should buy it!! (see below)

Chris Hoke Links

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181: Chris Niebauer

June 6, 2017 By Eric Zimmer Leave a Comment

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This week we talk to Chris Niebauer

Chris Niebauer received his Ph.D. in Cognitive Neuropsychology from the University of Toledo where he specialized in left-right brain differences. He has conducted research on consciousness, handedness, beliefs and the sense of self and is currently an associate professor of cognitive psychology at Slippery Rock University in Pennsylvania. When he is not teaching, Chris likes to play guitar, spend time with his family, and work on new books. His new book is called The Neurotic’s Guide to Avoiding Enlightenment: How the Left Brain Plays Unending Games of Self-improvement

In This Interview, Chris Niebauer and I Discuss…

His book, The Neurotic’s Guide to Avoiding Enlightenment: How the Left Brain Plays Unending Games of Self-improvement
That your thoughts and behaviors should match and when they don’t you look to make it happen – Cognitive Dissonance
Confirmation Bias
The power of gratitude
The mechanics of thoughts themselves
The law of opposition
Why if you accept a bad mood, it begins to dissipate
That the universe is always becoming something that it isn’t
The good and bad news about the ego
The impermanence of “things”
The eternal nature of “verbs”
The often incorrect storytelling, or pattern finding nature of the left brain
The left brain interpreter
The ego as a story that we tell ourselves
The challenge of finding consciousness in the brain
“Doing” rather than “having” consciousness
The analogy of jogging to consciousness or ego: if you stop jogging and pat yourself down trying to find the “jogging” in you. It’s a verb, not a noun
The connection between pattern finding and depression vs anxiety
A state of enlightenment and the left, pattern-finding brain
How we want the universe to be a mystery

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A grandfather is talking with his grandson and he says there are two wolves inside of us which are always at war with each other.

One of them is a good wolf which represents things like kindness, bravery and love. The other is a bad wolf, which represents things like greed, hatred and fear.

The grandson stops and thinks about it for a second then he looks up at his grandfather and says, “Grandfather, which one wins?”

The grandfather quietly replies, the one you feedThe Tale of Two Wolves is often attributed to the Cherokee indians but there seems to be no real proof of this. It has also been attributed to evangelical preacher Billy Graham and Irish Playwright George Bernard Shaw. It appears no one knows for sure but this does not diminish the power of the parable.

This parable goes by many names including:

The Tale of Two Wolves

The Parable of the Two Wolves

Two Wolves

Which Wolf Do You Feed

Which Wolf are You Feeding

Which Wolf Will You Feed

It also often features different animals, mainly two dogs.

113: Chris Grosso

February 9, 2016 By Eric Zimmer 4 Comments

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This week we talk to Chris Grosso about Everything Mind

Only the third repeat guest on the The One You Feed, Chris Grosso is a public speaker, writer, and author of Indie Spiritualist: A No Bullshit Exploration of Spirituality and Everything Mind: What I’ve Learned About Hard Knocks, Spiritual Awakening and the Mind-Blowing Truth of it All.

He writes for ORIGIN Magazine, Huffington Post, and Mantra Yoga + Health Magazine, and has spoken and performed at Wanderlust Festival, Celebrate Your Life, Yoga Journal Conference, Sedona World Wisdom Days, Kripalu, and more.

He is a member of the advisory board for Drugs over Dinner and hosts The Indie Spiritualist Podcast on The Mindpod Network.

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In This Interview Chris Grosso and I Discuss…

The One You Feed parable
Welcoming Mara in
How there is no end point in life
His new book
How spirit surrounds us in all aspects of life
How spirituality includes the dark sides of ourselves
Finding spirituality everywhere, including Megadeath and Motorhead
The relative and absolute truth
The journey from the head to the heart
That there are different approaches to awakening
Art as a path to spirituality
Meditation versus mindfulness
Everything Mind
Discovering interdependence at a Motorhead show
Positive concentration practices

Chris Grosso Links

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100: Eric and Chris Get Interviewed for 100th Episode

November 11, 2015 By Eric Zimmer 1 Comment

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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 mark 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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Who We Are

The One You Feed is created and produced by Eric Zimmer and Chris Forbes.

We have been friends for over 25 years. For some reason that neither of us remembers we affectionately refer to each other as Horse, although it’s often something more like Horse Face or Horse Balls.

We don’t share too many of our specific life circumstances on here because if history is any judge one of us will screw them up in the not too distant future and it’ll all change.

Chris is the tall and handsome one and Eric is the smart and…..oh wait…..maybe Chris is the tall and smart one and Eric is the handsome and……oh never mind. Between the two of us, we have most characteristics you’d actually want in ONE person. And maybe enough bad characteristics for three people.

We started the show for a few different reasons. As we both got older we started seeing less of each other and the show seemed like a great way to rectify that problem. In addition, we are both prone to being sad sacks so we figured we needed the content of the show as much or more than any listeners. The other reason is that Eric gets easily bored and this was simply the most recent of his half-baked ideas that actually got some traction.

Among many highlights of the show for us was having Mike Scott of the Waterboys on the show. We have both been big fans since before we met each other and it is something we often enjoy together. We used to grab a guitar, play and sing the song Fisherman’s Blues, in a hallway a long time ago. We did it literally hundreds of times with a rotating cast of characters and misfits joining in. We recently got to see the Waterboys on their US tour and in addition to an amazing concert we were grateful to be able to go backstage and see the band after the show.

All of the music you hear on the show is written, produced and recorded by the two of us.

We are extremely grateful for those of you who listen and enjoy the show. Please say hi anytime. We’d love to talk with you.

Contact Eric- [email protected]

Contact Chris- [email protected]

Note: For requests to be a guest on this show, please do not use these emails. Please send an email to [email protected] Due to the number of guest requests sent we are unable to respond to them all. Thank so much for your interest! If you use the emails above we will disregard the request. Thanks.

More about Eric Zimmer

I am a dad, serial entrepreneur, podcast host, behavior coach and author. I’m endlessly inspired by the quest for a greater understanding of how our minds work and how to intentionally create the lives we want to live.

At the age of 24, I was homeless, addicted to heroin and facing long jail sentences. In the years since I have found a way to recover from addiction and build a life worth living for myself.

I currently host this award-winning podcast, The One You Feed, which is based on an old parable about two wolves at battle within us. With over 200 episodes and more than 10 million downloads, the show features conversations with experts across many fields of study about how to create a life worth living.

These experts include scientists, authors, researchers, teachers, thought leaders, spiritual gurus and public figures and all offer practical, actionable wisdom that our listeners can readily apply to their lives in order to act their way into a better, more fulfilling life.

In addition to producing the show, I work as a behavior coach and have done so for the past 20 years. During that time, I have coached hundreds of people from around the world on how to successfully and sustainably make the changes in their lives that they want to make.

My story and my work have been featured in the media including TedX, Mind Body Green, Elephant Journal, The Guardian and Brain Pickings.

Some other pictures of us

Between us we own 4 of the 6 dogs in this picture + another not shown

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Oliver Burkeman on Modern Time Management

March 19, 2019 By Nicole Silberman Leave a Comment

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Oliver Burkeman is an award-winning writer for The Guardian and his book, The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can’t Stand Positive Thinking explores the upsides of failure, difficulty, and imperfection – which we discussed in our first interview with Oliver several hundred episodes ago. Each week in his column in The Guardian, “This Column Will Change Your Life”, he writes about social psychology, self-help culture, productivity, and the science of happiness. In this interview, he discusses his take on time management in today’s world.

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In This Interview, Oliver Burkeman and I Discuss…

His take on the modern time management world
That technologies of efficiency don’t seem to bring peace of mind
How your to-do list is never going to go away
That having emails in your inbox is not necessarily a problem
Time management whispers of the possibility of true peace of mind
Thinking of “a simpler time”
How processing through your inbox is like climbing up an infinitely long ladder
That tough choices have to be made when deciding what to do with your time – no matter how many productivity assists you have
How it’s often easier to spend time on trivial stuff than the big projects
David Allen’s book, Getting Things Done
How no one beats them self up for not being able to jump a mile in the air because they never thought they could in the first place
Similarly, accepting the real limitations in how much time you have and how much you can get done is incredibly liberating
Productivity advice from Warren Buffet
The role social media plays in our expectations about how productive we could or should be
How digital distractions help us numb out

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