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Eric Zimmer

Transformative ideas from the best thinkers on the planet including guests like James Clear, Susan Cain, Michael Pollan, Deepak Chopra, Nicole LaPera, Yung Pueblo, Gabor Mate, Maggie Smith, David Whyte, Macklemore, George Saunders, Anne Lamott, Frank Turner, Mark Manson, Tara Brach, AJ Jacobs, Oliver Burkeman, Ryan Holiday, Parker Palmer. It’s not about perfection; it’s about direction.

The One You Feed

This week we talk to Dr. Gabor Mate´ about addiction
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A renowned speaker, and bestselling author, Dr. Gabor Maté is highly sought after for his expertise on a range of topics including addiction, stress and childhood development.
For twelve years Dr. Maté worked in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside with patients challenged by hard-core drug addiction, mental illness and HIV, including at Vancouver’s Supervised Injection Site.
As an author, Dr. Maté has written several bestselling books including the award-winning In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction; When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress; and Scattered Minds: A New Look at the Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder, and co-authored Hold on to Your Kids. His works have been published internationally in twenty languages.
Dr. Maté is the co-founder of Compassion for Addiction, a new non-profit that focusses on addiction. He is also an advisor of Drugs over Dinner.
Dr. Maté has received the Hubert Evans Prize for Literary Non-Fiction; an Honorary Degree (Law) from the University of Northern British Columbia; an Outstanding Alumnus Award from Simon Fraser University; and the 2012 Martin Luther King Humanitarian Award from Mothers Against Teen Violence. He is an adjunct professor in the Faculty of Criminology, Simon Fraser University.

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In This Interview, Gabor Mate´ and I Discuss:

The One You Feed parable
The degree of choice we have in life
What is the Realm of the Hungry Ghosts?
What is addiction?
The characteristics of addiction
Recognizing what addicts get out of their addiction
The fundamental question is not "Why the Addiction" but "Why the Pain"
How all addiction comes out of some hurt or trauma
The different types of trauma
The role of neurotransmitters in addiction
How drugs and alcohol destroy the parts of the brain that allow us to make sound decisions
Whether or not genetics play a significant role in addiction
Whether our culture breeds addiction
How our children get most of their leadership from other children
How the breakup of family, community and clan is contributing to addiction
The critical role of the culture in our the development of our brains
Recognizing our inherent value
To what degree we have freedom over our choices
Without consciousness, there is no freedom
Paths to recovery
How compassion can help with recovery
Developing compassionate curiosity towards ourselves

 

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Dr. Gabor Mate´

This week on The One You Feed we have Dan Millman. Dan is a former world champion athlete, university coach, martial arts instructor, and college professor as well as a best selling author.
After an intensive, twenty-year spiritual quest, Dan's teaching found its form as the Peaceful Warrior's Way, expressed fully in his books and lectures. His work continues to evolve over time, to meet the needs of a changing world.
Dan's thirteen books, including Way of the Peaceful Warrior, have inspired and informed millions of readers in 29 languages worldwide. The feature film, "Peaceful Warrior," starring Nick Nolte, was adapted from Dan's first book, based upon incidents from his life.
In This Interview Dan and I discuss...

The One You Feed parable.
The choice we face every day.
What does window cleaning have to do with spirituality?
How to get moving in the right direction.
How life always comes down to whether or not you take the action.
Starting small and connecting the dots.
That a little of something is better than nothing.
The danger of the all or nothing mentality.
That knowledge alone is not enough.
Life purpose.
A definition of wisdom.
Skillful versus unskillful action.
The Four Purposes of Life.
How life is a perfect school and the lessons get harder if we don't learn.
The conventional realm and the transcendental realm.
The process of writing a book with his daughter.

 
Dan Millman Links
Dan Millman homepage
Dan Millman author page on Amazon
Dan's latest book with his daughter Sierra: The Creative Compass
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Dan Millman

This week we talk to Byron Katie about questioning our thoughts
Byron Kathleen Mitchell, better known as Byron Katie is an American speaker and author who teaches a method of self-inquiry known as "The Work of Byron Katie" or simply as "The Work". She is married to the writer and translator Stephen Mitchell. She is the founder of Byron Katie International (BKI), an organization that includes The School for the Work and Turnaround House in Ojai, California. 
 
 
 In This Interview Katie and I Discuss...

The Four Questions of The Work

 
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Byron Katie- The Work

This week we talk to Simon Sinek about leadership
Simon Sinek is an author best known for popularizing the concept of "the golden circle" and to "Start With Why", described by TED as "a simple but powerful model for inspirational leadership all starting with a golden circle and the question "Why?"'. He joined the RAND Corporation in 2010 as an adjunct staff member, where he advises on matters of military innovation and planning.
His first TEDx Talk on "How Great Leaders Inspire Action" is the 3rd most viewed video on TED.com. His 2009 book on the same subject, Start With Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action (2009) delves into what he says is a naturally occurring pattern, grounded in the biology of human decision-making, that explains why we are inspired by some people, leaders, messages and organizations over others.
His latest book is called Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t
 In This Interview Simon and I Discuss...

The One You Feed parable.
How good leadership is feeding the good wolf.
How good leadership fills the environment with love, empathy and kindness.
The four main neurotransmitters that regulate human emotion.
How oxytocin inhibits addiction.
The Rat Park experiments.
The Cost of Leadership is self-interest.
How leadership does not come with rank.

 
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Simon Sinek

This week we talk to Tara Mohr about playing big
Tara Mohr is an expert on women’s leadership and well-being. She helps women play bigger in sharing their voices and bringing forward their ideas in work and in life. Tara is the author of Playing Big: Practical Wisdom for Women Who Want to Speak Up, Create, and Lead, named a best book of the year by Apple’s iBooks and now in paperback. In the book, she shares her pioneering model for making the journey from playing small–being held back by fear and self-doubt–to playing big, taking bold action to pursue what you see as your callings.
Tara is the creator of the Playing Big leadership program for women, which now has more than 1,000 graduates from around the world, and creator of the global Playing Big Facilitators Training for coaches, therapists, leadership development professionals and other practitioners supporting women in their personal and professional growth. A Coaches Training Institute-certified coach with an MBA from Stanford University and an undergraduate degree in English literature from Yale,
Tara takes a unique approach that blends inner work and practical skills training. Her work has been featured on national media from theNew York Times to Today Show to Harvard Business Review, and has captivated women from all walks of life including Maria Shriver, Jillian Michaels and Elizabeth Gilbert.

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In This Interview, Tara Mohr and I Discuss:

The One You Feed parable
The immense flexibility we have in who we become
Feeding the good wolf in others
The Inner Mentor and the Inner Critic
The qualities of the Inner Critic
Why you shouldn't argue with the Inner Critic
How the Inner Critic also sounds like the voice of reason
Finding our Inner Mentor
Don't ask what you are ready for but instead ask what is life asking of me right now?
Imposter Syndrome
The Objection Rolodex
Making "The Leap"
The 6 criteria of the "The Leap"
How to keep change going
Giving up sugar 

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Tara Mohr

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Rick Hanson, PhD is a Neuropsychologist, teacher and author of many books. He is the founder of the Wellspring Center for Neuroscience and Contemplative Wisdom and an affiliate of the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkley. This is the 2nd time Dr. Hanson has been a guest on the show and we invited him back because of how great his work really is. In this episode, he talks all about the fact that who we become is a result of what we grow inside of ourselves. Using the analogy of tending a garden, he teaches us very practical ways to grow and enrich ourselves through the experiences in our lives. Get a pen and paper - you'll probably want to take notes on this one!

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In This Interview, Rick Hanson and I Discuss...

 • The Wolf Parable

 • His book, 
Resilient: How to grow an unshakable core of calm, strength, and happiness • 

 • Who we become is a result of what we grow inside ourselves

 • How you manage your challenges, protect your vulnerabilities, Increase your resources: out in the world, in the body, and in the mind

 • Growing resources in our mind is a good focus

 • Converting an experience into lasting change

 • Slowing down content delivery so that the nervous system in our brains has a chance to receive it and rewire accordingly

 • 5 ways to enrich a beneficial experience:

 • Extend the experience (make it longer)

 • Intensify the experience (really lean into it)

 • Embody the experience (how does it feel in your body and your mind)

 • Freshen the experience (see what's novel about it? Bring a beginners mind)

 • Value the experience (see the relevance to you)

 • Asking what is the challenge? What resource would be the most beneficial?

 • The mind is like a garden - to grow things, focus on:

 • Mindful witnessing

 • Mindful releasing of what's negative

 • Mindful receiving (replace what we release or simply receive what would be beneficial)

 • Fighting what's negative only makes it work

 • Growing a fundamental core of resilient wellbeing

 • Safety, Satisfaction, and Connection are basic needs we have

 • How it takes time to tend a garden

 • How adversity isn't the only way to grow in life

 • We have to experience what we want to grow inside

 • We have to turn that experience into some kind of lasting change in the brain

 

 

 

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Rick Hanson on Growing Positive Qualities

James Nestor is an author and journalist who has written for Outside Magazine, The Atlantic, National Public Radio, The New York Times, and many more. Eric and James discuss his NY Times bestseller book, “Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art”

In this episode, Eric and James Nestor discuss the science of breathing, the importance of nasal breathing as opposed to mouth breathing, and the tremendous health benefits of breathing well.

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In This Interview, James Nestor and I Discuss the Science of Breathing and…

 • His book, 
Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art • 

 • How breath is the missing pillar of good health 

 • His experience of participating in a study where he did only mouth breathing for 10 days

 • The detrimental effects of mouth breathing such as high blood pressure, sleep apnea and snoring

 • Understanding that the nose is the first line of defense for our bodies

 • His experience of only nasal breathing and how the negative effects of mouth breathing were immediately reversed

 • The best breathing is gentle breath in for 5-6 seconds and gentle breath out for 5-6 seconds

 • Good breathing increases the connections between the different areas of the brain

 • Breathing slower and exhaling longer can help with anxiety or panic attacks

 • How lung capacity can improve with healthier breathing habits

 • How we get more energy from the air than good nutrition

 • The different breathing methods and techniques are like interval training for your lungs

 • Breathing well is vital to good health and longevity and is as important as eating well and exercise

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James Nestor on The Science of Breathing

Dr. Gabor Maté is a highly sought expert on a wide range of topics such as addiction, stress, and childhood development. He has written many books, of which several are best-sellers, including the award-winning “In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts” , “Close Encounters with Addiction”, and “When the Body Says No: Exploring the Stress-Disease Culture.” Gabor’s work has been published internationally and in more than 30 languages.
 
In this episode, Eric and Dr. Maté discuss his book, The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture
 
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Dr. Gabor Mate and I Discuss How to …
 
 • His book, 
The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture • 
 • Defining the myths of normal
 • How the increasing anxiety, depression, and other mental health issues are a result of toxic culture
 • Stress and trauma can begin for a child in utero, at childbirth, and throughout childhood
 • The modern stresses of our world contributes to a toxic culture
 • How parents pass down their traumas to their children
 • Defining trauma as a psychic wound that happens inside of you
 • The healing process is the recovery of self
 • Understanding the clash between attachment and authenticity
 • How emotions and immune systems are part of the same system
 • The importance of understanding the important link between emotions and physical health
 • Trauma imposed self beliefs are the main obstacles of healing
 • Remembering that healing is a lifelong process
 • The 4 A’s of healing: authenticity, agency, acceptance, and anger (healthy) 
 
Dr. Gabor Mate Links:
 
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Dr. Gabor Mate’s Interview from 2016
 
Healing Trauma with Dr. James Gordon

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How to Find Healing From Trauma with Dr. Gabor Mate

In this episode, Anders Hansen explains the purpose of emotions and how we’re not wired for happiness. Anders discusses the evolutionary nature of our minds and how our ancestor’s survival instincts have shaped our modern-day experiences of anxiety and happiness.
 
Key Takeaways:
 
 • Understand how human emotions have evolved to serve a purpose in our lives
 • Discover the powerful impact of exercise on your mental well-being
 • Learn effective strategies to overcome feelings of loneliness and connect with others
 • Explore the role of inflammation in depression and its potential influence on mental health
 • Recognize the importance of nurturing relationships for your overall happiness and well-being
 
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The Purpose of Emotions and Why We're Not Wired for Happiness with Anders Hansen

In this episode, La Sarmiento explores what it means to embrace imperfection to discover the path to true self-acceptance. La shares their journey of discovering and embracing identity, belonging, and the challenges of living authentically in a world that often demands conformity.
 
Key Takeaways:
 
 • Learning to feed our “good wolf” through conscious effort and daily choices
 • Balancing the absolute truth of oneness with the relative truth of societal inequalities
 • The role of identity in spiritual practice and the complexities of the “no-self” teaching
 • Creating inclusive spaces in spiritual communities and the challenges of true integration
 • The transformative power of unconditional love through relationships, including animals
 
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Embracing Imperfection: The Path to True Self Acceptance with La Sarmiento

In this episode, you'll learn:
 

 
 
 
 • How to defining burnout and learning how to identify symptoms of burnout
 • Why the stereotypes of men and women in their family roles can be damaging
 • The importance of mothers giving themself permission to take breaks from their children
 • What leaders and organizations can do to avoid burnout in their workplaces
 • How change needs to happen on the individual, organization, and society levels to combat burnout
 
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How to Overcome Parental and Workplace Burnout with Dr. Jacqueline Kerr

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