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The Marie Forleo Podcast

126: Tim Ferriss on Overcoming Fear, Battling Depression and Finding Self Love

The Marie Forleo Podcast

Marie Forleo

Education, Self-improvement

4.71.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2019

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

The legendary Tim Ferriss seems to many like the epitome of success, but in this episode he shares hard-won wisdom from his struggle with depression and suicidal thoughts. He also details the process he uses to overcome fear and gives you his step-by-step writing process. If you try to make something that everyone is going to like, you're going to make something that nobody's going to love. @tferris via @marieforleo

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0:00.0

Hey, I'm Marie Forleo, and this is the Marie Forleo podcast. If you want to talk about your business, your life, your health, your relationships, and even more, I gotta tell you, you are in the the right place we do it all with humor and

0:14.4

heart so let's dive in.

0:17.0

Today I am so excited to have a dear friend on who also happens to be quite a legend in the fields of publishing and

0:26.1

podcasting and producing long form epic content.

0:31.0

Tim Ferris has been called a cross between Jack Welch and a Buddhist monk by the New York Times.

0:36.0

He's one of Fast Company's most innovative business people and an early stage tech investor and advisor in Uber, Facebook, Twitter, Alibaba, and more.

0:46.0

He's also the author of Four Number One New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers,

0:50.6

The Four Hour Work Week, The Four hour body, the four hour chef, and tools of

0:55.8

Titans. He's been called The Oprah of Audio due to the influence of the Tim

1:01.0

Ferris Show Podcast, which has now exceeded 200 of the Tim Ferris. Hot damn! Here we are! Just so everybody watching, we've been laughing our

1:16.1

asses off before the camera started rolling. So this interview is going to be fun and it's going

1:20.5

to be long, strap yourselves in, we're going to have a great time.

1:23.0

So you I realized when I was prepping for this I'm like oh m.

1:27.0

we've been friends for like a decade and it took us this damn long to do this

1:32.0

but but now it's a really good time when it started I had more

1:34.8

hair here and less hair here but still this was not I'm liking this thank you

1:38.7

thank you the internet is divided is it really I bet you know, but I like the Ming, the merciless look so I'm working on it. I like it. Yeah, you know what? You're right. When we met you did have a lot more hair.

1:49.2

I think about that. So first congratulations on this next incredible book

1:56.7

Tribe of Mentors y'all have to get it. I am very honored to be in it. Thank you so much

2:01.4

that little text over the summer. I was like, oh my gosh, another book?

2:05.5

Oh, okay, let's do this. We're going to talk about that a little bit later. But I want to go back because, you know, a lot of people people when they see someone who they feel is so

2:16.0

successful oftentimes they're like oh they just kind of popped out that way they got

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