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268: The keys to fulfilling relationships, self-awareness & success | Matthew McConaughey

The mindbodygreen Podcast

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Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.52.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Matthew McConaughey: “We see sacrifice as a loss, and it's not. There's gain in sacrifices if we just see further down the road.” McConaughey—an Academy Award-winning actor, producer, and author of the No. 1 New York Times bestselling book, Greenlights—joins mbg co-CEO, Jason Wachob, to discuss how to foster self-awareness on a daily basis, must-have qualities to make a relationship work, plus: *Why you can’t reach success without letting go* *How to know it's time to walk away from a relationship* *Why limitless resilience isn't always a good thing* *Why thinking about your eulogy can help you live more vibrantly* *How to connect with your neighbor in a divided society (& why you should)* Enjoy this episode! Whether it's an article or podcast, we want to know what we can do to help here at mindbodygreen. Let us know at: podcast@mindbodygreen.com. And don't forget to check out McConaughey's book, Greenlights, which you can find at https://greenlights.com.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the My Buddy Green podcast. I'm Jason Walkab, founder and co-ceeo of My Buddy Green and your host.

0:08.4

Hey everyone, Jason here and we are all in for a treat as today's guest truly needs no introduction, the one and only

0:16.3

Matthew McConaughey. Now Matthew's been on quite the podcast tour right now promoting his new incredible book called Green Lights. So for this

0:24.9

show we tried to shed some light on some of the topics that he hasn't really

0:28.0

talked about before. I hope you all enjoy. Matthew, welcome.

0:35.0

Good to be here with you, sir.

0:38.0

So it is so great to have you.

0:40.0

Green Lights is the book.

0:41.6

I love the book. It's a story about faith, intuition, self-awareness, love,

0:46.6

patience, persistence, failure, success, your anecdotes, the personal diaries, a storytelling, amazing. it's a phenomenal book and and before we get started I encourage everyone to pick it up and

0:57.4

Congrats on writing it's it's fabulous so congratulations

1:01.3

Thank you. Thank you.

1:03.0

So we're going to try to do this a little bit differently because you've been, the book's been everywhere

1:09.8

and it deserves to be everywhere.

1:11.0

So I'm going to try to hit some topics that some people

1:13.5

haven't hit with this but I do want to start because I love the concept so can you

1:18.0

briefly walk us through the concept of what a green light is and of course you got to

1:22.4

cover the yellow light and the red light.

1:24.4

So let's just start there.

1:27.0

Green lights.

1:29.8

Green lights are the things we have in our life the intersections we run into that tell us to go

1:35.8

proceed carry on yes out a boy good girl yes freedom more please we love those those. They're shooting the summer. They affirm our way.

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