345: How a Little Becomes a Lot
Soberful
Veronica Valli
4.8 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
In this insightful interview, Eric Zimmer shares his transformative journey from heroin addiction to sobriety and discusses his new book, 'How a Little Becomes a Lot.' The conversation explores the power of small, consistent actions, the nature of change as a skill, and how our perceptions shape our reality. Perfect for anyone interested in personal growth, addiction recovery, and meaningful life changes.
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| 0:00.0 | I dreamt that you were twisting through seven sons of gold and the gypsy was insisting |
| 0:10.1 | that his story must be told I came two in the morning but I took it as a warning |
| 0:19.1 | that you might be a treasure |
| 0:21.8 | I could touch but never hold |
| 0:25.6 | Hi everyone, welcome back to the Soap Before podcast |
| 0:30.5 | And I am delighted to be joined by Eric Zimmer |
| 0:33.9 | from The One You Feet podcast. |
| 0:35.9 | Hi, Eric. |
| 0:36.9 | Hello, it's lovely to see you again. Yeah, good to see you. I don't know if you guys know about |
| 0:41.7 | this podcast. I was on it when my book came out, which was, I think three years ago. I can't |
| 0:46.4 | remember. Time's gone all. But it's a fabulous idea and a fabulous platform that you've built |
| 0:53.2 | there. So it was really a pleasure to be able to |
| 0:56.2 | have you back to talk about your book. Yes. Yes. So let's do a little background. So Eric's got a new |
| 1:03.4 | book out. Tell people about your book, but then I want to go back to kind of, okay, it's called |
| 1:08.1 | Lot. How a Little becomes a Lot. How a Little becomes a lot. Yes. |
| 1:12.4 | The art of small changes for a more meaningful life. Okay. And yeah, it really does, I'm not just like, |
| 1:20.8 | because I do a lot of interviews too. It's like, as soon as I went through the stuff, I'm like, |
| 1:24.4 | oh, this is good. This will go on my reading list for people. |
| 1:35.8 | But extraordinarily, when you were 24 years old, you were a heroin addict in a treatment center with your life going nowhere, right? How would we when you got clean and sober, Eric? |
| 1:41.6 | 24, 24 turning 25. |
| 1:44.6 | Right. |
| 1:45.2 | Wow. |
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