436: Moby on How to Find True Happiness in the Unexpected
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 19 October 2021
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Watch the full video interview on YouTube here: https://bit.ly/moby436
Moby (IG: @moby) is a musician, entrepreneur, activist, and philanthropist who is informally known as “the godfather of veganism.”
His album Play sold more than 12 million copies worldwide. He’s released fourteen solo albums in total.
A serial side hustler, Moby opened the vegan restaurant Teany in New York City in 2002 and has since opened Little Pine, a unique, contemporary vegan restaurant in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Being an animal rights activist
- Living in a culture that prioritizes selfishness
- Hitting rock bottom and getting sober
- Making music is a spiritual practice
- Growing up poor and being hungry for fame
- Forming a love for animals
- Transitioning from a vegetarian to vegan lifestyle in 1987
- Missing a sense of community and friendships
- Moby’s relationship with religion over the years
- From squatting in an abandoned factory to buying a five-level sky castle
- Fame and wealth don’t create happiness
- When was the happiest time in your life?
- The ‘90s were the last period of general optimism
- The rise of the internet
- A self-care practice supported by evidence
- Eating 95% vegan organic whole foods
- Nature is healing
- Connecting with our awkward self
- Practicing metta meditation
- How to be an animal activist
- Moby’s daily routine
- Supporting local musicians and artists
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Related links:
Moby - The Little Pine Cookbook
Follow Moby on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter
Moby - Then It Fell Apart (book)
Moby - Porcelain: A Memoir (book)
John Robbins - Diet For A New America (book)
Forks Over Knives (documentary)
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293: Mark Manson – We All Need Hope • Meditation Makes You Stronger • Happiness Is Overrated
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| 0:00.0 | coming up on the Ultimate Health podcast. |
| 0:02.8 | I bought into the idea that the vast majority of people |
| 0:05.7 | buy into, which was that when I was growing up, |
| 0:13.0 | I assumed that if you had fame and a degree of affluence, |
| 0:18.3 | that happiness would ensue. |
| 0:22.6 | And then as I started to have fame and affluence, |
| 0:26.3 | I simply kept waiting for the magical happiness |
| 0:29.5 | to be created, and it didn't come. |
| 0:36.4 | I mean, certain things made me happy, |
| 0:38.6 | but I kept trying to sort of, I don't know, |
| 0:42.8 | like buy or manipulate myself into happiness. |
| 0:46.7 | And I realized, yeah, there's nothing wrong |
| 0:51.3 | with a degree of fame or wealth, but inherently, |
| 0:54.8 | they don't create happiness. |
| 0:56.8 | Hello and welcome to Ultimate Health podcast, episode 436. |
| 1:06.8 | I'm Jesse Chapis, and I'm here to take your help |
| 1:08.9 | to the next level. |
| 1:10.2 | Each week, I'll bring you deep conversations |
| 1:12.2 | with health and wellness leaders from around the world. |
| 1:14.8 | This week, I'm chatting with Moby. |
| 1:16.6 | Moby's a musician, entrepreneur, activist, and philanthropist, |
| 1:20.5 | who is informally known as the Godfather of Veganism. |
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