#464: Tim Ferriss — My Healing Journey After Childhood Abuse

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🗓️ 15 September 2020

⏱️ 140 minutes

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Summary

For me, this is the most important podcast episode I’ve ever published.

In it, I describe the most life-shaping, certainly the most difficult, and certainly the most transformative journey of my 43 years on this planet. I’ve never shared it before.

My dance partner and safety net in this conversation is my friend Debbie Millman (@debbiemillman). She has been named one of the most creative people in business by Fast Company, and she is the host of Design Matters—a great show and one of the world’s longest running podcasts. She is also Chair of the Masters in Branding Program at the School of Visual Arts and Editorial Director of Print magazine, and she has worked on design strategy for some of the world’s largest brands.

But I didn’t ask Debbie to join me because of her bio. I asked Debbie because she’s a close confidante, she’s an excellent interviewer, and she’s been an incredible support for me in the last few years, including late-night emergency phone calls. She and I have also experienced similar trauma but have taken two *very* different paths to healing using *very* different tools. So, you get a two-for-one deal in this conversation.

All resources mentioned in this episode, and many more, are listed at tim.blog/trauma.

And if you remember only one thing, please remember this: there is light on the other side. I wouldn’t have believed this even five years ago, but I now consider myself living proof that deep, lasting change is possible. Don’t give up. You are never alone, and it is never hopeless. I’m right there alongside you, as are millions of others.

Much love to you and yours,

Tim

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tim Ferris show. This is your host Tim Ferris. You may notice that this intro is
0:05.7	different from my usual intro. I'm not going to give you the spiel on interviewing world-class
0:10.2	performers because we aren't going to do that in this particular episode. For me personally,
0:16.1	this is the most important podcast episode I've ever published and I wasn't sure I was going to
0:21.4	publish it at all. I recorded it just to record it and that'll be obvious in the audio. This episode
0:27.1	will describe the most life-shaping, certainly the most difficult, and certainly the most transformative
0:33.5	journey of my 43 years on this planet. This is a journey I've never shared publicly before and I
0:38.9	haven't really shared it privately either to give you an idea most of my family and closest friends
0:44.0	know nothing about it. So they will be hearing about this for the first time as well. I believe this
0:49.6	episode is relevant to almost everyone, although it might not seem that way at the surface level.
0:55.8	But let me explain. If you haven't experienced trauma yourself, you will meet people who have
1:00.4	certainly, and you may already know people who have been affected, including friends or family
1:05.6	members who simply haven't told you. And I find it helpful to remember that everyone is fighting
1:11.1	a battle you know nothing about. Please note before we get any further that this episode is not
1:17.7	suitable for children, so consider yourselves warned. My dance partner and safety net in this
1:24.9	conversation is my friend Debbie Milman. Debbie on Twitter at Debbie Milman has been named one of the
1:32.3	most creative people in business by Fast Company and is the host of Design Matters, a great podcast,
1:37.7	one of the world's longest running podcasts. She is also chair of the Masters and Branding Program
1:42.9	at the School of Visual Arts, editorial director of Print Magazine and has worked on design strategy
1:48.5	for some of the world's largest brands. You would recognize all of them. But all of that is not
1:54.4	why I asked her. If she'd join me, I asked Debbie because she's a dear friend, she's an excellent
2:00.2	interviewer and she's been an incredible support for me in the last few years, including some late
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