#544: How to Design a Life — Debbie Millman (Repost)
The Tim Ferriss Show
Tim Ferriss: Bestselling Author, Human Guinea Pig
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🗓️ 5 November 2021
⏱️ 110 minutes
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Summary
Debbie Millman (@debbiemillman) 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.
This episode originally aired in 2017. You can find the show notes here: https://tim.blog/2017/01/12/how-to-design-a-life-debbie-millman/
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is brought to you by Athletic Greens. I get asked all the time what I would take if I |
| 0:05.3 | could only take one supplement. The answer is invariably Athletic Greens. I view it as all |
| 0:11.3 | in one nutritional insurance. I recommended it in fact in the four hour body. This is more than |
| 0:16.1 | 10 years ago and I did not get paid to do so. With approximately 75 vitamins, minerals, and |
| 0:21.6 | whole food source ingredients, you'd be very hard pressed to find a more nutrient dense and |
| 0:25.8 | comprehensive formula on the market. It has multivitamins, multimineral greens complex, |
| 0:31.0 | probiotics, and prebiotics for gut health and immunity formula. Digestive enzymes, |
| 0:35.4 | adaptogens, and much more. I usually take it once or twice a day just to make sure I've covered my |
| 0:41.0 | bases if I miss anything I'm not aware of. Of course, I focus on nutrient dense meals to begin |
| 0:46.9 | with. That's the basis. Athletic Greens makes it easy to get a lot of nutrition when whole foods |
| 0:51.9 | aren't readily available. From travel packets, I always have them in my bag when I'm zipping around. |
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| 1:02.8 | which is a free vitamin D supplement and five free travel packs with your first subscription |
| 1:08.8 | purchase. Many of us are deficient in vitamin D. I found that true for myself, which is usually |
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| 1:29.9 | and five free travel packs with your subscription. Again, that's athleticgreens.com slash Tim. |
| 1:40.1 | This episode is brought to you by Five Bullet Friday, my very own email newsletter. |
| 1:45.3 | It's become one of the most popular email newsletters in the world with millions of subscribers. |
| 1:49.7 | And it's super, super simple. It does not clog up your inbox. Every Friday, I sent out five bullet |
| 1:54.7 | points, super short of the coolest things I found that week, which sometimes includes apps, books, |
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