#676 Scarcity Brain - Michael Easter
Mental Illness Happy Hour
Paul Gilmartin
4.8 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 29 December 2023
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
Michael Easter (@Michael_Easter) is a Professor of Journalism at UNLV who joins Paul to discuss the topic of his new book, Scarcity Brain: Fix Your Craving Mindset and Rewire Your Habits to Thrive with Enough. Michael shares his findings when it comes to answering the question: Why can’t we ever get enough? He and Paul discuss addictive behavior and tactics to manage cravings in a world built to exploit them.
More about Michael Easter
www.Instagram.com/Michael_Easter
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| 0:00.0 | Miss Fit Toys. |
| 0:02.0 | Welcome to episode 676 with my guest Michael Easter. |
| 0:07.0 | My name is Paul Gil Martin and yes, you're listening to the Metal Illness Happy Hour. |
| 0:12.0 | This is a place for honesty about all the battles in our heads |
| 0:16.9 | from medically diagnosed conditions, past traumas, |
| 0:19.8 | and sexual dysfunction to everyday compulsive negative thinking. |
| 0:24.0 | And this show is not meant to be a substitute for professional |
| 0:28.0 | metal counseling. I am not a therapist. |
| 0:31.0 | Last week I gave a |
| 0:33.0 | a page shout out to a listener who does photography and I forgot to |
| 0:38.2 | mention that her photography is beautiful. Her name is Claire Goldstein and I'm going to include a link to her |
| 0:47.0 | photography and it's fab photog.com. I'll put it in the show notes and it's spelled pH o t og that's fab |
| 0:59.2 | photog dot com so check her stuff out. This is this is an email I got from a licensed clinical |
| 1:11.6 | social worker and she's in Texas and her name is Michelle and |
| 1:17.5 | She wrote me that I'm honestly sending this message to validate myself and others in the social work profession. |
| 1:25.2 | It's obviously not your fault what guests say. |
| 1:28.6 | I'm listening to episode 593 with Beth Lapidus. She spoke of a mentor slash previous teacher. She said that this woman is a quote |
| 1:39.7 | licensed went to Yale therapist like full-on dot dot not a social worker unquote |
| 1:47.8 | I just want to say that social workers who get fully licensed with the title licensed clinical social workers are real therapists. |
| 1:58.5 | We can also work in a vast variety of roles. |
| 2:02.1 | We actually bring incredible knowledge and skill set. So we |
| 2:05.6 | are pretty rad and bring a lot to the table. Quite a few things. Other mental health |
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