78: EGOT Winner John Legend On How Life's Changed Since Becoming A Dad & How He Wants To Change The World

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Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 19 October 2018

⏱️ 11 minutes

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John Legend is, well, a legend in his time. The youngest and the first black man to win an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony award (the coveted EGOT), Legend is also husband to internet sensation and cookbook author Chrissy Teigen and dad to Miles and Luna. It was the birth of his two children that first inspired Legend to think more deeply about the plight of other, less fortunate children in the US and around the world, which led to partnering with Naked Juice and Wholesome Wave as part of their #DrinkGoodDoGood social media campaign—which aims to increase access to healthy food by donating produce to food insecure areas. I sat down with Legend to talk about the initiative. We also discussed his own personal healthy habits, how he stays fit even with a hectic travel schedule, and how being a parent has changed him as a person. This episode is a must-listen if you're interested in knowing more about the man behind the beautiful music. To contact Jason with comments, questions, or speaker ideas, please e-mail [email protected]. For all sponsorship inquiries, please e-mail [email protected]. Want to join our podcast email newsletter? Sign up here! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Jason Walkab, founder and CEO of My Buddy Green, the best-selling author of Wealth, and your host for the My Buddy Green podcast,
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0:24.3	Thanks and enjoy the podcast.
0:30.1	Hey guys, you're in for a treat with this special edition, speed version of the My Buddy
0:36.4	Green podcast with extra special guest, Mr. John Legend. So you guys may know John for being one of 15 people and the second youngest
0:48.0	to have won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Award.
0:54.0	But we're not going to talk about any of that today.
0:56.0	We're going to discuss John's passion for making the world a better place,
1:00.0	his mission to help solve food insecurity and what it's like to be a new dad and
1:06.9	travel and just quite frankly do all that and being John legend. It is an honor and a treat to have John with us today for this very special speed
1:16.1	edition of the My Buddy Green podcast.
1:19.1	John, welcome. Thank you. So you're relatively new dad, not exactly new dad.
1:25.4	Yeah, two and a half years and now. So how has being a dad changed you? I think it changes a lot.
1:31.8	I think first of all just the kind of logistics of life
1:35.6	changed dramatically every time you travel somewhere every time you get in the car
1:40.0	every time you get on a plane everything you just have to think about new things
1:44.5	that you didn't have to think about before like do we have all the car seats
1:48.3	the strollers are you just responsible for other lives in a way that just was never the case before and that just changes
1:55.3	the way you move through every situation I think. Also just on kind of a big
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