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The One You Feed | Personal Growth, Emotional Resilience & Purpose

Adrienne Bankert on How to Choose Kindness

The One You Feed | Personal Growth, Emotional Resilience & Purpose

Eric Zimmer, The One You Feed

Religion & Spirituality, Self-improvement, Education, Buddhism, Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.5 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Adrienne Bankert is an Emmy award-winning national news correspondent for ABC News, covering some of the most historic headlines of the past decade. She calls herself a “tour guide” – coaching and mentoring, teaching and speaking across the U.S. Her new book is called, Your Hidden Superpower: The Kindness That Makes You Unbeatable at Work and Connects You With Anyone.  In this episode, Eric and Adrienne talk about what it means to be kind – how to practice it, cultivate it within yourself, and how it can serve as your beacon and guide no matter the circumstances that come your way. But wait – there’s more! The episode is not quite over!! We continue the conversation and you can access this exclusive content right in your podcast player feed. Head over to our Patreon page and pledge to donate just $10 a month. It’s that simple and we’ll give you good stuff as a thank you! In This Interview, Adrienne Bankert and I discuss How to Choose Kindness and… Her book, Your Hidden Superpower: The Kindness That Makes You Unbeatable at Work and Connects You With Anyone How helping others discover their purpose can also help you discover your own That kindness helps us turn away from self-focus and towards a focus on the needs of others  The way kindness can be at the core of our identity Choosing kindness even when you don’t feel it How to grow in kindness Ways to respond kindly to people who are unkind to you Her favorite stories of kindness That kindness can be an anchor to us when we’re struggling or lost Practical ways to practice kindness Adrienne Bankert Links: Instagram Twitter Facebook Skillshare is an online learning community that helps you get better on your creative journey. They have thousands of inspiring classes for creative and curious people. Be one of the first thousand to sign up via www.skillshare.com/feed and you’ll get a FREE trial of Skillshare premium membership. FitTrack Dara Smart Scale: It accurately measures 17 vital health metrics including body composition, hydration levels, and so much more. Stop measuring weight and start measuring health with FitTrack. Go to www.getfittrack.com/wolf to get 50% off your order – plus! for a limited time, you’ll save an additional 30% with code BUILD30 at checkout!  Best Fiends: Engage your brain and play a game of puzzles with Best Fiends. Download for free on the Apple App Store or Google Play.   If you enjoyed this conversation with Adrienne Bankert on How to Choose Kindness, you might also enjoy these other episodes: Donna Cameron on Kindness Shauna Shapiro See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I think that we have to treat kindness as important as we treat innovation and science or getting a master's degree or starting our own business because if we aren't kind, we're not going to last in whatever endeavor we do.

0:14.0

Welcome to the One You Feed. Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have, quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true. And yet for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy or fear.

0:42.0

We see what we don't have instead of what we do, we think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit. But it's not just about thinking, our actions matter. It takes conscious, consistent and creative effort to make a life worth living.

0:57.0

This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction, how they feed their good wolf.

1:15.0

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1:27.0

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1:34.0

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1:42.0

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1:51.0

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2:05.0

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2:17.0

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2:21.0

Thanks for joining us. Our guest on this episode is Adrian Bancert, an Emmy award-winning national news correspondent with ABC News based in New York.

2:30.0

Adrian has covered some of the most historic headlines of the past decade. Adrian calls herself a tour guide providing coaching and mentoring, some of which she includes in her new book, Your Hidden Superpower,

2:42.0

the kindness that makes you unbeatable at work and connect you with anyone.

2:47.0

Adrian, welcome to the show. Thank you, Eric. I'm so excited to talk to you.

2:51.0

I am really happy to talk with you also. We're going to discuss your book, Your Hidden Superpower, the kindness that makes you unbeatable at work and connects you with anyone.

3:01.0

But before we get into that, let's start like we always do with the parable.

3:06.0

There's a grandmother who's talking with her grandson and she says in life, there are two wolves inside of us that are always a battle.

3:12.0

What is a good wolf? Which represents things like kindness and bravery and love.

3:17.0

And the other is a bad wolf, which represents things like greed and hatred and fear.

3:22.0

And the grandson stops and he thinks about it for a second and he looks up at his grandmother and he says, well, grandmother, which one wins?

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