Anna David

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

Eric Zimmer, The One You Feed

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

4.5 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2014

⏱️ 47 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

This week on The One You Feed we have Anna David.I met Anna at her studio in Los Angeles where she records the AfterParty Pod. If I didn't insist on trying to keep the conversation close to 30 minutes we might still be talking.Anna David is the New York Times-bestselling author of the novels Party Girl and Bought, the non-fiction books Reality Matters, Falling for Me, By Some Miracle I Made It Out of There and True Tales of Lust and Love and the Kindle Singles Animal Attraction and They Like Me, They Really Like Me.She was the sex and relationship expert on G4’s Attack of the Show for over three years and is a regular guest on The Today Show, Fox News’ Hannity and Red Eye, The CBS Morning Show, Dr. Drew, The Talk, Jane Velez-Mitchell, Inside Edition and various other programs on Fox News, NBC, MSNBC, CTV, MTV News, VH1 and E. Her Sirius radio show was the network’s number-one specialty show and she’s written for The New York Times, The LA Times, Details, Playboy, People, Cosmo, Us Weekly, Redbook, Maxim, Movieline, Women’s Health, Vice, The Daily Beast, The Huffington Post,Buzzfeed, xojane and Salon, among many others. She has been an editor at the websites Styleclick, Dipdive and The Fix, an assistant editor at Parenting and a staff writer for Premiere. In 2011, she created the storytelling show True Tales of Lust and Love (now a web series for Ish Entertainment and soon to be a comedy pilot), which she hosted until it closed in 2014.In 2013, Anna created TheAfterPartyGroup, which is made up of articles and a podcast focused on de-stigmatizing addiction. She sold the company in 2014 but continues to run the site and podcast. She speaks on television and at colleges across the country on addiction and is on the board of The Peggy Albrecht Friendly House, the oldest women’s recovery house in the US.In This Interview Anna and I Discuss...The One You Feed parable.Not knowing that we have a choice in how we feel and think.Understanding that we have some control in our happiness.How self obsession was making her so unhappy.The difference between sadness and self-pity.When to accept feelings and when to change them.How hard it is to tell what we can change and what we need to accept.How our default position tends to be negative.Feeling bad about feeling bad.The emptiness of acquisition.The different paths to addiction.Feeling that we need to take care of others emotions.Not settling.Always thinking that life is somewhere else in the future.Fear of looking vulnerable.Fostering cooperation instead of competition.Despair and Compare.Deciding to embrace the life we have.Comparing our insides to other people's outsides.How no one's life is perfect. Anna David LinksAnna David HomepageAnna's Podcast- AfterParty PodAfterParty ChatAnna David Author page on Amazon Some of our most popular interviews you might also enjoy:Mike Scott of the WaterboysRich RollTodd Henry- author of Die EmptyRandy Scott HydeSee 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

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	I don't compare myself to Hillary Clinton and feel bad.
0:02.9	I compare myself to those who have what I seem to think I could get.
0:07.3	But the fact that I don't compare myself to Hillary Clinton or whoever it is and
0:11.0	feel inferior shows me that it's not about comparing. It's about jealousy.
0:25.5	Welcome to The One You Feed.
0:27.6	Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have,
0:32.0	quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true.
0:37.6	And yet, for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us.
0:41.9	We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear.
0:46.6	We see what we don't have instead of what we do.
0:49.5	We think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit.
0:52.9	But it's not just about thinking. Our actions matter.
0:56.4	It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living.
1:01.2	This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction.
1:05.7	How they feed their good wolf.
1:19.2	Hi, it's Alvester Ann. On my new podcast, Thinking Out Loud with Alvester Ann,
1:24.0	I'll be bringing you candid and maybe sometimes a little crazy interviews with people from all walks
1:28.4	of life. We'll touch on subjects that you just can't talk about on the radio, like life, love,
1:33.2	success, failure, whatever else comes to mind. But I'll jacked up because after being in this
1:37.6	business for as long as I have, I want to get to the bottom of what makes people tick.
1:41.6	Now listen to my new podcast, Thinking Out Loud on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts,
1:47.3	or wherever you get your podcasts.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Eric Zimmer, The One You Feed, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Eric Zimmer, The One You Feed and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.