Bayo Akomolafe on Finding a Home

The One You Feed

Eric Zimmer

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

4.6 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2022

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Bayo Akomolafe is a widely celebrated international speaker, post-humanist thinker, poet, teacher, public intellectual, essayist, and the author of two books – one of which he and Eric discuss in this episode.

In this episode, Eric and Bayo discuss These Wilds Beyond Our Fences: Letters To My Daughter On Humanity’s Search For Home.

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Bayo Akomolafe and I Discuss Finding a Home and…

His book, These Wilds Beyond Our Fences: Letters To My Daughter On Humanity’s Search For Home
The most beautiful thing in the world to him right now
His observations of his young autistic son
The limitations created when we name something
The way insanity is viewed in his Nigerian culture
Finding home in the middle of the mess of life
How everything is “becoming” in every moment
Why he describes himself as a recovering psychologist and a fugitive
The healing journey

Bayo Akomolafe links:

Bayo’s Website

Twitter

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How to Build a Home for Your Soul

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0:00.0	Blackness wasn't blackness until it met a white modernity, and in order to stake its claims
0:07.4	to equal rights, to equal values, to equal worth, all of that.
0:20.9	Welcome to the One You Feed.
0:22.9	Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have,
0:27.4	quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true, and yet for many of us,
0:34.6	our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear.
0:41.8	We see what we don't have, instead of what we do, we think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit.
0:48.1	But it's not just about thinking, our actions matter. It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living.
0:56.4	This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction, how they feed their good wolf.
1:17.0	Hi, it's Bethany Frankel. My time on the Real Housewives of New York is a few years behind me,
1:21.9	and now I'm ready to put the real back into the Real Housewives.
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1:50.5	I'm Dana Schwartz, host of Stealing Superman, a new iHeart original podcast about the most unlikely art heist of all time.
2:01.5	It was Nick Cage's own personal, national treasure.
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2:22.5	Thanks for joining us. Our guest on this episode is Bio Okomalafee.
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