When you're somebody who has it in you, this burning secret desire to do some kind of creative work, if you don't, you turn toxic.

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.

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.

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

Hi, it's Elvis Jaran, on my new podcast, Thinking Out Loud with Elvis Jaran. I'll be bringing you candid and maybe sometimes a little crazy interviews with people from all walks of life.

We'll touch on subjects that you just can't talk about on the radio, like life, love, success, failure, whatever else comes to mind.

But I'll jacked up because after being in this business for as long as I have, I want to get to the bottom of what makes people tick.

Now listen to my new podcast, Thinking Out Loud on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Thanks for joining us. Our guest on this episode is Brian Coppelman. He's a Hollywood writer, director, and occasional producer. Some of his movies are rounders, solitary man, knock around guys, oceans 13, and the illusionist.

He creates the six-second screenwriting lessons on Vine, which are a great inspiration for artists of any kind.

He's also the host of an excellent new Grandland podcast called The Moment with Brian Coppelman.

Welcome to the show, Brian. It's my pleasure to be here, guys. Thanks for having me.

I thought we'd start off with maybe you telling us a little bit about how you became a screenwriter, because I think you came to it a little bit later than some people do, and I'm curious to the journey that got you there.

I'm happy to talk about it. I'm so glad you didn't hit me with the what the expression, the one you feed means, because I've been really stressing about having to answer it.

I'll come back to it, don't worry.

I became a screenwriter and I, right around when I turned 30, I got to a point in my life where it became clear to me that what I was doing wasn't really living my dream.

I wasn't really living to what I felt was the fullest of my capacity.

I just had, when I was 29, my son was born, our son, our first child.

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