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The One You Feed

Brigid Schulte

The One You Feed

Eric Zimmer

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

4.62.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2015

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Brigid Schulte is an award-winning journalist for the Washington Post and Washington Post magazine. She was part of a team that won the Pulitzer Prize. She is also a fellow at the New America Foundation. She is a regular contributor to the She The People blog and has written for Style, Outlook, and other outlets.
She writes about work-life issues and poverty, seeking to understand what it takes to live The Good Life across race, class and gender.
Her recent book is called Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time

In This Interview Brigid and I Discuss...

The One You Feed parable.
How being overwhelmed never goes away.
What "The Overwhelm" is.
How it's not the amount of stress but how we feel about it.
Busyness as a badge of honor.




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0:00.0

overwhelm doesn't ever go away. So it really becomes much more how you look at it,

0:04.4

what you choose to think about what you choose to do.

0:14.6

Welcome to the One You Feed. Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance

0:19.6

of the thoughts we have, quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think,

0:25.6

ring true. And yet for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. We tend toward

0:31.8

negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear. We see what we don't have instead of what we do.

0:38.6

We think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit. But it's not just about thinking.

0:44.1

Our actions matter. It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living.

0:50.4

This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction,

0:54.8

how they feed their good wealth.

1:09.3

In the 70s, the warehouse took over Chicago Nightlife, and the club's DJ would go on to make history.

1:16.0

Frankie made sure that you felt it in your soul.

1:19.3

Learn more about the rise of house music on the history of the world's greatest night clubs,

1:24.6

a 12-part podcast about the iconic venues and people that revolutionize how we party.

1:30.9

Listen to the history of the world's greatest night clubs on the iHeartRadio app,

1:34.9

Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts.

1:39.5

Thanks for joining us. Our guest today is Bridgid Shultty, an award-winning journalist for the

1:44.8

Washington Post and Washington Post magazine. She was part of a team that won the Pulitzer Prize

1:50.8

and is also a fellow at the New American Foundation. Bridgid is a regular contributor to the She

1:55.8

the People blog and has written for style, outlook, and other outlets. She writes about work,

2:01.8

life issues, and poverty seeking to understand what it takes to live the good life across race,

2:07.1

class, and gender. Her recent book is called Overwhelmed, Work, Love, and Play when no one has the

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