Dani Shapiro

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

Eric Zimmer, The One You Feed

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

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🗓️ 24 May 2017

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Credit Kwaku Alston Please Support The Show With a Donation This week we talk to Dani Shapiro Dani Shapiro is the bestselling author of three memoirs and 5 novels. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, Tin House. The New York Times Book Review, The Los Angeles Times, and has been broadcast on NPR's “This American Life”. Her newest book is Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage In This Interview, Dani Shapiro and I Discuss... Her newest book, Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage Her book, Devotion: A Memoir How we are all connected Her history with Orthodox Judaism This sense that she had to pray though she didn't know who or what she was praying to Her process of figuring out what she believes in a spiritual realm Living inside the questions, exploring spiritual wisdom How she moved away from an all or nothing mentality That if her only two choices are "all or nothing", she's going with nothing With her book Devotion: A Memoir, she wrote the book so that she could go on the journey, not the other way around "If you want to do something, begin it, because action has magic, grace and power in it." - Goethe The "third thing" that's essential in relationships What it means to walk through life with another person What it is like to be comfortable not knowing things in life The saying "we can make the best out of everything that happens" vs "everything happens for a reason" Her parents terrible accident The death of her father and it's effect on her life Please Support The Show with a DonationSee 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	Happily ever after is about as real as faith without doubt.
0:12.0	Welcome to the One You Feed.
0:14.0	Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have,
0:18.5	quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true.
0:24.0	And yet, for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us.
0:28.0	We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear.
0:33.0	We see what we don't have instead of what we do, we think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit.
0:39.0	But it's not just about thinking, our actions matter.
0:43.0	It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living.
0:47.0	This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction,
0:52.0	how they feed their good wolf.
0:58.0	Hi, it's Elvis Jaran, on my new podcast, Thinking Out Loud with Elvis Jaran.
1:11.0	I'll be bringing you candid and maybe sometimes a little crazy interviews with people from all walks of life.
1:16.0	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.
1:22.0	But I'll jacked up because after being in this business for as long as I have,
1:26.0	I want to get to the bottom of what makes people tick.
1:29.0	Listen to my new podcast, Thinking Out Loud on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
1:37.0	Thanks for joining us.
1:39.0	Our guest on this episode is Danny Shapiro, best-selling author of three memoirs and five novels.
1:45.0	Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, Granta, Tin House, the New York Times book review, the Los Angeles Times,
1:51.0	and has been broadcast on NPR's This American Life.
1:55.0	Her newest book is Hourglass, Time, Memory, Marriage.
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