Dillan Digiovanni on Activism and Identity

The One You Feed

Eric Zimmer

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

4.6 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2018

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Dillan Digiovanni used to be a really angry activist. He believed his anger was an important driver to fuel his work to inspire change in the world. Then he had a revelation: His anger wasn't working. It was driving other people away and it was toxic to himself. Where his path led him from there has turned out to be quite an adventure. He's now an activist without the energy of anger and he now identifies as a man. This interview will inspire you to live your truth. It will inspire you to examine your own life and be better because of it. This important conversation is not only relevant to the issues of today, but it proves to be perennially relevant to how we decide to live our lives in the skin we're in.

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In This Interview, Dillan DiGiovanni and I Discuss...

The Wolf Parable
How, as an activist, his anger was driving people away
That there's no right way to do anything
If you're angry all of the time you're constantly looking for the threat
His gender identity transition
That anger can be a healthy thing
Searching for the feeling that's underneath the anger
The harm in being angry at people for being ignorant about an issue
The way anger impacts your perspective on life and other people
The harm in saying "they did this because..." when what you're working with is an assumption
His relationship to anger now that he's awake to it
The power of "allowing" vs "resisting"
His story of transitioning his gender identity
Resilience
How to live in the world when no one person understands all of you
The anger that arises when your expectations about how other people should behave aren't met
The power of meeting people where they really are
How to work with your vision about how the world should be
The power of the serenity prayer
What happened when he let go of his anger as an activist
His Buddhist tradition
Having a meditation practice

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0:00.0	When you're angry all the time, all you're doing is constantly looking for the threat.
0:04.1	You're not looking for the opportunity.
0:13.8	Welcome to the One You Feed.
0:15.9	Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have, quotes
0:20.6	like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true.
0:26.0	And yet, for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us.
0:30.3	We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear.
0:35.0	We see what we don't have instead of what we do.
0:37.9	We think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit.
0:41.4	But it's not just about thinking.
0:43.4	Our actions matter.
0:44.8	It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living.
0:49.7	This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction, how
0:54.1	they feed their good wolf.
1:11.1	Thanks for joining us.
1:12.2	Our guest on this episode is Dylan Dugiovani, an interactive health coach.
1:17.4	Dylan has a master of education and integrative wellness, leadership, and change in individuals
1:22.7	and cultures from Leslie University, Cambridge Mass, and a Bachelor of Science in Education,
1:28.2	Secondary Major in Art, the College of New Jersey, Ewing, New Jersey.
1:32.5	He's a member of the Speaker Bureau of International Information Programs and International
1:37.0	Association for Health Coaches.
1:39.3	Our sponsor on this episode is Health IQ.
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