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This is Design Matters with Debbie Milman from Design Observer.com.

For 11 years now, Debbie Milman has been talking with designers and other creative types about what they do, how they got to be who they are and what they're thinking about.

On this podcast, Debbie Milman talks with Eric Zimmer about the twists and turns and his surprising career as a tech entrepreneur,

and about some of the things he's

learned along the way. You've got a cognitive budget, you've got a certain amount of

energy that your brain has to do things. Here's Debbie Milman.

In every creative life there comes a time when, well, we're not feeling particularly creative or inspired.

Maybe our habits of mind or our bad habits lead us into an emotional, creative, and spiritual

dead end.

Eric Zimmer knows where of I speak.

At one especially low point, he was 50 pounds under weight and living in a van.

Fast forward a few years and Eric Zimmer is now the host of the super popular podcast, The One You Feed.

The Podcast Intimately Explores how to Avoid Depression, Anxiety, and Addiction with

Compassion, Conscious, consciousness and wisdom.

On today's program, the podcast host of the one you feed sits on the other side of the microphone.

Welcome to Design Matters, Eric Zimmer.

Hi Debbie, thanks for having me.

I read that for you, inspiration, or feeling better when you're down comes from listening to loud music more than anything else.

Why loud music and what do you listen to?

Well, it depends what it is.

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