Hi, I'm Ethan Sopli, welcome to American Glutton. Outside of acting my two favorite things

to do are diet and eat. I have a very complicated relationship with food and on this podcast

we're going to talk about all of it. Food as entertainment, food as sport, food as fuel.

I'll talk to experts and the average person just like you and me.

Today on American Glutton, all the way from the UK my guest is Chris Williamson.

Through his one-on-one coaching and his modern wisdom podcast, Chris strives to help people

understand more about themselves and the world around them. Chris says personal growth

and introspective work is an ugly business. You need radical self-honesty in order to become

all you can be. You can find Chris on Instagram at Chris Will X.

Chris Williamson, welcome to the American Glutton podcast.

Thank you very much for having me, brother. There's quite a bit I want to get into with you.

Your correlation and compilation of life hacks, which I think is super valuable. There

was something you said recently that I want to start off with. And then also at some

point we have to just touch on the objectification of the male physique and the psychology behind

it because I think that's an important thing that is very rarely talked about, especially

in the universe that I'm typically in. I love it, man. Let's do it.

You said you are afraid of failure, but by procrastinating you guarantee failure, you

can inoculate yourself from failure publicly by certifying your failure privately.

When I read this, I literally did mental cartwheels to instances in my life that this

is true, going all the way back to childhood. And like I got into like I had flashes of

like my friends playing pickleball and me going like, no, I don't like that. That's a

stupid game. I'm not going to play. And you know, a piece of artwork that I wanted to

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