Hi everyone, I just wanted to share a quick note that Eric will be live on Instagram this Friday July 7th at 5pm Eastern time.

He'll be joined by former guest and friend of the show Ralph De La Rosa, and they'll be discussing the powerful effects that spending time in nature has on our mental health, how to connect mindfulness and nature and more.

Be sure you are following us at one underscore you underscore feed so that you can connect with Eric and Ralph live on Instagram this Friday July 7th at 5pm Eastern. We hope to see you there.

There's glory and routine and comfort and familiarity. It's like one of the great things of working relationships which is just how comfortable that feels and one or both of you might need more than that.

Welcome to the one you feed. Throughout time great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have, quotes like garbage in garbage out or you are what you think ring true. And yet for many of us our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. We tend to add negativity, self pity, jealousy or fear. We see what we don't have instead of what we do.

We think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit. But it's not just about thinking our actions matter. It takes conscious, consistent and creative effort to make a life worth living.

This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction, how they feed their good wolf.

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Thanks for joining us our guest on this episode is Michael Bungay Stanyer. His book The Coaching Habit is the best selling coaching book of the century with over a million copies sold.

In 2019 he was named the number one thought leader in coaching Michael founded box of crayons a learning and development company that helps organizations transform from advice driven to curiosity led.

He's the author of many books including the one discussed here how to work with almost anyone five questions for building the best possible relationships.

I'm Michael welcome to the show Eric says to be back thanks for having me. I am happy to have you back and we've actually been talking some in between interviews so it feels like a conversation with a friend which is always the best kind.

I was telling you before listeners if you're watching this I'm wearing the brightest shirt I've ever worn in my life in honor of Michael who's a pretty bright guy.

I'm wearing the dollar shirt I've ever worn in my life just to kind of fit with you Eric exactly you're like that guy is pretty bland I better turn it down.

It's like can I have something grayer please not even greater than that please.

Literally if I walked into my mom's hospital room right now and she saw me in the shirt she might fall out of her bed because my color palette is like dark blue gray black white.

Yeah I'll go sky blue a little bit. If you're feeling really kind of punchy well you know you're wearing a purple shirt and purple is my favorite color as a 13 year old joining a high school.

We were assigned houses and we were put into the purple house and I'm like purple it was a particularly ugly purple they had but a mother of a friend of mine taught me how purple was the color of royalty in Roman days.

They used to line the togas with this color which was much rarer than gold because it was made by crushing tiny tiny tiny marine snails.

So since that down like okay I'm just gonna make a bugger feature I don't like purple it's now my favorite color so I'm all in on the purple and you nailed it so thank you for that.

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