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WHOA That's Good Podcast

How to Stop Perfectionism From Holding You Back

WHOA That's Good Podcast

Live Original

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Business

4.912.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Sadie speaks with singer-songwriter Ryan O’Neal of Sleeping at Last about how having a child shifts your perspective, the dangers of perfectionism, and the ins and outs of the Enneagram. They also get into Ryan’s creative process, letting go, and how writing songs helps him work out questions about faith. John Luke joins the conversation to do a deep dive into all things Enneagram. Ryan has composed music for "The Twilight Saga" and many popular TV shows, and you can check out his work at sleepingatlast.com. - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

What's up? Well, that's good fam. I am so excited. I'm always excited, especially for

0:09.2

Wednesdays because I love getting to interview great people. And today I'm going to interview

0:14.2

someone that I'm actually personally a huge fan of. And if you're not, you probably are

0:19.5

you just don't even know it. So this is Ryan O'Neill from Sleeping At Last. He has an incredible

0:24.9

podcast. He's had music that you've probably heard, whether it's on Grey's Anatomy,

0:29.9

Twilight, the Ellen show, like so many places that's everywhere. But he's just an incredible

0:35.1

person. He's a husband and a father to two girls. And I'm excited to have them the show.

0:40.2

So welcome, Ryan to the What's Good Podcast. Hi there. Thank you so much. There's a, I'm

0:45.1

so excited to talk to you. Yes, we are so excited to say we cannot always talk as we, which

0:51.6

is funny because people are like, who's the where, where's the we? And mostly it's like

0:55.7

my husband or my team. But in this case, it's actually like everybody who listens to the

1:01.5

podcast. I know what we excited to have you on. Well, I have to ask you the hardest question

1:06.2

ever. What is the best piece? I've been I said you've ever been given? Oh gosh. Okay. So

1:12.2

I think the best piece of advice I've been given or the one that keep that stood out in

1:17.3

my mind as I was trying to try to figure out my answer for this question was from Bob

1:21.4

Gough who I know as a mutual friend of ours. And right at the time we had our first born.

1:25.9

So I have two daughters, Lily and Iris, Lily six. So about six years ago, I was in the,

1:31.6

the kind of the haze of being a new dad. And I was talking to him and was basically just

1:36.4

saying like, I'm having a hard time like being present and just like just being, you know,

1:41.4

like I'm so tired and I'm so exhausted. And he was like, what if you had a magnifying

1:46.8

glass and you just continue to look for your daughter's fingerprints everywhere that like

1:53.0

every day. And so a couple weeks later, he sends me a magnifying glass. And so to me,

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