Humble the Poet: ...that true freedom means to choose the challenges in your life

Nobody Told Me!

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4.2 • 671 Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Joining us on this episode is Humble the Poet, a Canadian school teacher and musician turned well-known philosopher, blogger and author of the book, UNLEARN: 101 Simple Truths for a Better Life. Unlearn was originally crowd-funded and self-published…and became a bestseller. The book has now been re-released by HarperCollins and is loaded with wisdom about things like love, anxiety, fear, trust, happiness, success and other issues that serve as either barriers or pathways to joy and reaching our potential.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Told Me.
0:13.2	I'm Laura Owens and I'm Jan Black.
0:16.2	Joining us on this episode is Humble the Poet,
0:19.1	a Canadian school teacher and musician turned philosopher,
0:22.8	blogger, and author of the book Unlearn, 101 simple truths for a better life. Unlearn was originally
0:29.9	crowdfunded and self-published and became a bestseller. Unlearn has now been re-released by Harper
0:36.1	Collins and is loaded with wisdom about things like love, anxiety, fear, trust, happiness, success, and other issues that serve as either barriers or pathways to joy and reaching our potential.
0:49.3	Humble the Poet, welcome to Nobody Told Me.
0:52.3	Thank you so much for having me. I have to ask, how did you get the name Humble the Poet?
0:58.5	The long story short is I grew up in heritage and talked about our ego, being an enemy
1:03.6	of our peace.
1:05.0	And, you know, when I was on my own spiritual journey, I kind of simplified that to, you know,
1:08.9	being humble, so focus on being humble and being a little
1:11.6	nerd on the internet. That was my screen name everywhere. And then I got involved in hip-hop and
1:16.6	different hip-hop websites. And then it evolved from that to humble the poet as I got it to music
1:21.0	and writing. And I didn't want to be known as a rapper because when people hear the word rapper,
1:26.2	they jump to like 10 conclusions.
1:27.9	And hip-hop is just modern poetry. So I took the moniker of the poet. And then the first time
1:32.8	I told a group of guys that name, they all thought it was a horrible name. So out of spite,
1:37.1	I kept it. And this is right before social media handles, right before everything else. So
1:43.1	I'm sure a shorter name would have worked a lot better.
1:46.0	And I came up with it long before I ever thought I'd become a public figure.
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