Jedidiah Jenkins
Happy Place
Fearne Cotton
4.7 • 15.6K Ratings
🗓️ 7 June 2021
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Radical vulnerability is something New York Times bestselling author Jedidiah Jenkins does his best to practice with those around him. As he entered his 30s, he travelled from Oregon to Patagonia by bicycle, and the journey turned out to be just as much emotional as it was physical. One of the things he learnt is that vulnerability breeds vulnerability, that once you share your truth, others will feel safe to share their true selves with you too, and that can only be a good thing.
In this chat, Fearne and Jedidiah explore their own experiences of using disembodying as a coping mechanism during difficult or painful moments in life, as well as what they each believe the soul really is.
Both of Jedidiah’s life-changing books, To Shake The Sleeping Self and Like Streams To The Ocean, are available now.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Happy Place, the podcast that helps us discover new parts of the happiness |
| 0:06.1 | by hearing where others have been. |
| 0:08.1 | I'm Fern cotton and today I'm meeting New York Times best-selling author Jedadaya Jenkins. |
| 0:13.7 | A professor of mine in college said this quote to me which I think about all the time, |
| 0:18.6 | which is, a system is perfectly designed to produce what it is now producing. |
| 0:25.3 | What he means by that is, things ain't going to change if nothing changes. |
| 0:28.8 | It's producing what it's now producing, things aren't just going to happen. |
| 0:32.2 | It's designed so if you don't change it up, then how can you expect a different result? |
| 0:37.5 | Jedadaya has actively taken control of and changed his life in just the most awe-inspiring way. |
| 0:44.0 | Over a number of years he's gone on emotional and physical journeys around the world |
| 0:48.6 | making discoveries about ego, friendship and even the soul. |
| 0:53.3 | It's no exaggeration when I say I am in awe of this man, I cannot tell you how excited I want to speak to him. |
| 1:00.8 | I mean, I don't need to tell you because you'll hear it for yourself |
| 1:03.9 | because I'm such a massive fan of Jedadaya and his writing. |
| 1:07.1 | I was sort of insanely giddy and at times when listening back to this edit I was like, |
| 1:13.1 | what was going on here? I was just overtly excited. |
| 1:18.0 | I should have rained it in a little bit maybe, but you know, perhaps the excitement will be infectious. |
| 1:23.3 | That's my hope anyway. |
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| 1:31.6 | Wake up! It's all in one thing! |
| 1:34.5 | From the writer Bohemian Rhapsody, this is what they want. |
| 1:37.2 | America's sweetheart. You want to give it to her? |
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