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The One You Feed | Personal Growth, Emotional Resilience & Purpose

Julien Smith

The One You Feed | Personal Growth, Emotional Resilience & Purpose

Eric Zimmer, The One You Feed

Self-improvement, Education, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Buddhism

4.5 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2014

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

This week we talk to Julien Smith.Julien Smith is the CEO of Breather, an on-demand space company, as well as the New York Times bestselling author of three books. Two of these, Trust Agents and The Impact Equation, were written with Chris Brogan (a previous guest). The third, The Flinch, has consistently remained one of the top read Kindle books since it was published in 2011.Julien has been an author, a CEO, a professional voice actor, a radio broadcaster, and a consultant and speaker at some of the largest corporations in the world, including Google, Microsoft, American Express, Heineken International, and more. His work has also appeared in Cosmopolitan, GQ, CNN, and a host of other publications. His online work has been read by millions, literally.  In This Interview Julien and I Discuss...The One You Feed parable.Building the habits to become the person you want to be.The difference between his life as an author and his life as a CEO of a start-up company.How hard it is to focus on personal development in the midst of a very busy, hectic life.His new company, Breather.The value in changing everything about yourself once in awhile.The Flinch.How often we talk about doing things but never do them.The hidden, unknown thing that stops us from doing things.We learn lessons the best when we are burned by them.Experiencing something is very different than hearing about it.How what we do now reinforces what we will do next time.New ideas come from looking at new things in new ways.Everything we do right now makes us into the person we are.Learning to recognize the flight or flight response as it happens.The power of tiny habits.Breaking things down into the smallest possible chunks.Using the principle of momentum.How we want the glory without the suffering.How there is no courage without fear.Eliminating the pointless, cowardly and habitual in favor of the useful.Making the choice to train ourselves.Remembering that we are making choices every day.Julien Smith LinksJulien Smith homepageBreather Buy Julien's booksJulien on Twitter Some of our most popular interviews that you might also enjoy:Kino MacGregorStrand of OaksMike Scott of the WaterboysTodd Henry- author of Die EmptyRandy Scott HydeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

At one point in your life, you should definitely change everything about you and see what it's like.

0:03.8

See how it goes.

0:12.5

Welcome to the One You Feed.

0:14.5

Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have,

0:19.1

quotes like, garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true.

0:24.7

And yet, for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us.

0:28.9

We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear.

0:33.6

We see what we don't have instead of what we do.

0:36.5

We think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit.

0:40.0

But it's not just about thinking.

0:42.0

Our actions matter.

0:43.5

It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living.

0:48.3

This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction.

0:52.7

How they feed their good wolf.

0:59.6

Hi, it's Elvis Jaran on my new podcast, Thinking Out Loud with Elvis Jaran.

1:10.4

I'll be bringing you candid and maybe sometimes a little crazy interviews with people from all walks of life.

1:15.3

We'll touch on subjects that you just can't talk about on the radio, like life, love, success, failure,

1:20.2

whatever else comes to mind.

1:21.5

But I'll jacked up because after being in this business for as long as I have,

1:25.4

I want to get to the bottom of what makes people tick.

1:28.0

Listen to my new podcast, Thinking Out Loud on the iHeartRadio app,

1:32.4

Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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