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The One You Feed

Kristoffer Carter

The One You Feed

Eric Zimmer

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

4.62.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2014

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

This week we talk to Kristoffer Carter about building an Epic Life
Kristoffer Carter ("kc") is a meditation expert for rapid growth start-ups, facilitator, & experience designer for Good Life Project, created by Jonathan Fields. By day, KC helps lead education & development for Centro's 90-person sales force, having built the company from $65MM & 50 employees to over $300MM & 550 in the last 7 years. Centro has been named the #1 Best Place to Work in Chicago by Crains Business for the last 4 consecutive years.

KC is also a Kriyaban yogi (Self Realization Fellowship), husband & Father of 3, marathoner, and multi-instrumentalist since childhood.
His manifesto on his framework for "Full Life Integration" can be found at http://www.thisepiclife.com/manifesto KC's free program to create a powerful meditation habit can be found here: http://www.thisepiclife.com/meditation
In This Interview Kris and I Discuss...

The One You Feed parable.
The power of discernment.
Right action- not all action is created equal.
His journey to becoming a yogi.
Kriya Yoga and The Autobiography of a Yogi.
Where personal development ends spiritual development begins.
His first experiences with meditation.
How hard meditation can be for some people.
Moving from the lizard brain to the human mind.
This Epic Life Manifesto.
What Non Negotiable's are and how to integrate them into your life.
How full life integration works.
How unused creative energy is not benign.
Being whoever you are wherever you are.
When it comes to your inner alignment there are no shortcuts.
Radical Self Inquiry and the value of a variety of personality surveys.
Bringing your whole self to your work.
Radical Authenticity.
Doing things that you are afraid of.
Discerning signals from static.


Kristoffer Carter Links
Kristoffer Carter- This Epic Life Homepage
Kristoffer Carter Twitter
Kristoffer Carter- This Epic Life- Facebook
Kristoffer Carter- You Tube

Personality Tests discussed on the show:
The Enneagram
Strengths Finder
Myers Briggs




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Transcript

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0:00.0

I always tell people that meditation helps you discern signals from static.

0:03.6

And the static is the ego and the voices and the scripts that we're given as kids telling

0:07.7

us you have to fit in this box and do this and like all that stuff that doesn't quite

0:10.9

jive with us.

0:20.1

Welcome to the One You Feed.

0:22.1

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

0:26.8

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

0:32.2

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

0:36.5

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

0:41.2

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

0:44.1

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

0:47.6

But it's not just about thinking, our actions matter.

0:51.0

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

0:55.9

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

1:00.3

they feed their good wolf.

1:15.5

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

1:20.3

I'll be bringing you candid and maybe sometimes a little crazy interviews with people from

1:24.0

all walks of life.

1:25.4

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

1:29.9

failure, whatever else comes to mind, but all jacked up because after being in this business

1:34.1

for as long as I have, I want to get to the bottom of what makes people tick.

1:37.7

And listen to my new podcast, Thinking Out Loud on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts,

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