Mike Peters of the Alarm

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

Eric Zimmer, The One You Feed

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

4.5 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2015

⏱️ 41 minutes

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This week we talk to Mike PetersMike Peters is a Welsh musician, best known as the lead singer of The Alarm. Between 2011 and 2013, Peters was the vocalist for Big Country as well as The Alarm.A two time cancer survivor he founded the Love Hope Strength Foundation. The Foundation has found close to 1000 potentially life saving bone marrow donor matches; built the first ever children’s cancer center in Tanzania; supported the Bhaktapur Cancer Center in Nepal with life saving equipment and registered over 60,000 donors through it’s ‘Get On the List’ program.Eric caught up with Mike in Akron on his tour supporting the 30th anniversary of the classic Strength album. Our Sponsor this Week is Athletic GreensClick here to get 50% off your first order!! In This Interview Mike and I Discuss...The One You Feed parableFeeding the positive side of our personalityTreating people the way we want to be treatedSeeing both sides of the storySeeing The Clash and The Sex Pistols in 1977Meeting Johnny Rotten and Joe StrummerJoe Strummer teaching Mike to be positiveCreating an empowering message for the audienceWhat the song Strength means to him 30 years laterHis 20 year battle with cancerThe Love Hope Strength FoundationHis approach to handling cancerThe power of musicWhere he turns when he is struggling internallyThe meaning of the song Blaze of Glory For more show notes visit our websiteSee 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

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0:00.0	When you take advice from someone else sometimes and you go along with it and you think it doesn't feel right.
0:05.0	You end up bang, it's a crash at the end of the road.
0:16.0	Welcome to the one you feed.
0:18.0	Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have.
0:23.0	Quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think.
0:27.0	Ring true, and yet for many of us our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us.
0:32.0	We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear.
0:37.0	We see what we don't have instead of what we do.
0:40.0	We think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit.
0:43.0	But it's not just about thinking.
0:45.0	Our actions matter.
0:47.0	It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living.
0:51.0	This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction.
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1:41.0	Thanks for joining us.
1:42.0	Our guest on this episode is Mike Peters, a Welsh musician best known as the lead singer of the Alarm.
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