Mike Peters of the Alarm

The One You Feed

Eric Zimmer

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

4.6 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2015

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

This week we talk to Mike Peters

Mike 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.

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In This Interview Mike and I Discuss...

The One You Feed parable
Feeding the positive side of our personality
Treating people the way we want to be treated
Seeing both sides of the story
Seeing The Clash and The Sex Pistols in 1977
Meeting Johnny Rotten and Joe Strummer
Joe Strummer teaching Mike to be positive
Creating an empowering message for the audience
What the song Strength means to him 30 years later
His 20 year battle with cancer
The Love Hope Strength Foundation
His approach to handling cancer
The power of music
Where he turns when he is struggling internally
The meaning of the song Blaze of Glory

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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.
0:56.0	How they feed their good wolf.
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1:14.0	And the club's DJ would go on to make history.
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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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