Mishka Shubaly

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

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🗓️ 2 September 2014

⏱️ 53 minutes

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This week we talk to Mishka ShubalyOur guest today is author Mishka Shubalay. After receiving an MFA from Columbia University, Mishka promptly quit writing to play music. He lived out of a Toyota minivan for a year, touring nonstop, and has shared the stage with artists like The Strokes, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs and The Decemberists.His Kindle Singles for Amazon have all been bestsellers. He writes true stories about drink, drugs, disasters, desire, deception and their aftermath. The Long Run is Mishka’s mini-memoir and details his transformation from alcoholic drug abuser to sober ultrarunner. His latest Kindle single is called Of Mice and Me and details him finding an orphaned baby mouse and the life lessons it brought to him.Also at the end of the interview we have a pre-release of a song from Mishka’s forthcoming record. In This Interview Mishka and I Discuss...The One You Feed parable.Watching the wolves battle since he was a kid.Nihilism and self defeating behaviors.How he celebrated his 5 years of sobriety.The ebb and flow of life.Remembering and forgetting our life lessons.How running is his meditation and prayerDoing the hard thing and embracing the challenges remind him that he wants to be alive. How its harder to train for six weeks than to run 10 miles at once. That smaller changes can be more difficult to maintain.Changing the default posture of our mind.How his mantra went from Fuck It to Try Every Day.Success being built on a series of failures.Learning to recover from our mistakesExtending the benefit of doubt to ourselves.The negative voice of the bad wolf.How we won't recover from addiction unless it is the most important thing in the world.His fear of AA.How there are no magic bullets.His public promise to attend an AA meeting.How it's worth trying anything once, expect maybe crystal meth.Our communal desire for having a lot of pain over a long period of time versus a brief intense pain.How following our dreams is not always the right approach.Playing music for the love of it.How the only thing that makes us happy is happiness.How getting everything we want doesn't always make us happy.Posting a picture of the The Strokes guitar player's ass all across Manhattan.Mishka Shubaly LinksMishka Shubaly Homepage Misha Shubaly Amazon Author pageMishka Shubaly on TwitterOf Mice and MeThe Long RunBeat The Devil 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

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0:00.0	Just because I'm recommending that other people shouldn't do stuff doesn't mean I don't do it all the time.
0:15.0	Welcome to the One You Feed.
0:17.0	Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have,
0:21.6	quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true.
0:27.2	And yet, for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us.
0:31.2	We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear.
0:36.2	We see what we don't have instead of what we do.
0:39.2	We think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit.
0:42.2	But it's not just about thinking.
0:44.2	Our actions matter.
0:46.2	It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living.
0:50.2	This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction.
0:55.2	How they feed their good wolf.
1:08.2	Hi, it's Elvis Jaran.
1:09.2	On my new podcast, thinking out loud with Elvis Jaran.
1:13.2	I'll be bringing you candid and maybe sometimes a little crazy interviews with people from all walks of life.
1:18.2	We'll touch on subjects that you just can't talk about on the radio, like life, love, success, failure, whatever else comes to mind.
1:24.2	But all jacked up because after being in this business for as long as I have,
1:28.2	I want to get to the bottom of what makes people tick.
1:30.2	And listen to my new podcast, Thinking Out Loud on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
1:40.2	Thanks for joining us.
1:41.2	Our guest today is author, Miska Shubali.
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