Poe Ballantine

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Eric Zimmer, The One You Feed

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

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🗓️ 18 October 2017

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Poe Ballentine is a great writer. Thank goodness for that because it's through his gift and skill of writing that we get a glimpse into the experiences of his life which reach us at a moving level of beauty, truth, humility, and struggle. In this interview, you'll hear him talk about these things and the gift you'll get as a result is the knowledge and comforting feeling of knowing you are not alone in your struggles through life. You'll learn through hearing what he's learned about self-growth and self-improvement. Give yourself the gift of listening to this episode. You won't be sorry. Please Support The Show with a Donation Poe Ballantine is a fiction and nonfiction writer known for his novels and especially his essays, many of which appear in The Sun. One of Ballantine’s short stories was included in Best American Short Stories 1998 and two of his essays have appeared in the Best American Essays series. His essays and short stories have also appeared in the Coal City Review, Kenyon Review, and Atlantic Monthly. Tom Robbins said " Poe Ballantine is the most soulful, insightful, funny, and altogether luminous “under-known” writer in America" His books include Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere, Guidelines for Mountain Lion Safety, 501 Minutes to Christ: Personal Essays and Things I Like About America: Personal Essays In This Interview, Poe Ballantine and I Discuss... The Wolf Parable Finding himself or becoming someone else The Moral Mechanism of the Molecule Asking, in your own experience - rather than simply in ideas, what do you know? How he found his way out of despair Doing enough work to exonerate yourself How important it is as an artist, creator to be hyper-aware of your life and environment The price of individualism in America How he loves to take care of his wife and son How difficult it is to be married That marriage is the molecular foundation of our society His book - a true crime story, Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere Poe Ballantine Links Homepage Poe Ballantine writings from The Sun Please Support The Show with a Donation See 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	in America, what makes this place great and what makes this place miserable is individualism.
0:14.0	Welcome to the One You Feed. Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of
0:19.2	the thoughts we have, quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think,
0:25.1	ring true, and yet for many of us our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. We tend toward
0:31.3	negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear. We see what we don't have instead of what we do.
0:38.1	We think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit. But it's not just about thinking,
0:43.6	our actions matter. It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living.
0:49.9	This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction,
0:54.3	how they feed their good wolf.
1:08.5	Thanks for joining us. Our guest on this episode is Poe Valentine, a fiction and non-fiction writer
1:14.6	known for his novels and especially his essays, many of which appear in the Sun.
1:20.4	One of Valentine's short stories was included in Best American Short Stories 1998 and two of his
1:26.4	essays have appeared in the Best American Essays series. His writing has also appeared in the
1:31.7	Cole City Review, Kenyan Review, and Atlantic Monthly. Author Tom Robbins said,
1:37.3	Poe Valentine is the most soulful, insightful, funny, and altogether luminous,
1:42.2	underknown writer in America.
1:45.2	If you're getting value out of this show, please go to 1ufeet.net slash support and make a donation.
1:51.5	This will ensure that all 185 episodes that are in the archive will remain free and that the show
1:57.4	is here for other people who need it. Some other ways that you can support us is if you're
2:02.4	interested in the book that we're discussing on today's episode, go to 1ufeet.net and find the
2:08.1	episode that we're talking about. There will be links to all of the author's books and if you buy
2:12.4	them through there, it's the same price to you but we get a small amount. Also, you can go to 1ufeet.net slash book
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