many times in the past, I've decided I'm going to go on a juice cleanse for 20 days and have nothing but juice and, you know, by day one dinner time, I'm having a pizza.

Welcome to the One You Feed.

Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have, quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true.

And yet, for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear.

We see what we don't have, instead of what we do, we think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit.

But it's not just about thinking, our actions matter. It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living.

This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction, how they feed their good wolf.

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

I'll be bringing you candid and maybe sometimes a little crazy interviews with people from all walks of life.

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.

But I'll jacked up because after being in this business for as long as I have, I want to get to the bottom of what makes people tick.

Listen to my new podcast, Thinking Out Loud on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Our guest today is Randy Scott Hyde. He's a writer who grew up in a small refinery town in Southeast Texas.

He got the hell out of there and went on to earn his MFA and creative writing from Antioch University and a bachelor's of music from the University of Texas.

He's also a professional fundraiser for San Francisco nonprofits.

But we first discovered Randy when reading his amazing blog, filling my soul hole, the ongoing battle to stick it to depression.

We had a great time talking to Randy in spite of the fact that he describes himself as a miserable fuck.

Welcome to the show Randy. We are glad to have you.

Thank you. Glad to be here.

So our podcast is based on the old parable where there's a grandfather who's talking to his grandson and he says,

in life, there are two wolves who are constantly at battle inside of us.

One is a good wolf and he represents kindness and love and peace and the other is a bad wolf who represents greed and hate and fear.

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