Scott Stabile: Big Love.
Good Life Project
Jonathan Fields / Acast
4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2018
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Scott Stabile had every reason to be angry with the world, but he chose love instead.
At the age of 14, Scott's parents were killed at the market they ran, leaving behind a family of seven kids. Stabile was the baby of the group, and nine years later, his brother overdosed and died from a heroine addiction.
In those years, he was surrounded by a lot of tragedy, addiction and loss. And, he buried it all, keeping it secret through school, until eventually, it couldn't stay buried any longer. His awakening eventually led him into a journey of discovery where his deep seeking for answers and connection led him to San Francisco and eventually into the embrace of a cult, where he stayed for many years.
Flowing through all of this was Scott's internal, turned external struggle with his sexuality as a gay man at a time when being out was a very different experience than it is now. Through it all, though, Scott continually found a way to turn back to love. And eventually, he made a choice that stuck, to live on his own terms, no matter what comes his way, with a wide-open heart. He began to share his journey and philosophy through teachings, workshops, and inspirational posts and videos that have attracted a huge and devoted social media following. And, he began to create and write.
His previous works include Just Love, Iris, and the Li’l Pet Hospital series. Scott also wrote the feature film The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure, an eye-opening experience he writes about in his new book, Big Love: The Power of Living with a Wide-Open Heart (http://amzn.to/2CTUebn).
In today's episode, we dive into this powerful journey.
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| 0:00.0 | It was a Monday morning. I was with my sister and we got a call that my parents' car was parked outside their market, but the gates were down. |
| 0:12.0 | And it was well after the time that the store should have been opened. |
| 0:16.0 | So we knew when our gut something was very wrong, like none of it made sense in the area in Detroit where the store was wasn't a particularly safe neighborhood. |
| 0:26.0 | So my sister and I got in the car and we went to my brother-in-law's deli that he had. It was called the Ham Palace. |
| 0:34.0 | And we went there because my other sister came work there as well, so the four of us waited as my brother Jimmy drove downtown to check out what was going on. |
| 0:43.0 | And he was the one who eventually came to the market and told us that they had been shot. |
| 0:49.0 | To look at the life of this week's guest, Scott Stabil, from the outside end, you would think to yourself, this guy has every reason to be filled with anger and rage. |
| 1:02.0 | When he was 14 years old, his parents were brutally murdered while working at the market that they owned, about nine years later, his brother Odide, and he lost his brother from heroin. |
| 1:14.0 | And he grew up in an environment sort of surrounded by dysfunction and addiction and violence and tragedy and loss. |
| 1:22.0 | And through this, so many people would take that and become absolutely just enraged with the world and be mired in unfairness and stuck. |
| 1:33.0 | And that is a valid part of the emotions that we all feel. |
| 1:38.0 | Scott somehow found a way through it. He found a way to turn around and use all of the pain as motivation to open his heart to live from a place of just wide open love. |
| 1:52.0 | In fact, his journey and a lot of his ideas are detailed in his latest book, Big Love, The Power of Living with the Wide Open Heart. |
| 1:59.0 | I was really excited to be able to sit down with Scott, kind of really go into his personal journey and then his philosophy, how do you go from this place of such profound tragedy and violence and loss and dysfunction. |
| 2:12.0 | And somehow find a way to continue to look at the world as a place of generosity and kindness and lead your way through it with an incredibly open heart and just love. |
| 2:27.0 | I'm Jonathan Fields and this is Good Life Project. |
| 2:36.0 | Fancy a fever tree in a glass with ice and rum. You thought I was going to say gin, didn't you? |
| 2:46.0 | But I'm talking about fever tree ginger beer made from three gingers for that perfect blend of freshness, sweetness and spiciness, delicious with rum or on its own. |
| 2:58.0 | Fever tree ginger beer mixed with the best. |
| 3:04.0 | That spices things up. |
| 3:07.0 | Cool. I really feel like I'm later back to cry. |
| 3:11.0 | Weak with the unadult or enjoy of using a paint which finishes like a spray even though you're using a roller. |
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