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🗓️ 17 May 2023
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Rainn Wilson is an Emmy-nominated and SAG award-winning actor, writer, and producer best known for his role as 'Dwight Schrute' on NBC's The Office. He co-founded SoulPancake, a digital media company designed to celebrate humanity and champion creativity. Rainn's book, Soul Boom: Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution released on April 25th of this year. In this book, he explores the benefits spirituality gives us in creating solutions for an increasingly challenging world. Rainn can soon be seen in “Rainn Wilson and The Geography of Bliss” a six-part travel docuseries in which he travels around the world to discover the happiest places on Earth. He joins me on this podcast once again to discuss his new book and the spiritual revolution.
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0:00.0 | I think so many people that are really driven in their careers do it from an unhealthy place |
0:08.4 | because it's to mask the fact that they feel that they're not enough. |
0:13.0 | So I was always driven to make it as an actor and I wouldn't take no for an answer and I was |
0:18.0 | relentless and I'm grateful for that because I had a good career, |
0:23.0 | but at the same time, it came out of feeling like I wasn't enough and I wouldn't be lovable |
0:27.6 | unless I got recognition and money and I wouldn't even say fame. |
0:33.1 | I wasn't really so much about fame. |
0:34.5 | I just wanted to be recognized for my work and, well, I wanted to be |
0:40.3 | adored externally because I didn't adore myself internally. Very excited for today's episode. |
0:46.4 | That wisdom nugget that you just heard there was for my friend, Rain Wilson. And you're certainly |
0:53.1 | going to know Rain Wilson from his Emmy-nominated |
0:56.5 | SAG Award winning role as Dwight Shrut on NBC's The Office, which I don't know how many seasons |
1:05.0 | that thing ran, but an absolutely epic show. And this particular episode today with Rain is one of my favorites in a long time, |
1:15.7 | specifically because it asks big questions with foundational, |
1:21.7 | principled, responsible paths through these huge questions. |
1:28.3 | Namely, we're talking about Rain's new book, |
1:32.0 | which is called Soul Boom, |
1:34.2 | Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution. |
1:37.2 | Now, of course, you know, Rain, he's hilarious, right? |
1:41.1 | He's an actor, producer. |
1:43.5 | He's written other books before. He's been on the show, |
1:45.3 | a guest on the show, at least one other time to my memory. He created a media company called Soul |
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