The Zen Millionaire from Guam (Leo from ZenHabits)

Noah Kagan Presents

Noah Kagan

Entrepreneurship, Business

4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Today, we're talking with my long time friend and author, Leo Babauta. With his blog, ZenHabits and his impactful coaching programs, Leo has empowered thousands to adopt mindfulness, streamline their lives, and nurture healthier habits.

Leo has authored nearly 20 books, including titles like "Zen Habits," "The Power of Less," and "Zen To Done." His contributions to the world of personal development and mindfulness have earned him recognition as one of TIME magazine's Top 25 bloggers of all time.

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His blog was something that I always read back in the early days and his writing is still super inspiring. I watched him go from quitting smoking and all the habit changes that followed, including remarkable weight loss, running, meditation, that all curated into a hugely influential blog.

In this conversation, you’ll enjoy 3 BIG things:

The Evolution of a Writer: How a commitment to quantity and iterative improvement ultimately led to the exceptional quality of his work.

Helplessness: Why he still struggles with self-doubt and how he overcomes these challenges.

Growth is Messy: Why people shy away from coaching due to the fear of exposing their most sensitive and uncomfortable issues.

As we prepare for my upcoming book launch at the start of the new year, we're thoroughly enjoying these episodes featuring authors. If you're enjoying them as much as we are and would like to hear more content similar to this episode, don't forget to take a look at last week's episode with none other than Mark Manson, renowned for "The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck"!

You can go check Leo out at @zen_habits on Twitter & officialzenhabits on Instagram.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	This is how growth looks. Growth is sometimes embarrassing being willing to bring people in and fall in your face and be messy about it and admit you don't know stuff.
0:11.0	That's actually how you grow as opposed to like here's the
0:13.8	embarrassing ways that I suck. That's a terrible context to have.
0:19.4	What is up you sexy bastards? It is your boy Siesta aka Rabbi Can't Lose
0:24.7	aka noa Kagan. Today we're coming in with hot fire. We have got one of my good
0:29.1	longtime friends blogger and author Leo Babuda. Now Leo's story if you don't know it he has been
0:35.3	blogging since 2007 on Zen Habits.com it actually might be dot net but you'll hear
0:40.7	about the story in this episode.
0:42.6	Now Leo lived in Guam.
0:45.0	Look that up in a map.
0:45.7	I still don't know where it is.
0:46.8	He was a journalist making nothing, in debt, fat smoking.
0:51.1	Those are his words.
0:52.3	And from blogging, building an audience, talking about habits and being
0:56.2	Zen, he's been able to be named as one of Times top 25 bloggers of all time. He has books, he has courses, he has a coaching program that you should check out as well. You can go to Zen Habits.net and learn more about that and other things that Leo offers. This is an awesome show. I really enjoyed talking with him.
1:14.0	How did he get going from the beginning? How did he get it to the size he is now?
1:18.0	All of the struggles he faced today, which he's still going through, and how he overcomes him.
1:23.4	There's going to be three gigantic things you're going to learn in this episode.
1:25.8	Number one, the evolution of a writer,
1:28.3	super interesting, two, how do we all deal with helplessness?
1:30.9	That's something that we all struggle with which is when there's a
1:33.4	challenge how do we overcome it? Let's hear what Leo does and how growth can be
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