Episode 05 – What We Feed Grows

What We Feed Grows – concepts we’re going to discuss in this episode:

• How this topic got on my radar
• Core concept
• The challenges we face
• Creating new patterns of thinking by breaking cycles and overcoming bias
• Action plan

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• A Native Woman’s Near-Death Experience: Sent Back with a Purpose: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqOmoXTJFM4 
• Atheist Dies & Finds There Is Life After Death: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZfaPCwjguk 
• Alcoholic Dies & Meets her Ancestors on the Other Side: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l15UGGvFsMA 
• This one’s from The Other Side NDE (https://www.youtube.com/@TheOtherSideNDEYT):  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7vnMIgoWe0 

ALSO if you know of someone who has had a near-death experience, and/or a healthcare worker and/or caregiver that has a story to share about experiencing/witnessing this, I’d LOVE to speak with them and have them on the program! Go to https://smashingsuccessstories.com/Nominations/ and fill out the form, please and thank you 🙂

• Man’s Search for Meaning by  Viktor Frankl: https://bookshop.org/p/books/man-s-search-for-meaning-viktor-e-frankl/f040ee34581bdc92?ean=9780807014271&next=t 
• Tale of the Two Wolves: https://www.nanticokeindians.org/about/the-tale-of-two-wolves/ 

• The twin brothers – I think it’s Les Brown that shares this story, and I spent half a day trying to find where he shared it (either in a keynote speech, or in his audio compilations) and I didn’t find it, so if you know where it’s from please let me know 😀
• Parable of the Two Travelers: https://www.theheraldtimes.com/editors-column-the-parable-of-the-two-travelers/opinion/ 
• Eyesight vs mindsight from Les Brown – judging by appearance vs how you interpret what you see ~8 min in: https://youtu.be/W6nT2yFc5UA?si=mTQBoN8pxpMpLqdX 
• Trixie on the podcast Why Won’t You Date Me on being open when dating: https://youtu.be/cFKfXbGq47A?si=rHLreUceM2K449pi 
• Gabi Belle’s video titled “The Khia Asylum is thinly veiled misogyny”: https://youtu.be/y10y9c7fVnI?si=QhoOd8-o6ug1bAsa
• Mark Rober’s TED talk: https://youtu.be/RDFGkBE2O50?si=vanMH5SuHLAdUX6q
• How Hey Ya got super popular
  • A good synapsis of the chapter that discusses how Hey Ya got popular – the synopsis is about halfway down the page: https://www.litcharts.com/lit/the-power-of-habit/chapter-7-how-target-knows-what-you-want-before-you-do-when-companies-predict-and-manipulate-habits 
  • Book on bookshop.org: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-power-of-habit-why-we-do-what-we-do-in-life-and-business-charles-duhigg/887dd5b06e09f78c?ean=9780812981605&next=t 
  • Chase Greene: “You can have something that is truly great, but if it is not familiar, people will not buy it, people will not take advantage of it, people will not enjoy it.”: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQ47FdQiYL1/ 
• Busking
  • https://www.reddit.com/r/Busking/comments/azzgbr/looking_to_start_busking_soon_and_i_want_to_play/
  • https://www.facebook.com/groups/984716668226746/posts/25231369346468140/ 

• The Punk Rock MBA, particularly 8:03-12:55 where he talks about how the Internet helped the band Sleep Token go EXTREMELY viral: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQGDyr7UUGU
• The Charismatic Voice (Elizabeth Zharoff) with Wil Ramos reacting to The Summoning by Sleep Token: https://youtu.be/u2PKkmWmif8?si=Ud6Nt7BdpAgD8ysP 
• The Summoning compilation reaction, which has over 300k views: https://youtu.be/4KSiD-0w7cE?si=2LINPWI08bSaEHy5
• (Healthy fandom groups) Buffering the Vampire Slayer: https://www.bufferingcast.com/ 
• Know myself – personal inventory from the Judgment episode:
  • Link to the episode/episode page on my website
  • Personal Inventory guide: https://docs.google.com/document/d/12AZlSNEBwXiNvQx8TogT4ljFyGkA5eGP4vLF3H59yr4/edit?usp=sharing 

I created a guide to compliment this episode – Exercises for developing a LEGENDARY mindset. Open the document and go to the upper left and select File, then Make a copy so you can leave notes and have your own copy of the guide 🙂

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