E65 - Mike Posner: How To Claim A Powerful Life of Abundance, Freedom & Fulfillment
Episode description
Grammy-nominated artist and songwriter Mike Posner vulnerably shares his personal journey of achieving success at young age and what made him wake up beyond it.
From the disillusionment of fame to transformative experiences, today Mike explores topics like purpose, resilience, and personal growth. With captivating stories of walking across America, facing death, and meeting Ram Dass, this podcast offers profound insights and daily practices for living a meaningful life.
Mike also shares his tools for healing the past, finding your why, and living a life that you love every day.
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Timecodes:
0:00 Intro
3:11 Becoming Successful & Waking Up to the Reality of It
7:59 Experiencing the Disillusionment of Fame
11:15 Why Mike Took a Pill in Ibiza
20:39 Meditation Retreats, Shadow Work & Apologizing for the Past
30:04 Why the 'Work' is Worth It
33:56 Finding Your ‘Why’ to Live
39:33 The Importance of Holding a Vision For Your Future
44:47 Walking Across America
48:58 Getting Bit By a Rattlesnake, Facing Death and Deciding to Keep Going
1:05:27 The Power of Choosing Challenge
1:09:20 How Big Sean Changed Mike's Life
1:14:17 A Transcendent Experience of Meeting Ram Dass
1:21:43 Daily Practices: Waking Up with Depression & Choosing Happiness
1:34:10 Mike Shares a Poem: I Believe
1:38:06 Conclusion
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Mike Posner:
Since 2009, International multi-platinum selling, GRAMMY-nominated artist and songwriter Mike Posner has quietly become one of the world’s most successful and recognizable voices. From his 2016 sophomore full-length album, At Night, Alone, which included the ubiquitous RIAA 4x-platinum smash “I Took A Pill In Ibiza’ which made history as “one of Spotify’s Top 10 Most Streamed Songs of All Time” with 3 billion streams and earned Mike a 2017 GRAMMY® nomination for “Song of The Year.” To his most recent and fourth studio album A REAL GOOD KID and 2019 mixtape release Keep Going, featuring special guests Logic, Wiz Khalifa, Ty Dolla $ign, Talib Kweli, ‘Keep Going’ chronicled and commemorated his well-documented and celebrated 3,000-mile hike across America. His most recent return explores depression, self-loathing and isolation by way of a 36-minute rap opera titled Operation: Wake Up.
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