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Speaker 1: Welcome to Fearlessly Failing hot Seat. In this EPP, I

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Speaker 1: fire rapid questions at one of our fearlessly failing guests. PS.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna be honest with you. I'm not so good

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Speaker 1: at the rapid part. I get too intrigued by the

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Speaker 1: awesome answers. Now, a new EPP is going to drop

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Speaker 1: every Wednesday, so enjoy this shortest style episode of fearlessly

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Speaker 1: Failing hot Seat. Welcome to the hot seat, my friend.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for having me, Michael Gillian.

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Speaker 1: You, my friend, are a wealth of knowledge, all things mindfulness, meditation. Well,

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Speaker 1: I want to say life, which I feel like I

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Speaker 1: need you in my pocket for like good luck when

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Speaker 1: I feel like I'm stressed. So, first of all, the

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Speaker 1: reason that we're sitting here talking today and you're jumping

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Speaker 1: on the hot seat is because you have a beautiful

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Speaker 1: new book out. Can you give the listeners a little

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Speaker 1: snippet of what it's about.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so let it Settle Daily Habits to move You

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Speaker 2: from Chaos to Colm is the book, and so it's

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Speaker 2: out September twenty fourth, so it should be out now.

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Speaker 2: And it's really about finding those moments to accessibly find

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Speaker 2: calm in the middle of chaos. So chaos exists in

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Speaker 2: many areas of our life, from those times when we

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Speaker 2: are dealing with stress, anxiety, overwhelm, fear, in those moments

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Speaker 2: when we're disconnected from ourselves and we need to come

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Speaker 2: home from ourselves, and in those moments when we're in

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Speaker 2: conflict with people around us. And so through each chapter,

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Speaker 2: it really walks you through what are different scenarios that

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Speaker 2: chaos may ensue in your life, and what is a

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Speaker 2: practical tool that you can apply in that moment. Love it,

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Speaker 2: Love it.

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Speaker 1: I've been lucky enough to soak up with the digital copy. Guys,

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Speaker 1: go out and get it. It's amazing. Okay, hot sate

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Speaker 1: my friends. Do you have a favorite city?

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Speaker 2: Well, I would have to say New York since it's

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Speaker 2: been home for almost twenty years now. Yeah, next year

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Speaker 2: will be twenty years of being there, and so it is.

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Speaker 2: I've been around the world, and I will say it's

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Speaker 2: the it's the energy.

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Speaker 1: So good. Okay. Do you have a favorite nature spot?

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Speaker 1: It can be anywhere in the world.

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Speaker 2: I grew up in Colorado, and so there is. It

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Speaker 2: was actually in my backyard, which is Pike's Peak, and

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Speaker 2: it's just walking up the trails there. It's just magical,

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Speaker 2: and then especially at night looking up and just starts

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Speaker 2: because there's no city lights. Because I grew up with

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Speaker 2: like a hundred people in my graduating class, so it.

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Speaker 1: Was, Ah, I love the I have to ask, having

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Speaker 1: a history of musical theater, do you have a favorite

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Speaker 1: musical theater, Like there's something you've seen on Broadway and

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Speaker 1: you're like, oh my god, I could watch that a

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Speaker 1: million times.

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Speaker 2: Ever, well, I would say Light in the Piazza. Do

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Speaker 2: you don't know one of the most beautiful scores. It's

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Speaker 2: an Adam Gettle score, but just so beautiful. Matthew Morrison

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Speaker 2: from Glee was in it with Kelly O'Hara and it

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Speaker 2: was just gorgeous, gorgeous music, beautiful story. So that's it.

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Speaker 2: Although I'm currently just anxiously awaiting the Wicked movie.

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Speaker 1: How good is the trailer lot?

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Speaker 2: It's so good, It's so good, so.

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Speaker 1: Soon, so soon. And I have to ask, you've brought

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Speaker 1: a book out, so do you have a favorite book

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Speaker 1: that you can go back to. It can be fiction,

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Speaker 1: it can be non fiction.

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Speaker 2: The book that kind of started everything for me was

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Speaker 2: The Untethered Soul by Michael Singer. Interestingly, the most craziest

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Speaker 2: moment of my life was looking at the Amazon bestseller

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Speaker 2: list and having I was number one and he was

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Speaker 2: number two, which was just this moment of like I

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Speaker 2: referenced him in the book, I referenced the Untothered Soul.

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Speaker 2: So that was a very beautiful moment.

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Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, are you sweet or savory?

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Speaker 2: Friend? I am a savory.

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Speaker 1: Okay, what would your favorite meal be?

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Speaker 2: Favorite meal? I mean, pizza is New York, New York

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Speaker 2: pizza and I was born in Chicago, so you know

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Speaker 2: pizza's in the blood.

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Speaker 1: There's a place here called Prince Streets Pizza and it's

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Speaker 1: stolen from New York, like I think it exists in

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Speaker 1: New York. First, and they're the proper like square slices.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, oh my goodness, so good.

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Speaker 1: And they have this one called the Naughty where it's

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Speaker 1: got ricotta and like hot and I think you guys

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Speaker 1: call them pepperonis or something. We did not call that

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Speaker 1: in Australia and then hot honey on top. Recommend.

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Speaker 2: I'll check it out.

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Speaker 1: Recommend. Okay, if you could have a magical ability, what

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Speaker 1: would it be.

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Speaker 2: I'm going to steal this from a friend who actually

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Speaker 2: just told me this the other day, but he said

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Speaker 2: his magical ability that he would want was to absorb sound.

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Speaker 2: That in those moments when it's too loud, that you

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Speaker 2: would be able to take away the sound from the

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Speaker 2: world and just be able to find stillness. And I

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Speaker 2: think that's kind of what I try and do. So

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Speaker 2: if I could do that without having to do it

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Speaker 2: any of the exercises, I would not sell a lot

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Speaker 2: of books, but that would be great.

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Speaker 1: I absolutely love it. My final question for you is

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Speaker 1: for a listener that hasn't listened to the Monday episode yet,

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Speaker 1: what's something that they could start today to act access

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Speaker 1: their own calm?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I think just connecting to the present moment.

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Speaker 2: I think probably the awareness of thought and the redirection

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Speaker 2: to a present moment. So on the podcast, if you

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Speaker 2: want to go listen to that, we talk about if

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Speaker 2: you're in traffic and driving, just those moments we're just

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Speaker 2: allowing for your mind to think and start to think

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Speaker 2: about your laundry list of things you have to do,

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Speaker 2: becoming aware of that thought and saying thought, thought, thought,

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Speaker 2: just identifying and labeling it and then redirect to a

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Speaker 2: present moment. So noticing the traffic in front of you,

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Speaker 2: the red car that's in front of you, the car

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Speaker 2: that's passing you, the license plate that's in front of you,

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Speaker 2: and just being in the moment until the brain inevitably

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Speaker 2: starts thinking again, and then it's just thought, thought, thought, present, moment.

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Speaker 2: That's mindfulness.

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Speaker 1: You've changed my world. You've changed that word. You're wonderful.

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Speaker 1: I can't wait till we get to hang again. Thank

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Speaker 1: you so much, Thank you,