Removing Shame And Communicating Honestly with Moby

Moby is a musician, entrepreneur, activist, and philanthropist who is informally known as “the godfather of veganism.” His album Play sold more than 10 million copies worldwide. He’s released fourteen solo albums in total.

A serial side hustler, Moby opened the vegan restaurant Teany in New York City in 2002 and is the original owner of Little Pine, a unique, contemporary vegan restaurant in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles.

Amazon Book Link: https://www.amazon.com/Little-Pine-Cookbook-Plant-Based-Comfort/dp/0593087364

HIGHLIGHTS

02:41 Realizing the disconnect with loving animals and eating them

06:16 A humble pursuit of spirit or divinity without understanding it

09:20 Moby's tattoos are a declaration of his veganism and animal rights activism

11:00 Moby's restaurants represent veganism through the power of attraction

13:52 Music: Spiritual expression and getting diluted as soundtracks to Tiktok

22:25 Social media gives people a way to not deal with the human condition

26:31 The horrible things in life taught much more than the good things 

34:39 Grateful for the adversity and getting rid of shame to heal

40:05 Be your honest self to empower others to look at themselves honestly

42:14 Honesty and vulnerability: Do more of what works, do less of what doesn't

45:56 Publishing The Little Pine Cookbook: Modern Plant-Based Comfort

QUOTES

03:00 "When I was 19, I had the realization that it was simply inconsistent to love animals and engage in a process that caused their suffering and deaths. So I went vegetarian when I was 19 in 1984, and then a few years later in 1987, finally went vegan."

06:52 "If I had to describe my spiritual beliefs in a very succinct, simple way, it would be the third step of Alcoholics Anonymous, and what I mean by that is the third step of Alcoholics Anonymous says turn our life and our will over to the care of God as we understood God."

16:57 "This is why music is such a phenomenal form of spiritual expression because it's air molecules moving a little bit differently, but in that process, it can make us cry, it can make us laugh, it can make us dance, it can make us travel across the country to jump up and down in a field with a bunch of other people."

28:43 "The terrible stuff, it's given me this sort of appreciation because... I've learned more from struggle and from bad things than I have from good things. So I don't like the struggle, I don't like the bad things, but they're so educational."

36:21 "Get rid of any concept of shame because one of the things I learned in sobriety is whatever I was ashamed of, everyone else has done and is doing... Trust me, everybody's doing the exact same thing."

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