Episode 35: Moby on How to Recover After Falling Apart

For Episode 35 of the 5 Questions with Dan Schawbel podcast, Dan interviews Moby, songwriter, producer and author, about how growing up poor impacted him as an adult, how he recovered from the lowest point in his career, the positive influences in his life that came to his rescue, how he handles mental health and his best career advice.
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[@IntuitiveCoachTheresa]

One of the most talented artists ever. Love love love his music.

[@YouLookSoHappy]

Focus on Spirituality and Service. If anyone missed that point (said at 8:13 minutes in the video). Please let that sink in. I promise you. It's pure wisdom.

[@philipwoodford6286]

I could listen to Moby all day I’d love to meet him

[@DanSchawbel]

He was great

[@diegopolo8979]

Thank you for this interview and thank you for your work! I wish you the best!

[@DanSchawbel]

My pleasure!

[@tt-rama2246]

Oh thats a great shirt

[@PNortRyan]

Wow, I always liked Moby, never liked the hate he got. Now that I know he had a hard life growing up, I like him even more, living in an abandoned warehouse?, no thanks!.

[@anandadaquino3604]

Why people wanna see the "bright side of poverty"? Poverty sucks! I am not the poorest person on Earth, but I was raised with a lot of affluent people, so I understand... oh you can have empathy... wouldn't be better if the poverty didn't exist at all????? Only rich people who has never been poor thinks there's beauty in pooverty.

[@jonzaremba]

And no mention of Portman in this interview? He was dating her when she was 15 or 16...that's the heart of the issue that he is avoiding...and why he canceled all of his other appearances.

[@jonzaremba]

His story of living in an abandoned factory with no money is also skewed. How did he afford tens of thousands of synths to make his music during this time? He was getting money from somewhere...probably from someone whom he wishes to forget.

[@stefan1632]

Was it you?

[@philipwoodford6286]

Have you read Porcelain it answers most of that

[@jonzaremba]

Moby grew up in a mansion. He was not poor. In one of his early documentaries, he goes back to his house to show the viewer. Most of his life is a lie.

[@mustafa175]

Do you have proof?

[@jonzaremba]

Being human is not terrifying. If moby doesn't know the meaning of life or his significance by now...at 53...this is a personal problem. He could do the world a service by not projecting his existential failures onto the rest of the world. Most of the world has this stuff figured out by 30.

[@mikeywilde]

Dickface

[@jrose395]

@@mikeywilde 🤣

[@niceguy235uk1]

One of his last interviews before he decided to get big stupid tattoos on his arms and neck.