Introducing Mentor Buffet: Zach Braff—Be Yourself Until Somebody Gives You a Chance

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Rich Roll

Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 10 October 2024

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Today I’m sharing an episode of Mentor Buffet—a new podcast hosted by Alexi Pappas, the Olympian-author-filmmaker. In each episode, Alexi goes deep with brilliant changemakers to learn about the mentors who made the biggest difference in their lives and set them on their path. In this episode, Zach Braff talks with Alexi about his relationship with mentor Bill Lawrence, the creator of Scrubs and Ted Lasso. Bill was the first person to give Zach his big Hollywood break, casting him as the lead in Scrubs as the iconic J.D. Dorian. They also discuss the importance of being yourself, what Zach learned from making his debut feature film Garden State, the value of gratitude, and how to avoid shin splints. Subscribe to Mentor Buffet for new episodes every Thursday, available everywhere you listen to podcasts. Watch on YouTube Subscribe on Spotify and Apple Podcasts Find out more about Voicing Change Media at voicingchange.media and follow us @voicingchange

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0:00.0	Greetings Devotees of the Rich Roll Podcast Universe. It's me, Rain Wilson.
0:04.8	And if you ponder what it means to be a human being with a body and a soul,
0:09.7	give my new podcast, Soul Boom, a listen.
0:12.0	I sit down with big thinkers, artists, philosophers, entertainers, and more,
0:16.0	exploring the existential questions we all grapple with. It's inspiring, soul nourishing,
0:21.0	and we have a lot of laughs along the way.
0:22.8	So subscribe to Soul Boom on YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:27.0	I really feel that I have no other choice but to be myself. It is so weird. I don't know where it's leading, but I feel in touch with myself.
0:38.0	And so when I'm on the stage, it's like I just felt like I wanted to dance like me and it's not cool like I'm not like cool but to be yourself is cool like that's cool
0:50.4	Hey everybody welcome to the podcast I am here today with my good friend Alexi Pappas
0:56.3	podcast favorite. We're going to do something a little bit different today.
0:59.5	We're going to introduce you to her brand new show, Mentor Buffet, part of the growing family here at
1:08.0	Voicing Change Media. But before we do that, I wanted to just catch up with you, Alexi, see how you're doing, and maybe we can, you know, kind of set the stage and create some context for your new show.
1:20.0	Yeah. The last time I saw you, we were in Paris and we were at the Olympics, both of us and your daughter, Jaya, helped with an indie film I shot and now I'm home and I had a surgery on my collarbone that is like a very cool
1:38.1	scar and I feel like it's like a new school year like it is a new school year but I feel it's a new school
1:44.7	year for me too.
1:45.7	Yeah, well so much packed into like that one sentence.
1:49.7	Yes, we were both in Paris together,
1:52.7	both doing stuff for brands and, you know,
1:55.3	kind of participating in the whole Olympics thing,
1:58.3	which was like incredible.
1:59.5	It was the first time I'd been to an Olympics.
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