Andrew Zimmern, Chef and TV Personality

Andrew Zimmern (0:00)

When you're stealing purses off the backs of restaurant chairs, to run to Central Park, vault the wall, walk down to 59th Street, 57th Street, hop on a subway, sell the passport and credit cards, whatever was in the purse, keep the cash, and become a petty thief, was something that I didn't imagine my life was going to be like when I was, you know, a history and art history major at Bizarre College.

Michael Gervais (0:48)

All right, welcome back or welcome to the Finding Mastery podcast. I'm Michael Gervais. And by trade and training, I'm a sport and performance psychologist, as well as the co-founder of Compete to Create, alongside of head coach of the Seattle Seahawks, Pete Carroll. And the idea behind these conversations is to learn from people who are on the path of mastery, to better understand what they're searching for, what they're hungry for, what they're driven by, their psychological framework, if you will, how they make sense of the world themselves in it, events that take place, both easy events and difficult events. And we also want to pull back the curtain to see if we can find the mental skills that they use to build and refine their craft.

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Andrew is regarded as one of the most versatile and knowledgeable personalities in the food world. And as the creator, executive producer and host of the Bizarre Food franchise, it's on Travel Channel if you're not familiar with it, he's explored culture through food in more than 170 countries. And he's built this multifaceted empire that promotes impactful ways to think about and create and live with food. And he's wildly successful by all conventional measures, a strong love life, he's got health, he's got his ambitions and dreams have actually turned into a lifestyle. And he has an insatiable curiosity for life.