Magic Lessons Ep. 201: "You Have a Screaming, Not a Calling." Featuring Sarah Jones

Magic Lessons with Elizabeth Gilbert

Elizabeth Gilbert and Maximum Fun

Arts

4.6 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2016

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Jo has spent years working on her phD on the Holocaust and fighting for feminist causes, but that work is not where her true passions lie. She wants to fulfill a childhood dream and write comedy and comic novels. Jo wonders: am I allowed to stop saving the world and make fun art? Elizabeth Gilbert offers Jo advice along with her friend, the performer and playwright Sarah Jones. And we check in with Jo several weeks later to hear how the advice landed and inspired change.

Special Guest: Sarah Jones is a playwright and performer, best known for her one-woman Broadway show Bridge and Tunnel which won a special Tony award. Her latest project called Sell/Buy/Date is about sex trafficking and exploitation. And she's about to launch her own podcast, Play Date with Sarah Jones, with Public Radio International. Find out more about her at sarahjonesonline.com

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0:14.0	Magic Lessons listeners might enjoy a TED Talk by our incredible guest Sarah Jones.
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0:44.0	Just a heads up everybody. These are adults having adult conversations,
0:48.0	so there is the possibility of adult language. Maximum Fun.org. I'm Elizabeth Gilbert and last year I wrote this book called Big Magic,
1:06.7	Creative Living Beyond Fear.
1:08.4	But even when I was finished with the book, I was definitely not finished with the topic
1:17.0	because I'm still as much as ever fascinated with the intricacies of the creative process and how we find our way through that
1:24.5	strange journey the obstacles we made along the way and the joy of what we
1:28.6	ultimately create and it is through my desire to keep having that conversation
1:32.3	that this the Magic
1:34.1	Lessons podcast was born. So here we are. Season 2 and we are back. Back with more
1:40.4	real conversations with real people,
1:43.5	amateurs and experts.
1:45.6	This season, we will be meeting poets and novelists,
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