Magic Lessons Ep. 202: "Make the Brutal Into the Beautiful" Featuring Brandon Stanton

Magic Lessons with Elizabeth Gilbert

Elizabeth Gilbert and Maximum Fun

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4.6 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2016

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

This week on Magic Lessons, Elizabeth Gilbert advises Anne, a photographer in Pennsylvania. For the last few years Anne has been documenting her brother's life. He's a veteran with PTSD and a recovering drug addict. She imagines turning all this material into a photo-essay exhibit or book, but she's afraid to take the next steps to make it happen. To help guide Anne, Liz calls up her friend Brandon Stanton, the photographer and creator of the photo series "Humans of New York.” Several weeks later, Anne reveals what she's been up to since getting all this advice.

Special Guest: Brandon Stanton is the photographer and creator behind Humans of New York. He is also the author of two number 1 New York Times-bestselling books, Humans of New York and Humans of New York: Stories. Find out more about him at HumansofNewYork.com

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0:56.0	Just a heads up everybody. These are adults having adult conversations,
1:00.5	so there is the possibility of adult language.
1:05.0	Hi everyone and welcome to Magic Lessons,
1:10.0	a podcast produced by Maximum Fund.org.
1:13.0	I'm Elizabeth Gilbert.
1:15.0	And last year I wrote this book called Big Magic,
1:18.0	Creative Living Beyond Fear.
1:20.0	But even when I was finished with the book,
1:21.0	I was definitely not finished with the topic because I'm still as much as ever fascinated with the intricacies of the creative process and how we find our way through that strange journey, the obstacles we made along the way,
1:34.0	and the joy of what we ultimately create, and it is through my desire to keep having
1:38.4	that conversation that this, the Magic Lessons Podcast, was born.
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