Magic Lessons Ep. 204: “Who Gets To Decide Whether You're A Legitimate Artist?" featuring Mark Nepo

Magic Lessons with Elizabeth Gilbert

Elizabeth Gilbert and Maximum Fun

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4.6 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2016

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

This week on Magic Lessons, Elizabeth Gilbert talks with Cecilia, a young poet in Florida. Cecilia fell in love with poetry in college and applied to a dozen MFA programs. She got rejected from every one. Devastated by the rejection she fell into great despair and wondered if she could still call herself a poet when these MFA programs deemed her talents insufficient. For extra guidance Liz brings in her friend, the poet and storyteller Mark Nepo, who has soulful advice for Cecilia. And later we hear from Cecilia about what she's been up to since her first magic lesson.

Special Guest: Mark Nepo is a poet, teacher, storyteller and the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Book of Awakening. His most recent books include The One Life We’re Given: Finding the Wisdom that Waits in your Heart (Atria, July 2016), and Inside the Miracle: Enduring Suffering, Approaching Wholeness (Sounds True), selected by Spirituality & Health Magazine as one of the top ten best books of 2015. Find out more about him at MarkNepo.com

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0:55.2	Just a heads up, everybody.
0:56.5	These are adults having adult conversations,
0:59.2	so there is the possibility of adult language. Hi everyone and welcome to Magic Lessons, a podcast produced by Maximum Fund.
1:12.0	Or I'm Elizabeth Gilber and last year I wrote this book called Big Magic
1:17.4	Creative Living Beyond Fear. But even when I was finished with the book, I was definitely not finished with the topic
1:27.8	because I'm still as much as ever fascinated with the intricacies of the creative process and how we find our way through
1:35.3	that strange journey, the obstacles we made along the way and the joy of what we ultimately
1:40.0	create and it is through my desire to keep having that conversation that this, the
1:44.7	Magic Lessons Podcast, was born. So here we are. Season two and we are back. Back with
1:51.0	more real conversations with real people, amateurs and experts.
1:56.5	This season we will be meeting poets and novelists,
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