Magic Lessons Ep. 206: "Dancing From the Heart" featuring Amy Purdy

Magic Lessons with Elizabeth Gilbert

Elizabeth Gilbert and Maximum Fun

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4.6 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2016

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

This week on Magic Lessons, Elizabeth Gilbert advises Penelope, a dance teacher in New Jersey, who wants to create a dance performance to mark her 60th birthday. Even though she’s been dancing her whole life, she’s having trouble finding the courage to pull this off. For expert guidance, Liz calls up one of the most courageous dancers she knows: Amy Purdy — a Paralympian snowboarder and semifinalist on Dancing With the Stars.

Special Guest: Amy Purdy is a snowboarder, Paralympian, dancer, model, actor, and speaker. Her memoir On My Own Two Feet: From Losing My Legs To Learning The Dance Of Life is published by HarperCollins. You can find out more about her at amypurdy.com

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0:00.0	Magic Lessons is supported in part by Casper, an online retailer of premium mattresses for a fraction of the price.
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0:53.2	Terms and conditions apply.
0:54.6	Just a heads up everybody.
0:56.8	These are adults having adult conversations,
0:59.4	so there is the possibility of adult language. Hi everyone and welcome to Magic Lessons, a podcast produced by Maximum Fund.
1:12.0	I'm Elizabeth Gilbert and last year I wrote
1:16.1	this book called Big Magic Creative Living Beyond Fear.
1:19.7	But even when I was finished with the book, I was definitely not finished with the topic because I'm still as much as ever fascinated with the
1:31.0	with the intricacies of the creative process and how we find our
1:35.3	way through that strange journey, the obstacles we made along the way and the joy of
1:39.6	what we ultimately create and it is through my desire to keep having that conversation
1:43.6	that this the Magic Lessons podcast was born. So here we are. Season 2 and we are
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