Magic Lessons Ep. 208: “Leap Into the Fire” featuring Martha Beck
Magic Lessons with Elizabeth Gilbert
Elizabeth Gilbert and Maximum Fun
4.6 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 16 September 2016
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
This week on Magic Lessons, Elizabeth Gilbert advises Hope, a spoken-word poet in Ohio. A self-described introvert, Hope wants to take her poetry to the next level, but she's scared to submit her work to journals and enter poetry slams. She's paralyzed by a deep fear of rejection. Liz calls up her friend, the writer and life coach Martha Beck, for more guidance on Hope’s case.
Special Guest: Martha Beck is a speaker, writer, and life coach. Her bestselling books include Expecting Adam, Finding Your Own North Star, and Diana, Herself: An Allegory of Awakening. Beck is also a columnist for O, The Oprah Magazine. Find out more about her at marthabeck.com
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| 0:54.0 | Just a heads up, everybody. |
| 0:56.0 | These are adults having adult conversations, |
| 0:58.0 | so there is the possibility of adult language. Hi everyone and welcome to Magic Lessons, a podcast produced by Maximum Fund. I'm I'm Elizabeth Gilbert and last year I wrote this book called |
| 1:16.1 | 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 |
| 1:26.8 | topic because I'm still as much as ever fascinated with the intricacies of the creative |
| 1:32.3 | process and how we find our way |
| 1:34.5 | through that strange journey, the obstacles we made along the way and the joy of |
| 1:38.6 | what we ultimately create and it is through my desire to keep having that |
| 1:42.0 | conversation that this, the Magic Lessons podcast, was born. |
| 1:46.2 | So here we are. Season 2 and we are back. Back with more real conversations, with real people, amateurs and experts. |
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