108: What Lin-Manuel Miranda Taught Me
The Simple Sophisticate - Intelligent Living Paired with Signature Style
Shannon Ables
4.7 • 944 Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 2016
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Tony-award winning creator, director and actor Lin-Manuel Miranda recently shared a quote about his reason for writing the musical Hamilton. Using his words as inspiration, discover four fundamental tools for reaching your full potential, and along the way amazing yourself as to what you were capable of.
In this week's Petit Plaisir, a new recipe for wrapping up spring and welcoming the summer season: a blueberry rhubarb galette.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Simple Sophisticate Podcast, where intelligent living is paired with signature style. |
| 0:16.3 | I'm your host, Shannon Ables. |
| 0:18.8 | And whether you're listening on your commute, exercising, working in the garden, or sitting down with a hot cup of tea or a |
| 0:25.0 | cafe ole, thank you for tuning in. Let's get started. Welcome to the 108th episode of the simple |
| 0:47.1 | Sophisticate and if you're tuning in on the day this goes live |
| 0:51.1 | live in the sense that it's available, it is the first day of summer or winter |
| 0:56.8 | depending on where you call home. So we are in a way turning a corner starting a new season doing something with a fresh start or |
| 1:08.4 | clear eyes. Today's topic is inspired by an interview that I heard recently and it was a very simple |
| 1:19.7 | statement but it was profound to me partly because of the success that this person has achieved |
| 1:28.7 | and so therefore the credibility that this person brings their statement is quite impressive, but also |
| 1:36.9 | because it often is something outside of ourselves that makes us realize what we have within ourselves. |
| 1:44.3 | But before I get to exactly what the heck I'm talking about, let me give you a hint as to what |
| 1:50.3 | this week's putte, plaier is. It is a summer dessert, or should I say a |
| 1:56.7 | spring summer dessert that is brand new to me and I was so excited to try it and well it turned out absolutely |
| 2:05.3 | delicious and it's so simple so I hope you'll tune in to the end of today's |
| 2:09.3 | episode where I'll share exactly what that recipe is and how to make it. |
| 2:14.0 | Trust me, it will impress not only your taste buds, |
| 2:17.0 | but I have a feeling, your guests and family and friends as well. |
| 2:21.2 | But back to today's topic, the title of today's episode is what Lynn Manual |
| 2:26.6 | Miranda taught me. And if you have been paying attention to the news lately or the entertainment and |
| 2:34.3 | cultural news of this past year and beginning early in the fall and end of last |
| 2:40.1 | summer you know exactly who Lynn Manuel Miranda is. |
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