113. I Guess I Haven’t Learned That Yet with Shauna Niequist

Here's Where It Gets Interesting

Sharon McMahon

Government, History, Storytelling, Education

4.9 • 15.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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In this episode, Sharon sits down with author Shauna Niequist, who–along with her husband and young sons–moved from their suburban midwestern home to NYC. When her sons expressed discomfort and frustrations with learning a new way of living, Shauna set about softening their mindsets by writing “I guess I haven’t learned that yet” on a sticky note for the whole family to see. The mantra expanded, and Shauna realized that it pertained to both little life skills and larger life goals. When we give ourselves grace to live for a while in the state of uncertainty, we open ourselves up to curiosity, mistakes, possibility, and perseverance. Shauna and Sharon also chat about training ourselves to find delight in our days, what it's like to make writing a full-time job, and the joy of dinner parties.

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0:00.0	Hey friends, thank you so much for being here today.
0:04.3	I always love to have you along and today I'm chatting with Shana Nekwist who is beautiful
0:11.2	writer and she is a book that I think you are really going to love hearing about and
0:15.4	the book is called I guess I haven't learned that yet and I was like oh that is a title
0:22.5	I like.
0:25.7	So let's dive in.
0:28.3	I'm Sharon Nekwist and welcome to the Sharon Says So Podcast.
0:32.8	Oh I'm so excited to have Shana with me today.
0:36.6	Thank you so much for joining me.
0:38.4	Thank you for having me.
0:39.6	This is such a pleasure.
0:41.4	It's been fun reading your books over the years and I'm excited for you to have another
0:46.4	book birthed out into the world.
0:49.0	What do you tell people a little bit more about what you do, what your work is about?
0:53.8	I will absolutely do that but first I do want to say I love the work that you're doing.
0:58.2	I love it.
0:59.2	I'm totally a fan of it.
1:01.4	We are so deeply in need of the conversation that you're having right now and you're doing
1:05.1	it so well with so much wisdom and with humor and in a really creative way.
1:11.1	I'm totally a fan and all my friends are fans like I so many people from all different
1:17.1	parts of the country and all different political backgrounds.
1:19.7	I think find you as a voice that they can listen to and a time when it's tricky to find
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