Hey, I'm Marie Forleo, and this is the Marie Forleo podcast. If you want to talk about your business, your life, your health, your relationships, and even more, I gotta tell you, you are in the right place we do it all with humor

and heart so let's dive in. If you ever feel different than everyone else and you

suspect that that holds you back from making the difference that you were born to make, this is the episode for you.

Lizzy Velazquez is a motivational speaker, anti-bullying activist, Social Media Personality, and Author.

She was born with an extremely rare disease that affects her heart, eyes, bones, and prevents her

from gaining weight.

Her TEDx Talk has over 13 million views and her story has been featured on Katie

Currick, The Today Show, and the View, among others. She's an executive

producer of the award-winning documentary based on her life, A Brave Heart, the Lizzie Velazquez story, and her

latest book, Dare to be Kind, How Extraordinary Compassion Can Transform Our world is available now.

Lizzy, thank you so much for making the time to be here.

Absolutely, thank you having me.

I love that we were going to do this interview on Skype and they were like,

no, no, no, we need to do this in person so first congratulations on dare to be

kind I loved it I underlined so many things and you can see my little tabs

in here from some of my favorite parts. So for anyone watching that

doesn't know your story, take us back to when you were 17 and you saw that video that changed everything for you.

Yeah, so I was born with a syndrome that doesn't allow me to gain weight.

I was undiagnosed up until the time I was 25.

So when you're a teenager and you're in high school,

all you really want is to fit in and be cool.

But adding this condition that doesn't,

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