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So Money with Farnoosh Torabi

1301: Grace Bonney, Collective Wisdom From Trailblazing Women Over 50

So Money with Farnoosh Torabi

Farnoosh Torabi

Entrepreneurship, Business

4.71.9K Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

NYT Bestselling author and creator of Design Sponge, Grace Bonney, joins the show to talk about her new book Collective Wisdom: Lessons, Inspiration, and Advice from Women Over 50. From an Olympic athlete and a NASA team member to award-winning artists, activists, writers, and filmmakers, Bonney shares the key takeaways, insights and predictions these remarkable women have about our world. Got a question for Farnoosh? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

So many episode 13-01, Grace Bonnie, author of the new book,

0:04.4

Collective Wisdom, Lessons Inspiration and Advice from Women Over 50.

0:30.0

When I interviewed especially women over the age of 70 for this book,

0:40.8

my naivete, I mean, smacked me right in the face immediately because I asked people,

0:45.4

I led with the question, like, what did you want to be when you were little?

0:48.0

Because I just like hearing about what people imagined.

0:50.8

And for so many women, they looked at me like, what kind of question is that?

0:54.7

Like, I didn't imagine anything because there were no options.

0:58.3

Welcome to so money, everybody.

0:59.8

I'm Farneesh Tarabi.

1:00.9

Thanks for gathering with me here.

1:03.1

As we head into a new year, I want to be more intentional about something.

1:08.5

And that is learning from those of us who have more life experience,

1:13.7

all the life experience, like way more than me.

1:16.9

I came across a quote over the holiday week from award-winning editor Doug Marano.

1:21.6

And he said, yeah, she said this a couple of years ago, but for some reason,

1:24.8

it has endured, and I know why, because it's brilliant.

1:28.8

He said, I get tired of 40 under 40 lists.

1:32.6

Show me someone who got their PhD at 60 after losing everything.

1:37.3

Give me the 70 year old debut novelist who writes from a lifetime of love and grief.

1:42.0

Give me the calloused hands and tender hearts end quote.

1:46.0

I'm happy to say that on this show, we have interviewed many people who've either started over

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