152 | Overnight Success Is Overrated: Rewiring Your Brain to Keep Showing Up, Even When It’s Hard with Mary Marantz
Living Easy with Lindsey
Lindsey Maestas
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2025
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
"Most people are going to go to the grave with the music inside of them, unplayed."- Oliver Wendell Holmes.
In today’s episode, I sit down with author and speaker Mary Marantz for a conversation that will light a fire under you in the best way. Mary shares how she approaches life with urgency, not fear, because she knows the clock is ticking and the dreams in her heart deserve action. Do we truly realize that the more we do hard things, the more we can do hard things?
We talk about what it means to stop waiting for the perfect moment, and how your brain can be trained to do hard things on purpose.
She discusses Predictive Brain Theory, perfectionism, the desire to fast-forward through the hard parts of chasing your dreams, self-sabotage, and why most people give up before consistency ever kicks in.
If you’ve felt stuck in fear, paralyzed by procrastination, or are just tired of sitting on the sidelines of your own life, this episode will challenge you to stop waiting and go do the thing.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey friends, we were never promised that life would be easy. Sometimes it is hard and super crazy, |
| 0:11.7 | but when we do life together, we find that it becomes a lot easier and much more fun. |
| 0:17.2 | I believe in joyful life, in happy parenting, healthy marriages, long-lasting friendships, |
| 0:23.8 | and making perfect memories and imperfect homes. I love to dig deep and talk about the really |
| 0:30.2 | raw things that people are not always comfortable discussing. And I'm also passionate about |
| 0:34.9 | sharing practical tips that have helped me to help you |
| 0:38.3 | navigate through life less stressfully and more purposefully. |
| 0:42.1 | We will laugh together and struggle together. |
| 0:44.6 | You will hear honest insights on strengthening your faith and your marriage, parenthood, |
| 0:49.6 | how-toes, and so much more so that you can live life and live it with joy. |
| 0:55.2 | I am Lindsay Maestis. Welcome to the Living Easy podcast. Hello everyone and welcome back to the Living |
| 1:04.8 | Easy podcast. This is Lindsay. Today I'm here with my guest Mary Morant. Mary's words truly, truly have impacted my heart so deeply |
| 1:14.5 | again and again. I love her books. I love her Instagram. I love following along. She is a Yale |
| 1:21.1 | law school grad, podcast host, and bestselling author. And truly genuinely, when I say this, |
| 1:26.6 | one of the most gifted writers I know |
| 1:28.2 | and what I love most about Mary isn't just the wisdom that she bestows and just the depth of |
| 1:35.0 | her words it is also her vulnerability Mary grew up in a single wide trailer in West Virginia |
| 1:40.3 | and her life has been one long story of becoming, of fighting through doubt, |
| 1:48.2 | insecurity, people pleasing, and perfectionism to live out her calling. |
| 1:52.6 | Her newest book, Underestimated, speaks to the woman who feels stuck in the middle of meant for more and am I really enough? |
| 1:55.5 | So thank you so much for being here, Mary. |
| 1:57.1 | I am honored to have you. |
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