268 - Love Letters to Our Creatives: How to Stay True to Yourself as You Evolve w/ Grace Bonney
The Marie Forleo Podcast
Marie Forleo
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 24 August 2021
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Ready to make a change or share something new — but worried what people will think? In this episode, Gracey Bonney talks about the many ways she's reinvented her life and business, and how to evolve while staying true to yourself. If you've ever worried about being relevant, or let the fear of people's opinions hold you back from doing something new, this one is a must-listen.
This is the fourth installment of a special five-week series we're doing on The Marie Forleo Podcast called, Love Letters to Our Creatives. Think of each episode as short, little love letters from me to you — reminding you of the important gifts you have, and a little nudge to make the time for your creative work.
https://www.marieforleo.com/blog/work-life-balance-grace-bonney
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| 0:00.0 | Each and every one of us is born with a unique set of gifts that we're here to express during |
| 0:08.0 | our time on Earth. Look, God doesn't make any extra peeps and when we hold back our gifts, |
| 0:13.8 | we truly are stealing from those who need us most. |
| 0:22.8 | Hey, it's Marie Forleo and welcome to the fourth installment of Love Letters to Our Creatives. |
| 0:28.1 | This is part of a special five week series that we're doing here on the Marie Forleo podcast |
| 0:32.3 | to celebrate and love on all our listeners who have creative aspirations. And I got to say, |
| 0:37.6 | I think you're in for a real treat today because you're going to hear from someone who is deeply |
| 0:41.2 | creative and who surrounds herself with makers and designers and innovative entrepreneurs of all sorts. |
| 0:47.2 | I'm talking about Grace Bonnie, who you might know as the former CEO of Design Sponge and the author |
| 0:52.3 | of the books in the company of women and collective wisdom. Now, this conversation is back from |
| 0:57.8 | 2016, well before Grace and her team decided to evolve into a new chapter after Design Sponge. |
| 1:03.4 | Now that said, if you struggle with showing up to do your work or even sharing your work because |
| 1:08.0 | you're afraid of what other people will think, this one's for you. Let's get into it. |
| 1:13.7 | I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, which I didn't even know adults could get, |
| 1:18.2 | so that was a big shocker. And it turned my life upside down. It turned my personal life upside |
| 1:23.8 | down. It turned my work life upside down. And it was a sort of crash course and getting to know my |
| 1:29.5 | body, changing every habit from the way I eat to my lack of exercise, which is now a total 180. |
| 1:36.0 | I have such sort of perspective on what a gift that was because it has fundamentally changed the |
| 1:41.7 | way I live and work. And I'm actually quite thankful for that now. It's interesting. I think that |
| 1:46.5 | anytime I've gone through a big change in my life, and I've gone through a couple quite publicly |
| 1:50.6 | over the last five or six years, and every time I sort of am ready to share that online, |
| 1:55.7 | I have to kind of go through the process of understanding it myself, being ready for whatever |
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