281 - Dread Family Holidays? How to Disagree & Get Along Anyway with Kirsten Powers
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🗓️ 22 November 2021
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Want more love and less friction over the holidays? Kirsten Powers — a senior political analyst and author of "Saving Grace" — shares strategies to honor your values and still get along with others, even when you disagree. Listen now and you'll never have to dread family get-togethers again.
https://www.marieforleo.com/blog/kirsten-powers-how-to-disagree
"You're not going to solve the world's problems over Thanksgiving dinner." @KirstenPowers via @MarieForleo
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| 0:00.0 | if you get clear about what does it mean to have grace for somebody? |
| 0:03.6 | And we have so much confusion around this word because people often think it means just being nice |
| 0:08.4 | or being polite or not arguing or not challenging people and that's not what it means. |
| 0:13.7 | It means exactly what you said about seeing the humanity and the wholeness of a person. |
| 0:22.4 | Hey, it's Marie Forleo and welcome to another episode of the Marie Forleo podcast and Marie |
| 0:27.5 | TV. The place to be to create a business and life you love. I'm very excited for today's |
| 0:31.2 | conversation, especially as we are coming near the holiday season. It's likely that we're going to |
| 0:36.2 | be around family and friends and there's a high probability that they don't always share our |
| 0:41.1 | beliefs and our values. And my guest today is here to give us some of her hard one experience, |
| 0:47.6 | tips and advice on how to coexist with people who frankly drive units. Kirsten Cowars is a USA |
| 0:53.9 | today columnist best-selling author and senior political analyst. Her writing has been published |
| 0:59.2 | in The Washington Post, L, Salon, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Post, among many other places. |
| 1:06.8 | Cowars was raised in Fairbanks, Alaska and currently lives in Washington, D.C. Her newest book |
| 1:12.3 | called Saving Grace. Speak Your Truth, stay centered and learn to coexist with people who drive |
| 1:17.0 | you nuts is available now. Kirsten, thank you so much for coming on the show and congratulations |
| 1:23.0 | on this beautiful book. I know it is not easy to put one of these together. It's not your first one, |
| 1:29.6 | but how do you feel now that it's done? Oh, well, it's so nice to have it done. It's like now the |
| 1:34.4 | baby's going out into the world and so of course you're like, be nice to my baby. Yes, of course. |
| 1:40.0 | And it's honestly coming out at the perfect time, both what we're experiencing and have been |
| 1:45.8 | experiencing, right, collectively for years now, but I think seasonally as I was opening the show, |
| 1:51.7 | it's talking about, you know, we're coming up on the holiday season and most of us are going to |
| 1:56.7 | see folks, whether family members, neighbors, friends, friends of friends, right, that are going |
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