35: 3 Ways to Design a Life That Works Best for You
The Simple Sophisticate - Intelligent Living Paired with Signature Style
Shannon Ables
4.7 • 944 Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2015
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
In Kate Bolick's recently released book (April 21, 2015), she dives into the possibilities of remaining single. While Bolick doesn't profess that being single is the best way to live for everyone, she does point out observations and biases of society that prompt the reader to pause and consider previously held assumptions about what the right path is for them.
In today's episode, three specific insights are shared which are inspired by Bolick's book as to how to go about living a life that is in alignment with your passions and innate leanings.
Today's Petit Plaisir highlight's one of Shannon's favorite simple pleasures to be enjoyed regularly during the week to unwind and relax - L'Occitane's Lavender Foaming Bath.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the simple Sophisticate Podcast, where intelligent living is paired with signature style. |
| 0:16.2 | I'm your host, Shannon Ables. |
| 0:18.8 | And whether you're listening on your commute, exercising, working in the garden, or sitting down with a hot cup of tea or a |
| 0:25.0 | cafe ole, thank you for tuning in. Let's get started. The Welcome to the 35th episode of the Simple Sophisticate. |
| 0:49.0 | Today's episode is inspired by Kate Bullock's recently book Spinster Making a Life of One Zone. |
| 0:56.0 | It was just released on April 21st and having had the opportunity to have an advanced copy, |
| 1:01.8 | I have been diving into this book, annotating like crazy, and trying |
| 1:08.3 | to make sense of how exactly I wanted to approach it in my review with you the listeners and the readers on the blog. |
| 1:15.2 | Now I was first introduced to Kate Bullock when she wrote an article for the Atlantic in 2011 |
| 1:20.2 | called All the Single Ladies. |
| 1:21.7 | It immediately caught my attention this idea that |
| 1:24.8 | wow women are successfully living on their own. Why are we still under this |
| 1:30.0 | impression or this some sort of social stigma that we must at some point in our lives get married. |
| 1:36.3 | Why? |
| 1:37.3 | Why is it there for women and not for men? |
| 1:39.0 | It was very interesting how she attacked it and I'll actually provide a link to that article in today's show notes |
| 1:44.0 | podcast 35. But I decided to look at it the way she intended I feel because if you look at the |
| 1:51.2 | subtitle it's Making a life of one's own. |
| 1:54.0 | So today's episode is called three ways to design a life that works best for you. |
| 2:00.0 | So let's get started. I want to begin with a quote from the book. Here we go. |
| 2:05.7 | Certainly the single woman was reviled in the 1950s in the way all minorities are |
| 2:11.9 | stigmatized to ratify the choices of the majority." |
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