This is episode number five four five with number one New York Times best-selling author Rupi Core

Welcome to the school of greatness. My name is Lewis Howe's former pro athlete turn lifestyle entrepreneur in each week

We bring you an inspiring person or message to help you discover how to unlock your inner greatness

Thanks for spending some time with me today now let the class begin

If you were born with the weakness to fall you were born with the strength to rise

Rupi Core

I'm very excited about this episode love connecting with Rupi in Toronto when I got to interview her and she is a number one

New York Times best-selling author and illustrator of two collections of poetry after completing her degree in rhetoric studies

She published her first collection of poems milk and honey in 2014 the internationally acclaimed collections sold well over a million copies

Gracing the New York Times best-sour list week after week over a year

It has since been translated into over 30 languages and her long-awaited second collection the Sun and her flowers was published in

2017 through this collection she continues to explore a variety of themes ranging from love

loss trauma healing femininity migration revolution

Rupi has performed her poetry across the world her photography and art direction are

Warmly embraced and she hopes to continue this expression for years to come and I was so

Delighted connecting with her and if you are on the show notes at Lewis Howes.com

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545 you can see the full video you can see the book that's out right now

Make sure to get a copy just loved everything about her. She's got a massive audience on Instagram

So make sure to check out more about her but in this interview we talk about how she handled

Expectations for the second book to do as well as her first book

Also why our idea of success is so skewed the relationship between suffering and joy

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