So what if I told you there was a secret language that could dissolve the walls isolating you from your deepest emotions and the shared human experience?

A profound yet ancient code for cracking open your soul and just excavating revelations that unite you with all of humanity's beauty and pain and enduring truths.

Well, that's exactly what my guest today has

tapped into and really mastered through a lifelong journey into the transformative power

of poetry and the art of spoken word. Sarah Kay is a writer, performer, educator, whose poetic

genius has been leaving audiences spellbound since childhood, with five critically acclaimed books

to her name, including her newest collection, A Little Daylight Left, Poems. Sarah's relationship

with this ancient art form is a tale like no other, from scribbling metaphor-rich verses in

journals as a young girl, to finding the courage to share her voice among New York City's gritty spoken

word scene, her story really captivate you at every turn. In our conversation, Sarah pulls back

the curtain on how an embracing spoken word community really welcomed her raw, authentic expression

from an almost shockingly young age. you'll discover how the perfect words and

images can just illuminate life's most visceral moments, from violence to heartbreak, aging,

mortality, everything with sacred wisdom. But maybe most engaging is Sarah's contagious passion

for creating doorways through which anyone can experience poetry and spoken words medicine,

whether written, whether spoken, whether animated or beyond, and we'll have the joy of hearing

her actually read one of her deeply moving spoken word pieces. So excited to share this conversation

with you. I'm Jonathan Fields Fields and this is Good Life Project.

You never know where the journey will take you.

One Tinder match.

And not only have I met someone new, but we've discovered a sick Italian restaurant together.

And it turns out football is now our thing.

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