A Time to Dance

The Gathering Room Podcast

Martha Beck

Business, Entrepreneurship, Self-improvement, Courses, Education

5 • 656 Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

For this Gathering Room episode, I drew inspiration from a recent Ani DiFranco concert, as well as Ecclesiastes 3 and the song “Turn! Turn! Turn!”, to explore the unexpected emergence of hope in this time of global upheaval—and how you can learn to access it.

If you’re searching for connection, comfort, or the motivation to keep “dancing,” tune in for the full episode, where I’ll also lead you through a special Space, Stillness, and Silence meditation to help you connect with a deeper sense of community and support.

When we gather together, we can feel wild with hope and art and beauty—and we can dance, even in the middle of the worst place ever. Come join me and find out.

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0:00.0	Hello, the lovely peoples. This is Marty, Martha, inviting you to a free masterclass that I have made called
0:08.0	Five Paths to Your Purpose. Probably the most common question I get from people is, how do I find my purpose?
0:14.7	Why don't I feel that I'm on purpose? Well, it turns out there are certain things you have to do to find your purpose, and I broke
0:22.0	them down into five, and I made a little masterclass about it. So if you'd like to see it, just go to
0:28.3	marthabeck.com slash purpose, and you will be able to watch it without any charge at all.
0:45.4	Today's episode is called A Time to Dance.
0:52.4	And of course, it's taken from Ecclesiastes 3 in the Bible that has that long list of things of opposites, like a time to be born and a time to die,
0:55.6	a time to plant and a time to uproot, a time to tear down and a time to build, a time to gather
1:01.2	stones and a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them. And it is the source of,
1:08.9	I think, the best of the Bible songs. Turn, Turn, Turn. To everything,
1:13.8	there is a season and a time to every purpose under heaven. Turn, turn, turn. So I thought about it
1:21.5	because Roe and I went to see Ani DeFranco appearing live in Brooklyn this week. And if you know,
1:32.9	if you know Rowie, my gracious badger partner, you have heard her quote Anni DeFranco lyrics
1:40.7	because it's all she does. No, not really. No, she has her own voice, but boy, does she
1:47.9	love the Ani and who could not. When you start seeing this laser intellect and this joyful dance
1:55.7	that is Ani DeFranco's music is wah. And I've always really liked her, but after this concert I told Ro, I think I'm going to
2:04.7	have to join your religion after all because she was incandescent was Ani DeFranco.
2:11.1	And she was radiant and not in a lit-ups on the stage kind of way.
2:17.3	I mean, that too. But I've gone to a couple of things
2:21.0	with her in her there before. And each time I see her, she seems more luminous. I thought at first it
2:27.1	was just the lights on her, but then she came down from the stage and talked to us in a dark place.
2:32.0	And she was still luminous and incandescent.
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