BEST OF WIO: Mike Reads a New Piece of Writing, Plus Elizabeth Gilbert Re-Air

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🗓️ 17 March 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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At the top of this Best of WIO episode featuring Elizabeth Gilbert, Mike reads a new piece that he wrote for Elizabeth's Letters From Love Substack.(Recorded November 2024) Author Elizabeth Gilbert wrote one of Mike’s favorite books about creativity, Big Magic. She also wrote a book that, to her surprise, become a cultural phenomenon: Eat, Pray, Love. Mike and Liz discuss the unexpected impact of Eat, Pray, Love, and what it was like for Liz to watch Julia Roberts portray her on the big screen. Liz gets candid about the ups and downs of a creative life, including the reasoning behind the cancellation of a novel she wrote that took place in Russia. Plus, some bawdy jokes and stories care of Liz’s uncles and grandfather, and the surprising reason why Liz was stopped at airport security.

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0:00.0	I was coming into the country from Central America in New York at JFK, and I was traveling alone.
0:07.9	I gave them my passport, and the woman's like, what was the nature of your travels?
0:11.6	And I said, just traveling around.
0:13.6	And she was a little suspicious, I think.
0:16.6	And she's like, what's the nature of your work?
0:18.1	And I said, a writer.
0:19.3	And she said, what kind of things do you write?
0:21.0	And I just said, like, well, I'm most well known for this book that I wrote called Eat, Pray, Love.
0:25.0	And she goes, you're Eat, Pray, Love?
0:26.9	You're Eat, Pray, Love?
0:28.1	And I was like, yeah.
0:30.3	And she goes, hey. down the line of everybody, like, not the, but the other immigration people.
0:37.9	And she's like, this is E. Pray, Love. And I'm like, why are they having this reaction?
0:42.2	And then she's like, no, you don't know. Every day, women are coming back into the country alone.
0:49.5	And I say, what were you doing? And they say, I was having my own E. Pray, love.
0:53.9	Multiple times a day, we hear this. I believe it. And she's like, I was having my own eat, pray love. Multiple times a day we hear this.
0:55.6	I believe it.
0:56.2	And she's like, I can't believe you're the actual one.
0:58.7	That's crazy.
1:02.7	That is the voice of the great Liz Gilbert.
1:05.5	Elizabeth Gilbert.
1:07.3	This is a best of all time episode from the fall.
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