BONUS | An Important Message About Grace & Forgiveness

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🗓️ 27 November 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Happy Thanksgiving! In today’s bonus episode, you will hear a powerful excerpt from Ryan’s interview with author and journalist Julia Baird about the real-life power of grace, forgiveness, and why letting go can be one of the bravest things you do.

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Julia Baird is an author, broadcaster, and journalist based in Sydney, Australia. Be sure to check out her books, Phosphorescence: A Memoir of Finding Joy When Your World Goes Dark, Victoria: The Queen: An Intimate Biography of the Woman Who Ruled an Empire, and Bright Shining: How Grace Changes Everything.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, where each day we bring you a stoic-inspired meditation
0:11.7	designed to help you find strength and insight and wisdom into everyday life.
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0:24.2	history's greatest men and women to help you learn from them, to follow in their example,
0:33.0	and to start your day off with a little dose of courage and discipline and justice and wisdom.
0:40.3	For more, visitdailystoic.com.
1:02.8	Hey, everyone. welcome to a bonus episode of the Daily Stoic podcast. I hope you're having a good Thanksgiving. I know I'm grateful to get to do this podcast, to have you listening. So I wanted
1:08.6	to throw something together for you. Last year, when I was on
1:12.1	Australia doing that speaking tour, I was able to squeeze in a couple podcast interviews while I
1:17.0	was there. And one of them was with one of my favorite people, Julia Baird. By the way, I'm going to be
1:22.5	on another speaking tour here, like very shortly. I'm going to be in Seattle on the 3rd of December, and then
1:29.9	I'm going to be in Phoenix and San Diego in February. You can grab all that at Daily Stoic
1:34.7	Live.com. But I was able to speak with Julia Baird. And Julia is this Australian journalist,
1:40.0	broadcaster and author. I first found her when I read her book, Queen Victoria, biography of Queen
1:44.7	Victoria, which I used a lot when I was writing stillness. Then she wrote this other book called
1:48.2	Phosphorescence, which I really liked. And then she had a new book called Bright Shining, which is
1:52.7	about the idea of grace. And we talked a lot about grace and gratitude when we were there in Australia,
1:58.9	which now is almost 18 months ago. But I wanted to bring you
2:02.4	this section on Thanksgiving. And actually, the reason that I thought to bring this is that I got a
2:09.4	lovely note from Julia. I did this email on when everything is feeling shitty and awful in the world.
2:16.1	One way I was saying you can always feel good is to do
2:18.8	something nice for someone else. You can do something generous. And I was talking about this thing
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