Elizabeth Lesser: ...how difficult times make us grow

Nobody Told Me!

Entrepreneurship, Business

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🗓️ 6 April 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Bestselling author Elizabeth Lesser joins us on this episode. Her books include "Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow" and "Marrow: Love, Loss & What Matters Most". Her newest book is called, "Cassandra Speaks: When Women are the Storytellers, the Human Story Changes". Elizabeth is the cofounder of Omega Institute, which is recognized internationally for its workshops and conferences in wellness, spirituality, creativity, and social change. She’s given two popular TED talks, and is one of Oprah Winfrey’s Super Soul 100, a group of 100 leaders who are using their voices to elevate humanity. Her website is https://www.elizabethlesser.org/

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Told Me. I'm Jan Black. And I'm Laura Owens. And we are thrilled to welcome
0:18.0	best-selling author Elizabeth Lesser to this episode. Her books include
0:22.2	Broken Open, How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow, and Mero, Love, Loss, and What Matters Most.
0:30.0	Her newest book is called Cassandra Speaks. When women are the storytellers, the human story changes.
0:37.3	And Elizabeth is the co-founder of Omega Institute, which is recognized internationally for its
0:43.2	workshops and conferences in wellness, spirituality, creativity, and social change.
0:48.6	And she's given two very popular TED Talks and is one of Oprah Winfrey's Super Soul 100,
0:54.1	which is a group of 100 leaders who
0:56.2	are using their voices to elevate humanity. And it's a very prestigious group. So congratulations
1:01.2	on that. And welcome to the show. Thank you. What a pleasure to be here. Elizabeth, you have
1:07.0	written some wonderful books in the past, but your new book is a little bit different
1:11.2	than those. Talk to us about what inspired Cassandra speaks. I've always been someone who walks
1:18.0	these dual paths. I think a lot of us are like this, but this has been a big thing in my life.
1:23.2	I've been both someone really concerned with the world. I have some activism that I have followed
1:28.8	forever. At the same time, I consider myself a spiritual seeker, someone who's done a lot of work
1:36.0	on myself, who helps other people work quietly in the realms of psychology and spirituality.
1:42.8	I've always wanted to marry these two parts of myself,
1:46.0	the activist, and then I made up a word for it,
1:49.0	the innervist, the person who believes, like, as Gandhi did,
1:55.0	be the change you want to see in the world.
1:57.0	But then there's some really bad stuff in the world,
2:00.0	and I want to go out and change it.
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