This is The Beautiful Writers' podcast.

I'm Linda Sievertson, and today I feel so lucky that the amazing author, life coach, and

all around out-of-the-box spiritual thinker, Martha Beck, is back as my guest co-host.

We're about to be joined by the New York Times bestselling memoirist of Broken Open and co-founder

of Omega Institute, Elizabeth Lesser, who is promoting her latest memoir, Mero, a love story.

It's an intensely powerful and life-affirming book about being the perfect match for her sister's

much-needed bone marrow transplant.

When in life,

they were a lot more like a mismatch.

Ah, therein lies the opportunity for healing.

Elizabeth is a longtime friend of Martha's and a recent friend of mine.

We hit it off at TED Women last week in San Francisco, where we were each speaking in the first

session and bonded over our

shared nerves and a late night rehearsal that gave us a kind of sisterhood courage, or maybe it was

just exhaustion. Either way, let's get this party started. I am so excited to keep learning from this

beautiful, soulful woman who, like Martha, has a spirituality that's deeply rooted in

science and is beloved by so many of our past guests and global leaders and thinkers.

Thank you for sharing your time with us as we journey to dig deep and go for the light. I can't wait.

Welcome.

Martha, we meet again, Mama.

You are becoming my partner in podcast crime here.

I can't wait.

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