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Today my guest is Elizabeth Lesser. Elizabeth Lesser is a

best-selling author and the co-founder of Omega Institute, the renowned

conference and retreat center located in Rhinebeck, New York. She's the author of the book

Maro, The Seekers Guide, and the New York Times Best Seller Broken Open. She has

also written a new book called Cassandra Speaks. When women are the

storytellers, the human story changes. What I love about this conversation

with Elizabeth Lesser is she points very directly in ways that

patriarchy is subtly embedded and not so subtly embedded in our culture.

How we can become more aware of it,

how we can make changes on the outside and on the inside so that in the future we can tell a different story, the story that

equally embraces the power of women as well as the power of men.

Here's my conversation with Elizabeth Lesser. Elizabeth, I want to talk to you about your new book, Cassandra speaks, but before we do, I want to track back in time a little bit.

Here you are, you're at the omega Institute,

you're influencing all kinds of programming and the decisions around which authors to bring, and you decide,

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