Episode 367: The Only One In The Room with Laura Cathcart Robbins

Make Some Noise with Andrea Owen

Andrea Owen

How To, Education, Self-improvement

4.7 • 517 Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

It’s no secret we are living in complicated times. Sometimes going back to the basics to focus on the present can be incredibly helpful. This week, Laura Cathcart Robbins, speaker, and host of the podcast, The Only One In The Room, joins me to talk about turning shitty situations into amazing opportunities. Laura went viral when she wrote an article about being the only Black woman in the room at an Elizabeth Gilbert and Cheryl Strayed writing event. She has been active for many years as a speaker and school trustee and is credited for creating The Buckley School’s nationally recognized committee on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Together we discussed her experience being ‘othered’, as well as, how sharing that experience encouraged people from all ethnicities, races, genders, and abilities to speak out and feel connected with one another. She also offered a transparent look into her life as a mother and addict, going into treatment, wrestling with shame, and how she is coping today. She is a true wordsmith in both her writing and in her speaking. I hope you enjoy our conversation. In this episode you’ll hear: Laura shares her experience as the only one in the room at a retreat hosted by Liz Gilbert and Cheryl Strayed. (5:00) How the retreats changed after Laura’s article went viral and some of the lessons she learned from the entire experience. (11:25) Laura talks openly about being a mom in recovery from addiction. (22:08) Words of encouragement for living in these trying times. (42:25) http://yourkickasslife.com/367 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:23.3	like you sign up for your one dollar a month trial at shopify dot com slash set up so i i try not to brown
0:32.2	out in recovery and i try to really be present and make that time and make space and take time for the people in my
0:39.8	life, especially during this time where we're so limited as to who we can contact in person.
0:44.8	I think that's really important.
0:49.5	This is your Kickass Live podcast, episode number 367 with guest Laura Cathcart-Robbins.
0:57.0	This is the Your Kickass Life podcast with Andrea Owen, a no-b-s guide to self-help and bad-assery.
1:05.4	Because ladies, let's face it, life's too short for it to not kick ass.
1:11.7	And here's your host, the girl who serves it up straight with a side of crazy.
1:16.6	Andrea Owen.
1:18.7	Hey there, ask kickers.
1:20.0	Welcome to another episode of the podcast.
1:22.0	I am so glad that you are here.
1:24.3	Well, we're winding down 2020.
1:26.8	Thank goodness, right? And it has been a wild ride. I actually,
1:34.0	as I'm recording this, I'm excited because I have a few things cooking up for 2021. Obviously,
1:41.1	you know that I have a book coming out. It doesn't come out until August of next year.
1:46.7	And obviously more on that much later. I also have a freebie that's coming up that's been
1:52.6	really a couple of years in the making. It's going to be a podcast. I don't know what you want
1:59.9	to call it. It's its own podcast stream. I know that there's
2:03.2	a better technology word for it, but I don't know. It's not like a completely separate podcast
2:08.0	that I'm doing. Anyway, it's going to be a trio of podcast episodes that is just me. I'm going to be
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