Glennon Doyle: On Love, Life, Leading and the Limelight
Good Life Project
Jonathan Fields / Acast
4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2016
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Glennon Doyle Melton is an author, activist, and founder of Momastery.com and Together Rising, a non-profit that has raised close to five million dollars for women and children in crisis.
Her brand new book, LOVE WARRIOR is a #1 New York Times Bestseller and the most recent Oprah's Book Club selection.
Today, I sit down with Glennon the morning after she's wrapped one of her gathering at the legendary BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music) in New York City, where she was joined by a multi-denominational collective on-stage, including Alicia Keys who was so moved she couldn't help but belt out an impromptu song before leaving.
In this conversation, we dip into her new memoir. But that's more of a jumping off point that leads us into some very different waters, from leading as an introvert, her feelings about faith and how it informs what she's creating to how she's moving into a season of her life where the line between public and private, art and service, love and leading is shifting in profound and intentional ways.
We go deep into some provocative territory here, and there are more than a few invitations to reconsider how you move into the world and what you choose to focus on. Agree or not, this is a conversation that'll leave you lifted, challenge your assumptions and also make you think and feel.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm a recovering food and alcoholic, but I still find myself missing booze in the |
| 0:07.9 | same twisted way we can miss those who repeatedly beat us and leave us for dead. |
| 0:12.3 | And I wrote that and I was like, that's exactly right. |
| 0:15.6 | That's how I feel. |
| 0:16.6 | Like, that's not something I'm ever allowed to say in real life. |
| 0:20.2 | Today's guest, Lenin Doyle Melton, is the author of a really fascinating, raw, powerful |
| 0:28.7 | new memoir called Love Warrior. |
| 0:31.4 | We dive into the story in that tiny bit, but truth is, we actually zoom the lens out in |
| 0:36.2 | this conversation a whole lot more. |
| 0:37.8 | We go deep into what she's about these days and to who she is and to what she's creating |
| 0:42.3 | in the world and to how her introverted social nature interacts with leading essentially |
| 0:48.5 | a new movement, the construction of almost like a new faith and how traveling around has |
| 0:54.4 | changed her. |
| 0:55.4 | She also really explore how she handles the separation between being fiercely public |
| 1:01.0 | and transparent and at the same time trying to preserve privacy and how that shifting |
| 1:06.8 | in a really major way as she thinks about what gets let out and what gets kept completely |
| 1:12.3 | private over the next few years. |
| 1:15.2 | A lot of deep conversation, a lot of probably provocative ideas here and some even controversial |
| 1:21.5 | ideas. |
| 1:23.0 | Something that is going to leave you thinking about your assumptions and about the way |
| 1:27.6 | you move into the world. |
| 1:29.1 | Really excited to share this conversation. |
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