Grace Bonney on her New Book, Design Sponge, and Career Changes!
Bad On Paper
Becca Freeman
4.8 • 4.2K Ratings
🗓️ 3 November 2021
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
This week we interviewed Grace Bonney, founder of Design Sponge to talk about her new book, Collective Wisdom! We learn how she got to where she is today, what inspired her to write a book about women over 50, how she found the women featured in her book, and the interviews that had the greatest impact on her.
We also talk about Design Sponge, how it felt to close it down on her terms, and her thoughts on going back to school as an adult!
Follow Grace Bonney
Instagram - @grace__bonney & @designsponge
Collective Wisdom: Lessons, Inspiration, and Advice from Women over 50
Instagram Obsessions
Grace - @designsponge
Becca - @nanowrimo
Obsessions
Grace - Nest Pumpkin Chai Candle
Becca - Aerie The Sweat Waffle Crew Neck Sweatshirt
What we've read this week
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
Always, in December by Emily Stone
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone, welcome back to Bad on Paper Podcast. I'm Becca Freeman and I'm Grace |
| 0:22.4 | Atwood and today we have another Grace on the podcast. We are interviewing someone I've |
| 0:27.9 | been a little bit obsessed with for a long time. Grace Bonnie, who is the founder of Design |
| 0:32.0 | Spongebob. And has a new book. Yeah, we're talking to her in advance of the launch of her |
| 0:35.9 | new book, which is called Collective Wisdom, and is a series of interviews with over 100 |
| 0:40.8 | women who are over 50 about their life and careers and all that good stuff. So I'm so excited |
| 0:47.7 | to talk to her. But before we get into the episode, this episode is sponsored by Knight, |
| 0:51.9 | the makers of our all-time favorite pillow. So we'll tell you more about them later in the |
| 0:55.9 | episode. But Knight is retiring our favorite face mask. And this would be sad news, except |
| 1:01.7 | they're now 50% off. And you can use our code KnightBOP to get an extra 20% off at DiscoverNight.com. |
| 1:09.5 | Yes. So Becca, before we get into the interview, what is your high from the week? My high is |
| 1:16.0 | definitely my trip to Boston. So I went up to Boston for my friend Kyle's birthday is actually |
| 1:22.0 | this coming weekend, but he had his birthday festivities last weekend. And it was so fun. |
| 1:29.0 | And I will tell you that I'm usually a little bit of a grinch for Halloween-type things. |
| 1:34.4 | Halloween is not my preferred holiday. And we did a lot of Halloween stuff. I had so much |
| 1:39.0 | fun. It looked so fun. As someone who like Halloween is my favorite holiday, so it looks |
| 1:43.4 | very fun. We had a ton of fun. We stayed at Casino in Boston. They opened an encore Casino |
| 1:49.2 | there. It's literally like Vegas. It was very weird to be there. It's downtown Boston or |
| 1:56.2 | I would say Everett. So it's a huge thing to Boston. Okay. I was just like picturing |
| 2:01.2 | like the Coppoli Square Casino. No, but it was huge. It felt like being in a Vegas Casino. |
| 2:05.8 | So we stayed at the Casino. We went wine tasting slash apple picking one day. I do not recommend |
| 2:11.8 | Central Massachusetts wine, but the it was beautiful. It was fun. We went to a drag show because |
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